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It All Comes Back to Il-Nam Netflix Everything in the Squid Game was created by Oh Il-nam, the old man who put himself in the game as Player 001. He created the games to ease his own boredom and give struggling people a chance at happiness, though the second part wasn’t as kind as he thought it was. The details of the games are based on happy memories from his own life because he’s trying to show the contestants some kind of joy before they ultimately die....

Why Ethan Hawke Thinks A Director Like Robert Eggers Is Incredibly Rare A24 By Joshua Meyer/April 11, 2022 8:26 am EST Ethan Hawke played Hamlet in a 2000 film adapted from Shakespeare’s play, where the tragedy unfolded in a contemporary setting, with New York City substituting for Denmark. In “The Northman,” Hawke goes back to the original source material for a sort of Viking “Hamlet” with director Robert Eggers. This time, he’s playing the father of Alexander Skarsgård’s character, Amleth, based on the Scandinavian folk hero who inspired Shakespeare’s brooding prince....

ABC Cancels Queens And Promised Land After One Season Each ABC By Joshua Meyer/May 8, 2022 9:39 pm EST Two critically acclaimed ABC dramas, “Queens” and “Promised Land,” are on the chopping block after seeing their ratings slip in their first season. Both shows hold a 100% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and were still north of a million viewers per episode, but the network has opted not to renew them....

Tanya Roberts MGM/UA Entertainment Co No one should be reduced to their physical appearance, of course, and Tanya Roberts is no different. At the same time, we can’t ignore the impact that Roberts had on her audience. She was a Bond Girl, a Charlie’s Angel, and brought an animalistic vigor to both “The Beastmaster” and “Sheena.” At the very least, Roberts was always comfortable with herself. Roberts leaned into her bombshell persona on “That ’70s Show,” on which she played Donna’s mom, a sexy housewife that all the boys not-so-secretly lusted after....

Amadeus Ending Explained: In The Shadow Of Greatness Orion Pictures By Caroline Madden/March 29, 2022 12:00 pm EST Director Miloš Forman frames his splendid 1984 epic “Amadeus” around the elderly Antonio Salieri’s recollections of his life story to a young priest. Based on Peter Shaffer’s triumphant stage play, the film takes several historical liberties to deliver a classic tale of jealousy. “Amadeus” follows a fictional rivalry between Salieri (played by an Oscar-winning F....

Belle Director Mamoru Hosoda Wants To Create A Kinder Digital World [Interview] GKIDS By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 21, 2022 2:48 pm EST With “Belle,” director Mamoru Hosoda dares to imagine a kinder internet. It seems like a fantasy, right? In this day and age, when people can be radicalized to believe all sorts of dangerous conspiracy theories or global pandemics are drawn out because of the proliferation of mistrust and paranoia, a kind internet seems like an impossible dream....

Bridgerton Gets Its First Spin-Off With Untitled Queen Charlotte Prequel Netflix By Mike Williams/March 30, 2022 7:08 pm EST The success of “Bridgerton”, Netflix’s Regency romance series, proves that everyone loves drama. For two seasons, the show has been host to courtly intrigue, icy-cold conversations, and steamy romance. And what causes more drama of the rich and powerful flavor than royalty? Netflix and Shondaland have announced a new prequel series currently in the works....

Bubble Trailer: Sci-Fi Parkour Anime Shows Striking Animation From Attack On Titan Studio Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/March 1, 2022 3:52 pm EST Many anime fans are familiar with Studio Ghibli, or Toei Animation, Production I.G., and in recent years maybe Madhouse or even MAPPA. WIT Studio, however, is a name not many people know — but they should. The anime studio has produced some of the best anime shows of the past decade, having launched into the scene with the first three seasons of smash hit “Attack on Titan....

Firestarter’s Young Star Already Had A Stephen King Pedigree Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/May 12, 2022 11:53 am EST Stephen King’s “Firestarter” is getting a new shot at life in Hollywood as Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have delivered a brand new adaptation of the famed author’s 1980 novel. As horror fans will surely recall, the book was previously adapted in 1984 (an adaptation King is not fond of) with Mark L....

Henry Golding Joins The Cast Of Downtown Owl Adaptation, Lily Rabe And Hamish Linklater’s Directorial Debut Universal Pictures Lily Rabe hive, our time has come. A film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s novel “Downtown Owl” has been kicking around Hollywood for over a decade, with Adam Scott’s Gettin’ Rad Productions optioning the rights to the novel. All of that has changed, however, as Lily Rabe and longtime partner Hamish Linklater are making their co-directorial debuts with the adaptation....

Here’s How A Key Star Wars Character Will Figure Into The Plot Of Andor Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/May 23, 2022 1:26 pm EST “Many Bothans died to bring us this information.” It’s the line everyone remembers from 1983’s “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi,” if only for the sheer gravity with which Caroline Blakiston delivers this statement as Mon Mothma. Of course, unless you know your “Star Wars” lingo inside and out, you’ve probably no idea what the heck a Bothan even is and likely refer to Blakiston’s Rebel leader as “that lady with the white caftan....

How Nightmare Alley Costume Designer Luis Sequeira Brought Vintage Fashion Back To Life [Interview] By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 30, 2021 1:17 pm EST Luis Sequeira has quite an eye, making him more than a right fit for the world of Guillermo del Toro. The filmmaker often refers to his work as “eye protein,” not eye candy. Sequeira, too, exhibits impeccable style in “Nightmare Alley,” but it’s all coming from character, not only atmosphere....

How Taika Waititi Forced Guardians Of The Galaxy Director James Gunn To Deal With Space Goats Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/June 28, 2022 11:55 am EST The release of “Thor: Love and Thunder” will bring more than just the God of Thunder back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the aftermath of “Avengers: Endgame.” This time around, he’s going to be joined by his pals in the Guardians of the Galaxy, which should help to tee up the ball for the long-awaited “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

I Just Watched All The Jackass Movies For The First Time And Dudes Rock Paramount Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 17, 2022 10:01 am EST As I sat down to watch “Jackass Forever,” I realized too late that the hot dog I’d just scarfed down may have been a mistake. These movies are, after all, known for making participants and audience members alike lose their lunch. Would I be able to hang with the best of them, or would I end up hurling like Lance the cinematographer?...

Lin-Manuel Miranda Teases A Song For A Voiceless Ariel In Disney’s Little Mermaid Remake Disney By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 22, 2022 9:59 am EST Dream jobs come in all shapes and sizes. When you’re a child, you might dream of becoming an astronaut, an artist, a doctor, a fashion designer, or a writer when you get older. Your dreams might get a little more focused over the years, so you set your sights on becoming an aeronautical engineer, a sculptor, a pediatrist, a cobbler, or an entertainment journalist....

The door was left wide open Disney+ While we’re not going to go into too much detail here about the show’s ending, we will briefly say that the finale concludes in a way that could set up “Moon Knight” season 2, almost as if a continuation was a foregone conclusion. The biggest of the big clue comes in the post-credits scene that sees Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow come face-to-face with Khonshu once again....

Morbius Ending Explained: The Living Vampire Unleashes His Ill-Defined Superpowers Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/April 1, 2022 9:00 am EST Spoiler Warning: The below article contains spoilers about “Morbius” as well as bat facts. Did you know vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) can sometimes consume their own weight in blood in a single night? Also, because they only weigh about two ounces (they only have a wingspan of seven inches), a vampire bat needs to feed every 48 hours, or it will starve....

No Time To Die Star Billy Magnussen Gets Honest About The Art Of Acting And Playing The Douchebag [Interview] MGM By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2021 10:35 am EST “No Time to Die” is available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD this week, and Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond finds the secret agent having to deal with a 007 fanboy from America in the form of CIA agent Logan Ash, played by “Game Night” and “Aladdin” co-star Billy Magnussen....

Patrick Stewart And Hugh Jackman Improvised One Of Logan’s Most Intimate Scenes 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Jan. 14, 2022 4:46 pm EST The “X-Men” franchise is largely responsible for ushering in the modern superhero movie era as we know it, along with “Blade” and “Spider-Man.” That is in no small part thanks to the popularity of Hugh Jackman as the fan-favorite mutant Wolverine, who made his debut in the 2000 live-action adaptation of the Marvel Comics title and kept at the role for nearly 20 years....

Peter Jackson’s Indie Movie Roots Let The Lord Of The Rings Effects Run Wild New Line Cinema By Caroline Madden/June 26, 2022 1:26 pm EST Bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved “The Lord of the Rings” fantasy series to the screen was an enormous undertaking, especially for an indie New Zealand filmmaker who had never made a film with such a pricey budget of $281 million before. But director Peter Jackson’s homespun approach to making the epic trilogy actually worked in his favor....