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Yes, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Will Finally Give Ortegas Her Own Episode Paramount By Danielle Ryan/July 7, 2022 1:30 pm EST The first season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” felt like a throwback to the original series in a lot of ways, including giving specific characters their own focus episodes and wrapping up most of the major conflicts by the end of each episode. This gave every single character a chance to really shine, with full episodes dedicated to La’an (Christina Chong) getting a chance to explore her trauma, Spock (Ethan Peck) exploring his identity, and Dr....

Beloved Poster And Collectible Company Mondo Sold To Funko As Alamo Drafthouse Focuses On Movie Theaters Mondo By Jeremy Mathai/June 13, 2022 10:01 am EST It’s the end of an era and a start of a new one for movie obsessives everywhere, particularly among those who’ve turned the act of owning collectibles from a hobby into a genuine passion. For the past 20 years, everyone knew that the Austin, Texas-based Mondo — originally an offshoot of the successful indie movie theater chain, Alamo Drafthouse — was the place to go when it came to high-end posters, toys, T-shirts, soundtracks, and various other movie-themed collectibles....

Daniel Radcliffe Is Not Interested In Playing Harry Potter Again … At Least, Not Right Now Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 18, 2022 12:14 pm EST Ardent “Harry Potter” fans were gifted with a memorable, emotional franchise union via “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” which premiered on HBO Max in January 2022. The primary trio (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson) returned, alongside several cast members, indulging in retrospective highlights during the filming process, and the reunion also included behind-the-scenes footage and many heart-to-hearts....

Danny Boyle’s Canceled James Bond Movie Would Have Sent 007 To Russia Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/May 12, 2022 12:07 pm EST The cliché in Hollywood goes that when a studio and a filmmaker abandon a relationship over “creative differences,” it’s because the filmmaker is creative, and the studio is different. In an age lousy with tentpoles and IP-inflected blockbusters, any helping of cinematic creativity is generally accepted as being in the hands of the studio instead of a single screenwriter or director....

Bjornson the Cheesemonger Disney+ Some people love cheese, but few are as passionate about the world of cheese as Bjornson the Cheesemonger (Keegan-Michael Key). He’s found on the adorable and charming Main Street, which Dale reveals as a cover for some of the nastiest cartoon characters in the game. Their crimes include stolen security numbers and muppet fights, but it’s Bjornson that Chip and Dale need, as he’s responsible for Monterey Jack’s intense cheese addiction....

Evil Season 3 Trailer: Demons, Ellipticals, And Ted Lasso, Oh My! Paramount+ By Shania Russell/May 19, 2022 2:36 pm EST Just in case you’ve forgotten how uniquely terrifying the world can be, “Evil” has returned with all sorts of ghastly tidings, like a sleep paralysis demon in the nighttime. Since premiering on CBS and then making the move to Paramount+, “Evil” has gone vastly under-appreciated, but make no mistake, it’s proven to be one of the cleverest and most unsettling shows on TV....

Fast X: The Suicide Squad Star Daniela Melchior Reveals First Look At Her New Character Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 31, 2022 1:57 pm EST The cast for the upcoming “Fast X” movie is expanding. After Vin Diesel confirmed that Rita Moreno will be playing his grandmother in the next “Fast & Furious” installment last week, “The Suicide Squad” star Daniela Melchior recently shared the first look of her character in “Fast X” on Instagram....

Francis Ford Coppola Found His Patton Script Was Used In The Most Unusual Way By Joshua Meyer/March 28, 2022 10:18 am EST In a 2022 interview with Deadline, Coppola explained how he originally landed the “Patton” writing gig from producer Frank McCarthy, himself a former brigadier general, because of his nominal “experience.” He was in the Writers Guild, had co-written a film with Gore Vidal called “Is Paris Burning?,” and had briefly attended military school....

Halloween II Was A Spiritual Successor To One Of Rob Zombie’s Earliest Films Dimension Films By Anya Stanley/June 16, 2022 7:15 pm EST Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II” was bigger and fouler than its 2007 predecessor in every way, as is required of most sequels. Swelling beyond the babysitter murders of Haddonfield that encompassed his 2007 “Halloween” (itself a beefed-up origin story of the boogeyman made famous by John Carpenter’s original 1978 slasher), the franchise’s tenth entry got to the macro by way of the micro, focusing on the shared broken psyches of Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) and her assailant, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane)....

How Attack Of The Clones Got Help From A Fruit Bat And Mating Penguins By Witney Seibold/May 31, 2022 5:58 pm EST Matthew Wood has probably played more “Star Wars” characters than any other actor. Thanks to his involvement in feature films, TV shows, video games, and ancillary shorts, Wood has played Kylo Ren, Anakin Skywalker, General Grievous, Bib Fortuna, various Battle Droids, IG-88, D-O, Darth Maul, C3-PO, and Magaloof. His voice work, however, is done in addition to his career as a sound designer, a line of work that began for Wood in the early 1990s with the film “Soap Dish” and the series “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles....

How LeVar Burton Landed Whoopi Goldberg Her Role On Star Trek Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Jan. 28, 2022 2:23 pm EST Whoopi Goldberg is returning to the “Star Trek” universe in the second season of “Star Trek: Picard.” She’ll reprise her “Star Trek: The Next Generation” role, that of Guinan, the bartender in the Ten-Forward lounge aboard the starship USS Enterprise-D. and advice-giver. Guinan was a beloved character, and seeing her back in her costume is wonderful....

James Gunn Assures Steven Soderbergh That Yes, Some Superheroes Are Indeed F***ing Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 8, 2022 12:09 pm EST Until journalists stop asking directors what they think about superhero movies, we’re unfortunately going to have to keep hearing about them. In the latest of a long line of “this again?” interviews with the great Steven Soderbergh, The Daily Beast asked him about his feelings on superhero cinema. Soderbergh explained that he didn’t avoid superhero cinema because it was high or low-brow, but rather that he couldn’t get himself in the mindset of a world where people weren’t having sex....

James Gunn Confirms Cameo As Himself In HBO Max’s Harley Quinn Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/March 16, 2022 11:51 am EST If you thought director James Gunn had positioned himself as one of the new main creative forces in the DC Universe before, this latest and unexpected bit of news will only reinforce that narrative even further. It’s tough to think of any other director whose career path can be treated as analogous to Gunn’s own....

Part Of Christian Bale’s Gorr Costume Made Him Feel ‘Pathetic’ Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/June 28, 2022 8:35 am EST “Thor: Love and Thunder” hits theaters soon, and we’re getting a new MCU villain in Christian Bale. He plays Gorr the God Butcher, a character who, in the comics, loses his wife and child. He prayed to the gods of his people to save them, but they didn’t. After, he vows to destroy the gods, and gains the Necrosword to do it with....

Rian Johnson Had Some Wild Ideas For Daniel Craig’s Knives Out Character Lionsgate By Miyako Pleines/March 31, 2022 3:16 pm EST Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” is nothing but pure fun. If you’re like me and love the playful cleverness of quirky whodunits, then you likely also enjoyed watching Daniel Craig’s savvy private investigator Benoit Blanc stir things up as he tries to uncover the murderer of famous mystery novel writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer)....

Shadow And Bone Season 2 Begins Production, Adds New Cast Members Lewis Tan, Anna Leong Brophy, Patrick Gibson and Jack Wolfe By Shania Russell/Jan. 13, 2022 12:21 pm EST After hiding out in the shadows for nearly a year, Netflix has finally returned to “Shadow and Bones” fans with an abundance of good news. The second season of the Grishaverse saga is officially in production, with more perilous journeys to come from Leigh Bardugo’s fantasy series....

Slow Horses Review: This Spy Thriller Hitches Its Wagon To An Insufferable Performance Apple TV+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 25, 2022 3:00 am EST The new Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” has an interesting premise, if not too much else, going for it. The show follows a group of MI5 rejects, agents who have ended up in situations that their American counterparts might call “FUBAR.” After mucking up training exercises, getting people killed, or otherwise threatening the order and efficiency of the UK’s counter-intelligence agency, these folks are sent to a dumping ground called Slough House....

When is Spellbound coming out? Skydance Productions “Spellbound” was originally set to arrive on November 11, 2022, but that release date has moved. Now it will debut on August 5, 2022. Along with “Luck,” the first animated feature from Skydance Animation, the film has been acquired by Apple for release on Apple TV+. Whether or not this also entails a theatrical release has yet to be announced. This partnership will continue on after these films are released, as Skydance Animation and Apple recently unveiled a multi-year partnership to deliver both features and TV series targeted at kids and families....

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Jon Watts Is Making An ’80s-Inspired Star Wars Series Sony Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/May 17, 2022 9:59 am EST Where do you go after directing three “Spider-Man” movies in a row? If you’re Sam Raimi, you step away from the world of superheroes entirely to go off and make “Drag Me to Hell,” the gleefully gross 2009 horror-comedy that acted as a balm for the filmmaker after his frustrations helming 2007’s better-than-you remember “Spider-Man 3....

Star Trek: Discovery Director Olatunde Osunsanmi Lands Development Deal At CBS Starting With Sci-Fi Drama Myth Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 25, 2022 10:47 am EST “Star Trek: Discovery” director and executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi has just signed a development deal with CBS Studios, according to Deadline. The multi-year deal will include the new sci-fi drama “Myth, which Osunsanmi was already working on. The upcoming series will be co-written by Osunsanmi and Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika, who are the creators of “Shaka: King of the Zulu Nation....