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An Audrey II apocalypse Warner Bros. The original ending portrays capitalistic greed gone apocalyptic. It’s an audacious sequence with masterful puppet work and miniature effects by Richard Conway. The scene begins when Audrey is almost eaten by Audrey II and Seymour finds her wounded and nearly dying. They sing a somber rendition of “Somewhere That’s Green” before Audrey asks him to feed her to the plant “So that it will live, and bring you all the wonderful things you deserve....

Moonage Daydream Footage Reaction: The David Bowie Doc Is A ‘Sonic And Visual Extravaganza’ [CinemaCon 2022] British Lion Films By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 26, 2022 2:52 pm EST Earlier this month, Neon and HBO acquired the David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” a Bowie-estate-approved film directed by “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” filmmaker Brett Morgen. Today, the Neon team showed first footage from the new project at CinemaCon 2022 in Las Vegas, and the /Film team was there to witness it....

NBA All-Star Steph Curry Says NOPE In Tie-In Promo For Jordan Peele’s Next Thriller Universal Pictures By Joshua Meyer/April 18, 2022 8:48 am EST As a Golden State Warrior, Steph Curry has performed miraculous feats on the basketball court, including at least five minutes’ worth of slam dunks. However, when faced with a potential “bad miracle” in the skies overhead, even Curry has got to say, “Nope.” Curry, the point guard, has indeed got his guard up against horror in a new promo for the upcoming film “Nope....

Netflix Is Making A Daily Trivia Game Show Called Trivia Quest Netflix By BJ Colangelo/March 3, 2022 5:11 pm EST Sure, The New York Times may have gotten their hands on Wordle, but Netflix is turning the Etermax app “Trivia Crack” into an interactive daily trivia game series called “Trivia Quest.” Utilizing the technology used for the choose-your-own adventure episode “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” the interactive finale of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and the film “You Vs....

Spiderhead Ending Explained: Psycho Scientist Chris Hemsworth Conducts Evil Experiments Netflix By Christian Gainey/June 17, 2022 4:01 pm EST Spoilers for “Spiderhead” follow. Netflix’s newest sci-fi thriller, “Spiderhead,” is a wild trip! The movie centers on a state-of-the-art facility, where convicted felons volunteer for experimental drug trials in exchange for freedom. Agreeing to the experiments is rewarded with the ability to roam freely within the facility, which beats the hell out of prison, but the patients soon discover they aren’t as free as they believe....

Stranger Things Season 4 Vol. 2: Everything We Know So Far Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 14, 2022 11:29 am EST The clock is ticking. Volume 2 of “Stranger Things” season 4 is just around the corner, and a lot is about to go down in the upcoming installment, considering the big reveal at the end of Volume 1. Netflix has released a bunch of new images for Volume 2, which hint at several potential plot points and whether certain characters make it out alive (or not)....

Super Pumped Teaser: Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Kyle Chandler Wage A Battle For Uber Showtime By Jenna Busch/Jan. 27, 2022 5:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Showtime has released a new trailer for the upcoming first installment in a new anthology series. “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” will premiere on Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and it’s all about the rise and fall of Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber....

Superhero Bits: Ryan Reynolds’ Encouraging Deadpool 3 Update, An Ant-Man 60th Anniversary Series & More Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/Feb. 24, 2022 4:52 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Tales From The Box Office: Bruce Willis Helped Make Armageddon The Biggest Movie Of 1998 Disney By Ryan Scott/April 2, 2022 3:20 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) Movie lovers were dealt a massive blow this week when it was announced that cinematic icon Bruce Willis, the star of such classics as “Die Hard” and “Pulp Fiction,” is stepping away from acting....

The Batman Controversy That Had Tim Burton Fighting For Michael Keaton Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 8, 2022 4:39 pm EST Michael Keaton is and has always been my Batman. Don’t get me wrong. I love all the actors who have played him over the years — both live-action and animated. It’s just that Michael Keaton was the first Batman I saw taken seriously. I’d only watched the Adam West TV reruns before that, and as much fun as they were, they just didn’t give me the same thrill the comics did....

The Batman Oreos Will Allow You To Taste Darkness, No Parents Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Jan. 10, 2022 3:37 pm EST When you are a dark and brooding vigilante like Batman, you have to commit. I mean, really commit. You dress in black. You live in black. You have a cave with bats. You drive a black car that is named after your dark persona. You have bat symbols on everything you own....

The brightness before the fall New Line Cinema Like many first entries in a trilogy, there is a lot of setup going on here in “Fellowship.” Somehow, though, Jackson manages to make it flow effortlessly, never once making it seem like explanatory fluff. Even in the film’s ending where so many different things happen within a very short span of time, Jackson manages to give each thread enough space to breathe so that we are left with a very clear picture of what’s to come....

The Matrix Resurrections Co-Writers Explain Its Relationship To The Original Movie [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Dec. 28, 2021 12:38 pm EST Writing a sequel to a revolutionary film? No pressure there. In the face of sky-high expectations, co-writers Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell succeed with grace. With an inherent nostalgia associated with the franchise, the screenwriters don’t run from it but embrace it, even question it. The past is in the present in “The Matrix Resurrections,” which has a hilarious meta quality....

The Morning Watch: No Time To Die VFX Breakdown, The Power Of The Dog: Reframing The West & More Columbia Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

Naked, louse, stinking, and pregnant MGM “The Philadelphia Story” started out as a big hit on Broadway starring Katharine Hepburn, whom the part of Tracy Lord was written for. In Hollywood, Hepburn was at a low point, having starred in a string of box office flops. Hepburn brought along director George Cukor and writer David Ogden Stewart, whom she had previously collaborated with on another Philip Barry adaptation, “Holiday.” Originally, the film was to be set up at Paramount Pictures, but the demands of Joseph Breen were a bit too much for Paramount to continue with the project....

The Whitney Houston ‘Biopic’ That Quietly Dropped On Netflix Netflix By Jeremy Smith/July 1, 2022 10:28 pm EST Whitney Houston is an American musical icon and one of the most popular recording artists in the history of the medium. Her life is a crushing tragedy of once-in-a-lifetime talent undermined by impossible expectations and a lifestyle forbidden by her religiously conservative family. It is a life that would be very difficult to portray in an authorized manner, if only because the people who currently control her story would never allow her songs to grace a mainstream biopic....

Trouble In Vought-Land: The Boys Spin-Off Loses Its Leads Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/March 10, 2022 8:47 pm EST According to Deadline, the upcoming live-action “The Boys” spin-off has lost two of its leads. Aimee Carrero (“Maid”) and Shane Paul McGhie (“The Last Shift”) have left the series, which is set at America’s only college exclusively for superheroes. The series has been in development for over a year and a half, which likely lead to the departure of Carrero and McGhie....

Why Ozark’s Laura Linney Won’t Call Wendy A Villain Netflix By Shania Russell/May 3, 2022 12:14 pm EST The chaos of “Ozark” began when mild-mannered suburbanite Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) got his family entangled in a dangerous drug operation. Backed into a corner and desperate to keep his family together, he uprooted their lives and whisked them from Chicago to the Lake of the Ozarks, to begin a life of leaping from one disaster to the next, desperate to keep both the FBI and a dangerous drug cartel at arm’s length....

Will There Be A Fear Street Part 4? Here’s What We Know Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Jan. 6, 2022 1:58 pm EST Netflix’s favorite new horror franchise, “Fear Street,” came to an end with its third part released in July 2021. The film concluded the trilogy, revealing the curse that haunted the town of Shadyside for centuries. But is this the definitive end? Or are there more movies in the making?...

A Who’s-Who of Pop Culture, Ripe for Framing Warner Bros. In “Peacemaker” episode 5, Peacemaker (Cena) is furious with Economos for framing his dad Auggie (Robert Patrick) for a murder Peacemaker committed. (It was really self-defense, but that’s a whole other thing.) He starts berating Economos, listing all of the people that he could have chosen to frame instead. Among them? Ariana Grande, Drake, Brad Pitt, Doug the Pug, the red tiger from Voltron, Joe Montana, Eddie Murphy, BTS, Eugene Levy, Danny DeVito, Alice Cooper, Bill Cosby, Optimus Prime, Cobra Commander, and the “fing cs from ‘Riverdale....