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Battlestar Galactica Had A Good Reason For Ending Things After Season 4 NBCUniversal By Collier Jennings/April 19, 2022 2:09 pm EST Endings are hard, especially when it comes to serialized TV shows. Not only do the writers have to tie up loose ends, they also have to consider how characters have grown over the course of a series and where the ending will leave them when all’s said and done. Factor in the waxing and waning of TV ratings, and a series can be cut down before it even has the chance to reach a proper ending....

Danny Elfman’s Score For Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Is Finally Coming To Vinyl Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/May 6, 2022 4:20 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Twenty years ago, Sam Raimi set the groundwork for the superhero cinematic takeover we find ourselves in today when “Spider-Man” arrived in theaters. The Marvel and Sony flick lit the flame of the comic book adaptation powder keg, scattering its ashes of inspiration for decades to come....

DC 2022 Movie Slate Sneak Preview: Aquaman 2, Black Adam, And The Flash Footage Revealed Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Feb. 11, 2022 12:26 pm EST Quite the surprise has been dropped on us today as DC has revealed footage from its entire slate of movies coming our way in 2022. This includes “The Batman,” “Black Adam,” “The Flash,” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” It is an awful lot being packed into a relatively short promo, giving us a rich taste of what we have coming down the pipeline....

No One Makes Content Like Gaston Disney According to Variety, Fee will star in the “Beauty and the Beast” prequel series as Prince Benoit Berlioz, “a childhood friend of Tilly’s who has grown into a handsome, charismatic, confident prince.” The Irish actor and singer is fresh off his turn in the MCU show “Hawkeye” as Kazi Kazimierczak, Maya Lopez’s longtime friend and personal sign interpreter in the Tracksuit Mafia. He also played roles in the “Les Misérables” movie musical and last year’s “Cinderella” starring Camila Cabello, and has co-starred in a number of major plays and stage musicals since he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2009....

Elvis Fans Will Want To Watch These 10 Movies Next Warner Bros. By Fiona Underhill/June 23, 2022 2:46 pm EST “Elvis” is many things: a biopic of one of the biggest stars in the world, a Baz Luhrmann movie, a star vehicle for the relatively unknown Austin Butler, and a chance for Tom Hanks to play a villain. While your head may be spinning after two hours and forty minutes of Luhrmann’s typically frenetic editing, it may have given you the taste for more....

Season 10 20th Television Following a 14-year absence since the series ended in 2002, the return of “The X-Files” proved to be a major disappointment. Its short duration didn’t help. It’s hard to get the audience invested with only six episodes. However, there were some bright spots during this season, with the best episode being “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster.” In it, Mulder and Scully take on a case involving a supposed humanoid lizard that is blamed for a brutal murder near Shawan, Oregon....

Knight of Cups Broad Green Pictures / YouTube Part of the problem with late-career Malick is technology. There’s just less artistic value in a well-shot montage in an era when the iPhone can assemble competent cuts completely unprompted and anyone can download stunning stock cinematography from sites like Artgrid. When your average Facebook mom can take an epic time-lapse video of a sunset, Malick’s visual moves no longer have such pop....

I live my life $300 million at a time Universal Pictures So if we’re not thinking about an advertising spend, where is that $300 million going? Again, THR reports that a third of that budget is going to “above-the-line” costs, which is money spent before you actually start making the movie. For example, securing the rights to a screenplay, paying a screenwriter or director, and covering the salaries of all of your actors....

George Lucas Thinks This Is The Key To Indiana Jones’ Continued Success Lucasfilm By Ernesto Valenzuela/June 30, 2022 2:18 pm EST After debuting on the big screen in 1981, the adventurer “Indiana Jones” has continued to stand the test of time. After four blockbuster films directed by Steven Spielberg and a fifth one on the way from “Logan” director James Mangold, one has to wonder: What is it about Harrison Ford’s fedora-toting archaeologist that makes this iconic character so appealing?...

John Wayne Almost Walked Away From One Of His Most Beloved Roles Warner Bros. By Travis Yates/March 23, 2022 4:45 pm EST Early Hollywood Westerns, a staple of the classical film era, largely stereotyped Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages. The growing popularity of post-World War II social problem films had the film industry reflecting on its portrayals of minorities, including Native Americans. The man synonymous with the Western introduced a film in 1956 that sent ripples throughout all of Hollywood and reinvented the genre....

Landing The Doctor Strange Director Gig Was A Pricey Process For Scott Derrickson Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 26, 2022 11:25 am EST Scott Derrickson really wanted to direct “Doctor Strange.” No, seriously. The filmmaker who is known for directing horror movies such as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “Sinister” helmed the Sorcerer Supreme’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a former gifted surgeon who gets trained in the mystical arts after a car crash leaves his hands scarred, shaking, and unfit for surgery....

Money Heist Korea Trailer: An Ominous And Exciting Teaser That Leaves Us Wanting More Netflix By Lex Briscuso/April 29, 2022 11:09 am EST Get ready for another shot at the cash: Netflix’s “Money Heist” is coming back. The first trailer for a new story, “Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area” has arrived — and the 30-second sneak peek actually gives us a lot to be excited about. In the clip, a voiceover — seemingly by a character known as The Professor, who orchestrates the heists — explains what is to come for the “biggest” stickup yet:...

Pedro Pascal Shares The Awesome Story Of How He Was Cast In The Mandalorian Lucasfilm By Witney Seibold/May 27, 2022 7:21 pm EST The space Western series “The Mandalorian” debuted on Disney+ on November 19, 2019 to a great deal of acclaim. Set in the universe of “Star Wars” after the events of “Return of the Jedi,” but about 25 years prior to the events of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “The Mandalorian” follows a mysterious masked space cowboy named Din Djarin (although his name is a closely guarded secret) who becomes embroiled in a complex plot involving an psychic alien toddler named Grogu....

Sony Declares Uncharted A ‘New Hit Movie Franchise’ Sony Pictures By Shania Russell/Feb. 22, 2022 11:00 am EST Having one film franchise led by Tom Holland just wasn’t enough, so Sony is throwing a couple more chips in with their young star. Hot on the heels of a successful box office weekend, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman sent out a company-wide email declaring “Uncharted” a “new hit movie franchise for the company....

Stranger Things 4 And The Satanic Panic Around D&D Explained Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST “Stranger Things” is back, and its new season is trading in super-malls and scrunchies for a much darker sign of the times: the Satanic Panic. While the show’s fourth season doesn’t get into the real-life gory details of the moral panic that swept North America in the 1980s, the specter of Satanic Panic finds its way into the show in a surprising way: through the classic tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons....

Succession’s Sarah Snook Thinks Tom And Shiv’s Relationship Isn’t So Black And White HBO By Shae Sennett/May 26, 2022 4:28 pm EST HBO’s hit series “Succession” is overflowing with uncomfortable power dynamics, and the resident married couple are no exception. In fact, their seemingly stable relationship may be rifer with tension than any other on the show. The only female Roy sibling, Shiv (Sarah Snook) is also the only member of her family that has managed to hold down one romantic partner through all three seasons, thanks to the forgiving nature of her husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen)....

Superhero Bits: All Three Spider-Men Gather For A Chat, Venom 2 Hits A Milestone & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Jan. 27, 2022 3:50 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....

The ‘Giddy’ Moment That Sold Benedict Cumberbatch On Doctor Strange Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 20, 2022 11:38 am EST In 2016, Benedict Cumberbatch joined the MCU with “Doctor Strange,” the tale of a world-famous neurosurgeon whose life changes forever after a car accident robs him of using his hands. Unable to come to terms with his new reality, Dr. Stephen Strange finds himself pursuing experimental surgeries. In search of hope and healing, he ultimately finds himself before a mysterious enclave and in the presence of the Ancient One — a sorcerer who agrees (albeit reluctantly) to train him in the mystic arts....

Cold Mountain Miramax Films The 2003 Civil War epic “Cold Mountain” is a throwback to a classic era of cinema that combines old-fashioned storytelling with the violence and graphic content that’s only possible in modern films. Taking place during the beginning of the Civil War, the story focuses on the community of Cold Mountain, North Carolina, which is galvanized into joining the Confederacy. However, W.P. Inman (Jude Law), a carpenter who has no loyalty to the rebel cause, wants to stay at home to complete his courtship to his lover Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman)....

A beating heart beneath the blood Prime Studios The thing that makes season 3 of “The Boys” truly sing is that beneath all of the blood and guts and bitter satire, there is a warm, beating heart. Both the writers and cast have made the characters in “The Boys” into complex, fully-formed people whose journeys audiences want to follow. Every single character is given pathos and agency, and like real people, they can be full of surprises....