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Year Of The Vampire: Interview With The Vampire Imbibed The Spirit Of A Lost Century Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/June 28, 2022 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) “Interview with the Vampire” begins with a spellbinding orchestration of the Latin burial chant “Libera Me,” sung by the American Boy Choir....

5 Comics To Read Before Watching Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Jan. 11, 2022 11:06 am EST “Doctor Strange” was released in 2016 and it introduced us to an entirely new side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange opening the door to the realm of the mystic arts. While we’ve seen a great deal of Strange, as well as magic, in the MCU since — including in “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” — Cumberbatch has yet to get a solo sequel....

Ana De Armas Didn’t Have Much Time To Prepare For No Time To Die Eon Productions By Mike Shutt/May 9, 2022 8:44 am EST Whether you were a fan of Daniel Craig’s final entry into the James Bond franchise (as I was) or not, one thing is for certain: Ana de Armas absolutely lights up the screen when she shows up at 45 minutes into “No Time to Die.” She exits the film only 12 minutes later, and for those dozen minutes, all you can do is marvel at her movie star charisma....

Blade Runner’s Big Unanswered Question Was Kept A Secret From Harrison Ford Warner Bros. By Michael Boyle/May 6, 2022 11:00 am EST Turns out, the science behind replicants has advanced to the point where they can be installed with fake memories, making them believe they’ve lived a long, event-filled life. When Deckard explains this to Rachael later, proving his point by bringing up a memory Rachael’s never told anyone about, she quietly cries and leaves the room, but not before throwing the fake photographs of her fake childhood on the floor....

Greig Fraser Just Won An Oscar For Dune, And He’s One Of Our Best Modern Cinematographers Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 27, 2022 10:00 pm EST Greig Fraser just won an Oscar for Best Cinematography for “Dune,” and boy is it well-deserved. The race for this category has been among the most competitive of the year — just look at the other nominees: “The Power of the Dog” (Ari Wegner), “Nightmare Alley” (Dan Laustsen), “West Side Story” (Janusz Kamiński), and “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (Bruno Delbonnel)....

Harrison Ford Insisted On Doing One Of The Fugitive’s Most Dangerous Stunts Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/April 4, 2022 10:35 am EST “Star Wars.” Indiana Jones. “Blade Runner.” Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford has aligned himself with some of the greatest film franchises of all time. Many of his best-known characters are cool and confident — to the point of being cocksure, in the case of Han Solo. Even when these characters are in over their head, there’s a self-possessed quality to them....

HBO Max Made A Calcifer Yule Log, Proving That The Best Blaze Indeed Burns Brightest When Circumstances Are At Their Worst Studio Ghibli By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 22, 2021 9:36 pm EST Just in time for the holidays, Calcifier — the sassy fire demon from Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 anime film, “Howl’s Moving Castle” — has become the subject of his own yule log. HBO Max is the exclusive streaming home for “Howl’s Moving Castle” and most Studio Ghibli films, and it’s there you’ll find the Calcifier log....

Hellbender Clip: Horror Filmmaking Is A Family Affair [Exclusive] Shudder By Jenna Busch/Feb. 24, 2022 3:10 pm EST Today /Film has an exclusive clip from the Shudder Original “Hellbender,” which is currently streaming on the horror-centric platform. The project comes to us from the upstate New York filmmaker family the Adams — written, directed, produced, scored, and edited by Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams (“The Deeper You Dig”). They clearly didn’t have enough to do with all of those jobs, so they also star in the film....

Henry Winkler To Play Cowboy Crime Boss In HBO Series King Rex HBO By BJ Colangelo/May 7, 2022 11:27 am EST Pop culture icon and all-around delightful human being Henry Winkler has signed on to yet another project with HBO. Just a few weeks after the Emmy-winning comedy “Barry” returned for its highly-anticipated fourth season, HBO has announced that Winkler has signed on to the limited series “King Rex,” based on the 1980 Texas Monthly article, “Rex Cauble And The Cowboy Mafia,” written by Lawrence Wright....

Hocus Pocus 2 Wraps Production, Will Release On Disney+ This Halloween Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 31, 2022 10:37 am EST Another glorious morning brings some news that, one hopes, won’t make you sick: “Hocus Pocus 2” has officially wrapped production. The sequel to Disney’s 1993 box office bomb turned Halloween favorite kicked off filming last fall, with Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker reprising their beloved roles as the child-hunting Sanderson sisters....

A missed opportunity Marvel Studios Baccarin confessed that she had difficulty understanding the role in question, which hampered her portrayal of the character during the auditioning process: “I didn’t get it at all, I didn’t get it at all. I love that [Joss Whedon] brought me in for [the audition]. He kept telling me she was like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, that she had this kind of hard edge to her, and I was like ‘I don’t understand....

Jessica Henwick Would Be Down To Return As Colleen Wing: ‘Never Say Never’ Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 28, 2021 10:16 am EST Could the Marvel Cinematic Universe see Colleen Wing return in the future? The door is open to that, as far as actress Jessica Henwick is concerned. Henwick can currently be seen in theaters and on HBO Max in “The Matrix Resurrections.” The film has provoked a mixed reaction overall, but one aspect that I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything bad about is Henwick....

Joan Didion, A Star Is Born Screenwriter And Legendary Author, Has Died At 87 Janet Fries/Getty Images By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 23, 2021 1:40 pm EST Joan Didion, the prolific author, screenwriter, and journalist who co-wrote the screenplays for “A Star is Born,” “True Confessions,” and more has died at the age of 87 in her Manhattan home. As a journalist, Didion reported on counter-culture and social movements; along with writers like Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S....

Karl Urban Doesn’t Think He’ll Get A Shot At Playing Wolverine, Despite Fans’ Desire Prime Video By Lyvie Scott/June 10, 2022 11:47 am EST Karl Urban is probably best known for his work in films with inseparable ensemble casts, and for the New Zealand actor, that’s entirely by design. “To me,” Urban told The Guardian, “that’s the most important thing in life: building a solid connection with people and having a great time doing the thing that you really love....

What Mina Harker would have been Universal Pictures Back in 2020, Kusama discussed the approach she was planning to take with “Mina Harker,” though based on the title change and her description, it sounds like the concept may have undergone an evolution, shifting away a bit from the multi-perspective angle to a movie that would have, according to Deadline, been “set in contemporary Los Angeles” and would have revolved around Mina and a version of Dracula named Vladimir....

Keira Knightley Had A Shipwreck Of Her Own While Shooting Pirates Of The Caribbean Disney By Mike Shutt/May 18, 2022 5:18 pm EST The legacy of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films is … complicated. The two post-Gore Verbinski sequels “On Stranger Tides” and “Dead Men Tell No Tales” were quite bad. Our perception of Johnny Depp has taken some major hits, both as a human and an actor. Disney is looking to rework the whole franchise into a Margot Robbie vehicle, and I would not be surprised if they would be trying to distance themselves as far as they could from the series we know....

Love, Victor’s Season 3 Will End The Series Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 9, 2022 9:44 am EST All’s well that ends well, and so we bid adieu to Hulu’s queer teen comedy series, “Love Victor.” The third season was given the go-ahead last July, but shortly after announcing that production had begun, we’ve learned that the eight-episode third season will be the show’s last. The show will drop on Hulu smack-dab in the middle of Pride Month, with the final season available on June 15, 2022....

Ghosts and Marvel commitments Marvel Studios In the book, Sherwood is one of the two missing women and her ghost “is determined to keep her secrets and her dignity.” She appears to “the ambitious Maddie,” scolding her for “poking around in a young Black woman’s life” and being more interested in her death. This sounds suspiciously like it could be playing, either consciously or unconsciously, on a certain outmoded “magical” trope....

Moon Knight Hot Toys Figure Is Detailed, Deadly, Probably Very Lonely Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/April 4, 2022 2:32 pm EST Hot Toys makes some of the best replicas out there. I have long envied anyone who has a shelf full of them. Today, we have a first look at the upcoming Hot Toys figure for “Moon Knight” from a merchandise preview at Marvel.com, and it’s as impressive as anything the company has put out....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 1 Sends The Exiled Jedi Master On One Final Mission Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/May 27, 2022 11:45 am EST “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is the newest television offering in the “Star Wars” universe. Originally conceived as a feature film, director Deborah Chow transformed it into a six-episode Disney+ event and the first two episodes have dropped. The first episode begins in the opening moments of Order 66, as Darth Vader and the 501st march upon the Jedi temple, slaughtering Jedi....