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Balancing Blackbeard and the God of Thunder HBO Predictably, Waititi’s packed schedule was a considerable obstacle when “Our Flag Means Death” first landed on his plate. Jenkins had him in mind for the role from the very start, but it took a while for everything to fall into place. Waititi explained this during an interview with Hype: “This is one of the rare occasions where I didn’t put myself in my own thing; someone else asked me to do it....

Pen15 Creators Maya Erskine And Anna Konkle Are Leaving The Door Open For More Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 22, 2021 2:25 pm EST When Hulu’s middle school-set series “PEN15” announced it would be ending after only two seasons, it came as a shock to fans. The November announcement came just days before the season’s second half debuted, and seemed to many to be a heel-turn for creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, who had previously expressed interest in continuing the show....

Pro Wrestling Feuds That Are Just As Good As Any TV Show Or Movie WWE By BJ Colangelo AND Ben F. Silverio/March 30, 2022 3:00 pm EST Since the dawn of time, the human race has found a number of ways to tell stories. From word of mouth around the fire to live stage productions to film and television to interactive virtual reality, there are countless ways to experience the joys of storytelling....

Robert Englund’s Riddler Is Seriously Underrated Warner Bros. By Devin Meenan/May 25, 2022 9:50 am EST Robert Englund’s addition to the cast of “Stranger Things” season 4 is just perfect— a fantasy horror series built on 1980s nostalgia would be incomplete if it didn’t bring in Freddy Krueger himself. Englund has played the dream-stalking serial killer in eight movies, the short-lived anthology series “Freddy’s Nightmares,” and plenty of parodies. The actor will be forever defined by Freddy, something he’s embraced, but this doesn’t mean he’s a one-trick-pony....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Made More Money On Monday Than Most Movies Make On Opening Weekend Marvel Studios / Sony By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 21, 2021 2:54 pm EST Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can … which is apparently kicking major box office booty. Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” obliterated the competition and broke some box office records with its weekend debut, becoming the second-biggest domestic opening of all time despite the raging Omicron variant of COVID-19....

The Financial Journey Lucasfilm “Red Tails” hit theaters on January 20, 2012. Unfortunately it faced stiff competition as “Underworld: Awakening” was also debuting, as was the action flick “Haywire.” Not to mention the expansion of the Oscar-nominated “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” To make matters worse, Lucas’ passion project was not met with a warm welcome from critics at the time. “Red Tails” currently holds a 40% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes....

The Batman Trailer Breakdown: A Game Of Bat And Cat Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 27, 2021 3:56 pm EST What’s black and blue and dead all over? The answer to that would be, well, us. We’re the ones left trying to catch our breath after watching yet another incredible trailer (which you can see in 4K here) for “The Batman,” just when we thought the marketing for this Matt Reeves-directed and Robert Pattinson-starring superhero movie couldn’t possibly get any better than it’s already been....

The Daily Stream: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Mixes Unrelenting Excitement With Valuable Lessons Bones By Devin Meenan/June 11, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Show: “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, Funimation, and Crunchyroll The Pitch: “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” takes place in a world similar to western Europe at the turn of the 20th century, but one in which alchemists drive innovation, not engineers....

The Morning Watch: Obi-Wan Kenobi Cast Answers Star Wars Questions, Making Of Chip ‘N Dale & More Disney+ By Jenna Busch/May 19, 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.)...

The Most Horrific Deaths In All Of Us Are Dead Netflix By Bee Delores/April 1, 2022 10:17 am EST “All of Us Are Dead” set an important milestone soon after its release. It’s not hard to see why it has connected with such a wide audience. It’s a heartfelt and heart-pounding story about a group of Hyosan high school students with plenty of carnage candy. While popular shows like “The Walking Dead” are often afraid to take big risks, this South Korean zombie drama challenges the viewer to go along for a wild ride and accept that any character can die....

The Studio Had Some Strange Ideas For Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy Sony Pictures Releasing By Devin Meenan/March 28, 2022 11:16 am EST Even Best Director winners like Guillermo del Toro must work at the whims of studio executives. In 2004, when del Toro was a much less proven artist on the mainstream stage, his struggle was even greater. Of the four films del Toro had made at the time, only one had been a commercial success: “Blade II....

Watch How Everything Everywhere All At Once Turned A Fanny Pack Into A Deadly Weapon A24 By Ben F. Silverio/April 12, 2022 10:28 pm EST After breaking into the entertainment industry in the 1980s with seminal films of the decade “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies,” Ke Huy Quan worked as an actor for a few years, then completely disappeared from our screens. Now, following a hiatus that lasted around 20 years, he has finally returned to theaters nationwide in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” with great adulation....

Why Emilio Estevez Thinks The Breakfast Club Turned Out Better Than St. Elmo’s Fire Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/May 31, 2022 9:26 am EST The Brat Pack are a fascinating cultural object. Sure, the idea of having young, hot movie stars is nothing new, but the idea that they all operated basically within the same circle, constantly working with each other over and over again, is rather unusual. The 1980s saw a massive rise in movies targeted to teenagers, and the Brat Pack were the people they cut out of magazines and plastered all over their bedroom walls....

Dropped Ratings and a Network Makeover Inspired the Cancellation USA The USA Network has never officially confirmed what we already know, but season 4 of “Queen of the South” reportedly saw a considerable drop of about 20 percent in ratings, despite the show still being the most-watched drama on the channel. Season 5 showed an even bigger drop, proving the network’s likely fear that interest in the series was waning. Ratings were definitely a big influence on the show’s cancellation, but the changing landscape of the USA Network is the more likely culprit....

Will There Be A Sequel To Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City? Here’s What We Know Sony By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 21, 2021 10:43 am EST Director Johannes Roberts’ cinematic reboot of “Resident Evil” raised plenty of eyebrows upon announcement, and while the film received mixed reviews from critics, it managed to take home $31.6 million at the box office during the pandemic and made a lot of fans of the video game series (myself included) very, very happy....

Apollo 10 1/2 Review: A Rotoscoped Home Movie About The Space Race Netflix By Josh Spiegel/March 30, 2022 10:00 am EST Many, though not all, of Richard Linklater’s films have a distinct, almost proud, sense of being homegrown and personal. Though Linklater isn’t quite as involved as fellow Texas-based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, at least in terms of exactly how many roles within a given film he can take on, his films are imbued with a passion associated with the awareness that no one else could tell these stories, because they are specifically Linklater’s stories to tell....

David Yates Had His Doubts About Directing The Fantastic Beasts Franchise Warner Bros. Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 9, 2022 11:37 am EST It had been many years since the conclusion to the “Harry Potter” film franchise had been released when Warner Bros. began looking for a way to bring viewers back to its magical world. After “Harry Potter” producers David Heyman and Lionel Wigram met with J.K. Rowling to pitch their idea for a faux-documentary style film featuring Newt Scamander, the author responded in kind, sharing a script she had already been working on....

E.T. Was Originally Going To Be A Horror Movie – But Steven Spielberg Saw A Different Path Universal Pictures By Caroline Madden/Feb. 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” is a sentimental ode to the magic of childhood that exemplifies the exhilarating power of cinema. But it wasn’t always supposed to be an uplifting family-friendly adventure; it was originally planned to be quite the opposite — a horror film. After the success of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” a thoughtful meditation on human nature with some eerie moments, Columbia wanted to make a sequel....

Euphoria Season 2 Yearbook: Wash Your Hands HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 28, 2022 8:14 am EST We’re here. We made it to the end of “Euphoria” season two, and what do we have to show for it? Off the top of my head, I’d say: trauma, memes, catharsis, rage, and makeup inspiration. The show definitely delivered on writer-director Sam Levinson’s early promise to make the season feel like a party that just won’t end....

Everything Everywhere All At Once set to break an A24 record A24 Not bad for a couple of guys who, until now, were best known for their (utterly brilliant) farting corpse movie, eh? Variety has the details on the latest box office roundup from this past weekend. The top 4 spots contain all the usual suspects, with Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange” sequel obviously ruling the roost in its second weekend of release, followed by Universal’s animated film “The Bad Guys,” Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” and the exceedingly disappointing Stephen King adaptation of “Firestarter....