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Who Is Sophie Thatcher’s Cool Biker Chick Character In Book Of Boba Fett? Let’s Speculate Wildly! Disney By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 27, 2021 3:21 pm EST “The Book of Boba Fett” is almost here. In two days, on December 29, “Star Wars” fans will have a series dedicated to the most mysterious Mandalorian in the galaxy. “The Book of Boba Fett” will be a crime story, following Fett (Temuera Morrison) and his right-hand woman, Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) as they take over the criminal underworld on Tatooine....

Why Chris Tucker Didn’t Want To Appear In The Friday Sequels New Line Cinema By Christian Gainey/March 16, 2022 9:53 pm EST Before 1995, Ice Cube was solely a rapper, Chris Tucker was a stand-up comedian, and nobody knew who Felicia was. But all that changed when “Friday” burst onto the scene. The movie itself is iconic and widely recognized as a cult classic. Almost 30 years later, celebrities are still reenacting scenes on social media, and a little phrase Craig utters once — “Bye, Felicia!...

Why The Driver’s ‘Playing Chicken’ Scene Had To Be Perfect On The First Take 20th Century Studios By Anthony Crislip/June 13, 2022 1:40 pm EST Walter Hill’s 1978 crime classic “The Driver” comes directly from the golden age of ’70s action movies, complete with villainous cop characters, slick outfits, a gritty sensibility, and, of course, many, many car chases. For as cool as the movie is — with its action, its sleazy Los Angeles clubs, and its whispered conspiracies between cops and criminals — it’s more than anything a pure vision of a cat-and-mouse saga....

Year Of The Vampire: Daughters Of Darkness And The Seduction Of Sadistic Sapphism Maron Films By BJ Colangelo/March 1, 2022 1:00 pm 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.) In the book “Vampires & Violets,” filmmaker and scholar Andrea Weiss said, “The lesbian vampire is the most powerful representation of lesbianism to be found on the commercial movie screen and rather than abandon her for what she signifies, it may be possible to extricate her from her original function and reappropriate her power....

Did Marvel Just Pull Its Biggest Punch With Wanda — Or Are They Planning Something Bigger? Marvel Studios By Bryan Young/May 6, 2022 2:00 pm EST There will be spoilers for “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” in this article. Wanda Maximoff, known by her nom de guerre as the Scarlet Witch, is one of the most powerful characters in the entire Marvel Universe. In the 616-universe (the comic book 616 universe, not the cinematic 616-universe) she was believed to be the daughter of Magneto and is the twin of Pietro Maximoff — Quicksilver....

A Lack Of Planning On Rambo: First Blood Put A Stuntman In Serious Danger Orion Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/July 2, 2022 9:47 am EST The action film genre is far from my favorite. Although they make for good popcorn theater, I’ve always felt the machine gun fireworks, high-speed chases in rush hour traffic where the protagonist swerves out of the way from the oncoming 18-wheeler just in the nick of time to avoid certain death, and the unnecessary explosions that come with these movies take precedence over authentic storytelling and character development that truly humanizes the folks we’re supposed to be pulling for....

‘Make it cheaply’ A24 Looking back, it’s no mystery as to why “28 Days Later” was the only hit film Alex Garland wrote prior to his directing debut on 2015’s “Ex Machina.” It was easily the least costly with a budget of only $8 million, as opposed to $50 million for “Dredd.” But more than that, it was the most approachable one for a wider audience, putting an intriguing new spin on the popular zombie genre....

Arden Cho Turned Down The Teen Wolf Movie After Being Offered Less Than Half The Salary Of Her Other Co-Stars MTV By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 31, 2022 9:44 pm EST In September, as news of an upcoming “Teen Wolf” movie broke, fans of the six-season MTV series were eager to find out which members of Beacon Hills’ wolf pack would be headed to Paramount+ for a feature-length sequel. When the cast list came out, a couple key names were absent, including actress Arden Cho....

Brett Goldstein (AKA Roy Kent) Just Signed An Overall Deal With Warner Bros. TV Apple TV+ By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 1, 2022 9:05 am EST Brett Goldstein is coming off a recent Emmy win for his performance as the irascible Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso,” and now he’s inked a new deal with Warner Bros. Television that will keep his talents in-house at the studio that co-produces and co-distributes everyone’s favorite Apple TV+ series....

Candyman’s Most Famous Moment Was Painful And Profitable For Tony Todd TriStar Pictures By Witney Seibold/May 4, 2022 4:09 pm EST Bernard Rose’s 1992 film “Candyman” is based on Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden,” first published in the anthology novel “In the Flesh” in 1985. In Barker’s original story, the action takes place in The Spector Street Estate, a fictional housing project in England, where a college student named Helen investigates the details of an urban legend named The Candyman....

Death Proof Is The Tarantino Classic We Don’t Talk About Enough Dimension Films By Mike Shutt/May 11, 2022 5:17 pm EST In the eyes of film bros in the mid-2000s, no two filmmakers were cooler than Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Posters for their films lined the walls of dorm rooms everywhere. They were the renegade badasses of independent film in the 1990s, and the 2000s saw them making their grand action epics....

Everything You Need To Remember About Avatar 20th Century Studios By Rafael Motamayor/May 13, 2022 9:06 am EST James Cameron’s “Avatar” was a surprising success, a movie that wowed audiences for months after its initial release, dazzling viewers with incredible visuals that still look better than the biggest blockbusters out there. No matter how much people doubted Cameron, he delivered the biggest movie of all time, just as he did a decade prior with “Titanic....

Here’s When You Can Watch House Of Gucci At Home MGM By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 11, 2022 12:16 pm EST I’m (trying to be) what you might call a “professional,” which is why I’ll resist the temptation to fill this entire story with nothing but quintessentially Italian “pinched finger” emojis. Filmmaker Ridley Scott’s other 2021 film, “The Last Duel,” received most of the attention (and, in certain corners, controversy) last year but “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, and Jared Leto as members of the fabulously wealthy Gucci dynasty, deserved its fair share of the spotlight as well....

Eddie Carr from The Lost World Universal Pictures Oh, Eddie, the unsung, gone-too-soon hero of “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.” Played by Richard Schiff, Eddie is the tech guy of Dr. Ian Malcolm’s expedition to Isla Sorna. He’s also probably the most earnestly heroic member of the group. When Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn) makes the dumb decision to bring a young, injured Tyrannosaurus rex to camp, the juvenile’s parents come lurking around....

Martin Freeman Says Filming Black Panther 2 Was Strange And Sad Without Chadwick Boseman Marvel Studios By BJ Colangelo/May 5, 2022 5:58 pm EST It’s impossible to state what Chadwick Boseman’s performance as T’Challa, the Black Panther, meant to the world. Ryan Coogler’s groundbreaking addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Black Panther,” was a global phenomenon. It remains the highest-grossing film directed by a Black filmmaker, the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and it turned Chadwick Boseman into an icon....

A spunky little story that just wouldn’t stop Quill Tree Books Now, Netflix announced that it is partnering with Annapurna Pictures to produce the film and release it in 2023. According to a press release, production for the film began early last year. At this time it is unknown what, if anything, changed from the Blue Sky days. We do know, however, that the cast is still the same. Chloë Grace Moretz will star as Nimona, the shape-shifting teen, Riz Ahmed as Ballister Boldheart, a disgraced knight, and Eugene Lee Yang as Ambrosius Goldenloin, a gallant knight tasked with killing Nimona....

Oscar Isaac Is The Best New Marvel Lead In Years Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/March 31, 2022 9:00 am EST One of the strongest elements of Marvel Studios is their casting. From the very start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the studio has been finding fun and charismatic actors to lead their projects, to the point where many of the new interpretations of the characters have become canon for the comics and the actors have become intrinsically linked to the characters....

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish Director And Producer On Making A Spaghetti Western In The Shrek Universe [Annecy 2022] DreamWorks Animation By Rafael Motamayor/June 18, 2022 1:00 pm EST Who would have thought that the studio that not only gave us both the incredible “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda” franchises, but also “The Boss Baby” and “Shrek,” would have one possibly the most exciting animated movie of the year — and it’s a “Shrek” spin-off film!...

Severance Actor Tramell Tillman Talks Milchick’s Motivations [Interview] Apple TV+ By Vanessa Armstrong/April 8, 2022 2:14 pm EST For “Severance” fans, the character of Milchick — the Lumon devotee who manages the day-to-day for the Macrodata Refinement team — remains a bit of a mystery. We don’t know much about his background other than that he’s metaphorically drunk a gallon of Lumon Kool-Aid. That devotion to the larger entity is what fueled actor Tramell Tillman’s nuanced performance as Milchick....

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Trailer Breakdown: She’s Big, She’s Green, And She’ll Step On You Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/May 18, 2022 11:47 am EST Well, nobody can accuse Marvel Studios of not having their finger on the pulse! Sometimes this can go a little too far, as at least one major sequence in the recently-released “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ended up carrying a whiff of fan-pleasing desperation (to be fair, Marvel isn’t alone in resorting to these measures)....