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‘American Gods’ Season Finale Review: The Old Gods Close Out The Season With A Bang By Vanessa Bogart/June 19, 2017 9:00 am EST (Each week, we’ll kick off our discussion of American Gods by answering one simple question: which character do we worship this week?) “What do you believe?” After an episode that took a break from the main storyline, “Come to Jesus” returned to Shadow and Mr. Wednesday…and Anansi and Bilquis and the New Gods....

‘Army Of The Dead’ Trailer: Zack Snyder’s Las Vegas Zombie Heist Film Looks Super Fun By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2021 8:49 am EST One of the most frequent complaints people have about director Zack Snyder’s DC superhero movies is that films like Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and even the recently-released Zack Snyder’s Justice League take their subject matter too seriously. The tonal clashes that occur when costumed heroes are gravely intoning about things like Mother Boxes one minute and then wailing on Parademons the next are too much for some viewers to handle....

‘Candyman’ Director Nia DaCosta Shares A Juneteeth Message In New Featurette By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2021 1:20 pm EST Remember Candyman? We’ve been excited about director Nia DaCosta’s modern take on the 1990s horror classic for years, and after being delayed due to the pandemic, we’re finally only a couple of months away from being able to see it for ourselves. The film doesn’t come out until the end of August, but to celebrate Juneteenth, Universal released a new Candyman featurette in which DaCosta talks about what the newly federally recognized holiday means for the Black community and how some of those feelings are explored in her new take on this property....

‘Hawkeye’ Series Casts Hailee Steinfeld As MCU Kate Bishop By Ben Pearson/Sept. 9, 2019 1:15 pm EST Looks like Marvel Studios just hit another casting bullseye: the company’s Disney+ series Hawkeye has targeted Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Bumblebee) to play the MCU Kate Bishop. If the deal goes through, she’ll join Jeremy Renner and presumably take over as the MCU’s primary archer – because every good superhero team needs that person with a bow and arrow running around as the team’s X factor....

‘Indiana Jones’ 4K Box Set Arriving In June By Chris Evangelista/March 15, 2021 3:00 pm EST Dust off your fedora because all four Indiana Jones movies are finally coming to 4K. The Indiana Jones 4K box set will arrive in June, and they’ve been “meticulously remastered from 4K scans of the original negatives with extensive visual effects work done to ensure the most pristine and highest quality image.” Director Steven Spielberg approved the picture work himself, so we’re in for a treat....

‘Mission: Impossible’ Star Henry Czerny Looks Back On The 1996 Original And Ahead To His Return In ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ [Interview] By Josh Spiegel/May 13, 2021 11:00 am EST /Film sat down virtually with Czerny to talk about his experience working on the first film, facing off against Tom Cruise in a restaurant doubling as an aquarium, and why he wondered if he talked himself out of being in the second film in 2000....

‘Space Jam 2’ Cut A Scene That Would Have Gotten Back At Pepé Le Pew By Ethan Anderton/March 8, 2021 7:30 am EST We recently learned that Space Jam: A New Legacy will feature a lot more Warner Bros. characters than the Looney Tunes. The sequel finds LeBron James and his son stuck in the Warner 3000 entertainment “Server-verse,” a digital world where the various characters of Warner Bros. movies and TV shows are found....

‘The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special’ Will Be A Must-Watch Before ‘Vol. 3,’ James Gunn Says By Jeremy Mathai/July 27, 2021 12:44 pm EST Who’s ready for some Marvel homework? I kid (mostly), but director James Gunn is talking up that wacky-sounding Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and detailing just how important it will be for Marvel Cinematic Universe fans to tune in before they see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

‘The Post’ Q&A: Streep, Hanks, And Whitford On Making Spielberg’s Latest Masterpiece By Ben Pearson/Nov. 28, 2017 1:00 pm EST Meryl Streep was attached to the film even before Spielberg came on board: Hanks: Yeah, the role was for a 7-year-old kid or a 13-year-old kid. Streep: [Producer] Amy Pascal sent me Liz Hannah’s script, and I just loved it. I didn’t think that it could get made. And then Steven stepped in, and everything came together in like twenty minutes…Steven was prepping another movie in Italy....

‘The Sandman’ Season 1 Has Finished Filming By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 5, 2021 11:32 am EST Get ready to dream. Author Neil Gaiman confirmed that production of The Sandman’s first season has wrapped and post-production is underway. This is pretty big news, given the series has been in development hell for 25 years. There have been many attempts to film The Sandman comic series over the years, but in 2019 Netflix ordered the series adaptation that is apparently now in the can....

‘The Three Musketeers’ Is Getting An Ambitious Two-Part Adaptation With Vincent Cassel And Eva Green By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 15, 2021 4:00 pm EST It’s been ten years since there was a big screen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ story of The Three Musketeers, but France is about to deliver one of the most ambitious yet. French producer Dimitri Rassam (The Little Prince) is working with Pathé on a two-part adaptation of the classic that will star François Civil, Eva Green, and Vincent Cassel....

‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Will Bring Out The “Bonkers” Side Of Nebula, According To Karen Gillan By Joshua Meyer/June 30, 2021 6:24 am EST Karen Gillan has a new movie coming out and it’s one where she won’t be playing a blue-skinned cyborg. Oh, she’s still an assassin: don’t you worry about that. However, this time, you’ll get to see the human face that is usually covered in makeup and prosthetics when Gillan is playing her MCU character, Nebula....

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Joseph Kosinski To Helm ‘Chariot,’ Based On The Sci-Fi Graphic Novel By Eric Vespe/July 13, 2021 5:32 am EST Tron: Legacy and Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski has a new project lined up and it sounds… well, weird and flashy and right up his alley. It’s called Chariot and it’s based on an AWA Comic of the same name. Warner Bros. nabbed the rights to the project described as a “fusion of True Romance and The Matrix....

10 DC Comics Characters We’d Like To See In A Suicide Squad Sequel DC Comics By Max Marriner/Aug. 26, 2021 4:59 pm EST One of the most unique qualities of DC’s Suicide Squad is its hilariously expendable roster. In an era in which every hero is contractually obligated to fight another day, here stands a group of supervillain misfits whose every breath could be their last. James Gunn lived up to the promises he made before the release of “The Suicide Squad,” mowing down most of the members with creative carnage....

12 Essential Stop-Motion Animated Movies By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2018 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Let’s Get Animated!, a column that spotlights the best of film animation. In this edition: here are the most essential stop-motion animated movies.) Stop-motion animation is largely seen as a quaint relic. An animation style that has roots in the earliest days of cinema — the first reported film to use stop-motion animation was Vitagraph’s lost 1897 film Humpty Dumpty Circus....

12 Things To Know About Kate Bishop Before The Disney+ Hawkeye Series Disney/YouTube By Alli Martin/Sept. 30, 2021 8:20 pm EST With Hailee Steinfeld set to portray Marvel’s world-famous female archer Kate Bishop on the new Disney+ “Hawkeye” series, it’s time to brush up on our knowledge of the character. Kate Bishop was only introduced to Marvel comics in the early ’00s, but already has a complicated, Marvel-esque history replete with time travel, universe hopping, and tragic familial connections to villainy....

15 Shows Like The White Lotus You Should Definitely Check Out HBO By Leah Marilla Thomas/Sept. 23, 2021 4:46 pm EST One of the reasons why “The White Lotus” was such a hit with audiences is that it was unexpected. We’re simply not used to seeing social satire pulled off well in mainstream popular culture. When done correctly, satire holds a lens up to society and exposes a type of person, vice, or institution that is problematic or ridiculous in some way....

Cool Stuff: A New Wave Of ‘Back To The Future’ ReAction Figures Is Coming From Super7 By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2021 6:00 am EST Now that Super7 is in control of ReAction Figures, there’s a new collection of Back to the Future figures for fans to get their hands on. Initially, they started with Back to the Future Part II, but now they’re digging back into the original movie with four new figures, two each for Marty McFly (Michael J....

Denis Villeneuve’s Biggest Challenge On Dune Was Timothee Chalamet’s Hair Warner Bros. Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 8, 2021 12:28 pm EST Actors just can’t help themselves sometimes from being impossibly difficult to work with, am I right? In this case, however, I have some sympathy for both “Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and actor Timothée Chalamet. The talented star’s mane of hair has helped him become both a heartthrob and a highly in-demand screen presence among the likes of Greta Gerwig, Wes Anderson, and obviously Villeneuve as well....

Extraction 2: Everything We Know So Far Netflix By Ben Pearson/Sept. 27, 2021 3:29 pm EST When “Extraction” debuted in 2020, it broke viewership records for Netflix and became the most-watched original movie in the streaming service’s history up until that point. A sequel wasn’t guaranteed, but after early test screenings, director Sam Hargrave purposefully created an ambiguous ending to keep that option on the table should Netflix want to continue the story....