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That ‘Spawn’ Reboot Has Finished Creature Designs, Could Feel Like A David Fincher Movie By Ethan Anderton/July 23, 2021 8:23 am EST Todd McFarlane has been talking about making a new Spawn movie since as far back as 2009. There was even a time when he wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to take the lead role. More recently, plans felt like they might actually be coming together with Jamie Foxx attached to star and special effects, make-up, and creature designer Greg Nicotero on board....

The Salesman Netflix The Salesman only makes two appearances in the show, but Gong Yoo’s mysterious, smooth character is the first link we get to the shadowy organization that runs the Squid Game. He essentially introduces the central premise of the series, drawing an unwitting Gi-hun into a childish game after they meet at an empty subway station. The salesman talks Gi-hun into playing a game that’s essentially a microcosm of the whole series — for every round the salesman loses, he will pay Gi-hun $100,000....

The French Dispatch Review: Wes Anderson’s Stylish Love Letter Never Buries The Lead Searchlight Pictures By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 18, 2021 10:05 am EST When you start a job in at a newspaper, you start at the bottom. As an intern at the Washington Post, that meant I was dropped right into Obituaries, where a sour-faced editor who obviously would rather be writing at the New York Times carved a bloody streak of red pen across every story I filed....

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Just Had The Second-Best Preview Night Of The Pandemic Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Oct. 1, 2021 12:40 pm EST “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is off to one heck of a great start at the box office. The sequel, which sees Tom Hardy return as Eddie Brock/Venom, hit theaters for preview showings on Thursday night, ahead of its full rollout this weekend. Things are, to say the very least of it, looking good....

Y: The Last Man Teaser: Fans Are Another Day Closer To A New World FX on Hulu By Shania Russell/Sept. 1, 2021 12:41 pm EST Ahead of its September 13 premiere date, FX has released a new teaser for the upcoming series “Y: The Last Man.” The show has been a long time coming and every piece of new footage is a welcome gift to the many fans who have waited years for this world to hit screens....

By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2013 1:33 pm EST OK, here’s the official word about the future of the DC Universe on screen via Warner Bros. Or the official suggestion. Zack Snyder took the stage at the end of the DC panel, gesturing that moderator Chris Hardwick should move aside. Snyder said, “I’m gonna take the lectern from you, because some s***’s going to happen up here.” Snyder continued: It’s official that we are going to make another Superman movie....

‘Black Widow’ Star David Harbour Describes Suiting Up As A Superhero Like Having “The Best Halloween Costume On The Block” By Joshua Meyer/July 1, 2021 6:10 am EST Black Widow isn’t David Harbour’s first superhero rodeo, not if you count his starring role in the 2019 Hellboy reboot. That film was a critical and commercial disappointment, and the otherwise affable Harbour has since attributed its failure to “the loudness of the Internet,” with its scores of angry fans who hold the two Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman movies as sacrosanct....

‘Goodnight Mommy’ Remake Will Star Naomi Watts By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2021 11:30 am EST Variety is reporting the news that the Goodnight Mommy remake will star Naomi Watts. The original film was released in 2014, and generated a lot of buzz, particularly in the horror community. The story “follows twin brothers who, when sent to stay with their mother, are surprised to find her swathed in bandages from a recent procedure....

‘Oxygen’ Teaser: Alexandre Aja’s Netflix Thriller Stars An Amnesiac Mélanie Laurent Trapped With No Air By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 10, 2021 11:30 am EST French filmmaker Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) seems to have taken a liking to small spaces. Following his surprisingly solid 2019 horror movie Crawl, Aja is going even more claustrophobic with his new Netflix thriller Oxygen, a film starring Mélanie Laurent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic chamber with no memory and a quickly diminishing air supply....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Might Not Premiere Until 2022, According To Finn Wolfhard By Ben Pearson/April 20, 2021 3:30 pm EST Stranger Things season 3 premiered in July of 2019, which, thanks to the pandemic completely wrecking the space-time continuum in 2020, somehow feels like it was approximately 9,000 years ago. As we try to get back to some semblance of normality, you may eventually find yourself slowly falling back into your old pre-pandemic routines and wondering, “Hey, when does Stranger Things season 4 come out?...

‘The Patrick Star Show’ Teaser: The ‘SpongeBob Squarepants’ Spin-Off Premieres This July By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 1, 2021 4:00 pm EST Everyone’s favorite starfish is getting his own show. Patrick Star is starring in the talk show of his dreams (literally) in The Patrick Star Show, a spin-off series from SpongeBob Squarepants coming to Nickelodeon this July. Watch The Patrick Star Show teaser below. The Patrick Star Show Teaser Patrick and his family takes center stage in The Patrick Star Show, a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s flagship show SpongeBob Squarepants from the same creative team behind the original series (minus SpongeBob’s original creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018 at the age of 57)....

‘Tom & Jerry’ Featurette: Why Tom And Jerry Had To Retain Their 2D Looks In A 3D World By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2021 11:00 am EST Tom and Jerry are two of the staples of American animation. The Hanna-Barbera cat-and-mouse rivals were mainstays on TV from the 1940s through the 1950s, and the stars of dozens of animated shorts, TV shows, films, and more. And finally, they’ll be entering the real world with the upcoming hybrid animated film Tom & Jerry....

8-Bit Christmas: Release Date, Cast And More Warner Bros. By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2021 3:04 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) One day, our society is going to need to come to grips with our unhealthy relationship to nostalgia and the ripple effect it’s having on the films and TV shows that are getting made....

A ‘Loki’ Short Film Almost Had The God Of Mischief Running A Studio 54-Like Club In The 1970s By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2021 2:57 pm EST Loki is the latest Marvel series headed to Disney+, dropping Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief into a time-hopping adventure. And this isn’t the first time the folks at Marvel considered giving Hiddleston’s Loki his own solo adventure. As Kevin Feige revealed during a press conference today, there was once a plan for a short film that would have Loki running a Studio 54-like club back in the ’70s....

Alternate Blade Ending Would’ve Featured A Major Spider-Man Villain New Line By Jamie Gerber/Nov. 29, 2021 10:53 am EST It’s difficult to remember a time when the box office wasn’t dominated by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but when “Blade” hit theaters in 1998, it was a huge gamble. Just the second major movie inspired by a Marvel Comics character (following “Howard the Duck” in 1986, which wasn’t exactly a hit), the film starred Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire hunter....

Could A ‘Red Guardian’ Movie Happen? David Harbour And ‘Black Widow’ Director Cate Shortland Weigh In By Eric Vespe/July 12, 2021 7:23 pm EST Hot on the heels of Black Widow pulling in a great post-lockdown global weekend, we have some juicy speculation to indulge in, so buckle up. Said speculation comes directly from Black Widow director Cate Shortland and actor David Harbour, so it’s a step above fan theory but it’s still not real....

Eternals Star Kumail Nanjiani Is Not A Dancer, Was Tricked Into Doing A Bollywood Dance Scene Marvel By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 19, 2021 5:11 pm EST There’s been much discussion about Kumail Nanjiani since the announcement of his casting in “Eternals,” namely, the unhealthy obsession people have had regarding his body transformation. However, back in March of 2020, Nanjiani announced that “Enternals” would have a Bollywood dance scene, something unlike anything ever seen in a Marvel movie....

Evil Dead Rise Has Wrapped Filming Lee Cronin By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2021 11:35 am EST That’s a wrap! As revealed by director Lee Cronin in a recent Twitter, post, filming has indeed concluded on “Evil Dead Rise,” the long-awaited return of the beloved horror franchise to the big screen. The folks at HBO Max are making it happen, with the streaming service bringing us the return of the Deadites. To commemorate the occasion, Cronin revealed some behind-the-scenes photos....

Netflix Launches Top 10 Website To Distract Us From Their Flimsy Viewership Metrics Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 17, 2021 4:26 pm EST Well, at least we know that Netflix is paying attention to criticism. Hot on the heels of the major streamer’s most recent (and most expensive) release of “Red Notice” and following a wave of mass skepticism and scrutiny over Netflix’s unsubstantiated claims that the original movie broke an opening day record, Netflix has finally made public overtures towards a better sense of transparency … on the surface, at least....

Pop Culture Imports: Squid Game, Riders Of Justice & More Foreign Movies And TV Streaming Now Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 30, 2021 2:38 pm EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) Summer is over and there’s a chill in the air. Doesn’t it make you want to throw on your tweed blazer and watch some foreign films? Just me?...