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‘TAR’: Cate Blanchett To Star In ‘Little Children’ Director Todd Field’s Next Film By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2021 5:00 pm EST Todd Field has not directed a movie since 2006 – but plans are in place for him to finally emerge once again. Cate Blanchett (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Thor: Ragnarok) is set to star in TAR, the latest movie from the acclaimed writer/producer/director of In the Bedroom and Little Children....

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Tries And Fails To Take A Break From Bodyguarding By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2021 7:30 am EST Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson were at each other’s throats in the action comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard in 2017. After bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson) were forced to team up in the face of danger, Bryce now finds himself haunted by Kincaid in his dreams, so his therapist has recommended that he take a sabbatical from bodyguarding....

‘The Mandalorian’ And ‘WandaVision’ Share The Same Killer Flaws By Jeremy Mathai/March 1, 2021 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.)This post contains spoilers for The Mandalorian and the latest episode of WandaVision.For better or worse, the debuts of The Mandalorian and WandaVision on Disney+ within just 14 months of each other represent something of a game-changer in this Streaming Era....

‘Tom Clancy’s The Division’ Movie Is Now In The Hands Of ‘Skyscraper’ Director Rawson Marshall Thurber By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 26, 2021 10:30 am EST Collider has news on Tom Clancy’s The Division movie swapping out directors. Leitch being attached to the movie was something that made the project a little more exciting than your average video game adaptation, mostly because his eye for spectacular action is one of the best in the business right now....

‘WandaVision’: Did Marvel Merchandise Just Confirm Something Major About Monica Rambeau? By Ben Pearson/Feb. 10, 2021 3:00 pm EST Yesterday, we wrote about how a plot detail from Marvel’s upcoming series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was seemingly confirmed by a T-shirt. And now today, it appears that a new piece of WandaVision merchandise might hint at the future of one of that show’s characters. Warning: potential spoilers ahead. In the pages of Marvel Comics, the character of Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) gains superpowers and has operated under a number of different superhero identities over the years: for a long time she was known as Captain Marvel, and some other names include Pulsar, Spectrum, and Photon (the latter of which was the military callsign of her mother, Captain Marvel character Maria Rambeau)....

Anna: Release Date, Cast, And More Sky By Ben Pearson/Oct. 26, 2021 2:35 pm EST (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.) After nineteen months of watching a fatal virus ravage our planet, are you ready to kick back on the couch and watch … a show about a fatal virus that ravages our planet?...

Edie Falco Filmed A Scene For The Many Saints Of Newark, But It Got Cut HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 21, 2021 11:06 am EST “The Many Saints of Newark” is set to be a big Italian family reunion — the actual family, not the mafia kind. Regular series director Alan Taylor is returning to helm the prequel film based on the classic HBO show, along with a whole host of familiar characters with new actors perfectly embodying the roles....

Jamie Tartt (Doo-Doo Doo-Doo Doo) Confirms Ted Lasso Season 3 Will Begin Filming Soon AppleTV+ By Shania Russell/Nov. 1, 2021 3:32 pm EST Word on the street is “Ted Lasso” is months away filming its much-anticipated third season. And where did this exciting nugget of knowledge come from? None other than AFC Richmond striker, Jamie Tartt! Or, if you prefer, “Lust Conquers All” star, Jamie Tartt! His equally important career highlights must get their proper recognition....

Last Night In Soho Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns Once Pitched A Portal Movie Dan Trachtenberg By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 2, 2021 8:36 am EST Every screenwriter — even a master like Guillermo del Toro — has loads of unproduced scripts and projects they’ve pitched that never saw the light of day. “Last Night in Soho” co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns is no different. One of her rejected pitches, which haunts her to this day, was for an adaptation of the video game “Portal....

Marilyn Eastman, ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ Financier And Actress, Dies At 87 By Eric Vespe/Aug. 23, 2021 5:48 pm EST The world of horror cinema lost an important figure yesterday. Marilyn Eastman, better known to horror fans as Night of the Living Dead’s Helen Cooper, the poor woman caring for her zombie-bitten daughter all while her bigoted husband is screaming at the rest of the survivors, passed away on Sunday at the age of 87....

Marvel Went To Surprising Lengths To Squash False Rumors Of A Planet Hulk Movie Marvel By Ryan Scott/Oct. 20, 2021 5:38 pm EST The recently released book “The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe” contains many amazing tidbits for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We recently reviewed the book, for those weighing a possible purchase. But we’re here today to discuss one of the tidbits in question....

Netflix’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ Is Actually Happening And Will Film Soon By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 23, 2021 11:16 am EST It’s been almost a year-and-a-half since we learned Paramount sold Beverly Hills Cop 4 to Netflix. Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley is still coming back though, and we now have news that things are moving forward with the sequel and it will go into production in California. Beverly Hills Cop 4 Might Actually Shoot in Beverly Hills...

New Stars Wars Novels Will Include The Story Of Luke Skywalker’s Search For Exegol Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Oct. 7, 2021 12:20 pm EST Lucasfilm has announced a handful of new “Star Wars” books that will be telling brand new tales set within a galaxy far, far away. And it sounds like these books will be filling in some crucial gaps, in addition to possibly connecting to other major projects such as “The Mandalorian,” if we allow for some speculation that is....

Photos: Meet The Characters From Disney Animation’s ‘Frozen’ By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2013 12:00 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released character images for their upcoming 53rd animated feature film Frozen. The story follows “fearless optimist Anna” (voiced by Kristen Bell) who teams up with a rugged mountain man named Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan Groff) and “his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa (Idina Menzel), “whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter....

Rod Roddenberry On Star Trek Boldly Going Into 4K And The Moving Target Of His Father’s Vision [Interview] Paramount By Jacob Hall/Sept. 7, 2021 11:35 am EST The “Star Trek” franchise turns 55 tomorrow. That’s 55 years of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, of Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko, of Klingons and Romulans and Gorn and Borg. Over a half-century of a universe so complex that you can get lost in it, but so approachable that anyone can enjoy it....

Signs Ending Explained: Swing Away Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 8, 2021 12:33 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan movies get a lot of flack, and they don’t deserve it. As we’ve discussed here at /Film before, M. Night Shyamalan movies are good, actually, and we’re not just talking about twist endings. Arguably one of his best movies, Shyamalan’s “Signs” focuses on a former minister named Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) who lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with his children Bo (Abigail Breslin) and Morgan (Rory Culkin), and his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix)....

Superhero Bits: Merry Little Batman Coming To Cartoon Network, Rachel Leigh Cook Regrets Passing On Rogue & More Warner Bros. Games and DC By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2021 4:11 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The 10 Best Western Movies You Can Stream On Netflix Right Now The Weinstein Company By Gino Orlandini/Dec. 2, 2021 4:59 pm EST The western has met a curious fate. Once among the most reliably popular staples of the Hollywood machine, ask around today and your average film fan under 50 is likely to express disinterest, if not outright disdain, for the genre entirely. Push a little harder on these unbelievers and you’ll hear vague critiques like “they’re boring” and “they’re all the same....

The Daily Stream: ‘Crimson Tide’ Pits Denzel Washington Against Gene Hackman, And The Audience Wins By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2021 1:52 pm EST The phrase “toxic masculinity” has been used so often and so broadly in recent years that my eyes can sometimes glaze over when I see it. But Crimson Tide is a film that’s truly interested in exploring two rival interpretations of masculinity and manhood – something Scott interrogated multiple times throughout his career in films like Top Gun and Unstoppable....

The Daily Stream: Catastrophe Laughs At The Worst Parts Of Life By Shania Russell/Sept. 16, 2021 6:09 pm EST The Series: “Catastrophe” The Pitch: An American ad-man walks into a bar and flirts with an Irish schoolteacher, leading to a six-day fling. The punchline? A few weeks later, she finds out she’s pregnant. Thus begins the messy, consistently disastrous, occasionally despicable, and somehow still heartwarming love story of Rob (Rob Delaney) and Sharon (Sharon Horgan)....