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The Director Of ‘Luca’ Reveals The Classic Italian Films That Influenced His New Pixar Movie By Ben Pearson/June 15, 2021 11:28 am EST Luca, the latest film from Pixar, is a rollicking, sun-dappled adventure set in a small seaside Italian town. Like The Little Mermaid, the film follows a young sea dweller who discovers what it’s like to live on the surface world and yearns for freedom. The only problem is that small seaside town’s residents hate and fear sea monsters – kind of like how the residents of Berk hate and fear dragons in How to Train Your Dragon....

There Was Graphic Violence Newmarket Films “The Passion of the Christ” depicts the brutality of Jesus’ crucifixion — the whipping, the nailing to the cross, the piercing crown of thorns — with explicit horror. Its less Biblical epic and more torture porn akin to the “Saw” movies. Distinguished critic Roger Ebert deemed Gibson’s lurid drama “the most violent film I have ever seen.” Over-the-top reactions to the film’s garish voyeurism from the audience became synonymous with its exhibition....

Titans Finale Sneak Peek When Dick Grayson says cut the red wire, you have no choice but to listen. The season 3 finale of “Titans” sees Tim and Dick coaching Garth through a mini heist of sorts, to steal a little something from Bruce Wayne. But given the magic word is “Selina Kyle,” it’s nothing compared to what Catwoman took from the Caped Crusader. Escaping Wayne Manor won’t be easy, but might be the least of their problems, considering Jonathan Crane’s determination to destroy Gotham City....

Trivia: Harvey Weinstein Had Plans To Open A Chain Of Jack Rabbit Slims By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2008 11:25 am EST Pulp Fiction was featured at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills as part of the Academy’s newest 17-week “Great To Be Nominated” series. It was revealed that Miramax kingpin Harvey Weinstein had plans to open a chain of Jack Rabbit Slims restaurants after Pulp Fiction became such a huge success....

V/H/S/94 Trailer The “V/H/S” movies follow the same setup every time: four segments, bookended by one wraparound story in which a separate party stumbles upon and watches each found footage tape (the exception being “V/H/S: Viral,” which has only three segments and a wraparound due to Todd Lincoln’s non-found footage “Gorgeous Vortex” film being cut — though it is included on the DVD bonus features). “94” will, for the first time in the franchise, tie the segments together explicitly with the wraparound....

Watch The Moon Fall In The First Five Minutes Of Moonfall Lionsgate By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 13, 2021 11:35 am EST After blowing up the White House in “Independence Day,” flooding New York City in “The Day After Tomorrow,” and unleashing all sorts of natural disasters in “2012,” how else can director Roland Emmerich wreak havoc on our poor little planet? Why, having the moon attack Earth, of course! That’s the setup for the filmmaker’s next project, “Moonfall,” and you can now watch the first five minutes now....

Westboro Baptist Church Family Attends Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’, Leaves In Disgust After 15 Minutes By Adam Quigley/March 15, 2011 9:30 am EST “This is gonna be like watching STAR WARS with Darth Vader right there in the audience!” Here’s one way to draw a crowd. As per his proposed self-distribution strategy — which is already proving quite promising — Kevin Smith is currently touring with Red State, and a recent showing of the flick had a dozen or more special guests: The infamous Phelps family, whose Westboro Baptist Church is the basis for Smith’s film....

‘Another Round’ Remake Might Star Leonardo DiCaprio By Chris Evangelista/April 26, 2021 11:30 am EST Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, Endeavor Content, and Makeready have scooped up the American remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round. DiCaprio is set to produce the remake, and there’s a good chance he might star in the film as well. The 2020 Danish comedy-drama from director Thomas Vinterberg stars Mads Mikkelsen as one of four high school teachers who enter into an experiment to consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives....

‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?: Curse Of The Shadows’ Trailer: The Nickelodeon Anthology Series Returns For Season 2 By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2021 1:30 pm EST Nickelodeon resurrected its 1990s horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark? in 2019 for a limited series, and since it performed well, the kid-friendly network decided to bring it back for another season with a whole new cast. Now the first trailer has arrived for Are You Afraid of the Dark?...

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has Started Filming Its Eighth And Final Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 8, 2021 4:30 pm EST Nine-Nine! The NYPD’s finest are back on the beat, for the eighth and final season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Production on Brooklyn Nine-Nine has officially started, with the stars of the NBC sitcom, posting on Instagram to celebrate the occasion and show off their quarantine hairstyles. Cameras began rolling on the final 10 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Tuesday, which is set to air on NBC as part of the 2021-22 broadcast TV season....

‘Chaos Walking’ Review: Tom Holland And Daisy Ridley Lead Doug Liman’s Shockingly Grim Leftover Of The YA Dystopian Craze By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 4, 2021 7:00 am EST Maybe there’s a reason that the YA dystopian genre had been long left behind by Hollywood. Films like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner had their heyday in the early 2010s, but the premise of beautiful teens and twenty-somethings having to reckon with their share of authoritarian governments/world-ending threats/love triangles had run its course....

‘Heavy Trip’ Is The Wild And Crazy Heavy Metal Comedy You Need In Your Life [SXSW] By Matt Donato/March 22, 2018 1:30 pm EST Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s Heavy Trip blast-beats a warrior’s drum for road-trippin’ comedics and heavy metal odysseys. This is a story of companionship bonded by outsider dismissal; a blossoming “Symphonic Post-Apocalyptic Reindeer-Grinding Christ-Abusing Extreme War Pagan Fennoscandian” metal band ready to break from their basement shackles....

‘The Green Knight’ Star Alicia Vikander On Playing Dual Roles And Delivering A Defining Monologue [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2021 6:58 am EST There aren’t that many female characters in Gawain and the Green Knight, the epic 14th century poem on which David Lowery’s The Green Knight is based. There is one significant role: that of the lady of the mysterious castle Gawain stumbles upon during his journey to meet his fate by the Green Knight’s hands, but she is less a character than a source of temptation — one of the many mystical obstacles that Gawain must overcome in order to prove his honor and chivalry....

‘The Lodge’ Will Give You Nightmares And Bad Feelings This November By Chris Evangelista/June 27, 2019 4:30 pm EST The Lodge is the feel-bad movie of the year, and I mean that as a compliment. This nightmare-inducing tale of terror from the directors of Goodnight Mommy is sure to be one of the most buzzed-about horror films of 2019, and now you can finally start counting down the days until you can see it....

‘The Lost City Of D’ First Look: Channing Tatum And Sandra Bullock Get Wet By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 27, 2021 3:00 pm EST Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock are a little wet. That’s because they’re literally standing in water in the first behind-the-scenes image from The Lost City of D, an action-adventure rom-com that is directed by filmmaking duo Adam and Aaron Nee, which stars Bullock as a romance novelist on the search for a fictional city that turns out to be real....

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Returning Cast Members Liane Hentscher/Disney Disney+ announced the return of some of the original Mighty Ducks from the three-film franchise that kids fell in love with in the 1990s. Along with Emilio Estevez in the middle as Gordon Bombay, we have (from left to right) Marguerite Moreau as Connie Moreau, Garette Ratliff Henson as Guy Germaine, Elden Henson as Fulton Reed, Vincent Larusso as Adam Banks, Justin Wong as Kenny Wu, and Matt Doherty as Lester Averman....

A Future ‘Star Wars’ Animated Project Will Bring Back Matt Lanter As Anakin Skywalker By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2021 12:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Clone Wars may be over, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of the animated version of Anakin Skywalker, even if he’s already transformed into Darth Vader.Matt Lanter, who voiced Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Jedi apprentice turned Sith Lord throughout the Star Wars animated series, has just teased a surprising return as Anakin Skywalker in some kind of upcoming Lucasfilm Animation project that’s currently in the works....

Ambulance Release Date and Where to Watch It Universal Pictures “Ambulance” is currently slated to be released in theaters by Universal Pictures on February 18, 2022. As of now, that released appears to be exclusive to theaters, but since Universal has been putting some of their theatrical releases on Peacock the same day they hit theaters, that could happen with “Ambulance.” It probably depends on what the coronavirus pandemic looks like early next year....

The Next Level Sony Pictures Some might see Jon Watts being given the privilege of directing Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man trilogy as having been handed keys to the kingdom. Weirdly, landing a superhero gig isn’t necessarily the brass ring to reach for anymore, but rather a stepping stone to be in the even rarer position of getting to make the kind of original, star-led features that used to be the studios’ bread and butter....

Billions Season 6: Release Date, Cast, And More Showtime By Ryan Scott/Oct. 22, 2021 4:39 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.) For those who like the high stakes world of finance, and a healthy dose of Paul Giamatti, there is no better place in the modern TV landscape to fill that void than Showtime’s “Billions....