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Box Office: ‘The Croods 2’ Dominates ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’, China Sees Record Ticket Sales For Lunar New Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 15, 2021 2:30 pm EST This past weekend’s box office is still hanging out in the stone age. DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age continued to dominate a paltry domestic box office, even with the arrival of buzzy awards contender Judas and the Black Messiah. But even as box office figures have slowly improved as major markets remain closed amid the pandemic, none of that compares to the historic weekend that the Chinese box office just enjoyed, with action-comedy sequel Detective Chinatown 3 setting the country’s record for Lunar New Year opening weekend....

Cool Stuff: This Life-Size ‘Joker’ Bust Of Joaquin Phoenix Is Eerily Realistic By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2021 6:00 am EST “When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?” If you have the cash to spend on this meticulously crafted life-size bust of Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker, you’ll be the one introducing your friends to Arthur Fleck. That’s not a still from Joker in the image above, that’s the life-size Joker bust created by Infinity Studios, and you won’t believe how detailed it is....

Cowboy Bebop Ending Explained: She’s More Than Just A Pretty Face Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 22, 2021 1:11 pm EST Netflix’s live-action “Cowboy Bebop” adaptation took some pretty major detours away from its source material, leaving some fans frustrated, others elated, and many a little confused. The 10-episode first season followed space cowboys Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) and Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir) as they tried to catch bounty-heads and put food on the table, all while dealing with Spike’s violent past, Faye’s amnesia, and Jet’s family problems....

Exclusive ‘Benny Loves You’ Clip: A Deadly Stuffed Animal Toys With Its Owner By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2021 9:00 am EST How will Benny, the vengeful stuffed animal and star of the upcoming horror-comedy Benny Loves You, live up to the long, bloody legacy of killer dolls? Forget Chucky, you’ve got Talking Tina on The Twilight Zone, the Zuni Doll in Trilogy of Terror, the ventriloquist dummies of Dead Silence, and more....

How Hawkeye Deals With Clint Barton’s Hearing Loss Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 19, 2021 9:58 am EST It’s been ten years now since Jeremy Renner made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Hawkeye in the first “Thor” movie. Finally, a decade later, Hawkeye is about to headline his own solo adventure. He’s the last of the six founding Avengers to do so, but when his six-episode series “Hawkeye” premieres on Disney+ next week, he won’t be completely alone, since Hailee Steinfeld is also buddying up with him....

How To Make Your Own Ooze Canister From ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2015 4:00 am EST If you’re a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, then you know one of the most iconic objects in the mythology the heroes in a half shell is the ooze canister that broke in a sewer and turned four baby turtles into walking, talking reptiles. That origin was changed in the most recent motion picture reboot, and it was pretty stupid (but that’s another conversation entirely)....

Joss Whedon Admits He Didn’t Know What To Do With Thanos By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2018 7:30 am EST After teasing his appearance for so long, Marvel finally unleashed Thanos this year in Avengers: Infinity War. But fans expected the gauntlet-wielding titan to show up much earlier – as soon as Avengers 2, in fact. But that didn’t happen. In a new interview, Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon reveals that ultimately, he just didn’t know what to do with Thanos as a character....

Michael Mann’s Tokyo Vice Adds Japanese Stars To Ansel Elgort-Led HBO Max Series Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 16, 2021 11:15 am EST It’s been six years since filmmaker Michael Mann last directed a feature film with 2015’s “Blackhat,” though it somehow feels even longer than that. In the meantime, before that streak is officially broken on the big screen, we’ve known that Mann will be turning to streaming to direct the first episode of “Tokyo Vice....

Mondo’s Unmatched Board Game Series Heads To The Marvel Universe With Four New Superhero-Themed Sets Coming In 2021 By Jacob Hall/Dec. 15, 2020 8:30 am EST The Unmatched board game series has always been about clashes between unlikely titans. So perhaps it was inevitable that the superheroes of the Marvel Universe would one day join the fray. Mondo (who releases Unmatched alongside Restoration Games) has announced four new sets for the ever-growing tabletop line, and they will start hitting shelves next year....

New ‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ Clip Puts Martial Arts Front And Center By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 16, 2021 8:49 am EST Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot to live up to. As comic readers know, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) is a skilled martial artist, on par with (or even better than) the absolute best in the Marvel world. So far, we’ve received brief teases and glimpses of the superhero’s fighting prowess in this cinematic adaptation of the character, but a new clip puts the focus entirely on his ability to stave off multiple enemies at once in the most precarious of spots … and with his only “weapons” being his hands and feet....

New Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Wide Release Date Set For December By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2021 12:30 pm EST Here’s an early peek at your Christmas present: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, which may or may not be called Soggy Bottom, has set its wide release date for December 2021. We don’t know a whole lot about the film just yet, but we do know it follows a high school student becoming an actor in the 1970s....

No One Gets Out Alive Trailer: Director Santiago Menghini Lures Audiences Into A New Haunted House Netflix By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 7, 2021 9:47 pm EST Netflix is gearing up for Halloween and welcoming audiences into the spooky season with a new trailer drop featuring an enigmatic haunted house. Well-versed in shorts and visual effects, “No One Gets Out Alive” will be Santiago Menghini’s directorial debut. The film follows a young woman in pursuit of the American Dream, who instead finds a nightmare within the very walls meant for shelter and refuge....

No Time To Die Ending Explained: Daniel Craig’s James Bond Bids Us Farewell MGM By Ryan Scott/Oct. 8, 2021 12:14 pm EST After what feels like an eternity for hardcore “James Bond” fans such as myself, “No Time to Die” has finally made its way to theaters. It’s been nearly six years since “Spectre” hit theaters, and 15 years since Daniel Craig made his debut as 007 in “Casino Royale.” With his fifth go-around, Craig is indeed saying goodbye to the role, and the way in which he leaves it behind leaves much room for discussion....

Spencer Director Pablo Larraín Wants To Knock Down The Castle Around The Fantasy Of Diana [Interview] NEON By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2021 4:27 pm EST Diana Spencer was the perfect fairy tale princess … until she wasn’t. The “People’s Princess” is the ultimate tragic figure of recent historical memory; a victim of the parasitic ’90s tabloid culture, of the antiquated royal institution that raised her up and threatened to break her down, and of course, of the “fairy tale” fantasy that turned out to be so poisonous and ghastly that any illusions about the nobility of the crown died with Diana....

Superhero Bits: Jonathan Majors Reacts To ‘Loki’ Theories, ‘Morbius’ May Not Connect To MCU & More By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2021 6:00 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....

That ‘Avengers: Endgame’ End Credits Sound Symbolizes Both An Ending And A Beginning By Chris Evangelista/April 30, 2019 10:00 am EST Many wondered if the epic, three-hour Avengers: Endgame would employ an end credits scene to tease what was next for the MCU. But that didn’t happen. Endgame has no credits scene. But it does have something else – a mysterious sound that baffles some. What does the Endgame end credits sound mean?...

The Second Episode Of ‘Loki’ Features An Epic Marvel Standoff That Shakes Time Itself By Vanessa Armstrong/June 16, 2021 6:00 am EST Things are moving along quickly for Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the TVA! There’s some investigative work going on, some travel through time (of course), and a major tête-à-tête that sets off a big ol’ disaster that will keep things busy for Loki’s next four episodes. Even though the second episode moves quickly, the element that makes it more than a wacky time travel show (so many timelines, so many variants) is Loki himself....

Theatrical Exclusivity Vs Hybrid Releases: The Future Of Big Movies Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 4, 2021 2:41 pm EST 2020 will go down in history for so many reasons, and while there were, unquestionably, bigger fish for the world to fry, there is no denying that COVID changed the movie business forever. Long gone are the days of a big movie enjoying a nearly three-month-long exclusive theatrical window before being made available on home video....

‘Borderlands’ Movie Images Introduce More Characters From Eli Roth’s Video Game Adaptation By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2021 12:00 pm EST Earlier this week we got our first official look at Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie, featuring Cate Blanchett as Lilith, in silhouette form. But that was just the beginning. Five new images of five different characters have been released, and while they, too, are silhouettes, they still give us an idea of how the characters are going to make the transition from video game to film....

/Filmcast Ep 604 - The White Tiger By Slashfilmcast/Feb. 3, 2021 8:40 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff navigate the difficult task of attending the Sundance Film Festival remotely. For the feature review, the cast switches gear from Little Things to White Tiger, a new drama directed by Ramin Bahrani now available on Netflix. Read more about The White Tiger: Netflix’s The White Tiger is more like an Indian Joker than like Parasite....