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Matt Damon Turned Down ‘Avatar’ And A Metric Ton Of Money By Jeremy Mathai/July 12, 2021 1:13 pm EST Thought you were having a bad day? Boy, do I have the pick-me-up for you. When it comes to “missed opportunities,” it’ll be all but impossible to top Matt Damon’s personal story of roads not taken and should-have-beens. While speaking at a Cannes Film Festival masterclass, Damon explained how James Cameron himself offered Damon a lead role and a sizable percentage of a film’s gross…only for the actor to have to say no, due to scheduling conflicts....

New NIMH Animated Series In The Works MGM Mice and Rats and Crows, Oh My! The series follows Mrs. Frisby, a mouse, who must find a way to move her home in a field before the plows and exterminators of the nearby farmers arrive and kill her family. She seeks the help of some very special rats who live beneath a rose bush — rats who knew her husband Johnathan before he died....

Paramount+ Releases Free Episodes Of ‘Star Trek: Picard’, ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, ‘Kamp Koral’, ‘The Good Fight’, And More On YouTube By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2021 3:30 pm EST Paramount+ is here, bringing yet another streaming service into an already crowded market. To be fair, Paramount+ isn’t entirely new – it’s a rebranding of CBS All Access, with even more stuff. But will it find subscribers in a world that’s already oversaturated with studios launching their own streaming services?...

The Transformation of Sheriff Hassan Netflix Pandemic shutdowns led to a delay in filming “Midnight Mass,” which came after the sets were constructed and the actors had arrived, ready to shoot. Not knowing when filming would resume, Kohli realized he would have to keep the weight on indefinitely. This was obviously a bad decision, healthwise — confirmed when he began waking up in the middle of the night with heartburn and stomach problems....

Randall Park To Star In A Netflix Sitcom About Blockbuster Video Employees Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 12, 2021 3:45 pm EST Bend, Oregon is home to the last functional Blockbuster Video, a stand-alone building which has now become a hit tourist attraction and the subject of Taylor Morden’s documentary “The Last Blockbuster” on Netflix. In our world of algorithms, Rotten Tomato ratings, and company curated content suggestions, the nostalgia for Blockbuster and video stores in general are at an all time high....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2021 6:00 pm EST Want to make a cocktail inspired by Batman: The Animated Series? Want to see Iman Vellani in her full Ms. Marvel costume? Who is the latest addition to Marvel’s Secret Invasion series? Did you hear Morbius got delayed yet again? Who is the main character in Marvel’s Eternals? What familiar Batman location have Warner Bros....

Cloud Atlas When this list was first published, I failed to include Cloud Atlas. I had intended to (I swear!), but felt the list was running too long, so I cut it. But it deserves to be here, and so here it is. Running for almost six minutes, this is less a trailer and more of a short film. It packs in how wild, inventive, and different the Wachowskis’ sci-fi extravaganza is in a nice, neat package....

The Worst Scenes In ‘Dolittle’ Were Added During Expensive Reshoots By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2020 1:30 pm EST Dolittle is bad. And Universal may have had an inkling that it would be, considering the studio dumped it in the traditional “January graveyard,” the month when movie releases go to die. But then you remember that the studio spent $175 million on this movie, much of it spent during expensive reshoots “to craft a sillier movie more likely to appeal to younger moviegoers and overseas audiences,” according to the Wall Street Journal....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Red Riding Trilogy, Harry Brown, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 31, 2010 12:28 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Red Riding trilogy is as ambitious a set of films as you’re likely to see, intertwining characters and events from three distinct stories (separated by date: 1974, 1980, 1983) that use the real-life Yorkshire Ripper case to explore tales of deep-seated provincial corruption....

Why Jason Reitman Originally Didn’t Want To Direct Ghostbusters: Afterlife Columbia Pictures By Steven Ward/Dec. 14, 2021 3:47 pm EST What’s scarier than Gozer the Gozerian? Than Vigo the Carpathian? How about helming a “Ghostbusters” film only a few years after the implosion of its first reboot — oh, and your father is also the director of the beloved originals? When it comes to filling seemingly larger than life shoes, director Jason Reitman is about as fearless as the proton-pack wielding heroes themselves....

Why Tim Burton’s Hansel And Gretel Was Lost For So Long Orion Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 16, 2021 3:43 pm EST When it comes to Tim Burton, fans are always dying to get their hands on his work. Known for his masterpieces “Beetlejuice,” “Batman,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and the ever-popular “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” anyone who’s ever walked into a Spirit Halloween truly understands the cult-like worship devoted to Burton’s major franchises....

Will There Be A Black Mirror Season 6? Here’s What We Know Netflix By Shania Russell/Sept. 17, 2021 3:18 pm EST (Welcome to Will There Be Another Season?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) Over two years since the release of its fifth season, “Black Mirror” has yet to return to our screens. Given the past couple years we’ve had, this might be a blessing in disguise: we’ve basically been living on the brink of disaster, and the sci-fi satire series thrives on exploiting the flaws of humanity....

‘Blockers’ Trailer: Parental Advisory Is Not Recommended By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2018 11:30 am EST I like Ike Barinholtz, Leslie Mann, and John Cena. I think they’re all underrated, talented performers, and ever since seeing Barinholtz work his magic as a charmingly weird supporting character in The Mindy Project, I’ve been pulling for him to lock down some more starring roles in big studio comedies. But after watching this new trailer for Universal’s new movie Blockers, in which the three actors play parents who team up to sabotage their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity on prom night, I feel like Switch from The Matrix: “Not like this…not like this....

‘In With The Devil’: Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser Star In Apple TV+ True Crime Limited Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2021 5:00 pm EST Taron Egerton is due to face off with Paul Walter Hauser in the new show In With the Devil, a true-crime limited series based on the memoir by James Keene. Apple may pick up the six-part adaptation, which follows a young man who is offered a deal out of a ten-year prison sentence by coaxing a serial killer into a confession....

‘The Witcher’ Season 2: Release Date, Cast And More By Danielle Ryan/July 12, 2021 2:41 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.) Netflix’s The Witcher debuted in 2019 and became a massive hit. The medieval fantasy series, which stars Henry Cavill as a Witcher, a demon-hunting magic user, grew popular enough to spawn a spin-off anime movie and a prequel series, plus it clinched its own season renewal....

27 Movie Moments We Loved In 2016 By Jacob Hall/Dec. 29, 2016 9:30 am EST This article was written by Jacob Hall and Angie Han. This is not a list of the best movies of 2016. We have personal top 10 lists for that. On this list, you will find movies we loved, movies we didn’t love, and movies that aren’t a part of the end-of-the-year conversation. For inclusion on this list, a movie needed to offer only one thing: a single scene, shot, or line of dialogue that has stuck with us, for better and for worse....

The, Uh, Prisoners Alright, here’s where it gets a little weird. In an interview with Collider (via IGN), Benjamin Walker (no, don’t even ask, nobody knows who the Underground Railroad, Jessica Jones, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter actor is playing on this show either) opened up and spilled some choice details regarding the grueling production of this massive, wildly expensive saga currently filming in New Zealand. Some might say it sounds somewhat… distressing?...

Christopher Nolan’s Next Project Will Tackle J. Robert Oppenheimer And The A-Bomb Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 9, 2021 8:12 pm EST Big news, Nolanites: Christopher Nolan is lining up his next film and now we know what it will be about. The director of “Memento” and “The Dark Knight” trilogy is shopping his latest script around Tinseltown, and in a move that should surprise no one, he’s looking to movie studios outside his usual sandbox of Warner Bros....

Cool Stuff: ‘Bad Robot’ Action Figure Brings J.J. Abrams’ Company Mascot To Your Desk By Vanessa Armstrong/July 23, 2021 12:03 pm EST Want to spend $100 to get an action figure of a production company’s logo? You’re in luck! J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company now has an official Bad Robot figurine. Mattel Creations is putting out the adorable little corporate logo. According to the pre-order website, the Bad but oh-so-cute premium action figure has 24 (that’s right, 24!...

Blaming Himself for the Bad Batman? Warner Bros. “Batman and Robin” is a mess of a movie, but that blame can’t be placed on Clooney’s shoulders alone. Even director Schumacher, who took a lot of heat for the campy sequel, has cleared Clooney of his role in the abysmal reception of the film. “Well, you know, that’s very George. First of all, Batman has survived since 1939 — we’re the same age....