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Interview: ‘Don’t Breathe’ Director Fede Alvarez On Taunting Stephen Lang And Reinventing Cinematic Darkness By Jacob Hall/Aug. 25, 2016 11:00 am EST Director Fede Alvarez is all about defying expectations. First, he did the impossible and made an Evil Dead remake that managed to live up to the nasty legacy of the original. Now, he’s back with Don’t Breathe, a terrifying thriller that never zigs when it can zag, pushing the boundaries of good taste at every opportunity....

Kevin Smith Considering Funding Red State Through Donations, Talks About Cop Out Marketing By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2010 9:38 am EST Kevin Smith has been talking about the film Red State for a couple of years now, and his description has been enough to keep the project high on fan wishlists. “It’s this weird f***ing dark little seventies horror movie that nobody wants to make,” Smith says. Despite the difficulty in getting funds for the film, Smith is determined to make it, ideally after he knocks out his hockey film Hit Somebody....

Natalie Portman Signs First-Look TV Deal With Apple TV+ By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2021 2:30 pm EST Word recently broke that Natalie Portman would be headed to Apple TV+ with the limited series Lady in the Lake, which also stars Lupita Nyong’o. Now it looks like Lady in the Lake is just the beginning of Portman’s relationship with Apple, as Portman has signed a first-look TV deal with Apple along with her producing partner Sophie Mas....

Netflix’s Expensive ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Series Has Been Canceled After One Season By Ethan Anderton/June 3, 2021 8:30 am EST After just a single season debuted on Netflix back at the beginning of May, Mark Millar’s comic book superhero series Jupiter’s Legacy starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb will not be returning for more. Though the word “canceled” hasn’t officially been used, all of the Jupiter’s Legacy cast members are being let out of their contractual commitments to return for more episodes....

Lincoln Now Streaming on Netflix Release Date: 2012Genre: Historical DramaDirector: Steven SpielbergCast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones Rather than make a standard biopic about Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg instead focuses on the events surrounding Lincoln’s push to ratify the 13th Amendment, and thus end slavery and also the Civil War. Far from being a stuffy history lesson, Spielberg’s Lincoln is bustling with life, thanks in part to Tony Kushner’s peppy and surprisingly funny script....

Owen Wilson To Star In Family Action Movie ‘Secret Headquarters’ For Paramount And Bruckheimer Films By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 6, 2021 3:30 pm EST Fresh off his first jaunt into the superhero genre, Wilson is looking to stay in the territory. Deadline reports that Wilson is set to star in Paramount Pictures and Bruckheimer Films’ Secret Headquarters, described as a “high-concept family action movie” which follows “a kid who discovers the secret headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home and must defend it with his group of friends when villains attack....

Polka-Dot Man’s Origin Story, And How James Gunn Directed David Dastmalchian By Jack Giroux/Aug. 6, 2021 8:27 am EST David Dastmalchian had no idea who Polka-Dot Man was when he was cast in The Suicide Squad. Even as a longtime comic book fan, as well as comic book writer himself, Dastmalchian was stumped. Director James Gunn told him it didn’t matter. The not-so-super villain was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Sheldon Moldoff, but Dastmalchian was led by Gunn’s vision for the character....

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Set To Bomb With $10.5 Million Opening Weekend 20th Century Studios By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 12, 2021 12:18 pm EST 2022 continues to be a rough year for lavish Manhattan-set musicals, as Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” has grossed just $10.5 million in its opening weekend — a disastrous result when measured against the movie’s $100 million production budget. The first warning sign was the Thursday preview ticket sales for “West Side Story,” which amounted to just $800,000....

The American Friend The Empty Man Now Streaming on HBO Max Release Date: 2020Genre: It’s Kind of a Cosmic GumboDirector: David PriorCast: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, Ron Canada, Robert Aramayo, Joel Courtney, Sasha Frolova In this day and age, when Hollywood doesn’t want to touch anything unless it’s some sort of franchise-starter based on familiar IP, it’s pretty damn impressive that The Empty Man exists at all. To be fair, this is based on a comic series – but I doubt most people are aware of it....

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Prana Film “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is scheduled to open exclusively in theaters on January 27, 2023. The film has seen multiple directors — nearly all of whom know a thing or two about supernatural horror — come and go over the years, with David Slade (“Hard Candy,” “30 Days of Night”), Neil Marshall (“The Descent,” “Hellboy”), Marcus Nispel (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Conan the Barbarian” reboots), Stefan Ruzowitsky (“Deadfall,” “Cold Hell”), and Robert Schwentke (“R....

The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder Trailer: The Beloved Series Returns Disney+ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 12, 2021 11:02 am EST “The Proud Family” originally debuted on The Disney Channel only a few days after the September 11th terrorist attacks, became a beloved family-friendly hit, and went off the air in 2005. Now, more than 16 years after it ended, Disney is bringing the original cast back in a revival of the show with a fresh animation style and a gaggle of famous guest stars....

The Real-Life Witch Who Heavily Influenced The Craft Columbia Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Dec. 6, 2021 4:45 pm EST If you’re making a Hollywood movie that revolves in any way around real-life subject matter, you have a choice; You can choose to do your research and honor the subject matter accurately, or you can just … make stuff up (Disney’s “Pocahontas,” anyone?). Unfortunately, many writers and directors choose to go the route of the latter, but every once in a while, you get someone who wants to make sure they do things right....

Thor: Love And Thunder Is So ‘Crazy Wild,’ Taika Waititi Is Surprised He’s Allowed To Make It Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 1, 2021 10:08 am EST When you have as many spinning plates as Marvel Studios does, it can be easy for some projects (as excited as fans may be for them) to take a backseat to others at any given time. With “Hawkeye” currently streaming on Disney+ in weekly installments and, on the cinematic side of things, all eyes focused on the multiverse madness in this month’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” our collective attention spans can’t quite keep up with every production currently in-development — understandably so....

Warner Bros. Really Wanted James Gunn To Make A Superman Movie Before He Chose ‘The Suicide Squad’ By Chris Evangelista/July 14, 2021 9:43 am EST James Gunn has made the leap from Marvel to DC with the upcoming The Suicide Squad, but we could’ve gotten a completely different DC movie from him if things had worked out differently. In a recent interview, Gunn confirmed that after he was fired by Disney and Marvel over offensive past tweets, Warner Bros....

Watch Andrew Garfield Sing The Opening Song From Tick, Tick… Boom! Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 10, 2021 4:20 pm EST Andrew Garfield may be most well-known to audiences as Peter Parker in “The Amazing Spider-Man” or from his Academy Award nominated performance in “Hacksaw Ridge,” but in case you’re unaware, the man can sing his face off. Garfield’s next endeavor is starring as Jonathan Larson in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut, the film adaptation of Larson’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!...

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Launches New Production Company, Partners With Netflix Netflix By Ryan Scott/Nov. 30, 2021 1:14 pm EST Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, star of “Candyman” and “Watchmen,” has launched a new production company, and he’s partnered up with the biggest streaming service on the planet for this new venture. Indeed, Netflix has signed a creative partnership deal with the filmmaker’s company, called House Eleven10. The title takes its inspiration from Abdul-Mateen II’s childhood home in Oakland, California....

‘And Just Like That…’ We Got A First Look At The ‘Sex And The City’ Revival By Ariel Fisher/July 9, 2021 1:06 pm EST It’s been over 10 years since the ill-advised and poorly-received Sex and the City 2 hit theatres and underwhelmed or downright offended the franchise’s millions of fans around the world. And while a third film is off the table, long-time fans who want to get Carried away (in a good way) have the upcoming series reboot, And Just Like That…, to look forward to....

‘Cosmic Sin’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is Battling Space Invaders Again, This Time With Frank Grillo By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 5, 2021 3:30 pm EST Will we ever reach a time when we don’t need Bruce Willis to save us from space? Not likely, because the 65-year-old actor is still strapping on spacesuits and heading into the great unknown to battle invading aliens. Willis stars in Cosmic Sin, a new sci-fi action flick from Saban Films, in which he has to — you guessed it — go off into outer space to fight alien invaders....

‘Fear Street’ Supervising Sound Editor Trevor Gates On How Bones Should Sound When They Break [Interview] By Jack Giroux/July 27, 2021 7:17 am EST Trevor Gates is no stranger to horror. The supervising sound editor previously worked on Jordan Peele’s Us, The Haunting of Hill House, and a little indie chiller called Honeymoon, the debut of Fear Street filmmaker Leigh Janiak. Gates and Janiak reunited for all three Fear Street films, and Gates created three different soundscapes full of subliminal notes audiences may not know, but hopefully feel....

‘Shang-Chi’ Not Going To Disney+ Premier Access As Disney Doubles Down On Theatrical By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 12, 2021 3:41 pm EST In news that isn’t surprising but is disappointing, Disney CEO Bob Chapek confirmed that his studio is committed to releasing Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings with 45 days of theatrical exclusivity. We already knew that was the plan for both Shang-Chi and Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy, but it seems wildly irresponsible to stick with it as COVID-19 numbers continue to rise....