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By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2021 3:00 pm EST The mysteries of Agatha Christie have enjoyed a resurgence in media in recent years. Murder on the Orient Express hit the big screen a few years back and the sequel Death on the Nile will open at some point, and TV has seen Christie’s stories return with adaptations of And Then There Were None and The ABC Murders. Now Mammoth Screen, BBC Studios, and BritBox in North America are teaming up for another Agatha Christie mystery with a limited series adaptation of the novel Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?...

AMC Building Anne Rice TV Universe With ‘Lives Of The Mayfair Witches’ Series By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2021 10:03 am EST Last year AMC scooped up the rights to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches book series with plans to develop them as TV shows. Since then, there’s been considerable movement on the Vampire Chronicles series, with Sam Reid recently cast as Vampire antihero Lestat. But AMC hasn’t forgotten about those Mayfair Witches, either, and the network has set up a writers’ room for the show, with Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford serving as writers and executive producers....

Make Your Own Funko POPs Funko on Twitter The Hollywood Reporter has word that Funko POP People will be launching on December 11 with mini POP factories that will offer “thousands of combinations of hair, apparel and other attributes to create the likeness you’re looking for.” So how does it work? Here’s how Funko explained the process: “The stores will have kiosks that display the pieces, and customers will fill out order forms to make their piece selections....

Every James Bond Movie Ranked From Worst To Best MGM By Jacob Hall/Oct. 6, 2021 11:04 am EST There is nothing else quite like the James Bond series. These aren’t just action movies — they’re a tour of nearly 60 years of pop culture history, offering a glimpse into the trends and styles of any given era. Our tour guide on this journey is Agent 007, the avatar of cool, the guy who chases trends and makes them....

Liam Neeson Pulls Back On Proposed Retirement From Action Movies By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2017 12:00 pm EST Earlier this month, Liam Neeson indicated that his streak of action movies might be coming to an end. During an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, the star of Taken, Unknown and The Grey said, “They’re still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff. I’m like: ‘Guy’s I’m sixty-f***ing-five.’ Audiences are eventually going to go: ‘Come on....

New Pathology Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 29, 2008 12:52 pm EST At last year’s Comic-Con, Crank writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor brought a group of us into a room and showed us the trailer for Pathology. Mark and Brian, who wrote but didn’t direct Pathology, came up to me after and wanted to know what I thought. Brian insisted that he didn’t want to hear any sugar-coated bull-s***, and wanted my real opinion – good or bad....

Sesame Street: Release Date, Cast, And More PBS By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 28, 2021 7:56 pm EST Can you tell me how to get, how to get to “Sesame Street?” The hit children’s educational series is getting another feature treatment, this time focusing on what happens when the “Sesame Street” favorites step outside of their neighborhood and enter unfamiliar territory. The project has experienced a number of delays between conflicting schedules and the pandemic, but here’s everything you need to know before the film’s release....

Squid Game Might Be Netflix’s Biggest Show Ever Netflix By Anya Stanley/Sept. 30, 2021 9:02 am EST Move over, “Tiger King,” there’s a new weirdo series in town. Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Korean survival drama “Squid Game,” which has captured the attention of audiences since it dropped on Netflix in mid-September, currently holds the No. 1 slot. The streaming service’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos tells Variety that the show could very well become its biggest show ever....

Superhero Bits: ‘Sweet Tooth’ Stirs Up Newspaper Controversy, ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Cast Reacts To Cancellation & More By Ethan Anderton/June 7, 2021 6:00 pm EST What are the running times for the first two episodes of Marvel’s Loki series? Why did it take half a year to make Soldier Boy’s costume for The Boys? Why did the inspiration for Danny Elfman’s Batman score come at the worst time? Will you get an action figure of Owen Wilson’s character from Loki?...

Superhero Bits: Animated Injustice Movie Trailer, James Gunn Debunks A Peacemaker Cameo Rumor & More Warner Bros. Animation By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2021 6:21 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....

Vertigo Vertigo was not a big hit and received mixed reviews when it was released in 1958, so much so that director Alfred Hitchcock blamed the film’s failure on the age of his star, James Stewart. But now, all these years later, Vertigo is often heralded as one of the best movies ever made, and many folks consider it to be Hitchcock’s masterpiece. So let this be a lesson to you: one day, you’ll be dead, and something you created might be finally hailed as a masterpiece....

The Biggest Surprises And Shocks From The 2021 Emmy Awards HBO By Jacob Hall/Sept. 20, 2021 2:34 pm EST Last night’s ceremony was the least-surprising Emmy Awards in quite some time. Of course “The Crown” swept the drama awards. Of course “Ted Lasso” (mostly) swept the comedy awards. Of course popular, hip genre shows like “The Mandalorian” and “WandaVision” didn’t make a dent in the major categories. The running joke among TV fans online was that voters clearly only watched a handful of (the whitest) shows before voting....

They’ll Never Stop ‘The Simpsons’ As The Long-Running Show Is Renewed For Seasons 33 And 34 By Chris Evangelista/March 3, 2021 12:30 pm EST The video above is from The Simpsons season 13 episode “Gump Roast.” It’s a “We Didn’t Start the Fire”-style parody song that points out the show has been going on for so damn long that it’s reached a point where increasingly ludicrous plotlines might have to start being introduced....

This ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Stunt Once Again Proves That Tom Cruise Does Not Fear Death By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2018 9:15 am EST Someday, Tom Cruise will do what all humans eventually get around to doing and shuffle off this mortal coil. But the ongoing existence of the Mission: Impossible movies suggest that he’s made a pact with Death itself and will outlive most human beings. How else can you explain him continuing to stare mortality in the face, put his hands on his hips, and laugh in the general direction of God himself?...

VOTD: S*** People Say In Hollywood By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2012 6:00 am EST While the “S*** People Say” Meme is in full effect, I thought I’d do a round-up of the Hollywood/movie centric videos that have been produced. Videos include: S*** People Say in LA, S*** People Say at Sundance, S*** Filmmakers Say, S*** LA People Say “Westside Edition”, S*** LA Actors Say, S*** New LA Actors Say and S*** Background Actors Say....

Watch An Extended Version Of Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s Super Romantic Beach Scene Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 19, 2021 12:40 pm EST “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” leaned into the bromance between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and the symbiote known as Venom rather fiercely. In fact, the dynamic between the two has started to feel more like a full-on romance, albeit one of the weirder ones the big screen has ever seen....

Why The Hawkeye Directors Won’t Return For Echo Spin-Off Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 14, 2021 1:04 pm EST Outside of steadfast Marvel comic book readers, few people knew who Maya Lopez, aka Echo, was prior to Alaqua Cox playing the character on “Hawkeye.” A compelling series of flashbacks outlining her backstory and some nifty action scenes later, Echo has emerged as an engaging new addition to the MCU — to say nothing of the fact that she’s a deaf Native American woman with a prosthetic limb appearing in a franchise that’s focused primarily on white, able-bodied heroes and villains for much of its run (more recent improvements aside)....

Without Director Richard Donner And ‘Superman,’ We Wouldn’t Have The Modern Blockbuster By Eric Vespe/July 6, 2021 6:52 am EST It seems impossible to picture today, when superhero movies account for nearly half of the top 20 all-time box office earners, but it wasn’t that long ago that the idea of a movie based off a comic book was laughed out of the room. And you can’t really blame movie studios for that mindset back in the day, either....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Video Series Will Offer A Behind-The-Scenes Look With Adam Savage By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 4, 2021 5:33 am EST The highly-anticipated Ghostbusters: Afterlife is recruiting notable special-effects designer and fabricator Adam Savage to give audiences a glimpse into how the production brought ghosts and technology from the beloved ’80s franchise into the modern-day. Director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the fourth installment of the Ghostbusters franchise and will be a follow-up to 1989’s Ghostbusters II....

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Casts ‘Game Of Thrones’ Veteran Indira Varma By Ben Pearson/March 1, 2021 2:59 pm EST Indira Varma, who is probably best known for playing Oberyn Martell’s ruthless and scheming paramour Ellaria Sand on HBO’s Game of Thrones, has just become the latest performer to go from Westeros to a galaxy far, far away. A new report says Varma has joined Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi cast opposite star Ewan McGregor....