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John Krasinski’s Thanksgiving Fantasy Comedy Adds Phoebe Waller-Bridge BBC Studios By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 29, 2021 10:45 am EST John Krasinski has become a bit of a renaissance man throughout his career, making great strides as both the director of critically acclaimed films like “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place 2” and of course, as Jim from “The Office.” What many forget, however, is that Krasinski also has two comedies under his directorial belt, the David Foster Wallce inspired “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” and the comedy-drama “The Hollars....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Finally Gets A Gameplay Trailer Warner Bros. Games By Eric Vespe/Aug. 26, 2021 8:58 am EST The last time we got a LEGO Star Wars game was a long, long time ago. Five years, to be exact. It was 2016 when they released “LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The other two sequel films have yet to be LEGO-ized, at least when it comes to video games, and gamers all over the world have demanded LEGO Porgs....

Movies Like Dazed And Confused That Comedy Fans Will Love Gramercy Pictures By Audrey Fox/Oct. 12, 2021 3:17 pm EST When “Dazed and Confused” came out in September 1993, it barely made an impact, commercially or critically. It cost about $7 million to make and earned $8 million back — that’s not exactly a bomb, but certainly a disappointment. But over the course of the next few years, it would slowly grow in estimation until it became what it is today, a coming-of-age cult classic and one of the most highly regarded high school films of all time....

Netflix Picks Up Will Smith Movie From ‘John Wick’ And ‘Atomic Blonde’ Director By Danielle Ryan/July 27, 2021 5:38 pm EST Netflix is making big plays in the movie distribution game. According to Deadline, the streamer has acquired worldwide rights to the action thriller Fast & Loose starring Will Smith and helmed by John Wick director David Leitch. A Collaboration from Two Busy Big Names Deadline first reported that Fast & Loose was hitting the market in February, with every major player involved in a bidding war....

Phil Lord & Chris Miller Will Chronicle Dennis Rodman’s Wild 48 Hours In Vegas ESPN Films/Netflix By Ben Pearson/Aug. 30, 2021 5:14 pm EST Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the filmmakers behind projects like “21 Jump Street,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and “The Last Man on Earth,” have found a new producing gig. Lionsgate has won the rights to distribute “48 Hours in Vegas,” a film about the whirlwind period of time during the Chicago Bulls’ 1998 NBA championship run in which Dennis Rodman took a trip to Las Vegas in the middle of the playoffs to blow off some steam....

Pinheads And Candymen: All Clive Barker Movies Ranked By Rob Hunter/Oct. 24, 2017 8:00 am EST Last week was the 25th anniversary of Candyman, and one horrendous physical effect aside, it still holds up beautifully today. Key among its strengths is a trait shared through almost all of the fiction written by horror author Clive Barker and the films that bring his work to the screen – a wicked, dark, and endless imagination....

Showtime Is Already Making A Limited Series On The Capitol Riots By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 18, 2021 4:00 pm EST Less than a week into the new year, 2021 revealed itself to be the opposite of the blank slate we all hoped it would be. On January 6, Washington D.C. erupted in riots, as supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a terrifying display of violence. The Capitol riots instantly put a stain on 2021, revealing that the nightmare of 2020 was far from over....

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Deleted Scenes: Everything We Know By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2017 8:00 am EST The first cut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi was three hours and ten minutes long and writer director Rian Johnson has said they are preparing to release 20 minutes of deleted scenes on the future Blu-ray/DVD release. We have the exclusive details on a number of deleted scenes and reshoots from the latest Star Wars movie....

Superhero Bits: Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Hulkbuster, Catwoman By Germain Lussier/Nov. 16, 2011 11:00 am EST Will Liam Neeson appear in The Dark Knight Rises? Want to see some rejected movie posters from Tim Burton’s Batman? How about a cartoon showing The Caped Crusader at Occupy Wall Street? Is Catwoman sexier as a drawing or cosplayer? Is Iron Man’s Hulkbuster costume ever going to appear in the Marvel films? When can you see Smallville’s Lois Lane playing Wonder Woman?...

Introducing Blue Hawk In one of the segments in this month’s “Seven on 7,” we’re introduced to Blue Hawk (Nick Wechsler), another superhero who inhabits this weird world. He’s not to be confused with Groundhawk, who was introduced last month and is this universe’s riff on Wolverine from the X-Men. Blue Hawk is an entirely new character to the series and does not come from the comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, so he’s still a pretty big mystery....

The Man From Toronto: Release Date, Cast And More By Ben Pearson/July 15, 2021 1:11 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.) Alfred Hitchcock perfected the “wrong man” thriller subgenre, but that isn’t going to stop Hollywood from regularly trying to top him. The next contender is The Man From Toronto, which Sony Pictures Releasing is putting in theaters early next year....

The Many Saints Of Newark Spoiler Review: A Movie That Should Have Been A Miniseries Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 4, 2021 2:02 pm EST Part of the brilliance of “The Sopranos” is how many different ways the show deconstructed mobster nostalgia. It featured a massive cast that included a lot of real-world wise guys, sneakily appealing to everyone who ever appreciated “Goodfellas” or “The Godfather.” Instead of glorifying the violent, paranoid lifestyle of the mob’s biggest gangsters, however, “The Sopranos” showed us just how flawed and human they are....

When Does Shang-Chi Take Place On The MCU Timeline? Let’s Break It Down Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2021 12:58 pm EST It’s no secret that “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” takes place in the aftermath of “Avengers: Endgame,” when half of the universe has been brought back five years after being snapped out of existence by Thanos. Thankfully, Professor Hulk was able to snap everybody back, and the five-year gap in which the world was in complete disarray is now referred to as The Blip....

‘Halo’ TV Series Recasts Cortana, Hires Original Voice Actress From The Games By Ben Pearson/Nov. 11, 2020 3:30 pm EST Assuming Showtime’s television adaptation of Halo ever actually makes it to the small screen (and considering this property’s rocky path through Hollywood, that is not a guarantee), the show will be porting over one of the game’s most famous voices into the world of the series. Halo has hired a new – um, old – well, not old, but a prior – Cortana actress during a recent recasting session....

‘Midnight Special’ Director Jeff Nichols Is Making An Original Sci-Fi Movie After His ‘Quiet Place’ Spin-Off By Chris Evangelista/June 9, 2021 3:11 pm EST Jeff Nichols, the director of Take Shelter, Midnight Special, and more, is already on board to helm the next A Quiet Place movie for Paramount. And now the studio has gone ahead and locked him into another project, too. After Nichols directs the Quiet Place spin-off, he’ll move on to an original sci-fi film....

‘Mortal Kombat’ Review: This Underwhelming Video Game Adaptation Is Anything But A Flawless Victory By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2021 4:01 pm EST Despite all its blood and guts and fatalities, the Mortal Kombat video game series has a certain silliness to it. There’s nothing wrong with that, mind you – the silliness is part of the fun, part of the charm of it all. After all, Mortal Kombat is ultimately the story of characters punching and kicking each other for the fate of the world....

‘Parallel Mothers’ Trailer: Pedro Almodóvar Reteams With Penelope Cruz For His Latest Maternal Drama, Hitting Theaters In December By Marisa Mirabal/July 27, 2021 5:52 am EST Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar returns with a new drama following his 2019 Oscar-nominated Pain and Glory. He is reunited with two of his favorite muses, Penélope Cruz and Rossy de Palma, to bring audiences a powerful drama entitled Parallel Mothers (or Madres Paralelas)....

By Ben Pearson/Feb. 12, 2021 3:01 pm EST In an interview last year, Paranormal Activity reboot writer Christopher Landon said he was “super excited” about the yet-to-be-announced director who would be shepherding that vision to the big screen. “I can’t say who it is because they won’t let me. He’s a get. He’s awesome! I think people are going to be really surprised by where we’re taking this thing.” Now that mystery has been solved....

‘Pig’ Review: Nicolas Cage Gives One Of His Best Performances In This Haunting Drama By Chris Evangelista/July 13, 2021 7:00 am EST But within moments of starting, Pig demands you leave all those assumptions behind you. Because Pig is not the movie you think it is. It’s something far more beautiful, and far more painful. It is an existential meditation on the search for something. Anything. A kind of cosmic loneliness envelopes this film....

Andy Serkis Thinks The Future Of Mo-Cap Means Playing Photo-Real Figures From History New Line Cinema By Kaylee Dugan/Oct. 7, 2021 1:00 pm EST Director, actor, and certified mo-cap expert Andy Serkis is hot off directing “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and he has some hot takes that he wants to share. And by hot takes I mean strange and also vaguely unsettling predictions about the future of facial capture. Serkis, who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Gollum in all of the “Lord of the Rings” movies and Caesar in the new “Planet of the Apes” trilogy, has an interesting perspective on these kinds of things....