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Showtime’s Yellowjackets Trailer Is it just me, or is Lewis channeling some serious Uma Thurman (as The Bride) and Carey Mulligan (as a certain “Promising Young Woman”)? The moment where her character confronts Ricci’s channels others we’ve seen with great actresses getting their revenge on. Reminder: a yellowjacket is not only a friendly soccer mascot or a Marvel movie villain. It’s also a kind of predatory wasp with an aggressive sting....

Zack Snyder’s Stone Quarry Productions Signs First-Look Deal With Netflix By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2021 3:09 pm EST Zack Snyder is setting up shop at Netflix. After the (perceived) streaming success of his recent zombie heist film Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder, his wife and producing partner Deborah Snyder, and fellow executive Wesley Coller have signed a first-look deal with Netflix for their production company, The Stone Quarry Productions. That means it’s very likely that you’ll be seeing more Snyder content popping up on the streamer – and soon....

‘Cruella’ Clip: Emma Stone Crashes Emma Thompson’s Party By Chris Evangelista/May 1, 2021 11:00 am EST We’re one day closer to Cruella, the movie that seems to ask, “What if we remade Joker, but with Emma Stone playing a Disney villain?” The film is set to tell us the origin story of Cruella de Vil, a lunatic who wants to murder dogs, and I continue to wonder just who this movie is for, exactly....

‘Dolly’: Florence Pugh To Play A Killer Sex Robot In Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 11, 2021 7:00 am EST It’s hard to resist a good elevator pitch, especially when said elevator pitch involves Florence Pugh playing a killer sex robot. The Oscar-nominated Little Women, Midsommar, and Black Widow star has landed her next high-profile project in Dolly, a genre-bending sci-film that has just been acquired by Apple Studios....

‘Free Guy’ Featurette Finds Ryan Reynolds Facing A Hulking Version Of Himself By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 2, 2021 4:12 pm EST If you ever wanted to see Ryan Reynolds beat the crap out of…Ryan Reynolds…then you’re in luck! In a featurette promoting his new comedy Free Guy, Reynolds gets his butt kicked by “Dude”, a massively muscular version of himself. Downing Protein Bombs with Dude In Free Guy, Reynolds plays a bank teller named Guy who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game....

‘Kingdom Hearts’ Plot Explained: Everything You Need To Know About This Wild Disney/Anime RPG By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2019 10:00 am EST It’s been 13 years since Kingdom Hearts 2 came out, which means you’re going to need to do more than blow on a dusty cartridge to revive those memories of the video game franchise. Kingdom Hearts 3 drops you right in the middle of 10 years worth of story which, somewhat counterintuitively, has been going strong in other spin-off games in that long absence....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Ending Explained: The True Case Of Arne Johnson By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2021 8:47 am EST The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. Like the previous two main Conjuring movies before it, The Devil Made Me Do It is supposedly based on a true story. But just how true is The Devil Made Me Do It?...

‘The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ Almost Cast Anthony Hopkins, Meat Loaf, And A Trio Of Late Night Talk Show Hosts By Chris Evangelista/June 21, 2021 6:36 am EST Disney’s underrated take on The Hunchback of Notre Dame turns 25 this month, but he doesn’t look a day over 20! In honor of the film’s anniversary, /Film’s Josh Spiegel compiled an exhaustive oral history of the animated musical and learned some interesting details in the process, including the confirmation that several different voice actors were considered for major roles, including Anthony Hopkins, David Letterman, Cyndi Lauper, and more....

By Shania Russell/Aug. 23, 2021 8:19 am EST According to Variety, this upcoming coming-of-age story puts queer lives front and center, following three queer friends who escape their hometown to spend Pride Weekend in New York City. The film’s logline states that while embarking on this journey, “they discover that life over the rainbow is an insane, raunchy, often divisive, but ultimately FIERCE non-stop party.” Little else is known about the premise, but the story has been compared to much-beloved coming-of-age tales like Superbad and the more recent Booksmart....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Channel 6 News Action Figure Pack Is A Comic-Con Exclusive By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2021 6:00 am EST Since San Diego Comic-Con isn’t happening in-person this summer, NECA is bringing Comic-Con exclusives to their online shop instead. The toy creators are releasing a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series action figure four-pack featuring the Channel 6 news team, including intrepid reporter April O’Neil....

Diana: The Musical Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 9, 2021 2:10 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.) In November, Diana: The Musical will bring the story of Princess Diana to Broadway. However, before the production debuts on stage, it will be presented on Netflix as a live recording with the show’s original cast....

Every Sam Raimi Film Ranked Sony Pictures By Audrey Fox/Nov. 30, 2021 3:06 pm EST Perhaps one of the most interesting established directors working in Hollywood today, Sam Raimi has always bridged the gap between niche genres and the mainstream, with one foot in studio filmmaking and the other in independent cinema. His career was jumpstarted with the “Evil Dead” franchise, a series of low-budget supernatural horror films that would go on to become cult classics with legions of devoted fans around the world....

How Does ‘Hard Target 2’ Compare To JCVD’s Snake-Punching Classic? By Rob Hunter/May 2, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. In this edition, we see if Scott Adkins can follow in the spin-kicking footsteps of Jean-Claude Van Damme.) Depending on your affinity for the action genre, the name Jean-Claude Van Damme might mean different things to you....

How Iron Man 2 Taught Marvel Studios A Valuable Lesson Marvel By Ben Pearson/Nov. 3, 2021 2:27 pm EST Last month, we published a review of “The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” a sprawling, gorgeously presented book by veteran authors Tara Bennett and Paul Terry which chronicles how the company developed and executed its now-legendary streak of successful comic book movies. We’ve already written about several of the book’s most interesting revelations, but there’s one more excerpt that we wanted to highlight which helps explain why Marvel Studios became the juggernaut it did, and it involves Kevin Feige and his executives doing something Hollywood players rarely do: learning the proper lesson after something doesn’t go as intended....

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Season 15 Trailer: An Irish Banquet Of Humiliation And Murder FXX By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 30, 2021 10:59 am EST Season 15 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is right around the corner, arriving on December 1, 2021, and FXX has released a new teaser to get everyone salivating for more. While the first trailer showed some fun bits of the gang in Ireland, it’s looking like things aren’t all that sunny on the Emerald Isle....

Jerrod Carmichael Joins Emma Stone In The Next Yorgos Lanthimos Film, ‘Poor Things’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 25, 2021 5:30 pm EST Jerrod Carmichael is going to be in a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. That’s a sentence you don’t read everyday, nor one you’d likely expect to read, if you know of Carmichael for his work as a stand-up comedian and comedy actor, and if you know of Lanthimos’ particularly cruel style of filmmaking seen in such movies as The Favourite and The Lobster....

New ‘The Suicide Squad’ Poster Channels ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ First Trailer Arriving Today By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2021 7:30 am EST The first trailer for The Suicide Squad arrives later today, but ahead of that, director James Gunn debuted a stylish, colorful poster that appears to be a direct reference to the poster for the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen. Like Suicide Squad, that Lee Marvin flick also dealt with a squad of criminals recruited to partake in a dangerous, potentially mission....

Superhero Bits: New Venom 2 Footage Arrives, Miss Minutes Is Coming Back Soon & More HBO Max By Ryan Scott/Sept. 23, 2021 4:35 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....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To HBO Max In June 2021 By Chris Evangelista/May 21, 2021 3:00 pm EST June will bring a whole cluster of new titles to HBO Max, including two very big new movies – the latest entry in The Conjuring franchise, and the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights. But that’s just for starters. Check out all the new TV shows and movies coming to HBO Max in June 2021 below....

The Morning Watch: Venom: Let There Be Carnage Honest Trailer, Bloopers, Rom-Com Remix & More Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 14, 2021 8:07 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” edition, check out the Honest Trailer for the completely bonkers sequel starring Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson....