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‘Come To Daddy’ Trailer: Elijah Wood’s Father-Son Reunion Takes A Bloody Turn By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 19, 2019 8:30 am EST The holidays are all about those family reunions: making amends, reforming bonds, sitting down to a grand meal at the table. But all of those wholesome tasks take on a sinister edge in the new Elijah Wood-starring thriller Come to Daddy. Wood stars as a man in his 30s who meets his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) for the first time....

‘Conversations With Friends’ Cast Announced For Hulu Series Based On ‘Normal People’ Author’s Debut Novel By Ben Pearson/Feb. 17, 2021 2:08 pm EST Last year, one of the Internet’s TV obsessions was Hulu and BBC Three’s sexy Irish drama series Normal People, which was based on author Sally Rooney’s popular novel. In the wake of that show’s success, those companies are once again getting back in the Sally Rooney business with a television adaptation of her debut novel, Conversations with Friends....

‘Dopesick’ Trailer: Micheal Keaton Leads A Hulu Miniseries About The Opioid Crisis By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 9, 2021 10:01 am EST The origins of the opioid crisis are exploded in Dopesick, a new Hulu series based on the non-fiction book by Beth Macy. In the 1990s, all the way up until today, America has been seized by an epidemic involving OxyContin, a so-called “miracle drug” designed to release Oxycodone at dangerous levels....

‘Luca’ Director Talks About Crafting The Movie’s Ending, Taking Inspiration From Fellini, And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2021 8:00 am EST I spoke with director Enrico Casarosa and producer Andrea Warren in a recent Zoom interview about earlier iterations of this story, their film’s LGBTQ+ metaphor, how parts of Luca were subconsciously inspired by Fellini’s 8 1/2, working with the folks at Vespa to incorporate that brand into the film, and more....

‘Strange Planet’ TV Series, Based On The Popular Webcomic, Heading To Apple TV+ With Dan Harmon By Chris Evangelista/June 23, 2021 1:53 pm EST Strange Planet, the immensely funny and often sweet webcomic from Nathan Pyle, is becoming an Apple TV+ series. Apple gave the animated series a straight-to-series order, with Pyle and Rick and Morty and Community creator Dan Harmon executive producing. Like the comic that inspired it, Strange Planet will follow beings from another planet as they deal with everyday situations and complexities in comedic ways....

‘The Hateful Eight’ Roadshow Report: How Does Quentin Tarantino’s Latest Play In Glorious 70mm? By Jacob Hall/Dec. 29, 2015 7:00 am EST Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight opened on 100 screens this past week as part of a unique, limited engagement. These 100 theaters would not be screening the movie through digital projection, but on 70mm film, a format that is all but extinct. That alone is an ordeal and a half, but that unique projection would only be one aspect of this “roadshow” release....

‘The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers’ Reunion Won’t Include One Of The Original Team Members By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2021 2:30 pm EST The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will be having a little reunion of some veteran team members from Disney’s original hockey trilogy. However, one of the original Mighty Ducks won’t be getting in on the fun, at least not in the first season.Shaun Weiss, who played the goalie Greg Goldberg throughout all three films in The Mighty Ducks film franchise, was not asked to return for the Mighty Ducks reunion....

‘The Tomorrow War’ Writer Zach Dean On The Real-World Issues That Inspired His Sci-Fi Adventure [Interview] By Jacob Hall/June 15, 2021 1:30 pm EST Oh, it is. It is. Absolutely. I am a student of those films, man. I mean, I’m in my mid to late 40s and I grew up watching all…I mean, earlier than that, and then through that whole period and all that stuff, but those are the stories that glow, and we’re all standing on the shoulder of giants and building on what we learned before, and we have those images and those things that fascinated us and stayed with us as kids....

14 ‘Loki’ Episode 5 Easter Eggs And What They Could Mean For The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2021 12:28 pm EST The intriguing mystery at the center of Loki got even more compelling with the fifth episode, “Journey into Mystery.” Not only did Loki (Tom Hiddleston) meet a whole crew of different variations of the God of Mischief, but The Void in which they’ve all been banished was chock full of Easter eggs referencing deep cuts from the history of Marvel Comics, calling back to familiar items from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and much more....

Boba Fett’s Ship Explained: How Did He Get It And What’s Going On With Its Name Change? Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2021 4:19 pm EST After seemingly meeting a grisly end in “Return of the Jedi,” the bounty hunter Boba Fett has been officially resurrected in the “Star Wars” universe by way of “The Mandalorian.” Along with the return of the bounty hunter, we also have Boba Fett’s ship, known as the Slave I....

Cary Fukunaga To Direct Feature Adaptation Of Cyberpunk Comic ‘Tokyo Ghost’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 24, 2021 2:00 pm EST According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cary Fukunaga has been tapped by Legendary to direct a feature adaptation of Tokyo Ghost, based on the Image comic series of the same name from writer Rick Remender, who will write the screenplay for the feature. Written by Remender, drawn by Sean Murphy and colored by Matt Hollingsworth, Tokyo Ghost is set in the year 2089, in a gangster-run world where humanity has become addicted to technology as an escape from reality....

Cool Stuff: Marvel Legends Launches New ‘Iron Man’ Franchise Figures, Including Iron Monger And Happy Hogan By Ethan Anderton/May 24, 2021 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line has been filling in the gaps of their action figure line-up inspired by The Infinity Saga, and with the latest additions, they’re reaching back into the original Iron Man franchise. First up, there’s an Iron Man Mark III figure with all-new armor accessories and a face sculpt of Robert Downey Jr....

Crossing Swords Stars Yvette Nicole Brown And Luke Evans Delight In Their Dirty Dialogue [Interview] Hulu By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 10, 2021 3:40 pm EST “Crossing Swords,” Hulu’s show about a fantastical world of children’s toys who say and do very adult things, has debuted its second season. The series follows young squire Patrick (voiced by Nicholas Hoult) as he tries to survive squiring for the awful King Merriman (Luke Evans) while under the “tutelage” of Sergeant Meghan (Yvette Nicole Brown), a drill sergeant who would rather be home with her kids....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night In Soho’ Debuts First Footage Before Full Trailer Arrives On Tuesday By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2021 9:02 am EST Edgar Wright has delivered incredible blends of comedy, action, horror and sci-fi with movies like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. But the filmmaker is about to give us something extremely different with his latest effort.Last Night in Soho is a straight-up psychological horror-thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit)....

Everything We Know About Barry Season 3 So Far HBO By Ben Pearson/Oct. 12, 2021 3:07 pm EST The season 2 finale of HBO’s “Barry” aired on the same night as the “Game of Thrones” series finale, which feels like a lifetime ago. But Bill Hader and the rest of the “Barry” team are coming back for a third season, and we can’t wait to see what happens in the aftermath of season 2’s jaw-dropping action....

How Friday The 13th Part 6’s Original Ending Would’ve Changed The Franchise Paramount Pictures By Anya Stanley/Dec. 8, 2021 10:41 am EST “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” is considered one of the better sequels in the “Friday the 13th” franchise — /Film’s own Jacob Hall even put it at the top of the list when he ranked the entire series. This blatantly ignores Crispin Glover’s sweet moves, the gnarly kills, and the all-around gelling of Jason Voorhees as we know him today in “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter,” but to each their own....

How To With John Wilson Season 2 Will Arrive In November HBO By Shania Russell/Sept. 17, 2021 4:35 pm EST Good news — everyone’s favorite anxious New Yorker is returning for a second season! The refreshingly strange HBO docu-comedy “How To With John Wilson” will be back on November 26, 2021. The acclaimed series stars Wilson as our world guide through the chaos of life, investigating deceptively simple topics like “How To Make Risotto” and “How To Split The Check....

James Gunn Reveals One Seemingly Dead Member Of The Suicide Squad Is Still Alive Warner Bros. By Ben Pearson/Aug. 31, 2021 5:05 pm EST Part of the charm of the “Suicide Squad” movies (and the comics on which the films are based) is that not every member of Amanda Waller’s makeshift groups of prisoners-turned-operatives will survive the missions they’re forced to participate in. Writer/director James Gunn’s most recent movie, “The Suicide Squad,” establishes that dynamic early, opening on Michael Rooker’s Savant and implying that he is going to be a significant character in the story, only for Savant and most of his criminal task force to end up dead before the movie’s opening credits....

New ‘Suicide Squad’ Character Details: Meet The Skwad By Angie Han/July 11, 2016 10:30 am EST Even your average non-geek will have a pretty good idea of who the Justice League or the X-Men or the Avengers are. But in comparison, the characters of Suicide Squad are a relatively unknown bunch. Aside from Harley Quinn, none of them are really what you’d call household names. And even if you do know these guys from the comics, the versions in the movie are all-new....

Oscars 2021: ABC Executive Talks About The “Calculated Risk” Of Ending With The Best Actor Category By Ben Pearson/April 26, 2021 3:00 pm EST The executive producers of the Oscars made several unconventional decisions that affected last night’s broadcast of the 93rd Academy Awards, but perhaps none were as surprising as switching up the order that the awards were handed out. Chadwick Boseman was the heavy favorite to posthumously win Best Actor for his outstanding performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher, and Jesse Collins decided to announce the Best Actor category last, which would have presumably ended the evening on a bittersweet but poignant note....