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Who Would Driver Have Played? Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock Zack Snyder’s vision for DC Comics’ most classic characters has always been … interesting, to say the least. Despite the ongoing Snyderverse drama, the director’s loose Justice League trilogy played a big role in establishing DC’s cinematic universe. “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” introduced key players (like Wonder Woman) who would carry the shaky new franchise into the future. Other characters, like Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, left something to be desired....

Blade in the MCU Warner Bros. Word that Bassam Tariq would direct “Blade” broke back in July, and in case there was any lingering doubt, Tariq confirmed his involvement during an interview with The Playlist Podcast. “First of all, I can confirm that I am directing ‘Blade.’ Marvel is letting me do that. There might be, like, a Marvel sniper here somewhere pointing a gun at me or a redaction device or something,” Tariq said, adding: “What I will say it’s like, it’s not that I felt it was, I didn’t think that this was gonna happen....

Easter Eggs In Eternals You Might Have Missed Marvel Studios By Scott Thomas/Nov. 11, 2021 6:21 pm EST Watch out! Big spoilers for “Eternals” ahead. Easter eggs are the part of Easter most children remember. After all, it’s fun to hunt for brightly-colored treasures. Cinematic Easter eggs function largely the same way. They’re not essential to the plot, but they are treats for die-hard fans, who love to hunt for them while viewing and often begin discussing them as soon as the movie ends....

Encanto And House Of Gucci Did Decent Thanksgiving Box Office, Resident Evil Didn’t Disney By Ryan Scott/Nov. 29, 2021 12:01 pm EST Thanksgiving is typically a robust five-day weekend at the box office that Hollywood has come to rely on. 2020 had other plans obviously, but this year saw a host of new releases for just about every type of moviegoer to enjoy. From Disney’s “Encanto,” to Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” and even “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” there was much to choose from....

The ones that make you roll your eyes Marvel Studios The final Captain America PSA, “Spider-Man Homecoming” The PSAs, which hearken back to Captain America’s corny USO days, were great in the context of the film, but leave the fourth wall breaking to “Deadpool.” This one goes a little too meta, with Steve Rogers telling us that sometimes waiting leads to disappointment. I don’t like being made fun of for staying through the credits....

Extraction 2 Filming Has Begun In Prague AGBO By Anya Stanley/Nov. 30, 2021 11:35 am EST Russo Brothers collaborator Sam Hargrave has confirmed that filming is underway in Prague for “Extraction 2,” the sequel to last year’s “Extraction,” also directed by Hargrave. Sharing from his Instagram account, the stunt coordinator and director strolls through icy Prague and proclaims, “That’s a wrap on day one, here on ‘Extraction 2’ at the train location,” before commenting on the biting snow that covers the background....

Final ‘Tenet’ Trailer: Time Isn’t The Problem, Getting Out Alive Is The Problem (Just Like With Movie Theaters) By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2020 8:58 pm EST With Tenet poised to arrive in US theaters in under two weeks, Warner Bros. Pictures has released one final trailer with the most inverted time action yet. Not only does it give us the best glimpse at Christopher Nolan’s high concept sci-fi action thriller, but it also introduces us to that final piece of the film’s puzzle, in the form of Travis Scott’s hip-hop track, “The Plan,” written specifically for the film....

A Long Way To Go The last transgender character to be included in a major studio film was All played by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2016’s Zoolander 2, a role GLAAD dubbed “an offensive caricature”. All, portrayed by a cisgender man, is a non-binary supermodel who gets asked about their genitals using a hot dog/bun euphemism and later gets referred to as “hermself”. That’s the kind of thing you might have expected from Borat back in 2006, but we should have grown by now....

Jake Johnson Shares Two Of His Favorite Jokes From ‘New Girl’ By Jack Giroux/July 29, 2021 7:18 am EST Series star Jake Johnson is still laughing about New Girl, too, specifically about the elusive mind of his character, Nick Miller. Nick Miller is a simple person, simultaneously an everyman and a caricature of an everyman. He’s also the esteemed author of The Pepperwood Chronicles. You know, the YA story about a former Chicago cop and present-day detective in New Orleans named Julius Pepperwood....

Jordan Peele Confirms He Has Retired From Acting; Keegan-Michael Key To Star In ‘August Snow’ For ABC By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2021 3:30 pm EST After the brilliant Comedy Central sketch series Key and Peele went off the air in 2015, the show’s two leads embarked on different career paths. Keegan-Michael Key shifted his focus almost entirely to acting, while Jordan Peele quickly became one of Hollywood’s go-to horror directors thanks to Get Out and Us....

Kumail Nanjiani Has An Amazing Name For His Eternals Superpowers Marvel Studios By Eric Vespe/Oct. 16, 2021 10:52 am EST Kumail Nanjiani’s bringing some guns to the upcoming Marvel flick “Eternals” — and no I’m not talking about his Schwarzenegger-esque biceps. During a chat on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Nanjiani and his superhero co-star Salma Hayek dished on some behind the scenes stories from the making of their upcoming tentpole. Included in this conversation was what exactly Nanjiani’s superpower is....

“I’ve got this kind of gift” Focus Features One strange night, Eloise finds herself drifting off to sleep (in a stunning surreal sequence), finding herself transported into swinging 1960s London. Her vehicle (literally the body she’s a passenger in for her tour of the past) is the hopeful Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) — a gorgeous, put-together singer/dancer/all-around performer. At first, Eloise is elated. She’s infatuated. She has to come back again and again to relive the past through the eyes of this glamorous ingenue....

Mads Mikkelsen Plans To Make Grindelwald His “Own” After Replacing Johnny Depp In ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 7, 2021 12:00 pm EST When Mads Mikkelsen took over the role of Grindelwald from Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts 3, fans rejoiced. What would the Danish actor’s take on the dark wizard look like? Would we finally be rid of the bad bleach job? Mikkelsen has spoken before about how he’ll take a (respectfully) different approach from Depp, but he elaborated further on how he plans to make this part his “own....

Margot Robbie Doesn’t Know When She’ll Play Harley Quinn Again By Chris Evangelista/July 12, 2021 8:09 am EST Margot Robbie reprises the role of Harley Quinn in the upcoming The Suicide Squad, but what happens after that? According to Robbie herself, she doesn’t know. For now, the actress says she needs a break from Harley. In a recent interview, Robbie revealed that she’s unsure of when we’ll see Harley again. On top of that, Robbie had no idea about her character’s fate mentioned in the needless epilogue from Zack Snyder’s Justice League....

In the Line of Fire Shutter Island Now Streaming on Netflix Release Date: 2010Genre: MysteryDirector: Martin ScorseseCast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow If you enjoyed the line “What is grief, if not love persevering?” from WandaVision, can I interest you in #1 Marvel fan Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island? I’m not going to call Scorsese’s mystery-thriller “underrated,” because it received positive reviews and was a big hit....

Revisiting The Simple Joy Of Tony Stark Yelling At Steve Rogers In ‘Avengers: Endgame’ By Evan Saathoff/March 2, 2021 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Great Moments in MCU History, where we fondly recall great little bits that made us fall in love with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.) Will whatever the new Avengers team look like enjoy a character dynamic as fun and long-lasting as the one shared by Steve Rogers and Tony Stark?...

Snowfall Season 5: Everything We Know So Far FX By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 9, 2021 11:11 am EST It’s time to celebrate, “Snowfall” fans! The Emmy-winning series has been greenlit for season 5, which means we’re not done with the story of Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) yet. Created by the late John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, the FX show is set in 1980s Los Angeles against the background of the first cocaine epidemic in the city and its ultimate impact on the people who lived there....

Kendall’s Missing Kids HBO Iverson and Sophie Roy are more than a figment of your imagination, I promise. They once inhabited the screen for silly antics such as dancing at a wedding, in wake of their father committing a murder or being slapped by Logan, as he approached new levels of unwell. Now they’re just names tossed around by their father, who needs an excuse to escape his siblings so he can scheme elsewhere....

The Best New Blu-Ray Releases: Citizen Kane, Shang-Chi, And More RKO By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 2, 2021 4:34 pm EST It’s that time again, readers. Time for another Blu-ray round-up from yours truly. This latest round-up brings some heavy hitters, including what’s considered by many to be the best movie ever made. That’s right: I’m talking about “Malignant.” But this round-up also includes the hot new 4K release of “Citizen Kane” from the Criterion Collection....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Compared To The Novel, The Process Of Writing ‘Borat 2’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 27, 2021 6:00 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, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....