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Superhero Bits: ‘The Simpsons’ Likely Doing A Marvel Short, ‘Moon Knight’ Set Photo & More By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2021 6:00 pm EST How is YouTube keeping the legacy of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark alive? How long are issues of Non-Stop Spider-Man getting delayed? Ready to see a Marvel-themed animated short from The Simpsons? How would Tom Welling like to return to the role of Superman? What are the working titles for Ant-Man and The Wasp and The Marvels?...

The 14 Best ’80s Halloween Movies To Watch This Spooky Season Paramount Pictures By Layla Halfhill/Oct. 5, 2021 2:10 pm EST The ’80s is a decade that conjures up a great deal of nostalgia. For many of us who grew up in the era, Friday nights were often spent perusing the local video store for the latest VHS releases. And when Halloween rolled around, we’d head to the horror section to make our picks, seeking something a bit spookier to match the season....

Prey for the Devil Lionsgate Daniel Stamm’s (“The Last Exorcism”) “Prey for the Devil” didn’t do big business at the box office, though there’s something endearingly nostalgic about seeing the well-worn path of demonic possession revisited in multiplexes nationwide. As demonic possessions become akin to a global pandemic, the Catholic Church reopens its exorcism schools to train a new front line of exorcists to tackle the charge. Jacqueline Byers’s Sister Ann, though prohibited as a nun, is given the rare opportunity to train on account of her perceived empathy toward possession victims....

The Christie Affair, Limited Series Based On Agatha Christie’s Disappearance, Is In The Works At Miramax TV 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 2, 2021 6:37 pm EST It’s only fitting that the most revered and celebrated murder mystery writer of an entire generation would have also lived a life as dramatic and hard-to-believe as her own novels. Among other stories like those involving Miss Marple and “And Then There Were None,” Agatha Christie is singlehandedly responsible for the famous, beloved character of detective Hercule Poirot and the dozens upon dozens of extravagant crimes he’s been called upon to solve....

The Many Saints Of Newark Director Alan Taylor On The Big Question That Lingers Over The Film [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Oct. 1, 2021 10:07 am EST Alan Taylor’s direction in “The Many Saints of Newark,” as “The Sopranos” creator David Chase called it, is “no bullsh*t.” Taylor had worked for Chase before, having directed several standout episodes of the original HBO series. And with the prequel film, Taylor was still working directly with Chase....

The Morning Watch: Eight Tom Cruise Stunts Explained, D23 Looks At The Legacy Of The Muppets & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 25, 2021 5:00 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....

The Quarantine Stream: I Watched ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ To Find Out Which White Boy Broke Olivia Rodrigo’s Heart By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 1, 2021 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: High School Musical: The Musical: The SeriesWhere You Can Stream It: Disney+The Pitch: The students at East High School, where Disney filmed the wildly popular High School Musical movies, prepare to stage a production of High School Musical: The Musical for their winter theater show at the urging of their ambitious new drama teacher Miss Jenn (Kate Reinders), who had appeared in the original movie as a background dancer....

Tick, Tick… BOOM! Writer Steven Levenson On Crafting A Love Letter To Musicals [Interview] Netflix By Shania Russell/Nov. 12, 2021 4:48 pm EST Before penning “Dear Evan Hansen,” playwright Steven Levenson had never written a musical. His first stab at the job not only won him the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, but led to a Broadway hit that won six more Tonys and spawned a film adaptation (which he also wrote)....

Why The Action Scenes In ‘Black Widow’ Don’t Look Like Natasha’s Past Fights By Vanessa Armstrong/June 22, 2021 10:54 am EST Black Widow, like all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, has a lot of action and a lot of fights. Director Cate Shortland, however, wanted to make Natasha Romanoff’s (AKA Black Widow, AKA Scarlett Johansson) fight scenes different from what we’ve seen before during her other MCU appearances. Different Fights, Different Hearts...

What is With Love? Netflix Prime Video’s holiday rom-com, “With Love” follows the Diaz siblings, a brother and sister on a mission to find love and purpose. The story follows the family over the course of 12 months, catching up with them on holidays to showcase the high and lows of life, during the most heightened days of the year. Along the way, they’ll also cross paths with seemingly unrelated neighbors who leave lasting impressions on their lives....

Yasuo Otsuka, Legendary Animator And Mentor Of Hayao Miyazaki, Dead At 89 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2021 1:00 pm EST Yasuo Otsuka, a legendary figure of Japan’s animation industry and mentor to anime titans such as Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, has died. He was 89. Otsuka’s incredible 50-year career in the anime industry — which started with the country’s very first color animated feature Hakujaden (AKA The White Snake Enchantress from 1958) — was paid tribute by Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, who announced his death Monday....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ Won’t Bring Back T.I. After Multiple Sexual Assault Allegations By Ethan Anderton/March 2, 2021 8:30 am EST Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly are returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for another team-up adventure as Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In previous installments of the Ant-Man franchise, the two stars have been joined by the ensemble of Luis (Michael Peña), Kurt (David Dastmalchian), and Dave (T....

‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ Album Being Released This Week, So You Can Stop Listening To Bootlegs On YouTube By Chris Evangelista/June 8, 2021 12:00 pm EST Bo Burnham: Inside, the latest comedy (?) special from Bo Burnham, is loaded with wall-to-wall songs. And while one or two of those songs have been officially uploaded to the Netflix YouTube page, the rest are currently unavailable. Every now and then, someone will upload a bootleg of one of the songs to YouTube, or a cover version....

‘Hellraiser’ Remake Headed To Hulu By Chris Evangelista/May 24, 2021 12:00 pm EST Beyond that, we’re still in the dark about this one. Is it going to be a remake that once again tells the same story as the first film? Or will it go in a completely new direction? When Bruckner was first hired, THR reported that his film would be “loyal, yet evolved,” whatever that means. In the original, “Sexual deviant Frank inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while abroad....

‘Luzzu’ Review: A Heartbreaking Neorealist Fishing Drama About A Man Caught In The Tides Of Change [Sundance 2021] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2021 1:00 pm EST Flitting around the giant industrial trawlers that haul in hundreds of fish every day are the bright, colorful luzzus, the small but sturdy traditional fishing boats of the Maltese islands, painted in vibrant yellows, and blues, and reds that create beautiful little beacons scattered throughout the surrounding seas....

‘Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’ Video Game Will Let Your Favorite Childhood Icons Beat Each Other To A Pulp By Danielle Ryan/July 13, 2021 1:27 pm EST As my good man Nigel Thornberry would say, “Smashing!” You will soon be able to duke it out with your favorite Nickelodeon characters in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a game clearly inspired by the Super Smash Brothers franchise. The game pits favorites from multiple generations of Nickelodeon cartoons in glorious, colorful battle to determine who is the Nickeloden All-Star....

‘This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist’ Trailer: Netflix Docuseries Examines The Greatest Art Mystery By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2021 12:30 pm EST In 1990, two men dressed as cops stole millions of dollars worth of art from a Boston museum. The art is still missing, but the cold case has revealed one of the strangest, wide-reaching conspiracy to touch the art community — one that involves the Irish and Italian mobs, and stretches across Europe and Asia....

A Boy Called Christmas: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 7, 2021 3:43 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.) Christmas in … October? Sure, why not! It may not even be Halloween yet, but I guess there’s no time like the present to kickstart the marketing machine for “A Boy Called Christmas,” the latest in a long line of Netflix holiday movies of — how shall we put it?...

A Letter From David Mamet To The Writers Of The Unit By David Chen/March 23, 2010 1:38 pm EST I was having a pretty uneventful day at the office until I saw this post about a memo written by writer/director David Mamet crop up on my Twitter feed. It’s a note that Mamet addressed to the writing staff of the now-canceled CBS show The Unit, in which he lays out some guiding principles for compelling television....

Anya Taylor-Joy Was Cast As Young Furiosa After George Miller Saw Last Night In Soho Focus Features By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 1, 2021 1:22 pm EST Today is turning into “Last Night in Soho” day and that’s A-Okay by me. Hot on the heels of the quotes by cast and crew that the upcoming psychological horror/thriller from filmmaker Edgar Wright will attempt to wrestle with topics such as the dangers of nostalgia as well as the exploitation of women, it now appears that the film is also responsible for a key creative choice made in another project entirely: George Miller’s upcoming “Furiosa” prequel, a spin-off/prequel to his masterful “Mad Max: Fury Road....