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Jessica Chastain Is Heading To TV To Play A Country Music Legend In Paramount Network’s ‘George & Tammy’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 11, 2020 1:30 pm EST “I first read Abe’s feature script a few years ago and couldn’t get it out of my head — the examination of human frailty and redemption was so unexpected, given the glitz and glamour of the subject matter,” said Katherine Pope, head of Spectrum Originals....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2020 1:30 pm EST We’ve reached Disney live-action fatigue, and no one’s feeling it more than the directing duo behind some of the biggest Disney animated classics. Disney Legends John Musker and Ron Clements have directed acclaimed Disney animated films like Aladdin and The Little Mermaid and they have a few opinions about the House of Mouse’s slavish recreations of their greatest animated hits. Not all of them good....

Master All Three Seasons With The ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ 15th Anniversary SteelBook By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 18, 2020 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Long ago, Nickelodeon debuted a little animated series called Avatar: The Last Airbender. And everything changed. Avatar: The Last Airbender debuted in 2005 and quickly captured the imaginations of audiences with its richly inventive world, compelling characters, and a classic story of a fight between good and evil....

New ‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Trailer Calls Back To ‘First Blood’ Being Drawn By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 20, 2019 9:30 am EST Sylvester Stallone never wanted the fight that was brought to him as veteran John Rambo in the 1982 film First Blood. But when it comes to Rambo: Last Blood, he’s out for vengeance, and he has no problem finishing a fight that he once again didn’t start, especially when a surrogate family member gets taken by some dangerous men....

New ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Character Posters Tease Your Favorite Characters, And Maybe Some Hidden Messages By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 12, 2020 10:30 am EST The Mandalorian season 2 is fast approaching, and Disney+ has released four new character posters to tease the highly anticipated return of the Star Wars series. The Mandalorian, the Child, Cara Dune, and Greef Karga all get their own The Mandalorian season 2 character posters, which you can see below....

Robert Pattinson Had To Sneak Off The ‘Tenet’ Set (And Lie To Christopher Nolan) To Audition For ‘The Batman’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 11, 2020 10:30 am EST Robert Pattinson’s The Batman audition story has a twist that even Christopher Nolan couldn’t have dreamed up. Which is funny, because it involves the Tenet and Dark Knight trilogy director himself. It’s awkward for anyone to discretely go to a job interview while you’re doing fine at your current job....

Superhero Bits: ‘Iron Man VR’ Preview Learns To Fly, ‘Avengers’ Video Game Footage Teases Ms. Marvel & More By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2019 6:00 pm EST How did a Titans special effects supervisor get killed? Why did Ruby Rose have to cancel her Comic-Con appearance? Want to see a new Iron Man VR preview? What superhero was teased in the latest Avengers video game footage? Why didn’t Batman Beyond ever do a sequel movie with The Joker?...

Superhero Bits: The Snyder Cut Of ‘Justice League’ Rumored For Release, ‘Iron Man VR’ New Release Date & More By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2020 6:00 pm EST Could The Snyder Cut of Justice League really be coming? Is a Solo: A Star Wars Story cast member joining The Falcon and the Winter Soldier? When is Iron Man VR coming out after being delayed from release this month? Is Daisy Johnson getting an Agents of SHIELD spin-off on Disney+?...

The Morning Watch: An Epic ‘Home Alone’ Gingerbread House, Creating The Sword Of ‘Mulan’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2020 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. In this edition, get an up close look at Michelle Wibowo’s epic Home Alone gingerbread house created in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary....

The Morning Watch: Animating ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’, The Battle Of ‘A Few Good Men’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 3, 2020 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. In this edition, take a look behind the scenes of the making of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and the unique visual style that gives it such vibrant life....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Bad Genius’ Is A High School Heist Thriller That’s Way More Stylish Than It Has Any Right To Be By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2021 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Bad GeniusWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Poor scholarship student Lynn (Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying) gets roped into a scheme by the wealthy students at her school to start leaking the answers to tests through a series of codes....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘My Cousin Vinny’ Is That Special Kind Of Comedy That Takes Its Characters Seriously By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2020 8:00 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 Movie: My Cousin VinnyWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: When two out-of-towners get booked in Alabama for a murder they didn’t commit, their only hope is a lawyer in the family: Vincent LaGuardia “Vinny” Gambini, a New Yorker who is clearly out of his depth....

The Quarantine Stream: Over 50 Years After It Aired, ‘Star Trek’ Remains One Of The Greatest TV Shows Of All Time By Jacob Hall/Nov. 13, 2020 7:00 am EST Look, a small ongoing column about what we’re watching during quarantine is not the place to dissect the legacy of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time. It speaks for itself, with eight-plus spin-offs, 13 movies, and countless comics and novels....

The Scrapped ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Movie From The Early ’00s Was “The Darkest Thing You’d Ever Seen,” Akiva Goldsman Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2020 5:00 pm EST There are dozens of Hollywood projects that never happened, but few are spoken of so wistfully as the superhero movies that were scrapped. From the Nicolas Cage-starring Superman Lives to Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League Dark, there have been articles and even documentaries covering them....

Theme Park Bits: Carthay Circle Menu Unveiled, Holiday Plans At The Parks, And More By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 21, 2020 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: See how the Carthay Circle Restaurant menu will be different when it reopens. Learn about Universal Orlando’s 2020 holiday plans. And more! November 19 is going to be something of a banner day for the Disneyland Resort. That’s when parts – only parts, though – of Disney California Adventure will be reopened to the general public....

VOTD: Sleepy Skunk’s 2015 Movie Trailer Mash-Up By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 3, 2015 6:30 am EST “You may be done with the past, but the past isn’t done with you.” Another day, another look back at this year in cinema. Following the 2015 Salute to Cinema and Final Cut 2015, we’ve got yet another retrospective video looking back at a bunch of movies from this year, and this one comes from a familiar name....

Watch Daisy Ridley Read ‘Star Wars: BB-8 On The Run’ To Thank Everyone Fighting Coronavirus By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 13, 2020 2:30 pm EST Daisy Ridley celebrated her birthday on Friday by giving all Star Wars fans a gift instead. The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker star gave young fans stuck inside during quarantine the sweet gift of a video of her reading a children’s story book about one of BB-8’s many adventures....

Weekend Box Office: An ‘Abominable’ Weekend At ‘Downton Abbey’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 30, 2019 5:30 pm EST As I’m sure you’ve realized by now, the weekend is over. Which means it’s time to tally up the weekend box office and see which movies came out ahead, and which sank like a stone. The weekend’s big winner was Abominable, an animated pic from Universal. Second place went to the tea-drinking inhabitants of Downton Abbey, a film that held strong in its second week of release....

Why The Wildly Different Women Of ‘Little Women’ Make It Such An Enduring Classic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 8, 2020 9:00 am EST Are you a Jo or an Amy? Personality tests that identify you as part one Little Woman character, part this breed of dog, seem like a new digital invention — made to power Buzzfeed’s traffic or create conversations centered around “OMG you’re such a Miranda!” But personality tests reach far back as ancient times, and I’m not just talking about the mid 19th century when Louisa May Alcott first published her classic novel Little Women....

‘Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story Of Roy Cohn’ Trailer: The Life And Death Of An Infamous Political Figure By Chris Evangelista/June 13, 2020 12:00 pm EST Roy Cohn, one of the worst people to ever live, is the subject of the new HBO documentary Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn. And, interestingly enough, the doc is directed by someone who has a personal connection to Cohn’s life: Ivy Meeropol, the granddaughter Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the couple Cohn prosecuted as spies, leading to their execution in the electric chair....