Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hey, quick question … what the cluck is happening? Just as multiple streaming platforms have begun offering subscription bundle plans and the Streaming Wars seem to finally be over — a wildly unexpected force has entered late in the game with hopes of shaking things up, funded…
Laura Radford/Netflix Say what you will about big movies bypassing the theatrical experience, but this week’s most-watched Netflix titles make one thing clear: star power still matters, even on streaming. Case in point: “The Union,” a new Netflix Original movie starring Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg that’s been…
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Apple TV+ This post contains spoilers for “Dark Matter.” I recently finished reading Blake Crouch’s mind-bending sci-fi novel “Dark Matter,” which was adapted into an Apple TV+ show earlier this year. I haven’t watched the show yet (I’m planning to catch up with it shortly), but we’ve called it “the best…
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Disney/Marvel Studios Back in 2022, Shawn Levy was determined to get Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman together in a movie, telling /Film, “I’m not going to say where and how, but I absolutely will confirm my intention and determination to be the lucky son of a b***h who…
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Sony Pictures Move over, Oscars Cheer Moment, because the internet just came up with a new way to measure how much folks love them some big-budget blockbusters — and we have lots of questions. Any movie fan who’s spent more than five minutes online knows that Rotten Tomatoes,…
Static Media / Netflix Nobody genuinely thinks “Emily in Paris” is a good show, right? It doesn’t seem like anybody in the world is comparing Darren Star’s Netflix original to, say, “The Wire” or “The Sopranos,” or even great television comedies like “Veep” and “30 Rock.” The offenses committed by…
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Francis Ford Coppola may very well be our greatest living filmmaker, so the looming release of his first feature in 13 years would be a major cinematic event at any juncture in his career. That he is 85 years old and spent $120 million of his own money…
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Marvel Studios Robert Downey Jr. is opening up about his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it sounds like it’s going to be a little complicated. He recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast to speak about his return to the franchise he first…
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Warner Bros. If the idea of “Joker 2” as a Broadway musical sounds absolutely wild or even upsetting to you, that’s fair. Just know that director Todd Phillips actually considered this as a possibility — before logistics got in the way. In an interview with Variety about the…
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20th Century Studios “Deadpool 2” is known for many things. It was the sequel to one of the biggest R-rated hits in cinema history. It also did the classic thing of going bigger than its predecessor, with larger action set pieces and more characters from throughout the Marvel…
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