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By now, Josh and Benny Safdie’s decade-long journey to making the most ardently celebrated film of the year has been well chronicled: Uncut Gems owes its feverish appeal to the Safdies’ many years of field research in New York’s Diamond District, their practical and psychological guile sharpened by making similarly rattling fare such as Heaven Knows What and Good Time, and […]
Baywatch actor Zac Efron is reportedly feeling better after contracting a serious infection while filming his newest show Killing Zac Efron in Papua New Guinea, according to reports. The 32-year-old became sick from a bacterial infection before Christmas and was flown to a private hospital in Brisbane, Australia, where he was treated for several days […]
Like many Star Wars fans, Jon M. Chu wants justice for Rose Tico. On Thursday night, the Crazy Rich Asians director took to Twitter to express his disappointment with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—specifically, the way Resistance member Tico was sidelined for the film. The character, portrayed by Asian-American actress Kelly Marie Tran, appeared in […]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been forced to address why their own TV version of the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York doesn’t include Donald Trump‘s 10-second cameo. The scene involves Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister walking through New York’s Plaza Hotel and asking Trump, who owned the hotel at the time, for directions to the lobby. The CBC explained through their head of public affairs Chuck Thompson that Trump’s […]
Ian McDiarmid, the actor behind Star Wars’ villainous Emperor Palpatine, was “totally surprised” by his character’s return in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, he admitted in a new interview with Digital Spy. Many Star Wars fans were highly upset at the Sith leader’s return and have gone after Skywalker writers J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio […]
You may have seen the 1990 Christmas classic Home Alone hundreds of times, and never realized that the scenes that take place inside the McCallister family home weren’t actually filmed inside an actual house. The Netflix series The Movies That Made Us revisited this decade-old fact, which happens to be new information for some people. The establishing shots showing the McCallister residence from the outside are taken of a house located […]
**Major Spoilers Ahead** Director, J.J. Abrams, was prepared for the criticism that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has received before the film even hit theaters. During a recent event hosted by Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican, Abrams said that he knew that “pleasing everyone” would be impossible. He explained that he appreciates those who didn’t like the movie […]
The critically panned Cats is getting an update. According to a memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Universal has informed theaters they will receive new versions of the Tom Hooper-directed film with “improved visual effects.” The news arrives just a day after Cats opened with disappointing box office numbers and countless brutal reviews. Per THR: The move […]
The force is strong with this film. Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to have a $193.7 million opening for its domestic opening weekend, according to Deadline. That number puts the film at the third-highest spot for December, and it earned $90 million on Friday. Fans went out in droves for the […]
James Cameron, the director, writer, and producer of Avatar 2, feels confident that his long-awaited, highly-anticipated sequel to the 2009 film has what it takes to steal back the worldwide box office crown taken from him by Avengers: Endgame. “I think it’s a certainty,” Cameron said in an interview with USA Today. “But let’s give Endgame their moment and let’s […]
