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06 Aug

The First X-Men Movie Almost Featured Beast in Major Role

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When the first X-Men movie opened in July 2000, the film featured a mix of founding X-Men team members like Cyclops (James Marsden) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) plus later recruits like Storm (Halle Berry), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and Rogue (Anna Paquin). But fans of the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby comics knew that several members of the original team lineup, namely Beast and Angel, were nowhere to be found in the movie, while Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) was portrayed as a student at the Xavier School and did not join the team officially until the third film, X-Men: The Last Stand…
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05 Aug

Raised by Wolves Premieres Disorienting First Trailer

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Remember how pleasantly disorienting it was to watch the final 15 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time? Well, if you ever want to experience that level of intriguing confusion again, the first trailer for Raised by Wolves is a great start.  HBO Max today unveiled a first trailer for Raised by Wolves, a sci-fi project developed by prolific sci-fi director Ridley Scott. Watch the trailer below and meet us on the other side to try to make sense of…well, anything.  To be fair, there is plenty of helpful exposition in that trailer. A character voiceover says…
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04 Aug

How Marvel’s Kevin Feige Influenced the First X-Men Movie

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Back in 1999 as the first X-Men film was developed and produced, executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner promoted a 26-year-old assistant in her office to the role of associate producer on the movie, thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge of the Marvel Comics universe from which the X-Men had sprung. That associate producer’s name was Kevin Feige, and based off his work on X-Men, he was hired by then-Marvel Studios head Avi Arad as his second in command. From that point on, Feige became Marvel’s president of production in 2007, and was eventually named head of Marvel Studios after the company…
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01 Aug

LEGO® NES™ Set Is the Perfect Way to Revisit Nintendo’s First Console

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This article is sponsored by LEGO®. LEGO® and Nintendo’s partnership continues with the release of the LEGO® NES™ set, a 2,646-piece building kit that lets fans construct their own brick-based NES console. Thanks to LEGO®, you can now relive one of the greatest eras in gaming history in a new way! Following up on LEGO®’s excellent Super Mario™ set, the NES™ kit comes with everything you need for the authentic 8-bit experience The realistic model includes a slot for an NES™ Game Pak as well as a controller deck where you can plug in the wired controller that comes with…
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26 Jul

Why Bill & Ted Face The Music’s Samara Weaving Never Saw The First Two Movies

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During a most excellent panel discussion of Bill & Ted Face the Music on Saturday (July 25) at Comic-Con@Home, it came to light that actors Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving, who play the daughters of the title dudes, had never seen the first two movies in the series before. While Lundy-Paine did not delve too deeply into why they had never checked out the original Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) or Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the Australian-born Weaving — who broke out last year with American audiences in the horror comedy Ready or Not — chalked this heinous…
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26 Jul

Rick and Morty Season 5 Debuts First Look Teaser

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The 70-episode order that Rick and Morty co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland signed with Adult Swim came along with many benefits. The most obvious of which is…70 more episodes of Rick and Morty! One subtle advantage, however, is that fans now don’t have to wait years for little morsels of footage from upcoming seasons. In fact, even though Rick and Morty season 4 concluded on May 31 of this year, Harmon was prepared to share some footage from season 5 during the show’s virtual press conference (not Comic-Con@Home-related) just two months later. That’s right, Adult Swim has unveiled a…
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13 Jul

30 Rock Reunion Special Debuts First Trailer

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Duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. That elaborately recreated and stunningly accurate rendition of the 30 Rock theme song can only mean one thing: 30 Rock is almost back!  Last month, NBC announced that it was bringing back its mid-2000s classic comedy 30 Rock for one more installment. And in true 30 Rock fashion, this would be something a little more meta than your usual reunion special. Since NBCUniversal is unable to hold in-person “upfronts” to promote their upcoming TV slate to advertisers, 30 Rock is going to do the task for them.  30 Rock A One-Time Special will catch up with…
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06 Jul

Upcoming Attack on Titan Movie Will Recap the First Three Seasons

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Many anime series have become phenomena that have relevance beyond the anime community. Attack on Titan is a special example thanks to a passionate audience that has stuck with the changing characters through the apocalyptic body horror war drama. Three seasons of incredible storytelling have played out over the course of seven years and the series is finally coming to an end with its fourth season.  There was a lot of love for Attack on Titan coming out of FunimationCon 2020, the anime company’s first “virtual convention.” Beyond the already released teaser trailer for Attack on Titan Season 4, Funimation…
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16 Jun

Jurassic World: Dominion is First Major Hollywood Movie to Resume Production

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Something has survived, and it looks like it is the Jurassic World: Dominion film production. The anticipated third film in Colin Trevorrow’s new Jurassic Park trilogy was among the many countless film and television productions to be placed on indefinite pause this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet it is now also the first major blockbuster or studio movie to be heading back to work sometime in early-mid July in the United Kingdom’s Pinewood Studios. The news was broken via Deadline, which reports cameras are currently expected to roll during the week of July 6 on the film that…
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12 Jun

Cleopatra and the First Time 20th Century Fox Almost Died

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Spyros Skouras was a practical man with a dream. As a finance-minded studio executive who made his bones in the industry as a frugal theater owner during the Depression, Skouras was looking for a safe bet when he asked producer Walter Wanger to remake the story of Cleopatra on a budget of $2 million. It didn’t work out that way. Nearly 60 years after Elizabeth Taylor rode into Rome on a sphinx, the gaudy, extravagant, and moribund epic that is Hollywood’s most iconic Cleopatra remains the stuff of legend—and perhaps hellish nightmares for studio execs with greenlighting powers. What was…
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23 May

Justice League: The Snyder Cut and 10 Movies That Did It First

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The pop culture shattering confirmation that the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League has been willed into existence by a small cadre of devoted DC fans turned geek media upside down this week. It also raises a number of interesting, if troublesome, questions. While the theatrical version of Justice League that exists now is hardly anyone’s idea of a singular artistic vision–it was grafted together from footage separately directed by Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon–it still represents the best efforts of the filmmakers at the time. If that final product is not satisfactory to fans, do those fans get to dictate…
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13 May

First Adventure Time: Distant Lands Special Gets HBO Max Premiere Date

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Just as a character in another beloved WarnerMedia brand could tell you: nothing ever ends. Thankfully that applies to the colorful and lovely Cartoon Network animated series Adventure Time as well.  HBO Max is bringing the recently concluded show back for four hour-long specials titled Adventure Time: Distant Lands that will premiere on the HBO Max streaming service exclusively. Finn, Jake, and many of the other inhabitants of the Land of Ooo will find their way to the Distant Lands for the new short series.  “The enchanted world of Adventure Time has mesmerized viewers and critics alike as Finn and…
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06 May

Tom Cruise and Elon Musk Plan First Movie Shot in Space

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Tom Cruise is one of those actors of a certain age we like to call “the last movie star.” That’s because he can generally still open a movie, often massively so when he’s playing Ethan Hunt. But whether or not he’s the “last movie star,” he’s certainly about to be the first to truly reach heights out of this world… and potentially beyond our orbit. That’s the takeaway from news via Deadline that Cruise is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to make the first big budget narrative fiction that will film in the actual vacuum of space. While details remain…
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30 Apr

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Based on the international bestseller by economist Thomas Piketty, this documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future. [Kino Lorber]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: May 01, 2020
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28 Apr

Watch Brie Larson’s First Day as Captain Marvel

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It’s hard to imagine what Brie Larson‘s first day of filming as Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel might have been like—and now we don’t have to. During the Avengers: Endgame quarantine watch party that directors Joe and Anthony Russo hosted on Twitter last night in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the film debuting in theaters, the filmmakers shared some incredible behind-the-scenes snapshots and videos from the making of the movie. One of the best? A video of Larson’s first day on set as Captain Marvel. The video is a particularly interesting one because this isn’t just the first time…
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12 Mar

Why Bloodshot is Vin Diesel’s First Starring Superhero Role

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With a number of successful film series on his resume – the Fast and Furious movies, the Riddick trilogy and even a couple of xXx entries — Vin Diesel is practically a franchise unto himself. Yet, his voice work as Groot in four Marvel Cinematic Universe movies aside, Diesel has somewhat surprisingly never played a lead superhero in a movie ripped right out of the pages of a comic book. Until now. Diesel stars in Bloodshot, an action thriller based on the Valiant Comics title about a technologically enhanced super soldier who struggles to remember his past life and keep…
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05 Mar

First Cow Review

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There are few better metaphors for American capitalism than the faintly satirical (and deeply bittersweet) conflict at the heart of Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow. Ostensibly a story about friendship between Cookie (John Magaro) and King Lu (Orion Lee) in early 19th century Oregon territory, the title of the film actually refers to a prized bovine living near their rudimentary fort. Not that the cow belongs to the cook or the Chinese immigrant. Rather it’s the property of a gilded moneyman (Toby Jones). With affected airs of decidedly non-American origin, Jones oozes entitlement as he devours a cake made by Cookie…
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03 Mar

First Cow

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A taciturn loner and skilled cook (John Magaro) has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) also seeking his fortune; soon the two collaborate on a successful business, although its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Mar 06, 2020
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