Pat Morita very nearly didn't land his best-known role, at one point rounding out the very bottom of the list of potential candidates for the part. The producer, Jerry Weintraub, had his reasons to dislike Morita for The Karate Kid at first, though we're glad he came around in the end.
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Lamorne Morris can currently be seen playing the role of Keef Knight on the Hulu series Woke, based on the life of the real cartoonist Keith Knight. But when it comes to comic book movies, is there a superhero Morris would like to play? Looper asked him, and he had a very specific answer.
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Nicolas Cage may be a national treasure, but his film series bearing that title looks like it's stuck in limbo. Here's the real reason.
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Even the master of horror isn't immune to the quarantine stream. Throughout 2020, Stephen King has been tweeting about the Amazon Prime shows and movies that he's been watching while holed up at home. The prolific author has found lots to love about some of the streamer's most underrated offerings.
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A James Bond movie is only as good as its villain, and a Bond villain is only as good as his dialogue. We're here to take a look at every single Bond baddie's final words, from their desperate pleas to their most deranged threats. What do these words reveal about these fiends? Read on to find out.
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Moviegoers are a fickle lot, and there's no telling what movies will hit and what movies will fail. Here are the top 5 best and 5 worst years in box office history.
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From family drama to supernatural disasters, here are the most twisted weddings in movie history.
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Robert Downey Jr. seems like someone who has always been an A-list movie star. Far from it.
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With the debut of Netflix's Enola Holmes, the Sherlock Holmes universe is expanding, right along with the résumé of its producer and star Millie Bobby Brown. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Brown opened up about what it was like preparing for her Enola Holmes stunts.
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Thrillers, romantic dramas, period pieces — they're all represented here. Such range in box office hits has gone out of style for now, but that doesn't mean one can't indulge in some nostalgia for the biggest movies of this era. These are the highest grossing movies of the '90s.
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Shuri is Wakanda's princess, T'Challa's little sister, and the smartest person in the MCU. But there's a lot more to this brilliant scientist than meets the eye. We're here to reveal everything you don't know about Shuri, from her time as the Black Panther to her mystical new powers.
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You may not know it, but Morita's iconic character was, in fact, based on a real-life martial arts guru named Fumio Demura. A well-known presence on the L.A. martial arts scene, Demura helped Morita prepare for his turn in The Karate Kid. He also has a secret appearance in the movie.
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From alternate casting to behind-the-scenes drama, here's the untold truth of Misery.
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Sopranos fans were treated to excellent news in 2018 when a prequel film titled The Many Saints of Newark was announced. As with most productions that were filming early in 2020, however, things were thrown up in the air when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Now, eager fans are getting some good news.
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In an exclusive interview with Looper, stuntman-turned-director Mike Gunther revealed which sequence was the most complex and dangerous to capture in any of the three Rogue Warfare movies.
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As iconic as the James Bond series' protagonist is, there's an equal amount of fan interest in his many enemies over the years. In No Time to Die, he'll face Rami Malek's Safin. Here's why the character could be one of Bond's most perilous challenges yet.
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Westerns were well and truly dead when Dances With Wolves debuted -- and then, suddenly, the genre was resurrected. We're here to examine how Kevin Costner's groundbreaking film revived stories of the frontier for a whole new generation, and led to work like Brokeback Mountain and True Grit.
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Read on to learn more about Boone's efforts to shine a light on the complexities that parallel the teenage years while still creating a movie that resonates with viewers of all ages — and offer some thrilling action in the bargain.
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Based on Nancy Springer's YA book series The Enola Holmes Mysteries, this movie takes a feminist approach to the traditionally male-dominated tales of Sherlock Holmes. It isn't until partway through the film that we realize just how closely that theme ties into Eudoria's disappearance.
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The story of Alita: Battle Angel centers around Alita (Rosa Salazar) and features some pretty badass future technology -- most pieces from before the apocalyptic Fall. One such piece of technology comes in the form of an infamous weapon, the Damascus Blade. Here's this mysterious weapon's origin.
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During a recent press conference, Looper heard from the X-Men spin-off's stars what it was like shooting on location at an old psychiatric institution — in this case, the former Medfield State Hospital in Boston — and how the set itself created several spooky moments.
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Fans of Ratched don't have to wait another year or two to get another peek into the show's world. Instead of going crazy waiting for more of Nurse Ratched, you can simply turn on a classic Jack Nicholson film that's now available on Netflix: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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The wattage of the fall movie season just got significantly lower. Near the beginning of the forever year known as 2020, Disney made the decision to push Marvel's hotly-anticipated standalone Black Widow film from May to November, due to COVID-19 concerns. Now, it's getting pushed again.
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Along with Black Widow's latest delay comes a scramble to rework Marvel's film slate for 2021. We can now expect a longer wait for both Eternals and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, a delay which breaks a streak Marvel Studios has held for over a decade.
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Bond fans certainly can cherry-pick their favorites. But there's really only one way to view these adventures as the work of one semi-ageless operative -- and it's not in chronological order. You've been watching James Bond movies all wrong, and here's why.
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We've seen a lot of versions of Sherlock Holmes over the decades, but Enola Holmes takes a different approach, focusing instead on Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock's younger sister. Are we ever going to get an Enola Holmes 2? Let's see if we can deduce the answer to this mystery.
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Perhaps the best part of Get Out is how layered Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning script really is, from its numerous references and its subtle Easter eggs to tiny moments you only notice upon a second viewing.
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