After the live-action Mulan remake was shuttled to Disney's exclusive streaming service due to COVID-19, which is keeping lots of movies out of theaters outright, subscribers were dismayed to discover that they would have to pay $29.99 to watch the film on top of their monthly $6.99 subscription.
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When Chadwick Boseman's death was announced on Friday, August 28, 2020, the world was shocked. Robert Downey Jr., one of Boseman's many MCU co-stars, had truly special things to say about Boseman and his significance in both the mammoth Marvel universe and the world at large.
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Buckle up, Bond fans — the latest trailer for No Time to Die promises one heck of a fun ride, and an appropriately slam-bang send-off for star Daniel Craig. The twenty-fifth Bond picture will be the fifth and final go-round for Craig, who stepped into the role beginning with Casino Royale in 2006.
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It's no secret that the film industry is a constantly evolving beast. For some, the decision to dedicate their time to other ventures comes easy, and backing out of the limelight in favor of passion projects is a welcome change of pace. Just ask Matthew Broderick.
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Little has been said beyond the basics about the plot of Tenet ahead of time, but the film sports an absolutely stellar cast. That includes Clémence Poésy, the actress who plays Laura in the film. Here's where you've seen her before.
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Leading up to the film's release, IMAX has put out a behind the scenes look at the making of Tenet, presented in glorious, um, 1080p.
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Exploding onto the streaming service with upwards of eight but fewer than ten positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, The Debt Collector 2, also known as The Debt Collectors, cracked Netflix's Top 10 most-watched offerings in early September of 2020. Here's the story behind this surprise hit.
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In director Josh Boone's The New Mutants, the titular group is comprised of five teenagers with superpowers who find themselves in nightmarish digs. At a recent press conference for The New Mutants, Boone and the cast reflected on how it felt to be back in the teen years while making the film.
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It must be the most powerful line of dialogue in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it wouldn't have happened if not for Boseman.
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We don't know a lot about Ant-Man 3 right now. We know it will be a part of MCU Phase 5. We know that Peyton Reed is back to direct, and we also learned that scriptwriting will be handled by Rick and Morty writer Jeff Loveness. Recently, however, we got a little more news from Peyton Reed.
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In 1983, just a few months after the release of Octopussy, there came Never Say Never Again, a competing Bond film from a different production company. How could this happen? It's a strange story, the roots of which can be found in the production of the fourth Bond film, 1965's Thunderball.
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Some people drop truth bombs; John Boyega prefers truth napalm. The talented and outspoken star, who appeared in all three Star Wars sequel films as rogue stormtrooper Finn, had a few choice comments about his experience working on the franchise during a recent conversation with British GQ.
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Distributed by Sony Pictures under their Columbia banner, Greyhound was all set up for a wide theatrical release in March of 2020. Then, like everything that isn't Tenet or The New Mutants, it surrendered to current events and went straight to Apple TV=. Now, it's a hit.
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One kiss might be the last time two lovers are together, and another may be loaded differently — perhaps as a way to release some deep-seated anger. Darker emotional complexities are just as limitless as festive occasions for smooching. Here are some onscreen examples of kisses that inspire sadness.
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Throughout the entire film, Pacino proves why he's one of the greatest actors of his generation as he imbues Hoffa with a real, nuanced humanity even while portraying him as the larger-than-life figure he really was. This scene, however, is a particular standout.
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Society's needs have evolved since The Exorcist, and explosions of pre-chewed food are now the rule, not the exception. Crowds want to watch Idris Elba's mouth transform into a firehose of semi-digested pork and orange juice. Here's how Hollywood makes that happen.
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The MPAA continues to reign supreme, with final, largely arbitrary say over what is and isn't fit for the consumption of general audiences ages 13 and older. And where there's rules, there's almost always some "artiste" figuring out a way around them.
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Seventeen years after making his directorial debut with Undefeated, John Leguizamo is back behind the camera for his first turn as a feature film director with Critical Thinking. He recently spoke with Looper in an exclusive interview, revealing why making the film was so important to him.
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Plenty of words can be used to describe Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world-famous detective: brilliant, eccentric, flawed, intense, and — as his partner Dr. John H. Watson describes him in the short story "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" — bohemian.
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We're taking a look at the funny, heartbreaking, action-packed moments in the MCU to find the most iconic scenes from each movie.
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1985 marked the end of an era. Roger Moore was seven films deep into his run as James Bond, the secret agent repeatedly voted "undercover operative most likely to just tell everybody his name right off the bat." A View to a Kill, that year's release, had all the earmarks of a classic 007 adventure.
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The half-life of the public's adulation is astonishingly brief. All in all, it took roughly a decade for John Belushi's life to travel the parabola of fame.
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Chadwick Boseman's death, first announced by his Twitter account on August 28, 2020, shocked the world. The loss was made all the more tragic by the revelation that he had filmed no less than seven of his movies while privately fighting colon cancer.
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It's been a long, torturous wait for James Bond fandom, but it appears we might actually be laying eyes on the legendary franchise's 25th film in the very near future. Thank the new poster for the tip.
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No actor always makes the right choices, and even one as acclaimed as Mr. De Niro is no exception. He's one of the most talented stars of his generation, but he's been known to pick a dud project here and there — and some of those low points are pretty darn low.
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Written and directed by relative newcomer Abba Makama, the film is entitled The Lost Okoroshi. It premiered to raves at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and if that wild setup sounds at all intriguing, you should know it's due to make its Netflix debut on September 4, 2020.
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In the recently released comic book horror movie The New Mutants, Henry Zaga portrays Roberto da Costa, aka Sunspot. In an exclusive interview with Looper, Zaga opened up about what it was like bringing Sunspot — a mutant from Brazil who can manipulate solar energy — to life.
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