No matter how hugely successful or influential a movie star becomes throughout his or her career, most of them have at least one project that got away. In the midst of award-winning performances and scene-stealing turns, some actors would still love to have another shot at roles they rejected.
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The Avengers weren't Natasha Romanoff's first makeshift family. During the 2020 Super Bowl on Sunday, February 2, Marvel Studios dropped a 30-second TV spot for its upcoming film Black Widow — the superhero standalone starring Scarlett Johansson as the titular character.
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It's one thing to make a good movie — it's another to make history. And the films on this list all reshaped the Academy Awards. From animated flicks to horror films, here are the Best Picture nominees — and the artists involved — that made Oscar history.
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The rehabilitation of the DC Extended Universe continues. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has screened for critics, and while there is still an embargo on formal reviews, they're taking to social media to heap praise on the film.
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There's a good reason why Birds of Prey will be DC's its first live-action — and R-rated — female-driven team-up title. Margot Robbie recently detailed the half-decade fight to bring her iconic Batman villain Harley Quinn to the big screen — in Birds of Prey rather than Gotham City Sirens.
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Tolkien drew heavily from real-life inspirations in creating his fantasy world and its citizens battle between forces of light and darkness. There is one ring to rule them all, indeed, but who's "them"? Here's a breakdown of all the different beings in Lord of the Rings explained.
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The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the Transformers franchise is going back to the shop and swapping out parts for a reboot of the film series. Paramount has hired James Vanderbilt and Joby Harold to write entirely separate scripts. The studio intends to produce them in tandem.
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Danielle Moonstar, aka Mirage, was born with psychic abilities, but it’s her leadership skills and tenacity that make her such an important part of the New Mutants. To learn more about her backstory — including her run-in with a demonic bear — keep reading for the untold truth of Mirage.
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Illyana Rasputin, aka Magik, is part-demon queen, a powerful sorceress, sister to a classic X-Men hero, and a star of 2020's The New Mutants. To learn more about this powerful mutant, keep reading to learn the untold truth of Magik.
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The Rhythm Section has hit theaters, and inquiring minds would like to know if the band continues to play on after the credits. The flick could very well be the beginning of a new franchise for star Blake Lively and director Reed Morano, who has acquitted herself nicely in her first feature effort.
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These are all the juicy hidden details we've discovered in Robert Burnett's breakdown for the script of Star Wars: Episode IX, long before it was renamed The Rise of Skywalker.
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Beer sales are up, loyalties are being tested, and a nation is braced for a brutal, battle royale for the ages. No, it's not the upcoming election cycle that's got folks on edge this — it's Super Bowl LIV. Here are the biggest movie trailers rumored to air during the 2020 Super Bowl.
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The Matrix movies are so packed with meaning that every line seems to carry deeper import than moviegoers noticed upon first viewing. In that spirit, we're looking at some of the most memorable lines from the Matrix films that have more way meaning than anyone realized.
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Peter Saarsgard may be taking another villainous turn for DC. A recent press release issued by studio Warner Bros. has revealed the name and profession of the actor's character in writer-director Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman: he'll be playing Gil Colson, Gotham City's District Attorney.
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Battinson is doing a little backtracking. The star of writer-director Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman reversed course on an assertion he's made a couple of times in recent months: that Batman isn't actually a superhero. Of course, he did so in typically cheeky fashion; he is, after all, British.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduced to the screen a version of Gwen Stacy who lives in an alternate universe where she was bitten by the radioactive spider instead of her best friend Peter Parker, and she instantly endeared herself to moviegoers. Will Spider-Gwen ever get her own movie?
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If you still cringe thinking about how Leia kissed Luke in The Empire Strikes Back, just know that it could have been so much worse. Thanks to a deleted scene that was released on Disney+ in November 2019, we know that the relationship between Luke and Leia almost got even more romantic.
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Sunspot has been a New Mutant, an X-Man, one of the earliest additions to X-Force, and one of the very first New Mutants to be recruited into the Avengers. He's even led his own Avengers team, something few alumnus of Xavier's School for Gifted Children can say.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness might be down a director for the moment, but casting on the hotly anticipated sequel is still underway. And if the latest rumor surrounding the Doctor Strange sequel is to be believed, a powerful new ally might join the good doctor in his adventures.
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These Birds of Prey actors are already ruffling some feathers. Ewan McGregor and Chris Messina, two stars of the new DC Comics film about Harley Quinn and her roving band of misfits, have upset some fans by potentially "queerbaiting" audiences.
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Looks like The Rhythm Section is hitting all the wrong notes. Blake Lively's newest thriller casts her as a woman whose entire family dies in a tragic plane crash with no apparent explanation. For better and worse, here's what some of the country's top critics think about Lively's latest effort.
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There are plenty of movies out there that leave audiences scratching their heads when the credits start to roll. But you know a film is truly confusing when even actors don’t understand the endings of their own movies.
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Cameras are officially rolling on The Batman. Matt Reeves took to Twitter to share an image of his Bat-clapboard, along with a caption reading simply "#DayOne #TheBatman." While photos from the flick's London set have previously leaked, it was apparently just this week that shooting began.
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In the past 20 years, actor Vince Vaughn has dabbled as often in blockbuster fare as he has in complex indies and austere dramas. It should come as little surprise then that the actor will continue to keep mixing dramatic projects with comedies for the foreseeable future.
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Cyclops is looking forward to his next project. James Marsden, who previously Scott Summers in past X-Men films, said he's ready to make the leap into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the mutant group prepares to shift from Fox's film universe to Marvel's.
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Shocking literally nobody, Disney dominated the decade. More surprising is that many years found one movie winning domestically, while a completely different film took the throne worldwide. What movies made the list? You may be surprised.
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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel series is on its way. But what are fans supposed to do until then? Well, start watching some of the best shows that will fill that LOTR-sized hole in your heart, from modern TV series to fantasy classics.
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