Dave Bautista's body has always been his instrument. Just how do the special-effect magicians of Marvel transform a titan of the ring into an extraterrestrial soldier of fortune? The answer involves a lot more dental fakery, time in the sauna, and prosthetic sheeting than you might guess.
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Steve Martin's recent absence has left us pining for the good old days when he was a regular fixture on the big screen, and wondering how an international superstar can disappear from cinemas so quickly. Quite easily, as it turns out. Here's what happened -- and why.
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Joker is the most talked-about film of the fall — and its star gave a few lucky fans even more to talk about. The Saturday after the film's opening, Joaquin Phoenix stopped by several Los Angeles-area Alamo Drafthouse screenings to hang out, chat with fans, and take a few pictures.
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A breakout Broadway star may be making his way from the stage to the sea. Daveed Diggs — who won a Tony Award for his dual role in Hamilton — is reportedly in talks to join Disney's live-action Little Mermaid remake. Diggs is said to be up for the voice role of Sebastian the crab.
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Iron Man has defended the actual universe plenty of times, but now, he's defending the Marvel Cinematic Universe's good name. In a recent interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Robert Downey Jr. addressed filmmaker Martin Scorsese's recent comments about what he really thinks of Marvel films.
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Laurie Strode actress Jamie Lee Curtis recently took to Twitter to share the first look at herself in character for Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, the upcoming sequels that are filming back to back. If the photo is to be believed, life is certainly not going to get any easier for Laurie.
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Are the Goonies actually saying die? Original Goonies actor Corey Feldman, who portrayed Clark "Mouth" Devereaux in the 1985 adventure-comedy, has stated that The Goonies 2 isn't happening, despite recent rumors (and his own comments) that have suggested the opposite.
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Unfortunately, being introduced to Jean-Luc Picard as such a storied character from the get-go meant that his history was easy to lose in the shuffle. At long last, we're here to face that oversight head on with Captain Picard's backstory explained. Engage!
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There are a whole lot of dumb things in Gremlins that everyone ignored, and continue to ignore, for good reason. After all, it's a genuinely special film. But with every rewatch, all of those dumb little moments get louder and way more obvious.
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In a profile with The New York Times, former Bruce Banner actor Edward Norton revealed that he pitched to Marvel not one but two movies centered around the Hulk — films that would be dark, gritty, and evocative of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (which spurred sequels in 2008 and 2012).
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Today, The Goonies is looked upon as a classic. But there's a problem with revisiting a childhood favorite later on on life, and there's just no way to ignore these dumb things in The Goonies any longer.
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Arthur Fleck's biggest joke just might be the one he pulled on you. Joker director Todd Phillips recently made a few very interesting comments to the Los Angeles Times in regard to the final scene of the movie — comments which imply a bizarre truth about the nature of the story being presented.
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Marc Maron isn't laughing. After Joker director Todd Phillips made controversial comments about "woke culture" ruining comedy, Joker actor Maron has come forward to offer his thoughts on the argument. Unsurprisingly, Maron disagrees with Phillips' assessment.
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It's easy to blink and miss some of Woody Harrelson's most daring and most hilarious moments, both on and off the screen. Fortunately, we're here to fill in some of the lesser-known details of Harrelson's life and screen legacy. It's time for his entire story to be told.
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Numerous elements of the Batman mythos are given a makeover in Joker that makes everything feel more familiar to the real world, and in many ways more effective. Keep reading for our assessment of what Joker gets right that other Batman movies got wrong.
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Michael Jordan's year in the Birmingham Barons and Scottsdale Scorpions is getting the cinematic treatment.
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a masterpiece. As a result, some details in the film that seem out of place serve to illustrate the supernatural forces at work in the Overlook. But others can't be dismissed so easily. Here are a few dumb things in The Shining that we just can't ignore.
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As one of the biggest pop culture sensations of 2018, it makes sense that Marvel fans might want to rewatch Black Panther, revisiting their favorite Wakandans and experiencing Ryan Coogler's world over and over again. It also makes sense that they would wonder if the film is on Netflix.
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Sounds like the filmmaker is going to save Sony's long-embattled project.
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Oh my God, they're back again. Sony Pictures Entertainment has lifted the lid off the red-band trailer for Zombieland: Double Tap, the hotly anticipated Zombieland sequel that will hit theaters a full decade after the original. The footage reveals the return of an epic character from the 2009 film.
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Samuel L. Jackson is "laying his vengeance" upon a certain filmmaking legend after some pointed comments about Marvel movies. In response to Martin Scorsese's dismissive remarks about the quality of Marvel films, Jackson, known for his bombastic attitude and often profane language, kept a cool head.
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Joker's box office haul is no laughing matter. The Joaquin Phoenix-led film — which serves as a particularly dark origin story one of pop culture's most famous characters, the Joker — smashed a box office record with its opening weekend revenue.
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Director Todd Philips has been clear it was never his intention to adapt any specific comic when he directed Joker, and now that we can all see the film for ourselves, it's clear that he meant it. Here are some of the biggest ways Joker is different from the comics.
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Spooky season is officially upon us, and Netflix is kicking off the most frightful time of year with a film that promises scares in line with 2018's genre-smashing shocker Hereditary. Horror author Joe Hill recently said that Netflix's new flick In the Tall Grass is "Hereditary-level scary."
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Creating a unique take on the Joker was a bit of a moving target for Joaquin Phoenix. The actor recently sat down with the ReelBlend podcast to discuss the difficulties that he and director Todd Phillips had in nailing down the right characterization during the filming of Joker.
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Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is taking some time away from Wakanda for an intriguing new comic book project. Coogler will produce an adaptation of the comic book series Bitter Root for Legendary, basing it on the Image comics created by Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, and David F. Walker.
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Spider-Ham remained on the periphery of Marvel Comics for decades, but since the success of Into the Spider-Verse, the little sausage hero is making himself more and more visible in popular media. So, we think maybe it might be time for the untold truth of Spider-Ham.
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