Based on English author Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is one of the few successful movies to never get a sequel. But some newly publicized documents from Burgess show that the story and characters of A Clockwork Orange remained in his mind for years.
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Ready to go back to Derry? The first trailer for It: Chapter Two has arrived, and it looks like writer-director Andy Muschietti might just pull it off again. Though most of the clip is devoted to one scene, the Stephen King faithful will be able to identify a few small details you might have missed.
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Before Avengers: Endgame opened in theaters, fans were frothing at the mouth to find out what happened in the film. Now that the movie is two weeks into its theatrical run, Marvelites want to know what's up next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We've got the answer thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Read MoreNo one who dies in Derry ever really passes on. Warner Bros. Pictures has dropped the first official teaser trailer for It: Chapter Two, the highly anticipated follow-up to director Any Mushchietti's 2017 smash hit It, an updated adaptation of Stephen King's famous horror novel of the same name.
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It's been 27 years, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown hasn't gotten any more merry. So says It: Chapter Two's Bill Skarsgård, who pointed out a difference between the evil entity's encounters with the Losers' Club as kids and as adults: the first time, he was just hungry. This time, it's personal.
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Avengers: Endgame is nearing its top goal of becoming the highest-grossing movie ever, having cracked the second-place position and surpassed Titanic in global earnings. As of this writing, Avengers: Endgame has grossed a staggering $2.272 billion worldwide to beat out James Cameron's 1997 film.
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Of the six Infinity Stones, the Soul Stone is arguably the trickiest to wrap one's head around — particularly in regards to what happens if it's returned to the place from which it was taken. Thankfully, the writers of Avengers: Endgame have explained what happened to the Soul Stone in the film.
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With blockbusters taking up most of our attention, it can be easy to lose track of all the great movies sneaking by under the radar, but these 2018 fantasy movies are well worth seeking out.
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Marvel's culmination of a 22-movie journey is so long it's hard to imagine that anything got left on the cutting room floor or tossed into the writers' room wastebasket. Yet there's plenty of stuff that didn't make it on screen — here's what didn't end up in Avengers: Endgame.
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Ever since Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been rewarding patient viewers with extra scenes during and after the credits, and while most are entertaining, they have their ups and downs. From dusty deaths to lackluster love affairs, here are the 5 best and 5 worst MCU post-credits scenes.
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While name recognition is important, it's reverence, not recognition, that makes stars... and sells tickets. Yet despite a cultural shift from star power to brand power in recent years, many actors still command salaries bigger than the GDP of some states. What gives?
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It turns out that there's a reason that none of the MCU's more spoiler-prone stars were able to spoil the finale of Avengers: Endgame. In a recent interview, co-director Joe Russo revealed that multiple alternative, red-herring endings for Endgame were put to page.
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet — but the culmination of 11 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by a different title? Would it be as impactful? It's hard to imagine Avengers: Endgame bearing any other title, but it's totally true: the film was originally called something else.
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Amongst all the chatter about "fat Thor" in Avengers: Endgame, one person who has remained pretty quiet is Thor actor Chris Hemsworth himself. Thanks to directors Joe and Anthony Russo, we know how Hemsworth reacted to the news that Thor would sport a different physique in the film.
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Avengers: Endgame's opening night wasn't just marvelous — it was downright historic. The capper to Marvel's Infinity Saga raked in $60 million domestically in Thursday previews, edging out the $57 million posted by 2015's Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
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The Hulk has been a popular fixture in the MCU storyline for years. It wasn't until later films like Thor: Ragnarok and the third and fourth Avengers films, though, that the Hulk narrative was really let off the leash, and the effect was sensational.
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One of Marvel's heroes seems to keep getting the short end of the stick — and some fans aren't too happy about it. Avengers: Endgame has blown away audiences worldwide, but the Twitterverse quickly noticed that Okoye (Danai Gurira) got stuck with all of about a minute of screen time in the epic.
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Avengers: Endgame resolved a lot of questions that went unanswered after Avengers: Infinity War, but it didn't fully discuss the deaths of characters who died pre-Snap — namely Vision. Speaking during a recent Q&A event, director Joe Russo finally addressed Vision's fate.
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Avengers: Endgame featured the return of more than a few familiar faces, but one was particularly unexpected. Natalie Portman, who portrayed Jane Foster in Thor and Thor: The Dark World, briefly appeared in the flick — and the screenwriters said in an interview that it pretty much had to happen.
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Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man went through a profound journey in Avengers: Endgame and delivered a line that called back to the beginning of the Marvel movie franchise. As it turns out, though, that moment almost never happened. Downey Jr. didn't initially want to say Tony Stark's last major line.
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Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo has a few choice words for Oscar voters. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise of the film and Robert Downey, Jr.'s performance as Tony Stark — but if Russo were to have his way, the MCU's biggest star would take home an Academy Award for the flick.
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Avengers: Endgame shows the post-Snap trauma affecting the surviving heroes in different ways. Unfortunately, there has been serious backlash over how one particular character and his struggle with grief was portrayed in the film. Many are outraged over "fat Thor" in Endgame.
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It must have been a serious bummer to get aced out of one of the biggest films of all time. 13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford, announced to have been cast in a small role in Avengers: Endgame late last year, was nowhere to be seen in the final cut — and we now know why.
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Stan Lee is far from the only person to make a Marvel cameo. In fact, many of the most interesting cameos come from people you know but might not recognize.
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Avengers: Endgame is a marvel of storytelling, threading together plots from across 11 years and 11 franchises to tell its ambitious story. It's impressive to be sure, but is the execution perfect? No — not really.
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The tree-like hero Groot has muttered only a handful of words throughout his time in the MCU. But in his final line in Avengers: Infinity War, Groot said a little something more. Keeping up with what now seems a tradition, Marvel gave Groot another intriguing final line in Avengers: Endgame.
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After patching up plot holes and defending controversial scenes that divided Marvel fans, Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo made an intriguing comment about something from the film that could possibly make a return in future Marvel movies.
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