Crime pays... at least, it does if you happen to be the Clown Prince. A breakdown by Variety revealed what the stars of the year's biggest movies were paid. While Joaquin Phoenix's salary for Joker wasn't in line with your average lead in a comic book film, it was nothing to laugh at, either.
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Since the release of Avengers: Endgame, various members of its creative team have revealed moments that were cut to preserve the three-hour film's pacing. Among these sequences was a moment co-writer Christopher Markus called "the biggest amount of star power" to ever be cut in film history.
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Avengers: Endgame will go down in history as one of the most enormous movies of all time, but you might not realize just how huge it was until you realize that the cast could barely even all fit onscreen at the same time. Only two scenes in the three-hour film featured the cast in its entirety.
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The Mandalorian declared its intention to hit its audience with twists and turns aplenty with its first episode alone, and episode 2 — titled "The Child" — effectively doubled down on that notion. Its ending had our jaws on the floor, and we're champing at the bit to unpack all of its implications.
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Arrows are set to fly when Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye spinoff series hits the Disney+ streaming platform in 2021, but it turns out there was originally a very different plan for Marvel's bow-loving Avenger — to give Clint Barton his moment in the cinematic sun via a feature film.
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Great Scott! How did it take us so long to spot this sly little wink to Back to the Future Part II in Avengers: Endgame? Dozens of fan-service treats have been discovered by the MCU faithful, but there was a fairly glaring nod to the 1989 classic hidden in plain site this whole time.
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The latest chapter in Disney's chilliest saga is warming the hearts of critics. Reviews are rolling in for Frozen 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the Mouse House's 2013 instant classic Frozen, and the news is good, with the flick being hailed as a worthy addition to the Disney library.
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The climactic final battle with Thanos in Avengers: Endgame is one of the most monumental and ambitious scenes ever put to film. According to visual effects artist Matt Aitken, the Dark Elves — who last appeared in Thor: The Dark World — almost made an appearance during that final melee.
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The sound you just heard was the entire Disney+ launch team smacking themselves in the heads while projecting a collective "Doh!" into the stratosphere, due to Disney's decision to screen The Simpsons on Disney+ in the widescreen aspect ratio — resulting in portions of the picture being lost.
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The Little Mermaid finally has its leading man lined up. After months of speculation, Rob Marshall's live-action remake has found its Prince Eric: British-born actor Jonah Hauer-King. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the casting decision came down to Hauer-King and Krypton's Cameron Cuffe.
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The cat's out of the bag about why Black Panther had such a brief fight sequence in Avengers: Endgame. The hero was one of a countless number that needed to be featured, and they all bore the task of driving the final fight toward that climactic confrontation between Thanos and Iron Man.
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If there is one thing the Star Wars original trilogy is known for, it's that it is constantly changing and evolving — constantly, some would say, finding new ways to tarnish its own legacy. Now, Disney+ has changed the Star Wars scene where "Han shoots first" yet again.
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Sonic has embraced his plushy roots in the newest trailer for the upcoming live-action film Sonic the Hedgehog. With the old trailer scrubbed from the web, the version featuring the newly re-designed Sonic has taken its place, and with it has sprung up a brand new debate about Sonic's design.
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Well, it's here at last, and The Mandalorian's first episode has delivered more lore and backstory than we think anyone could have reasonably anticipated — along with an exciting final twist. Let's dig into this twist, and contemplate where The Mandalorian might take us over its next seven episodes.
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Avengers: Endgame tugged on our heartstrings plenty — but a deleted scene would have straight-up yanked on them. The scene in question, recently made available on Disney+, depicts Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) visiting an ethereal afterlife immediately after his universe-saving snap.
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Principal photography on Marvel's Eternals has begun in Spain, and with filming comes paparazzi, especially since such a high-profile tabloid personality like Angelina Jolie is involved. Set photos reveal the first look at Jolie in character as the Eternal named Thena.
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As a franchise, Scooby-Doo has had a number of iterations over the years. The famous scaredy-dog and his human pals are getting their biggest makeover yet in the upcoming computer-animated film, Scoob! — and it reveals how Scooby-Doo really got his name.
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Marty and Marvel are still fighting. Legendary director Martin Scorsese, whose new film The Irishman is winning critical raves, infamously had a few choice words about the artistic merit of Marvel's cinematic universe back in November. Now, Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige has weighed in.
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You can probably see the scenario now: Commissioner Gordon ascends to the roof of the Gotham Police Department and turns on the Bat-Signal to summon the Dark Knight. But what if that's not actually the signal's purpose? What if it is, in fact, intended as a warning to Gotham's criminal element?
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Disney is making some much-needed changes to some of its most outdated material. According to CNBC, in advance of the launch of Disney+, the entertainment giant is scrubbing some specific films and scenes from its collection in an effort to excise some material that might not play well in 2019.
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It's been five years since Frozen first snowed over theaters, but the sequel is finally almost here. In a recent interview, co-directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, along with producer Peter Del Vecho, explained that making Frozen II was "arguably more challenging" than the original.
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The current cut of Wonder Woman 1984 might be anything but wonderful. The website Cosmic Book News is reporting that one of its sources caught a test screening of the film, and that as it stands, it's shaping up to be a complete disaster. If the report is accurate, it'll be no simple fix.
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The Doctor is in... trouble. The Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, which functions as a direct sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shining, tanked at the box office over the Veteran's Day weekend. The only thing resembling a silver lining: it wasn't alone.
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Has the plot of the next DC movie been... emancipated? Reddit user Slade_Wilson recently took to the subreddit r/DCEUleaks to post a blow-by-blow account of the entire plot of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), along with detailed character descriptions.
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Disney+ is almost here — and with it, a trove of sweet original content for early adopters to check out. The new streamer, which will rival Netflix in terms of the sheer depth of its library, will offer a plethora of original TV series and movies when it drops on Tuesday, November 12.
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Wubba-lubba-dub-wha?!? After waiting ver two years for a new season of Rick and Morty, fans were shocked by the most recent trailer's implication that season 4 would consist of a scant five episodes. Are we being trolled, or is the series' fourth season really going to be that short?
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It turns out that becoming an instant icon isn't always the greatest thing for a child's psyche. Emma Watson, who was cast as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series at the age of nine, recently opened up to British Vogue about her struggle with guilt over having landed the plum role.
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