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Long before Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien’s work made its way to the screen in animated form, first in 1977’s The Hobbit and then in 1978’s The Lord of the Rings and 1980’s The Return of the King. So in a sense the new Lord of the Rings movie, The War of the Rohirrim, is a return to the franchise’s roots, at least onscreen. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, the movie serves as a prequel to the Jackson trilogy. (He is also involved in the film as an executive producer.) It’s set almost 200 years before the films in the location that’s known as Helm’s Deep; essentially ...
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Ryan Reynolds has revealed the third Deadpool movie nearly became a budget road trip comedy. Several ideas were touted, including a movie of Reynolds’ superhero, the alter ego of Wade Wilson, and his taxi driver Dopinder (Karan Soni), and the antics they get up to, but they ultimately decided to do the Deadpool & Wolverine movie. The 47-year-old actor told Entertainment Weekly: “Literally, it was a $5 or $6 million budget with no special effects.” “It was just a talkie-talkie road trip with me and [Karan Soni’s character] Dopinder and some of the things we collected and saw along the way. It w...
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Beverly Hills Cop became the most successful cinematic showcase for Eddie Murphy’s talents, but it wasn’t designed for him. It was conceived as a straight-forward Sylvester Stallone vehicle, and it remained that way until just a few weeks before filming began, when Stallone dropped out and Murphy subbed in at the last minute. The conceit wound up working better with Murphy than it ever could have with Stallone, because as an Eddie Murphy movie, Beverly Hills Cop’s text and metatext fell perfectly into sync. Instead of Stallone in yet another macho cop movie, BHC became Eddie Murphy in a Sylves...
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Sometimes it’s all about nostalgia and I totally went down that road watching the 1997 block buster, award-winning Good Will Hunting, arguably one of the best movies of all time about a gifted janitor working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Like so many of us, we Google things about movies we’re watching and while doing that, I came across this absolutely hilarious gem of a fun fact from this Ben Affleck and Matt Damon film. Matt started writing Good Will Hunting as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. Matt got his best friend Ben involved i...
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Everywhere Maxine goes, men recognize her — but only men. No wonder; Miaxine is a porn star and men are her target audience. But recognition by skeezy dudes is not what Maxine craves. She wants to be really famous. She often repeats a mantra: “I will not accept a life I do not deserve.” And Maxine is firmly convinced that she deserves more. One wonders whether there is a little of Maxine’s creator, Ti West, in that sentiment. In his latest film about her — his third to date featuring his smoldering starlet, Mia Goth — West has a frustrated horror director, played by Elizabeth Debicki, announce...
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No consensus is unanimous. For proof of that statement, look no further than the list of 30 films below, drawn from the hundreds — even thousands in some cases! — of half-star reviews on Letterboxd for some of the most beloved films in the history of cinema. (A half-star is the lowest-possible rating on Letterboxd, by the way; there is no zero star option.) As you browse through these 30 reviews, you will notice that I have blacked out the names of these Letterboxd users. That’s because I do not want you to race off to yell at the people who wrote these reviews. That’s not what this is about. ...
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Kevin Costner’s new film Horizon: An American Saga is not off to a great start — at least, according to box office numbers. In its opening weekend, the first installment of the four-part series brought in just $11 million. It’s a low number, given the project’s budget was nearly ten times that at $100 million. How Did Horizon Perform at the Box Office?Horizon arrived in theaters on Friday, June 28 and finished third among movies that were available the weekend of June 28-30. Inside Out 2 brought in $57 million in its third week and A Quiet Place: Day One opened in second with $53 million. Rela...
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Can’t wait to watch the new Beverly Hill Cop? You can already stream the opening scene online. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F marks the first Beverly Hills Cop movie in 30 years, since the poorly received Beverly Hills Cop III. In between producers tried making a Beverly Hills Cop TV show that never made it to the air (it would have starred Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley’s son, with Eddie Murphy playing Axel in a cameo role) and about a billion different versions of this fourth film. The version we finally got that’s now coming to Netflix features Murphy back as Axel in a lead role, now in his 60...
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2024 has its first mega-blockbuster, and it is Pixar’s Inside Out 2. After the final weekend of June, Inside Out 2 has grossed $1.014 billion worldwide; $469 million in the United States and $545 million throughout the rest of the world. That makes it the first movie of the calendar year to cross $1 billion at the global box office. Obviously that also makes it the top-grossing movie of the year to date. The #2 film is Dune: Part Two which has grossed a relatively puny $711 million worldwide. Inside Out 2 is also the first movie to gross $1 billion worldwide since last summer’s biggest hit Bar...
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The first images of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator IIare here, and with them we finally have a better sense of what this long-in-development sequel is all about. Previously we didn’t know much more than the fact that the film focused on the adult version of Russell Crowe’s character’s son from the original film. Crowe’s Maximus died at the end of the original Gladiator, one big reason it took over 20 years to put together a sequel.) Now played by Paul Mescal, Maximus’s son Lucius apparently “has a wife and child, and lives a relatively peaceful life with them until conquerors from his homeland begin...
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