Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Movie Truth of the Day: Wish you could go to Hogwarts? Find out how much it would cost to attend the wizard school from the Harry Potter movies even with tuition technically being free: Movie Takedown of the Day: Speaking of harsh movie truths, Neil deGrasse Tyson was a champion of The Martian on social media last fall, but now he joins CinemaSins to highlight everything wrong with the Oscar-nominated sci-fi movie: Movie Science of the Day: Speaking of movie science, in the latest edition of Because Science, Kyle Hill answers the burning nerd question of whether Kylo Ren of Star Wars: The Force Awakens could use the Force to pick up Thor's hammer... Read More
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Alex Gibney is known for being a busy man. The Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and last year's controversial Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, tends to churn out at least a few documentaries every year, despite his claims that he'll slow down one of these days. Now he's adding something new and different to his plate: a narrative feature. According to Deadline, the prolific filmmaker is working with Lionsgate and producer Michael Sugar, who just won an Academy Award for Spotlight, on The Action. Interestingly enough, the script by Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!) appears to be based on a true story that was just recently told in a terrific documentary by Johanna Hamilton called 1971. Activists calling themselves the... Read More
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English remake of Inside lands a director – Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s Inside is one of the crown jewels of the all too short French New Wave horror movement. A harrowing tale of a pregnant woman stalked in her home, it’s intense, gory, visceral, and essentially (aside from a few logic issues) perfect. So, normally, news of a remake would be met with groans. However, this newly announced English language version could be interesting… Miguel Angel Vivas (who gave us the highly-entertaining film Kidnapped) will direct the update (which features a script from [Rec] filmmaker Jaume Balaguero) when it begins shooting in the very near future. Given that this doesn’t seem to be a traditional Hollywood-styled remake, and that Kidnapped certainly... Read More
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Back in 2005 Warner Bros. shelled out a lot of money to buy a script called Man-Witch. At various points it was set to star Jack Black or Zach Galifianakis and The Hangover's Todd Phillips had even been attached to direct it. Obviously those versions never came to pass -- pretty sure we'd all remember a Jack Black comedy called Man-Witch -- but Warner Bros. is still content to get their money's worth. This time they just may. The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons is currently in talks with the studio to not only produce the movie, but star in it as well. So what exactly is a Man-Witch? Turns out it's exactly what the title implies. Parsons would play a teacher who learns late in life that he actually has the powers of a witch. He seeks out others like him and in... Read More
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Joseph Kosinksi is no stranger to making trailers to hype up people. And we're not talking about standard trailers you put together once you're actually done with a movie. We're talking about a package put together out of thin air. That's what he did to land the job directing Tron: Legacy. Disney didn't quite know what they wanted to do with the project, so Kosinski begged them to give him just a little bit of resources to put together a test. The resulting footage blew away the studio and the movie got the green light. Since then Kosinski, who unsurprisingly got his start working in computer graphics, has been able to focus full time on his own feature film projects (his next movie is No Exit, a drama about firefighters), but every now and then he dips a... Read More
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When you name a movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and announce a sequel called Justice League before the first movie is even done filming, you're setting up expectations that major elements will carry over to its sequel. And yet that may not quite be the case with Zack Snyder's pair of superhero extravaganzas. There's no way to get into this without getting into spoilers for Batman v Superman, so... SPOILER ALERT The end of BvS finds two of its main characters seemingly down and out. Superman is dead, Lex Luthor is in jail. They're not down permanently, of course. Rarely is anything actually permanent in a superhero movie. General Zod died in Man of Steel and even he found a way into BvS. The movie already teases Superman... Read More
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The animated sequel to 2003s Finding Nemo has been a long time coming, but the more we hear about Finding Dory -- including brand new characters portraits, pictured here -- the more excited we are to finally see the movie for ourselves. By August 2013, we knew that the forgetful Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), pictured at top, would be searching for her family while Marlin (Albert Brooks) and son Nemo would be looking for her. We also knew that Dory's parents would be voiced by Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton, with Ty Burrell set to voice a comical beluga whale named Bailey. Two years later, we learned that Ed O'Neill would be voicing an octupus named Hank and Kaitlin Olson would be lending her voice to a whale shark named Destiny. Now we have the final... Read More
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Baywatch: Dwayne Johnson shared a first look at the entire cast of Baywatch. (Left to right: Jon Bass, Alexandra Daddario, Johnson, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera and Zac Efron.) Priyanka Chopra and David Hasselhoff also star; the movie will open in theaters on May 19, 2017. [Instagram] The Intouchables: Kevin Hart (Ride Along 2) and Bryan Cranston (Trumbo) are in talks to star in The Intouchables, a remake of a French-language movie released in 2011. The original comedy/drama centered on a paraplegic aristocrat who hires a caregiver from the projects. Paul Feig (Ghostbusters) wrote a new script; Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold) is attached to direct the remake. [Variety] Mid-90s: Jonah Hill will make his directorial debut with Mid-90s, based on his own... Read More
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One of the most beloved shows on cable is returning later next month, and whether you immediately thought of either "Game of Thrones" or "Inside Amy Schumer" will reveal whether or not you will enjoy the semi-spoilery joke at the heart of the new "Schumer" season four promo.
The clip features Amy Schumer in her best "Thrones" garb, riding a horse and proclaiming that she knows what happens to Jon Snow, the character who may or may not have been killed off on the HBO fantasy series. (And if you're at all a spoiler-phobe concerning "Thrones" news, you may want to stop reading now in case the comedienne's pronouncement is actually true.)
"No spoilers, but Jon Snow is definitely alive," Schumer says, "'cause he said no to doing our show."
We'd say that promising that Kit Harington won't show up on "Inside" could be considered a spoiler anyway (after his surprisingly hilarious turn in HBO mockumentary "7 Days in Hell," we think he'd be a perfect fit for the sketch series), but that's a minor quibble. Hopefully "Thrones" fans don't read too much into it.
Season four of "Inside Amy Schumer" premieres on Comedy Central on April 21.
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After the deadly serious action on display in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," can fans expect more of the same from this summer's "Suicide Squad"? Apparently not, as the film is reportedly undergoing reshoots to add more humor.
Birth.Movies.Death. reports that the flick is currently in the midst of some extensive reshoots (to the tune of "tens of millions of dollars"), injecting more jokes into the proceedings in response to reaction to the movie's trailer, which prominently featured Queen tune "Bohemian Rhapsody." According to the site's sources, "Every joke in the movie is in that trailer," and "The enormous positive response to the trailer led to Warner Bros requesting reshoots that would alter the tone of the film, bringing in some more of the lightness to which audiences responded."
That's in sharp contrast to "BvS," which rocked the box office despite critics complaining that the film was no fun. Studio Warner Bros. is apparently aware of that issue, and wants to course correct a bit for "Squad," per B.M.D., with the site writing that filmmakers aren't "inserting jokes left and right," but instead simply "beefing up fun character moments and interactions" to play to the audience's tastes.
Considering that the quirky "Squad" seems more in line with the similarly-humorous "Deadpool" than "BvS," it makes sense for the flick to adopt the former's tone. (And "Deadpool"'s huge box office is probably an incentive, too.) Birth.Movies.Death. also reports that WB is taking a more hands-on approach with the upcoming "Justice League: flick, too, so fans can probably expect that film to be a bit more lighthearted than "BvS" as well.
The new-and-improved "Suicide Squad" hits theaters on August 5.
Things are looking pretty bleak for Clarke Griffin on "The 100." She finally threw herself into a moment of romantic bliss with grounder leader Lexa, only to have her new love literally die in her arms after being struck by a fatal stray bullet.
It's been a period of pure agony for the show's fans -- including some very personal social media reactions by viewers who feel Lexa's death played into disappointing tropes applies to LGBT characters. It's been a tremendous opportunity for Eliza Taylor, the actress behind Clarke, to demonstrate her considerable effectiveness as an actress.
Chatting with Moviefone at WonderCon, Taylor offered hints at how Clarke will soldier forward in the wake of her devastating loss, plus some decidedly lighter behind-the-scenes tidbits, including an encounter with surprising celebrity super-fans and how the show's morphing her Aussie accent.
Moviefone: Dark times on the show!
Eliza Taylor: Yeah, a little bit!
Tell me about how Clarke carries on after the loss of Lexa.
It's very difficult. Obviously she's devastated. I think what's different about this is it's not necessarily something that's going to make her stronger. It's just going to change her. But the good thing is she has actually decided that Lexa is in this AI, and she is going to hopefully find a way to be in contact with her again.
So a little glimmer of hope is kind of nice for her to hold close.
She needs it. Otherwise, she's not going to be able to function or carry on with anything else that she's doing.
Is it a glimmer of hope for you as well?
Yeah, absolutely. Oh my God. I cry so much in this show. That'd be great.
How hard was the goodbye to shoot?
I cried, yeah. It was really difficult. There were lots of tears. But she's become one of my closest friends now, so I'm really happy about that. I'm so happy to have her in my life.
What are some of the things that Clarke throws herself into to keep moving forward? Can you give me a little hint of the road she goes down?
The main thing to worry about right now is whether or not Ontari will become the next commander. So all she is focused on is that not happening, and to get the AI as far away from her as possible.
How are her other relationships challenged by this turn of events?
She's got a lot to catch up on. She's been away for seven episodes. So she doesn't know really the extent of what's going on. So there's going to be a lot of standing up to certain people and a lot of reaching out to others.
What do you love about her at this point in the series?
I love her. Just her ability to carry on. I would definitely be like dead in a ditch somewhere. I don't have her strength and power. I love that I get to play that. It's made me stronger, for sure.
Obviously, some of the fans were not happy with the turn of events regarding Lexa. What's it like to have that dialogue with the fans, to hear what they're saying, and to have that very direct social media communication that your show has enjoyed with them all this time?
I think it's great. I mean, obviously it's been a little difficult recently because people are upset, and so they should be. But knowing that they have a voice that we can hear is pretty incredible. Ten years ago, we didn't have this. I was signing autographs and sending them in the mail. Now, people can ask you a question and you can answer them immediately. It's a powerful phenomenon.
This show is so addictive. Have you encountered some celebrity fans?
Oh yeah, definitely. It's crazy. I'm so glad. It's definitely a novelty for me at this point. John Travolta, actually. Last year I was at an Oscars party and he came up to me and was like, "I'm so sorry, but my daughter's such a big fan of the show." I took a photo with him and his daughter. Kelly Preston came over and she was like, "I'm so sorry to bother you." I was like, "Guys! It's totally fine!" It was amazing.
Do you have any fun behind-the-scenes rituals that you guys have gotten into over the past three seasons?
Yeah, I mean, in season one I had this thing called Sunday Classic where we would have all the cast over and I would cook everyone dinner. It was just like our family dinner every Sunday. But it became so popular that we had to sort of have a waiting list after a while because all the crew found out about it and they were like, "When are we coming over to Sunday Classic?" It was a really nice ritual to have. The last couple of seasons we've been so busy that we haven't been able to do it.
On the show, we never hear your charming Australian accent. How often does your accent slip at work?
A lot. Yeah, but I catch myself and I fix it. It's not a big deal, but yeah. It's weird -- I just adopted a weird hybrid. Like, my r's have gotten really hard. Stuff like that. My mom calls me and she's like, "Are you turning into an American?" She doesn't like it. But I can't help it. I'm surrounded by them!
Are there times when you find it coming out really strong?
Oh, yeah, definitely. And if I'm with other Australians, I start really talking like this. It's not cute.
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Even as "The 100" continues to attract an even bigger and more passionate following, executive producer Jason Rothenberg understands how, just like his characters, one has to be ready for just about anything around the corner.
The recent death of fan-favorite character Lexa -- a necessary evil needed to allow actress Alycia Debnam-Carey to accommodate her full-time gig on "Fear the Walking Dead" -- certainly provided a dramatic, tragic exit, but a disappointed contingent of fans who felt her demise played into certain storytelling tropes that too often befall LGBT characters made their displeasure known quite vocally via social media.
Rothenberg recognized their point and offered an apology, and now all parties seem ready to move forward with the more enjoyable task at hand: just what will "The 100" serve up next? While visiting WonderCon in Los Angeles, the showrunner offered some hints at the road ahead and shared his own experiences weathering dark moments.
Moviefone: The story has gotten pretty bleak of late. Does it get even lower, or are there glimmers of hope ahead?
Jason Rothenberg: It's a dark season. It definitely is. It's hard to say that it's possible to go lower than that for sure. But you know, there will be more death this season. A.L.I.E. wants to take everybody to the City of Light.
It's funny, the first half of the season was about civil wars, both in Arcadia and in Polis. Nobody was paying attention to the real problem, which was percolating over in Arcadia with A.L.I.E. That sort of rears its head in a big way coming up. Not in [Episode] Nine as much as in Ten and beyond, but I'm really excited for that part of the season to kick in.
I feel like that part of the story is there in people's minds, but it was always on the back burner and becomes the front story very soon. But there are some dark days ahead, both in that story in Arcadia because of Pike's continuing sort of fascism and desire for control and what he's willing to do to get order in his society. Right now, obviously, Kane is under the sword of Damocles. He's been sentenced to death. I feel like people need to be prepared for anything.
Are we going to see any new faces popping up?
Yes, there are some new faces, for sure. Ontari comes in and she messes things up in a big way. There'll be other new characters coming in certainly down the road that I can't really talk about that I'm excited for people to meet, that we've talked about for a couple seasons that suddenly we actually get to meet, which will be great.
Tell me about shifting allegiances or challenged relationships going forward. Who's going to find themselves struggling with their relationship with different characters?
Well, Bellamy obviously spent the first part of the season on the wrong side, I guess, depending on your perspective. Certainly, from the perspective of Octavia, and Kane, and Miller, and Harper, and all of the people that were sort of fighting against what Pike had stood for.
Now that he has kind of seen the light, I guess you would say, or certainly found a line that he wouldn't cross in terms of what Pike wants him to do and what he's willing to sort of stand by for, we'll see if his friends trust him again. I think that he is going to have a long, hard journey back into their sort of trust. Especially with his sister.
That's one of the saddest parts of the season in my mind, is that relationship between Bellamy and Octavia, which has always been such a pillar of the show, has really been tested. And it gets tested even more before it may or may not sort of come back to where we all I think want it to be.
When you do a season like this that goes in a particularly dark direction, what's the toll you pay writing it? How does it affect your real life?
I mean, I feel like it's interesting, especially living in the age of social media, where the bad things that happen in the show, I become sort of vilified for. The actors are generally still loved, which I think is important. It's a hard story for people. It's the story that we told this season.
In terms of how it affects me as a human being, my writing is always pretty dark. I think the show has always been pretty dark. It's, yes, darker this season for sure. But it's always been something that I've had to sort of step away from and be with my kids, and try and find a way to live a normal, healthy, happy life and not it consume me.
Do you feel like everybody who was upset about the Lexa issue has made peace at this point?
I don't know, honestly, what the answer to that is. I feel like this is an ongoing situation. I feel like I'm grateful that I was the center of this so that I could understand it. It would have taken me, at first, I didn't get it and I worked really hard in trying to take myself out so I could hear what was being said.
I have learned a lot from it, and for sure will apply these lessons going forward in terms of being not just a better showrunner, or course, but also a better writer and more in tune with what my audience is reacting to, and I think a better person too. I think as the father of two kids, this has been a teaching moment for them and for me, because ultimately, I don't think it's weakness to apologize when, even if inadvertently, you've hurt somebody.
So that's sort of where I have come to. I never meant for the story to cross the line the way that it has for some people. Just because I didn't mean for it to happen, it happened, and I felt the need to apologize, and it took me a while. I wish I had gotten there sooner.
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Disney and director Jon Favreau are almost ready for you to see their live-action adaptation of "The Jungle Book." The film, out April 15, follows Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a "man-cub" who was raised by wolves. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'oplays Raksha, the mother wolf, and she's featured at the start of this exclusive sneak peek of the movie.
"This is a grand re-imaging of the classic tale," Nyong'o says, "and I'm excited for you to see the epic adventure on the big screen in a brand new way."
The clip itself is haunting, and almost scary, featuring young Mowgli alone in the jungle -- until he is joined by the mysterious python Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), whose alluring voice hypnotizes him. "I know what you are," Kaa says. "I know where you came from. Would you like to see?" He says yes, and the clip gives us -- and Mowgli -- a brief history of his life, showing how his father was killed by Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba), with the young child himself rescued by the panther Bagheera (voice of Ben Kingsley).
The rest of the sneak peek flashes through scenes from the movie, which also features the voices of Bill Murray, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Walken, Garry Shandling, Sam Raimi, and director Jon Favreau himself.
Lupita Nyong'o suggests seeing the movie in IMAX, but you'll have your pick of formats when Disney's "The Jungle Book" is released April 15th.Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook.
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"Survivor" has a history of being disgusting -- what with the players eating bugs and such -- but last night's "Survivor: Kaoh Rong," aka Season 32, was particularly hard to watch, and should've come with a "finish your dessert first" warning. It was merge time, which was good news, but toward the end of the episode, Jeff Probst showed up on the beach, which is always bad news. He had the medical crew go through the cast's various injuries, from the scabs inside Tai Trang's thigh to "Mount Saint Neal" on ice cream entrepreneur Neal Gottlieb's knee, and that creepy thing on his back.
Ultimately, Neal was pulled from the game, marking Season 32's second medevac. He was not happy about it, since -- unlike Caleb Reynolds, who was totally out of it when he was pulled from this same season a few weeks ago -- Neal felt fine. But he wasn't completely surprised that he was pulled and he told Parade he feels split on the merits of the call. (He'll still be on the jury.) However, the biggest question at the end of the episode was why he didn't give the idol he found to Aubry Bracco, his closest ally in the game. Was he allowed to do so? Yes. Here's what he told Parade about the decision he now regrets:
Pivoting away from the injury, let's talk about the idol. Why didn't you give it to Aubry, or anyone else for that matter? You said on Twitter that there's a story there. What's the story?
The night before, as you saw, there's this scene of Aubry and I sitting on the beach. I let her know that I have the idol. That conversation goes on for quite some time. At some point she says something along the lines of, "You know, I'll slit your throat if I have to." And at that point, I had a pretty good idea that I was going to be pulled from the game. So in my fragile emotional state, I just did not find any humor in that comment.
It was that, and then it was getting pulled. It's one thing to know you're going to get pulled, but when Jeff shows up and you're still in that game... when you're in the game, you always have hope that you're going to stay in it and find a way. I think I still had that hope until the doctor said, "We're pulling you from the game." Then it was just a few frantic minutes of saying goodbye. It was a crazy emotional state, where I'm just thinking, "What can I do about this? How can I fix this?" Because that's how you are in the game. There was also just a part of me thinking, "If I go home now, Aubry gets to live to see another day, and I'm going to have a family heirloom." But I instantly regretted it.
I was going to ask if you regret the decision.
I do. But also, they didn't show that as we were saying goodbyes... they edited my quote to the team. I stared them all down and said, "You guys are lucky... because I was going to beat every single one of you." And they knew it! But then Aubry and I walked around just a tiny bit, and I gave her my jacket. I put some things in the pocket of the jacket, that I pulled out of some other pockets in my pants. So [the others] didn't know whether or not I gave Aubry the idol. There's also the thought that sometimes the threat of an idol is even more powerful than the idol itself. Idols get played, but if you don't know if somebody has it or not, that threat can go on for some time.
So even though he regrets the decision, there's still the fear of the idol out there. Then again, if they assume Aubry has the idol and she doesn't, then they may try to flush it out and she's screwed. We'll see how this plays out next week.
Well, damn. Guess Tarzan and Jane like it rough. Margot Robbie and Alexander Skarsgard are two of the hottest people alive, and fans can see their characters get it on this summer in "The Legend of Tarzan." But sex scenes always sound awkward to shoot, even if they are meant to be steamy on screen. In this case, it's extra awkward to imagine David Yates, who directed the final four "Harry Potter" films, suggesting sex acts from afar.
"They're doing this love scene together, and I said [to Robbie], 'Just slap Alex while you're making love, just kind of give him a punch,'" Yates told Entertainment Weekly. "It was sort of an earthy, sensual moment of her enjoying sex with Alex, and the only bruise he picked up during the entire shoot was probably that punch from Margot. Which says a lot about her feistiness."
Sheesh, how hard did she hit him? We know they don't want her Jane to be a damsel in distress, but she doesn't need to go full Harley Quinn on him. And is it weird to think the same guy who suggested that bit of rough sex is the same one who directed Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, and company? Mrs. Dursley would be appalled. (Actually, she'd pretend to be appalled while leaning in and devouring every word.)
Witty is coming! Peter Dinklage is hosting "Saturday Night Live" for the first time on April 2, with Gwen Stefani as musical guest. Dinklage plays brilliant badass Tyrion Lannister on "Game of Thrones," which is launching its sixth season on April 24, and you can see the Emmy winner bring his sardonic humor to these SNL promos.
The series of clips just follow Peter and Cecily Strong looking out the window of the NYC building.
Check 'em out:
In the first clip, they note that it's a nice day outside. You know what spring means? Peter stares into the camera: "Summer is coming." But he and Cecily agree that it's not quite as scary as "Winter is coming," and Peter barely even attempts "Autumn is coming" before giving up.
In a more flirtatious promo, Cecily says the flags outside are very beautiful. Peter looks in her eyes and agrees. "They are very beautiful. You know what?" He takes her hand; she giggles. "They're almost as beautiful as ... Gwen Stefani. She is so fine. She's been, like, fine since the '90s." Jealous Cecily starts singing, "Don't speak..." until Peter sings, "Don't sing!"
Perhaps the best one is when they stare outside for a while, then suddenly realize it's NOT a movie screen, it's a window. "So this is not 'Superman v Batman'?" Then again, the last one is pretty great, too, with Cecily saying Peter may be shocked to hear it, but she's a "total" nerd, asking him, "You play Tyrone on Game of Thorns. How has that been for the past 10 years?" Peter bugs his eyes out in a classic "are you kidding me" face, then replies, deadpan, "Wonderful."
So far, so good, at least from here. Will you be watching the show this Saturday?
Jimmy Kimmel is known for having celebrities read mean tweets about themselves on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and last night he was that celebrity.
Jimmy said every time they have a presidential candidate on the show, non-supporters of that candidate blast him on social media, vowing to never watch him again. Jimmy read the Facebook posts they got after having Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton on the show. "Even my own uncle, my godfather even, castigated me on Facebook last week for having Hillary Clinton on. He said I embarrassed the family. As if I haven't embarrassed the family a million times before!"
Since Ted Cruz was a guest on the show last night, Jimmy said he was sure they'd "get another big furious reaction" to his appearance. "If half of everyone hates me when a Republican is on, and half of everyone hates me when a Democrat is on, it adds up to everyone hates me, right?"
Poor Jimmy. No, not everyone hates you. But why does he have politicians on the show, when he knows it causes a near-riot every time? As he argued, "To me, in order to decide who we should vote for, I think it's a good idea to listen to what all the main people running have to say."
And with such a loose, informal setting, and less react-to-the-headlines questions than you get on CNN and Fox News, Jimmy gets the politicians to show different sides of themselves. Maybe it doesn't effect anyone's votes at all, but at least we see them as more than talking heads on cable networks or standing at podiums surrounded by adoring supporters.
Here's Jimmy asking Sen. Cruz a bunch of random questions he never gets asked elsewhere, like about "Star Wars," his first concert, and who he likes better, Obama or Trump:
Disney movies have made us laugh and smile, but they've also sometimes scared all the crap out of us and had us sobbing like a baby.
We still haven't gotten over the death of Bambi's mother, and we still have night terrors over what happened to Mufasa (RIP). And then there are those terrifying villains with glowing eyes, like the Horned King from "The Black Cauldron."
Best turn the lights on and keep some tissues handy, as we revisit these disturbing moments in Disney movies.
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Remember when the Internet clutched its pearls in horror at the casting of Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman? The horror! Now, a week after the box office (if not critical) success of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," many fans -- possibly even some of the early Batfleck doubters -- are looking forward to seeing his Caped Crusader again, and asking about his own solo Batman film.
The Hollywood Reporter talked to Patrick Whitesell of WME-IMG, which represents Ben Affleck, to get details on the star's DC contract, and scoop on a potential standalone film.
"He's contracted to do at least Justice League One and Two, so at least three times wearing the cape," Whitesell said, adding, "there's a script that he's written that is a really cool [Batman] idea, so that's out there as an option."
Nice. You may recall the scoop last summer, around Comic-Con, when Deadline reported, "I'm told that Ben Affleck is teaming up with Geoff Johns to co-write a standalone Batman movie that Affleck will direct and star in after he completes his longstanding plan to helm his scripted adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel 'Live By Night.'" At the time, the thought was that they would turn in that script before the end of the summer.
Even if this standalone "Batfilm" gets the green light right away, it's hard to say when DC and Warner would schedule it for production and release. They have a pretty full slate going already. Whatever happens with the standalone, we won't actually have to wait for 2017's "Justice League" to see Affleck's Batman again. He's meant to have a cameo in this summer's "Suicide Squad," which comes out August 5.
Time to feel nostalgic about nostalgia. It's been 10 years since the end of "That '70s Show," or 36 years since the end of the actual 1970s. At any rate, it's been a long time since the teens of Point Place, Wisconsin passed their last dutchie around in Eric Forman's parents' basement. By that time, the show had run eight seasons (making it the second longest-running live-action sitcom in Fox history) and had made stars out of its previously unknown young ensemble players.
A decade later, two members of the circle, Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson, are having a TV reunion, co-starring as brothers on Netflix's new comedy series "The Ranch" (debuting April 1). Kutcher, of course, has been one of the higher profile alumni since "That '70s Show" wrapped; Masterson, not so much. If you're wondering what he and some of the other stars have been up to since they mothballed their bellbottoms, here's the groovy scoop.
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Warner Bros. is moving full steam ahead with their Dungeons & Dragons adaptation, hiring the perfect director, and they've also got their eye on a very specific sort of leading man.
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If there's one show on television that feels like it's never going to end, that show would have to be Supernatural, but stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles have some ideas for what should happen at the end of the road.
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Though he has become a big star thanks to the success of The Big Bang Theory, Jim Parsons has largely steered clear of the silver screen, but that's about to change in a big way.
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Because of its time setting, ensemble cast, and story approach, Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! i very clearly functions as a spiritual sequel to the great 1993 indie hit Dazed and Confused, but that isn't the only past work of Linklater's that had a big hand in the writer/director formulating new period comedy.
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Naked And Afraid is a show about being dropped off in the wilderness while wearing nothing but your birthday suit. The show airs on a cable network, Discovery, and is more about survival than sex. But there are gross moments, too.
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Ever wondered how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts? Well, it's probably a lot more than you ever could have imagined. I'm talking Bill Gates money.
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Square Enix and Tri-Ace have been sprinkling gamers with a little bit of this and a little bit of that when it comes to media assets and news for Star Ocean: Integrity And Faithlessness. The latest news on the JRPG is that the title will arrive in the West starting June 28.
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The '90s were the decade where television really blew up, as both widespread use of VCRs and cable/satellite broadened how people could get immersed in the boob tube. Unfortunately, not all of the people involved in that explosion of original programming were able to find the same kind of success in the future.
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So back in mid-March Psyonix, the developers of Rocket League, teased a new mode for the competitive multiplayer game that was centered around the concept of team-based basketball. The only hint about the mode was a brief image they released on Twitter. Well, Psyonix released a bit more info about the upcoming upgrade to their action-sports title.
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Merchandise tie-ins with movies are nothing new. There will always be products that companies try to sell us by relating it to a popular film. Sony, however, takes this idea to new heights.
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Square Enix is really taking the whole Final Fantasy XV branding thing to new heights. The company announced a ton of new information last night during the near two hour special that revealed the release date for the JRPG, also announcing a movie, an anime, and a new mobile game.
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Mike Ross might be up to his neck in legal troubles, but the actor who plays him is free to try on a different kind of suit. (See what I did there?) In fact, since Suits just finished Season 5, actor Patrick J. Adams is taking some time to appear in a totally different sort of project.
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The CW already had a solid comic lineup going in to the 2015 – 2016 TV season, and new spinoff Legends of Tomorrow is expanding that lineup with each episode. Now that Legends has been ordered for a second season, producer Marc Guggenheim has news about what's in store.
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When X-Men: Apocalypse hits screens this summer it will mark the end of the second trilogy of films based around the mutant superhero team. Now we have an idea when we might see them again.
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Last night, the special event held for Final Fantasy XV revealed a multitude of announcements and information, most of it throwing fans into a wild excitement. One of those announcements was to officially unveil the Deluxe and Collector's Editions of the upcoming Final Fantasy game.
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While Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's opening weekend was impressive, even based on high expectations, it wasn't unexpected. Simply putting the names Superman and Batman in your movie title is going to bring in a couple hundred million dollars.
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Game of Thrones may not always be a particularly happy show, but it never fails at looking absolutely spectacular. As it happens, looking great does not come cheap for HBO, and the cost of Season 6 is staggering.
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, there was a moment where Batman looked up at a Robin suit on display in the Batcave. So what exactly happened to the Boy Wonder in the DCEU?
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After rumors, speculation and even a potential leak hours before the announcement from Square Enix, we now have an official fall launch date for Final Fantasy XV.
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Now, the latest amalgamation is finally coming together, and the first trailer focuses on fast cars, Chris Evans, Matt LeBlanc and some untimely vomit. You can check it out in all its glory.
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While the majority of news we've seen regarding Avatar 2 over the last few years has been about a new delay every now and then, it now looks like the film may actually be moving forward.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens has had a major impact on the world, this is not a secret. When you make the thirds highest grossing movie ever you can't help but impact the culture in some way.
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The Final Fantasy series of video games is one of the most popular franchises in the medium, and the next game is the series, Final Fantasy XV is one of the most anticipated in recent memory. Turns out there's more coming than just the game.
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There are lots and lots of reboots, revivals and remakes in the works right now. While there are so many that it's becoming impossible to keep track of all of them, it seems as if the remake machine may not be slowing down one bit.
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hile the powers that be are still remaining officially mum when it comes to where the DCEU is going following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the conventional wisdom, and all evidence that we do have, continues to point toward Darkseid.
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Mythbusters has only been off of the air for a few short weeks now, but in this day and age, well-liked properties are rarely really over. Here's what's happening with this long-running one.
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One of the reasons that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had one of the biggest opening weekends in history is because it's a setup that fans have wanted to see for years. However, at the studio level, interest has not always been high.
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An important supporting character has just been cast in the new Power Rangers reboot, and a rather familiar face has taken the role. Read on to see who will be playing this key character.
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Deadpool almost ended on a truly brilliant note, with an idea for an end credits sequence that would have had them rolling in the aisles. Read on to see why the ending we got instead may have been the better option.
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