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This ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6 Featurette Explores How You Make A White Walker Game of Throneshas no shortage of monsters. Some of those monsters are human beings, scoundrels and killers and torturers, who just need a great actor to bring them to life. Others, like the zombies and those mysterious ice demons, require a little more practical elbow grease. A new featurette has arrived, showing off the ever-popular show’s prosthetic department and offering a cool glimpse at just how much time, energy, and effort goes into making a single White Walker....

This Is A Really Good ‘Game Of Thrones’ Theory And You Should Read It I tend to be skeptical ofGame of Thronestheories, not because they’re not fun, but because the world of George R.R. Martin’sA Song of Ice and Fireseemingly goes out of its way to crush them. Fan theories, like prophecies, tend to fall victim to cold, hard reality in Westeros. Martin’s writing has always felt a kinship with actual history in this way – things often go the way you don’t expect because history is generally unpleasant, unpredictable, and totally out of line with what everyone expected....

Tim Burton’s ‘Big Fish’ Coming To Broadway Father issues and buckets of tears are soon coming to a Big Apple stage. Producers just announced thatBig Fish, best known for its 2003 film adaptation directed by Tim Burton, will be turned into a Broadway musical with a book byJohn August, music and lyrics byAndrew Lippaand directorSusan Stroman. August wrote the screenplay for the Burton film based on the original novel byDaniel Wallace, Lippa did the music forThe Addams Familymusical and Stroman directed the most recent film version of Mel Brooks’The Producers....

TV Bits: ‘Bored To Death’ Season 3 And ‘Ringer’ Trailers; ‘Goodfellas’ Writer Develops 1960’s Vegas Crime Drama; ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Creator Quits Twitter Time to round up some TV news, and what better place to start than with the announcement thatGoodfellaswriterNicholas PileggiandJames Mangoldwill collaborate onRalph Lamb, a ’60s-set Vegas crime drama based on the life of “cowboy-turned-Las Vegas sheriff” Ralph Lamb. CBS is producing; Mangold will direct and Pileggi will write withGreg Walker(Without a Trace)....

TV Bits: Is ‘Mad Men’ Going Back In Time? Plus: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Trailer, ‘Girls’ Clips, Carlton Cuse Joins ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Dexter’ And ‘Homeland’ Return Dates Lena Dunham and company may be having trouble finding lasting romance in HBO’sGirls, but they’ve still got it way easy compared to the tormented lovers of HBO’sGame of Thrones. For one thing, I’m betting love affairs in the former involve way fewer beheadings. After the jump:...

WarnerMedia CEO Admits They Didn’t Think Through Their HBO Max Release Plan WarnerMedia shook things up in a big way this year by releasing every single Warner Bros. movie bothin theaters and on HBO Maxon the same day in the U.S. In a year when the industry was hoping for box office hits to rebound from 2020, it was a big blow. While CEO Jason Kilar is willing to admit some fault in rushing the decision, he is still ultimately standing by the strategy....

Watch A Strange And Tense ‘Black Swan’ Music Video I like the small trend of creating music videos that act as trailers. It’s hardly a new idea, but we’ve recently seenoneforTron Legacy, and now there’s one forBlack Swan. Since the score forDarren Aronofsky’s film is largely based on Tchaikovsky, the music here jumps off from the classical score to the film. It’s a very strange clip, full of the tension and menace for which the movie is already drawing great praise, but also more techno-oriented than I would have expected....

Watch The Trailer And Listen To The Soundtrack For Amusingly Titled Sundance 2012 Selection ‘I Am Not A Hipster’ As a former resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a.k.a. The Hipster Capital of the World, one joke I’ve heard (and, okay, repeated) a lot is that you can always tell a hipster by how vehemently he insists he’s not a hipster. By that standard, the Sundance 2012 flickI Am Not a Hipstercould just be the hipster film to end all hipster films....

Watching ‘Parker’ At The Playboy Mansion Isn’t The Best Idea Everything about going to the Playboy Mansion is arguably a good idea. Except watching a movie. Properly watching a movie takes concentration, quiet and darkness. But in a place with an open bar, Playmates and a history of sex, drugs and rock and roll, watching a film is a bad idea. Last week, I was invited to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles to seeParker....

Wes Anderson Art Show Inspires Painting In Wes Anderson’s New Film Every single day, artists make art based on films they love. It’s a little more rare for that art to influence the filmmaker it was originally about. In 2010, the San Francisco art gallery Spoke Artdebuted an exhibit calledBad Dads, based on the films ofWes Anderson. The exhibit featured work based on all of Anderson’s films up to that point....

What You Need To Know About Vigilante, The New DC Antihero In The Peacemaker Series The release of “Peacemaker” is fast approaching, bringing back John Cena, self proclaimed superhero, and the many disasters he’s sure to cause. But the egotistical patriot won’t be the only vigilante onscreen, with the series also introducing yet another antihero in Vigilante. Fans of both DC Comics and the Arrowverse will no doubt recognize the name behind the alias, Adrian Chase, and even those new to the character can probably guess his deal given the self-explanatory nickname....

Why Kelly McGillis Wasn’t Asked To Return For Top Gun: Maverick Who ever said the ’80s were dead and gone for good? Over 35 years since 1986’s “Top Gun” swept into theaters with all of its goofy, macho, thrill-seeking charm, we’re finally returning to the Danger Zone with Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” Reviews for the legacy sequel have just begun to fly in, with/Film’s Ben Pearsonpraising the film for its crowd-pleasing and throwback approach to mining something new from the familiar....

Will Disney’s Theatrical Release Of ‘Hamilton’ Be Censored? Disney is not throwing away its shot to bring the Tony-winning pop culture phenomenonHamiltonto a wider audience. But that shot may not ring quite as clearly as fans remember. A new report suggests that when Disney releases itsHamilton"movie" theatrically in 2021, some of the production’s curse words may be censored due to the House of Mouse’s strict adherence to the PG-13 rating....