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Eternals Star Richard Madden Is Used To Playing Characters Torn Between Love And Duty Marvel is weeks away from bringing its sweeping sci-fi epic to the big screen. “The Eternals” promises to shake up the MCU, delving deeper into the cosmos and introducing an entirely new set of heroes, in the ancient and powerful Eternals. Among them is Richard Madden’s Ikaris, already making a name for himself asthe “Superman” of the MCU....

Exclusive ‘Widows’ Blu-Ray And Digital Clip Takes You Inside The Hideout Widowswas one of my favorite films of last year – smart, slick, and entertaining as hell. TheSteve McQueenheist flick is now available on VOD, and will be hitting Blu-ray early next month, giving you the perfect opportunity to check it out if you missed it in theaters. Below, we have an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip featured on both the digital/VOD and Blu-ray releases, that takes you inside the real-world location used for the hideout the widows meet up at to plan their job....

First Official Look At Rooney Mara As Lisbeth Salander In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ OK, this isn’t a press still from the film, but it’s pretty good, anyway.Rooney Marais on the cover ofWmagazine, and she’s in character as Lisbeth Salander, the heroine inDavid Fincher’s version ofThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Along with the image is a great profile on Mr. Fincher, which includes some new tidbits of info about the film....

Focus Features Buys Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Wes Andersonis shooting his next film,Moonrise Kingdom, right now in Rhode Island, and the film now has distribution set: Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights. Some of those rights will be sold off at Cannes, wihle the company will release the film under the Focus banner in the US.Moonrise Kingdomhas a few new faces for the Wes Anderson collective, as the castincludes:Bruce Willis,Edward Norton,Frances McDormand,Tilda Swintonand regularsBill MurrayandJason Schwartzman....

Full Clip From ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ With all the talk aboutFast Five’s huge opening weekend andThor’s big international box office haul, not to mention that film’s impending domestic opening, it’s almost as if the next blockbuster on the summer movies horizon is being overlooked. That film isPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, theRob Marshall-directed fourth film in thePiratessaga, starringJohnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penelope CruzandGeoffrey Rush. As the May 20th, 3D release approaches, Disney has begun the full on, cannon’s blazing,Pirates of the Caribbeanmarketing barrage....

Here Are All Of The BAFTA Awards' Snub-Tastic Non-Nominations Like all art, movies are meant to be felt, to be experienced, to transcend the follies of qualitative assessments of value that plague much of the awards season discourse … heck, there’s an entireAMC commercial starring Nicole Kidmanthat eloquently (and maybe a little too self-seriously) makes this point for me! But that doesn’t mean we can’t get mad about the most blatant and inexplicable award snubs anyway....

How ‘The Great Mouse Detective’ Helped Save Disney Animation During Its Darkest Hour (Revisiting the Renaissanceis a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. Today’s column both serves as an introduction to the series, and tackles the first film of the Renaissance, 1986’sThe Great Mouse Detective.)The future of animation at the Walt Disney Company was bleak in 1984....

How Peacemaker Gave Me Sympathy For Mr. Kill Guy I’m going to be completely frank: I loved “The Suicide Squad,” and it was my top movie of 2021, but I initially had no interest in a “Peacemaker” spin-off series. The villainous character, played by John Cena, was nearly irredeemable and a representation of everything that bothers me about America. Writer and director James Gunn haseven saidPeacemaker’s whole dealis “toxic masculinity at its most toxic,” which isn’t exactly something I want to see in a character that is supposed to be sympathetic....

Interview: ‘The Shallows’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra On “The Fear That Lasts A Year” WithThe Shallows, directorJaume Collet-Serramay have taken on his biggest challenge yet as a filmmaker. The director ofOrphan,Non-Stop, andRun All Nightmade a film primarily set on the water, featuring an entirely CG antagonist, a great white shark, and a co-star that’s a seagull, whomBlake Lively’s character names Steven Seagull. All these factors added up to a production that, Collet-Serra admits, wasn’t easy....

J.J. Abrams Wants Benicio Del Toro To Be Next ‘Star Trek’ Villain ForStar Trek: The Wrath of Khan, director Nicholas Meyer knew he needed a larger than life, imposing personality to play the lead villain Khan. He, of course, went with Mexican born actor Ricardo Montalbán to play the role he originated on the show. In the newStar Treksequel, directorJ.J. Abramsis said to also be eying a debonair actor from a neighboring country to plague the Starship Enterprise: the Puerto Rican born Oscar-winnerBenicio Del Toro....

Jason Reitman’s ‘Ghostbusters’ Calls Up ‘Stranger Things’ Star Finn Wolfhard And ‘Fargo’ Star Carrie Coon It hasn’t been very long since we learned about the newGhostbusterssequel in the works. The film will go back to the mythology of the original franchise and pick up 30 years after the events ofGhostbusters II. While we don’t know of any returning cast members from the original movies just yet, a couple new stars have already been signed up to join the newGhsotbusterssequel cast....

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions Will Make TV Shows For Universal Now Jordan Peele’s production company, Monkeypaw Productions, has seen many of its films distributed through Universal Pictures, including Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” and Peele’s own “Get Out” and “Us.” Until now, however, it has worked with other partners on the TV side of things, like HBO, Amazon Prime Video, and CBS All Access (now Paramount+). All that has changed with the success of “Candyman,” as Monkeypaw has struck a new TV deal with Universal which will put its film and television projects under one roof....

Kate Beckinsale Offered A Lead Role In ‘Total Recall’ In news that should surprise no one familiar with the actress’s personal background,Kate Beckinsalehas been offered a central role inLive Free or Die HarddirectorLen Wiseman’s remake/update ofTotal Recall. She’s allegedly up for the part of Lori, the wife toColin Farrell’s leading man Quaid. In Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 telling of the story (also based on thePhilip K. Dickshort storyWe Can Remember It For You Wholesale) Lori was played by Sharon Stone, with Melina — the more predominant of the female leads, whom Quaid meets along his journey — played by Rachel Ticotin....