Over the past ten years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become the most successful movie franchise in history, with almost 20 movies, 11 TV shows, and an enormous fan base. With this large number of entities also comes a large number of actors and stars. Considering how successful the series is, this franchise has attracted a vast number of actors want to become part of it, divas and humble stars alike....
Getting started as a Hollywood director is not easy. No matter how much talent and vision a filmmaker might have, producers and studios don’t just hand over their money to anyone who wants to make a film. The biggest directors in the business all started out small, proving themselves with music videos, commercials, or even short films. Short films can especially be an effective way to prove one’s talent. One a more minimal budget and with a shorter story, filmmakers can show the kinds of movies they want to be making....
Tom Holland, the English actor we now know as the modern Spider-Man that’s taken the world by storm. Marking his first appearance in Captain America: Civil War in 2016, we are now looking forward to his fifth appearance in the Marvel Universe in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home. Holland’s portrayal of Peter Parker/Spider-Man is kind yet lovably awkward with only the desire to help out those around him. Starting out as the “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man”, he’s come a long way since stealing Captain America’s shield and impressing Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr....
From subliminal imagery to dated stereotypes, much has been written about details later deemed inappropriate in kids films, but what about the mature themes and jokes put their intentionally for older audiences? While these scenes may provide parents with little chuckle or food for thought, they could lead to some pretty awkward conversations with their kids afterwards. Here are Screen Rant’s 10 Inappropriate Scenes in Kids Movies Zootopia While Judy Hopps acts as if she’s above corruption when investigating the missing Otter in Zootopia, she uses several questionable tactics to uncover the mystery....
The success of Marvel has given opportunities for actors to seriously boost their careers in recent years. Actors like Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, and Dave Bautista have become very big-name actors in the industry since they began their work with Marvel. They can arguably credit their success to the superhero flick that they signed up for all those years ago. Despite this, working with Marvel hasn’t always been the most pleasant experience for everyone....
Kate and Rooney Mara have spent the last fifteen years making an indelible mark on the film and television industry. The two sisters have impeccable taste when it comes to projects, behave with more decorum and grace than most and have deep, deep wells of talent. Kate Mara’s been active since she was a teenager, wasting no time booking juicy television roles on shows like Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story, and of course, House of Cards....
The beginning of the ’90s featured the first truly great console war. Sega, previously a B-lister with their Master System, had found new life with the Genesis. It seemed poised to take over the world (Japan excepted)… until Nintendo’s follow-up to the groundbreaking NES came out– the Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom in Japan). Over the course of its 13 year life (believe it or not, it wasn’t discontinued in Japan until 2003), the SNES became home to many games still widely considered the best ever made....
Just when it seemed like animated movies were done surprising audiences, Disney’s Zootopia arrived to blow the doors off of Disney’s opening weekend numbers, proving how hard it is to judge an animated book by its cover. But most audiences will never know about the work that goes into these films months, or even years ahead of time. To help solve that problem, we’re back with another rapid-fire dose of movie trivia, giving a peek behind the scenes of some of Hollywood’s biggest animated hits in the latest installment of Know Your Movies: 20 Awesome Facts About Animated Movies....
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan’s announcement on April 2nd that they were separating came as a shock to millions of their fans because it came out of the blue. The couple gave no warning or hint of it. On the contrary, their social media activities before the announcement had suggested a couple in a loving relationship. The pattern of their social media postings just before they announced their split was consistent with their long-established habit of gushing over each other and celebrating wedding anniversaries with lavish displays of romantic love....
Now that the Infinity Saga is on its last movie, you can expect a big shift in the Marvel Cinematic Universe coming our way. We’ve gotten used to couples that have been established over the last eleven years, but these won’t remain that way. We’ll also be getting many new characters starting from Phase 4—the X-Men and Fantastic Four, in particular, being huge arrivals—which leaves room for interpretation for future couples the series might offer....
Boxing movies have become fewer in recent times but luckily, the 2010s gave us two brilliant ones. Creed was released as a spinoff to the Rocky movies. Sylvester Stallone reprised his role, coming back as a retired Rocky Balboa. But the star of the movie was Adonis “Donnie’ Creed (Michael B. Jordan) who Rocky Balboa offered to train. Given the success of the Rocky franchise, Creed already had a great foundation to build on....
See the first footage from the final four episodes of Agents of SHIELD season 6 with a new trailer. Agents of SHIELD is currently nearing the end of its sixth season, which has been a wild one, to say the least. The bulk of the story has been divided into two narratives, one in space focused on the search for Fitz and the other on Earth with a Coulson lookalike named Sarge causing problems....
In keeping with the film-going trend, Alamo Drafthouse is testing the waters with their own movie ticket subscription service. The new service will be beta tested before the company makes a decision on whether or not to go live for all consumers. Movie ticket subscriptions have been all the rage in the news lately. First, with the legal and financial struggles surrounding MoviePass. The service recently announced fluctuating prices for blockbuster films that will add an extra two dollars to the MoviePass ticket prices for certain, highly anticipated films during their opening weekends....
When you’ve released a double-digit number of films that share the same universe, it can be difficult to keep everything consistent. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has done it most impressively, but even they have some issues. While most of the X-Men movies have been well received, they are riddled with continuity problems. Since 2000, there have been 12 entries into this X-Men universe. They span multiple decades and follow versions of certain characters in the past and future....
Name any movie ever made and it will be riddled with mistakes big and small. This applies to critically acclaimed art house flicks, big budget blockbusters, and everything else in between. The simple fact is that, no matter how talented the cast and crew involved are, no film is 100% perfect, with even the most carefully constructed production running afoul of at least a few minor continuity errors. But, movie goofs aren’t always a disaster....
Who didn’t dream of spending their school years in Hogwarts castle? A big ol’ stone castle in the highlands, packed with magical artifacts and secret passageways, where you can learn how to become a real-life witch or wizard! The atmosphere of the common rooms and the library, the feasts at the Great Hall… everything about this castle is a total fairy tale (even taking into account the skulking Filtch and the possibility of a painful death if you happen to stumble across something you shouldn’t have)....
[This post contains SPOILERS for the season finale of The Flash] - Season 2 of The Flash is behind us, and boy did it go out with a bang. Distraught after witnessing his father killed at the hands of Zoom, Barry Allen was unable to relish his victory over the season’s main antagonist. While the rest of Team Flash celebrated defeating Zoom, Barry was left in a state of emptiness. He was unable to move forward with his long gestating relationship with Iris, telling her that he feels too broken....
Like most television shows, Gossip Girl wasn’t perfect, and it wasn’t just because the reveal to the biggest mystery of the show made no sense. There were plenty of things wrong with the show, even before the series finale, which revealed the identity of Gossip Girl. Fans immediately started pointing to all the reasons it just could not be Dan, no matter what had been said by executive producer Stephanie Savage....
Since it premiered on August 24th, 2012, Discovery Channel’s Yukon Men has gained a large following of fans, who enjoy the show for its unscripted feel and its look at the lives of hunters and trappers in the wild north. Set in and around the Alaskan town of Tanana, a small village with about 300 residents, the name Yukon Men might seem misplaced. That being said, Tanana’s location on the Yukon River might give you some insight into the choice....
The Hills: New Beginnings premiered on MTV in June 2019 and fans of the 2000s series have gotten the chance to see what everyone is up to now. There are many familiar faces on the series, from Audrina Patridge to Brody Jenner to Stephanie and Spencer Pratt, and some new people that fans already know (Mischa Barton and Pamela Anderson’s son Brandon Thomas Lee. Let’s compare both shows and see how they stack up against one another....
