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As he is wont to do, President Donald Trump generated some controversy by using Game of Thrones imagery in a recent tweeting, prompting an official response from HBO. This week, special counsel Robert Mueller released the report of his investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Only a redacted version was released to the public, drawing some mixed responses from people based on their opinions of the president....

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a film at 24 frames per second worth? Let’s not do the math, but considering that every minute of film is composed of thousands of flashing photos, it’s worth a lot, to say the least; perhaps that’s why so many great books have been written about cinematography and the visual medium. The cinematography of any given film leaves a lasting impact on the viewer for good reason....

Hilary Swank will star in Betty Anne Waters, a drama with Tony Goldwyn attached to direct. According to Variety, the story is about a single mother who worked her way through law school in order to free her brother, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Omega Entertainment is financing and will distribute worldwide. The film was scripted by Pamela Gray. Swank will play the title role in the true story of a high school dropout who would not give up her belief that her brother, Kenneth, had been framed....

Disney’s board of directors could be facing a proxy war from its shareholders. Investor and activist Nelson Peltz has led the charge from the outside, in the last few months, first to address the poor performance of the company, then to unseat new CEO Bob Iger, but eventually doubling back to focus on Disney’s self-inflicted injuries. Through the course of his attack, Peltz’s goal has been to earn his own chair on the Disney board....

Josh Radnor, star of How I Met Your Mother, gets cocaine in his mustache. His character, Lonny Flash, is snorting it off the floor of a crowded trailer. Two actors covered in green paint from head to toe nudely fool around until Al Pacino storms into the small space. Screaming, he smacks everyone with a newspaper before telling Radnor’s character that his grandfather was killed by Nazis in a concentration camp....

As D.B. Cooper is one of the FBI’s most famous unsolved mystery cases to date, remaining the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history, the infamous hijacker is an iconic, storied figure in the genre of true crime as evidenced by his many depictions in pop culture. From films like The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981) to the Netflix miniseries DB Cooper: Where Are You?! (2022) to the uncountable appearances and references in various television shows from Twin Peaks to Newsradio to Loki, and even celebrated by an annual convention, CooperCon, held annually in Vancouver, Washington, the never captured criminal has long enjoyed an intriguing celebrity status....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a film that has a legacy among Jedi and Sith alike. When the final chapter in the sequel trilogy premiered, it was met with harsh criticism from both fans and newcomers. It’s difficult to pin down exactly what everyone had a problem with, all except for one factor. Nobody seemed to approve of Emperor Palpatine returning from the dead, all except one, and that is the Emperor himself!...

News of an Indiana Jones series going into development at LucasFilm earlier this week was exciting for fans of the Harrison Ford-led movie franchise, but also not much of a surprise. With Ford hanging up his whip in the coming Indiana Jones 5, the franchise’s legacy is something that Disney and LucasFilm have considered for some time now. In a new report from Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic podcast, it has been suggested that the new series will actually be focused on a surprising character connected to the intrepid archaeologist and will act as a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark....

Jeff Daniels has come aboard the espionage thriller Traitor for Overture Films. According to Variety, Neal McDonough has also joined the film, which is being toplined by Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle. Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s script revolves around a former U.S. Special Forces operative who has been accused of helping terrorists. It soon becomes apparent that his loyalties are not binding on either side. Nachmanoff is directing the project. Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn and Said Taghmaoui have also joined the cast of Traitor....

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is transitioning from a zombie-infested world in The Walking Dead to an equally dangerous world of superheroes in the fourth season of The Boys. The actor was confirmed to join the series earlier this year, though his exact role in the comic book adaptation is still unknown. Morgan is joining former Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles, who plays Soldier Boy in the series, along with Eric Kripke, creator of both shows....

Tim Burton is rebooting The Addams Family with the new series Wednesday on Netflix, bringing us a new take on Wednesday Addams with the character now an older teenager going away to college. Jenna Ortega (Scream, The Fallout) will lead the series as a teenage Wednesday, and speaking about the role with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress opened up on playing such an iconic character along with working with a big name like Burton....

We’re coming up on the 20-year anniversary of the finale to Seinfeld and people are still talking about it, even the show’s namesake, Jerry Seinfeld is still talking about it. The comedian is out promoting his latest Netflix special Jerry Before Seinfeld, and he took some time to discuss the ever-looming sitcom about nothing. Fans were torn after the final episode of Seinfeld and as it turns out, so is the show’s creator, even after all of these years....

Fans of Muppet creator Jim Henson celebrated what would have been the groundbreaking puppeteer and director’s 86th birthday. Of course, Henson passed away over three decades ago in 1990 at the age of just 53, leaving behind a legacy that has continued to evolve into another generation with no signs of stopping. However, it was a birthday tribute by The Muppets’ official Twitter account that really saw some emotional reactions from fans....

Jimmy Kimmel was involved in a head-on collision that wrecked his car on Sunset Blvd. The host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! was lucky that there were no injuries after both vehicles had their airbags go off during the crash. Kimmel was recently all over the news for an entirely different matter when he had adult film star Stormy Daniels on his show to discuss her alleged 2006 affair with President Donald Trump....

Visual effects specialist John Rosengrant discusses the real working robots of Real Steel Every year, when The Academy Awards nominations are announced, the news feeds are innundated with loads of “reaction” pieces from the trade papers, i.e. the nominees reacting to the news. As luck would have it, I ended up doing the same thing yesterday with visual effects guru John Rosengrant, who I was already scheduled to speak with for his work on Real Steel, which debuted on three-disc Blu-ray, two-disc Blu-ray, and DVD January 24....

The John Wick movies have had a long history with dogs, with much of the title character’s life as an assassin in the movies being instigated by the death of a puppy bought for him by his late wife. Now, John Wick 4 is almost here, and just like the other movies in the franchise there is plenty of dog action involved. In fact, director Chad Stahelski recently told Collider that the new dog on the block will have a big role to play in the latest instalment of the John Wick saga, which meant a lot work went into training for the four legged friends....

It’s a sad time to be a fan of vampires. According to a report from Deadline, Blumhouse and Miramax’s upcoming Dracula film Mina Harker from director Karyn Kusama has been officially scrapped. Phil Hay, who was set as co-writer, announced his grief over the news. “It’s been so heartening to hear all of your support for Karyn and MINA HARKER— a faithful adaptation of DRACULA, seen through Mina’s eyes, set in contemporary Hollywood and a real horror movie....

Kevin Smith may have directed Seth Rogen in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, but he isn’t done with him yet. Smith told SCI FI Wire that he wants to use Rogen in a superhero movie he is currently developing. “First, I’m going to do a 180 turn and do a horror movie called Red State,” Smith said. “It’s going to be a total horror-political-psychological movie without a funny line in it....

Paramount Pictures has brought on screenwriter David Johnson (Orphan, Red Riding Hood) to adapt the graphic novel Last Man Standing. Daniel LuVisi created the graphic novel, which is set 600 years in the future and follows a soldier who was created to help Earth win their war against Mars. He is framed by a terrorist organization for a crime he didn’t commit, and, after spending nine years in prison, he sets out for vengeance against the terrorists....

The latest TV spot for the upcoming Marvel installment Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness focuses squarely on the horror elements, as Doctor Strange and The Scarlet Witch begin to bring the frights to the MCU. Shared to social media by Doctor Strange Updates, the footage provides further looks at a battle between Doctor Strange and his sinister variant, a blood-soaked Scarlet Witch, and the zombie version of the Master of the Mystic Arts....