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Since their inception in 1958 by cartoonist Charles Addams, the altogether kooky Addams family have become one of the world’s most culturally significant fictional families. This has only continued to grow with the latest iteration as featured on the recent record-breaking Netflix series Wednesday. While Tim Burton’s Wednesday is a great place for newcomers to the franchise to be introduced to Wednesday Addams and her macabre family of ghoulish outcasts, those of us of a certain age will always have fond memories of the 1991 hit movie The Addams Family and its sequel The Addams Family: Family Values....

Samuel L. Jackson may be in trouble today. He’s at least getting ribbed quite extensively on the set of his currently in-production superhero ensemble epic The Avengers, as it seems he’s lost his personal copy of the screenplay. Those who found it are trying to profit off the loss by offering various internet outlets and bloggers the chance to buy it. No one has ponied up the cash just yet, and as news of this illegal sales opportunity spreads, it’s sure to mean trouble for whoever finds it in his or her possession next....

2008 marked the directorial film debut of Martin McDonagh with his black comedy, In Bruges. The modern classic, regarded as one of the greatest Tarantino-esque films ever made, landed McDonagh an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay about a pair of Irish hitmen laying low after a hit gone wrong in the titular Belgian city of Bruges. Irish actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson starred as the hitmen, receiving widespread acclaim for their electric on-screen chemistry....

2022 saw another reboot of the cinematic Batman franchise. With The Batman (2022), Robert Pattinson would lead Gotham’s fight against villains such as the deadly terrorist, The Riddler, and crime bosses The Penguin and Carmine Falcone. Bruce would also work alongside the anti-hero Catwoman as the odds grew increasingly worse for the city. Here we look to the future of the franchise. Though the recent shake-up with the creative vision for all DC Comics cinematic properties leaves many questioning what the future holds, we will focus on the villains that populate Gotham City....

It’s all scorched earth, shock and awe, and blood and bone in the teaser trailer for The Boys Season 3 finale. Released courtesy of the official Twitter account for The Boys, the footage teases every violent vendetta finally colliding, as a bloodied Billy Butcher faces down an unstable-looking Homelander. Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys takes place in a universe where super-powered individuals are recognized as heroes by the public and owned by the powerful corporation Vought International....

It appears that the third film in the Narnia franchise is going south of the border instead of down under. According to Variety, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will shoot a majority of the film in Mexico. The first two films - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian were filmed mostly in New Zealand, due to government tax breaks and the fact that Weta, which created effects and props for the films, was based there....

Sadly, to many casual fans, he will always be the sea captain who was eaten by the shark in Jaws. But Robert Shaw was a respected and accomplished actor, novelist, and playwright. Born in England in 1927, Shaw had a difficult childhood. His father died of suicide when Robert was 12. A talented young athlete, Shaw instead chose to pursue acting, and began his career on stage performing Shakespeare and Chekhov....

In appreciation of teachers across the nation who give endlessly and enrich the lives of so many students, AMC Theatres and Paramount Pictures are offering teachers an exclusive opportunity to see the highly acclaimed inspirational film, Freedom Writers, free of charge. All teachers (a) throughout the U.S. are invited to visit an AMC theatre Friday, Jan. 26, through Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, to receive one free ticket to any showing of the film during that time....

HBO’s Search Party (after two seasons on TBS) is an interesting show that’s not only funny but thought-provoking and even suspenseful as well. What makes this show hilarious is not just the comedy incorporated within the story or the jokes and ‘funny scenes,’ but rather the way it portrays a generation that seems to be oblivious to the outside world as they attempt to navigate their lives in a desperate attempt to make them more interesting....

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Ethan Peck - Patrick Verona So were you like a fan-going back to the movie, do you remember when the movie came out? Ethan Peck: Yeah, that was ‘99, right? And I definitely saw it when I was, I guess, 13, 14-years old. When I got the audition, I hadn’t even recalled the film at the time. They were [like remake], and I couldn’t quite remember what it was, but it’s a great movie....

Keanu Reeves is one of the coolest cats on the planet. He always comes with an infectious smile and a handshake, mixing his unfiltered goofy persona with the seriousness of a sly intellect. One moment you might find him talking eloquently about the latest books he’s read, and the next, he will be pacing around in a circle, delivering a pitch perfect impersonation of Cedric the Entertainer (one of his Street Kings costars)....

Everyone has an opinion on who exactly the Marvel Cinematic Universe is aimed at, with some not exactly feeling that the box office-dominating franchise is made for the general adult moviegoer. One of those people seems to be Seth Rogen, who recently shared his thoughts on the MCU, and despite having his hands in another comic book franchise, it appears that he doesn’t believe the biggest movie franchise in the world is aimed at people like him....

Despite the negative reviews and second-week box office crash of Morbius, Sony is obviously not giving up on their Spider-Man-connected universe just yet. As well as now-filming Kraven the Hunter, Sony is also bringing Madame Web to cinemas and has now set a release date of July 2023, meaning that it probably won’t be too long before filming commences on the movie. The film was initially announced earlier in the year, and soon Dakota Johnson was cast in the title role, but other than that, Sony is keeping most of the details secret and will likely continue to do so as long as possible....

The latest addition to the Spider-Man franchise was Spider-Man: No Way Home, which involved a crossover of all the Spider-Man franchises, including past actors who played Spider-Man from the different films. One of the MCU’s most highly anticipated movies in its history, No Way Home not only broke box office records, it also broke digital home release records when it was made available for home-viewing in March, instantly becoming a fan-favorite in the high-grossing movie franchise....

As Spider-Man: No Way Home took its rightful place as the highest audience rated movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems that the film’s writers believe that it could have been even better as there was a lot of “great moments” that were cut from the film as they didn’t directly affect the story. While fans may have been enthralled by the third solo outing by Tom Holland’s web-slinger, as he faced off against old adversaries that other iterations of Peter Parker have fought in other Spider-Man universes, Erik Sommers revealed to Discussing Film, that in making sure the movie remained a Peter Parker story, there were a lot of other great character moments that didn’t make the cut....

Star Wars is a long-running multimedia franchise that has cranked out content over the last four decades. From the iconic saga of films to the endless new shows hitting Disney+, Star Wars is a cow for new and exciting content to keep the audience interested. Thanks to the fact that the universe is set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars is able to invent new creatures that bend the imagination as to what could lurk beyond our very own world....

There were many Star Wars fans who were not entirely satisfied by the culmination of the sequel trilogy with The Rise of Skywalker, and that usually means that the same fans step up to make things right. A new fan poster for the final movie in the Skywalker Saga has imagined exactly how the movie should have ended, with the Force ghosts of Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn all returning to stand with Luke Skywalker to end Emperor Palpatine once and for all....

A LAUGHING STREAK? Two new comedies, Disney’s animated Meet the Robinsons and Paramount/DreamWorks’ Blades of Glory, will be competing for the top spot at the box office this weekend, but few analysts expect either will be able to match the $68-million opening of Ice Age: The Meltdown over the comparable weekend a year ago. Nevertheless, analysts observed, they might together surpass that amount and thereby preserve the winning streak of the past month, which has seen each weekend besting box-office results for 2006....

FAST AND FURIOUS MUSCLES PAST RIVALS Producer Neil Moritz’s Fast and Furious roared past the $100-million mark at the worldwide box office in record speed for an April release over the weekend, taking in $72.5 million domestically and $30.1 million overseas. The muscle-car film easily broke the previous domestic opening gross of $42.2 million set by Anger Managementin 2003. Meanwhile, Adventureland, the only other film to open wide this weekend, took in $6 million to place sixth....