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Director Steven Spielberg, who graced this year’s screens with his autobiographical film, The Fabelmans, received a standing ovation at this year’s National Board of Review Gala. When Spielberg arrived on the stage, he was met with a standing ovation from the enthusiastic audience. Spielberg spoke about the realization that he needed to confront his own story during his acceptance speech for Best Director. The Fabelmans follows a teenage boy, Sammy, modeled after Spielberg, who is film obsessed....

Two-time Academy Award nominee Winona Ryder recently celebrated her 50th birthday and there were fans of plenty of different movie properties that wanted to share their love of the actress with on social media. Since making her debut in the movie Lucas in 1986, Ryder has starred in some of the best loved movies of late 80s and early 90s, including Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands, and despite some personal setbacks, she has rarely been away from screens for long and most recently has become known for her role in Netflix hit Stranger Things, which has seen her nominated for Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards....

A new rumor suggests that Season 1 of Netflix’s smash hit Stranger Things is finally coming to Blu-ray and the packaging is perfect. We’ve seen exclusive colored vinyl of the soundtrack as well as retro Stranger Things cassette tapes and now with upcoming release of Stranger Things Season 2, we’ve seen a bunch of posters for the series, all done to pay tribute to the movies and television shows that influenced the hit show....

VENICE MAKES ITS ANNUAL SPLASH The 75th annual Venice Film Festival is scheduled to open today (Wednesday) with a screening of Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. Reporters attending the festival have expressed high regard for the festival’s selections this year. They include the controversial Ang Lee drama, Lust, Caution, which was slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA last week because of its sexual content. Focus Features, which is releasing the movie on September 28, has said that it will not contest the rating – often regarded as a mark of death, since many newspapers refuse to carry ads for films bearing the rating and many theater chains and individual theaters refuse to show them....

FEW HALLOWEEN TREATS AT BOX OFFICE The Sawfranchise committed its annual serial killing at the box office over the weekend before Halloween as Saw IVcollected $31.8 million, according to final figures released Monday. Overall, the box office showed little signs of life, recording a take that was lower than last year’s for the sixth straight weekend. The No. 2 film was the Steve Carell comedy Dan in Real Life, which debuted with $11....

POLANSKI ARREST CONDEMNED OVERSEAS The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has acknowledged that it sent a provisional arrest warrant to Swiss authorities after learning that Director Roman Polanski would be arriving in Zurich to accept a lifetime achievement award at a film festival. “It was publicized on the Internet that he was going to be at the Zurich Film Festival,” Sandi Gibbons, a spokesperson for the D.A.’s office, told the Associated Press....

IDOL CRUSHES ITS RIVALS Once again Wednesday night Fox’s American Idoldrew more viewers than all of the competing network shows combined. According to Nielsen overnight figures, Idolattracted 26.26 million viewers, while its closest rival, CBS’s Criminal Minds, drew 8.54 million. Idolalso provided some rather sturdy coattails for its leadout show, Lie to Me,to ride on. The problem was that only 45 percent of the Idolaudience stayed tuned to Fox. Even so, the 13....

Director Sam Raimi announced in 2009 that he was working on a script with his brother Ivan for Evil Dead IV, the long awaited forth installment to the classic horror franchise. While both Sam Raimi and the franchise’s star Bruce Campbell have since confirmed that the script is in the works there have been no new details lately about the status of the project. We recently had the opportunity to speak with actor Ted Raimi, who appeared in all three previous films and is of course Sam’s brother, while he was attending the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, an event that recognizes excellence in global web television programming....

Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures are teaming up for an American adaptation of Tell No One, with Ben Affleck attached to direct. Chris Terrio will adapt the Harlan Coben thriller novel, which centers on the bizarre circumstances surrounding a pediatrician and his missing wife. The wife goes missing during a casual nightly stroll and, when the husband tries to find her, he is severely beaten. When the wife turns up dead, the husband is considered a suspect until it is determined that a recently-caught serial killer committed the crime....

SPOILER ALERT: Been warned, major spoilers for The Batman to follow…After a series of delays, The Batman has at last been released and is now dominating the box office. Following an early version of The Dark Knight, The Batman also introduces early versions of several villains, including SPOILER Eternals star Barry Keoghan as The Joker. Director Matt Reeves has since revealed that a deleted scene between Robert Pattinson’s Batman and Barry Keoghan’s Clown Prince of Crime exists, and the filmmaker has now offered even more details of the scene while speaking with Total Film....

The Benchwarmers is the kind of movie that is made to make people laugh and feel good. There isn’t some big message going on in this film, it’s not going to bring about World Peace and it probably will be forgotten a few months after it opens theatrically. That said, it isn’t a bad movie. There are many laughs, many moments where you will throw up your hands and just not know what to think and also a few moments of calculated realness....

Since the initial invention of cinema, the romantic comedy genre has boasted a stellar lineup of various films. While typical rom-coms fail to generate as much critical and blockbuster box-office success as thrillers and action movies today, these timeless, bittersweet tales remain in our hearts and minds even decades after their initial release. Furthermore, the rom-com genre has successfully launched the careers of several actresses, many of which attribute the birth of their illustrious careers to the unforgettable genre....

Spoiler Warning: The Boys Seasons 1-3 The Boys’ latest season really proved just how wild creator Eric Kripke can get. From exploding superheroes and… ahem… appendages to an entire episode entitled “Herogasm” to a deranged Captain America-wannabe, the third season definitely showed it could keep pushing the envelope. That sentiment is echoed even in the season’s subplots. This season, fans did get to see a little of Ryan, Homelander’s son, and what has become of him since his mom’s death....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Roy Scheider Had a Long and Successful Career Roy Scheider has had a long history of successful movies in Hollywood. Scheider was seen as a leading man throughout the seventies and early eighties. He was nominated for a Best Leading Actor Oscar for the 1980 movie All That Jazz and for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 1975 movie The French Connection. Scheider was also well known for his TV work, most notably in the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV, which saw him return to an underwater role....

New Line Cinema has officially greenlit Rush Hour 3 with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan signed on to star and Brett Ratner set to direct the latest installment of the popular franchise. New Line Production President Toby Emmerich announced today that the film will start production this Fall for a planned 2007 release. Tucker and Chan will reprise their respective roles as LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee in the film, which will feature the action comedy duo traveling to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads....

Canadian actor Ryan Gosling has become one of Hollywood’s most recognized stars and biggest heartthrobs. Starting his career at a young age, Gosling appeared in Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and a television series based on R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps. He went on to appear in both independent films and major blockbusters over the years. After more than two decades on screen, Gosling has established an impressive resume and dedicated following....

One of the main cast of characters of the CBS crime drama S.W.A.T. is fan-favorite: Officer Christina “Chris” Alsonso, the only woman SWAT member in the department, and a total badass. What’s more, the show doesn’t gloss over the fact that Chris has to face additional challenges as the only woman in a male-dominated space, and instead outwardly portrays these struggles, such as being forced to endure unfair treatment by misogynistic leaders and not being able to help train women SWAT candidates for fear of bad optics....

Salma Hayek has over 30 years of experience in Hollywood, with her breakout role coming in 1995 in the Robert Rodriguez-helmed From Dusk Till Dawn. The actor would go on to star in countless films; however, her work with one director, in particular, has left a lasting impact. Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek are teaming up for her latest film, Without Blood, with Jolie sitting in the director’s chair. Without Blood will explore “universal truths about war, trauma, memory, and healing,” based on the book of the same name by Alessandro Baricco....

During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote her role in the upcoming Paramount+ series Wolf Pack, Sarah Michelle Gellar also spoke about her short-lived series Ringer. While reflecting on her old show, the actor revealed that Ringer was initially meant to be very different and explained why the show came to a quick end. The CW drama series Ringer first premiered back in September 2011. The series starred Gellar as Bridget Kelly, a recovering drug addict who flees from her native Wyoming after she witnesses a murder....

A one-off thriller turned into a gore-filled soap opera, the Saw franchise has been going strong for nine films now, with not one but two separate soft reboots in four years. Originally created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, the franchise focuses on the antics of “The Jigsaw Killer,” a malicious murderer who forces his victims into sadistic “games” that they either win or lose by living or dying, respectively. The franchise was a smash hit, spawning annual installments from 2004 to 2010 and raking in more than one billion dollars of box-office revenue across all films combined....