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In May 1999, George Lucas unleashed Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the first installment of the long-awaited prequel trilogy. That film also marked the first major role for Ahmed Best, who provided the voice and the motion capture performance for Jar Jar Binks, a new character who …

Before Ryan Reynolds settled on the idea to make Deadpool and Wolverine a team-up film with those two main characters, the actor pitched numerous other ideas that never got off the ground. Reynolds told Empire that one of his first ideas was to create a Rashomon-style movie about Deadpool and …

Universal and Blumhouse’s revival of the Exorcist franchise stumbled with The Exorcist: Believer in 2023, but a veteran horror director may soon help reinvigorate the next sequel. Via The Wrap, Mike Flanagan is in talks to helm The Exorcist: Deceiver, following the departure of Believer’s director and co-writer David Gordon …

Thanks to his role as Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Giancarlo Esposito reinvigorated his career with roles in Parish, The Boys, and Revolution. He also portrayed the villainous Moff Gideon for three seasons on The Mandalorian. Since then, Esposito has made no secret about his desire …

Bernard Hill, who starred Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings series and James Cameron’s Titanic, has passed away. He was 79. Hill played King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings and Captain Edward Smith in 1997’s Titanic. He turned in memorable performances in both films, and his lines …

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and to celebrate, it made a grand return to cinemas. The Star Wars Day celebration proved to be a big success, as The Phantom Menace earned $8.1 million at the US box office (via Deadline), making …

Since the first look at Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the pictures and clips have depicted Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand) as a tyrant who is an enemy to both apes and humans alike. However, the full extent of Proximus’ evil hadn’t come into focus until the newly released …

With Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, this beloved, long-running sci-fi franchise has finally hit double digit movies, with the modern iteration of the series running for nearly as many films (4) as the franchise’s original run back in the 1960s and ’70s (5). While the first three movies …

Coming off the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie early last year, which was both popular with critics and made a huge amount of money, Nintendo felt so good about how they handled that one that they greenlit a Legend of Zelda movie, to be handled by Maze Runner …

The original X-Men movies famously shied away from using the characters’ iconic superhero costumes. So for over two decades, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine couldn’t even wear his blue and yellow outfit from the comics. Deadpool and Wolverine finally gave Jackman a chance to change that, and he couldn’t be happier about …