New Writer To Start Beverly Hills Cop 4 Script Over When this story started unfolding, the first bit of breaking news was thatJudge ReinholdandJohn Ashton’s cops Rosewood and Taggart would both be back and reunite withEddie Murphyfor the nextBeverly Hills Copfilm. Then, an apparent U-turn came when it was announced that, actually, nothing like that could be promised yet as a new writer was about to come onto the project. So… Taggart and Rosewood or no Taggart and Rosewood?...

Norm Macdonald Shot A Secret Netflix Stand-Up Special To Be Released After His Death Before hisuntimely deathlast September at the age of 61, comedian Norm Macdonald filmed a final stand-up special in his living room. The one-hour special, shot in a single take, will be released on Netflix on June 22, 2025, under the title of “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special.” While it’s not unusual for musicians or actors to release work posthumously, it’s something of a rarity for a deceased comedian to have a special come out like this....

One Of The Scariest Scenes In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake Features A Surprisingly Stealthy Leatherface (Welcome toScariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: Matt remembers 2003’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” as a work of pure evil, while Ariel resents Matt immensely for making her rewatch this movie.) I never fully remember how grotesquely mean Platinum Dunes' 2003 “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” remake is as a smokehouse flavor of once modern horror trends....

Paramount+ TV Shows: ‘The Italian Job’, ‘Fatal Attraction’, And More Are Becoming Streaming Series If you love watching reheated versions of old intellectual property, it seems like you are going to absolutely lose your mind forParamount+, the soon-to-launch streaming service from ViacomCBS. During an Investor Day presentation, the company backed up a metaphorical dump truck and unloaded a metric ton of Paramount+ TV shows, including the fact that they’re developing TV versions of films likeThe Italian Job,Fatal Attraction, andThe Parallax View, as well as revivals ofFrasier,Yo!...

Paul Bettany Isn’t Ruling Out Vision’s Return To The MCU WandaVisionspent much of its first season playing coy about what exactly was going on in the altered reality of Westview, where Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) was able to live out a rapidly-devolving fantasy life alongside a bewitched recreation of her late lover, Vision (Paul Bettany). An entire town may have been held prisoner as a result of her mentally torturous actions, but what’s that compared to love, right?...

Peter Cullen On ‘Transformers: Titans Return’ And Taking Ownership Of Optimus Prime [Interview] Voice actorPeter Cullenhas been playing Optimus Prime, the righteous leader of the Autobots, for over 30 years. After originating the character in 1984 with the originalTransformersanimated series, he has returned him countless times in the decades since, playing Optimus in TV shows, video games, and even Michael Bay’s live-action movies. While he’s played plenty of other characters over the years, Cullen is forever tied to this iconic warrior robot....

Pop Culture Imports: Hayao Miyazaki’s First Feature Film, A Harrowing Diane Kruger Crime Drama, And John Woo’s Netflix Team-Up (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) We may bedrowningin the hundreds of original streaming titles that are released each month, but there are so many foreign-language movies and shows that are just begging for you to stream them....

Quentin Tarantino Shares The Films That Inspired ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,’ Programs Them At The New Beverly Theater Quentin Tarantinois in publicity overdrive for his upcomingOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood. The famous filmmaker (and film fan) owns the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, and he’s programmed a line-up of movies that served as inspiration for his latest opus. To help promote both the new movie and the July programming at the New Bev, Tarantino joinedthePure Cinema Podcastand talked for nearly three hours....

Revisiting ‘A Bug’s Life,’ Pixar’s Frequently Overlooked Second Film (Infinity and Beyondis a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of every feature in Pixar’s filmography. In today’s column, he takes a look at the 1998 filmA Bug’s Life.)As the story goes, documented in the David Price bookThe Pixar Touch(and mentioned in an early teaser for the 2008 sci-fi filmWALL-E), a year or so before the release ofToy Story, there was a lunch....

Ridley Scott Put His Kids To Good Use On The Set Of Alien One of the great photographic tricks is forced perspective. What this basically means is that objects are arranged in a frame to appear bigger or smaller than they actually are. One of the most famous examples of this in recent memory is on Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies. Those productions built oddly shaped sets and placed actors far away from the camera so that people like Elijah Wood and Martin Freeman could credibly read on screen as much smaller than Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen, and Orlando Bloom....

Road To Endgame: ‘The Avengers’ Changed Cinema And Avoided The Mistakes Of Past Marvel Movies (Welcome toRoadto Endgame, where we revisit all 22 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask, “How did we get here?” In this edition:The Avengerschanged studio filmmaking, though not before ticking off The Pentagon.)The Avengersis as close as you can get to a quintessential blockbuster experience. Few films before or since have resulted in such widespread global celebration, something even the film’s third sequel,Avengers: Endgame,may or may not match....

Rumor: Angelina Jolie Eyed To Direct ‘Captain Marvel’ [Updated] Marvel Studios’Captain Marvelrecently picked up two screenwriters,Nicole PerlmanandMeg LeFauve, but it still needs a few more pieces before cameras can roll. Like a director. And rumor has itAngelina Joliecould be the one to get that gig. That is, if Warner Bros. doesn’t snap her up forWonder Womanfirst. Update:Just a few minutes after we ran this post, news broke thatPatty Jenkinshad been set to helmWonder Woman....

Seinfeld Actress Estelle Harris, Who Played Estelle Costanza, Has Died At 93 Estelle Harris, best known for her role as George Costanza’s mother (also named Estelle) on “Seinfeld” and for voicing Mrs. Potatohead in the animated “Toy Story” films, has died at the age of 93. Her son, Glen Harris, confirmed the news toDeadlinethat she passed away from natural causes on the evening of Saturday, August 26, 2025, in Palm Desert, California....