Force Awakens Bits: Greg Grunberg’s Character, Russell Crowe Reaction, John Williams' Score, Character Posters And More It’s Friday and we’re less than a week away fromStar Wars: The Force Awakenshitting theaters nationwide. I thought we’d be in Star Wars overkill at this point, but even with a Force Awakens round-up each day on the site I was expecting to be bombarded with much more Force Awakens content the week before JJ Abrams' Star Wars sequel hits theaters....

Groundhog Day’s Biggest Mystery Never Had An Answer One of the most beguiling aspects of 1993’s “Groundhog Day” is the way Phil Connors (Bill Murray) becomes trapped inside a time loop, the rules of which are never entirely explained. While the film works brilliantly as a comedy and character study of the arrogant and self-centered Connors learning how to be a better man, Phil learns those lessons by literally being left to his own devices,struggling through trial and errorto stop living through February 2 over and over again....

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Teases ‘Darker Places’ For Ravonna Renslayer In Loki Season 2 When we left Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) at the end of season 1 of theDisney+ Marvel series “Loki,“she had recently sent her long-time friend Mobius (Owen Wilson) to the end of time. When he makes it back, she refuses his help redesigning the Time Variance Authority. Ravonna has spent the entire season (and a whole lot of history) lying about theTime Keepers(what she knows about them, anyway) and who Mobius really is....

Harry Potter Movies To Get Extended Edition Re-Releases? I’ve always wished that Warner Bros had filmed extended editions of theHarry Potterfilms, in the same vein as Peter Jackson filmedthe Lord of the Ringstrilogy. Of course, anyone who knows the many differences between the books and the released films knows that it really wouldn’t have been possible. To squeeze the most important plot points into the films, scenes, characters and information have been combined in a way that sometimes eliminate the wonderful side stories that we loved from the novels....

HBO And Cinemax Are Now Available Through Amazon Prime Find out more about HBO and Cinemax on Amazon Prime after the jump. You can add HBO for $14.99 a month, the same price as the standalone HBO Now subscription. However, as of now, the only downside to subscribing to HBO through Amazon Prime instead of getting HBO Now is that you would have access to a live channel stream to watch new shows as they air....

Here’s What A ‘Catwoman’ Solo Movie Starring Michelle Pfeiffer Could Have Been About In terms of superhero movies, does it get any better thanMichelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Selina Kyle/Catwoman inBatman Returns? And do superhero movies get any worse than 2004’sCatwoman, the laughable solo film starringHalle Berryin the title role? Those are rhetorical questions, by the way – the answer to both is clearly “no.” In a parallel universe, the Halle Berry version movie never happened....

How Rodgers And Hammerstein Shaped The Hollywood Musical (And Almost Killed It In The Process) We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over the course of their careers,Richard RodgersandOscar Hammersteinwrote hundreds of songs. They createdOklahoma!,Carousel,The King and I,South Pacific, andThe Sound of Music— and in the process, they revolutionized musicals as we knew them.In the new bookSomething Wonderful, Todd S. Purdum examines the pair’s prolific work on the stage, following them from their separate early careers through their partnership and death....

How Ward Bond Accidentally Sabotaged A Scene On The Set Of The Searchers It is impossible to think of Westerns and their rugged portrait of American masculinity without thinking of director John Ford, somewhat of a hard-boiled man himself. His 1956 film “The Searchers” is considered by many to be his magnum opus andinspired future filmmakers like Martin Scorsese.It features a leading performance by John Wayne, the perfect example of Ford’s ideal male archetype, as well as a strong supporting role played by Ward Bond....

Hunter Stephenson’s Review: Lost Boys: Reign Of Frogs Give or take, I am asked eight times a week by random pedestrians, “What is the best comic book adaptation that is not based on a comic book at all,” and my hands begin to tremble every time. This causes the surface of my coffee to break into concentric circles like a mud puddle on Isla Nublar. I tend to quickly shuffle away from these inferior beings, while mumbling, “Obviously,The Lost Boysdude....

Iron Man 2 Completes Filming Production onIron Man 2’s principal photography wrapped on Saturday, after 72 days of shooting. Marvel Studios producerKevin Feigeissued a statement toMarvel.com: Shooting ‘Iron Man 2’ was a fantastic experience and we couldn’t be happier. Although there were many challenges in making this film, having Jon Favreau, Robert Downey, Gwyneth Paltrow and almost the entire crew from the first film back on board, allowed us to hit the ground running as everyone was instantly familiar with each other from day one....

Is Sana Starros The Female Lead In The ‘Han Solo’ Movie? Learn More About Han Solo’s Former “Wife” Last wek, we learned thatTessa Thompson,Zoe Kravitz, andNaomi Scottwere among theactresses testing for the female leadrole inPhil LordandChris Miller’sHan Solospinoff movie, but it’s still unclear which character they could be playing. So now is as good a time as any to speculate and learn more about the most likely pre-existing option, Sana Starros....

Jared Leto Was Responsible For The “We Live In A Society” Line In The ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Trailer It was a line that reverberated throughout the internet when it was uttered in a trailer forZack Snyder’s Justice League: “We live in a society.” For those unfamiliar, that’s awell-known internet meme, and not something you’d expect to see in a serious-minded superhero movie. And it was a line said, without a hint of irony, byJared Leto’s Joker in new scene shot for director Zack Snyder’s new four-hour cut ofJustice League....

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amélie’ Being Adapted For Broadway Broadway is about to get a dose of French whimsy.Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 romantic comedyAmélieis coming to the stage, as revealed by composerDan Messé(of the Brooklyn-based folk group Hem). PlaywrightCraig Lucas(Prelude to a Kiss) and co-lyricistNathan Tysen(The Burnt Part Boys) are also working on the project. While the film featured a memorable score byYann Tiersen, Messé says the play will feature new music with a different sound....