The New Blu-Ray Releases You Should Check Out: ‘The Breakfast Club’ Comes To Criterion And More (Welcome toNot Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to what’s new on Blu-ray and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) Happy New Year! 2018 is just getting started – there’s going to be a whole slew of exciting new Blu-ray titles to hit shelves this year....

The Patient Will Star Steve Carell As A Shrink Forced To Treat A Serial Killer “The Americans” fans can rejoice once again, for its showrunners “Joel and Joe” are back with a new project. FX has ordered a 10-episode limited series from executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg. “The Patient” stars the Oscar and Emmy-nominated Steve Carell, who also serves as executive producer alongside Caroline Moore (“Here and Now”) and Victor Hsu (“Transparent”)....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg’ Is A Colorful, Unconventional Musical (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:The Umbrellas of CherbourgWhere you’re able to Stream It:HBO Max and the Criterion ChannelThe Pitch:In a seaside French town, two gorgeous young people declare their love for each other, but war rips them apart. Can their relationship withstand such a blow?...

The Reason Gene Hackman Was Fired From The Graduate Nobody likes to be fired, especially if you are still trying to find solid footing within your profession. Getting fired amplifies every single insecurity within yourself, but sometimes the job just was not meant to be. But when it comes to acting, getting fired is probably even rarer than in most other jobs. Films and TV shows typically occur under a strict time crunch, and recasting a character in the middle of production costs a tremendous amount of money, since you have to reshoot everything again with the new actor....

The Sci-Fi Cult Classic That Inspired The Umbrella Academy’s Number 5 “The Umbrella Academy” has its fair share of unusual characters, but Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), a 58-year-old man trapped in the body of a 13-year-old, is especially strange. In an interview withScreenRant, the co-creator of the source material comic, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, shared the inspiration behind the youngestandoldest Hargreeves sibling. Apparently, Number Five was inspired by a Terry Gilliam sci-fi cult classic that planted a small seed of an idea into Way’s head....

The Social Network Not Allowed To Use Facebook To Market The Facebook Movie We’ve known for some time now that directorDavid Fincher’s latest film,The Social Network, would not paint Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a flattering light, and all the marketing for the film thus far has only amplified that fact. First there wasthe poster, which put the film’s tagline—“You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”—front and center....

This Isn’t A Holosuite Program, Star Trek: Discovery, Lower Decks, And Strange New Worlds Just Got Renewed At Paramount+ “Star Trek” fans have a whole lot to celebrate today. Paramount+ has announced a bunch of “Star Trek” renewals, and a handful of premiere dates for the U.S. on the streamer. You can just feel your hand lifting to do the Vulcan salute, can’t you? First up we have “Star Trek: Discovery....

Tommy Lee Jones Wasn’t Given Much Of A Choice In His Batman Forever Casting Despite how"Batman"set up Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent, the role of Dent’s villainous alter ego, Two-Face, went to Tommy Lee Jones in the 1995 sequel, “Batman Forever.” By then, the “Batman” film franchise had undergone a major tonal shift, with director Joel Schumacher taking over from Tim Burton and infusing the world of Gotham City with brighter colors and quips, not to mention the infamous rubber nipples on Batman and Robin’s costumes....

Transformers 2: Super Bowl Teaser Is Only The Beginning; Constructicon Details Revealed So for those of you who missed it, the huge transformer that Opimus Prime is seen hanging off from at the end of theTransformers: Revenge of the FallenSuper Bowl teaser is in fact –just one Constructicon. And not the even more gigantic monster Devastator (which is made up of 5-9 constructicons). Another thing I noticed about the teaser is that 70% of the footage comes from what I would estimate is the first 20 minutes of the film....

Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Adaptation Hires Playwright Michael Lesslie TheAssassin’s Creedadaptation suddenly got a lot more interesting whenMichael Fassbenderwas cast as the lead, and now it’s adding some intriguing talent behind the scenes as well. New Regency and Ubisoft have hiredMichael Lesslieto pen the screenplay. If Lesslie’s name doesn’t seem familiar, that’s probably because he’s relatively unknown as a screenwriter. Instead, the 20something up-and-comer has gained acclaim as a writer of plays and the occasional short film....

Upcoming War Movies To Keep On Your Radar (Welcome toOn Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.) War movieshave always captured the attention of filmmakers and moviegoers alike, but not because we enjoy viewing the horrors caused by them. These films allow their makers to create something extraordinary, traverse along the paths of events long forgotten in history, and take their characters someplace new....

Why The Most Iconic Shot In The ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Trailer Isn’t In The Movie It’s a major moment inSpider-Man: Homecoming’s marketing campaign:Tom Holland’sSpidey andRobert Downey Jr.‘sIron Man soar through the skies of New York City side-by-side, off to save the day. The only problem is that this moment never actually happens in the film. In a new interview,HomecomingdirectorJon Watts(Cop Car) explains why this – and one other shot from the trailers – didn’t end up making the final cut in the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Will Ferrell Is Returning As ‘Anchorman’ Legend Ron Burgundy, This Time With A Podcast There was a time whenAnchorman 2: The Legend Continueswas one of the most anticipated sequels. Of course, that meant it was never going to live up to the hype, and it was going to have a hard time living up to the originalAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. For my money, I think the sequel still brings a barrel of laughs....