Last year, owing to widespread criticism, Scarlett Johansson withdrew from playing the lead role in a based-on-a-true-story mob drama called Rub & Tub, owing to the fact that she, a cisgender woman, was set to portray Dante “Tex” Gill, a transmasculine man. This backlash echoed another casting choice made by the actress a year prior...

Rami Malek has revealed he only agreed to play a James Bond villain after he was assured the character would have no religious or ideological affiliations. "I said, 'We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or religion,'" said the actor. "'That's not something I would entertain, so if that is why I am your choice then you can count me out.'" Malek, who is of Egyptian descent, won an Oscar for playing Queen singer Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.

At the end of shooting Child’s Play, Lars Klevberg wrote Mark Hamill a letter. Though production had wrapped, the director still hadn’t cast someone to voice his Chucky. He was convinced that the Star Wars icon would be the perfect person to bring the ginger-haired killer doll to life. After all, Luke Skywalker is far from the only memorable character Hamill has played. But if you’re not a fan of animation or video games, you may not know it.

However, things have been surprisingly quiet on this issue since last October, but now Amy Pascal, producer of Sony, has confirmed that Tom Hardy will definitely return as Eddie Brock on Venom 2. “I can say that Tom Hardy will come back playing that character superbly as no one else can.” Obviously, this is something we already knew, but it’s still good to have it confirmed.

The actor who first hit with “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”three decades ago is refusing to go into the sweet career goodnight. He’s more popular than ever, with three movies in release, and has become an internet meme.

One exhibition source says that the amount of business that Avengers: Endgame is doing “is ridiculous.” Off of 9 AM shows alone today, big venues like the AMC 25 Empire in NYC is making $175K, NYC Lincoln Square counts $161K, Regal E-Walk has $78K, while the Edwards Irvine is seeing $145K. Industry estimates are seeing $130M-$140M for today including $60M. “I don’t see how the pic doesn’t get to $300M-plus,” said one rival distribution exec.

Guillermo del Toro has some advice for directors that would leave most studios shaking. “As a director, it is your duty to always responsibly exceed the scope and exceed the budget,” he said. “If you have enough time and enough money, you’re f—ing up.” Del Toro dropped that bit of wisdom during a chat with Alec Baldwin at the Tribeca Film Festival for its Directors Series Thursday night, engaging in a lively conversation about his approach to filmmaking...

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A literature professor at Manchester Metropolitan University recently unearthed a legendary manuscript: a 200-page work titled The Clockwork Condition by A Clockwork Orange’s Anthony Burgess. Don’t get too excited, Droog lovers. Colin Dwyer at NPR reports that Condition is not a sequel to the cult novel, but rather a meditation on the “condition of modern man” that was to be structured similarly to Dante’s Inferno. The manuscript was also something of a cash grab. After the release and success of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of book in 1971, a publisher reached out to Burgess...

The numbers are still coming in for “Avengers: Endgame,” as its unprecedented box office success topples records left and right. Since the Marvel Studios film first began rolling out in theaters on Wednesday, its global box office total has exploded to a mind-boggling estimate of $1.2 billion, a figure that could very well increase after Sunday’s official numbers come in. That includes a $350 million opening weekend in North America — nearly $100 million higher than the previous record set by “Avengers: Infinity War” — and a $330 million five-day opening in China.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 is set to go into production next year, it has been reported. The third chapter in the Marvel franchise was plunged into uncertainty last year when director James Gunn was fired from the role due to a clash with distributors Disney. However in March he was reinstated as director, with The Hollywood Reporter claiming filming could begin in 2020.

As we, a culture-consuming society, have become hyper-sensitive to spoilers—annoyingly so, if we’re being honest—those very spoilers have become weaponized by the sad, the lonely, the desperate. Now, we’ve been in a spoiler hot zone this past week, with Avengers: Endgame hitting theaters on the same weekend of Game Of Thrones’ most climactic battle to date, and there’s been no shortage of spoiler-spitting ghouls eager to tell you who died, who got married, and who cut off Thanos’ head with a giant axe. They are all horrible, but there is, we’d wager, one exception.

Avengers Endgame Becomes Second Most Grossing Film beats Titanic, Infinity War. 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' stands at the top Highest-grossing franchises.

With the money making machine that is Avengers Endgame chugging toward breaking Avatar’s global box office record, Marvel has been working on what follows. Apparently, one of those discussions involves one Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

If you saw Avengers: Endgame and left the movie wondering who in the world Katherine Langford played, you’re not alone. The 13 Reasons Why actress was cast in a key mystery role last October, but ultimately she doesn’t appear in the finished film. And now we know why.

Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as a $200 million student film.

Bet Joe Russo is irked that “popular” Oscar category got axed. The Avengers: Endgame director — who also helmed Infinity War and the last two Captain America movies with his brother, Anthony — told The Washington Post that he believes Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., deserves an Academy Award for his performances across the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has revealed that he is working on a mockumentary about the making of his best-known film, the 2001 romantic comedy Amelie. Ahead of the film’s 20th anniversary, the French filmmaker told IndieWire that he had been inspired by Peter Jackson’s film Forgotten Cinema. “It’ll be just stupidity, something very funny, very cheap to make, I hope,” he said.

In October 2014, seven months before the release of the first Avengers sequel Age of Ultron, Marvel Studios announced that Avengers 3 and 4 would be titled Avengers: Infinity War Part I and Avengers: Infinity War Part II. This signaled that there was a massive, Thanos-infused story still to come, and that it would be too epic to contain to one single movie. Two-part conclusions aren’t exactly rare, and they’ve become more common in the 21st century—particularly with book adaptations like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. I

Okay, yeah, now I’m pretty comfortable presuming that Avengers: Endgame is going to pass Avatar ($2.788 billion in 2009/2010) at the global box office. The MCU movie earned another $10.7 million in North America (-71% down from its first Monday, but it was never going to catch Force Awakens anyway) to bring its domestic cume to $632 million in 11 days.

If you’re one of those audience members who sits through the credits on a Marvel film — and usually there’s every reason to, in order to catch the post-credits tag — you have noticed the largest “blocks” of credits that scroll up the screen: the visual effects artists. VFX is, obviously, a huge component of the making of giant blockbusters. On Avengers: Infinity War, for example, only around 80 shots were untouched by the visual effects team, out of a total of more than 2,500 shots.

According to Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America was able to wield Mjolnir long before the most recent entry in the MCU. In an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Russo Brothers were asked why Captain America was able to lift Thor’s hammer Mjolnir in Endgame when he seemingly couldn’t in Age of Ultron. The duo replied “In our heads, he was [always] able to wield it.”

Avengers: Endgame poignantly concluded the first 11 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but it also specifically improved Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joe and Anthony Russo's $2-billion blockbuster (and counting) specifically included a time travel adventure to The Avengers, when three Infinity Stones were simultaneously in New York City, but several moments in Endgame also highlighted - and enhanced - Joss Whedon's 2015 sequel.

Despite publicly voicing his opinion on “Avengers fatigue,” where he stated, “Not that I don’t love the movies. It’s just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking cities in the process. It’s like, oy!” — James Cameron sent out a congratulatory message addressed to “Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios” for Avengers: Endgame‘s record setting box office success.

The Avengers have restored the MCU thanks to their Endgame victory, but to do it, they destroyed a Guardian of the Galaxy's future. Sure, Star-Lord is the reason Thanos won the Infinity War, but the life he's now doomed to live is dark--even for Marvel.

Avengers: Endgame: Infinity Money: No More Pee Breaks has been the number one movie in the country for the last three weeks since it was released, making over $700M domestically (and around $2.5B globally). It's been a hit with audiences and critics (though there has been some controversy over a few things, like Thor's physical transformation and Black Widow's ultimate fate).

In the span of just a few weeks, we saw two of the most adored franchises of our time reach a concluding chapter. But while Avengers: Endgame was a triumph, Game of Thrones’ final days was dissatisfying. There’s good reason why these two beloved stories came to such utterly different conclusions.

Gather all your sweet little house plants around the TV: Zach Galifianakis is bringing Between Two Ferns: The Movie to Netflix come September 20. The rumored Ferns film, based on the titular interview show, will be directed by Scott Aukerman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with the series’ star. According to the film’s official synopsis, after “Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show Between Two Ferns and uploaded it to Funny Or Die, Zach became a viral laughing stock.

Avengers: Endgame marked the last time the late Stan Lee would appear in a live-action film with one of his legendary cameos. As his Endgame cameo took place in 1970s, Lee was de-aged some 45 years so that he would appear as a younger version of himself. The vendor tasked with de-aging Stan's cameo was none other than Lola VFX, the one firm that's perfected the de-aging process for Marvel Studios. We spoke with Lola's Trent Claus earlier this week and talked all things Endgame, including the firm's de-aging process 22 movies later.

Twelve years after HBO abruptly canceled the series, David Milch revisits his profane, profound opus about the lawless American West for a fitting — and very emotional — finale.

While Hollywood seems to have permanently adopted the shared-universe, existing IP-based, tentpole-starting, franchise-building method of movie making, there are still a few directors out there with the free creative reign to do whatever the hell they want. Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Alfonso Cuarón, Clint Eastwood — hell, even Ben Affleck — all come to mind when thinking of today’s true auteur directors. And a man by the name of Quentin Tarantino certainly belongs on that list.

Brie Larson has vanished. A star of Avengers: Endgame, one of the biggest movies of all time, was completely excised from a modified pirated version of the film — along with everything else in the film seen as feminist or gay.

img_20190501_1252002097837170126593730.jpgIt seems Avengers: Endgame may knock Avatar off of the top spot as the highest-grossing film of all time after all! Ahead of the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 2nd, Endgame is set to hit cinemas again “next weekend with the added bonus of some additional footage that didn’t make it into the original film.

Every summer the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors hunkers down and reviews and approves proposed rule changes from the branches.

BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made. The results are surprising – Gone With the Wind appears at 97.