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Tales From The Box Office: How Skyfall Became The Biggest Bond Movie Ever (Welcome toTales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) Daniel Craig’s debut as 007 came in 2006’s “Casino Royale.” It simply cannot be overstated just how radical that movie was in comparison to how Pierce Brosnan ended his run with “Die Another Day” just four years earlier....

The ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Sequel Faces A Unique Challenge The ending of Marvel Studios’Avengers: Infinity Warhas everyone looking ahead toAvengers 4and speculating about how some of those events might be undone, but the marketing team at Sony Pictures is likely focused on an entirely different question. How the heck are they supposed to market theSpider-Man Homecomingsequel without spoiling the events ofAvengers 4? Spoilersfollow. Avengers: Infinity War Put Sony in a Bind The fact thatSpider-Man: Homecoming 2is being planned at all is already a spoiler forAvengers 4, and savvy fans who knew the sequel was in the works may have felt slightly cheated whenTom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man blew away into dust in Tony Stark’s arms....

The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Paints Cats In This Surprisingly Melancholy Biopic [TIFF 2021] It’s hard to believe now, but there was a period when many people didn’t consider cats to be pet material. Then again, this probably isn’t the most shocking news to some folks – our feline friends are notoriously aloof and independent, and sometimes it seems like they have no use for us at all....

The Hated: Female-Led Western Comic Is Getting Adapted At Netflix Netflix is gettinga new western series, but it’s not like any old western. They’ve subbed out the genre conventions of your average John Wayne or Clint Eastwood storyline for something stranger, darker, and newer. Delightfully titled “The Hated,” this upcoming series follows bounty hunter Araminta Free as she hunts down war criminals in a world where the US has been split up into two countries and the Civil War ended much differently....

The L Word: Generation Q Will Be Back For Season 3 Showtime’s “The L Word: Generation Q” has been renewed for a third season, four months after its sophomore finale aired in October 2021. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan and creator Ilene Chaiken’s groundbreaking drama series will be back for its season 3 run onShowtime, the Viacom CBS-backed premium network. This is especially good news for fans of “The L Word: Generation Q,” considering that the show has been renewed amidst news ofthree other shows being axed: comedies “Black Monday” and “Work in Progress,” along with drama series, “American Rust....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Tread’ Is All About Perception (And A Giant Homemade Tank Rampaging Through A Small Town) (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:TreadWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: In the early 2000s, a man bought a bulldozer and, over the course of several months, secretly turned it into a homemade tank....

The X-Files Season 2 Episode ‘The Host’ Was More Important Than You Realized “The X-Files” went through a lot of tonal shifts throughout itseleven seasonrun. The sci-fi series had its monster-of-the-week format, in which Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) chased down sundry beasties, arguing about whether or not they could be scientifically explained all the while. There were also the mythology episodes, mysterious and sometimes contradictory information downloads thatreferenced backto the childhood trauma that put Mulder on the UFO-hunting path long ago....

Tom Cruise And Jack Nicholson Could Reunite In The Comedy ‘El Presidente’ This could be pretty tasty:Tom CruiseandJack Nicholson, whose 1992 onscreen interaction previously produced one of the most recognizable and oft-quoted scenes in movie history, may work together again. In a comedy, no less. A Few Good Menwas almost twenty years ago, but the quotable power of the courtroom showdown between Cruise and Nicholson hasn’t begun to fade from public memory....

Tribeca Movie Review: You Kill Me The following movie was screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. You Kill Me Spotlight, Narrative 2007, U.S.A. Dir: John Dahl What happens when you get an alcoholic hit man who can’t seem to perform his duties well enough? You get the premise to You Kill Me, a moronic “indie” comedy disguised as a smart drama, about what, exactly, is not easily discernable. Ben Kingsley plays Frank....

Video Game Sensation ‘Cuphead’ Is Getting An Animated Series On Netflix Have you heard ofCuphead? It’s an indie video game series from Studio MDHR with a visual style that calls back to classic 1930s cartoons from the likes of Max Fleischer, creator of Betty Boop, Popeye, and more. As for the gameplay, it has a classic run-and-gun feel like old school videos games such asContraorEarthworm Jimwith players controlling Cuphead and his brother Mugman as they fight a stream of bad guys and big bosses....

Watch More Behind The Scenes Of ‘Rango’ We’re pretty excited forRango, the newGore Verbinski-directed animated feature starringJohnny Deppas a charismatic chameleon. And we’re not the only ones. Paramount’s clearly pushing this film hard, even buying it a commercial during theSuper Bowl. Now that’s commitment. A couple of months ago, we showed you a making-of featurette forRangotitled"Behind the Scenes: Natural Acting Experience,“which demonstrated Verbinski’s new technique for creating CGI characters. As Peter put it, “Imagine something like how they filmed Avatar, but without all the motion capture suits, balls, and green screen....

Why You Shouldn’t Compare Marvel’s Moon Knight To Batman Whentrying to explain Moon Knightto the uninitiated, there are many who would describe the hero as Marvel’s Batman. It’s a comparison that isn’t completely unfounded, particularly when considering some of the character’s early comic appearances. However, Marc Spector has evolved considerably over the years and he deserves better than being in the Dark Knight’s shadow. Hopefully, the new"Moon Knight"series, which is soon headed to Disney+, will helpdifferentiate between these two heroes....

‘Batwoman’ TV Show Pilot With Ruby Rose Ordered By The CW In a move that will surprise no one, The CW has ordered aBatwomanTV show pilot featuringRuby Roseas the character. Rose stepped into the role for the first time during the CW’s “Elseworlds” crossover event, and now she’ll have a chance to lead a series of her own – should the show get picked up. The pilot is set to be directed byDavid Nutter, who also directed the pilots forThe FlashandArrow....