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The Public Enemy character wasn’t even as high up the ladder as Paul Sorvino’s caporegime Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. But Cagney secured the turf Edward G. Robinson’s Rico Bandello took a bullet to claim in Little Caesar, and for the rest of his career Cagney never let it go. Some would argue genre films began in 1931. Besides mob movies, the year introduced the newspaper picture with Lewis Milestone’s The Front Page and John Cromwell’s Scandal Sheet; Universal Pictures began an unholy run of horror classics via Tod Browning’s Dracula and James Whale’s Frankenstein, with the two turning Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff into household names; and Howard Hawks’ Scarface would land the knockout for the gangster genre, even if it didn’t get released until 1932....

According to reports about the new trailer released at CinemaCon this week, the Rock’s character Black Adam declares, “Heroes don’t kill people… Well, I do.” Responding to a report on the trailer from Fandango reporter Erik Davis, a Twitter user pointed out that several DCEU heroes have killed, including Superman and Batman, deciding, “That line doesn’t make sense.” That tweet queued the The Rock’s entrance music, forcing the People’s Champion to set the record straight....

“I’m so excited to get back on the stage again and want to thank everyone for their patience. See you soon,” Mick Jagger said in a statement. “We’re back on the road. See you there,” Keith Richards added. The group’s hands weren’t idle during the lockdown. They recently dropped their The Rolling Stones‘ A Bigger Bang: Live On Copacabana Beach live album and concert film. They also released a song called “Living In A Ghost Town,” which captured the empty streets of the early pandemic in a video....

“I remember sleeping in my trailer quite a bit on that show,” Joe says when we caught up with him and Anthony last month ahead of the release of their new movie, The Gray Man. “I was getting three or four hours of sleep a night because I would go from set straight to editorial at two in the morning. Then I would go to sleep in my trailer for four hours, get up, and be back on set at 7 a....

For those of you who don’t recall (which is totally fair, given that July 31, 2020 was approximately 179 years ago), the conclusion of The Umbrella Academy season 2 introduced a second Umbrella-style superhero team: The Sparrow Academy. After saving the world in 1960s Dallas, the Hargreeves’ children returned home to their Umbrella Academy mansion only to find that it was occupied by a different “Academy”, this one calling themselves The Sparrows....

With Maggie back, there’s no doubt that Negan’s time in Alexandria is going to get harder. After all, she is there with little Hershel, and every day she has to walk by the man who killed her husband. When you add in the fact that Negan was there as Alpha’s second in commend when she burned Hilltop to the ground, it’s clear that there’s no road to forgiveness in Maggie’s eyes....

Befitting any scripted drama that’s lasted 11 years filming in hot Georgia summers, The Walking Dead’s final season is a grand affair. AMC handed its flagship zombie drama a 24-episode order for its 11th and final season back in 2020. The only catch is that those 24 episodes will come in three 8-episode installments. That’s led to a somewhat difficult situation for the show’s marketing department, which now has to hype up the end of The Walking Dead no fewer than three times…and that’s not even counting the spinoffs....

The end of The Walking Dead is only the beginning. That’s the teaser that closes the series finale of AMC’s zombie flagship. A Rick and Michonne series, Daryl’s spinoff, a Maggie and Negan show called Dead City, and more Fear the Walking Dead are indeed on the way, but for at least one major TWD character, this finale really is the end of the road. While last week’s episode seemed to set up Judith Grimes as the finale’s big death after she was shot by the cowardly Pamela Milton — which would have mirrored Rick’s own demise in the comics at the hands of Pamela’s son Sebastian — Daryl and the crew are able to save her, in part due to a last ditch blood transfusion....

Where will the guests stay next? The resort destination is a key contributor to the vibe of each White Lotus season. Hawaii was a tropical paradise with dark political undertones in the first go-around, and Sicily was all about romance and sexual energy under the Italian sun. How will the writers of the show decide where to go next time? White already talked about wanting to put the show in an Asian location....

And yet… Speaking to Den of Geek about new experimental mystery thriller The Third Day, currently airing on Sky Atlantic and HBO, Utopia writer Dennis Kelly admitted that he hasn’t “quite closed the door” on Utopia.“I haven’t quite gone ‘that’s something I’ll never do’.” In 2014, Channel 4 tore Kelly’s visionary thriller out by the roots to make room for other drama with a broader appeal. It didn’t want a cult hit, which is what Utopia had grown into over two striking and provocative series....

The new iteration Unsolved Mysteries is haunting and serious, avoiding some of the cheesier aspects which endeared viewers to the original, which began airing in 1987. Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1 featured six episodes which began streaming in July. Unsolved Mysteries Volume 2’s second set of sixes premieres on Oct. 19. With only one more 6 to make it a devilish enumeration, it is a perfect way to celebrate Halloween. “In six new episodes, Unsolved Mysteries profiles more unexplained disappearances, tragic events, and bizarre occurrences,” according to the official logline....

As WandaVision gets ready to head into its homestretch, the high concept Disney+ series has clearly proven itself to be far more consequential to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe than most fans would have thought. The inevitable question about a prospective WandaVision season 2 was recently brought to Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige, who has seemingly affirmed—albeit furtively—the notion of the series being a lead-in to film sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness… and likely nothing else....

The series’ second run commission has been an open secret for months, but the official stamp was announced this weekend, with filming due to begin on Monday the 13th of July after a dry run of the new COVID-19 filming protocol took place last Friday. Deadline, speaking to Urban Myth producer Johnny Capps (Merlin, Atlantis) reported on the meticulous planning and procedures in place to film the second series in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic....

As the name suggests, the focus of Werewolf by Night is Gael García Bernal’s Jack Russell (not the dog), who plays the titular wolfman. Also along for the ride are Elsa Bloodstone (Laura Donnelly) and the long-awaited MCU arrival of Man-Thing. With Werewolf by Night boasting an impressive body count, don’t expect too many of its characters to return, however, a well-hidden Easter egg hints that Jack and Elsa could have some bad blood if they meet again....

After no less than 15 Phase Four MCU projects, Marvel’s Werewolf By Night has arrived on Disney+ as a one-off curiosity, and the “special presentation”, directed by acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino, is refreshingly free from many of the pressures associated with Marvel’s other live-action TV endeavors. There’s been no mandate to stretch this tale out over six-to-nine episodes. There’s little in the way of reliance on CG or green screen effects....

This, of course, raises several questions about the current state of the DC movie universe. After all, Robert Pattinson starred in The Batman just earlier this year, and Michael Keaton has been touted as the primary Batman in The Flash and Batgirl. Does the reunion of Affleck’s Bruce Wayne and Momoa’s Arthur Curry mean that the Snyderverse has indeed been restored? Disperse the Snyderverse As previously reported from SDCC, DC Comics chief creative officer Jim Lee declared that there would be no further movies set in the Snyderverse or that would continue the apocalyptic storyline set up by Zack Snyder’s Justice League....

Hasbro Toys is now teasing the Marvel Legends 6” scale action figure line’s wave of tie-in toys for Multiverse of Madness. Among the various surprises, the preview provides a potentially profound revelation with a build-a-figure of Rintrah, a somewhat obscure green Minotaur-like sorcerer from the pages of Marvel’s Doctor Strange comics, seemingly brought to live-action glory for the movie, as the plastic suggests. Oddly enough, Elizabeth Olsen’s returning post-WandaVision Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch is nowhere to be found in this wave....

Of course, a lot has changed since Man of Steel was first released in 2013, not just for Warner Bros. and DC, but for the superhero movie landscape in general. The DCEU has had its ups and downs and some more downs in that near-decade, and WB’s chief competition in the superhero movie market, Marvel Studios continues to redefine what audiences expect in terms of a shared universe. So what’s a beleaguered studio exec (who, it should be note, as of now still has not been made in the wake of Walter Hamada’s exit from the company and overseeing DC Films) to do?...

Here’s what’s coming up next for the Stranger Things star. Enola Holmes 2 Adapted from Nancy Springer’s YA book series, the first Enola Holmes Netflix movie came out in September 2020, and its first sequel is currently in post-production and due for release on November 4th 2022. It’s the story of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ younger sister (played by Millie Bobby Brown), a precocious young Victorian who shares her brother’s detective skills and was raised by their firebrand proto-feminist mother Eudoria....

Which Hocus Pocus Scenes Were Actually Filmed in Salem? Out of Hocus Pocus‘ four-month shoot, only two weeks were spent filming in Massachusetts with the cast’s principal actors. Which most of the movie was filmed in sunny Burbank, California, the Kenny Ortega-helmed production made pretty good use of the time spent in Salem and Marblehead, filming daytime scenes in the historic New England town known for the 17th century witch trials, during which hundreds of people were executed on the suspicion of witchcraft....