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Fresh Star Sebastian Stan Is Drawn To Roles That Scare Him [Interview] This post containsspoilersfor “Fresh.” Sebastian Stan is embracing his dark side. He was always a bit of a brooder, whether you think all the way back to his “Gossip Girl” stint as a rich sleazebag or, more recently, to his famed role as the mass-murdering villain turned Avenger, the Winter Soldier. But if you’ve been tracking Stan’s career outside the MCU, you might’ve noticed histatted-up turnas Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy....

Here Is The Trevor Noah Cameo In ‘Black Panther’ That You Might Have Missed It’s unexpected cameo season! Even better than Christmas is the time of year when all the news stories come out about how Daniel Craigplayed a Stormtrooper,or how Joseph Gordon-Levitt’sStar Wars: TheLast Jedicameowas a Beastie Boys reference. Oh, and then there was Matt Damon inThor: Ragnarok, and that one specialcameo inDeadpool 2that has everyone talking. But there was one blockbuster cameo that you may have missed when this movie first hit theaters:Trevor Noah....

Johnny Depp Merges With The Machine In New ‘Transcendence’ Stills It really says something aboutJohnny Depp’s career that his role inTranscendenceas a megalomaniacal digital god (or something) is theleastweird he’s looked in a while. The role doesn’t require him to don gold teeth, or vampire fangs, or ten pounds of white makeup and a bird on his head. Instead, as directorWally Pfisterputs it,Transcendencehas him with “just a pair of glasses on and a pretty normal haircut....

Key And Peele To Produce ‘Police Academy’ Remake ThePolice Academyremake has just been given new life thanks to Key and Peele.Keegan-Michael KeyandJordan Peele, best known for their Comedy Central sketch comedy showKey and Peele, have just been attached to produce a remake of the goofball Eighties franchise about misfits training to become police officers. The Hollywood Reporterfirst expanded on thePolice Academyremake news, but theTracking Boardreported it first. DirectorScott Zabielskiwas long been attached to the remake, which is set up at New Line, but is no longer....

Kumail Nanjiani Bails On ‘Conan’ Due To Work Commitment, Leaving Conan Scrambling For Only The Second Time In A Quarter Century Conan O’Brienis the longest-running late night talk show host in the game right now, and in his more than 25 years experience, he’s only had two instances in which a confirmed guest flaked on him at the last minute. One was Liza Minelli over two decades ago, and the other wasStuberstarKumail Nanjiani, who was slated to appear on TBS’sConanlast night but ended up cancelling just thirty minutes before the show began recording in front of its live studio audience....

Latest ‘The Mandalorian’ Creature Of The Week Was Inspired By Old ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Concept Art Last weekend’s episode ofThe Mandalorianintroduced us to another terrifying creature in theStar Warsuniverse…and it’s not the Child’s hunger for eggs. After the Razor Crest landed on an unknown ice planet, Mando, the Child, and a new passenger encountered some nasty spiders lurking in a cavern. This is the first time the deadly creatures have been introduced in the live-actionStar Warsuniverse, but their inception goes all the way back to concept art created byRalph McQuarrieforThe Empire Strikes Back....

Listen To The New ‘Mortal Kombat’ Reboot Theme, Prepare To Shout “MORTAL KOMBAT!” When Necessary There’s aMortal Kombatreboot movie on the way, and the question on everyone’s lips is, “Will it have that badass techno theme song where some guy yells ‘MORTAL KOMBAT!’ at the top of his lungs?” The answer is yes. although rather than reuse the original song, which is called “Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat),” theMortal Kombatreboot has gone ahead and rebooted the theme as well, with composerBenjamin Wallfischhandling the music....

Mark Zuckerberg On The Inaccuracies Of ‘The Social Network’ Mark Zuckerberghas spoken out onThe Social Networka couple of times before, once onOprah—“I’m going to promise you, this is my life, so I know it’s not so dramatic”—and then again in an interview withMashable—“We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t really matter that much”. In neither of those instances did he elaborate too heavily on what issues, if any, he had with the film and its portrayal of him....

Marvel Shows Off ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Fight Style At D23 When I spoke toCaptain America: The Winter SoldierdirectorsAnthony and Joe Russoat Comic Con, the brotherstalked about their approach to creating fight scenes for the film, and how it differs from what we saw in the first movie. In short, the two have envisioned Cap as a killer close-quarters fighter, and they’re capturing action with a hand-held camera but with the intent to depict physical space in a more coherent way than many modern films influenced by theBournemovies....

Marvel’s Secret Invasion Is Apparently Digging Deep Into Skrull Mythology Back in December 2020, Marvel Studios announced a number of new shows for Disney+. Among them was"Secret Invasion,“which is inspired by 2008 Marvel Comics crossover event by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu. In this storyline, the shape-shifting aliens known as the Skrulls have been planning a long-term infiltration of Earth by slowly replacing key figures in power such as high ranking members of S....

Michael Fassbender’s Backside Raises All Kinds Of Questions In The First ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Set Photo Assassin’s Creedis filming right now and we have our fingers crossed that it’ll be the moviethat finally breaks the dreaded video game adaptation curse. Seriously. We’re due for a decent movie based on a video game. If a science-fiction historical epic starringMichael Fassbenderand directed byJustin Kurzelisn’t something worth watching, then everyone had better just give up trying to adapt games into films in the first place....

Mythomaniac Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More,our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) One of the best aspects of Netflix is its dedication to international content, allowing users from different cultures all across the globe to have a shared viewing experience (I’m looking at you, “Squid Game”). Now in its second season, the French-language show “Mythomaniac” has been a captivating entry in the “overworked mom tries to find her true self” subgenre made popular with shows like “Weeds” and “Good Girls....

New Netflix Mystery Series Will Be Based On The Swedish ‘Young Wallander’ Novels Kurt Wallanderhas appeared in nine films, one Swedish series, one BBC series, and yet this fictional Swedish detective is hardly known in the States. But that may soon change, as Netflix has orderedYoung Wallander, a series, loosely based onHenning Mankell’s book series. Netflix has ordered theYoung WallanderTV series, which is set in contemporary Sweden and follows a young 20-something Kurt Wallander on his first case, as he attempts to prove himself as a recently graduated police officer....