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[Link] The First Marvel Movie Superhero Was Black
Read: 13/4/2022 www.thedailybeast.com
In 1998, exactly 20 years before Black Panther, the first Marvel Comics superhero made its theatrical debut. It was the vampire known as Blade. And he was Black.
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[Link] Bruce Willis’s ‘worst performance’ award from Razzies show revoked after diagnosis
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The organizers of the Razzies parody awards show have rescinded Bruce Willis’s 2021 award in light of the actor’s recently disclosed aphasia diagnosis.
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[Link] Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Warner Bros is being sued by co-financiers Village Roadshow over the hybrid release of the sci-fi sequel The Matrix Resurrections.
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[Link] ‘Fight Club’ Gets Back Its Anarchic Ending in China
Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com
The 1999 film by David Fincher originally ends with the Narrator (Edward Norton) killing his split personality Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and then watching all the buildings blow up, suggesting Tyler’s anarchist plan to destroy consumerist society is afoot.
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[Link] Reddit Bans ‘No Way Home Leaks’ For Excessive Copyright Complaints
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Reddit's patience with a subreddit dedicated to leaks and spoilers relating to the expected blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home has been stretched to breaking point.
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[Link] Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The author of Fight Club has praised the “happy ending” afforded to David Fincher’s film of his book for a new Chinese cut of the movie. Chuck Palahniuk described the change, in which the police successfully foil an anarchist plot and the heroes are incarcerated, as “SUPER wonderful”.
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[Link] Sorry, Ridley Scott, we just don’t think it’s safe to go back into the cinema
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
His latest, House of Gucci, out now, has divided critics so sharply that seeing it has become a matter of urgency: is it “boring”, “audacious”, “so bad it’s bad” or “stylish”? Is anything better than Lady Gaga in the trailer, saying: “Father, son and house of Gucci”, a line tha
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[Link] Venture Bros. Boss Confirms a Major Character's Return for the Movie
Read: 25/11/2021 www.cbr.com
The Venture Bros. co-creator Doc Hammer reveals another one of the characters he voiced will be a part of the upcoming finale film. Doc Hammer has revealed that a fan-favorite character from The Venture Bros. will make an appearance in the upcoming film.
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[Link] He Made a Horror Movie About Pizzagate, then the Death Threats Started
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
No movie has captured our current political mood like The Pizzagate Massacre. The low budget grindhouse movie from Texas follows Duncan, a schlub convinced interdimensional lizard people are controlling people from the basement of a pizza restaurant.
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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.
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[Link] Jet Li Abandoned ‘The Matrix’ Sequels Despite Nearly a Year of Involvement Because He Saw His Life’s Work Be ‘Copyrighted by the Americans’
Read: 17/11/2021 www.cheatsheet.com
Jet Li is mostly known to his fans for his involvement in high-action movies such as Lethal Weapon, The Forbidden Kingdom, and The Expendables, to name a few.
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[Link] Those Bullet Effects In Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI
Read: 15/11/2021 hackaday.com
Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the “liquid metal” robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that momentarily staggered the killing machine.
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[Link] The Bigger Luke Hypothesis: going deep on Star Wars’ most absurd fan theory
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Another quiet night on Discord, and my friends and I stumble on to the subject of fan theories. “Have you heard the one about how Sean Connery in The Rock is actually James Bond?” someone says. Oh my god, I think to myself, that makes sense! He even looks like James Bond …
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[Link] Blade review – Wesley Snipes is back in excitingly macabre vampire horror
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The first film in the Blade trilogy, made in 1998, is getting a re-release: Wesley Snipes is the implacable and massively ripped daywalker marching around in his shades and leatherised protective armour, slaying the vampires with his cold steel implements and martial-arts skills.
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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.
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[Link] Alec Baldwin Just Shot Someone and He’s Tweeting Through It
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While filming a scene near Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Western last month, Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injured director Joel Souza.
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[Link] Midsommar: Every Clue That Foreshadowed Dani Becoming The May Queen
Read: 31/10/2021 screenrant.com
Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar ends with the crowning of Dani as the May Queen, but throughout its entirety it foreshadowed that she it was her destiny all along. Starring Florence Pugh as Dani, Midsommar begins with the gruesome murder-suicide of her sister and parents.
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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Made a Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ and it Looks Completely Unhinged
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s come to this: Fox News and Tucker Carlson are producing a new documentary on the Capitol riot that appears to portray the insurrection as a false flag operation against Trump supporters.
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[Link] More Live Bullets Found on ‘Rust’ Set After Alec Baldwin Shooting, Police Say
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Police have recovered three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, both dummy and live, from the Rust movie set, according to a press conference Wednesday. Among the evidence collected was the Colt .
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[Link] The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the brutal future of Frank Herbert’s Dune, computers are outlawed and high level computations are done by specially trained and bred humans called mentats. In Herbert’s world, there’s something elegant about old solutions to new problems.
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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.
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[Link] You need to watch the most stunning sci-fi trilogy ending on HBO Max ASAP
Read: 17/10/2021 www.inverse.com
Endings are hard. When it comes to big-screen trilogies, third entries can prove tricky to execute. The third Godfather movie is considered a weaker outing for that seminal franchise, Spider-Man 3 is an overwrought step down from its predecessors, Blade: Trinity is highly forgettable, and so on.
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[Link] ‘We’re going to hide it’: How Lilo & Stitch succeeded by staying off Disney’s radar
Read: 1/10/2021 www.polygon.com
Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but many of these nostalgic favorites were critical failures, box-office disappointments, or both.
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[Link] DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally
Read: 19/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Copyright holders have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, in some cases, takedown requests make it harder to find legal content too.
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[Link] Is Morpheus Not in The Matrix Trailer Because He Died in The Matrix MMO?
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
So you just watched the new Matrix Resurrections trailer and you're wondering where Laurence Fishburne character Morpheus is. I've got bad news for you: Canonically, he's been dead since the mid 2000s.
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[Link] Warner Bros. 'Reminiscence' promo uses deepfake tech to put you in the trailer
Read: 26/8/2021 www.engadget.com
If you want to see yourself on screen with Hugh Jackman, this is your chance. The promo for Warner Bros. upcoming Reminiscence movie uses deepfake technology to turn a photo of your face — or anybody's face, really — into a short video sequence with the star.
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[Link] Free Guy review – Ryan Reynolds bounces through fun videogame existential crisis
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Reynolds plays a normal, boring guy whose name is Guy (amusingly, it is never clear if this is his actual given name, as in Guy Crouchback, or the more generic “guy”).
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[Link] Marvel's Kevin Feige Reportedly 'Angry and Embarrassed' at Disney Over Scarlett Johansson Lawsuit
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is reportedly “angry and embarrassed” over Disney’s response to Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit, feeling the company did not do enough to make it right with one of Marvel’s biggest stars.
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[Link] How product placements may soon be added to classic films
Read: 19/4/2021 www.bbc.com
Product placement is big business for movies and TV series alike, and items can now be added digitally to films and programmes both new and old. Fans of classic war flicks will know the scene - actor Steve McQueen revs his motorcycle furiously as he is chased by German soldiers.
[Link] ‘Lord of the Rings’ Actor: Philippa Boyens ‘Put All This Stuff’ in the Scripts ‘That Doesn’t Make Sense’
Read: 19/4/2021 www.indiewire.com
“Lord of the Rings” fans might not recognize Stephen Ure by his face, but they will surely remember the performances he gives in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth trilogy.
[Link] 19 Postponed Movies You Forgot to Be Excited About in 2021
Read: 29/1/2021 lifehacker.com
Your excitement for blockbuster flicks may have vanished after coronavirus closed theaters and murder hornets came on the scene, but most of the movies we forgot about are on their way back in 2021.
[Link] New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases
Read: 25/1/2021 www.wired.com
Aric Toler’s face is illuminated only by the glow of the video playing on his laptop. It’s dashcam footage, supposedly captured by a driver in the town of Makiivka in eastern Ukraine, showing a Russian military convoy on its way to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 on July 17, 2014.