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Ed and Lorraine Warren have closed their last case. No, not just the real-world Warrens, the hucksters whose work ended with Ed’s death in 2006. Rather, the much-more lovable fictional Warrens played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring. Ever since that 2013 movie directed by James Wan, The Conjuring launched a surprising […]

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is about how to let go of Star Wars. Not only did it infamously give us Luke Skywalker as a bitter old recluse and reject the idea that Rey mattered because of her bloodline, but it also insisted that the series was all about change. The Last Jedi makes that […]

The post Even After Everything, Rian Johnson Still Loves Star Wars appeared first on Den of Geek.

With Wicked, director Jon M. Chu had to make a two-decade-old stage musical based on a novel from 30 years ago inspired by a movie almost 90 years old that adapted a book from 1900 feel fresh. He did that, in part, by casting a pop star as one of the leads, putting Ariana Grande […]

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It sounds like The New Mutants’ rocky road to the screen was hard on its writer-director.  In a new interview, Josh Boone reflects on the challenges and frustrations he faced during the making of the troubled X-Men spinoff. It was finally released under the Marvel banner to a subdued reaction in 2020, leaving Boone to […]

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Tom Ellis, the devilishly charming star of Lucifer, came close to joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. While Pedro Pascal ultimately snagged the role, Ellis has revealed he was one of a select few actors asked to submit audition tapes for the legendary superhero. […]

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Screenwriter Will Tracy is not sure if Ari Aster had any direct notions of remaking Save the Green Planet! when they sat down for lunch back in 2019. The scribe just recalls in those blissful months before the pandemic—and acrimony that would make even the 2010s seem quaint—that the Midsommar filmmaker asked Tracy what he […]

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