“[Black Canary was] such an example of when you’re writing something and the character is like, ‘Hello I am present!’ She just continued to persevere through the entire script,” says Justice Society:World War II co-writer Meghan Fitzmartin. She wasn’t alone. “When I saw the movie, the thing that rocked my world was Elysia [Rotaru]’s portrayal of Black Canary,” co-writer Jeremy Adams agrees. “The take that Meghan and Jeremy did with her by making her more of a tough chick from Brooklyn was definitely great, and her character arc with Hawkman was excellent,” says supervising producer Butch Lukic....

“The last one I did, [director Stephen Norrington] was given $85 million to make a movie in Prague, but unfortunately he wasn’t certified before he started because he would have been arrested for insanity,” Connery told an interviewer in 2007. “So, we worked as well as we could, and [I] ended up being heavily involved in the editing and trying to salvage.” It’s a testament to how bad that film was and how successful Connery was, that the actor could just call it quits near the height of his powers and popularity....

Cretton’s approach to Shang-Chi was unconventional. Beyond the obvious Kung Fu movie influences, Cretton was loosely inspired by Good Will Hunting. Cretton felt that the characters of Shang-Chi and Will Hunting (Matt Damon) had a lot of similarities in that they both had big secrets and a lot of emotional baggage. In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Liu even revealed that his initial audition was to read two scenes from Good Will Hunting, which he claimed was one of his favorite movies....

When you watch clips of the international versions, they are generally recognisably Taskmaster, from the red-carpeted stage and the clinical white room in the Taskmaster house to the graphics and Horne Section soundtrack. It’s all so comfortably familiar that – if you watch a version with subtitles – you quickly forget the contestants are speaking a different language altogether. But there are some key differences, from the show’s format to each different country’s cultural quirks, that give Taskmaster’s international versions their own unique flavour....

Director Michael Chaves and company are not subtle about their influences in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. It’s there in the first scene. As we’re reintroduced to Ed and Lorraine Warren, darkness has fallen over a family, and a Satanic presence is in the home. A young child lays bedridden, cursed to endure demonic possession, and an old priest arrives late in the foggy night. When Father Gordon gets out of his cab, The Conjuring even reenacts an image so famously associated with The Exorcist that Warner Bros....

Anyone vaguely familiar with the process of transferring saved data between generations of consoles knows that it’s rarely as easy as you hope it will be. While there are a few annoying restrictions that you’ll have to deal with when it’s finally time to finally bring your GTA data into the next generation, Rockstar has thankfully found the way to make the whole process relatively painless. Here’s what you need to know about migrating your GTA 5 and GTA Online data to next-gen consoles....

Hulu has a diverse array of original content and library offerings for those looking to escape the oppressive summer heat this month. It starts out on the movie side of things with the Joey King-starring The Princess on July 1. From there, Hulu is releasing original films like The Bob’s Burgers Movie on July 12, documentary feature Aftershock on July 19, and the intriguing Zoey Deutch project Not Okay on July 29....

As revealed in The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, as per The Direct, Feige and the top brass at Marvel Studios began speculating on what Peter Parker would look like in the MCU (and implicitly why it couldn’t be the one then played by Garfield) before they ever approached Sony about making a deal that would bring Spidey into the MCU....

Interview with the Vampire has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2022 TV calendar. AMC‘s supremely atmospheric series uses Anne Rice‘s classic tome as a jumping off point to modernize the vampiric recollections of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he recounts his time with Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia (Bailey Bass), all the while maintaining the impeccable gothic vibes of its source....

Netflix’s renewal makes official what was up until now heavily teased regarding the second season of Camp Cretaceous, the animated series spinoff of the Jurassic World/Park film franchise. Thus, with Season 1 of the series having left its central characters to fend for themselves on an island populated by dinosaurs, the streaming giant is already signaling that the wait for Season 2 won’t be too long, revealing a 2021 release window....

Den of Geek got a chance to see the footage, which is more of an extended trailer, and chat afterward about it with director Colin Trevorrow, who also helmed the first Jurassic World. And it must be said that the first and most surprising thing about the preview is that despite the movie being about how dinosaurs are reintroduced into the modern word, the movie begins with the series’ first-ever look at where the dinosaurs came from in the past....

First of all, there’s the question of why the father of the separated family, Gavin Harris (Eoin Macken), is able to see what’s happening on the other side of the rift. Initially, his visions seemed to be a convenient narrative device with little internal logic, but this week’s La Brea ties his concussion and subsequent clairvoyance to a similar sinkhole in the Mojave desert, which opened on the same day as his plane accident....

Crystal Planet, the new sci-fi comic from Opus Comics, was written by Satriani and Tony Lee, and drawn by Richard Friend. The five-issue series is a “space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star.” The adventure is all about how the power and emotion of music can restore harmony to the timestream....

Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episode 8 Since these crossovers have become an annual affair, the bar gets raised for each episode. They’re measured against not only prior episodes of their own series, but against prior crossovers as well. So let’s get right to the point. This was the best episode of Legends of Tomorrowyet, in the best DC TV crossover to date. Some of this is a quirk of the schedule: as the last episode in the crossover, it’s where most of the payoff for the prior three hours of television came....

“It’s been just over a year since WandaVision first hit Disney+, so while we wait for the Scarlet Witch to return in Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness to grapple with the whole ‘so I was understandably quite sad and magically took it out on a small town/a witch passing by/the synthetic corpse of my android lover’ deal, in the meantime, ILM has given us a great chance to look back and see the series’ emotional finale come together....

“It is Andrew Garfield’s year, and that is continuing with a new FX series called Under the Banner of Heaven. Based on the novel of the same name by Jon Krakauer, the story follows the real-life murder of Brenda and Erica Lafferty by Ron and Dan Lafferty. The story isn’t an easy one to digest and is still a case that is widely talked about in the Utah area.” Read more at The Mary Sue The showrunner of Marvel’s Luke Cage is nervous that the new streaming home for his TV show might censor some vital elements of the series....

“The Lizard is in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but is Rhys Ifans? The actor, who also stars as Rasputin in The King’s Man (2021) is keeping his lips closed on the new Spidey movie, but he still has opinions on why his The Amazing Spider-Man character was such a good antagonist for Peter Parker.” Read more at Inverse After her standout performance in What If…?, Captain Carter is getting her own run in the comic books....

“With the prevalence of gore and special effects in horror movies today, it’s hard to imagine the impact The Exorcist had when it first came out in 1973. But to mainstream audiences, William Friedkin’s demonic picture was unlike anything they had ever witnessed.” Read more at Mental Floss. What makes The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor compelling horror isn’t the scary moments, but the wonderfully crafted characters. Read more at The Mary Sue....

“Inspiring fans to fire up their brick building engines, the LEGO Group and Universal Brand Development have revealed a brand new three-in-one reproduction of one of the most iconic vehicles of all time – the Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine. Inspired by the DeLorean car seen in the time-traveling adventure film franchise from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the LEGO Back to the Future Time Machine set allows builders to create the car from either the first, second, or third film....

“There are few things in this world funnier than watching an otherwise extremely scary individual being forced to do something mundane. That is the exact form of comedy that Netflix’s new slice-of-life anime series The Way of the Househusband is predicated on, and it’s uproariously funny every single time.” Read more at Thrillist. Old Hollywood actress Mary Astor and her Purple Diary were at the center of the biggest sex scandal in the 1930s....