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Wayne Brady recently stepped away from his hosting duties on Let’s Make a Deal, allowing his co-star to shine on the popular game show.

The 52-year-old actor and comedian began hosting the CBS revival of the dealmaking game show in 2009.

Viewers generally watch Wayne and his Let’s Make a Deal co-stars on weekdays before The Price Is Right and sometimes at night for primetime specials.

Those co-stars include announcer Jonathan Mangum, musician Cat Gray, and model Tiffany Coyne.

They’ve all become familiar faces on the CBS game show and often receive praise for bringing the fun during random and improvised moments.

In a weekday installment earlier this week, Wayne chose to do a switcheroo involving himself and Tiffany.

Tiffany took over as Let’s Make a Deal host in her slippers

On Monday, November 4, a Let’s Make a Deal episode featured Wayne hosting the show, mostly. His co-stars Tiffany and...

Jinjer have announced their fifth studio album, Duél, out February 7th via Napalm Records. The new single “Kafka” can be streamed now.

The track showcases the many facets of the Ukrainian band’s sound, opening with gnarled guitar arpeggios that are deceptively intricate and woven around a mathy drum arrangement. The song holds to this style for the first half of the four-minute runtime before Jinjer bring the metal at the drop, with Tatiana Shmayluk’s melodic vocals suddenly becoming raspy howls.

“Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal… as our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note, we‘re expected to be on point all-the-time … and when we aren’t, we are scandalized,” Shmayluk said of “Kafka,” which is inspired by the titular Austrian-Czech novelist.

She continued: “A true artist is vulnerable but the crowd is most...

Russell Crowe makes everything look cool, including riding around in a Vespa in a priest outfit, as seen in the immensely enjoyable (and funny!) "The Pope's Exorcist." Before exorcising demons on the big screen, Crowe embraced the aura of a vengeful killer in the 2020 action thriller "Unhinged," where he is more than happy to indulge in some violent road rage and set people's houses on fire. Turns out, Derrick Borte's "Unhinged" is making some big waves on Netflix's U.S. streaming charts, where the Crowe-starrer is currently occupying the #2 spot on the Top 10 Movies chart this week (via FlixPatrol). The premise and tone are as pulpy as they get, but Crowe emerges as a highly entertaining villain whose shenanigans live up to the title of Borte's film.

The screenplay for "Unhinged" was written by Carl Ellsworth of "Red Eye" fame, but Crowe previously told Screen Rant that it...

The Max original series The Sex Lives of College Girls is returning to the streaming service next month.

The third season will drop on Thursday, Nov. 21, with one new episode in the 10-episode set dropping each week at 9 p.m. Et through Jan. 23.

The coming-of-age series, following a group of students at New England’s prestigious Essex College, was created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble and originally starred Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Reneé Rapp as the core suitemates experiencing college life together.

But news broke over the summer of 2023 that Rapp, who has gone on to launch a hit music career, would be leaving the series during its third season. She will appear in a few episodes, as a recurring guest star, not a series regular, to set up her character Leighton Murray’s departure from Essex.

The Mean Girls star is shown in some...

Goldie Hawn stars in The Sugarland Express, with Steven Spielberg’s film arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time.

Steven Spielberg was just 26 years old when he embarked on The Sugarland Express, the first time he’d put together a feature film with a cinema release in mind. By this stage in his career – and he was on the eve of Jaws – he’d already directed the terrific film Duel, but that was effectively a television movie. The Sugarland Express was a scaling up.

Goldie Hawn and Ben Johnson star in the film, and it was also the movie that saw Spielberg working with John Williams for the first time. Quite the collaboration that’d turn out to be. Spielberg also co-authored the story with credited screenwriters Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood.

The response to the film on release was pretty to really good, and Universal is...

Steven Spielberg has always had an eye for the extraordinary. Normalcy surrounding the everyday facets of life was not intriguing enough for the director, even as a bright-eyed 20-something-year-old filmmaker. For him, only stories that defied imagination and completely transported the audience to a land of impossibilities interested him enough to make it into a movie.

The Sugarland Express [Credit: Universal Pictures]

From Spielberg’s bottomless curiosity was born films like Jaws, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jurassic Park. But it was also his need to unearth the mysteries of mankind that led Spielberg to tell stories based on true experiences, namely Schindler’s List, Catch Me If You Can, Empire of the Sun, Band of Brothers, and most importantly, The Sugarland Express – his feature directorial debut.

Steven Spielberg‘s Grand Hollywood Debut The Sugarland Express [Credit: Universal Pictures]

Even as a new kid on the block, Steven Spielberg showed enough chutzpah,...

The American TV-movie has gained a bad rap over the years, but there was a time when folks looked forward to these flicks — and not in an ironic sense or a need to hate-watch.

That period of kinder and less cynical viewership was surely in the 1970s and ’80s when the made-for-television movie became more widespread. The “movie of the week” format took off in the former decade, with the major networks at the time devoting blocks in their schedules to these standalone, small-screen features. And one of the more revisited genres was horror. Duel, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Trilogy of Terror, Are You in the House Alone?, The Initiation of Sarah. These are just a few of the classic telefilms that scared a whole generation of viewers.

There have been great strides to archive and restore these past horror TV-movies,...

Halloween is a great time to sit back, relax, munch on some candy and watch some creepy Halloween anime. But do you know another great time to do that? The entire month of October. But until the government legally and rightfully acknowledges October as a month-long holiday, I’m just gonna have to go ahead and do the heavy lifting myself. And that means putting together enough Halloween-themed anime episodes to keep you covered for the next 31 days. But this isn’t just a list of anime that is intended to be packed with thrills , chills and scares. No, I’m going to ease you into this month of Halloween, starting you off with some episodes that take a more joyous look at it and slowly moving you toward your haunting destiny. You’ll begin with cute parties and costume contests and end by totally questioning your own human spirit...

Even the mighty Steven Spielberg had a moment where his directing throne was almost snatched from under him. Picture this: just as Jaws was poised to sink its teeth into cinema history, another director nearly swooped in to replace Spielberg for his own breakthrough. Yup, Hollywood’s golden boy faced some stiff competition right before making shark-infested waters iconic.

Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg | image credit: Gage Skidmore/Cc By-sa 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

It’s wild to think that the film that launched Spielberg’s career into the stratosphere could’ve had a totally different captain at the helm. With the pressure on and the studio having second thoughts, it’s a wonder Spielberg held onto his seat—and thank goodness he did. Imagine a world where Jaws wasn’t Spielberg’s big bite into fame!

How a ‘White Whale’ Slip-Up Led Steven Spielberg to Direct Jaws Instead of Dick Richards Steven...

The previously announced continuation of the decades-old Mashin Hero Wataru anime franchise, titled Mashin Sozoden Wataru , today announced that the new series will begin airing on Japanese television in January 2025 . A teaser trailer and visual, along with main cast members, production staff and character designs, were also revealed. Visual The anime's cast is as follows (from left to right): Ryunryun voiced by Rie Kugimiya Maro voiced by Megu Umezawa Kakeru Amabe voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki Wataru Hoshibe voiced by Mutsumi Tamura Ofurain voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi Mashin Sozoden Wataru character designs Tomokazu Sugita will voice Mashin Ryujinmaru, pictured top-center below. Designs were also revealed for, from left to right, Fujinmaru, Kirinmaru, Tenshomaru and Jugomaru. Mashin Sozoden Wataru robot designs Related: Original Anime Apocalypse Hotel Announced for 2025 Yumi Kamakura ( Inazuma Eleven Ares ) directs Mashin Sozoden Wataru at studio Bandai Namco Pictures, with series composition by Yoichi Kato ( Duel Masters!! ), character...

Writer-director Jt Mollner’s “Strange Darling” is one of the best American genre films in years, an electrifying thriller that’s in the same league as John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” the Coen brothers’ “Blood Simple,” and Quentin Tarantino‘s “Reservoir Dogs” when it comes to reinventing old traditions and making them feel startlingly new again. It’s a film best entered cold, since its surprises — of which there are many — are among its greatest pleasures, but it’s not too much of a spoiler to say that the movie takes the “final girl” convention of slasher films like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” and breathes exhilarating new life into it.

“I was like, what can we do with the final girl that gives her more depth?” Mollner told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “That peels layers of her psyche away and shows us something more? I started...

The Jeepers Creepers franchise began with a bang in 2001, capturing the imaginations and nightmares of horror fans with its introduction of the Creeper, a demonic entity that awakens every 23 years to feast on human flesh. Directed by Victor Salva, the original film stood out for its eerie atmosphere, relentless suspense, and the enigmatic terror of the Creeper, portrayed by Jonathan Breck. It struck a chord with audiences, becoming a sleeper hit and grossing over $59 million worldwide. The sequel in 2003 continued to build on this mythology, focusing on a group of stranded teenagers and further cementing the Creeper as a formidable horror icon despite mixed reviews. However, the third installment in 2017 signaled a steep decline, with a disjointed narrative, lackluster special effects, and a failure to capture the franchise’s original suspense and terror. Despite these ups and downs, the franchise’s enduring legacy and dedicated fanbase prompted a reboot with...

Duel Masters Lost , the latest animated installment in the long-running Duel Masters card-battle series, has revealed a new trailer, a new piece of key art, new cast members, and the main staff for the series. The series will begin streaming on the official Duel Masters YouTube channel beginning on October 4, 2024. The new cast members include: Crysta voiced by Honoka Inoue Crysta character art Abyssbel, Jashin Emperor voiced by Wataru Hatano (Century in Shy ) Abyssbel, Jashin Emperor character art Based on the original manga written by Shigenobu Matsumoto and illustrated by Yoh Kanebayashi, Toshinori Fukushima directs the anime adaptation at animation studio J.C.Staff. Yoichi Kato provides the series composition, Chikara Hashizume provides the animation character designs, and Takeshi Takadera provides the sound direction. Duel Masters Lost key art Related: Duel Masters Lost Manga to Get Anime Adaptation in Fall 2024 Duel Masters Lost is an alternative take on the 2022 Duel Masters Win...

The directorial debut of Justin Matthews and Luke Spencer Roberts (writers of Prime Video’s recent rom-com Upgraded), The Duel, is one of the more star-studded independent films in recent memory, boasting a cast led by recognizable faces like Dylan Sprouse and Patrick Warburton. Although it has thin characters and occasionally repetitive humor, The Duel is an entertaining satire that is just provocative enough to work.

The Duel follows two former best friends who find themselves at a crossroads when one sleeps with the other’s girlfriend. This leads them to a mysterious estate, where they engage in a ritual duel to the death. Matthews and Roberts take some very ambitious swings with their directorial debut, and while they don’t all work, it’s at least an intriguing work of satire.

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Warning: the following story contains mentions of sexual assault.

Stephen King knows horror. For 50 years now, King has been terrifying readers with his best-selling tales of terror — books that have stood the test of time to become classics of the genre. So, whenever King weighs in on a horror title that he didn't write, people take notice. A recommendation from Stephen King is a recommendation from a master, and while some of King's tastes may be questionable (remember when he praised "The Flash" on Twitter before the movie was released? That was weird!), they're still worth some attention.

In 1981, King published "Danse Macabre," a non-fiction book in which he examined the horror genre in all its various forms. In 2010, the book was re-published with a new essay from King. In that essay, he not only wrote more about the horror genre, but he also ran through a list of recent horror movies that he recommends.

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Duel of the Fates is widely considered to be the best fight scene in Star Wars, if not all of modern cinema. Many directors have tried to top it, including other Star Wars movies, but come out and say it was your intention is surely setting yourself up to fail.

The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland has done just that, and it is safe to say that while the fight scenes in her show were good, they still fell short of the climactic battle in The Phantom Menace.

Headland Targeted the Impossible

Talking to Collider, Headland was asked about the impressive fight sequences in The Acolyte, to which she mentioned she was trying to make the scenes feel like they could stand the test of time. She explains:

“[Second unit director] Chris Cowan and I, we were shooting for immortality. We were like,...

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ was criticized for plenty of things. First and foremost, it had a weird pacing for most of its run, and plenty of fans and critics alike noted weird dialogues and scripting issues.

This is why the critical reception of the show suffered as well, it wasn’t all related to to perceived wokeness of the show.

However, there was one aspect of the show that ‘The Acolyte’ did flawlessly, the lightsaber fights. Even before the show premiered, the cast and crew teased that the show would top one of the most iconic fights in the franchise, The Duel of The Fates. And while it remains up to your personal preference whether ‘The Acolyte’ did that, we have at least to give it credit that it’s right up there.

We’ve seen some notable duels worthy of the High Republic Era, and in her latest interview with Collider,...

A restless spirit with a roving imagination, Belgian filmmaker Michiel Blanchart, developed his feature debut “Night Call” while ever on the move.

“I go crazy when sitting behind a desk,” he tells Variety at the Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz, France, where the movie had its world premiere this week. “I can’t just get up from the couch and open my computer, because nothing would come out. Instead I followed a routine, walking across Brussels for an hour or two each day, heading from my home to the production office waiting for inspiration to strike — and if it didn’t, I’d turn around and walk for another hour or two. In the end, 80% of the film’s locations derived from that route.”

Blanchart, who will next adapt his award-winning short “You’re Dead Helene” into an English-language feature produced by Sam Raimi and TriStar Pictures, approached his inaugural feature from the outside in.

Dennis Villeneuve read Frank Herbert's "Dune" when he was just 13, and since then, the director longed for a movie adaptation that would bring such a vivid, distinct world to life. Dreams of making an adaptation of his own permeated his formative years, and this urge finally transformed into reality with 2021's "Dune: Part One," which built the foundation for an epic saga set on the desert planet of Arrakis. While "Part One" succeeds in establishing a tangible quality to the primary forces that dominate the film's Known Universe, "Part Two" dives into the rise of a so-called messiah, who transforms into the harbinger of a holy war and etches a legacy rooted in tragedy.

Due to the sheer scale and spectacle that the story beats of "Part Two" demanded, Villeneuve had to overcome the challenges of filming action-heavy scenes in the desert, including the awe-inducing sequences of the Fremen riding Shai-Hulud,...

In Jonathan Mostow's 1997 thriller "Breakdown," Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan play a happily married couple driving their high-tech SUV from Boston to San Diego. By accident, they almost run into a pickup truck on the remote highways of Arizona. When Russell later meets the driver of the pickup (M.C. Gainey) at a gas station, tensions are high. Later still, when Russell and Quinlan are back on the road, their car suddenly stops. Quinlan offers to hitchhike into town to get help, while Russell stays with the SUV. It will be quite a while before they see each other again. It seems that Quinlan has been kidnapped! Russell has to drive around Arizona's remote backroads looking for clues, and eventually, he faces off against the kidnappers. "Breakdown" also stars the immortal J.T. Walsh, and a punky Jack Noseworthy.

The film is Hitchcockian in its trimness, and Mostow wrings every bit...

In one of this year’s climaxes at the Tribeca Festival, Steven Spielberg showed off his first major studio theatrical release, Sugarland Express, which celebrates 50 years.

“You’re the first audience to ever see Sugarland Express in 50 years,” joked the 3x Oscar-winning filmmaker at the packed Bmcc screening in the lower west side of Manhattan.

How’s that? Spielberg said Universal pulled the movie out of theaters after two weeks as no one went to see it despite good reviews. The movie repped his first big screen release after cutting his teeth as a TV director, and it preceded his work on 1975’s Jaws, the blockbuster that would give definition to the word tentpole.

Sugarland Express failed at the box office per Spielberg, as audiences wanted to see a lighthearted Goldie Hawn in the movie, not to mention, it had a tragic ending.

Here are some of the memories Spielberg...

10 years ago, David Fincher’s psychological hit rekindled people’s interest in good old thrillers that rob you of sleep for a long time. The wholesomeness of its screenplay was enhanced by once-in-a-lifetime performances of Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

There is an unfairly forgotten 1990s gem that actually paved the way for Gone Girl and for a number of other modern thrillers too. It is led by the star of 80s and 90s action flicks, Kurt Russell, and be sure that his charisma is much more obvious than Affleck's.

The 1997 movie starts by introducing us to Jeff and Amy, a married couple who experience car trouble after a road accident. They end up stranded in the New Mexico desert, where they eventually stop a passing truck driver and ask him for help.

It seems to be the end of the couple’s troubles, but it appears to be the very beginning of their journey,...

After breaking into Hollywood in the 1970s, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas laid the groundwork for modern blockbuster cinema. The duo is also known for collaborating on hits like the Indiana Jones film series, which has become a cinematic icon over the years. Both have also expressed their joy in working together and their mutual admiration.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas | Credit: Jarc12030 via Wikimedia Commons

After meeting in the late 60s, the two bonded over a shared love of cinema and respect for each other’s craft. Lucas even visited Spielberg during the pre-production of his iconic thriller Jaws. However, Spielberg’s antics and his friend’s mischievous nature could have taken a drastic turn amid an unexpected malfunction with the mechanical shark used in the movie.

George Lucas Stuck His Head in the Mechanical Shark Used in Jaws

According to the Inside Jaws podcast, filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s...

Steven Spielberg, the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films in cinematic history, has always been known for his ability to craft thrilling narratives that captivate audiences worldwide. Having a solid number of directorial credits to his name, Spielberg is often known for his greatest works in his 1975 thriller Jaws.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg | image: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

With the ingenious thriller turning into one of the greatest achievements of 20th-century American cinema, Steven Spielberg shared some insights into the making of Jaws. Speaking with Vanity Fair, the filmmaker revealed using his 1971 television film Duel as the basis for Jaws and argued how the latter became a secret sequel to his TV movie.

Steven Spielberg Drew Comparison Between Jaws and Duel

One of Steven Spielberg‘s most renowned works, Jaws has long been considered a standalone classic. The thriller revolving around a bloodthirsty shark terrorizing a resort town,...

Being recognized as the most commercially successful director of all time, Steven Spielberg has prominently inscribed his name in history. However, few people know that long before starting such iconic franchises, as Jaws, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park, the pioneer of the modern blockbuster had a very strong start as a full-length director.

Indeed, back in 1971, when Spielberg was only 25, he made a TV movie that holds up today. More than that, it can even be dubbed the most inventive film ever made by the accomplished filmmaker.

The movie’s seemingly straight-forward plot revolves around a salesman on his way to meet a client. He is driving his car through rural California, but his calm trip is about to be disturbed by a tanker truck driver, who starts chasing him down a highway.

The protagonist notices a mysterious person following him and is quick to get scared of being killed by him,...

Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy seems to have had a rough run at the box office. Based on the TV show of the same name, the film followed Gosling as a stuntman who gets involved in a conspiracy involving the lead actor of a film directed by his ex-girlfriend, played by Emily Blunt. The action comedy was directed by David Leitch, who last helmed Bullet Train.

Gosling’s film reportedly only earned a meager $145 million against a $127 million budget, making it a box office bomb. While the film received positive responses from fans and critics, author Stephen King seemed to have had a mixed reaction to the film. He reportedly disagreed with a review of the film that called it ‘great fun’.

Stephen King Gets Flak For Being Unimpressed With Ryan Gosling’s Film Stephen King | Credits: CBS News

Horror author Stephen King has crafted many masterpieces in his...

Over the years, there have been a lot of filmmakers who have been game-changers when it comes to filmmaking. Michael Bay has been receiving audiences by presenting them with movies such as ‘Transformers’ and the ‘Bad Boys' series. Denis Villeneuve has been recently wowing his audiences with Sci-fi epics like ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and the 2021 adaptation of ‘Dune,". Steven Spielberg is well-known for being a movie maker who influenced filmmakers who rose to fame after him. Just like the director Ridley Scott, Spielberg is an adaptable screenwriter by experiments in almost any genre, and he continues to successfully do so. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider...

Have you ever given thought, to which of Steven Spielberg’s works could unite the creative minds behind X-Men ’97 and the very creator of Deadpool? Not to give away too much of the suspense, but it is none other than the dark and cerebral science fiction drama Minority Report.

The film, starring Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell, was so brilliantly shot and inventive that even Deadpool’s Rob Liefeld, who ranked it among his three best Spielberg experiences, tweeted his admiration for it. Liefeld empathized with those who found the film “too dark”, a sentiment shared in his circles at the time of its release.

Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) Image via DreamWorks Pictures

Yet, in a harmonious agreement tagged with insights and nostalgia, X-Men ’97 writer Beau DeMayo chimes in with a solid “hands down agree”.

This similar perspective between comic book visionaries on such a polarizing Spielberg...

Star Wars fans get an exciting update as Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is making its way into theatres once again next month. The studio has released a brand new trailer to commemorate the 25th-anniversary re-release of the anticipated movie that has already gasped fans’ breath back in 1999.

The Phantom Menace (1999)

While fans can now witness the beginning of the Skywalker Saga, they’re more excited about rewatching the iconic Duel of the Fates scene on the big screen.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Re-release Makes Fans Excited About One Particular Scene

The highly anticipated prequel in the Star Wars series, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, is getting a re-release in theaters on May 3.

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The upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte promises plenty of martial-arts-inspired action and a climactic lightsaber battle. The makers of the show recently mentioned that the team aimed to compete with Darth Maul’s legendary battle with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn in Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and called it the best lightsaber battle in Star Wars history.

But is it? The franchise has seen numerous lightsaber battles across media, with fan getting their first taste of the trope in Star Wars: A New Hope. While the original trilogy is still considered to be the best of the films released to date, the lightsaber battles seem to have improved since then. The prequel trilogy’s climactic showdown between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker definitely has a higher ground in the category.

Which Is The Best Lightsaber Battle In Star Wars History? Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back

Across eleven films,...

The last 70 years of science fiction, horror, and fantasy wouldn't just look remarkably different without the works of Richard Matheson, they'd be comparatively barren. Okay, this is a touch hyperbolic, but only a touch! Yes, we'd still have the transporting, thought-provoking works of maestros like Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and so many others, but could you imagine living in a world sans such essential tales as "The Incredible Shrinking Man," "I Am Legend," "Hell House," and dozens upon dozens of eerily prescient (or just straight up horrifying) short stories? And these weren't just spellbinding reads. They formed the basis for many memorable movies, and, perhaps most influentially, 16 unforgettable episodes of "The Twilight Zone."

Countless writers and filmmakers have cited Matheson as crucial to their development as genre storytellers (Stephen King considers "Hell House" to be "the scariest haunted house novel ever written"), and you could argue that...

What if Bruce, the mechanical shark in "Jaws," had actually worked? It's one of the biggest what-ifs in Hollywood history. While the movie's Great White Shark may have been "a perfect engine" (to quote Richard Dreyfuss' bespectacled scientist Matt Hooper), Bruce -- who got its moniker from Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer -- was anything but. Because of this, Spielberg and editor Verna Fields were forced to reconfigure the film's raw footage to avoid showing "The Great White Turd" (as the movie's crew came to call it) as much as possible. What emerged was a triumph of minimalistic horror filmmaking where what you don't see is just as terrifying as what you do, if not more so.

But what if Spielberg had never gotten to direct one of his all-time best movies to begin with? It's easy to recognize in hindsight that ol' Stevie Boy was fated to adapt Peter Benchley's pulpy best-seller,...

Being appreciated by your hero or someone who inspired you is something everyone looks up to but unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to have that honor. This is true even for most A-listers in the industry.

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However, Denis Villeneuve recently became a member of an elite club as he was praised by one of the greatest filmmakers the world has ever seen and his own personal hero, Steven Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg praises Denis Villeneuve after the massive success of Dune 2

Denis Villeneuve is one of the most established filmmakers in the industry at the moment. The Canadian filmmaker has been making a lot of headlines recently after he released the movie Dune: Part Two which was a massive critical and commercial success at the box office.

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Heading Out is an upcoming narrative racing game developed by the Polish development team; Serious Sim Games. The game features a distinct monochromatic art style and is inspired by road movies like Thelma & Louise and Duel. It also features Roguelike mechanics and includes a total of 133 unique quests that players can complete.

We recently got the opportunity to pick the brains of Szymon Adamus, who is the Business Development Manager at Serious Sim, and learn more about what to expect when Heading Out launches on May 7 2024. Szymon spoke a lot about how important the team’s influences were in creating this game, as well as the reason that they chose to employ such a distinct art style and more.

Heading Out will let players live out all of their open road fantasies You can almost smell the burning rubber of the tires just looking at this image.

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Upcoming fantasy romance anime An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride today released a second main trailer, previewing ending theme song "Blue Star" by Sayaka Yamamoto and announcing an April 4 at 24:30 Jst (effectively April 5 at 0:30) premiere in Japan. Related: An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride TV Anime Premieres in April 2024 Based on the light novels by Fuminori Teshima and Comta, An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride is being directed by Hiroshi Ishiodori ( Duel Masters!! ) at studio Brain's Base, with series composition by Aya Yoshinaga, character designs by Mina Osawa ( The tale of outcasts ) and music by Yuma Yamaguchi ( Undead Murder Farce ). Keiji Goto serves as animation director. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs in Japan, describing the story like so: Zagan might be the most feared evil sorcerer, but when it comes to social interactions, he’s the most inept.

There’s nothing IndieWire loves more than directors talking about their favorite movies. So, of course, we took notice when, in late 2023, Turner Classic Movies started looping in directors to share their favorites from TCM’s lineup each month: Steven Spielberg’s TCM picks kicked things off, then Martin Scorsese waxed rhapsodic about “Madonna of the Seven Moons,” and Guillermo del Toro gushed about the greatness of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion.”

Now Chris Columbus is sharing his own TCM picks, along with some especially insightful anecdotes. Watch the video above.

Columbus starts off sharing his love of “Singin’ in the Rain”: “An amazing, almost flawless movie. You can say that about very few movies. I showed ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ to my 16-month-old granddaughter who was absolutely absorbed in the musical numbers. Moreso than any Disney animated films. I go back to it once or twice a year.

Particularly...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a filmmaker who has put together a finer body of work than Denis Villeneuve has since making his U.S. debut in 2013. From the mold-breaking thrillers of Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario to a murderers’ row of sci-fi films including Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune, the French Canadian director’s films have amassed over $1.1 billion in worldwide box office and landed him three Oscar nominations. His winning streak is all the more impressive when you consider that he put his camera down for much of the 2000s in order to refine his cinematic identity. That nine-year gap was still flanked by a handful of lauded Canadian films, but it wasn’t until 2010’s Oscar-nominated Incendies that Villeneuve felt like he’d finally discovered his signature. Now, Dune: Part Two (March 1) is poised to be his new top grosser after effusive early reactions and reviews.

In the UK in the 1990s, bodybuilding was a freak pursuit – the domain of weirdos who painted themselves with Ronseal and stretched tiny Lycra hammocks across acres of skin the texture of an Arbroath Smokie in an attempt to resemble Marvel’s The Thing. Nobody knew what a deltoid was. Or a protein window. Fit people were the ones who played a weekly game of five-a-side before the pub. Fake tan smelt of biscuits, and even Sporty Spice didn’t have abs.

When Gladiators first arrived on TV then, its stars were curios. We only saw people like them once a year, pulling a truck on The World’s Strongest Man or being gawped at by Clive James on Television. These demigods with 19 inch biceps and thighs the size of dustbins didn’t walk among us.

Now, it’s all change. Ordinary people “lift”. Protein shakes are sold in supermarkets, and...

As the sun rises over Sainte Victoire, mysteries unfold in the enchanting world of “The Madame Blanc Mysteries.” In the upcoming Season 3 Episode 2 titled “Duel,” airing on Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 9:00 Pm on Channel 5, viewers are in for a riveting tale.

The story kicks off with Gloria innocently letting her dog, Douglas, out for his morning stroll. Little does she know, this routine act sets the stage for a chilling discovery – a lifeless body, a fencing foil protruding from his chest, and a rare diamond-encrusted cufflink in his possession. The picturesque Sainte Victoire transforms into a crime scene, and the intricate web of mystery begins to unravel.

As the clock strikes 9:00 Pm, fans of suspense and intrigue won’t want to miss the latest episode of “The Madame Blanc Mysteries.” Join the investigation into “Duel,” where every twist and turn brings us closer to uncovering the truth in...

Welcome to 2024! This, our first column of the new year, follows Oppenheimer, and Lots of Late Gift Ideas”>our December 2023 piece by offering more 2023 releases that deserve your time and attention.

Spielberg: The First Ten Years by Laurent Bouzereau (Insight Editions) and Steven Spielberg: All the Films by Olivier Bousquet, Arnaud Devillard, and Nicolas Schaller (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers)

I am not sure what Steven Spielberg obsessives like myself did to earn two lengthy, photo-backed, hardcover career appreciations, but I’m not complaining. Steven Spielberg: All the Films runs for nearly 500 pages and covers literally everything, from the director’s contributions to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery to The Fabelmans. Along the way are some unique insights, surprising facts (Leonardo DiCaprio was approached to play Tintin?), and the inclusion of some of his 1980s television work. And Spielberg: The First Ten Years is just as engaging, and even more in-depth.

Kicking off the new year, NYC’s Quad Cinema will present a retrospective of French filmmaker Christian Carion in anticipation of his latest feature Driving Madeleine, with the director in person. At the Wheel: The Films of Christian Carion, taking place January 8-11, includes his Oscar-nominated 2005 WWI drama Joyeux Noël, starring Diane Kruger and Guillaume Canet, on 35mm; his Ennio Morricone-scored 2015 WWII drama Come What May; his 2017 thriller My Son, a reunion with Canet also starring Mélanie Laurent; his own remake of My Son, starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy, from 2021; plus his personal pick of Steven Spielberg’s first feature Duel; along with a sneak preview of his latest film.

His latest film, which follows a nonagenarian (French national treasure Line Renaud) on a cab ride through Paris and down memory lane, driven by a tightlipped cabbie (Dany Boon), will have the sneak peak on January 11 ahead of...

The career of director Steven Spielberg has practically defined modern blockbusters, but he’s also been able to craft more personal films as well. Let’s rank Spielberg’s entire filmography from worst to best in a new photo gallery of his 33 theatrical features.

Spielberg’s reputation as a master entertainer came with the release of “Jaws,” his 1975 shark attack thriller. Made when he was just 29 years old, the film set box office records and made the summer safe for blockbusters again. Such following films as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) cemented Spielberg’s ability to create spectacular amusements that brought audiences to their feet.

He later moved into serious filmmaking with “The Color Purple” (1985), which paved the way for his 1993 Holocaust drama “Schindler’s List” (1993). That film swept the Academy Awards, bringing Spielberg Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture.

Cyber Monday is here with even more deals on horror 4K UHDs, Blu-rays, collectibles, and more. Some Black Friday sales are still active, other prices have come down even more, and a bunch of new items have been discounted. Here are this year’s Cyber Monday highlights.

Amazon 4K Uhd Deals:

Assassin’s Creed – $5.99 Maleficent – $7.43 Terminator 2 – $7.99 Suicide Squad – $7.99 Reservoir Dogs – $9.33 John Wick: Chapter 2 – $9.33 Evil Dead Rise – $9.49 The Lost Boys – $9.49 Poltergeist – $9.49 The Blackening – $9.49 Jurassic Park – $9.49 Nope – $9.49 Get Out – $9.99 The Batman – $9.99 Zack Snyder’s Justice League – $9.99 The Suicide Squad – $9.99 Dune – $9.99 The Shawshank Redemption – $9.99 Jaws 2 – $9.99 Everything Everywhere All At Once – $9.99 Edge of Tomorrow – $9.99 Highlander – $9.99 Battlestar Galactica – $9.99 Warcraft – $9.99 Godzilla vs. Kong – $9.99 King Kong (2005) – $10.44 Serenity – $10.49 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – $10.99 Ip Man – $10.99 Train to Busan – $11.21 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – $11.49 Parasite – $11.49 The Goonies – $11.49 Full Metal Jacket – $11.49 The Shining – $11.99 Dr. Strangelove – $11.99 Us – $11.99 Bram Stoker’s Dracula – $11.99 Nobody – $11.99 The Fifth Element – $11.99 The Dark Crystal – $11.99 Halloween Kills – $11.99 Halloween Ends...

John Carpenter’s enjoyably pulpy adaptation of King’s 1983 horror novel, about a car that infects its owners with evil, gets a 40th-anniversary revival

Three years after Stanley Kubrick unveiled the vast mysterious grandeur of his film version of The Shining, John Carpenter demonstrated a very different and more unassuming approach to Stephen King with this adaptation of King’s cult horror classic; it came out in 1983 and is now revived for its 40th anniversary. Carpenter’s attitude was very far from Kubrick’s transformative auteurist vision, closer to Brian De Palma and Carrie in fact. It did not behave as if King’s book was raw material to be refined and elevated into art; Carpenter’s Christine kept the trashiness, pulpiness and pure un-grownup-ness, like a mixture of Duel, Crash and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

It’s the story of a red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury automobile called Christine with a mind of its own,...

For almost 50 years, John Williams' music has been virtually synonymous with the films of Steven Spielberg (and vice versa), and for nearly as long, Williams' compositions have formed the emotional backbone of the Skywalker Saga from "Star Wars." However, 20 years before the cinematic musical maestro become known for either of those things, Williams was merely a whipper-snapper fresh out of Julliard and eager to leave his mark on the worlds of concert and film music.

Williams' pre-Spielberg run would have made for an incredible career all by itself. It was an era that saw the composer collaborating with numerous giants among the old guard of Hollywood directors, including Robert Altman, Don Siegel, William Wyler, Irwin Allen, Frank Sinatra, and Norman Jewison. In 1974, Williams worked with Spielberg for the first time on the filmmaker's theatrical feature debut, "The Sugarland Express." Appearing with Williams at the American Cinematheque event "50 Years of...

Steven Spielberg worked his way up to directing features by making short films and episodes of TV shows like Columbo and Night Gallery. His earliest movies were also made for television – and the first feature-length TV movie he made that wasn’t part of a series was the classic 1971 thriller Duel (watch it Here). Forty-two years after Duel first aired, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is now set to give the film a 4K release on November 14th!

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay, Duel centers on a motorist terrorized by an evil truck. Dennis Weaver stars as the traveling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out.

Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, and Gene Dynarski are also in the cast.

A press release on Blu-ray.com notes, “Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological tension,...

Once upon a time, it's not inconceivable Steven Spielberg might have directed "Five Nights at Freddy's" or a film just like it. Recall that the young Spielberg loved terrorizing audiences. His first feature-length directorial effort, the made-for-tv 1971 thriller "Duel," was such an exhilarating blast that it eventually got a theatrical release. Then came his horror-adventure classic "Jaws," followed by the suburban nightmare of "Poltergeist". Hell, from a certain point of view, "Jurassic Park" is sort of like "Five Nights at Freddy's" only with dinosaurs. Sometimes when an entertainment attraction breaks down, the animatronics actually do eat the tourists.

"Five Nights at Freddy's" casts Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, an unassuming security guard who accepts a job keeping watch of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza at night, only to discover the animatronic mascots of the once-prosperous family entertainment center like to come alive and commit murder under the cover of darkness. The setting...

In 1981, Steven Spielberg admitted that filmmaking was a learning experience ... in what you hate. Spielberg's first feature was "Duel," a horror movie based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and it was made on a budget of only $450,000, cheap even for 1971. He followed that with "The Sugarland Express" in 1973, a crime thriller that he made for only $3 million. Next came 1975's "Jaws," one of the biggest movies of all time, produced with a budget of $9 million. One can already see the pattern at work. Spielberg started small, and his productions only got bigger and bigger over the years. It wouldn't be until "The Color Purple" in 1985 that Spielberg would break out of his reputation as a maker of mere blockbuster entertainments. 

Spielberg never set out to achieve that kind of growth. Indeed, hearing him talk about it, Spielberg always wanted to make multiple small, intimate movies in between the gigantic genre pictures.

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No one can deny that Steven Spielberg is one of the most renowned and influential director's in cinema history. From game-changing blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park" to devastating prestige Oscar-winning films like "Schindler's List" and "Munich," Spielberg is a master storyteller who has been turning celluloid into gold for over 50 years (and his 21st century films aren't bad at all). But like every legendary filmmaker, Spielberg had to start somewhere, and a new book from author Laurent Bouzereau will dive into the first 10 years of Spielberg's quickly impressive career. 

"Spielberg: The First Ten Years" is coming to shelves in October, and it promises to explore "how a young filmmaker reinvented American cinema within just ten years." The retrospective includes looks at his early made-for-tv film "Duel," his first theatrically released feature, "The Sugarland Express," and the troubled production of "Jaws,...

Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is one of the most influential classic rock songs ever. In addition, members of Bauhaus compared the track to a famous Led Zeppelin song. The comparison is a little off for one very specific reason.

Bauhaus said ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ was like a 1980s version of 1 Led Zeppelin song

During a 2019 interview with Uncut, Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy compared “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” to one of the all-time classic rock songs. “‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ just happened to be a seminal song,” he said. “It was the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the 1980s.”

Fellow Bauhaus member Kevin Haskins agreed with this assessment. “It definitely has a timeless quality,” he opined. “On reflection, I marvel at what we did. We were just four young kids who wanted to make something unique, without really having much idea what we were doing. But that song came out of it.