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Amy Adams’ acting debut came in 1999 when she stared in Drop Dead Gorgeous. After the success of the movie, she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting full-time and eventually starred alongside Leonardo Dicaprio in Catch Me If You Can. Her breakthrough introduction into the mainstream as an actress occurred in 2005 when she starred in the independent film Junebug, which would lead to her first Oscar nomination. Adams’ star profile rose significantly higher when she won the role of Princess Gisele in the animated / live-action Disney hit Enchanted....

Once one of the Soviet Union’s top filmmakers, Andrei Tarkovsky has become one of the most legendary and recognized directors in global cinema. Tarkovsky was born to a well-known poet in the Soviet Union and Russia, Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, and it was the education his father instilled in him that fostered the development of his unique visual style. Soon after graduating from film school in Moscow, Tarkovsky came out with his first feature film: Ivan’s Childhood....

Throughout cinema history, moviegoers have been treated to some seriously iconic and memorable cameos. From revered actors and brilliant directors, to sidesplitting comedians and iconic musicians, the big screen has featured highly-buzzed about appearances that have often proven everlasting. It can sometimes be cringe-inducing, but when done right, it creates an absolutely perfect moment. Seeing some of your favorite famous figures appear in unexpected cameos is downright delightful for audiences and can truly make the film that much more enjoyable....

The ever-growing collection of films based on fairy tales would absolutely not exist without the contributions of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German scholars who compiled Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a collection of fantastical stories that would shape the landscape of folklore as we know it. It might surprise you to know that these tales weren’t invented by these famed storytellers. According to a biography on the brothers, “The fairy tales, in fact, were part of a rich oral tradition − passed down from generation to generation, often by women seeking to pass the time during household chores....

One of the best-known Bollywood actors of modern Indian cinema, Salman Khan has become a household name in South Asia and its diaspora. He originally began his career through his father, who was a prominent screenwriter in Bollywood. Khan appeared in his first movie in 1988, Biwi Ho To Aisi, in a supporting role, and the world was unprepared for the debut of what would become one of the biggest actors in India....

We have our next look at the final season of Better Call Saul and it is also officially confirmed that the show is coming back to AMC in April. In one new teaser, Giancarlo Esposito returns as drug kingpin and Los Pollos Hermanos owner Gus Fring, giving us our first look at the actor’s final run in the role. The video, which you can watch below, does not tell us much in terms of what will happen in season 6, simply showing Gus arriving home with a lot of stress apparently on his mind....

Weekend Box Office 1)Twilight $70.5 million. 2)Quantum of Solace $27.4 million 3)Bolt $27 million 4)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $16 million 5)Role Models $7.2 million 6)Changeling $2.6 million 7)High School Musical 3: Senior Year $2 million 8)Zack and Miri Make a Porno $1.7 million 9)The Boy in the Striped Pajamas $1.6 million The Secret Life of Bees $1.2 million Twihards can rejoice. Their beloved Twilight franchise proved its worth cinematically this weekend, pulling in $70....

PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Last week the new animated Western Rango took the box office by storm earning rave reviews and $38 million in its debut. But with three new films entering the charts this weekend including the alien invasion movie Battle: Los Angeles, the fairy tale based horror film Red Riding Hood, and the computer-animated Disney movie Mars Needs Moms, it’s likely that we will be crowning a new box office champ before the weekend is over....

Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter series) stars as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle (upcoming Iron Man 2), to take on an international drug-smuggling gang in John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, which has just started principal photography in the West of Ireland. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door....

The first trailer for Sony’s Bullet Train has already drawn in quite a bit of excitement with Brad Pitt’s return to action movies. This action-packed blockbuster shows the Oscar winner crossing paths with some of the world’s deadliest assassins on board a bullet train. Footage of the film first dropped at CinemaCon last year and teased Pitt going toe-to-toe with renowned reggaeton star Bad Bunny. From that first look, we were already hooked into this strangely hilarious scene featuring Pitt and Bad Bunny beating up each other over a briefcase....

Japanese horror is a diverse landscape that includes everything from giant monsters to creepy ghost girls, and many of the country’s horror films have rightly become classics praised by fans the world over. Somewhere in the deepest, darkest corners between the mainstream favorites, however, lurks a plethora of scuzzy, psychotronic oddities that are ripe for rediscovery and re-evaluation. Here are nine of the weirdest Japanese horror movies ever made that will shock, disgust, and confound even the most accomplished of horror-hounds....

The Good This is a great film. One of the best of year. The Bad I think the extras should have been grouped better in that portion of the menu. Dito Montiel wrote and directed this very well made film about his life as a teenager in Astoria, Queens. In the film Dito (played as a young man by Shia LaBeouf and as an older man by Robert Downey, Jr.) is a kid of the neighborhood but it’s apparent he wants something more....

Following the promo released yesterday, which teases a Captain America: The Winter Soldier tie-in, ABC has released new photos from next week’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode, “Turn, Turn, Turn”, airing Tuesday, April 8 at 8 PM ET. While these photos don’t offer any specific clues to a connection between the show and this weekend’s Marvel Phase Two sequel, this episode features the hunt for a traitor within S.H.I.E.L.D.’s midst. Take a look at these images featuring Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg), Agent May (Ming-Na Wen), Skye (Chloe Bennet), Agent Ward (Brett Dalton), Agent Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Agent Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge)...

Financing and production company Alcon Entertainment is in final negotiations to acquire, finance and produce the David Twohy (The Fugitive, Pitch Black, G.I. Jane) screenplay The Leonardo Job, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-CEO’s Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Twohy is attached to direct as well. An action thriller about the heist of the “lost” Leonardo da Vinci painting “The Battle of Anghiari”; the story involves two rival master thieves hired to go to Florence to track down the “mythical” painting....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Written by Academy Award-nominee and Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Trudeau and produced by Trudeau, Elliot Webb and Jonathan Alter, Alpha House is a comedy about four misfit senators who rent a house together in Washington, D.C. and deal with the outrageous-and sometimes all-too-real-foibles of Beltway life. “We are delighted that Alpha House is a winner among Prime members. More than 6,000 customers gave the show a perfect five-star rating and have posted glowing, witty and compelling reviews asking for a second season....

Actress Amy Adams has signed on to star in and produce An Object of Beauty, an adaptation of actor Steve Martin’s novel. The story centers on Amy Adams’ character, an entrepreneur who scours the globe looking for pieces of artwork, and becomes romantically involved with several different men, one of whom is a famous artist. Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray are producing, although no screenwriter or director is attached yet....

It was announced on Sunday that Jason David Frank has died, sending shockwaves throughout pop culture and especially within the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers fandom. While details are scarce, what’s been reported is that Frank died by suicide at the age of 49. The news was met with great sadness from countless fans everywhere as Frank had been a role model for decades for fans of the Power Rangers franchise....

One deleted scene from Spider-Man: No Way Home brings back a character we last saw in Avengers: Endgame. Now playing in theaters, Spider-Man: No Way Home is almost a Marvel party with all of the characters that come into the fray, but not everyone who was planned to appear made it to the final cut. We now know of at least one person who was taken out of the theatrical release, but perhaps the scene will be on the Blu-ray....

Marvel star Mark Ruffalo has teased the impact and scale of the upcoming Avengers outing, Avengers: Secret Wars. In an interview with ET at the premiere for the Disney+ series She-Hulk Attorney at Law, in which Ruffalo reprises the role of Bruce Banner, the actor declared that Avengers: Secret Wars will find a way to surpass the blockbuster epic delights of Avengers: Endgame, and is confident that the MCU movie will be “amazing....

Last month, former Jackass star Bam Margera had reportedly been hospitalized and placed on a ventilator. After spending several days in the hospital, he was released, revealing that he’d suffered from Covid-19 and pneumonia. Reuniting with Steve-O for the Steve-O’s Wild Ride podcast, Margera shared new details about his hospitalization, noting that he suffered five seizures. He says things were so bad that he almost died from it. As Margera explained (via Variety):...