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The Last Duel Screenwriters Worked To Strike A Balance Between Past And Present When it came to writing “The Last Duel,” the screenwriters had to find a way to remain both true to the era in which the film takes place while also making sure it was all accessible to a modern-audience. While “The Last Duel” is occasionally clumsy with how it handles the parallels with the film and our own modern times, the screenwriters still took care to approach these topics in ways that would resonate with current audiences....

Throw Back Some Strong Potions At The Lockhart Harry Potter Bar In Toronto Even though theHarry Potterfranchise was mostly geared towards younger readers, as the heroes of the fantasy story grew up, they came to start hanging out at some more mature establishments such asThe Three Broomsticks, or in more desperate timesThe Hog’s Head, both bars in the village of Hogsmeade near Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (people really loved hogs when the area was founded apparently)....

Timeless Fans Were Not as Responsible For Renewal as They Think [TCA 2017] When NBC did not renewTimelessfor a second season, fans began a “SaveTimeless” campaign. NBC seemed to listen and added the show back to its schedule. During an executive session with the Television Critics Association, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt joked that the fans still don’t control his renewal decisions. “Don’t write this, but they don’t,” Greenblatt joked....

Turning Red Director Domee Shi And Producer Lindsey Collins Talk Parent/Child Dynamics, Anime, And Making Pixar History [Interview] The buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Pixar’s “Turning Red” has beenoverwhelmingly positive, and with good reason. The 2000s-set coming-of-age story about a teen girl who discovers she poofs into a giant red panda whenever her emotions get too big to process is one of the best Pixar films in years, and offers an important message of empathy and understanding for both parents and their children....

Walter Hill’s St. Vincent Moves Forward; Gong Li, Ray Winstone And Forest Whitaker Join Mickey Rourke It’s been quite a while sinceWalter Hilldirected a film that could be called a total success, but I never stop pulling for the guy who directedThe Warriors,48 Hrs.andStreets of Fire. (Even if he also directedAnother 48 Hrs.— nasty stuff.) So I’ll take any shred of positive news about his upcoming work, and this news is seriously positive....

Warner Bros. Pushes Back ‘The LEGO Movie 2’ To 2019, Shuffles ‘Live By Night’ & More If you’ve been patiently waiting forThe LEGO Moviesequel, you’ll have to hold out nine more months. Warner Bros. Pictures has pushed back the release date of the animated follow-up from its original summer 2018 release date to an early debut in 2019. In addition, they’ve also pushed back the release ofGeostormwithGerard Butlernine months, while also bumping upBen Affleck’s long-developing crime dramaLive by Nightup by nine months....

Westworld Episode 5 Photos: “Contrapasso” HBO has revealed a batch of photos forWestworldepisode 5, which is entitled “Contrapasso.” Earlier this week, the premium cable network releaseda trailerwhich teased an epic meeting between two of the show’s biggest characters. What do the new photos tell us about the upcoming episode? Hit the jump and take a look at the Westworld episode 5 photos. Westworld Episode 5 Photos What do we learn from these new images?...

Weta Used Old ‘Fast & Furious’ Footage To Complete Paul Walker ‘Furious 7’ Scenes Furious 7is a little over a week away and fans of the franchise are going to flip. The action is bigger, the emotion is deeper, and the way the franchise pays tribute to the tragedy ofPaul Walker’s death is incredible. No spoilers, but watching the film, I cried more than I’ve cried in a movie in years....

Why The Number 23 Is So Mysterious So what’s the deal with the Number 23? The Joel Schumacher film starring Jim Carrey hits theaters at the end of the month. In the movie Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) finds a book that seems to be based on his life. While reading the book, he comes across details of a murder that hasn’t YET happened; and as a consequence, he becomes obsessed with the number 23 and its ambiguous involvement with the murder....

Youth In Revolt Moves To January 2010 Youth in Revolt, theMiguel Artetaadaptation ofC.D. Payne’s novel starringMichael Cera, has been doing well as it plays the Toronto International Film Festival. Reviews have, in general, been more pleased with the film than I would have expected. Peterliked it,Cinematicalsaid Michael Cera is “wickedly hilarious” in a performance that is “easily the best of his career,” andindieWiresays it suggests more versatility to Cera than some would have allowed....

“Baggage” Is The Cruelest Episode Of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Yet (We’re going to kickstart our weeklyThe Handmaid’s Talereview by answering one simple question: Who suffered the most?)The Handmaid’s Talecan get bleak, but never has it been so devastatingly cruel as it was in “Baggage.” That’s because the third episode of season 2 offered a resource that is progressively rare in Hulu’s dystopian series: hope.The Handmaid’s Taledangled hope in front of us and June (Elisabeth Moss), only to rudely snatch it away at the last minute — in a distressing, infuriating sequence that will burn in my memory for the remainder of the season....

‘Body At Brighton Rock’ Director Roxanne Benjamin On Her Christopher Pike Influences And Bootstrap Horror Filmmaking [Interview] WithBody of Brighton Rock, writer/directorRoxanne Benjaminestablishes a clear woman versus nature scenario as a young Park Ranger takes a wrong turn during her rounds and stumbles across a body deep in the woods. She is told via walkie talkie she has to stay with it until help comes, but the question of who this guy was and how he died starts gnawing at her as the feeling of isolation starts to close in....

‘Doctor Who’ Shakes And Stirs Season 12 Up With A Big Reveal In “Spyfall, Part 1” Over the decades,Doctor Whohas assumed a plethora of identities: in the ’60s it was an educational program with a sci-fi twist, in the ’70s it was briefly a James Bond-inspired espionage series, in the ’80s and on, it embraced its camp. With the 2005 reboot,Doctor Whoembraced and shed even more identities: the blue-collar soap, the fairy tale adventure, and even flashes of hard sci-fi....