Mickey Rourke Went A Little Too Far With His Con Air Audition
Rourke didn't do himself any favors in the room.
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How Steven Soderbergh Shaped The Russo Brothers' Filmmaking Style
'A common thread in our style is that we like to not have a common thread.'
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The Wild Doctor Who Movie That Was Never Made
It involves flesh-eating crabs the size of cows.
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George Clooney Helped Alfonso Cuarón Craft One Of Gravity's Most Pivotal Scenes
George Clooney came through with a draft of a scene that both Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón were struggling with.
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The Himeji Castle Horror Story That Inspired The Ring And Ringu
If you remove the cursed VHS tape, The Ring starts to resemble classic Japanese ghost tale...
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The One Thing Walton Goggins Found Most Difficult About His Justified Character
Walton Goggins started in a small part on FX's Justified but quickly grew into one of the series' most beloved characters -- despite his dark origins.
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Even Ewan McGregor Couldn't Save Moulin Rouge! From Star Wars
Ewan McGregor appeared in both Moulin Rouge! and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, but even he couldn't prevent what happened.
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The Other Silent Movie Star That Took Buster Keaton Under His Wing
'Well, he said, come on down, try a bit with me, and see how you like it.'
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This Is Robert Englund's Favorite Nightmare On Elm Street Sequel
Englund has good taste in Freddy Krueger movies.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once Becomes The First A24 Movie To Hit $100 Million At The Box Office
A limited re-release has pushed Everything Everywhere All At Once over the top to become A24's first nine-figure hit.
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One Of 12 Angry Men's First Shots Was More Complex Than You Think
Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men is a deceptively simple movie — getting all those tight shots in a small, cramped room required a lot of planning.
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How Mahershala Ali Talked His Way Into True Detective's Leading Role
He was originally eyed for the role played by Stephen Dorff.
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A Stunt On The Set Of The 6th Day Almost Did Arnold Schwarzenegger In
Arnold Schwarzenegger was risked life and limb for his action movies, and had a brush with death on the set of The 6th Day.
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Josh Brolin's Deadpool Prep Was One Part Panic And One Part Trust
Cable actor Josh Brolin was acutely aware of comic book fans' expectations going into Deadpool 2. No pressure!
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The Daily Stream: The Beastmaster Remains The Scrappy, Weird Alternative To Conan The Barbarian
He's tough, he's underdressed, and he has a pair of pet ferrerts: meet The Beastmaster!
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Why Columbia Scrapped A Tom Hanks Prequel To A League Of Their Own
The writers behind A League of Their own wrote a script for a spin-off movie about Tom Hanks' booze-drenched manager, Jimmy Dugan.
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Preparation Was The Key To Sidney Lumet's Filmmaking Style
Where some young filmmakers might've tried to shoot for the moon on portfolio-boosting visuals, Lumet preached practicality.
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Akira Kurosawa's Early Career Was A Constant Struggle With The Censors
For the first several years of his career, Kurosawa had to fight censors at every turn to get his films made.
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A Half-Baked Script Wasn't Enough To Sell Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Rock
'He was very upset. He just walked out and then went to Nicolas Cage with the part.'
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Network's Dialogue Didn't Leave Any Room For Error
Otherwise writer Paddy Chayefsky would have been mad as hell (and he wouldn't take it anymore).
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David Leitch Had A Tightrope To Walk While Directing Deadpool 2
'...he so understood the heart and the emotion of the story.'
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A Real-Life Wall Street Scandal Changed The Fate Of Working Girl
Mike Nichols' Working Girl is one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s, but due to a real life Wall Street scandal, it almost didn't get made.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Casts UFC Welterweight Champ Kamaru Usman In A Small Role
UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman has been announced as having a role in the upcoming follow-up to Black Panther, subtitled Wakanda Forever.
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Paul Dano's Riddler Comic Was Born On The Set Of The Batman
While The Batman villain Riddler was defeated in Matt Reeves' film, actor Paul Dano isn't done with the character just yet.
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Colin Farrell Was Not A Fan Of The Underwater Sequences In Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard's new film on the Thai cave rescue of 2018 is out now, but star Colin Farrell is coming clean on shooting the film's terrifying underwater scenes.
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Buster Keaton's Most Well-Known Project Was Actually A Flop
1926's The General would lead directly to Keaton's devastating decline in the industry.
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