The Troubling Reason Will Smith Almost Wasn't In The Sci-Fi Hit Independence Day
Will Smith was already a big name when he made Independence Day, but Fox didn't want to cast him for, you guessed it, racist reasons.
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The One 12 Monkeys Scene That Bruce Willis Tried To Avoid
Bruce Willis was game for most of 12 Monkeys, save for, amusingly, one of the sci-fi classic's least bizarre scenes.
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Friday The 13th Pulled Off The Ultimate Magic Trick By Decapitating Pamela Voorhees
Betsy Palmer loses her head at the end of Friday the 13th, and the micro-budget horror film did it all without the use of CGI.
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The Simpsons Episode You'll Never See (Because It Doesn't Exist)
Have you ever seen this "lost" episode of The Simpsons?
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Stephen King's Own Version Of The Hunger Games Is Going To Become A 'Hardcore' Horror Movie
The writer of an upcoming Stephen King adaptation promises the movie will be as brutal as the book that inspired it.
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Gladiator 2 Won't Feature One Of The Best Characters From The Ridley Scott Original
A pivotal Gladiator cast member was meant to return for Ridley Scott's Gladiator II, but it didn't work out.
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Key Players On Star Trek: First Contact Considered Casting Cher As The Borg Queen
If you could turn back time, would you cast Cher as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact? The movie's producers certainly considered it.
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The Correct Order To Watch The Cloverfield Movies
The first Cloverfield movie was a huge deal, and it spawned an entire franchise. Here's how to watch the series.
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Here's Why The Mentalist Was Canceled By CBS
The Mentalist was a ratings winner for CBS for several years. Here's why the show eventually came to an end after its seventh season.
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Why Stephen King Wrote The Pet Sematary Screenplay Even Though He Didn't Like The Book
Stephen King thought the Pet Sematary novel was too dark to publish. So why did he write the screenplay?
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How Denis Villeneuve Really Feels About David Lynch's 1984 Dune Movie
Denis Villeneuve is not the first to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune, and he has some strong feelings about David Lynch's take on the material.
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The Correct Order To Watch Every Superman Movie
There are more Superman films than you probably realize. While there's no truly correct order to watch them, here are some notable groupings to help guide you.
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The Director Of Horror Classic Candyman Got His Start In The Wildest Way Possible
Candyman director Bernard Rose had an unlikely start to his career.
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The One Thing People Can't Deny About Tombstone, According To Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell doesn't think Tombstone is the best Western ever made, but he does think it has one specific thing going for it.
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X-Men Comic Writer Chris Claremont Had A Very Different Actor In Mind For Wolverine
While Hugh Jackman is perfect as Wolverine, X-Men comic writer Chris Claremont's original pick for the role was much closer to the way he wrote Logan.
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Alien: Romulus Director Explains What The Horror Sequel's Title Means
Fede Álvarez says the title Alien: Romulus is linked to the movie's theme of siblinghood, and also to Weyland-Yutani's dangerous ambitions.
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The Stephen King Book That Scared John Carpenter The Most
John Carpenter famously adapted Stephen King's Christine into a movie, but that's not his pick for the horror maestro's scariest book.
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Gene Roddenberry's One Big Star Trek Rule Created Problems For The Writers
Gene Roddenberry's love of structure informed much of Star Trek, but it also made things harder for the franchise's writers.
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The Correct Order To Watch The Lilo & Stitch Movies
There's a lot more to Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise than the original animated movie. Here's the correct viewing order.
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Christopher Nolan's Best Movie, According To Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes ratings are as mind-bending as Christopher Nolan's movies, as evidenced by the website's ranking of his films.
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The Overlooked Kurt Russell Western That Stephen King Recommends
Stephen King, the master of horror, recently watched a fantastic and brutal Kurt Russell Western for the first time and raved about it on social media.
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One Of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Best Episodes Was Also One Of The Hardest
An acclaimed episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation also proved very difficult to make.
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M. Night Shyamalan's Trap Catches $16 Million, But Deadpool & Wolverine Still Rule The Box Office
Josh Hartnett-led thriller Trap debuts in third place at the box office, while Deadpool & Wolverine remains at No. 1 by a huge margin.
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What's The Deal With William H. Macy's Hilariously Flubbed Line In Boogie Nights?
William H. Macy has a line in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights where he hilariously swaps a couple words, and it wasn't actually scripted that way.
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The Marvel Characters The X-Men Movies Screwed Over The Most, Ranked
If you read Marvel's X-Men comics, you'll see many of the films don't do all of the characters justice. Here are the characters the films screwed over the most.
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Fox Leaked A Naughty Detail To Sell Tickets For George Clooney's Solaris
George Clooney's nude scene in Solaris was cut from the final edit, but that didn't stop Fox from making it a talking point on the press tour.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Spock Ban Created A Nightmare For The Writers
Believe it or not, Star Trek: The Next Generation was originally banned from saying the name "Spock." Then things changed.
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