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Apple TV+ today unveiled the launch date for “Liaison,” a new, six episode thriller series starring César Award winner Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan,” “Westworld”) and BAFTA Award winner Eva Green (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”), and the first French and English-language Apple Original series. “Liaison" will make its global debut with the first episode on Friday, February 24, 2023, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through March 31, 2023...

Earlier this month, the latest installment in the Yellowstone franchise premiered to rave reviews from critics and fans alike. The new series, 1923, is a prequel series that shows the Dutton family as you’ve never seen them before and stars legendary actors, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren! The series is streaming exclusively on Paramount+, however, in a special treat to fans, the first episode is now available to watch for free on YouTube!...

Obviously, clothing is often a very important thing when bringing characters to life. Actors often talk about how doing things like finding the right shoes or other signature clothes or accessories for their characters can frequently help them nail a certain aspect of whomever they’re portraying, and it turns out that getting just the right hat for 1923 cast member Ford to wear as the Dutton patriarch was a very big deal. As the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant, explained the star of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny tried on a whopping 75 hats!...

76-Year-Old ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Was No. 6 Film Dec. 21, Its status as a classic comes from its timeless resonance with audiences, with the story of a man (James Stewart) who loses faith around Christmas and is saved from suicidal thoughts by a guardian angel. the film was provided to theaters with its original and appropriate 1.33×1 aspect ratio, standard at the time but much narrower than current ratios....

Few movie distribution companies have as many fans as the Criterion Collection. According to their website, they aim to release "a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video," and have been distributing movies since the 1980s. As such, they've gone from LaserDisc releases, to VHS (very briefly), DVDs, Blu-rays, and now 4K Ultra HD releases, and also have a streaming site called the Criterion Channel (only in the US and Canada).There are now over 1000 movies in the Criterion Collection...

James Gray Thinks Box Office-Obsessed Movie Fans Are Capitalist ‘Lemmings’. As a cinephile, Gray points out that box office numbers are a tiny part of any film’s cultural legacy. “It tells you something of how indoctrinated we are with capitalism that somebody will say, like, ‘His movies haven’t made a dime!’” he said. “It’s like, well, do you own stock in Comcast? Or are you just such a lemming that you think that actually has value to anybody?”...

"Fraidy Cat," a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's noir and suspense films. Was canceled in 2005. The film would have centered around a spoiled house cat caught up in a twisty mystery. "It was very paranoid, witnessed a murder, and was trying to unspool what actually had happened. And it was done in a very Hitchcock-style noir-ish presentation in the boards.”. The reason it was canceled? The executives directors kept whispering and whispering. Saying things like 'This project has such limited commercial appeal. There's no way that we're going to be able to persuade a major manufacturer to make 'Fraidy Cat' toys' and 'How is this film going to expand the Disney brand? Are there characters here that we can use for a Saturday morning spin-off? Or for a home premiere sequel?'"...