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One Of Mike Hanlon’s Best Scenes In Stephen King’s IT Never Made It On Screen Although 2017’s “IT” was released to positive audience and critical reception (even King himself was a fan), it’s definitely a movie that struggles to adapt its source material. Stephen King’s “IT” is around 1,200 pages long, a story that probably would’ve been a better fit for a TV show. Despite the smart decision to divide the book into two films, the first covering the characters' childhood storyline and the second covering their adulthood, the first movie still couldn’t quite find the time make sure its seven main characters each made an impact....

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Energizes ‘Saturday Night Live’, But Bowen Yang Is The Breakout Star Fresh off her big night at the Emmys, actress, writer, producer and all-around comedy stalwartPhoebe Waller-Bridgemade herSaturday Night Livedebut this weekend, and she brought an ample amount of energy to Studio 8H. Waller-Bridge is an experience comedian who knows how to work with the talented writers and cast ofSaturday Night Live, and the result was an episode that was certainly better than the season premiere....

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End Sets New Records While Disney’sPiratesmay have not beatenSpidey 3, it did set a couple new world box office records. Check out the full press release after the jump. DISNEY’S “PIRATES” RULE THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE WITH BIGGEST OPENING OF ALL TIME; FILM’S UNPRECEDENTED BOOTY OF $401 MILLION IS A NEW INDUSTRY RECORD Domestic Tally of $156 Million Anchors Memorial Day Weekend Record 6 Day International Tally of $245 Million Sets New Record Walt Disney Pictures' epic adventure “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” from Jerry Bruckheimer Films, landed in the global box office record books and laid claim to the biggest opening in industry history, with an unprecedented gross of $401,000,000 in its first six days of release, it was announced today by Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Marketing and Distribution....

Pop Culture Imports: An Offbeat Ang Lee LGBT Comedy, A Revival Of An Anime Classic, And Netflix’s Bold New Bollywood Collaboration (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) Welcome back to Pop Culture Imports, lovers of foreign movies and TV shows. It’s nearing the end of June, and hey, what better way to close out Pride Month than to feature an earlyAng Leegay comedy of manners?...

Rogue One Bits: An Interesting Planet Name, Notes On Tone, And A Fun Interview With Ben Mendelsohn In this edition of Rogue One Bits: If you really want to stay on top of story details for any major movie, you can’t just pick apart a trailer or wait for someone to publish a scoop of some kind. What you really need to do is look at the film’s merchandise, which tends to spoil story points from upcoming releases time and time again....

Rumor: Lucas Cruikshank Up For A Part In ‘Runaways’? Lucas Cruikshankmight not be a name known to a lot of you, but his face is familiar to a legion of young YouTube watchers. He’s the kid who createdFred, the fast-paced, squeaky-voiced character with enough of a following on YouTube to earn his own feature film. (Even if it did mostly go straight to DVD.) And now he’s reportedly testing for a part in the Marvel movieRunaways....

Samuel L. Jackson May Not Be Nick Fury?! These are troubling times for America—unemployment is on the rise, and entire industries face their end—but one thing we geeks have had to look forward to in the next few years is everyone’s favorite bad motherf***er himself,Samuel L. Jackson, asNick Fury. Now it seems we may even be robbed of that one slice of happiness. In an interview today over at the LA Times blogHero Complex, Jackson hints that all is not well at Marvel, and that his role as Nick Fury is anything but a sure thing at this point....

Stranger Things 4 And The Satanic Panic Around D&D Explained “Stranger Things” is back, and itsnew seasonis trading in super-malls and scrunchies for a much darker sign of the times: the Satanic Panic. While the show’s fourth season doesn’t get into the real-life gory details of the moral panic that swept North America in the 1980s, the specter of Satanic Panic finds its way into the show in a surprising way: through the classic tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons....

Superhero Bits: Arrow Will Get A Goatee Next Season, Kiersey Clemons Is Still Iris West & More Are you ready forStephen Amellto have the signatureGreen Arrowgoatee? Do you wantPeterfromDeadpool 2to get his own spin-off? IsKiersey Clemonsgoing to playIris WestinThe Flashmovie or not? Which character returns in a new set video fromThe Punisherseason two? Did you notice thatIron Mansets up a story thread inAnt-Man and the Wasp? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s New K-Pop Superhero, Suicide Squad Animated Movie Voice Cast & More Are you ready for Marvel’s new K-Pop superhero? Did you knowLokialmost got a totally new haircut inThor: Ragnarok? Who is voicingDeadshotin theSuicide Squadanimated movie? WouldGuardians of the Galaxyhave gotten made ifMarvel Studioshad the rights toX-Men? Will there be any newMarvelshows coming to ABC this year? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Marvel has created a K-Pop superhero namedLuna Snowwho is being introduced in their Future Fight video game....

Superhero Bits: X-Men Days Of Future Past, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man, Deadpool, Man Of Steel, The Avengers Will we find out how Professor X loses his hair inX-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to see a ton of concept art fromThe Dark Knight RisesincludingBaneandCatwoman? Which superhero movies were on the list of most pirated in 2012? How did they do theDeadpoolmakeup inX-Men Origins: Wolverine? DidIron Mananswer the wishes of a sick boy?...

The ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Blu-Ray Release Sent Us On A Mission To The International Spy Museum In honor of theMission: Impossible – Falloutdigital and Blu-ray release, I got to spend the day at the International Spy Museum. There, I learned about spycraft, spoke with members of the cast, and sat down with real-life spies. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read about what happened, while watching a video of the experience....

The 12 Best Boba Fett Moments In Star Wars Shows And Movies Boba Fett is one of the most popular characters in the Star Wars universe. At first, the near-silent Mandalorian bounty hunter fascinated viewers because he was shrouded in mystery. Who was this armored warrior? Where did he come from? What are his goals? For decades, Star Wars refused to offer an explanation. Although Fett’s role in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” was relatively small, he became more prominent in the Expanded Universe, where it was revealed that he had not perished in the Sarlacc Pit....