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- MoviesYahoo Movies UK Staff
The embarrassing early roles of Hollywood heartthrobs
Here's some of the early jobs of Hollywood's biggest stars that we're sure they'd rather forget.
MoviesNick SchagerThe 'Alien' Movies That Never Were: Your Ultimate Guide
From the original through the “AvPR” series and beyond, a guide to all the alternate paths the “Alien” movies almost took.
- MoviesDigital Spy
9 hottest movie sex scenes that actually are sexy
And not a red room of pain in sight.
- MoviesBen Bussey
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2's post-credits scenes explained
What we can take from the Marvel sequel's five tag scenes - with huge SPOILERS, obviously.
MoviesVarietySummer Movie Preview: Hollywood Banks on Aging Franchises to Break Records
In Hollywood, nothing is more dangerous than an original idea. These days, it’s nearly impossible for studios to justify greenlighting a big-budget movie and sending it out into the heat of summer battle without the armor of a film franchise. It’s too hard to find the right marketing hook to explain a film’s premise in... Read more »
- MoviesBen Bussey
Sir Daniel Day-Lewis at 60: the actor's 10 best roles
As the acclaimed British thespian celebrates his 60th birthday, we celebrate a distinctive and illustrious acting career.
- MoviesIndiewire
Tom Hanks Needs a Reboot: Why America’s Favorite Actor Is Playing It Too Safe
"The Circle" is the latest example of how the actor is misusing his talent.
MoviesThe Hollywood Reporter'Austin Powers' at 20: Mike Myers, Jay Roach, More Spill Secrets in Shagadelic Oral History
The movie nearly got an R rating for male nudity 20 years ago before becoming an improbable franchise. Now all the players — including Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Michael De Luca, Seth Green and others — open up about awful test screenings, shooting at Scientology headquarters and luring Carrie Fisher.
- MoviesBen Bussey
RIP Jonathan Demme: looking back on the late director's best-loved films
Celebrating the career of a great filmmaker, who has sadly died aged 73.
MoviesThe Hollywood Reporter'Star Wars': The Impossible Task Facing 'Episode IX'
How do you provide a final chapter to an ongoing storyline?
MoviesThe Hollywood ReporterThe Rollercoaster Drama Behind 'Titanic': An Out-of-Control Budget, Two Warring Studios and a Near-Fistfight
For the first time, 20 years since the classic was first released, James Cameron and others reveal their behind-the-scenes secrets.
MoviesThe Hollywood ReporterJames Cameron's 'Titanic' Secrets: 'It's Time I Gave My Version of What Happened'
As the Oscar-winning blockbuster nears its 20th anniversary, the director looks back at the tense studio negotiations and strategic release plan in connection with a new book on the studio head who greenlit the movie.
- MoviesBen Bussey
Spin-off movies: 5 that worked, 5 that stunk
Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham's 'Fast & Furious' offshoot has a somewhat mixed heritage to live up to. Will it prove a high or a low?
- MoviesBen Bussey
Was Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson's Fast & Furious 8 feud just a PR stunt?
Now that 'Fast & Furious 8' is a confirmed smash hit, surely we're all questioning whether the beef was ever for real.
- MoviesIndiewire
Marvel Opens Its Doors: 4 Reasons the Studio Continues to Rule Hollywood’s Comic Book Realm
Marvel opened up its offices for a behind-the-scenes look at the studio that dominates Hollywood before a screening of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2."
- MoviesYahoo Movies UK Staff
17 famous actors you forgot were in Star Wars
Here’s some actors you never realised journeyed to that galaxy far, far away in Star Wars.
MoviesVarietyWhy Vin Diesel and the ‘Fast and the Furious’ Franchise Should Eye the Exit Ramp
Dear Universal, Vin Diesel, & Family, A plea. After eight films and $4.4 billion and counting, it’s time for the “Fast and the Furious” series to eye the exit ramp. I’m not saying you have to send Dom Toretto into the great garage in the sky without giving him and Letty and Hobbs and the... Read more »
- MoviesBen Bussey
Tarantino & Rodriguez flop Grindhouse proved more influential than you might have thought
Ten years after it crashed and burned at the box office, exploitation double bill 'Grindhouse' has made a greater impact on movies and pop culture than anyone would have expected.
- MoviesTom Butler
Everything that was shown at the Transformers 5 preview event
Here's everything we saw and learned about 'Transformers: The Last Knight' from the footage preview event.
- MoviesBen Bussey
Is 2017 bringing horror back to the mainstream?
With the success of ‘Get Out’ and ‘Split,’ and the likelihood of ‘It’ becoming a box office smash, horror cinema seems to be seeing a resurgence in critical and commercial acceptability. Depending on who you talk to, recent years have been either a treasure trove or a wasteland for horror movies. On a cult level, interest in the genre has arguably never been higher, with innumerable websites and blogs covering all things horror and scores of horror-based film festivals and conventions popping up across the globe.
MoviesYahoo Movies UK StaffClassic movies with unforgivable plot holes
You’ve watched them a dozen times… but did you ever notice these massive clanging plot holes in your favourite movies?
- MoviesMike P Williams
Should we be worried about Justice League and DC's future?
The first official trailer for ‘Justice League’ made its way online, but the reaction has been mixed. The heroes that make up the Justice League (bar Superman, of course). While we’d seen footage of Warner Bros. and DC’s upcoming superhero ensemble before, this was the first proper trailer unleashed, and it packed a huge amount into two-and-a-half minutes.
- MoviesYahoo Movies UK Staff
The best and worst director's cuts in movie history
Films are getting longer, but that’s only because audiences’ appetites have only gotten more voracious. Zack Snyder is a filmmaker who will not be constrained by namby-pamby running times. Snyder’s first superhero epic was his most well-received but it wasn’t until Snyder released the Director’s Cut that 24 minutes of essential material was restored to the run-time, including the death of Hollis, extra Rorschach and some crucial Comedian flashbacks.
- MoviesBen Falk
Akira: The long and tortured history of the live-action remake
A live-action adaptation of the iconic manga comic (also filmed as a seminal 1988 anime) has been in Hollywood development hell for decades with many huge names including Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Evans, Keanu Reeves, and Christopher Nolan all linked with the project at various stages. 1982-1990 – Katsuhiro Otomo launches his original manga. Set in Neo-Tokyo, 2019 after the nuclear apocalypse, it tells the epic story of youngsters Kaneda, Tetsuo against the backdrop of gang violence, psychic kids and motorbike chases.
- MoviesBen Falk
The best unofficial movie trilogies
The cinema landscape is awash with franchises and the movie trilogy has always been a favourite of filmmakers. But what about those writers and directors whose trifecta of films are connected not by specific plot points, but for more abstract, thematic reasons? Here are some of the best.
