MoviesKevin PolowyRole Recall: Helen Hunt on terrifying 'Twister' shoot, epic 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' dance, and kissing up a storm in 'Cast Away'
With “The Miracle Season,” there’s talk of a comeback for Helen Hunt. The actress has been here before. In our latest “Role Recall” interview, Hunt talked about starting off on “Swiss Family Robinson,” doubting that “Mad About You” would succeed, and more.
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MoviesKevin Polowy'Ready Player One': That huge [SPOILER] scene was almost set in 'Blade Runner'
"Ready Player One" screenwriter Zak Penn reveals Parzival and friends originally ventured into the world of "Blade Runner" for the film's second challenge.
MoviesKevin Polowy2 'Ready Player One' references you never saw coming
Screenwriter Zak Penn explains how nods to his first two movies, "Last Action Hero" and "PCU," ended up in "Ready Player One."
MoviesKevin PolowyIs 'Ready Player One' the geekiest movie ever made? Steven Spielberg and cast weigh in.
“I suffered through geekdom when nobody but me, I felt, was a geek,” Steven Spielberg says.
MoviesKevin PolowyHollywood's early Oscar picks: Stars at Governors Awards loving 'Get Out,' 'Florida Project,' and 'Lady Bird'
Yahoo Entertainment asked the actors and directors at the Governors Awards which 2017 film or performance would have their early vote on the Oscar ballot.
MoviesKevin Polowy'Dune' reboot: Denis Villeneuve says his new version will be nothing like David Lynch's
"When I saw his adaptation I was impressed, but it was not what I had dreamed of, so I'm trying to make the adaptation of my dreams," Denis Villeneuve says of David Lynch's "Dune."
MoviesKevin PolowyJason Mitchell wishes he didn't turn down lead role in 'Get Out'
Jason Mitchell's stellar 2017 could have even been better.
MoviesKevin PolowyThe big reveal, the nixed romance, and the noodle worm: What was cut from (and added to) 'Thor: Ragnarok'
Warning: Thor: Ragnarok spoilers abound! It was early 2016, and Eric Pearson was practically living at the Frank G. Wells Building on the Disney Studios lot in Burbank, camped out in his office until 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning. The screenwriter, who’d risen through the ranks of the Marvel Writer’s Program, was nearing completion on an early draft of a script for Thor: Ragnarok, the threequel currently thundering all over the worldwide box office.
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How 'Thor: Ragnarok' screenwriter (and former pizza guy) Eric Pearson became Marvel's go-to script doctor
It was 2010, and Eric Pearson had spent the past eight years working menial gig after menial gig — from pizza delivery guy to messenger to ticket-taker at an arthouse theater in West Hollywood, the closest the aspiring screenwriter could get to the film industry. “It was close, man,” Pearson told Yahoo Entertainment last week at a coffee shop in Beverly Hills, on the day Thor: Ragnarok, the first movie for which he’s been the central writer, opened across the world. Pearson, who’d already given up his dream of becoming an actor (“I was just bad, I know it now, too, and I probably even knew it then,” he laughed) and studied screenwriting at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, had one last shot to escape the unsustainable clutches of the minimum wage.
MoviesKevin PolowyDoes suburbia have a dark underbelly? 'Suburbicon's' George Clooney and Julianne Moore weigh in
Like in plenty suburbia-set movies of the past (think American Beauty, The Stepford Wives, Happiness, and of course, The 'Burbs), there’s some serious foul play at work in 'Suburbicon.'
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Matt Damon says 'Suburbicon' director George Clooney is done pranking: 'He finally grew up'
Renowned prankster George Clooney was not up to his usual tricks on the set of his new directorial effort Suburbicon.
MoviesKevin PolowyDirector Taika Waititi added a gratuitous shirtless Chris Hemsworth scene to 'Thor: Ragnarok' to put 'bums on seats'
Thor: Ragnarok is the third standalone adventure featuring Marvel’s Asgardian God of Thunder — and also the third Thor movie (after 2011’s Thor and 2013’s Thor: The Dark World) to feature a gratuitous shot of star Chris Hemsworth sans shirt for an extended scene. “And then [director] Taika Waititi came up to me and was said, ‘Ah, I feel like we got to put it in there. As Hemsworth stated at the top of the interview, he was asked by Thor director Kenneth Branagh to do a “shirt off” scene in the first film, and Hemsworth told MTV in 2013 that Marvel consigliere Joss Whedon suggested they add a similar sequence to Dark World.
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Blake Lively on wearing sightless contacts to play blind woman in 'All I See Is You' and how she gets to be James Bond (plus exclusive clip)
To play a sightless woman, the actress learned from a blind adviser how not to act in the familiar “like a blind person” way. The challenges were part of why Lively took the role in the new psychological drama, which opens Friday.
MoviesKevin PolowyJackie Chan recalls almost dying after drinking beer and falling from a tree while making ‘Armour of God’
Jackie Chan’s most serious injury, a skull fracture on the set of the 1986 action-comedy "Armour of God" that nearly killed him, came after a little drinking and stunting.
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: Kiefer Sutherland reveals behind-the-scenes bromance on 'The Lost Boys'
"We were really going through very similar things. Our careers were starting to get exciting,” Sutherland says of working with co-starJason Patric.
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: How Jack Nicholson coached George Miller through his first Hollywood directing gig on 'Witches of Eastwick'
George Miller was well established in the rough-and-rugged world of Ozploitation cinema thanks to his work on the cultishly adored Australian trilogy Mad Max (1979-85). “It was my first full Hollywood feature,” Miller told Yahoo Entertainment (watch above) about the horror-comedy about three women (Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer) who get into some hocus pocus after Jack Nicholson’s mysterious playboy arrives in their sleepy New England town. “Jack said to me, ‘Look, George, they mistake politeness for weakness.
MoviesKevin PolowyJackie Chan thought 'Rush Hour' was terrible when he first saw it
Jackie Chan was sick and tired of trying to cross over into American movies. The martial arts wonder and ex-Bruce Lee stuntman was a superstar in his native China, but his attempts at going Hollywood in films like Big Brawl (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), and The Protector (1985) barely registered with stateside audiences. “Nobody knew who this little Chinese guy was that spoke no English,” Chan told Yahoo Entertainment during a recent Role Recall interview (watch clip above).
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: As 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' turns 25, Hilary Swank remembers her Valley Girl one-liners
The Nebraska native was 16 at the time, and working on a television show ("Camp Wilder") during the day and her first film role by night.
MoviesKevin PolowyJackie Chan remembers impromptu bowling with Bruce Lee just days before martial arts legend died
Bruce Lee recognized his stuntman Jackie Chan on the street, then followed him to a bowling alley.
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: Corey Feldman on how he used stolen 'Gremlins' fur to ward off bullies
“Because I was a very kind of meek, kind of sweet kid, I got harassed a lot,” Feldman says.
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: Jennifer Tilly reveals the spine-tingling, head-rattling secrets of working with Chucky
“Sometimes I’m a little bit aware that Chucky is not pulling his part,” Tilly told Yahoo Entertainment during a recent Facebook Live interview promoting the new "Cult of Chucky."
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: '28 Days Later' director Danny Boyle explains surprising inspirations for speedy zombies
Danny Boyle didn’t exactly subscribe to the Romero school of zombies before helming the 2002 horror hit 28 Days Later. “I was on the fence about zombies, to be honest,” he told Yahoo Entertainment during a recent Director’s Reel interview. The 28 Days Later flesh eaters not only were fast, but punishingly strong, too — something that, per Boyle, had a surprising inspiration.
MoviesKevin PolowyMVPs of Horror: Naomi Watts reveals why she almost passed on 'The Ring'
Naomi Watts had serious heat after her head-turning performance in Mulholland Drive, David Lynch’s twisty neo-noir that introduced the Aussie actress to American audiences. Major offers rolled in, and among them was a mainstream horror movie called The Ring, about a woman who encounters a videotape that dooms those who dare to watch it. Watts, who already had a decade’s worth of minor film credits under name, had seen people she knows in the business break out in an acclaimed film, then sell out for studio paychecks.
MoviesKevin PolowyJackie Chan wants to show audiences he can really act with 'The Foreigner'
"In Hollywood, I always receive the [same type of] script: Police from Hong Kong, police from China, CIA from Hong Kong," Jackie Chan says.
MoviesKevin PolowyNo, Corey Feldman did not bring Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles to the set of 'The Burbs'
Corey Feldman insists that no, he never brought Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee Bubbles to the set of the 1989 horror-comedy The ‘Burbs… which means, no, Bubbles never deficated all over Feldman’s trailer. It’s a claim that’s lived in infamy on the internet, and was repeated by the film’s own helmer, Joe Dante, when he visited Yahoo Studios to shoot a Director’s Reel interview in 2015. “Bubbles was not big on hygiene, and so one day they went in to clean the trailer, and it was completely covered in monkey s**t,” said Dante, who had previously directed Feldman in Gremlins.
