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.
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How 'Three Billboards,' 'Shape of Water' have suddenly become the Oscar favorites
In what's so far been a refreshingly unpredictable race for Oscar's Best Picture trophy, a pair of clear-cut favorites appear to be emerging out of the fog.
MoviesMarcus Errico'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom': Chris Pratt tries to save dinos from extinction in first trailer
As Isla Nublar faces an exploding volcano, it's up to Owen, Claire, and their team to save the dinosaurs (so many dinosaurs!), and avoid being eaten by them.
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'Blade Runner 2049' underperformance at box office a 'mystery' to Denis Villeneuve despite career-best reviews
Ahead of time, this year’s “Blade Runner” sequel looked like a box office smash, but it stumbled. In a Facebook Live interview, its director told Yahoo Entertainment he’s still coming to grips with that.
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.
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Ring in the season with these exclusive photos from 'Olaf's Frozen Adventure'
Here you can get a first look at four of the most festive moments from the film, which follows the wise-cracking snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) on a fact-finding mission to discover holiday traditions for his friends Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) after the newly reunited royals realize they don’t have any. Anna, Elsa, and Olaf try to discover the holiday spirit.
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Find the Falcon! How Lucasfilm and fans have been playing hide-and-seek with iconic 'Star Wars' ship
The latest discovery of the Millennium Falcon on Google Maps represents another round in the cat-and-mouse game between producers and fans.
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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Another 'Star Wars' trilogy is in the works; Rian Johnson will create story focusing on new characters
The filmmaker will introduce "characters from a corner of the galaxy that 'Star Wars' lore has never before explored."
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Luke Skywalker is reunited with the Millennium Falcon in latest 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' spot
Bittersweet moment finds the Jedi entering the cockpit formerly commanded by his late friend Han Solo.
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.
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'Get Out' already looking like legit Oscar contender
Jordan Peele’s brilliant racial satire could be rare horror movie to make an awards-season run.
