Prime Video’s adaption of the Fallout game franchise is looking like a hit.
The first season of the sci-fi action-comedy has opened this week to a 92 percent average positive review score on Rotten Tomatoes (which is just shy of HBO’s post-apocalyptic video game adaptation, The Last of Us). The first season — which seems very likely to earn a speedy renewal — has been a five-year labor of love from showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) who, along with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, have brought the game’s world of a Wild West wasteland to life.
The secret to the show’s success seems to be successfully capturing the game franchise’s tricky balance of drama, graphic violence and off-beat humor — something plenty of Western projects have tried and failed to do the in the past (remember Will Smith’s Wild Wild West?...
The first season of the sci-fi action-comedy has opened this week to a 92 percent average positive review score on Rotten Tomatoes (which is just shy of HBO’s post-apocalyptic video game adaptation, The Last of Us). The first season — which seems very likely to earn a speedy renewal — has been a five-year labor of love from showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) who, along with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, have brought the game’s world of a Wild West wasteland to life.
The secret to the show’s success seems to be successfully capturing the game franchise’s tricky balance of drama, graphic violence and off-beat humor — something plenty of Western projects have tried and failed to do the in the past (remember Will Smith’s Wild Wild West?...
- 4/12/2024
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fans of Western movies are in for a treat as Prime Video India has added the legendary Dollars Trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood, to its streaming library. The trilogy, directed by Sergio Leone, consists of three films: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). The films are widely regarded as the best examples of the Spaghetti Western genre, which refers to Westerns made by Italian filmmakers in Spain.
The trilogy follows the exploits of a mysterious gunslinger, played by Eastwood, who is known as the Man with No Name. He is a master of the quick draw and a man of few words, who often finds himself in the middle of conflicts between rival factions, bounty hunters, and outlaws. He also has a knack for finding hidden treasures and getting into trouble.
For a Few Dollars More Trailer
The first film,...
The trilogy follows the exploits of a mysterious gunslinger, played by Eastwood, who is known as the Man with No Name. He is a master of the quick draw and a man of few words, who often finds himself in the middle of conflicts between rival factions, bounty hunters, and outlaws. He also has a knack for finding hidden treasures and getting into trouble.
For a Few Dollars More Trailer
The first film,...
- 9/22/2023
- by CineArticles Editorial Team
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
Sequels are practically as old as cinema, with the very first thought to be The Fall of a Nation (1916), a cheapie knockoff/follow-up to the incredibly racist The Birth of a Nation from a year earlier. Ever since Hollywood has been keen to cash-in on sequels and ongoing sagas. Before the term “movie franchise” was even a glint in a studio executive’s eye, MGM was churning out high-quality Thin Man movies at MGM throughout the 1930s and ‘40s while Universal was introducing us to both Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). One must wonder why the studio never got those two crazy kids together.
And yet, while sequels have been around forever, they’ve generally been seen as lesser-than until recently. By their nature, sequels are derivative, and there have been many filmmakers who were all too happy to embrace sameness while filling their working hours before and after lunch.
And yet, while sequels have been around forever, they’ve generally been seen as lesser-than until recently. By their nature, sequels are derivative, and there have been many filmmakers who were all too happy to embrace sameness while filling their working hours before and after lunch.
- 6/6/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The annual sporting event that is the Super Bowl – which both draws millions of eyes to TV screens and increasingly these days provides a launching point for ads that run longer online – was naturally chock full of movie trailers, spots and ads featuring big names. There's always a slew to watch out for, so we decided to highlight a few and round up the ones that entertained us in a handy guide. Check out this year's offerings…
Movie Trailers The Flash
The first full look at the troubled new superhero outing promises lots of multiverse action and, most excitingly, Michael Keaton's Batman returning. We wrote more about this one right here.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3
What will the final entry in James Gunn's trilogy bring? We'll find out in May, and wrote more about the trailer here.
Movie Spots Creed III
With Michael B. Jordan directing...
Movie Trailers The Flash
The first full look at the troubled new superhero outing promises lots of multiverse action and, most excitingly, Michael Keaton's Batman returning. We wrote more about this one right here.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3
What will the final entry in James Gunn's trilogy bring? We'll find out in May, and wrote more about the trailer here.
Movie Spots Creed III
With Michael B. Jordan directing...
- 2/13/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Breaking Bad star Raymond Cruz went deeper with Tuco Salamanca in Better Call Saul and was able to show a more human side of a character who busted skulls when crossed.
As a drug kingpin in Breaking Bad, Tuco was all violence – turned up to 11. And while he certainly didn’t hesitate to take down a couple of scam artists with his abuela’s cane, he showed a more multi-dimensional side on Better Call Saul.
“The fact that you got to really get to know Tuco through Better Call Saul where you see his progression and where he ends up, the amazing writing of the series on the development of the character and how he goes down this road,” Cruz told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “Which you actually got a more heartfelt personal connection with him and seeing on how he treats his family and how he connects with his relatives...
As a drug kingpin in Breaking Bad, Tuco was all violence – turned up to 11. And while he certainly didn’t hesitate to take down a couple of scam artists with his abuela’s cane, he showed a more multi-dimensional side on Better Call Saul.
“The fact that you got to really get to know Tuco through Better Call Saul where you see his progression and where he ends up, the amazing writing of the series on the development of the character and how he goes down this road,” Cruz told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “Which you actually got a more heartfelt personal connection with him and seeing on how he treats his family and how he connects with his relatives...
- 2/8/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
While the final season of Better Call Saul put Walter White and Jesse Pinkman back on the small screen, the upcoming Breaking Bad Super Bowl commercial will no doubt be yet another welcome reunion…even if it may be a farewell, too.
According to Aaron Paul, who again plays Jesse Pinkman in the upcoming Popcorners-themed Breaking Bad Super Bowl spot, the ad will likely mark the last appearance of both Pinkman and White. “I feel like this is sort of where we all kind of hang our hats, at least with the Breaking Bad universe…And what a fun way to go out.”
This is despite just how simple it was for both Cranston and Paul to slip back into their Breaking Bad personas for the Super Bowl commercial. As Paul put it, “It’s so easy to kind of zip on that skin again…It’s just like revisiting a very familiar friend.
According to Aaron Paul, who again plays Jesse Pinkman in the upcoming Popcorners-themed Breaking Bad Super Bowl spot, the ad will likely mark the last appearance of both Pinkman and White. “I feel like this is sort of where we all kind of hang our hats, at least with the Breaking Bad universe…And what a fun way to go out.”
This is despite just how simple it was for both Cranston and Paul to slip back into their Breaking Bad personas for the Super Bowl commercial. As Paul put it, “It’s so easy to kind of zip on that skin again…It’s just like revisiting a very familiar friend.
- 2/6/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Six years since the “Breaking Bad” finale, Bryan Cranston’s Walter White and Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman have reunited once again, in a PopCorners Super Bowl commercial written and directed by Vince Gilligan.
In the ad, Walt and Jesse are back in the iconic “Breaking Bad” Rv cooking up a batch of air-popped snacks. As Jesse raves over the PopCorners chips, Walt reminds his partner, “No, we don’t eat our own supply.”
“Everyone’s going to want a taste,” Jesse says. “And I know just the guy to talk to.”
Jesse and Walt then pay a visit to their early-season distributor Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz). After he tastes the samples, Tuco who exclaims, “Tight! Tight! Tight!” in approval, threatening them into offering seven flavors instead of six. The spot concludes with Tuco gleefully stating, “We’re going to eat a lot of snacks together.”
Cranston and Paul reunited...
In the ad, Walt and Jesse are back in the iconic “Breaking Bad” Rv cooking up a batch of air-popped snacks. As Jesse raves over the PopCorners chips, Walt reminds his partner, “No, we don’t eat our own supply.”
“Everyone’s going to want a taste,” Jesse says. “And I know just the guy to talk to.”
Jesse and Walt then pay a visit to their early-season distributor Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz). After he tastes the samples, Tuco who exclaims, “Tight! Tight! Tight!” in approval, threatening them into offering seven flavors instead of six. The spot concludes with Tuco gleefully stating, “We’re going to eat a lot of snacks together.”
Cranston and Paul reunited...
- 2/6/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
What does it take to perfect PopCorners? A little science, bitch!
PopCorners’ Super Bowl commercial reunites Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul for a quasi-Breaking Bad revival. In it, Jesse gets a taste of Walt’s latest batch — only instead of Blue Sky, it’s a blue bag of white cheddar-flavored PopCorners.
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“Yo! These are the bomb!” Jesse opines. “Everyone is going to want a taste…...
PopCorners’ Super Bowl commercial reunites Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul for a quasi-Breaking Bad revival. In it, Jesse gets a taste of Walt’s latest batch — only instead of Blue Sky, it’s a blue bag of white cheddar-flavored PopCorners.
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“Yo! These are the bomb!” Jesse opines. “Everyone is going to want a taste…...
- 2/6/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Update (2/6/2023): The Super Bowl is only one week away and PopCorners is offering fans a closer look at their highly-anticipated Breaking Bad promo featuring Aaron Paul, Bryan Cranston, and Raymond Cruz. The men reprise their roles as Jesse Pinkman, Walter White, and Tuco Salamanca in the one-minute ad released by the snack company. In this promo titled “Breaking Good,” Walt and Jesse try peddling six flavors of PopCorners to Tuco who won’t be satisfied until there’s seven. See the hilarity unfold in the teaser, above, and don’t miss the ads on Game Day when the Super Bowl airs Sunday, February 12. Update (1/26/2023): Just one week after it was announced that Aaron Paul is joining Bryan Cranston in PopCorners’ Super Bowl ad as their Breaking Bad characters, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White, the first teaser featuring them together again is out. And as the video above proves,...
- 2/6/2023
- TV Insider
It takes an event like the Super Bowl to reunite some of Hollywood’s most distinctive characters.
Tuco Salamanca the menacing drug lord, is set to join Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in a Super Bowl commercial from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay snack division that aims to call attention to its PopCorners popped-corn snack. Yes, Walt and Tuco met their respective ends in the popular TV series, “Breaking Bad,” but the requirements of a Super Bowl ad can sometimes negate even the release of death.
The characters, played by Raymond Cruz, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. will be in good company. Vince Gilligan, the creator, head writer and executive producer of “Breaking Bad,” will direct the commercial and the teaser videos that lead up to it.
PopCorners, which has teased its “Breaking Bad” association for several weeks, released a video Thursday that shows White and Jesse on screen together once more...
Tuco Salamanca the menacing drug lord, is set to join Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in a Super Bowl commercial from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay snack division that aims to call attention to its PopCorners popped-corn snack. Yes, Walt and Tuco met their respective ends in the popular TV series, “Breaking Bad,” but the requirements of a Super Bowl ad can sometimes negate even the release of death.
The characters, played by Raymond Cruz, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. will be in good company. Vince Gilligan, the creator, head writer and executive producer of “Breaking Bad,” will direct the commercial and the teaser videos that lead up to it.
PopCorners, which has teased its “Breaking Bad” association for several weeks, released a video Thursday that shows White and Jesse on screen together once more...
- 1/26/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
When I saw "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" for the first time last year, I was taken aback by how it felt as if I had always known "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Blondie's forced march through the desert; Angel Eyes's back as he walks through a house full of dead bodies; Tuco running through the cemetery looking for the right grave marker. Not to mention Ennio Moricone's score, whose main theme I guarantee you can quote from memory even if you've never seen the movie. I cannot say if "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is the best western ever made, because it has plenty of competition even among Leone's own work. But it makes as strong a case as any for mythic permanence, as if it was set down on a tablet rather than filmed.
Of course, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
Of course, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
- 10/13/2022
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
After expressing his outrage over James Franco being cast as Fidel Castro in the independent feature drama Alina of Cuba, Primetime Emmy winner John Leguizamo has expounded on his stance regarding Hollywood casting non-Latinos in Latino roles. Specifically, in an Instagram post earlier today, he says “Alright, look, I got no problems with James Franco, yo, Ok?” while explaining, “I grew up in a era where Latin people couldn’t play Latin people on film.”
Also earlier today, Alina of Cuba producer John Martinez O’Felan released a statement defending the casting of Franco who is of Latin-Portuguese heritage and responding to Leguizamo’s initial protest, saying “I want to point out that his odd comments, if you base them on genealogy, are a blind attack and lack any factual substance.”
Deadline first told you about Franco playing El Comandante in the Miguel Bardem directed Alina of Cuba from Oscar-nominated scribe...
Also earlier today, Alina of Cuba producer John Martinez O’Felan released a statement defending the casting of Franco who is of Latin-Portuguese heritage and responding to Leguizamo’s initial protest, saying “I want to point out that his odd comments, if you base them on genealogy, are a blind attack and lack any factual substance.”
Deadline first told you about Franco playing El Comandante in the Miguel Bardem directed Alina of Cuba from Oscar-nominated scribe...
- 8/7/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul season 5 episode 9.
At the end of Better Call Saul season 5 episode 9 “Bad Choice Road,” Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler receive an unexpected and most unwelcome visitor.
It’s Lalo Salamanca and he’s stopping by for a very specific purpose. After tapping on their fish’s tak (don’t do that!), and making himself comfortable on the living room couch, Lalo has but one request for Jimmy.
“So. Tell me what happened…when you picked up the money. Walk me through it.”
Jimmy shares the story he rehearsed so thoroughly with Mike once again with Lalo. He went to pick up the money from the Salamanca cousins in the desert, his car broke down, and he walked back to civilization. It’s a good, believable story. So good in fact that Lalo wants to hear it again…then again…and again…and again.
At the end of Better Call Saul season 5 episode 9 “Bad Choice Road,” Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler receive an unexpected and most unwelcome visitor.
It’s Lalo Salamanca and he’s stopping by for a very specific purpose. After tapping on their fish’s tak (don’t do that!), and making himself comfortable on the living room couch, Lalo has but one request for Jimmy.
“So. Tell me what happened…when you picked up the money. Walk me through it.”
Jimmy shares the story he rehearsed so thoroughly with Mike once again with Lalo. He went to pick up the money from the Salamanca cousins in the desert, his car broke down, and he walked back to civilization. It’s a good, believable story. So good in fact that Lalo wants to hear it again…then again…and again…and again.
- 4/14/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Bad Choice Road,” coming up just as soon as I leave the Yankees to play amateur ring toss…
“Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy
So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One Who Mocks?
“Bad Choice Road” begins with a sequel to the great montage from last season’s “Something Stupid.” Again, a cover of the Sinatra song plays as we see Jimmy and Kim in split screen. In that earlier episode,...
“Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy
So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One Who Mocks?
“Bad Choice Road” begins with a sequel to the great montage from last season’s “Something Stupid.” Again, a cover of the Sinatra song plays as we see Jimmy and Kim in split screen. In that earlier episode,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Mark Harrison Nov 8, 2018
As Breaking Bad’s prequel series comes closer to its end, we speculate about what fate has in store for the Better Call Saul Characters
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains spoilers for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul seasons 1-4.
“It’s all good, man.”
Better Call Saul is mostly a lighter series than Breaking Bad, but from the very beginning, there’s been the inescapable sense that things are going to get much darker before it reaches its end. That might be because the end of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s prequel series will probably leave off right where the parent show begins, joining up the two series in one big New Mexico crime saga.
If the arc of Breaking Bad was to take Walter White from "Mr. Chips to Scarface," Better Call Saul has the much more literal...
As Breaking Bad’s prequel series comes closer to its end, we speculate about what fate has in store for the Better Call Saul Characters
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains spoilers for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul seasons 1-4.
“It’s all good, man.”
Better Call Saul is mostly a lighter series than Breaking Bad, but from the very beginning, there’s been the inescapable sense that things are going to get much darker before it reaches its end. That might be because the end of Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s prequel series will probably leave off right where the parent show begins, joining up the two series in one big New Mexico crime saga.
If the arc of Breaking Bad was to take Walter White from "Mr. Chips to Scarface," Better Call Saul has the much more literal...
- 11/8/2018
- Den of Geek
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