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Ever since debuting on screen in 1954, the creature that the Japanese call Gojira – but who is known internationally as Godzilla – has undergone a series of character changes.

There tends to be a sense of wariness around an American remake of an international film: a worry that the American version will squander the inherent qualities of the original; that the filmmakers and studio might take something singular and turn it into a bigger, shinier blockbuster.

It’s hard to overstate the impact Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” had on the culture in 1988 — in fact, it feels like the rascally, wild-haired “bio-exorcist” memorably embodied by Michael Keaton has simply always been around, especially for a subset of millennials who grew up with the zany horror comedy on repeat. The Oscar-winning film was a critical and commercial success, it spawned an animated ...

Here is one October surprise you can put on your calendar now: The Donald Trump biopic "The Apprentice," which set tongues wagging when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has secured theatrical distribution by Briarcliff Entertainment and will hit theaters on Oct. 11, less than a month before the presidential election.

VENICE – Thirty-six years have passed since Tim Burton somehow turned “Beetlejuice,” a B-horror comedy starring Michael Keaton as a roguish demon in a striped suit, into one of the biggest box office successes of 1988. So, of course, one of the first questions at the news conference Tuesday for the world premiere of its sequel, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” was about how everyone felt about getting old.

If you were a recent arrival from Alpha Centauri and approached the new biopic “Reagan” with no knowledge of America’s 40th president, here’s what you might learn:

In “Slingshot,” a space travel thriller directed by Mikael Håfström, the title refers to a risky flight maneuver involving orbital mechanics. Astronauts journeying a billion and a half miles to one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, will need a gravity assist — the “slingshot” in question — from Jupiter’s orbital velocity in order to make it all the way. Why are they going to Titan? It’s the only other planet that has liquid on its surface, methane that they intend to harvest for clean energy to combat climate change on Earth.

The latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film “Megalopolis” has been pulled offline by Lionsgate, after it was found to feature made-up quotes from well-known film critics. 

Tim Curry is appearing on the big screen for the first time since suffering a stroke that left him wheelchair-bound more than a decade ago. The 78-year-old “Rocky Horror Picture Show” star, who broke out as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the beloved musical, now appears in Michael Leavy’s horror film, “Stream,” in select theaters starting Wednesday, Variety reports. The film — with a synopsis that ...

“It’s all right to talk, yell at the screen,” instructs director Tina Mabry before the world premiere of her film “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” during the annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. “That’s what movies are about. That’s what we are about,” added Mabry before the lights went down on this crowd of summer vacationers escaping the pressures of the C-suite and Congress.

In her daring directorial debut, “Blink Twice,” writer/director Zoë Kravitz doesn’t flinch once — not even when her film might be served by looking away.

Kadra Evans, the owner of Little Noodle restaurant and vice president of the Garland Business District has been a Garland local since 2006. She wanted to have some sort of mural on her building but wasn’t sure what to do.

The beauty of the “Alien” franchise is that it has always allowed room for distinctive filmmakers to play with their own aesthetics and themes. Ridley Scott’s taut, philosophical space-thriller “Alien” gave way to the sweaty, militarized machismo of James Cameron’s “Aliens.” David Fincher brought industrial Soviet aesthetics and psychosexual tension from his Madonna music videos to the stylish “Alien 3” (though he disavowed his directorial debut); even the darkly whimsical French auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet put his quirky stamp on “Alien Resurrection,” before Scott returned for the bloody, brooding prequels “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant.”

Award-winning actor Gena Rowlands, whose appearances in “A Woman Under the Influence,” “Gloria” and “The Notebook” were among her many celebrated collaborations with her late husband, John Cassavetes, and their son, Nick, died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells after a yearslong battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 94.

In excellent news for fans of the “Alien” franchise, all six previous films in the franchise are now streaming on Hulu, in preparation of this week’s release of “Alien: Romulus,” the nasty new entry directed by Fede Alvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny.

Among the many myths regarding the late movie star Elizabeth Taylor, maybe the most enduring is that she had “violet eyes.”

Jake Gyllenhaal seems to be pointing his acting career in a new direction. Fresh off starring in Doug Liman’s recently released big-screen remake of “Road House,” he’s now the star of the Apple TV+ miniseries “Presumed Innocent.”

Tilman Singer's “Cuckoo” is a horror film that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen, even though it pays overt homage to its predecessors in the genre.

Documentary filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith’s film “Relative” carries a double meaning in its title. In one sense, it refers to the main subject of her film, which is her family.