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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is a fantasy anime unlike any other. It forgoes a more traditional focus on combat and opts to tell a very personal story about adventurers traveling together. However, that doesn't mean that there isn't any action at all. Frieren features its fair share of monstrous obstacles and shows off how strong all the characters are as they face wandering dangers.

The strongest characters aren't necessarily the oldest or most experienced. Sometimes, characters are strong because they work at their crafts tirelessly – honing their skills with each encounter. Characters of various ages and races are among the strongestFrieren characters.

Updated on February 23, 2025 by Robbie Robinson: Really, there's a plethora of overpowered characters in Frieren. Because of that, the battles end up being perfectly suspenseful and exciting. While Frieren seems like an easy choice for the top spot, there are actually some characters that are regarded as being much stronger.

Back to the Future is now a classic of the 1980s and Michael J. Fox is best remembered for his role as Marty McFly, which he got after Eric Stoltz was fired from the movie. The 1980s is home to many classic movies across different genres, and in the worlds of sci-fi and comedy, Back to the Future is a clear favorite. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future introduces the world to teenager Marty McFly and his friend Emmett “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd), an eccentric scientist working on a very important project.

Turns out that Doc has built a time machine with a modified DeLorean and powered by plutonium, which gets him into major trouble. When the terrorists Doc stole the plutonium from arrive and kill him, Marty panics and uses the DeLorean to escape, but it takes him back to 1955. Marty meets his parents, who are his age,...

Casting an important movie role is never easy, and sometimes the process of finding the best actor for a given role continues even after production or filming has officially begun. The entertainment industry can often be a turbulent one, with the typical professional rules for hiring and firing often being thrown out the window in favor of last-minute changes. Some of the most iconic movie castings ever have often been the result of last-minute changes to the call sheet that only come into play long after the first scene has been shot.

There are many reasons why a film set might make the decision to recast a major character halfway through production. In some cases, things like scheduling conflicts create logistical nightmares that ultimately aren't worth it, but a director's artistic vision can sometimes clash with the final performance given by a previously chosen actor. Tragically, unforeseeable events like the...

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Back To The Future is the rare sort of project that defines a decade. Much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe was emblematic of the 2010s, the time-travel comedy was a definitive piece of the 1980s. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reached unprecedented heights and quickly became the faces of the franchise. The first movie earned $389 million on a budget of just $19 million. Accounting for inflation, that would mean $1.16 billion at the worldwide box office. It was an incredible accomplishment that spawned two more movies, a TV show, and numerous games.

Yet, while Michael J. Fox experienced an explosion of attention in the limelight, he was not originally slated to be involved in the movie at all.

Back to the Future star Lea Thompson didn't warm quickly to co-star Michael J. Fox. Although Fox's name is synonymous with Marty McFly, there was a different actor portraying the iconic character when shooting for the film began. Although Fox was the first choice for Marty McFly his Family Ties schedule restricted him from starring in the movie, so Eric Stoltz was cast in the lead role. As production moved forward, director Robert Zemeckis just did not think he was the right fit for the part, and with Fox's Family Ties schedule reworked, Stoltz exited the movie, and Fox officially joined.

This shift caused some apprehension in Thompson, who portrayed the teenage version of Lorraine Baines, the character that grows up to be Marty's mother. During a recent appearance on the Still Here Hollywood podcast, host Steve Kmetko asked the Caroline in the City actress if she and Fox had...

Dozens of major names circled the role of Marty McFly, but only one man could get it…Well, make that two. While Eric Stoltz was originally cast in the Back to the Future role, director Robert Zemeckis would ultimately decide he wasn’t right for the part, canning him less than two months into filming. With that, Michael J. Fox would step in and help make modern movie history. But for Lea Thompson, it took quite a while to get used to her new co-star.

Appearing on the Still Here Hollywood podcast (via EW), Lea Thompson said she was initially distant to Fox, thinking his TV work on Family Ties wasn’t up to snuff with her big screen successes…“I remember specifically being really snooty because there was a big division between movie stars and TV stars at that point. I remember being like, ‘He’s just a TV...

Back to the Future actor Lea Thompson says it took her a while to warm up to Michael J. Fox when he was cast in the film. The actor recently admitted to being snooty to her co-star on set.

When asked if she got along with Fox when they met on the Back to the Future set, Thompson told the Still Here Hollywood podcast, "Probably not, because I was friends with Eric Stoltz who had just gotten fired." Although Fox was the first choice for the role, director Robert Zemeckis cast Eric Stoltz when Fox was initially unavailable due to his commitments on the NBC sitcom Family Ties. After filming began, the creative team realized Stoltz wasn't the right fit and eventually replaced him with Fox.

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A Jennifer Lopez film that is closing in on its 30-year anniversary just got a major streaming update. Anaconda, the 1997 flick which Lopez stars in alongside Ice Cube, Jon Voight, and Eric Stoltz, has officially received a September 1 release date on Max. The film follows a National Geographic film crew taken hostage by a hunter who forces them to work together to try to capture the world's largest snake. Anaconda joins other movies coming to Max next month such as The Martian, the Ridley Scott-directed space epic starring Matt Damon. In addition to Lopez, Ice Cube, Voight, and Stoltz, Anaconda also stars Owen Wilson, Danny Trejo, and Jonathan Hyde, and currently sits at "rotten" scores of 41% from critics and 24% from general audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.

Brad Pitt will be next seen in Joseph Kosinski’s sports drama F1, which is currently being filmed at the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone race track. The Formula-One race drama also stars Damson Idris and Javier Bardem in lead roles and is co-produced by Lewis Hamilton.

While the film is being shot at real F1 locations around the world, the decision would have caused a huge loss to the film’s production during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. However, Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer reportedly had a workaround to avoid re-shoots.

Brad Pitt’s F1 Would Have Cost A Lot More If They Had To Reshoot A Key Scene Brad Pitt in F1 | Credits: Warner Bros.

Brad Pitt’s much-awaited film F1 has been widely reported to have a hopping budget of $300 million. While filmmaker Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer denied the cost, the actual number...

The TCM Classic Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a 30th anniversary screening of Pulp Fiction at the Tcl Chinese Theatre. Original castmembers John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel reunited to celebrate the film, along with support from Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma, and daughter Tallulah. After making waves this week with news that he was changing course on his final film, writer and director Quentin Tarantino was absent from the event.

During a panel before the screening, Travolta described how when he first met Tarantino to discuss the film in the director’s Hollywood apartment, they bonded by playing board games from movies and TV shows that Travolta had starred in.

“He was so adorable. He had the fantasy of wanting to play the games that were associated with the films I was in — like the Saturday Night Fever game, there is a game, the Welcome Back Kotter game,...

Created by Glen A. Larson, Battlestar Galactica remains one of the most popular science fiction TV series on record. Launched in 1978, the long-running Sci-Fi franchise concerns the eternal war between the humans from planet Kobol and the Cylons, cybernetic warriors who fight to control the Twelve Colonies. Although the premise remains the same in each franchise entry, there is some confusion about the chronology of events in the BSG timeline.

While there have been two main TV series in the Battlestar Galactica canon, the sprawling Sci-Fi franchise has also produced a spin-off, prequel, reboot, multiple web series, and a pair of movies that every fan should check out. With the recent announcement that Peacock is poised to reboot the series once more, it's time to steer viewers in the right direction and guide them on how to watch the entire franchise in the proper order.

How to Watch Battlestar Galactica...

Michael J. Fox almost didn't play Marty McFly, but last-minute casting changes led to his iconic performance. Christopher Lloyd initially turned down the role of Doc, but was convinced to accept it by the director. The time machine was originally supposed to be powered by a nuclear bomb, but the idea was scrapped for being too expensive.

There are many ways the iconic time blockbuster Back to the Future could have turned out to be a very different movie. Writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's vision for Marty and Doc's story was revised several times when they began to work with Universal Pitcures and executive producer Steven Speilberg. Zemeckis and Gale were loath to let go of some things, and successfully held on to others, but the final result still became a beloved cinematic adventure.

Several stoylines that would have changed the tone of Back to the Future's story were abandoned,...

There are loads of tantalizing Hollywood casting what-ifs. Tom Selleck would've played Indiana Jones had he not been previously committed to CBS' "Magnum P.I." Pierce Brosnan was set to succeed Roger Moore as James Bond after "A View to a Kill," but NBC, realizing the star of their just-canceled "Remington Steele," was a hot commodity, resurrected the show for a fifth season (after which it was canceled again). And there's always poor Dougray Scott, who had to give up the role of Wolverine in Bryan Singer's "X-Men" when "Mission: Impossible II" went over schedule.

These were franchise- and career-altering decisions. What would Harrison Ford have done after the conclusion of the "Star Wars" original trilogy in 1983? Would Brosnan have rejuvenated the flagging Bond series, thus averting the six-year retooling period between "License to Kill" and "GoldenEye?" Could Scott have connected with audiences as emphatically as Hugh Jackman did in the role of Logan?...

The Flash references Back to the Future, joking about Eric Stoltz's original casting as Marty McFly. The Flash includes Easter eggs with posters referencing Warner Bros. projects and alternate Barry mentioning Star Wars. The Flash's Back to the Future joke highlights the significant changes in the world caused by Barry's time travel and establishes similar themes between the two stories.

2023's The Flash made a reference to the classic time travel movie Back to the Future by joking about Eric Stoltz's casting that could've been. Released on June 16, 2023, The Flash marked Ezra Miller's first solo film as the Dceu's Barry Allen, adapted from 2011's Flashpoint in DC Comics. After Barry traveled back in time to save his mother, he found himself in an alternate timeline that made several changes to DC's continuity. This included major changes such as Michael Keaton's Batman existing in the place of Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne,...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Flash.Barry Allen's attempt at time travel in The Flash rewrote the Dceu's reality, causing some movie stars to lose their most iconic roles. Multiversal travel seems to be much more dangerous in the Dceu than in other pop culture multiverses, as the mere act of time traveling causes the traveler to change the past, the present, and the future simultaneously. One single variation in the past not only alters the present, but it also retroactively changes events that came long before, which results in a massive rewriting of history.

Moving a can of tomatoes saved Barry Allen's mother from being murdered, but it also caused Ben Affleck's Batman to be replaced by Michael Keaton's, Aquaman to never be born, and Superman to be killed as a baby. When Michael Keaton's Batman explains time travel in The Flash, Barry Allen...

In comic-book movies, when it comes to a hero’s superpowers — flying, lifting objects, repelling bullets, the indomitability of a shield or a hammer — the audience is almost always on the outside looking in. But in “The Flash,” when the title character throttles forward at the speed of the hot-singe lightning streaks at his back, or floats through the air in slowed-down motion so that a mere second appears to last forever, the movie makes us part of the experience. We know just what he’s going through, which is why the scene gives you a jolt.

Early on, Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), a forensic chemist in the Central City Police Department, receives a call from Alfred (Jeremy Irons) — yes, that Alfred — letting him know that there’s an attack underway, and that none of the other Justice League members, notably Batman, is around to help. So Barry, in his...

As a lifelong fan of Blaxploitation flicks and exploitation movies in general, of course Quentin Tarantino was desperate to work with Pam Grier. The legendary star of "The Big Bird Cage," "Coffey," and "Foxy Brown" meshed uncommon beauty with undeniable grit. She wasn't looking for trouble. She was trouble. And the bad folks clownish enough to try her on for size always found her to be a treacherously poor fit.

Unfortunately, when the Blaxploitation trend faded in the late 1970s, Hollywood failed Grier. She went from starring roles to underwritten supporting parts in a string of mostly forgettable movies. Strangely, she didn't benefit much from the Black filmmaking renaissance of the early 1990s led by directors like Spike Lee, John Singleton and the Hughes brothers. Then 1996 happened. Though the films weren't particularly big hits, the triple-punch of "Mars Attacks!," "Original Gangsters," and "Escape from L.A." proved she still had plenty...

Michael J. Fox nearly broke the internet last October when he reunited with “Back to the Future” co-star Christopher Lloyd on stage at New York Comic Con. The duo were on the verge of tears as Fox emotionally hugged Lloyd and Lloyd put his arm around Fox. Their reunion led many “Back to the Future” fans to wonder if the two might collaborate on screen again. Fox reflected lovingly on Lloyd at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance, revealing their friendship didn’t take shape until the third “Back to the Future” movie.

“Chris is a great guy. He’s very enigmatic,” Fox said. “It took me a few films to get to know him. On ‘Back to the Future Part III’ we connected in a way we hadn’t on the other films. I came to see how much he loved acting. I never got that before.