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Seven years ago, Breaking Bad creator/executive producer Vince Gilligan cast Robert Forster in an episode from the final batch of episodes of his AMC series as the laconic Ed, a man of many trades. The character popped, and years later, Gilligan brought him back in his El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. The film debuted…

Actor Robert Forster died on Friday, the day his latest film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, was released on Netflix and in select theaters.  In Vince Gilligan’s sequel to Breaking Bad, Forster reprised a memorable character he’d introduced in a guest stint during the original series’ fifth season. In an emotional…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which debuted today on Netflix. So, tread lightly.  As the title makes clear, Breaking Bad is back today on Netflix and in select theaters with El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie – and that's not a great thing. Unlike the brilliance that was…

Giancarlo Esposito, who plays Gus Fring on AMC’s Better Call Saul, suggests an end may be in sight for the Breaking Bad prequel series,. But it’s a ways away. “It’s tricky with [co-creator Vince Gilligan],” Esposito told Collider. “If you look at the Breaking Bad model, he said five years, five seasons, but it was…

An Oscar nominee who leaped into the Wes Anderson ensemble with Isle of Dogs, Bryan Cranston knows how to paint a picture. Before signing on for the director's second stop-motion outing, Cranston had never met the director; he'd only seen him in photos, and looking to understand the nature of one of the industry's…

The Emmy-winning AMC drama Breaking Bad is getting another franchise expansion, with a film that has been quietly been put together for a mid-November through early February shoot in New Mexico. It would join prequel series Better Call Saul. It is through the New Mexico Film Office that word of the secret project made…

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan teased today at Comic-Con that there will be more overlap between Better Call Saul and the original show. But Gilligan told fans during a 10th anniversary panel to celebrate the Emmy winning AMC series that the overlap will not involve Bryan Cranston or Aaron Paul — yet. "You will…

"This is the best season yet," Vince Gilligan told Comic-Con today of Better Call Saul's fourth season that starts next month. "The overlap between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad gets closer and closer," added the creator of the Bryan Cranston-Aaron Paul Emmy winner and co-creator of its prequel of sorts, driving…

Some interesting Breaking Bad tidbits have emerged from Conan O’Brien’s annual excursion to Comic-Con. As the comedian noted, “This is our fourth year at Comic-Con. That's right. I've been coming to Comic-Con for four years. Or to put that in terms everyone at Comic-Con understands, "17 Spiderman movies." To celebrate…

Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of its prequel, Better Call Saul, is staying put at Sony Pictures TV, the studio behind the back-to-back hit series. Gilligan has closed a rich new three-year overall deal with Sony TV where he has been for the past 11 years. Under the eight-figure pact, Gilligan…

Has the tension of our current political era changed the way television is being made? Game of Thrones EP and former HBO President Carolyn Strauss thinks so. Speaking during a PaleyLive panel discussion celebrating the first part of the upcoming CNN original series The 2000s: A Look Back at the Dawn of TV’s New Golden…

One of the most extraordinary, defining figures in television—particularly over the last decade—two-time Emmy winner Vince Gilligan is back in the race this year for his directing of Better Call Saul. Driven on through Breaking Bad and its subsequent prequel series by a passionate love affair with visual storytelling…