There are two types of people who enjoy crime dramas: some prefer their shows to be brooding and dark, the gorier the better, while others tend to enjoy the mystery element mixed with a heartwarming comedy. Elsbeth is a sure-fire hit for the second group, but it's not the only show you might want to check out.
Here are 8 other shows that will give you as much pleasure as Elsbeth without having to wait weeks to see a new episode.
White Collar (2009-2014)
Starring Matt Bomer as charismatic con man Neal Caffrey, the show follows his journey to become a great detective after getting out of prison in exchange for helping the FBI's White Collar Crimes Unit. The show is light-hearted, yet features some of the best crime cases you will ever see on television. Plus, there is a chance that it will get a reboot soon enough!
Only Murders in the Building (2021-.
Here are 8 other shows that will give you as much pleasure as Elsbeth without having to wait weeks to see a new episode.
White Collar (2009-2014)
Starring Matt Bomer as charismatic con man Neal Caffrey, the show follows his journey to become a great detective after getting out of prison in exchange for helping the FBI's White Collar Crimes Unit. The show is light-hearted, yet features some of the best crime cases you will ever see on television. Plus, there is a chance that it will get a reboot soon enough!
Only Murders in the Building (2021-.
- 5/3/2024
- by virginia-singh@startefacts.com (Virginia Singh)
- STartefacts.com
Image: The A.V. Club, Warner Bros., The A.V. Club, Warner Bros., Graphic: The A.V. Club, Karl Gustafson, Photo: Larry Horricks/Netflix, Jon Pack, Screenshot: 20th Century Fox11 movies to check out on Netflix this MarchClockwise from left: Damsel (Netflix), Shirley (Netflix), Spaceman (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
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- 3/2/2024
- avclub.com
Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones (Lucasfilm), Vin Diesel in Chronicles Of Riddick (Universal Pictures), Katee Sackoff in Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel), Keanu Reeves in The Matrix (Warner Bros.)Graphic: The A.V. Club
When Dune: Part Two arrives in theaters on March 1, we’ll...
When Dune: Part Two arrives in theaters on March 1, we’ll...
- 2/28/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
I suppose the Hitchhikers‘ ground has been thoroughly salted at this point – I’ve seen the movie; you don’t need to tell me – which is why we’ve gotten two Dirk Gently TV series and these comics over the past decade. But even leaving aside how much Douglas Adams was a writer of voice to begin with, the Dirk books were fun because of the way they were told rather than the vague shaggy-dog stories they told. So doing the same sort of thing in a different medium feels like the wrong next step: the Adams estate would have been better off commissioning someone to write more Dirk novels, I think: assuming anyone could convincingly do that, which is the rub.
Anyway, there is a comics series continuing the Dirk Gently books. This first miniseries, from 2016 – probably not coincidentally the same year as the second, more successful TV show – promises there will be more,...
Anyway, there is a comics series continuing the Dirk Gently books. This first miniseries, from 2016 – probably not coincidentally the same year as the second, more successful TV show – promises there will be more,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
After three decades of creating sitcoms for broadcast television, Chuck Lorre may be done with the Big Four networks once his comedies Bob Hearts Abishola and Young Sheldon end on CBS next May. “In the words of Douglas Adams, ‘Thanks for all the fish.’ I think it’s goodbye,” the prolific TV producer said on The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast. “I don’t know. I still love the medium, whether it be working in front of an audience or the single-camera approach, I still think it’s a wonderful way to create an ensemble of characters that then you can attach to and care for.” The upcoming ends of Bob Hearts Abishola and Young Sheldon are “very different situations,” Lorre added. Joe Pugliese/ ©2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. “We have reached the time in the cycle of Young Sheldon where [actor] Iain Armitage is 14 years old now,” he explained.
- 12/3/2023
- TV Insider
Welcome to the 239th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.
Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).
This week, we’re joined by the king of broadcast sitcoms, Chuck Lorre, who in an extended interview opens up about burying the hatchet with his former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen on Bookie, which marks the Big Bang Theory creator’s streaming debut for Max. The gambling series starring Sebastian Maniscalco marks Lorre’s entry into the world of dark comedy after nearly three decades of broad fare. Lorre also discusses his status on broadcast TV with both of his remaining CBS comedies,...
Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).
This week, we’re joined by the king of broadcast sitcoms, Chuck Lorre, who in an extended interview opens up about burying the hatchet with his former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen on Bookie, which marks the Big Bang Theory creator’s streaming debut for Max. The gambling series starring Sebastian Maniscalco marks Lorre’s entry into the world of dark comedy after nearly three decades of broad fare. Lorre also discusses his status on broadcast TV with both of his remaining CBS comedies,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Can you feel that? A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cancelled their BritBox subscriptions.
Yes, the BBC is finally preparing to do what we have wanted them to do all along and drop 800 episodes of Doctor Who plus extras onto iPlayer, where anyone in the UK with a TV licence can see them at any time.
And now it’s your job to watch them all. The question is, in what order should you watch them? Well, there are several options, depending on just how much damage you want to do to your brain when you attempt this.
Easy Mode: Start With the Accessible Stuff and Work Down
Doctor Who has been many different shows over its 60-year history, and not all of those shows will appeal to different people. If this is your first time approaching the classic series after developing a love...
Yes, the BBC is finally preparing to do what we have wanted them to do all along and drop 800 episodes of Doctor Who plus extras onto iPlayer, where anyone in the UK with a TV licence can see them at any time.
And now it’s your job to watch them all. The question is, in what order should you watch them? Well, there are several options, depending on just how much damage you want to do to your brain when you attempt this.
Easy Mode: Start With the Accessible Stuff and Work Down
Doctor Who has been many different shows over its 60-year history, and not all of those shows will appeal to different people. If this is your first time approaching the classic series after developing a love...
- 10/12/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Plot: A man from the future, now trapped in the past, tries to live a lowkey life without disrupting predetermined events, oblivious to the consequences of his foolish actions.
Review: Traveling to the past is a risky business. If you’re not careful, the slightest mistake could alter the course of history, triggering a domino effect of events never intended. Your best strategy to survive the ordeal is to lay low, complete your mission, and return to your time. In Relax, I’m From the Future, Casper (Rhys Darby) thinks rules are malleable and gaming the system to live comfortably is worth the risk of upending the universe. He isn’t looking to harm anyone, quite the opposite. Still, Casper isn’t the brightest crayon in the box, and when things don’t work out as intended, he quickly discovers it takes more than one person to make a difference.
Review: Traveling to the past is a risky business. If you’re not careful, the slightest mistake could alter the course of history, triggering a domino effect of events never intended. Your best strategy to survive the ordeal is to lay low, complete your mission, and return to your time. In Relax, I’m From the Future, Casper (Rhys Darby) thinks rules are malleable and gaming the system to live comfortably is worth the risk of upending the universe. He isn’t looking to harm anyone, quite the opposite. Still, Casper isn’t the brightest crayon in the box, and when things don’t work out as intended, he quickly discovers it takes more than one person to make a difference.
- 9/18/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
"Loki" has always had a whole lot going for it. The Tom Hiddleston-led show has a stacked cast including Owen Wilson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, a fun plotline that's directly related to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, and importantly, the first season had the privilege of being one of the only Disney+ Marvel shows that aired before everyone got kind of sick of them. In season 2, though, "Loki" will have a new secret weapon, one that has the potential to make it even more endearing: Ke Huy Quan.
Quan's role in the show hasn't been officially disclosed yet, though it seems like he might be playing a character called Ouroboros, who has his own place in global mythology and Marvel comics history. In the trailer for season 2, Hiddleston's Loki and Owen Wilson's Mobius visit Quan's character at what seems to be a whimsically cluttered-looking storage room, where Mobius calls him O.
Quan's role in the show hasn't been officially disclosed yet, though it seems like he might be playing a character called Ouroboros, who has his own place in global mythology and Marvel comics history. In the trailer for season 2, Hiddleston's Loki and Owen Wilson's Mobius visit Quan's character at what seems to be a whimsically cluttered-looking storage room, where Mobius calls him O.
- 8/18/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
It's a longstanding joke — and reality — that non-fans frequently confuse the franchise titles "Star Wars" and "Star Trek." This seems preposterous to devotees of either, many of whom will go on at great length about how completely different they are in terms of themes, outlook, technology, and tone. They may argue that "Star Wars" is a science fantasy with mystical knights who have laser swords and magic powers that leans heavily into destiny and predestination. Or that "Star Trek" is science fiction with extrapolated future technology and humans driving their own destiny. In the broadest strokes, that's true, but as a wise old Force Ghost once said, "You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
A closer examination reveals that as both franchises have grown and sprawled they've increasingly rubbed up against one another and exchanged some cinematic and narrative DNA,...
A closer examination reveals that as both franchises have grown and sprawled they've increasingly rubbed up against one another and exchanged some cinematic and narrative DNA,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Maurice Molyneaux
- Slash Film
Making a list of the 100 greatest movies of all time is the definition of "damned if you do, damned if you don't." You're always going to leave something off. It's never going to feel complete. A particular genre, era, or filmmaker will be neglected. People are going to be mad at you no matter what, so why do such a thing?
Well, why climb Mount Everest? Because it is there. Because we must.
This isn't your list of the 100 best movies ever made. This is /Film's list of the 100 best movies ever made, as voted by a selection of writers and editors, with the final list determined via several hours of impassioned arguments and debates (which we recorded and you can listen to here and here). Those who participated were given simple instructions: Nominated films needed to be movies they truly love. Established canon should be thrown to the wayside,...
Well, why climb Mount Everest? Because it is there. Because we must.
This isn't your list of the 100 best movies ever made. This is /Film's list of the 100 best movies ever made, as voted by a selection of writers and editors, with the final list determined via several hours of impassioned arguments and debates (which we recorded and you can listen to here and here). Those who participated were given simple instructions: Nominated films needed to be movies they truly love. Established canon should be thrown to the wayside,...
- 5/22/2023
- by SlashFilm Staff
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the finale of "Mrs. Davis."
"Mrs. Davis" is, far and away, the most difficult show to describe on TV right now. In the simplest of terms, it's about a nun and a rodeo cowboy on the hunt for the Holy Grail, which they plan to use to shut down a nearly omnipotent algorithm called Mrs. Davis. In more complex terms, it involves a stage magician who may or may not have dissolved himself in acid, a diner cook who is actually Jesus Christ incarnate, and, in the finale, a roller coaster designed to kill algorithm users who trade some of their lifespans for a virtual reward called "wings."
The Peacock series is funny and strange, and with "The Leftovers" creator Damon Lindelof and "The Big Bang Theory" writer Tara Hernandez at the helm, it also has a lot on its mind. If one character brings...
"Mrs. Davis" is, far and away, the most difficult show to describe on TV right now. In the simplest of terms, it's about a nun and a rodeo cowboy on the hunt for the Holy Grail, which they plan to use to shut down a nearly omnipotent algorithm called Mrs. Davis. In more complex terms, it involves a stage magician who may or may not have dissolved himself in acid, a diner cook who is actually Jesus Christ incarnate, and, in the finale, a roller coaster designed to kill algorithm users who trade some of their lifespans for a virtual reward called "wings."
The Peacock series is funny and strange, and with "The Leftovers" creator Damon Lindelof and "The Big Bang Theory" writer Tara Hernandez at the helm, it also has a lot on its mind. If one character brings...
- 5/19/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
One thing Douglas Adams taught us in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is this: Dolphins usually know what's up when it comes to visitors from outer space. They're ahead of the curve at the beginning of "Cocoon," too, which opens with the friendly marine mammals frolicking in a sunken city before witnessing strange lights beaming through the clouds.
Ron Howard's fourth feature shares similarities with "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," although the beats are different. Its focus is on a group of seniors hitching a ride with friendly aliens to avoid illness and mortality, rather than a guy who is quite happy leaving his kids behind for a fantastic UFO journey. It's one of that '80s micro-genre of sci-fi movies centering around elderly actors, which Steven Spielberg had a big hand in. "Kick the Can," his segment in "Twilight Zone: The Movie," followed a group of...
Ron Howard's fourth feature shares similarities with "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," although the beats are different. Its focus is on a group of seniors hitching a ride with friendly aliens to avoid illness and mortality, rather than a guy who is quite happy leaving his kids behind for a fantastic UFO journey. It's one of that '80s micro-genre of sci-fi movies centering around elderly actors, which Steven Spielberg had a big hand in. "Kick the Can," his segment in "Twilight Zone: The Movie," followed a group of...
- 4/30/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
"Mrs. Davis," the new Peacock series by Damon Lindelof ("Lost") and Tara Hernandez ("The Big Bang Theory"), starts off like the kind of dream you couldn't explain even if you tried. First, there's an order of nuns in the year 1307, locked in a bloody battle with men on the hunt for the Holy Grail. Then, a man on a desert island is rescued, only to be told a rather maternal-sounding algorithm has taken over the world. Next, another weird and bloody scene plays out on the Nevada freeway, only to be interrupted by Simone (Betty Gilpin), a modern-day nun with a penchant for magic tricks. All of this unfolds in the first few minutes of the pilot episode — before we even know who our protagonist is.
The show eventually finds its own absurd inner logic, but its sweeping, funny, deeply strange story never quite shakes the quality of a vivid and endless dream.
The show eventually finds its own absurd inner logic, but its sweeping, funny, deeply strange story never quite shakes the quality of a vivid and endless dream.
- 4/18/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Forget that restaurant out of First Dates, that always looks a bit too light and unforgiving to us anyway, for today’s thought experiment we are opening up the whole of fictional everything to choose a night out from. That’s right, everything. TV, Film, Books, Games, Comics, Taskmaster, literally everything. Wanna hangout on the Holodeck? Spend an evening grooving in the Cantina? Glamming it up at that ball from Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet (although that actually was a first date of sorts and it did not end well)? Have at it.
We’ve picked ours. We look forward to hearing about yours in the comments.
Cheers from Cheers
I was going to pick the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, from the Douglas Adams book of the same name, but that sounds very tiring and I would worry about getting home. And then I thought I...
We’ve picked ours. We look forward to hearing about yours in the comments.
Cheers from Cheers
I was going to pick the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, from the Douglas Adams book of the same name, but that sounds very tiring and I would worry about getting home. And then I thought I...
- 3/24/2023
- by Maznah Shehzad
- Den of Geek
The late author Douglas Adams succinctly wrote in his 1979 novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," that, "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Adams wrote science fiction stories with the vastness of time and the cosmos in mind, albeit for a comedic effect. In one of his novels, characters could travel forward in time to the very end of the universe and find that a restaurant had opened near the point of universal collapse so that the wealthy could witness it as part of an evening's light dinner entertainment (repeat visits were possible through a complicated temporal something-or-other). For Adams, the infinity of time and space was fodder for humor, as he would insert the mundane into any potential moments of awe.
- 2/1/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The premise for the long-running sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" is as hilarious as it is existentially troubling. On the show's titular mining ship, a ne'er-do-well slugabed named Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is thrown into the ship's suspended animation prison for a minor infraction. When the ship's sentient computer Holly (Norman Lovett) releases Lister from captivity, he finds that two million years have passed following a radiation accident that killed the crew. The ship has been adrift in the cosmos ever since, and its exact location is unknown. In order to prevent Lister from going mad from loneliness, the computer creates an interactive hologram of his old roommate, a snotty, incompetent do-gooder named Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie). They hate each other but have to work together as they may be the last vestiges of humanity.
Also on the ship is a mysterious, well-dressed dandy with no name (Danny John-Jules) who is,...
Also on the ship is a mysterious, well-dressed dandy with no name (Danny John-Jules) who is,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” truly is living up to its name.
Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu, who starred as a first generation family in the Daniels’ A24 award-winning film, reunite onscreen for upcoming Disney+ series “American Born Chinese.” Based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel of the same name, “American Born Chinese” is adapted by Kelvin Yu for the streaming platform.
The series follows Jin Wang (Ben Wang), the son of Chinese immigrants who struggles with assimilating in the U.S. Jin escapes into fantasy realms to grapple with his emotions and encounters spiritual creatures like Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, played by Yeoh.
“On a visceral level, I’m a superhero fan,” author Yang told Entertainment Weekly after having written comics for both DC and Marvel. “At the heart of the superhero genre is this blending of the fantastic and the mundane.
Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu, who starred as a first generation family in the Daniels’ A24 award-winning film, reunite onscreen for upcoming Disney+ series “American Born Chinese.” Based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel of the same name, “American Born Chinese” is adapted by Kelvin Yu for the streaming platform.
The series follows Jin Wang (Ben Wang), the son of Chinese immigrants who struggles with assimilating in the U.S. Jin escapes into fantasy realms to grapple with his emotions and encounters spiritual creatures like Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, played by Yeoh.
“On a visceral level, I’m a superhero fan,” author Yang told Entertainment Weekly after having written comics for both DC and Marvel. “At the heart of the superhero genre is this blending of the fantastic and the mundane.
- 1/13/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Some critics believe that “cult movies” no longer exist. After all, how do you define an underground cult following in an age when independent films are more easily accessible than ever and you can instantly discuss movies with anyone in the world? It’s now possible to stream nearly any picture at the touch of a button, so it makes sense that the days of underground screenings and traditional word-of-mouth are long behind us.
That being said, there’s an argument to be made about a modern-day equivalent to the cult classic. The fickle tides of online engagement mean that some truly great media often slips through the cracks of the distribution system, resulting in notable works of art becoming lost in online limbo because they didn’t please the all-knowing algorithm or were just released at the wrong place and the wrong time. Hell, some of these movies can...
That being said, there’s an argument to be made about a modern-day equivalent to the cult classic. The fickle tides of online engagement mean that some truly great media often slips through the cracks of the distribution system, resulting in notable works of art becoming lost in online limbo because they didn’t please the all-knowing algorithm or were just released at the wrong place and the wrong time. Hell, some of these movies can...
- 12/12/2022
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
In terms of baseline quality, the Seventies is probably the most consistent Doctor Who has been until the 21st Century. There’s a classic story in nearly every season, and fondly-thought-of stories throughout. The long-list for this one was very long, the certainty of not including someone’s favourite even more certain than usual.
Producer Barry Letts and Script Editor Terrance Dicks took a show with the potential for cancellation and moved it from Quatermass homage to the cosiest of nightmare fuel: a family show on and off-screen with the reassuringly haughty Jon Pertwee ruffling hearts and minds at the head of a regular ensemble cast.
After five seasons the family was breaking up, and the show was revitalised by incoming Producer Philip Hinchcliffe and Script Editor Robert Holmes. Aiming at an older audience (Holmes in The Daily Express in 1977: ‘I wouldn’t let any child under ten see...
Producer Barry Letts and Script Editor Terrance Dicks took a show with the potential for cancellation and moved it from Quatermass homage to the cosiest of nightmare fuel: a family show on and off-screen with the reassuringly haughty Jon Pertwee ruffling hearts and minds at the head of a regular ensemble cast.
After five seasons the family was breaking up, and the show was revitalised by incoming Producer Philip Hinchcliffe and Script Editor Robert Holmes. Aiming at an older audience (Holmes in The Daily Express in 1977: ‘I wouldn’t let any child under ten see...
- 11/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Scads of books have been written on the subject of screenwriting by people who purport to know the tricks of the trade. Some of these folks become industries unto themselves, charging close to 1,000 to attend their intensive, multi-day seminars. Readers and attendees hang on their every word, believing that total adherence to their methods will result in a finished script and a studio deal.
It's a complete sham. All of it.
There are certainly exercises and processes that can help an aspiring writer to be more productive, but the only tried-and-true approach to completing a screenplay is, as Frank Darabont bluntly put it to /Film's Eric Vespe in his fascinating oral history of the filmmaker's "The Mist," to "sit your ass in the chair and do it every day." You can study three-act structure and Joseph Campbell's monomyth all you want, but nothing gets done if you don't sit your...
It's a complete sham. All of it.
There are certainly exercises and processes that can help an aspiring writer to be more productive, but the only tried-and-true approach to completing a screenplay is, as Frank Darabont bluntly put it to /Film's Eric Vespe in his fascinating oral history of the filmmaker's "The Mist," to "sit your ass in the chair and do it every day." You can study three-act structure and Joseph Campbell's monomyth all you want, but nothing gets done if you don't sit your...
- 11/21/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Most directors come from humble beginnings. Peter Jackson came up from the bowels of underground horror filmmaking in New Zealand. Actually, he was pretty much the only kid with a camera spraying blood and guts across the countryside long before it would be known as the home of Middle-earth. It's been said before, but the fact that the director of what is perhaps the goriest film of all time, "Dead Alive" aka "Braindead," went on to create the greatest fantasy epic of the new millennium with the "Lord of the Rings" franchise, is nothing short of miraculous.
It's almost as if an alien from outer space beamed into Jackson's body and somehow transformed him into one of our greatest living filmmakers. To be fair, when you look back on Jackson's gore opus "Dead Alive" and his heroin-soaked sendup of the Muppets called "Meet the Feebles," the sparks of an ingenious creative force are absolutely there.
It's almost as if an alien from outer space beamed into Jackson's body and somehow transformed him into one of our greatest living filmmakers. To be fair, when you look back on Jackson's gore opus "Dead Alive" and his heroin-soaked sendup of the Muppets called "Meet the Feebles," the sparks of an ingenious creative force are absolutely there.
- 11/17/2022
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
When the Beatles started work on their masterpiece Revolver, in April 1966, they knew they were after the sound of the future. And they got there on the very first day of the sessions, with the wildly experimental buzz of “Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1).” The psychedelic outtake was released on Friday and it’s a taste of the new Super Deluxe Edition of Revolver, which arrives on October 28. The new edition tells the story of how the Beatles took their gigantic creative leap into the unknown. As producer Giles Martin says,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Get ready for Daniels to be behind everything, everywhere all at once.
The directing duo that helmed A24’s record-breaking multiverse film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” officially confirmed an exclusive five-year deal with Universal. Their producer, Jonathan Wang, is also part of the partnership.
Daniels, comprised of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, similarly followed in Jordan Peele’s footsteps after the “Nope” filmmaker inked a five-year deal with Universal in 2019 after working with the studio for his Oscar-winning directorial debut, “Get Out.”
IndieWire previously advocated for more first-look deals akin to Peele’s arrangement in editor Eric Kohn’s weekly column, which mentioned the Daniels’ existing first-look deal with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” distributor A24, though that deal only extended to TV projects. The structure of the new deal with Universal enables the filmmakers to develop projects with studio resources and would likely also allow them to produce...
The directing duo that helmed A24’s record-breaking multiverse film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” officially confirmed an exclusive five-year deal with Universal. Their producer, Jonathan Wang, is also part of the partnership.
Daniels, comprised of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, similarly followed in Jordan Peele’s footsteps after the “Nope” filmmaker inked a five-year deal with Universal in 2019 after working with the studio for his Oscar-winning directorial debut, “Get Out.”
IndieWire previously advocated for more first-look deals akin to Peele’s arrangement in editor Eric Kohn’s weekly column, which mentioned the Daniels’ existing first-look deal with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” distributor A24, though that deal only extended to TV projects. The structure of the new deal with Universal enables the filmmakers to develop projects with studio resources and would likely also allow them to produce...
- 8/2/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Devotion to its subject kept director Robert B Weide from finishing his documentary about the great author, and his love shines through
Documentaries about acclaimed authors can often be formulaic; this honest and engaging study makes a refreshing difference. Robert B Weide, who has directed many episodes of TV’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as documentaries on the Marx brothers and Woody Allen and written the little-seen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Mother Night, now gives us a heartfelt personal film about Vonnegut himself – his hero, friend and father figure, and the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Player Piano.
Vonnegut mashed up literary fiction, sci-fi and standup comedy, making him a satirist and countercultural mainstreamer who tapped into the defiant spirit of the 60s. This film is at least partly about Weide’s own story as a Vonnegut superfan since his high school days and his...
Documentaries about acclaimed authors can often be formulaic; this honest and engaging study makes a refreshing difference. Robert B Weide, who has directed many episodes of TV’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as documentaries on the Marx brothers and Woody Allen and written the little-seen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Mother Night, now gives us a heartfelt personal film about Vonnegut himself – his hero, friend and father figure, and the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Player Piano.
Vonnegut mashed up literary fiction, sci-fi and standup comedy, making him a satirist and countercultural mainstreamer who tapped into the defiant spirit of the 60s. This film is at least partly about Weide’s own story as a Vonnegut superfan since his high school days and his...
- 7/20/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Preschool fare and short-form docs ruled the roost at this year’s MIFA TV pitch session, with more than half the projects boasting episodes running under eight minutes in length, and nearly just as many titles aimed at the under-five crowd.
Of the nine projects pitched, the preschool series “Yukon: The Space Botanist” (pictured) received the most vocal reception, drawing hearty laughs from a room full of buyers and commissioning editors at least three decades older than the show’s intended audience. Produced by Norway’s Imaginær Film, the 3D animated series gives computer graphics a tactile polish, featuring characters surfaced to resemble plastic figurines and background full of physical elements scanned in.
Described as “three good friends floating around in their own corner of the universe,” the show follows Yukon, a human botanist travelling the galaxy to collect rare seeds; Stretch, a fast-talking earthworm turned problem solver; and Bo,...
Of the nine projects pitched, the preschool series “Yukon: The Space Botanist” (pictured) received the most vocal reception, drawing hearty laughs from a room full of buyers and commissioning editors at least three decades older than the show’s intended audience. Produced by Norway’s Imaginær Film, the 3D animated series gives computer graphics a tactile polish, featuring characters surfaced to resemble plastic figurines and background full of physical elements scanned in.
Described as “three good friends floating around in their own corner of the universe,” the show follows Yukon, a human botanist travelling the galaxy to collect rare seeds; Stretch, a fast-talking earthworm turned problem solver; and Bo,...
- 6/19/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, otherwise known as Daniels, had been tinkering away at an ambitious screenplay for their new movie when the Marvel opportunity arrived.
“There were meetings with Marvel about ‘Loki’ that we didn’t even take,” Scheinert said in an interview alongside Kwan at the SXSW Film Festival. “We were trying to make our own multiverse movie,” Kwan interjected. “No, the meeting was set, and we went, but by the time we went we said we probably weren’t going to do it,” he said. “We were trying to shoot our own movie at the same time.”
That was “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the dazzling and unclassifiable saga that opened the festival on Friday. The directors’ first feature together since the similar blend of poignance and surreal humor that distinguished their 2016 debut “Swiss Army Man,” the sophomore feature stars Michelle Yeoh as a...
“There were meetings with Marvel about ‘Loki’ that we didn’t even take,” Scheinert said in an interview alongside Kwan at the SXSW Film Festival. “We were trying to make our own multiverse movie,” Kwan interjected. “No, the meeting was set, and we went, but by the time we went we said we probably weren’t going to do it,” he said. “We were trying to shoot our own movie at the same time.”
That was “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the dazzling and unclassifiable saga that opened the festival on Friday. The directors’ first feature together since the similar blend of poignance and surreal humor that distinguished their 2016 debut “Swiss Army Man,” the sophomore feature stars Michelle Yeoh as a...
- 3/13/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The satiric sci-fi author Douglas Adams once wrote, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Now, substitute the name Jack Reacher for “space,” and you essentially have the core conceit of the two dozen or so Reacher thrillers written by Lee Child over the last 25 years.
Jack Reacher has many other notable traits besides being huge: He was a veteran Army investigator!
Jack Reacher has many other notable traits besides being huge: He was a veteran Army investigator!
- 2/1/2022
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
“… hideous, machine-like creatures. They are legless, moving on a round base. They have no human features. A lens on a flexible shaft acts as an eye, arms with mechanical grips for hands.” Terry Nation’s script for ‘The Survivors’ (aka ‘The Daleks’ Part Two)
The Daleks, along with Judge Dredd, are fictional fascists beloved by a wide audience. At their heart is a combination of terrifying concept – Nazis who always return (imagine) – with a triumph of design. The greatest Dalek stories tap into this uneasy alliance.
A quick summary of the thinking behind this article:
A. We thought people would enjoy it.
B. If a story features the Daleks in a small cameo role, I’ve not included it. I’ve removed ‘The Day of the Doctor’ and ‘The Time of the Doctor’: it seems silly to rate them based on their Dalek content.
The rankings are not based...
The Daleks, along with Judge Dredd, are fictional fascists beloved by a wide audience. At their heart is a combination of terrifying concept – Nazis who always return (imagine) – with a triumph of design. The greatest Dalek stories tap into this uneasy alliance.
A quick summary of the thinking behind this article:
A. We thought people would enjoy it.
B. If a story features the Daleks in a small cameo role, I’ve not included it. I’ve removed ‘The Day of the Doctor’ and ‘The Time of the Doctor’: it seems silly to rate them based on their Dalek content.
The rankings are not based...
- 1/10/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
The Curtis Brown Group has taken over representation for Iain Banks’ literary estate, including book to film rights.
Curtis Brown’s Luke Speed will act as the literary estate’s dedicated agent for film and TV adaptation and has already unveiled his first deal, for the author’s 1999 thriller “The Business,” which is being adapted for television by Stigma Films (“Yesterday”). Previously, the estate’s book to film rights were handled by Sayle Screen.
Curtis Brown will also take over book rights from the Mic Cheetham Agency and translation rights from the Marsh Agency.
Becky Brown at Curtis Brown Heritage will now handle book rights and Alexander Cochran at Curtis Brown’s sister agency, C&w, will handle the translation rights.
Scottish born-Banks wrote under two names in two different genres: literary fictions (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks). The former sits alongside authors such as...
Curtis Brown’s Luke Speed will act as the literary estate’s dedicated agent for film and TV adaptation and has already unveiled his first deal, for the author’s 1999 thriller “The Business,” which is being adapted for television by Stigma Films (“Yesterday”). Previously, the estate’s book to film rights were handled by Sayle Screen.
Curtis Brown will also take over book rights from the Mic Cheetham Agency and translation rights from the Marsh Agency.
Becky Brown at Curtis Brown Heritage will now handle book rights and Alexander Cochran at Curtis Brown’s sister agency, C&w, will handle the translation rights.
Scottish born-Banks wrote under two names in two different genres: literary fictions (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks). The former sits alongside authors such as...
- 10/14/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The differences between a dystopian story and an apocalyptic one are slight. It's common for a dystopia to set in after an apocalypse, and a dystopian world often hides its true nature, only revealing itself after subtle revelations pile up. H. G. Wells was one of the first writers to popularize dystopian fiction, with "The Sleeper Awakes" using what today's sci-fi fans may recognize as a Douglas Adams gag: A man falls into a coma and wakes up centuries later, his accrued financial interests making him the owner of the world. A nice fantasy. Meanwhile, a council of the elite uses his money to forge an authoritarian...
The post The 20 best dystopian movies of all time appeared first on /Film.
The post The 20 best dystopian movies of all time appeared first on /Film.
- 9/20/2021
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Ingenuity has always been the name of the game in low-budget filmmaking; scrimping and saving and stretching what you have to fill out the biggest canvas possible. Under the right direction, hundreds can look like thousands, and thousands can look like millions. But none of that really matters if you don’t have a killer hook, and a script that’ll actually see you through. Enter Junta Yamaguchi and Makoto Ueda’s delightfully sunny sci-fi Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes; a positively genius little time-travel comedy that plays to its strengths, putting story and concept front and centre and mastering the art of the DIY head-scratcher.
Playing out entirely in real-time, in one long, sweeping take, Ueda’s script starts as a simple twist on the Droste effect – the famous picture-in-picture-in-picture illusion that’s on everything from boxes of raisins to M.C. Esher paintings – before spinning out into a wild,...
Playing out entirely in real-time, in one long, sweeping take, Ueda’s script starts as a simple twist on the Droste effect – the famous picture-in-picture-in-picture illusion that’s on everything from boxes of raisins to M.C. Esher paintings – before spinning out into a wild,...
- 8/27/2021
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Making its European debut in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s new talent category Bright Future is “Ok Computer,” a six-part Hindi sci-fi comedy set 10 years in the future.
Featuring an AI-driven “New India” of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways, the Disney Plus Hotstar series stars Vijay Varma (“A Suitable Boy”), Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”) and Jackie Shroff (“Criminal Justice”), and follows the capers of a hard-boiled detective (Varma) who is called out of retirement when a self-driving car gets hacked, killing a random pedestrian.
The series was produced through Mumbai-based Memesys Culture Lab and created by two of the company’s Goa-based stakeholders: first-time directors Pooja Shetty, a former production designer and architect, and Neil Pagedar, a writer and documentary filmmaker.
Fellow Memesys cofounder Anand Gandhi (“Ship of Theseus”) – an IFFR alumni – also co-wrote the script.
The directorial duo spoke to Variety about the challenge of futuristic world-building in...
Featuring an AI-driven “New India” of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways, the Disney Plus Hotstar series stars Vijay Varma (“A Suitable Boy”), Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”) and Jackie Shroff (“Criminal Justice”), and follows the capers of a hard-boiled detective (Varma) who is called out of retirement when a self-driving car gets hacked, killing a random pedestrian.
The series was produced through Mumbai-based Memesys Culture Lab and created by two of the company’s Goa-based stakeholders: first-time directors Pooja Shetty, a former production designer and architect, and Neil Pagedar, a writer and documentary filmmaker.
Fellow Memesys cofounder Anand Gandhi (“Ship of Theseus”) – an IFFR alumni – also co-wrote the script.
The directorial duo spoke to Variety about the challenge of futuristic world-building in...
- 6/1/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Elijah Wood for representation.
Wood was most recently seen starring in comedy-horror film Come To Daddy, which debuted at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He previously starred in Macon Blair’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore for Netflix opposite Melanie Lynskey, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wood is known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the critically acclaimed trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King broke box office records with Return of the King winning the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as 11 additional Academy Awards.
In 2010, Wood, founded his production company SpectreVision, and together with partners Daniel Noah and Lisa Whalen they have carved...
Wood was most recently seen starring in comedy-horror film Come To Daddy, which debuted at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He previously starred in Macon Blair’s I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore for Netflix opposite Melanie Lynskey, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wood is known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the critically acclaimed trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Directed by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King broke box office records with Return of the King winning the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as 11 additional Academy Awards.
In 2010, Wood, founded his production company SpectreVision, and together with partners Daniel Noah and Lisa Whalen they have carved...
- 2/16/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: this A Discovery of Witches review contains spoilers
For a show about vampires, A Discovery of Witches is relatively light on blood and gore. Its undead creatures are civilised types, more likely to be found sipping a 1982 Latour than fang-deep in a carotid artery.
That all changed this week, as season two took a 21st century detour with a police thriller slant. A mystery vamp has been going to town on warm-bloods, and, hope Domenico and Gerbert, it could spell the end for the de Clermont dynasty.
It made a refreshing change to spend time in the here and now instead of the there and then. Modern clothes, modern speech, a modern-day hook up between a couple of hot young things… well, one hot young thing and one cold old thing doing a remarkable impression.
Marcus and Phoebe’s flirtation injected a vibe missing from this show since Matthew...
For a show about vampires, A Discovery of Witches is relatively light on blood and gore. Its undead creatures are civilised types, more likely to be found sipping a 1982 Latour than fang-deep in a carotid artery.
That all changed this week, as season two took a 21st century detour with a police thriller slant. A mystery vamp has been going to town on warm-bloods, and, hope Domenico and Gerbert, it could spell the end for the de Clermont dynasty.
It made a refreshing change to spend time in the here and now instead of the there and then. Modern clothes, modern speech, a modern-day hook up between a couple of hot young things… well, one hot young thing and one cold old thing doing a remarkable impression.
Marcus and Phoebe’s flirtation injected a vibe missing from this show since Matthew...
- 1/29/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3. Read our review of the episode here.
As the USS Discovery starts to explore the galaxy in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, the first stop is, understandably, to check-in on how the Planet Earth is doing. Unlike Battlestar Galactica searching for Earth forever, Discovery decided to get the whole Earth thing out of the way right away. In Episode 3, “People of Earth,” the crew returns to the home planet of the Federation and learns things are not remotely similar to how they left it.
Along the way, “People of Earth” references a long-running Tng-Douglas Adams joke, a quip from Kirk in The Wrath of Khan, a famous DS9-era alien species, and more!
700 years after we left…
Burnham’s opening narration fills in new details we previously didn’t get about the Burn, including the idea that prior to the Burn,...
As the USS Discovery starts to explore the galaxy in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, the first stop is, understandably, to check-in on how the Planet Earth is doing. Unlike Battlestar Galactica searching for Earth forever, Discovery decided to get the whole Earth thing out of the way right away. In Episode 3, “People of Earth,” the crew returns to the home planet of the Federation and learns things are not remotely similar to how they left it.
Along the way, “People of Earth” references a long-running Tng-Douglas Adams joke, a quip from Kirk in The Wrath of Khan, a famous DS9-era alien species, and more!
700 years after we left…
Burnham’s opening narration fills in new details we previously didn’t get about the Burn, including the idea that prior to the Burn,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Screen adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated graphic novels have been teased since the 90s, with various talent attached but none as yet managing to materialize in physical form. While a TV series for Netflix is in pre-production with Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg showrunning and David Goyer and Gaiman exec producing, an audio book has arrived from Audible boasting super-high production values and a starry cast. More like a radio play than a straight up reading of the text, this adaptation works surprisingly well and stays very faithful to the books, adding in physical descriptions of characters where necessary.
The narrator for Audible’s The Sandman is Gaiman himself, describing his creations so listeners can imagine their own panels – it means the series works as well for people who have never read the graphic novels and conjure their own visions of The Endless, as people who know the visuals...
The narrator for Audible’s The Sandman is Gaiman himself, describing his creations so listeners can imagine their own panels – it means the series works as well for people who have never read the graphic novels and conjure their own visions of The Endless, as people who know the visuals...
- 7/17/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
In Doctor Who terms, Douglas Adams will be forever remembered as the co-writer of ‘City of Death’. To fans, he’s the purveyor of undergraduate humour, a man who despaired of actors doing funny walks and silly voices when presented with jokes in a script. Thanks in part to an extreme and vocal reaction against Adams’ comedy from the production team that followed, his reputation is one of rampant silliness that made it hard to take the show seriously.
And yet, in his first ever script for the series, Adams wrote about a vampire planet that materialised around other planets and drained them of all their resources, killing the entire population. In a particularly vicious detail, the remains of the planets are kept in a trophy room. This wholesale slaughter founded a life of comfortable complacency for the unquestioning citizens. The whole point of this, it transpires, is to keep...
And yet, in his first ever script for the series, Adams wrote about a vampire planet that materialised around other planets and drained them of all their resources, killing the entire population. In a particularly vicious detail, the remains of the planets are kept in a trophy room. This wholesale slaughter founded a life of comfortable complacency for the unquestioning citizens. The whole point of this, it transpires, is to keep...
- 5/27/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Doctor Who is reviving a story from one of our favorite Doctors as a Big Finish audio drama. And they’re going through the extra effort of bringing back the original cast members.
Coming to terms with a new Doctor is a challenge that all Whovians, at some point in their lives, confront. It’s a cycle that keeps repeating itself where at first you’ve yet to let go of the previous actor but ultimately end up falling in love with the new one, only for the showrunners to change things up all over again. That being said, and considering the show’s 50 plus year history, if you ask fans to choose the best Doctor, it would either be Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor or David Tennant’s Tenth, as both have portrayed the Last of the Time Lords in a way as to stand the test of time.
Coming to terms with a new Doctor is a challenge that all Whovians, at some point in their lives, confront. It’s a cycle that keeps repeating itself where at first you’ve yet to let go of the previous actor but ultimately end up falling in love with the new one, only for the showrunners to change things up all over again. That being said, and considering the show’s 50 plus year history, if you ask fans to choose the best Doctor, it would either be Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor or David Tennant’s Tenth, as both have portrayed the Last of the Time Lords in a way as to stand the test of time.
- 5/24/2020
- by Jonathan Wright
- We Got This Covered
It’s been eight years since Andrew Stanton last visited space with John Carter. More notable for its financial legacy than its cultural impact, it was one of the most expensive movies ever made—and also led Disney to lose $200 million from it. After refocusing his efforts on more Pixar work as well as a handful of TV series, THR reports Stanton is currently in talks to return to live-action filmmaking (and the cosmos) with Chairman Spaceman.
Based on Thomas Pierce’s fictional New Yorker story of the same name, it follows a notorious business raider as he jettisons his earthly possessions. His new goal is to become a missionary, leading to a droll tale that touches on faith, ego, and the blurry, detached line between gods and people. Given that the source material is closer to Douglas Adams than Pete Docter, it also points to something different for the writer/director.
Based on Thomas Pierce’s fictional New Yorker story of the same name, it follows a notorious business raider as he jettisons his earthly possessions. His new goal is to become a missionary, leading to a droll tale that touches on faith, ego, and the blurry, detached line between gods and people. Given that the source material is closer to Douglas Adams than Pete Docter, it also points to something different for the writer/director.
- 5/20/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
It’s rare for someone to like all of Doctor Who. A fan may find some of it to have the occasional redeeming feature, but just doesn’t find it entertaining as a whole. On occasion, a run of stories isn’t what they want from Doctor Who. Fortunately the show has a solution to this: Doctor Who changes.
This has been said often enough that it feels like background noise but it’s worth stressing. Different people have made Doctor Who up as they went along, responding to different contexts as best they can. It’s unlikely you’re going to enjoy all of it, but on the bright side, the show always has been and will be different.
Depending on the role played by the BBC, the transition between production teams can be uneven. The change from producer Philip Hinchcliffe to Graham Williams in 1977 wasn’t helped by...
This has been said often enough that it feels like background noise but it’s worth stressing. Different people have made Doctor Who up as they went along, responding to different contexts as best they can. It’s unlikely you’re going to enjoy all of it, but on the bright side, the show always has been and will be different.
Depending on the role played by the BBC, the transition between production teams can be uneven. The change from producer Philip Hinchcliffe to Graham Williams in 1977 wasn’t helped by...
- 5/14/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
While one of the most famous space operas of modern times—the Skywalker Saga—concluded last year, 2020 still has a number of fantastic tales aboard starships to look forward to. Some are dystopian, some are hopeful, and some tie into our favorite franchises. With plenty of Star Wars and Star Trek novels and television seasons to look forward to, it’s time to boldly take your reading (and watching!) where no reader has gone before…
January Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access
There are only a few people who embody Star Trek as much as Sir Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard, and fans are rightly excited to have him back on the screen through CBS’s All Access. It’s also exciting to have celebrated spec fic novelist Michale Chabon on the writing team alongside Hanelle M. Culpepper, Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), and Akiva Goldman. Given that the...
January Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access
There are only a few people who embody Star Trek as much as Sir Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard, and fans are rightly excited to have him back on the screen through CBS’s All Access. It’s also exciting to have celebrated spec fic novelist Michale Chabon on the writing team alongside Hanelle M. Culpepper, Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), and Akiva Goldman. Given that the...
- 4/7/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
It was 42 years ago this week that The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy made its debut as an unassuming BBC radio series written by a tall, yet largely unknown ape descendant named Douglas Adams.
The universe hasn’t quite been the same since.
Modestly successful, the first six episodes of Hitchhiker’s Guide immediately hooked listeners with its absurd views on, well, life, the universe, and everything. Although the genres of science fiction and comedy had been combined before, most notably by Kurt Vonnegut, Adams’ story hit at a time when Star Wars had everyone looking for the next big genre hit. The fact that it was brilliantly written and performed didn’t hurt matters either.
Word of mouth about the program began to spread like crazy, and the Hitchhiker’s phenomenon was officially underway. Soon, everything from a second radio series to a book adaptation to a spin-off towel...
The universe hasn’t quite been the same since.
Modestly successful, the first six episodes of Hitchhiker’s Guide immediately hooked listeners with its absurd views on, well, life, the universe, and everything. Although the genres of science fiction and comedy had been combined before, most notably by Kurt Vonnegut, Adams’ story hit at a time when Star Wars had everyone looking for the next big genre hit. The fact that it was brilliantly written and performed didn’t hurt matters either.
Word of mouth about the program began to spread like crazy, and the Hitchhiker’s phenomenon was officially underway. Soon, everything from a second radio series to a book adaptation to a spin-off towel...
- 3/11/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Tony Sokol Dec 30, 2019
Neil Innes played with the Rutles, wrote for Monty Python and performed in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.
"I have suffered for my music," Neil Innes admitted on the British comedy series Rutland Weekend Television. "Now it's your turn." The renowned comedian and musician, who played the John Lennon role in The Beatles spoof band The Rutles and collaborated with the Monty Python Flying Circus, died unexpectedly on Sunday night at age 75, according to his official website. A spokesman for the Innes family said the artist had not been ill.
“It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we have to announce the death of Neil James Innes on December 29, 2019," his family wrote in a statement. “We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all. He died of...
Neil Innes played with the Rutles, wrote for Monty Python and performed in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.
"I have suffered for my music," Neil Innes admitted on the British comedy series Rutland Weekend Television. "Now it's your turn." The renowned comedian and musician, who played the John Lennon role in The Beatles spoof band The Rutles and collaborated with the Monty Python Flying Circus, died unexpectedly on Sunday night at age 75, according to his official website. A spokesman for the Innes family said the artist had not been ill.
“It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we have to announce the death of Neil James Innes on December 29, 2019," his family wrote in a statement. “We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all. He died of...
- 12/30/2019
- Den of Geek
Neil Innes — the British comedy songwriter who worked with Monty Python and played in the Beatles parody group the Rutles — died Monday, the BBC reports. He was 75.
Innes’ family confirmed his death in a statement, saying, “We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all. He died of natural causes quickly without warning and, I think, without pain. His wife Yvonne and their three sons, Miles, Luke and Barney, and three grandchildren,...
Innes’ family confirmed his death in a statement, saying, “We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all. He died of natural causes quickly without warning and, I think, without pain. His wife Yvonne and their three sons, Miles, Luke and Barney, and three grandchildren,...
- 12/30/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Rome – In the hours after a blow-out beach party a body washes up on shore, bringing with it unanswered questions for a group of high school students in an Australian town. But in the 24 hours leading up to the body’s discovery, the personal biases and vices of each character are revealed, altering the storyline and proving that truth is always relative.
“Perception” is an 8 x 60’ drama series created by Drew Macdonald and produced by Australia’s Essential Media Group. The show was selected to take part in the drama series pitching competition at Mia this week. Lagardère Studios is handling international distribution and world sales.
Macdonald said the series was inspired by a quote from the novelist Douglas Adams, who wrote: “Everything you see, hear, or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
“Perception” is an 8 x 60’ drama series created by Drew Macdonald and produced by Australia’s Essential Media Group. The show was selected to take part in the drama series pitching competition at Mia this week. Lagardère Studios is handling international distribution and world sales.
Macdonald said the series was inspired by a quote from the novelist Douglas Adams, who wrote: “Everything you see, hear, or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
- 10/18/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Oct 30, 2019
The BBC’s Philip Pullman adaptation is a rich family fantasy that retains the books’ dark power…
This His Dark Materials review is spoiler-free. It was originally published on Den of Geek UK.
Current wisdom teaches that the age of family home viewing is over; parents and kids no longer crowd around the TV in a tumble of wet-from-the-bath hair, pyjamas and shushing. Instead, they’re dispersed around the home and plugged into separate devices.
That may be largely so, but it’s not the whole picture. In 2017, Ofcom reported that 70% of UK families still watch a shared TV programme at least once a week. If you’re among them and open to suggestion, then from Sunday the 3rd of November, make it this one.
In terms of family viewing, His Dark Materials is the real thing: as Douglas Adams might have said, it’s both complicated...
The BBC’s Philip Pullman adaptation is a rich family fantasy that retains the books’ dark power…
This His Dark Materials review is spoiler-free. It was originally published on Den of Geek UK.
Current wisdom teaches that the age of family home viewing is over; parents and kids no longer crowd around the TV in a tumble of wet-from-the-bath hair, pyjamas and shushing. Instead, they’re dispersed around the home and plugged into separate devices.
That may be largely so, but it’s not the whole picture. In 2017, Ofcom reported that 70% of UK families still watch a shared TV programme at least once a week. If you’re among them and open to suggestion, then from Sunday the 3rd of November, make it this one.
In terms of family viewing, His Dark Materials is the real thing: as Douglas Adams might have said, it’s both complicated...
- 10/15/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Sep 26, 2019
“Is no one interested in history?!” 40 years on, we revisit Douglas Adams’ hugely influential Doctor Who serial, City of Death.
This article originally appeared on Den of Geek UK.
“Well, I suppose the best way to find out where you've come from is to find out where you're going and then work backwards.”
To this day, "City Of Death" holds the highest viewing figures for any Doctor Who story on UK TV. Due to a technician’s strike that knocked out ITV for several weeks, plenty of programs on the two BBC television channels enjoyed increased ratings, but it’s auspicious that this particular Tom Baker serial wound up being seen by an average of 14.5 million viewers across its four instalments. Completely by accident, this Douglas Adams-penned escapade happens to be the ideal story for introducing new viewers to classic Who.
read more: A Celebration of Tom...
“Is no one interested in history?!” 40 years on, we revisit Douglas Adams’ hugely influential Doctor Who serial, City of Death.
This article originally appeared on Den of Geek UK.
“Well, I suppose the best way to find out where you've come from is to find out where you're going and then work backwards.”
To this day, "City Of Death" holds the highest viewing figures for any Doctor Who story on UK TV. Due to a technician’s strike that knocked out ITV for several weeks, plenty of programs on the two BBC television channels enjoyed increased ratings, but it’s auspicious that this particular Tom Baker serial wound up being seen by an average of 14.5 million viewers across its four instalments. Completely by accident, this Douglas Adams-penned escapade happens to be the ideal story for introducing new viewers to classic Who.
read more: A Celebration of Tom...
- 9/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Sep 20, 2019
As Rambo: Last Blood arrives on the big screen, Mark revisits Garth Jennings’ Son Of Rambow, an altogether gentler First Blood spin-off…
Placed next to First Blood and the unexpectedly long-lived Rambo franchise, Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow doesn't seem so odd. More than 30 years after the original adaptation of David Morrell’s novel, we’re now looking at Last Blood, or Rambo No. 5, as Lou Bega might have called it. Although the original film represents some of Sylvester Stallone's best acting work, it doesn't necessarily have “action franchise” written all over it.
With that in mind, it’s not so odd that a family-friendly British comedy would position two 12-year-olds in 1980s Hertfordshire as the makers of an unofficial sequel. Released in 2007, Jennings’ film is an ode to how we interact with films as youngsters--specifically with a film the characters are definitely too young to see.
As Rambo: Last Blood arrives on the big screen, Mark revisits Garth Jennings’ Son Of Rambow, an altogether gentler First Blood spin-off…
Placed next to First Blood and the unexpectedly long-lived Rambo franchise, Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow doesn't seem so odd. More than 30 years after the original adaptation of David Morrell’s novel, we’re now looking at Last Blood, or Rambo No. 5, as Lou Bega might have called it. Although the original film represents some of Sylvester Stallone's best acting work, it doesn't necessarily have “action franchise” written all over it.
With that in mind, it’s not so odd that a family-friendly British comedy would position two 12-year-olds in 1980s Hertfordshire as the makers of an unofficial sequel. Released in 2007, Jennings’ film is an ode to how we interact with films as youngsters--specifically with a film the characters are definitely too young to see.
- 9/19/2019
- Den of Geek
James Hunt Aug 5, 2019
Here's what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hulu showrunners can learn from previous adaptations.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy quite possibly stands as one of the most-adapted works of fiction in modern times. Since the initial broadcast of the radio show in the late '70s, it’s been a BBC TV show, a novel, a comic book, a stage show, a computer game, and a movie. All it’s missing is an interpretive dance version to complete a full set – and that’s only because a shiny, big-budget Us television remake is now on the cards for Hulu, helmed by Lost alumnus Carlton Cuse.
But what can this upcoming Hitchiker’s TV show learn from previous adaptations? And where might the new showrunners take it? Here’s what we think.
Base it on the...
Here's what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hulu showrunners can learn from previous adaptations.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy quite possibly stands as one of the most-adapted works of fiction in modern times. Since the initial broadcast of the radio show in the late '70s, it’s been a BBC TV show, a novel, a comic book, a stage show, a computer game, and a movie. All it’s missing is an interpretive dance version to complete a full set – and that’s only because a shiny, big-budget Us television remake is now on the cards for Hulu, helmed by Lost alumnus Carlton Cuse.
But what can this upcoming Hitchiker’s TV show learn from previous adaptations? And where might the new showrunners take it? Here’s what we think.
Base it on the...
- 8/5/2019
- Den of Geek
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