Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.Industry nerves were jangling back in July when the ongoing strikes by the actors’ and writers’ guilds saw Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers pulled from its opening night slot at the 80th Venice Film Festival. The loss of a high-profile premiere with the film’s star Zendaya in attendance must have flustered red carpet reporters and festival bosses alike: those for whom newsworthiness and movie-star magic are inextricably linked. As the festival itself drew near, it began to look like the spotlight was turning towards the filmmakers—and perhaps even the films themselves.It was hard to keep track, in the weeks leading up to the festival, of which films had received the exemptions from their respective guilds that would allow talent to attend, but for my first full day on the Lido, it certainly looked like business as usual. Over there was Adam Driver, who, from the right vantage point,...
- 10/10/2023
- MUBI
Opening with a clip 0f Donald Trump is a rare unwise choice made in “The March on Rome,” the latest film from Irish author and documentarian Mark Cousins. That’s not because Trump isn’t a fascist (where you have been?), it’s just that Cousins can, and will, tell the story of far-right politics’ inherent illusions — spring-boarding off Mussolini’s famous, semi-fictional voyage 100 years ago in October — with a little more grace than that.
Maybe grace isn’t the point. “A Noi!” (“To Us”) made for newsreels nationwide, Cousins entertainingly brings history, cinema, and the manipulative power of the movies together in just the way we’ve come to expect from him. If you’re at all intrigued by a movie called “The March on Rome,” you won’t be disappointed.
But don’t be fooled, either; trust no one, illusions are everywhere. Cousins’ title gives away the game,...
Maybe grace isn’t the point. “A Noi!” (“To Us”) made for newsreels nationwide, Cousins entertainingly brings history, cinema, and the manipulative power of the movies together in just the way we’ve come to expect from him. If you’re at all intrigued by a movie called “The March on Rome,” you won’t be disappointed.
But don’t be fooled, either; trust no one, illusions are everywhere. Cousins’ title gives away the game,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Adam Solomons
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Karine Vanasse (Cardinal) have been cast as the leads in an English-language adaptation of time travel drama Plan B for Canada’s CBC.
Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.
Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.
Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...
Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.
Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.
Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...
- 6/1/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Six top TV cinematographers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, May 18, at 4:00 p.m. Pt; 7:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Christopher Rosen and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
RSVP today to our entire ongoing Emmy contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 contenders:
Halo (Paramount+)
Synopsis: Aliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. TV series based on the video game ‘Halo.’
Bio: Karl-Walter Lindenlaub was an Emmy nominee for “Houdini.” Other projects have included “Independence Day,” “The Princess Diaries,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,...
RSVP today to our entire ongoing Emmy contenders panel series by clicking here to book your free reservation. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.
This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 contenders:
Halo (Paramount+)
Synopsis: Aliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. TV series based on the video game ‘Halo.’
Bio: Karl-Walter Lindenlaub was an Emmy nominee for “Houdini.” Other projects have included “Independence Day,” “The Princess Diaries,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,...
- 5/12/2022
- by Chris Beachum and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
After making what many people cite as the greatest film ever made, “Citizen Kane” (1941), multi-talented actor, writer, director and producer Orson Welles struggled to live up to the success he achieved when he was just 26 years old. Yet seen today, many of the films he made afterwards have attained a similar acclaim. Let’s take a look back at all 13 of his completed feature films as a director, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto appear in the director’s films.
It was the Mercury Theater’s transition into...
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto appear in the director’s films.
It was the Mercury Theater’s transition into...
- 4/28/2022
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter will host a daily version of Reliable Sources for CNN+, the upcoming subscription service set to debut this spring.
Reliable Sources Daily will examine the world of media, politics and entertainment, as Stelter has done on his weekly Sunday CNN show, podcast and daily newsletter. Stelter also appears frequently on air on CNN to provide updates on the latest breaking news in media and politics.
Stelter will join a number of other network figures who will have shows on CNN+, including Don Lemon, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper.
Stelter wrote in his newsletter on Wednesday, “I am personally thrilled because there are so many compelling stories to cover through a media lens. Sometimes the best vehicle is Sunday’s flagship ‘Reliable Sources,’ a unique part of CNN’s weekend schedule for 30 years. Other times it’s an in-depth podcast or a special edition of this newsletter,...
Reliable Sources Daily will examine the world of media, politics and entertainment, as Stelter has done on his weekly Sunday CNN show, podcast and daily newsletter. Stelter also appears frequently on air on CNN to provide updates on the latest breaking news in media and politics.
Stelter will join a number of other network figures who will have shows on CNN+, including Don Lemon, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper.
Stelter wrote in his newsletter on Wednesday, “I am personally thrilled because there are so many compelling stories to cover through a media lens. Sometimes the best vehicle is Sunday’s flagship ‘Reliable Sources,’ a unique part of CNN’s weekend schedule for 30 years. Other times it’s an in-depth podcast or a special edition of this newsletter,...
- 2/17/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Tony Todd, Billy Zane, Bruce Dern, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Morrone, Crash Buist, Danielle Gross, Meg Foster, Courtney Gains, John Kassir, Mike Ferguson | Written and Directed by Justin Lee
Set in the 1980s, somewhere around Christmas, Hellblazers is yet another original offering from Tubi, at least in some territories. Writer/director Justin Lee isn’t exactly somebody I expect a good film from, but even he can’t go wrong with a cast that includes Tony Todd, Billy Zane, Bruce Dern, Adrienne Barbeau and a few other genre vets, can he?
Wheelchair-bound Nam vet Bill Unger (Dern) is out visiting his wife’s grave when he hears something in the woods. He rolls over to the edge of the trees just in time to see Joshua (Zane) and his followers toss someone in a flaming pit, and a demon climbs out. As he aptly puts it, “We’ve got a big problem”.
Of course,...
Set in the 1980s, somewhere around Christmas, Hellblazers is yet another original offering from Tubi, at least in some territories. Writer/director Justin Lee isn’t exactly somebody I expect a good film from, but even he can’t go wrong with a cast that includes Tony Todd, Billy Zane, Bruce Dern, Adrienne Barbeau and a few other genre vets, can he?
Wheelchair-bound Nam vet Bill Unger (Dern) is out visiting his wife’s grave when he hears something in the woods. He rolls over to the edge of the trees just in time to see Joshua (Zane) and his followers toss someone in a flaming pit, and a demon climbs out. As he aptly puts it, “We’ve got a big problem”.
Of course,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Drive My Car (2021)List-making season has fully started. Film Comment released both the top twenty films as well as the top twenty undistributed films of the year, and IndieWire published the results of a massive poll of 187 critics. Vulture's critics have each written about their top tens, and Drive My Car tops both Barack Obama and Screen Slate's annual list. Screen Slate has also included individual ballots from "contributors, friends, critics, and filmmakers," which gave Paul Schrader the opportunity to rank The Card Counter as his pick for the best film of the year. Due to a nationwide lockdown in the Netherlands, the International Film Festival Rotterdam will be taking place online, cancelling its previous plans for an in-person event. There are two weeks left to submit to the Sundance Film Festival's 2022 Native Lab,...
- 12/22/2021
- MUBI
This is something for estranged Evil fans to cheer about. Just don’t let the monks hear you.
At the apparent request of series creators Robert and Michelle King, Paramount+ has made one of Season 2’s streaming-only episodes available for free.
More from TVLinePeter Scolari Remembered by Evil Co-Creator as 'Wonderful, One of the Funniest Actors We've Worked With'Peter Scolari, Bosom Buddies and Newhart Actor, Dead at 66TVLine Items: Head of the Class Trailer, Power Rangers to Netflix and More
“This is in response to people who miss the show, but hated that it cost money to watch on Paramount Plus,...
At the apparent request of series creators Robert and Michelle King, Paramount+ has made one of Season 2’s streaming-only episodes available for free.
More from TVLinePeter Scolari Remembered by Evil Co-Creator as 'Wonderful, One of the Funniest Actors We've Worked With'Peter Scolari, Bosom Buddies and Newhart Actor, Dead at 66TVLine Items: Head of the Class Trailer, Power Rangers to Netflix and More
“This is in response to people who miss the show, but hated that it cost money to watch on Paramount Plus,...
- 10/25/2021
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Emilija Baranac (Riverdale), Richard Harmon (The 100) and Jennifer Tong (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) have been set to star in YA comedy series Fakes, which is underway in Vancouver for Netflix and CBC Gem.
The 10-episode, half-hour series, created by David Turko (Warrior Nun), is the story of two teenage best friends who accidentally build one of the largest fake ID empires in North America.
CBC has first–window rights in Canada, while Netflix has second window in Canada and first in the rest of the world.
2020-21 Netflix Pilots & Series Orders
Turko is serving as showrunner, and joining him on the project is Tabia Lau, a three-time Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick Award winner.
Reality Distortion Field’s Simon Barry (Warrior Nun) and Stephen Hegyes (Warrior Nun) are producers and executive producers. Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez of Emily In Paris and The Conners production outfit Jax Media...
The 10-episode, half-hour series, created by David Turko (Warrior Nun), is the story of two teenage best friends who accidentally build one of the largest fake ID empires in North America.
CBC has first–window rights in Canada, while Netflix has second window in Canada and first in the rest of the world.
2020-21 Netflix Pilots & Series Orders
Turko is serving as showrunner, and joining him on the project is Tabia Lau, a three-time Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick Award winner.
Reality Distortion Field’s Simon Barry (Warrior Nun) and Stephen Hegyes (Warrior Nun) are producers and executive producers. Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez of Emily In Paris and The Conners production outfit Jax Media...
- 10/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes Classics
Mark Cousins‘ documentary “The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas,” following the legendary “The Last Emperor” and “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” producer’s annual drive to Cannes, will be the pre-opener at the Cannes Classics selection this year.
Restored titles this year include “Friendship’s Death” by Peter Wollen, starring Tilda Swinton; “F For Fake” by Orson Welles; “Mulholland Drive” by David Lynch (2001 U.S.); “I Know Where I’m Going!” by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; and “The Double Life Of Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski”.
The section will also celebrate the work of actor/director Bill Duke with a screening of “The Killing Floor” (1985); Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka’s “Tsuki Wa Noborinu”; Spanish actor and filmmaker Ana Marisca’s “El Camino” from 1964; French maven Marcel Camus’ “Orfeu Negro” and Italian master Roberto Rossellini’s “Francesco, Giullare Di Dio”.
Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American director in the history of U.
Mark Cousins‘ documentary “The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas,” following the legendary “The Last Emperor” and “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” producer’s annual drive to Cannes, will be the pre-opener at the Cannes Classics selection this year.
Restored titles this year include “Friendship’s Death” by Peter Wollen, starring Tilda Swinton; “F For Fake” by Orson Welles; “Mulholland Drive” by David Lynch (2001 U.S.); “I Know Where I’m Going!” by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; and “The Double Life Of Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski”.
The section will also celebrate the work of actor/director Bill Duke with a screening of “The Killing Floor” (1985); Japanese actor and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka’s “Tsuki Wa Noborinu”; Spanish actor and filmmaker Ana Marisca’s “El Camino” from 1964; French maven Marcel Camus’ “Orfeu Negro” and Italian master Roberto Rossellini’s “Francesco, Giullare Di Dio”.
Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American director in the history of U.
- 6/24/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2021 Cannes Classics section. Made up of a selection of restored prints, the roster also includes new documentaries that explore the history of cinema. Among the offerings is Mark Cousins’ pre-opening doc, The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas, which covers a yearly drive with the British producer from London to Cannes. Cousins and Thomas will be in town for the presentation. (Scroll down for the full Cannes Classics list.)
Restored titles include David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive; 1945’s I Know Where I’m Going! by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life Of Véronique; Orson Welles’ F For Fake from 1973; and Friendship’s Death by Peter Wollen which features Tilda Swinton’s first role.
Among the special events are a tribute to director and actor Bill Duke who will present his 1985 The Killing Floor which premiered at Critics...
Restored titles include David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive; 1945’s I Know Where I’m Going! by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life Of Véronique; Orson Welles’ F For Fake from 1973; and Friendship’s Death by Peter Wollen which features Tilda Swinton’s first role.
Among the special events are a tribute to director and actor Bill Duke who will present his 1985 The Killing Floor which premiered at Critics...
- 6/23/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Tilda Swinton to attend restored screening of Peter Wollen’s 1987 UK film Friendship’s Death.
Two documentaries from Mark Cousins and restored films from Kinuyo Tanaka, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles will screen in Cannes Classics, announced on Wednesday (June 23).
Cousins’ The Story Of Film: A New Generation and The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas, a profile of the celebrated British producer, are among a documentary line-up that incudes Buñuel, Un Cineasta Surrealista from Javier Espada, and All About Yves Montand by Yves Jeuland.
The roster of restored narrative films includes David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive, Japanese actor-filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka’s (pictured) The Moon Has Risen,...
Two documentaries from Mark Cousins and restored films from Kinuyo Tanaka, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles will screen in Cannes Classics, announced on Wednesday (June 23).
Cousins’ The Story Of Film: A New Generation and The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas, a profile of the celebrated British producer, are among a documentary line-up that incudes Buñuel, Un Cineasta Surrealista from Javier Espada, and All About Yves Montand by Yves Jeuland.
The roster of restored narrative films includes David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive, Japanese actor-filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka’s (pictured) The Moon Has Risen,...
- 6/23/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Tucker Carlson may say he hates the “liberal media” with a passion when he’s in front of the camera on Fox News, but a new column from New York Times media reporter Ben Smith says Tucker spends a lot of time off-camera gossiping with the same people he claims to detest.
Media writer Michael Wolff described Carlson as “a primary supersecret source” inside “Trump’s Washington.” Wolff told the New York Times, “I know this because I know what he has told me, and I can track his exquisite, too-good-not-to-be-true gossip through unsourced reports and as it often emerges into accepted wisdom.”
“It’s so unknown in the general public how much he plays both sides,” another reporter for a “prominent” outlet told Smith, saying that Carlson has been a frequent source for the outlet.
Carlson and Fox News did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment on the column.
Media writer Michael Wolff described Carlson as “a primary supersecret source” inside “Trump’s Washington.” Wolff told the New York Times, “I know this because I know what he has told me, and I can track his exquisite, too-good-not-to-be-true gossip through unsourced reports and as it often emerges into accepted wisdom.”
“It’s so unknown in the general public how much he plays both sides,” another reporter for a “prominent” outlet told Smith, saying that Carlson has been a frequent source for the outlet.
Carlson and Fox News did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment on the column.
- 6/21/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
On Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the eponymous host took on CNN’s Brian Stelter and his Sunday program, “Reliable Sources.” The show, Rogan said, is “f—ing terrible.”
The trouble seems to have started when Stelter noted on air that some YouTube personalities pull in more viewers than cable news networks.
“They were describing it as if they were entitled to viewers. This is because the market has spoken and your show’s f—ing terrible,” Rogan fumed.
A spokesperson for CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rogan added that Stelter’s show keeps “slipping and slipping and slipping” in ratings. That is fair — Nielsen Media Research ratings data from May shows declines for “Reliable” in total average viewers and key-demo viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, both year-to-date and April to May.
Rogan also criticized Stelter’s recent interview with White...
The trouble seems to have started when Stelter noted on air that some YouTube personalities pull in more viewers than cable news networks.
“They were describing it as if they were entitled to viewers. This is because the market has spoken and your show’s f—ing terrible,” Rogan fumed.
A spokesperson for CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rogan added that Stelter’s show keeps “slipping and slipping and slipping” in ratings. That is fair — Nielsen Media Research ratings data from May shows declines for “Reliable” in total average viewers and key-demo viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, both year-to-date and April to May.
Rogan also criticized Stelter’s recent interview with White...
- 6/18/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Disney’s new film Cruella is dominated by two exceptional performances from Emma Stone and Emma Thompson. The former plays the title character, an ambitious fashion designer who morphs into one of Disney’s most infamous villains, while the latter plays the designer who hires Cruella (in her Estella persona) and then tries to destroy her.
While the two Emmas drive the story and take full command of the screen, lurking around the edges is John, played by Mark Strong, the valet to Thompson’s Baroness who doesn’t say all that much. But even his stoic presence eventually reveals a character with more nuance and layers to him than the standard supervillain henchman.
Strong often plays antagonists and heroes with a certain level of complexity to them, whether it’s the haunted assassin Prideaux in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the well-meaning but ultimately corrupt Sinestro in Green Lantern, CIA...
While the two Emmas drive the story and take full command of the screen, lurking around the edges is John, played by Mark Strong, the valet to Thompson’s Baroness who doesn’t say all that much. But even his stoic presence eventually reveals a character with more nuance and layers to him than the standard supervillain henchman.
Strong often plays antagonists and heroes with a certain level of complexity to them, whether it’s the haunted assassin Prideaux in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the well-meaning but ultimately corrupt Sinestro in Green Lantern, CIA...
- 5/27/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
This The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers.
With all the emphasis on escape in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s easy to forget that assholes are by no means a Gilead-exclusive. From the fake clinic attempting to scare Janine into keeping an unwanted pregnancy, to the fake rescue by a guerrilla leader who demanded sex in exchange for food, ‘Milk’ reminded us that misogyny and exploitation weren’t invented by the Sons of Jacob. They just ran the most successful marketing campaign.
It was a heart-heavy message for another harrowing hour. After last episode’s literal torture, watching a shaking and traumatised June kneel down for yet more abuse felt unacceptably bleak. Then it was difficult to know what was worse, June’s trauma or Janine – a multiple rape survivor – brightly normalising the abusive transaction she’d endured in June’s stead by telling her it wasn’t so bad, “he...
With all the emphasis on escape in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s easy to forget that assholes are by no means a Gilead-exclusive. From the fake clinic attempting to scare Janine into keeping an unwanted pregnancy, to the fake rescue by a guerrilla leader who demanded sex in exchange for food, ‘Milk’ reminded us that misogyny and exploitation weren’t invented by the Sons of Jacob. They just ran the most successful marketing campaign.
It was a heart-heavy message for another harrowing hour. After last episode’s literal torture, watching a shaking and traumatised June kneel down for yet more abuse felt unacceptably bleak. Then it was difficult to know what was worse, June’s trauma or Janine – a multiple rape survivor – brightly normalising the abusive transaction she’d endured in June’s stead by telling her it wasn’t so bad, “he...
- 5/5/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
A feel-good film about end-of-life care for those whose minds have already departed might strike some as a radical notion. But no more so than the philosophy behind the Danish retirement home at the heart of Louise Detlefsen’s uplifting It is Not Over Yet, world-premiering at this year’s Hot Docs (April 29-May 9). With this latest project Detlefsen — whose last doc Fat Front delved into another unconventional subject, Scandinavia’s feminist body-positive movement — embeds, almost imperceptibly, in a female-founded, women-run facility. And one that covertly gives the finger to Big Pharma and corporate nursing homes by going back to […]
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- 4/29/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A feel-good film about end-of-life care for those whose minds have already departed might strike some as a radical notion. But no more so than the philosophy behind the Danish retirement home at the heart of Louise Detlefsen’s uplifting It is Not Over Yet, world-premiering at this year’s Hot Docs (April 29-May 9). With this latest project Detlefsen — whose last doc Fat Front delved into another unconventional subject, Scandinavia’s feminist body-positive movement — embeds, almost imperceptibly, in a female-founded, women-run facility. And one that covertly gives the finger to Big Pharma and corporate nursing homes by going back to […]
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The post “How Do You Build Trust with People Who… Do Not Remember They Have Ever Met You?”: Louise Detlefsen on Her Hot Docs-Debuting It is Not Over Yet first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4/29/2021
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round tonight added to its strong cocktail of prizes over the past several months, scooping the Best International Feature Film Oscar. The front-runner coming in, the director’s latest marks his first win at the Academy Awards after his 2012 The Hunt was nominated in the same category.
Originally conceived several years ago, Another Round became an intensely personal effort: It was four days into shooting when Vinterberg’s teenage daughter Ida died in a car accident. The filmmaker persevered to tell a story about embracing life, and tearfully thanked his daughter in his acceptance from Union Station this evening.
Vinterberg began lightly, musing on the Academy recognition, “This is beyond anything I could ever imagine, except this is something I’ve always imagined. Since I was five, I’ve been preparing speeches in train stations, at school, in the toilet and here I am — its amazing.
Originally conceived several years ago, Another Round became an intensely personal effort: It was four days into shooting when Vinterberg’s teenage daughter Ida died in a car accident. The filmmaker persevered to tell a story about embracing life, and tearfully thanked his daughter in his acceptance from Union Station this evening.
Vinterberg began lightly, musing on the Academy recognition, “This is beyond anything I could ever imagine, except this is something I’ve always imagined. Since I was five, I’ve been preparing speeches in train stations, at school, in the toilet and here I am — its amazing.
- 4/26/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Secret Invasion may well be the most highly anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe series to date.
Less than a day after it was teased that Olivia Colman would be joining the series comes an exciting new announcement.
Emilia Clarke is trading in Game of Thrones for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
According to Variety, the actress, who played Daenerys Targaryen on all eight seasons of the HBO epic, has joined the cast.
As has been the case ever since the series was unveiled, no details on who Clarke will be playing have been revealed.
Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn will reprise their previous roles in the MCU for the series, while Kingsley Ben-Adir is set to play a villain.
Jackson played Nick Fury, while Mendelsohn will play Skrull Talos.
No details have been revealed about Colman's character. Colman is coming off a two-season stint as Queen Elizabeth II on the Netflix juggernaut,...
Less than a day after it was teased that Olivia Colman would be joining the series comes an exciting new announcement.
Emilia Clarke is trading in Game of Thrones for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
According to Variety, the actress, who played Daenerys Targaryen on all eight seasons of the HBO epic, has joined the cast.
As has been the case ever since the series was unveiled, no details on who Clarke will be playing have been revealed.
Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn will reprise their previous roles in the MCU for the series, while Kingsley Ben-Adir is set to play a villain.
Jackson played Nick Fury, while Mendelsohn will play Skrull Talos.
No details have been revealed about Colman's character. Colman is coming off a two-season stint as Queen Elizabeth II on the Netflix juggernaut,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
From the Queen of Netflix to the Queen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia Colman is in talks to join the cast of the forthcoming Disney+ live-action series, Secret Invasion.
Colman is an award-winning actress who is coming off a two-season turn on Netflix's The Crown.
The historical drama, which focuses on the British Royal Family, typically refreshes its cast every two seasons.
She took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Claire Foy and will herself be replaced by Imelda Staunton on the final two seasons of the drama series.
Secret Invasion's cast already includes Samuel L. Jackson, who has played Nick Fury throughout the MCU, as well as returning veteran Ben Mendelsohn.
While Marvel has been keeping the series largely under wraps, we do already know that Kingsley Ben-Adir has been added to the cast, so the project must be moving along.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olivia Colman is in talks to join the cast of the forthcoming Disney+ live-action series, Secret Invasion.
Colman is an award-winning actress who is coming off a two-season turn on Netflix's The Crown.
The historical drama, which focuses on the British Royal Family, typically refreshes its cast every two seasons.
She took over the role of Queen Elizabeth II from Claire Foy and will herself be replaced by Imelda Staunton on the final two seasons of the drama series.
Secret Invasion's cast already includes Samuel L. Jackson, who has played Nick Fury throughout the MCU, as well as returning veteran Ben Mendelsohn.
While Marvel has been keeping the series largely under wraps, we do already know that Kingsley Ben-Adir has been added to the cast, so the project must be moving along.
- 4/20/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Screen Media has debuted a new trailer for their upcoming Elizabeth Banks obsessed comedy ‘Eat Wheaties’.
An adaptation of Michael Kun’s 2003 novel The Locklear Letters updated for the social media era, the film stars Tony Hale as Sid Straw, a man whose unexceptional life takes a wild turn when he’s named co-chair of his college reunion and accidentally stalks famous college classmate, actress Elizabeth Banks, on social media. His messages to her go viral, and with each failed attempt to convince people he really knows her, Sid’s life spirals out of control until he finds himself banned from the reunion. Stuck at a crossroads and determined to rediscover the best version of himself, Sid hires an inexperienced lawyer to help clear his name.
Directed by Scott Abramovitch, the film also stars Paul Walter Hauser, Danielle Brooks, Lamorne Morris, Robbie Amell, David Walton, Sarah Burns, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Chalke,...
An adaptation of Michael Kun’s 2003 novel The Locklear Letters updated for the social media era, the film stars Tony Hale as Sid Straw, a man whose unexceptional life takes a wild turn when he’s named co-chair of his college reunion and accidentally stalks famous college classmate, actress Elizabeth Banks, on social media. His messages to her go viral, and with each failed attempt to convince people he really knows her, Sid’s life spirals out of control until he finds himself banned from the reunion. Stuck at a crossroads and determined to rediscover the best version of himself, Sid hires an inexperienced lawyer to help clear his name.
Directed by Scott Abramovitch, the film also stars Paul Walter Hauser, Danielle Brooks, Lamorne Morris, Robbie Amell, David Walton, Sarah Burns, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Chalke,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Netflix’s new anime The Way of the Househusband is a hilarious slice-of-life comedy worth checking out.
“There are few things in this world funnier than watching an otherwise extremely scary individual being forced to do something mundane. That is the exact form of comedy that Netflix’s new slice-of-life anime series The Way of the Househusband is predicated on, and it’s uproariously funny every single time.”
Read more at Thrillist.
Old Hollywood actress Mary Astor and her Purple Diary were at the center of the biggest sex scandal in the 1930s.
“In 1936, Mary Astor, star of The Maltese Falcon (1941), was the center of a Hollywood scandal so big, it knocked news of Hitler off the front page. Her estranged husband stole her private diaries, called the Purple or Lavender Diary, to use in a bitter custody battle.”
Read more at Mental Floss.
The CW’s live-action Powerpuff Girls just released some behind-the-scenes photos,...
“There are few things in this world funnier than watching an otherwise extremely scary individual being forced to do something mundane. That is the exact form of comedy that Netflix’s new slice-of-life anime series The Way of the Househusband is predicated on, and it’s uproariously funny every single time.”
Read more at Thrillist.
Old Hollywood actress Mary Astor and her Purple Diary were at the center of the biggest sex scandal in the 1930s.
“In 1936, Mary Astor, star of The Maltese Falcon (1941), was the center of a Hollywood scandal so big, it knocked news of Hitler off the front page. Her estranged husband stole her private diaries, called the Purple or Lavender Diary, to use in a bitter custody battle.”
Read more at Mental Floss.
The CW’s live-action Powerpuff Girls just released some behind-the-scenes photos,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
HBO viewers stepping into the word of QAnon in its new docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, which premiered on March 21 on HBO and HBOMax. Shot over the past three years, director Cullen Hoback set out to document the infamous QAnon conspiracy theory that some high-level Democrats are villainous child-sex traffickers and that former president Donald Trump had […]
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- 3/24/2021
- by Demi Tsatsaronis
- Uinterview
It’s been almost one year since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic and Jimmy Kimmel is using a couple of his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” episodes this week to commemorate the corona-versary.
In Wednesday’s episode, Kimmel shared clips, filmed in March 2020 only days after the pandemic began, of him asking strangers on the street in Hollywood what they thought the coronavirus was. Most people didn’t seem phased, and you can tell some people really didn’t think it was going to last more than a handful of days, at most.
“We’ve been looking back at what was going on when the pandemic started, and we dug something up. One year ago tonight, right as the stay at home orders were hitting here in California, we went out in the street and we asked people passing by our studio to tell us what they knew about about this new coronavirus…...
In Wednesday’s episode, Kimmel shared clips, filmed in March 2020 only days after the pandemic began, of him asking strangers on the street in Hollywood what they thought the coronavirus was. Most people didn’t seem phased, and you can tell some people really didn’t think it was going to last more than a handful of days, at most.
“We’ve been looking back at what was going on when the pandemic started, and we dug something up. One year ago tonight, right as the stay at home orders were hitting here in California, we went out in the street and we asked people passing by our studio to tell us what they knew about about this new coronavirus…...
- 3/11/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
Photo: Queen Elizabeth II Let us get right to it. Ahead of the explosive Oprah interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it is important that you know the truths about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and her royal family, which includes Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, etc. The articles and episodes below will give you a full picture on the family. Here are all the articles and episodes that Hollywood Insider has published on the British royals and their family. The truth on Queen Elizabeth: Written article: Why Queen Elizabeth II Is One Of The Greatest Monarchs | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of United Queendom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Video Insight) The truth on Prince Harry: Fact-checked Series: Prince Harry and 32 Facts on the Duke of Sussex The truth on Meghan Markle & Kate Middleton: Kate Middleton & Meghan Markle: Both Women Can Be...
- 3/7/2021
- by Hollywood Insider Staff Writer
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson’ Combines Black Lives Matter Themes with the Evolving Time Loop Genre
Photo: ‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson'/Wolfe Releasing Diabolus Ex Machina Ali LeRoi’s ‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson’ has a tightrope walk of a premise. Tunde, a gay African American teenager, is trapped in a time loop that always ends with him dying at the hands of the police. It’s a tricky balance, combining this popcorn movie conceit with a serious social issue, but the film mostly pulls it off. It’s anchored by a strong performance from Steven Silver, an up-and-coming actor from Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’. As Tunde, Silver commits entirely as the narrative moves from high school soap opera to forbidden love story to coming-out drama to police brutality suspense to sci-fi mystery. At times, it feels like the film has bitten off more than it can chew, but in its best moments it has the idiosyncratic genre-hopping charm of ‘Donnie Darko’. Related article: Watch:...
- 3/4/2021
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Line-up also includes the new project from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker.
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
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The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
Danish documentary festival Cph:dox has revealed the 35 projects set to be presented at Cph:forum, its financing and co-production event that will take place online-only from April 26-30.
Scroll down for full list of titles
The selection includes new projects from two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker (Waste Land), Sundance winners Mads Brügger (Cold Case Hammarskjöld) and Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In), Berlin Crystal Bear winner Geneviève Dulude-De Celle (A Colony) and Venice Horizons winner Lech Kowalski (East Of Paradise).
Further notable filmmakers include Radu Ciorniciuc, whose Acasa,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
There’s never a bad time for a new superhero show, mind you. But with Amazon’s brilliantly bloody The Boys having been off air for five or so months now, the streaming world is particularly due for a new supe. With its list of new releases for March 2021, Amazon is going to be rectifying that.
The animated adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comic series Invincible is set to arrive on Amazon Prime this March 26. Kirkman’s comic series is a colorful, thrilling, and violent take on superhero myths and the series that it inspired will feature a truly impressive cast. Take that all into account and this will be an important addition to the streaming superhero canon.
Also arriving in March is another big ticket item for Amazon. The long-awaited Coming to America sequel, Coming 2 America, will premiere on March 5. Eddie Murphy returns as Prince Akeem Joffer who...
The animated adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comic series Invincible is set to arrive on Amazon Prime this March 26. Kirkman’s comic series is a colorful, thrilling, and violent take on superhero myths and the series that it inspired will feature a truly impressive cast. Take that all into account and this will be an important addition to the streaming superhero canon.
Also arriving in March is another big ticket item for Amazon. The long-awaited Coming to America sequel, Coming 2 America, will premiere on March 5. Eddie Murphy returns as Prince Akeem Joffer who...
- 2/27/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Both Lindsay Lohan’s “Rumors” and Crystal Waters’ “100% Pure Love” saw huge surges in streaming numbers after being featured on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Waters rose to No. 9 on the Billboard dance/electronic charts after being featured in a lip sync battle between Denali and Kahmora Hall. A week after the Jan. 22 episode aired, the song saw an increase of 613.59% in streams, rising from 71,897 to 513,050 plays across YouTube, Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. The numbers were provided to Variety by Vh-1 and obtained from Alpha Data.
Similarly, Lohan’s “Rumors,” which was released in 2004, became a trending topic on Twitter and saw streams increase by 264.97% after Utica Queen lost to Gottmik during another epic lip sync. Utica Queen got sent to the Porkchop Loading Dock.
Producer Randy Barbato said, “Drag queens deliver the heart and soul of a song like nobody’s business. When a queen steps to the front of...
Waters rose to No. 9 on the Billboard dance/electronic charts after being featured in a lip sync battle between Denali and Kahmora Hall. A week after the Jan. 22 episode aired, the song saw an increase of 613.59% in streams, rising from 71,897 to 513,050 plays across YouTube, Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. The numbers were provided to Variety by Vh-1 and obtained from Alpha Data.
Similarly, Lohan’s “Rumors,” which was released in 2004, became a trending topic on Twitter and saw streams increase by 264.97% after Utica Queen lost to Gottmik during another epic lip sync. Utica Queen got sent to the Porkchop Loading Dock.
Producer Randy Barbato said, “Drag queens deliver the heart and soul of a song like nobody’s business. When a queen steps to the front of...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
This week on WandaVision –– in the season’s penultimate (and longest) episode — Agatha Harkness sought answers about how Wanda conjured Westview, and S.W.O.R.D.’s plan was revealed.
“Previously On” kicked off with a “Previously on…” that included clips from Infinity War and other MCU movies, before using a version of the Marvel fanfare that closed with a logo that turned purple, as in Agatha’s magic. We then flashed back to Salem circa 1693, where Agatha was magically bound to a stake by her coven, accused of practicing the darkest of magic. Agatha argues she simply “bent the rules,...
“Previously On” kicked off with a “Previously on…” that included clips from Infinity War and other MCU movies, before using a version of the Marvel fanfare that closed with a logo that turned purple, as in Agatha’s magic. We then flashed back to Salem circa 1693, where Agatha was magically bound to a stake by her coven, accused of practicing the darkest of magic. Agatha argues she simply “bent the rules,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone knows, all hiding in plain sight. When a case of forgery comes to light, it tends to be greeted with moral outrage. The act of imitating a famous artist’s work, and profiting off it, is seen as a sleazy low-life con, as well as a major crime. Yet art forgery isn’t just about the eye candy of duplicity and profit. As Orson Welles caught in his jump-cut meditation “F for Fake” (1973), there’s a fantasy behind it: What if you had the daring, and the talent, to produce a fake work of art so drop-dead authentic that no one alive could tell it was fake? There’s an audacity to that, a kind of grand illusion.
- 2/24/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter thought more than a quick update was necessary in preparing for the paperback edition of his book from last summer, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.
In effect, he’s writing a substantially different book, adding some 20,000 words to the 95,000 of the hardcover edition.
Announced on Sunday, the revised edition will be released in June.
The changes reflect the end of Trump’s presidency and the false claims of voter fraud, the rise of Tucker Carlson in becoming Fox’s most prominent personality, the Jan. 6 riot ...
In effect, he’s writing a substantially different book, adding some 20,000 words to the 95,000 of the hardcover edition.
Announced on Sunday, the revised edition will be released in June.
The changes reflect the end of Trump’s presidency and the false claims of voter fraud, the rise of Tucker Carlson in becoming Fox’s most prominent personality, the Jan. 6 riot ...
- 2/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Winners hailed from India, France, Kosovo, Argentina and Bosnia.
Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles has scooped the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The Tiger jury, including Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Orwa Nyrabia, Hala Elkoussy, Helena van der Meulen and Ilse Hughan, said the Indian drama was “a lesson in pure cinema, captivating us with its beauty and humour, in spite of its grim subject”.
Set in a rural village in southern India, Pebbles follows an alcoholic father and his young son as they embark on an eight-mile walk under scorching sun in a bid to reunite with his wife,...
Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles has scooped the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The Tiger jury, including Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Orwa Nyrabia, Hala Elkoussy, Helena van der Meulen and Ilse Hughan, said the Indian drama was “a lesson in pure cinema, captivating us with its beauty and humour, in spite of its grim subject”.
Set in a rural village in southern India, Pebbles follows an alcoholic father and his young son as they embark on an eight-mile walk under scorching sun in a bid to reunite with his wife,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Photo: ‘Falling’/Quiver Distribution Viggo Mortensen, an actor best known for his role as Aragorn in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, has been in the industry for over 30 years. Besides acting, Mortensen is an avid poetry lover and writer, going as far as to create his own publishing company. He has also dabbled in other fine arts and is a photographer as well as an abstract painter. Recently, he journeyed into the world of screenwriting and directing and his directorial debut, ‘Falling’, was released on February 5th, 2021. A brilliantly crafted portrayal of dementia and the destruction it can do to families, ‘Falling’ is a hard-hitting and truthful film. The film feels like it has been made by a director with ten years of experience, not someone’s directorial debut. With this film, Mortensen makes a strong statement that he’s here to deliver powerful stories that will continue to...
- 2/6/2021
- by Jordan Qin
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
It may still feature two households both alike in dignity, but in Carey Williams’s modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, R#J, the modes of communication look decidedly different. Set in California in the here and now, Williams’s film hones in on the title characters’ brief but intense romance via their messaging tool of choice: the smartphone. Back-and-forth texts and DMs, impromptu FaceTiming sessions, tagging each other in Instagram photos and sharing personally curated Spotify playlists add to the cumulative rise and potential fall of literature’s most infamously star-crossed lovers. Produced by Bazelevs Productions (founded by popular Russian filmmaker […]
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- 2/5/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It may still feature two households both alike in dignity, but in Carey Williams’s modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, R#J, the modes of communication look decidedly different. Set in California in the here and now, Williams’s film hones in on the title characters’ brief but intense romance via their messaging tool of choice: the smartphone. Back-and-forth texts and DMs, impromptu FaceTiming sessions, tagging each other in Instagram photos and sharing personally curated Spotify playlists add to the cumulative rise and potential fall of literature’s most infamously star-crossed lovers. Produced by Bazelevs Productions (founded by popular Russian filmmaker […]
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- 2/5/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
ITV crime drama Marcella was always intended to be a trilogy, according to actor Anna Friel, but a return after season three is possible. Speaking to Hello Magazine ahead of the UK season launch last month, Friel said that “the end of the third season is very much left open. I guess it depends on how much the viewers here like it.”
Marcella season three was released on Netflix outside the UK in summer 2020, but ITV fans had to wait until January 2021 to find out what happened next to the troubled detective after she was recruited as an undercover officer at the close of season two. The new run of episodes is set against the backdrop of a Belfast crime family infiltrated by the detective in her new guise as ‘Keira Devlin’. Can Marcella bring down the powerful, drug-dealing, gun-importing, people-trafficking Maguires, or might she decide to join them?
All...
Marcella season three was released on Netflix outside the UK in summer 2020, but ITV fans had to wait until January 2021 to find out what happened next to the troubled detective after she was recruited as an undercover officer at the close of season two. The new run of episodes is set against the backdrop of a Belfast crime family infiltrated by the detective in her new guise as ‘Keira Devlin’. Can Marcella bring down the powerful, drug-dealing, gun-importing, people-trafficking Maguires, or might she decide to join them?
All...
- 2/4/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
It still might be a little while before we’re able to go back to the movies again. Thankfully, with its list of new releases for February 2021, Amazon Prime is bringing the theater home. The movies are the real appeal this month.
Amazon’s offerings are highlighted by two original films of note. The first is Bliss, which premieres on Feb. 5. This will star Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek as a couple experiencing some intimacy issues. Presumably this is all just a tune up for when Wilson dons a mustache in Disney+’s Loki later in May. The other film is the sci-fi rom-com The Map of Tiny Perfect Things on Feb. 12.
Other library movies include Antz, Moulin Rouge, The Prestige, The Village, and Dazed and Confused, all of which arrive on Feb. 1. Sonic the Hedgehog is set to arrive later on Feb. 18.
Amazon is premiering only one new original series this month.
Amazon’s offerings are highlighted by two original films of note. The first is Bliss, which premieres on Feb. 5. This will star Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek as a couple experiencing some intimacy issues. Presumably this is all just a tune up for when Wilson dons a mustache in Disney+’s Loki later in May. The other film is the sci-fi rom-com The Map of Tiny Perfect Things on Feb. 12.
Other library movies include Antz, Moulin Rouge, The Prestige, The Village, and Dazed and Confused, all of which arrive on Feb. 1. Sonic the Hedgehog is set to arrive later on Feb. 18.
Amazon is premiering only one new original series this month.
- 1/31/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Photo: 'They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead'/Netflix Orson Welles was a filmmaker known for being ahead of his time, quirky, and experimental. Of course, Citizen Kane (1941) will forever be his most revered work, but there’s much more to his legacy. His catalog includes several other classics, such as the historical dramas Macbeth (1948) and Othello (1951). In the later years of his career, he tried his hand at experimental films such as the docudrama F for Fake (1973) that followed the world of art forgery. However, even with so much output, his drive to create never wavered. There was one film that he desperately wanted to finish before he died: The Other Side of the Wind (2018). Related article: Bigger than Ant-Man: A Tribute to Paul Rudd – The Winner’s Journey Related article: Video | The Artist Evolves: All Leonardo DiCaprio Roles & Performances, 1980s to 2020 Filmography Director Morgan Neville’s documentary...
- 1/29/2021
- by Joshua Valdez
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
When did I get on board?” filmmaker Edgar Wright asks himself, repeating the question about when, over Sparks’ five-decade career, he first took a liking to the band. “I saw Sparks for the first time on TV when I was 5. And even when I was 5…”
“What kept ya?” interjects singer Russell Mael. “What were you waiting for?”
Everything in good time — and the timing is finally right for Russell and his brother Ron to get their filmic due in the form of “The Sparks Brothers,” a rollicking documentary that will premiere Jan. 30 as part of this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival.
The Mael brothers’ story is one of unusual endurance in the world of rock ’n’ roll; yes, the group’s two mainstays are united by blood, which should help, but then, that was never any guarantee for Oasis or the Kinks in the end. It’s also a tale of eternally delayed gratification,...
“What kept ya?” interjects singer Russell Mael. “What were you waiting for?”
Everything in good time — and the timing is finally right for Russell and his brother Ron to get their filmic due in the form of “The Sparks Brothers,” a rollicking documentary that will premiere Jan. 30 as part of this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival.
The Mael brothers’ story is one of unusual endurance in the world of rock ’n’ roll; yes, the group’s two mainstays are united by blood, which should help, but then, that was never any guarantee for Oasis or the Kinks in the end. It’s also a tale of eternally delayed gratification,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
The Performer | Javicia Leslie
The Show | Batwoman
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Paul BettanyPerformer of the Week: Glenda JacksonProdigal Son Adds Alan Cumming to Season 2 (and Bright Should Worry!)
The Episode | “Whatever Happened to Kate Kane?” (Jan. 17, 2021)
The Performance | There’s been a lot of fanfare around Leslie, who makes history as the first Black woman to portray Batwoman on screen. She had the difficult task of carrying that responsibility while introducing an original character in a show brimming with already established characters and with a full season under its belt. Leslie handled that immense pressure like a pro and,...
The Show | Batwoman
More from TVLinePerformer of the Week: Paul BettanyPerformer of the Week: Glenda JacksonProdigal Son Adds Alan Cumming to Season 2 (and Bright Should Worry!)
The Episode | “Whatever Happened to Kate Kane?” (Jan. 17, 2021)
The Performance | There’s been a lot of fanfare around Leslie, who makes history as the first Black woman to portray Batwoman on screen. She had the difficult task of carrying that responsibility while introducing an original character in a show brimming with already established characters and with a full season under its belt. Leslie handled that immense pressure like a pro and,...
- 1/23/2021
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
The following contains spoilers for Servant season 2.
In case season 1’s 10 episodes hadn’t already made it apparent, Servant is a very strange slow-burn of a show. This series begins with the creepy concept of a young couple bringing in a nanny to take care of their lifeless doll son and only gets more bizarre from there.
That offbeat sense of unease reaches its height in the Servant season 2 premiere, “Doll.” This half hour finds the Turner family dealing with the immediate aftermath of the season 1 finale when maid Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) disappeared with the Turners’ baby…or what they think is their baby, leaving behind the original doll. What’s even stranger, however, is that Sean Turner’s (Toby Kebbell) sudden loss of smell and taste has evolved into a loss of the sense of touch as well.
While Sean’s condition is one of Servant’s most mysterious ongoing features,...
In case season 1’s 10 episodes hadn’t already made it apparent, Servant is a very strange slow-burn of a show. This series begins with the creepy concept of a young couple bringing in a nanny to take care of their lifeless doll son and only gets more bizarre from there.
That offbeat sense of unease reaches its height in the Servant season 2 premiere, “Doll.” This half hour finds the Turner family dealing with the immediate aftermath of the season 1 finale when maid Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) disappeared with the Turners’ baby…or what they think is their baby, leaving behind the original doll. What’s even stranger, however, is that Sean Turner’s (Toby Kebbell) sudden loss of smell and taste has evolved into a loss of the sense of touch as well.
While Sean’s condition is one of Servant’s most mysterious ongoing features,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Cast your minds back to last May. In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the sheer unbeatable scale of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, it was announced that 2021’s Arrowverse crossover would be a smaller event between two shows – namely, Batwoman and Superman & Lois. Since then, however, the virus hasn’t cleared up as expected and the former series has got itself a new lead. As such, the planned crossover will no longer be going ahead.
Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries confirmed the news to TV Line ahead of her series’ season 2 premiere this weekend. Dries made clear that it’s still not feasible to bring the casts and crews of two TV shows together at this time, due to the increased risks involved. Likewise, any fans hoping to see Melissa Benoist travel over to Gotham before she exits the Arrowverse after Supergirl season 6 will be left disappointed.
“We’re...
Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries confirmed the news to TV Line ahead of her series’ season 2 premiere this weekend. Dries made clear that it’s still not feasible to bring the casts and crews of two TV shows together at this time, due to the increased risks involved. Likewise, any fans hoping to see Melissa Benoist travel over to Gotham before she exits the Arrowverse after Supergirl season 6 will be left disappointed.
“We’re...
- 1/14/2021
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
“Batwoman” didn’t have many great options going into season 2. Not only did the CW series lose its star when Ruby Rose decided to leave, but the first season wasn’t able to be filmed in its entirety once the coronavirus pandemic shut the industry down last spring. Even though the last episode to air (“O Mouse!”) ended with a decently intriguing cliffhanger, it still didn’t have nearly enough time or foresight to wrap up everything that needed wrapping before jumping into another character’s story.
In that respect, the premiere of the second season has a series of extremely tough jobs to do, narratively speaking. “Whatever Happened to Kate Kane?” has to explain the absence of Rose’s Kate Kane, deal with the fact that her psychotic sister Alice (Rachel Skarsten) has outfitted one of her goons with Bruce Wayne’s face (played in this disguise by Warren Christie) and,...
In that respect, the premiere of the second season has a series of extremely tough jobs to do, narratively speaking. “Whatever Happened to Kate Kane?” has to explain the absence of Rose’s Kate Kane, deal with the fact that her psychotic sister Alice (Rachel Skarsten) has outfitted one of her goons with Bruce Wayne’s face (played in this disguise by Warren Christie) and,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Batwoman season 2 will feature yet another iconic villain from Batman’s rogues gallery. It’s been clear from the references in the first run that crime boss Safiyah (who’ll be played by Shivaani Ghai) will be the big bad of the next outing of the Arrowverse series, but now EP Caroline Dries has dropped the bombshell that we can expect another main antagonist to arrive later in the season – none other than Roman Sionis Aka Black Mask.
The showrunner revealed the news to EW, ahead of the premiere this weekend. As well as the Safiyah plotline, new heroine Ryan Wilder will battle the False Face Society, too, Black Mask’s outfit from the comics, which will tighten “its grip on Gotham distributing a perilous new drug known as Snakebite.”
“We have a couple big bads this season,” Dries explained. “One, [who] we teed up midway through last season, is this woman Safiyah,...
The showrunner revealed the news to EW, ahead of the premiere this weekend. As well as the Safiyah plotline, new heroine Ryan Wilder will battle the False Face Society, too, Black Mask’s outfit from the comics, which will tighten “its grip on Gotham distributing a perilous new drug known as Snakebite.”
“We have a couple big bads this season,” Dries explained. “One, [who] we teed up midway through last season, is this woman Safiyah,...
- 1/12/2021
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
More “Sex and the City” is on the way. Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed yesterday that her iconic onscreen counterpart Carrie Bradshaw would reunite with BFFs Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) for an HBO Max limited series titled “And Just Like That…” (Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones will not be involved). The “new chapter” will follow the three New Yorkers, now in their 50s, as they continue navigating the ups and downs of relationships, friendships, careers and, of course, sex.
“Sex and the City” went off the air in 2002 after six seasons, but Carrie and company’s story continued with two (very divisive) feature films that premiered in 2008 and 2010. That means it’s been over a decade since fans last saw Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte — so there will be lots to catch up on when “And Just Like That…” graces our TV screens later this year.
Before then,...
“Sex and the City” went off the air in 2002 after six seasons, but Carrie and company’s story continued with two (very divisive) feature films that premiered in 2008 and 2010. That means it’s been over a decade since fans last saw Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte — so there will be lots to catch up on when “And Just Like That…” graces our TV screens later this year.
Before then,...
- 1/12/2021
- by Andrea Towers
- The Wrap
Beloved “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek sadly passed away at age 80 on Nov. 8 after a battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Here are 9 things we’ll miss about Alex, courtesy of a biography of the host written by Lisa Rogak called “Who Is Alex Trebek?” out now from Macmillan Publishers.
To so many viewers, he felt like a member of the family
“I’ve been on the air for fifty years, so I’m like a member of the family,” Trebek once said, according to Rogak.
Added Jonah Engel Bromwich, a domestic correspondent with The New York Times: “When you arrive in a hotel room where you have no real sense of where you are, turning Jeopardy! on is always kind of a grounding experience.”
His Everyman attitude
Most days he drove a half-ton Dodge Ram 1500 pickup to the studio, and loved to do his own handiwork around the...
To so many viewers, he felt like a member of the family
“I’ve been on the air for fifty years, so I’m like a member of the family,” Trebek once said, according to Rogak.
Added Jonah Engel Bromwich, a domestic correspondent with The New York Times: “When you arrive in a hotel room where you have no real sense of where you are, turning Jeopardy! on is always kind of a grounding experience.”
His Everyman attitude
Most days he drove a half-ton Dodge Ram 1500 pickup to the studio, and loved to do his own handiwork around the...
- 1/8/2021
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
We’re looking forward to the return of The CW’s Batwoman, which will launch its second season on Sunday, January 17th. Of course, the big change this year is the replacement of Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane with Javicia Leslie’s Ryan Wilder, who will be taking up the mantle of the titular hero. And with the premiere date coming up soon, we’ve just received a synopsis for the opening episode and a new poster, which you can catch below.
As is to be expected, “What Happened to Kate Kane?” will kick off the sophomore outing for the show by dealing with Rose’s exit and how Wilder takes over as the lead. There’ll also be efforts made to build on the storylines introduced at the end of the first season, including the introduction of Tommy Doyle/Hush, and whatever is now going to happen with Kane’s twin sister Alice.
As is to be expected, “What Happened to Kate Kane?” will kick off the sophomore outing for the show by dealing with Rose’s exit and how Wilder takes over as the lead. There’ll also be efforts made to build on the storylines introduced at the end of the first season, including the introduction of Tommy Doyle/Hush, and whatever is now going to happen with Kane’s twin sister Alice.
- 12/31/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
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