The streaming service’s logline for the still-untitled series reads: The series is inspired by the personal and professional dynamic between the family owners and front office team that together run one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports: the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers president Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, the team’s executive director, […]
It’s movie math: Take one pregnant woman, add a bunch of shady people, multiply by the natural anxiety that comes with bringing new life into the world, and voila, you’ve got a “Rosemary’s Baby” riff! But while John Lee’s “False Positive” may have seemed — at least initially, thanks to some well-made marketing materials — […]
has often used Venice to launch potential awards season tentpoles, including “A Star Is Born,” “Gravity,” and “Joker,” which won the festival’s Golden Lion. The planet is the home of the world’s most valuable resource, a drug called spice that extends human life and gives its users super-human abilities. Starring opposite Chalamet in “Dune” are […]
Scarlett Johansson is finally getting a standalone movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after 11 years with the upcoming release of “Black Widow.” The Oscar nominee made her MCU debut in “Iron Man 2,” and she recently told Collider that Black Widow was “so sexualized” and treated “like a possession” in her early MCU appearance. […]
Jean-Luc Picard got a new lease on life — and, by the end of the initial run of episodes, literally a new body — in the polarizing first season of “Star Trek: Picard.” Where does he go next? Well, the first teaser with footage from Season 2 just dropped, and it seems that once again […]
The shortest Pixar movie since “Toy Story,” and one of the few that manages to keep its high-concept premise anchored to a simple human scale, Enrico Casarosa’s “Luca” is effectively the Disney+ equivalent of an aperol spritz on a late summer afternoon: sweet, effervescent, and all the more satisfying for its simplicity. This is the […]
Reese Witherspoon joined Tracee Ellis Ross for a conversation in the latest Interview magazine and revealed she suffered three weeks of panic attacks leading into the production of “Wild.” Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, the film casts Witherspoon as a broken woman who pieces her life together by hiking the […]
Madriver International is overseeing international sales and bringing the title to the Cannes Virtual Market, while Cinetic Media and CAA Media Finance are handling financing and domestic rights along with WME. “This is my first movie with a plot and my first movie taking place in Texas,” Solondz said in a statement. Solondz’s last feature […]
When production designer Nelson Coates first saw Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” Broadway musical in 2008, he was so “blown away” that he immediately bought tickets to two more performances. “One of the exciting ideas that Jon had for the whole movie, instead of having each number being variations on a theme, he wanted each […]
Such financial success made it not too surprising when McKay announced in December 2018 that he would be returning as the director of a “Lego Batman Movie” sequel. “Dan and Waldron had done a first draft of the script that was really great. Waldron, who will follow “Loki” as the writer of “Doctor Strange in […]
According to Deadline, the project is heading to the upcoming Cannes Market where FilmNation will handle international rights and CAA Media Finance will handle domestic rights. The official “Pussy Island” synopsis from Deadline reads: “Frida is a young, clever, Los Angeles cocktail waitress who has her eyes set on the prize: philanthropist and tech mogul Slater […]
The actress is best known for her role as Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe flicks, plus her performance in two “Jumanji” movies. The women must team up to stop a cycle of violence led by a male-dominated crime syndicate, presided over by the always deliciously nefarious Paul Giamatti. Now, 15 years later, Sam has […]
Sudeikis, one of series co-creators and an executive producer, was the loudest creative voice when it came to building the ensemble, which meant he had final say in every casting decision. Even if Sudeikis had veto power, the concept lent itself to plenty of exploration, especially considering neither Sudeikis nor the other producers knew many […]
The backlash over casting in the film earlier surfaced on Twitter in a video interview hosted by The Root journalist Felice León, who directly asked director Jon M. …Read the full story
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Larry Clark’s “Kids” went off like a bomb in 1995 as a no-holds-barred-whatsoever portrait of debauched teenagers in New York City. Yes, I felt, ‘Aw, man, I thought it was going to be more than it actually was.’ Twenty five years later, today, in my late 40s, I see differently,” Harris said. Harris added that […]
Take him out of this show — whether in the first five episodes that became an early-2021, word-of-mouth international hit or in the second five that make up what Netflix calls “Part 2” — and it’s hard to imagine any other part of it equipped to handle what the confidence in that title performance brings. It’s […]
The preopening predictions of its gross — inexact these days, since they mostly poll the more limited audience that already has returned to theaters — suggest under $15 million. The top 15 films this year to date fit that description, with the highest gross for anything different only $15 million . Per Motion Picture Association […]
That early partnership set the foundation for a creative affinity that has reached its greatest expression to date with “In the Heights,” Chu’s cinematic adaptation of the Latino-centered, Broadway hit penned by storytelling prodigies Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alagría Hudes. Featuring 30 dancers and filmed in South Pasadena, California, “When the Kids Are Away” required […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda stood onstage at the United Palace theater a few blocks from his home and, as usual, put on a good show. It was the first day of the Tribeca Festival, and the historic theater blocks away from where he grew up and wrote his breakthrough, the Tony-award winning musical “In the Heights,” was […]