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George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing To Debut At Cannes Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock By Witney Seibold/March 16, 2022 4:14 pm EST Announced by Variety today, Academy Award-winning director George Miller’s newest film “Three Thousand Years of Longing” will debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, set to be held in France from May 17 to 28 of this year. “Three Thousand Years of Longing” will star Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, and its story — largely kept secret as of this writing — will involve a meeting between a scholar and a djinn....

We Need To Talk About Esther Dark Castle Entertainment As the “Hunger Games” actress grew and honed her craft, directors trusted her to hold the frame and gave her more creative leeway, which was paid forward in a tag-team effort with Furhman’s hired doubles for “Orphan: First Kill.” The adult Furhman is taking the unusual step of returning to play the child version of her character in this upcoming prequel, and she told us about the challenges of stepping back into that part:...

It Took A Stroke Of Luck For Denzel Washington To Star In Philadelphia TriStar Productions By Christian Gainey/April 1, 2022 11:43 am EST “Philadelphia” isn’t the kind of movie you put on if you want to giggle and escape from the real world. It’s a reality punch right in the kisser, and Denzel Washington delivers the knockout blow. Between 1981 and 1990, AIDS took the lives of 100,777 people. These tragedies are compounded by the fact that, for a while, AIDS also robbed our society of love, understanding, and compassion....

Jared Leto Was Never The Same After Requiem For A Dream Artisan Entertainment By Natalia Keogan/March 21, 2022 5:56 pm EST If there happened to be a general consensus regarding who holds the title of “most annoying living method actor,” chances are Jared Leto would be unanimously voted as victor. The actor became particularly well-known for his ultra-immersive antics while filming 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” which included gifting co-star Margot Robbie a live rat and doling out used condoms as a cast-wide wrap present....

Morning: Benedict Cumberbatch And Laura Dern To Star In Futuristic Sci-Fi Movie From The Director Of Assassin’s Creed Marvel Studios By Debopriyaa Dutta/Jan. 31, 2022 10:09 am EST This upcoming project is a strong contender for the virtual European Film Market (EFM): Benedict Cumberbatch and Laura Dern have joined the futuristic sci-fi film, “Morning,” which boasts big-league actors alongside a solid dystopian storyline. According to Variety, “Assassins Creed” director Justin Kurzel will be helming this project, which is set to be launched by film distributor HanWay....

New Masters Of The Universe Live-Action Movie Casts Its He-Man, Moves To Netflix Mattel By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 28, 2022 3:01 pm EST The “Masters of the Universe” live action film has a new home and a new lead. We’ve learned via press release that the movie, which was previously in development at Sony, has moved to Netflix. There, it’ll become the most recent production sourced from a Mattel property, alongside two other He-Man related series that have recently aired....

Only Murders In The Building Season 2 Begins With An Intriguing And Hilarious Two-Part Premiere Hulu By Josh Spiegel/June 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST Hello, fellow Arconiacs! I hope you’re all as excited as I am for the return of “Only Murders in the Building,” the Hulu crime comedy series bringing together the comic triangle of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. I’ll be your guide through the second season of the show about a trio of true-crime-podcast fans who become true-crime-podcasters....

Our Flag Means Death: Taika Waititi & David Jenkins Say The Show’s Future Is Still Uncertain HBO Max By Danielle Ryan/April 16, 2022 1:55 pm EST Despite the fact that “Our Flag Means Death” is the most in-demand new streaming series and has inspired copious amounts of incredible fan art from impassioned supporters, the future of the show is still up in the air. The first season left a lot of loose ends and a bit of a cliffhanger, so not knowing if HBO will greenlight season 2 has been more torturous than scrubbing the deck with Izzy Hands....

Pierce Brosnan Was Channeling Two Previous Bonds For His GoldenEye Performance MGM/UA Distribution Co. By Ryan Leston/June 26, 2022 12:48 pm EST The name’s Bond. James Bond. And for those who grew up in the ’90s, Pierce Brosnan is the James Bond of our generation. “GoldenEye” saw Pierce Brosnan step into the role, which proved a far cry from Timothy Dalton’s quintessentially ’80s secret agent. The quiff, the ’80s soundtrack, and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante were a thing of the past....

Ridley Scott Carefully Avoided Answering Blade Runner’s Biggest Replicant Question Warner Bros. By Steven Ward/May 16, 2022 11:00 am EST In the decades after it was released, “Blade Runner” was dissected by fans and critics alike. People poured over its grim vision of the future, enraptured by the sci-fi glimpse it gave of a 2019 Los Angeles that was unlike anything anyone had ever seen. But it wasn’t just the film’s aesthetic atmospherics that had people enthralled....

Ted Lasso Season 3 Recruits For All Mankind Actress Jodi Balfour Apple TV+ By Kaylee Dugan/April 13, 2022 10:24 pm EST Sneaks and peaks of the third season of “Ted Lasso” have been rolling in and they’re making me wish it was available to watch right now. Like immediately. Like I would prefer to stop writing this story and start watching TV. Unfortunately for me, my wants and wishes aren’t automatically converted into reality, but still, the media train is picking up, which means it shouldn’t be too long before we’re all back on Richmond’s pitch, eating cookies and seeking multiple different kinds of revenge....

The ‘Bane’ Of Tony Dalton’s Existence Became His Greatest Asset On Better Call Saul AMC By Jeremy Mathai/May 20, 2022 5:23 pm EST Not a single person could’ve ever predicted what would be in store for all of us — viewers, writers, and even actors alike — when Saul Goodman name-dropped a mysterious and unseen “Lalo” in sheer panic during his very first appearance in season 2 of “Breaking Bad.” Although it would take years for the throwaway line to end up producing fruit in the spinoff series/prequel “Better Call Saul,” creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould clearly set a high creative bar for themselves to expand on that moment — and eventually exceeded their own high standards....

The Batman Box Office Is Tracking For An $80 Million-Plus Opening Weekend Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Feb. 10, 2022 5:31 pm EST It may be a little hard to believe but we are mere weeks away from director Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” hitting theaters. This movie has literally been years in the making and we’ve been waiting a long time to see Robert Pattinson take up the mantle as our new extra emo Bruce Wayne....

TV, Interrupted: Hannibal’s Cancellation Still Has Fans In A Chokehold 7 Years Later NBC By Natalia Keogan/May 1, 2022 1:47 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) If you mention “Hannibal” to the right person, a very specific reaction is all but guaranteed. It can typically be reduced to a wide-eyed desperation, a dual expression of ecstatic recognition and dejected sadness — sometimes, there’s even actual foaming at the mouth....

Windfall Trailer: Jason Segel Robs Emily In Paris In A Dark Comedy That’s Somehow Not An A24 Film Netflix By Anya Stanley/Feb. 15, 2022 4:03 pm EST “Windfall” promises the sort of pandemic-borne storytelling that audiences want to see. Rather than the masks and contagions and the contact spread montages, the story, written by Justin Lader and Andrew Kevin Walker based on a story by star Jason Segel, director Charlie McDowell, Walker, and Lader, opts to translate the claustrophobic feeling of mandatory isolation into a home invasion riff with a simple, similar concept in the horror genre: a couple is compelled to stay inside their home by an uninvited guest....

Party animals Marvel Studios According to Deadline, production is currently underway on Serkis’ adaptation of the landmark Orwellian novella about farm animals that is actually an indictment of Stalinism and other freedom-crushing regimes. Filming is taking place at Cinesite, which is currently celebrating 30 years as a premier animation and VFX studio. The report notes that Nicholas Stoller of “Storks” and “Captain Underpants” is writing the screenplay. It also seems that Reeves has moved on from the project, but Adam Nagle, Dave Rosenbaum, and Imaginarium’s Jonathan Cavendish (who previously worked with Serkis on “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle”) are now on board to produce....

Amy Adams’ Nightbitch Has Almost The Exact Same Premise As A 2017 Indie Movie Dark Sky Films By BJ Colangelo/June 28, 2022 8:41 am EST Fans of both horror comedies and Amy Adams have been buzzing around her upcoming performance in “Nightbitch,” the Marielle Heller-directed feature based on Rachel Yoder’s book of the same name. If Amy Adams doing a horror comedy wasn’t enough to generate a whole mess of interest, the evocative title and compelling premise is sure to do the trick....

Bill Hader Has The Toughest Time Writing One Particular Character In Barry HBO By Shae Sennett/May 27, 2022 7:12 pm EST Bill Hader is no doubt one of the greatest living comedy writers. He’s been in the writers room of legendary long-running series like “South Park” and “Saturday Night Live,” and he co-created the hilarious satirical show “Documentary Now!” with fellow “SNL” alum Fred Armisen. His foray into a tonally ironic criminal thriller series, “Barry,” has been met with rave reviews....

Fire Island Trailer: Bowen Yang Stars In A Silly Yet Heartfelt LGBTQ Rom-Com - And It’s About Time Searchlight Pictures By Lex Briscuso/April 25, 2022 1:09 pm EST It’s high time we get some solid mainstream LGBTQ rom-coms in rotation on the regular in Hollywood, wouldn’t you say? Searchlight Pictures is clearly interested in leading that charge with the release of the first trailer for their upcoming film “Fire Island.”...

Here’s How Stranger Things 4 Decided To Use Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/June 1, 2022 5:09 pm EST As much as “Stranger Things” thrives on mixing and matching elements of nostalgic pop culture for those who grew up on them in the 1980s and ’90s, the Duffer Brothers’ series also serves as a gateway for “the youths” to learn about these things for the first time....