And Just Like That Season 2 Is Heading To HBO Max HBO Max By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 22, 2022 3:44 pm EST The “Sex and the City” revival that some fans loved and others loved to hate is officially getting a second season. “And Just Like That” left the door open for more episodes with its first season finale, and now HBO Max has officially picked up the show for another go-round....
Are Streaming Services Going To Buy Movie Theaters? Here’s Why It Might Make Sense Shutterstock / Dean Drobot By Ryan Scott/Feb. 1, 2022 1:48 pm EST There’s a very strong chance that 2022 will see the global box office begin to recover even more substantially than in 2021. The process has been slow, as the pandemic has not abated in the way many had hoped. While the box office may be in for a relatively sizable recovery, we may never get back to pre-pandemic levels of moviegoing, and much of that has to do with the streaming takeover that has accelerated over the past couple of years....
Bill Murray’s Climactic Kingpin Scene Involved Over 1,000 People MGM/UA Distribution Company By Travis Yates/April 13, 2022 4:08 pm EST As is the story with many quirky Hollywood comedies, the 1996 bowling comedy “Kingpin” from Peter and Bobby Farrelly (collectively known as The Farrelly Brothers) was a box office bomb that developed a cult following. The film follows washed-up former bowling prodigy Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) who lost his hand shortly after his pro debut, and his rival, the eccentric, wild-haired Ernie “Big Ern” McCracken....
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Adds The Wackness Star Josh Peck Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 9, 2022 6:52 pm EST In a welcome casting decision that I doubt anyone could have anticipated, Christopher Nolan’s World War II drama “Oppenheimer” has added former child star and star of the short-lived “Turner and Hooch” reboot series, Josh Peck to the film. Peck has been brought on to play Kenneth Bainbridge, a scientist who historically worked on the Manhattan Project, the code name used for America, the United Kingdom, and Canada’s research and development undertaking during the second world war to produce the first nuclear weapons....
Everything We Know About The Great Season 3 So Far Hulu By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 20, 2022 5:03 pm EST Huzzah! “The Great” is coming back for season 3, which is great (sorry) news for all of us watching at home, but bad news for the young Catherine II and her efforts to bring the Enlightenment to Russia. Season 2 only doubled down on the dark absurdism of season 1, throwing everything from surprising pregnancy cravings to crocodiles and war-mongering enemies in Catherine’s path....
Fargo Season 5 Will Star Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, And Jennifer Jason Leigh The Weinstein Company By BJ Colangelo/June 6, 2022 6:56 pm EST I’m not sure what we did to deserve such incredible news, but it was Variety announced today that the fifth season return of the anthology series “Fargo” will include Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in starring roles. Creator Noah Hawley (“Bones,” “The Unusuals,” “Legion”) is once again returning with a new venture in Minnesota set in 2019 before the pandemic could lay waste to us all....
How Some Kind Of Wonderful Fixed The Problems Of Pretty In Pink Paramount Pictures By Jamie Gerber/April 25, 2022 9:00 am EST When it comes to John Hughes films, it can be difficult to pick a favorite. The late filmmaker was behind so many ’80s coming-of-age classics, not to mention the inception of certain franchises that are still spawning sequels. Hughes was incredibly prolific, specifically as a writer, and though his credits are far too numerous to list here, chances are you’ve both seen and loved at least one of his movies, whether you know it or not....
Ivan Reitman Rewrote The Rules Of Genre Cinema With Ghostbusters Columbia Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 14, 2022 10:00 am EST Ivan Reitman’s passing came as an unexpected blow on Super Bowl night, as news of it broke amid the flood of usual movie marketing in primetime commercials. Just months ago, the Alamo Drafthouse dedicated its new Manhattan location to Reitman, and he was seen making the promotional rounds in other places for the recent legacy sequel, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which he produced and which his son, Jason Reitman, directed....
Jim Carrey ‘Spearheaded’ The Story For The Upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Pre-Quill Comic Book Paramount Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 15, 2022 10:32 am EST The “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” movie is just around the corner, heightening anticipation for fans, who are craving more content revolving around the titular anthropomorphic blue hedgehog. Great news, “Sonic the Hedgehog” comic author Kiel Phegley recently announced the release date for the comic, which includes a “really weird and dope” story written by none other than Jim Carrey (via Collider)....
Jurassic World Dominion’s DeWanda Wise On Channeling Harrison Ford And Those Intense Stunts [Interview] Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 9, 2022 1:00 pm EST In “Jurassic World Dominion,” DeWanda Wise plays Kayla, a pilot on the wrong side of the law. However, a certain event might make her change her mind. The sequel begins with dinosaurs as a part of the larger world, no longer being confined to Isla Nublar. They run with herds of horses, they’re appearing in civilization, and the really scary ones are being traded on the black market....
Kevin Feige Knows He’s Taking A Huge Risk With Moon Knight Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/March 21, 2022 3:15 pm EST Marvel Studios has expanded its horizons since it started producing TV shows for Disney+. Whether it’s “WandaVision” teasing the multiverse ahead of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and changing its format with every single episode, or “Loki” bringing a trippy sci-fi story to the MCU, we’re seeing the idea of what a Marvel story is change before our very eyes....
Moon Knight Directors Benson And Moorhead Made A Meta Horror Gem You Should Check Out Rustic Films By Christian Gainey/April 26, 2022 12:41 pm EST “Moon Knight” is the story of a man (Oscar Isaac) suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. One of his personalities, Steven Grant, is that of a meek but intelligent man who works in the gift shop of a museum. The other, Marc Spector, is a total badass who spends his nights fighting on the side of an ancient Egyptian God, imbued with his powers and a protective suit...
Moon Knight’s Director Shares The Filmmaking Legends Who Influenced His Visual Style 20th Century Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 29, 2022 4:18 pm EST With Marvel’s “Moon Knight” just around the corner, /Film sat down for an interview with one of the directors behind the latest Disney+ series. Mohamed Diab spoke with us about what it was like to make the highly anticipated Oscar Isaac-led series, and along the way, he also revealed some of his major filmmaking influences....
Paddington In Peru: Everything We Know So Far StudioCanal By Mike Shutt/June 13, 2022 4:51 pm EST Our favorite kind and polite bear is coming back. To say that the “Paddington” films have become instant family film classics that warm our hearts, make us laugh, and truly teach us how to be better human beings to one another better than almost another film of their ilk. “Paddington 2,” in particular, has become a beacon for so many people, myself included....
Entertainment at the Expense of Someone’s Trauma Hulu There’s no surprise that Anderson is deeply uninterested in reliving a period in her life where she was taken advantage of at every turn — and in a small way, this series is good because it clues in people who may not otherwise fully know about that reality. However, there is an honest and warranted debate about whether or not the series continues to perpetuate the cycle Anderson found herself in in the ’90s: one of exploitation and a lack of autonomy over her personhood and sexual identity....
‘There will be a war’ BBC/Netflix Given how long the show has been going and how long it’s been since the last season hit (with no new episodes since before the pandemic in 2019), viewers might need to reorient themselves to the “Peaky Blinders” world a little before going into season 6. The BBC has a 13-minute recap of the first five seasons up, and suffice it to say, season 6 brings back at least one long-absent face and refers to plot points like the cursed sapphire from early in the series....
A tenacious princess saves the day 20th Century Studios John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and David Lipman are producing “Spellbound” for Skydance Animation. Though I wasn’t as big a fan of Steven Spielberg’s version of “West Side Story” as most people were, Zegler was absolutely a standout. Her voice is absolutely arresting, and it’s a natural fit for her to play the lead in an animated film about a princess....
Ron Perlman Recalls The Moment He Realized Guillermo Del Toro Was A Genius Ventana Films By Anya Stanley/Dec. 21, 2021 12:15 pm EST “Nightmare Alley” isn’t the first time that filmmaker Guillermo del Toro cast Ron Perlman (who also figured into del Toro’s “Blade II,” the “Hellboy” films, and “Pacific Rim”) in a strongman role. Back in 1993, the writer-director was working on his debut feature film “Cronos,” a horror-fantasy and a stellar, moody take on the vampire subgenre....
Squid Game Star Jung Ho-Yeon Says The Show Is Really About Love Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 25, 2022 11:53 am EST There’s more to “Squid Game” than its anti-capitalist discourse, according to Jung Ho-yeon, who played Player 067 (who went on to become one of the three finalists in the game’s 2021 edition). “Squid Game” quickly became a global phenomenon following its Netflix premiere last year, and one of the many reasons why it resonated with audiences is, of course, the show’s solid social commentary and well-paced narrative....
The Avatar Love Scene We’re Still Thinking About By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 15, 2022 9:20 pm EST In 2009, James Cameron’s CGI epic “Avatar” was lauded as a monumental big-screen achievement. The film was heralded as a leap forward in motion capture technology, and it went on to make more money than any other movie in history. Among its many accolades, critics praised the film’s expansive world-building. But even in the film’s early days, when the whole world seemed to be watching it through rose-colored glasses, some viewers were already caught up on a couple of inexplicable aspects of the “Avatar” mythology....
