Bridgerton Season 2 Trailer: Let’s Play A Love Game Netflix By Shania Russell/March 9, 2022 10:41 am EST It’s official, fellow regency romance fanatics — a new social season is upon us! Prepare yourselves for another scorching enemies-to-lovers tale, this time with the extra special complication of a love triangle. That’s right, season 2 of “Bridgerton” dares to ask the question: how many more romance tropes can a single season contain?...
Cobra Kai Composers On The Joyous Process Of Working On The Show [Interview] Netflix By Ariel Fisher/March 2, 2022 5:24 pm EST I grew up watching the “Karate Kid” trilogy, so those movies have always held a special place in my heart. My dad used to quote Mr. Miyagi to me and my older brother, whether it was a smirking “wax on, wax off” or “beginner’s luck!” with a scoff, or something more profound like “Never put passion in front of principle — even if you win, you lose,” “No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher,” or “When you feel life out of focus, always return to basic of life — breathing....
Daily Podcast: Weekend Box Office, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings And Disney’s Hand-Drawn Animation Return? Lucasfilm By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2022 2:57 pm EST In The News: Also mentioned: Why did these movies not meet expectations? Is there a silver lining to any of this? Everything Everywhere All At Once And Lost City Were Bright Spots At The Weekend Box Office Why did these movies not meet expectations? Is there a silver lining to any of this?...
Disney’s 20th Century Studios Will Hardly Release Anything In Theaters, And That’s A Real Shame 20th Century Studios Disney provided the media world with one of its biggest shake-ups in years when it closed a deal to acquire most of Fox’s media assets back in 2019 for more than $71 billion. It was a gigantic deal poised to provide a seismic shift to the entertainment landscape, which was beginning to push heavily towards streaming, with Disney gearing up to launch Disney+ in order to compete with Netflix....
Does The Obi-Wan Kenobi Finale Effectively Cement The Jedi Master’s Certain Point Of View? Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/June 23, 2022 8:53 am EST “From a certain point of view” is a quote that redefined the character of Obi-Wan, the Jedi, and even Vader back in 1983. It showed that the Jedi are lying jerks, and that Obi-Wan is super sassy. But it also allowed George Lucas to do a bit of retconning in a cool way....
Quan and the continuum of Asian representation Lucasfilm In the Special Edition of “Return of the Jedi,” Dalyn Chew, an actress of Asian descent, did get screen time as one of the dancers in Jabba the Hutt’s palace. But she did not have any lines, and two years later, the first “Star Wars” prequel, “The Phantom Menace,” faced criticism for ethnic stereotypes. Kelly Marie Tran also weathered the brunt of some online hate from disgruntled fans (and/or Russian trolls) after “The Last Jedi,” but her character endures as part of a continuum of Asian representation in Hollywood, of which Quan and his pioneering work in “Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies” are also a part....
Here’s When You Can Watch The King’s Man At Home 20th Century Studios By Ryan Scott/Jan. 18, 2022 1:05 pm EST “The Kingsman” franchise continued last year with the long-awaited prequel, “The King’s Man,” with director Matthew Vaughn returning to tell us the tale of how the secret spy organization came to be. But for those who didn’t get to see it in theaters, fear not, as we now know when you will have the chance to see it from the comfort of home....
How Rob Zombie Got Roped Into Making Halloween II Dimension/Weinstein Company By Bill Bria/April 28, 2022 10:33 am EST Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II” is arguably the musician-turned-movie director’s best film to date. A singular entry among the already varied 12 existing movies in the “Halloween” franchise (soon to become 13 with the release of “Halloween Ends” this fall), “Halloween II” distills nearly everything great about Zombie’s work in the horror genre into one movie: haunting surrealism, uncompromising brutality, grime-soaked characters, crass humor, and raw emotion....
Is Venom Really Coming To The MCU? Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 17, 2021 2:28 pm EST It feels like we’ve been waiting an eternity, even if it’s only truly been since the summer of 2019, but “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is finally here. As expected, director Jon Watt’s third solo “Spider-Man” movie brought a whole lot to the table for Marvel fans to discuss, paving the way for conversations we’ll be having and things we’ll be dissecting for months — if not years — to come....
What a ’60s-set It series could look like Warner Bros. If we’re backtracking through the history of the evil clown-creature and his terror-based relationship with Derry, his previous appearance would have been around 1961. The teenaged Losers Club actually makes reference to this cycle when Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor) does research on the timeline of the supernatural force that’s hunting his friends. He mentions a club called The Black Spot that “was burned down years ago by that racist cult....
Lin-Manuel Miranda Explains Why They Didn’t Submit We Need To Talk About Bruno For Best Original Song At The Oscars Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 18, 2022 10:56 am EST For a guy we’re not supposed to be talking about, we sure seem unable to shut up about Bruno from “Encanto.” Well, to be fair, we can’t stop talking about his character song, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” The smash-hit single put Disney back on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in almost three decades, skyrocketed the soundtrack to the top of the Billboard Top 200, and sparked an inescapable trending sound on TikTok....
Men Star Paapa Essiedu On Haunting Jessie Buckley [Interview] A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2022 10:55 am EST Paapa Essiedu has one of the most difficult, and perhaps easiest jobs of Alex Garland’s surreal folk horror film “Men” — he barely appears in the film at all. But while Essiedu only had to show up to set for maybe a handful of days, the challenge lay in making an impact in his few key scenes so that his character, Harper’s (Jessie Buckley) former boyfriend James, would loom over the entire film....
Hometown Saints: The Network TV Mighty Ducks? Disney+ Having just reported on “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers,” my knee-jerk reaction to THR’s description of “Hometown Saints” is that it sounds very similar to that show. In the past, Ventimiglia has been spotted in real life at Anaheim Ducks hockey games. Take that for what you will. The first season of “Game Changers” also centered on a reluctant coach, Emilio Estevez’s Gordon Bombay, being drawn back into hockey life — in this case, with younger kids instead of a high school girls team....
Moon Knight Composer Hesham Nazih On Scoring The Show’s Most Beautiful Moments [Interview] Disney+ By Jack Giroux/May 16, 2022 5:14 pm EST Warning: spoilers ahead for “Moon Knight.” Adventure, fantasy, horror, and romance: Composer Hesham Nazih infuses the score for “Moon Knight” with a wide range of emotions. It all comes to an end in episode 6, “Gods and Monsters,” in which Nazih unleashes his biggest track yet (the propulsive “New Skillsets”) and introduces Scarlet Scarab with sounds of pure triumph....
Moon Knight Episode 6 Has A Deleted Scene The Director Really Wants Us To See Disney+ By Jenna Busch/May 6, 2022 4:23 pm EST Spoilers ahead for the final two episodes of “Moon Knight.” Whatever your thoughts on the Disney+ series “Moon Knight” — and I absolutely loved it — you have to admit that Oscar Isaac has been brilliant in it. Not only is he playing several characters, but he has to handle the complex emotions of two of those characters, and differentiate all three (keeping one of them under the radar), as he learns about his tragic past....
The major theme of the decade Disney / Pixar Many immediately chimed in with how baffling this complaint was. “Turning Red” is about the drama of puberty and the roller coaster of adolescent emotions, filtered through a fantasy lens of lycanthropy; a young girl becomes an eight-foot-tall red panda when her emotions are at a high ebb. Her emotional state is especially difficult to wrangle when she lives in a strict household, eschewing strong personal feelings over expected devotion to her household, certainly antithetical to one’s wrestling with her first brushes with teenage lust....
Ms. Marvel Early Buzz: Iman Vellani Soars As The MCU’s First Muslim Superhero Marvel Studios After well over a decade of consistent box office hits, it’s become popular to note that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is rapidly expanding the scope and scale of the franchise. The multiverse, cosmic threats, and crossovers galore have become common expectations, foisted upon the latest blockbusters and DIsney+ shows on the studio’s ever-moving assembly line. But even more importantly, the last few years have seen the still-predominantly straight, white, and male-dominated MCU open its doors to somewhat more inclusive pastures....
One Of Audition’s Most Disturbing Moments Wasn’t In The Script Omega Project By Witney Seibold/June 24, 2022 1:32 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the film “Audition.” Based on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami, Takashi Miike’s 1999 film “Audition” begins as a light, sweet, delightful romantic comedy about a widower named Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) who, as a means to look for a potential new girlfriend/wife, stages a fake acting audition....
Shang-Chi Star Simu Liu Joins Margot Robbie In Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie CBC Television By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 11, 2022 5:48 pm EST The Magical World of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” just keeps getting better and better. Earlier this week we learned America Ferrera received her invitation to the Dreamhouse (hopefully as Barbie’s BFF Teresa), but now the star of “Kim’s Convenience,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” and the face of FatCamera stock photos, Simu Liu is joining the Barbie party....
Sony Pictures Entertainment By Joshua Meyer/March 21, 2022 10:33 am EST Cineflix Rights acts as the show’s international distributor and is bringing it to MipTV’s 59th Spring International Television Market in Cannes, Frances, early next month, where it will continue to shop the series around for more global partners. Batalon serves as a co-executive producer on “Reginald the Vampire,” which hails from showrunner Harley Peyton. The first season will have episodes directed by Jeremiah Chechik, David Frazee, Lee Rose, and Siobhan Devine....
