As Entertainment Weekly reports: “Henwick had her own leap of faith to take…she was up for a role in Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ at the same time she was up for the role of Bugs. Both Disney and Warner Bros. knew about the other offer and gave her an ultimatum: She could audition for their movie only if she forfeited the competing project. Neither role was guaranteed....
The Democrat and former vice president, 77, prevailed over outgoing president Donald J. Trump in a squeaker of an electoral outcome that took four days beyond Election Day to be decided and yet resulted in Biden winning more votes than any presidential contender in history. The outcome took longer to be decided due to the overwhelming number of mail votes in this election, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic....
Like any queer, alternative, or outsider kid at the time, I knew and loved John Cameron Mitchell from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” but “Shortbus” felt like something completely different. His films are always hilarious, provocative, and deeply felt, but in “Shortbus” he weaves multiple compelling narratives (not an easy feat) into a gorgeous revery of a bohemian New York that was already slipping away. Set in the early aughts, the film has a timeless nostalgia about it, like a time capsule of some bygone era of sexual freedom that maybe everyone feels they just barely missed out on....
The infamous 2022 Oscars slap is officially the year’s most polarizing pop culture moment, but it seems the one opinion that we don’t need is O.J. Simpson’s. On the April 3 episode of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” host John Oliver mocked Simpson weighing in on Best Actor winner Will Smith attacking Oscars presenter Chris Rock during the March 27 ceremony. Smith later apologized for his “unacceptable and inexcusable” behavior and resigned from the Academy....
Seth Rogen, who began writing the screenplay with Evan Goldberg as a teenager, is fiercely opposed to the idea, saying, “Honestly, I don’t think it requires improvement or anything to be built upon it. I’m unbelievably proud of it. It really holds up — people still watch it, high school kids come up to me telling me that they watched it for the first time and how they loved it....
“We learn, we grow, we change,” Winslet told Variety. “I think we should all be allowed to say, ‘Look, I shouldn’t have done that,’ you know? And I think this is a huge, seismic time for all of us, where we’re aware of how many planes we take, for example, or things we have done in the past — or would go back and wish to do differently. And I just want to lead with a bit of integrity, and to just be up front and say, ‘You know what?...
“If someone doesn’t understand me or my experience, it shouldn’t be my place to have to internalize their misogyny or racism or all of the above,” Tran said of the online bullying. “Maybe they just don’t have the imagination to understand that there are different types of people living in the world.” Related ‘Solo’ Fans Shouldn’t Expect a Sequel: It’s Not a ‘Lucasfilm Priority,’ Says Ron Howard Rian Johnson Wanted to Give ‘The Last Jedi’ a ‘Hell of an Ending:’ ‘That’s What Makes a Movie a Movie’ Related The 225 Best Horror Movies of All Time The 15 Best Vampire Movies Ever Made The focus on Tran’s harassment exploded after she was spotted deleting her Instagram posts (the comment sections were filled with racist and sexist posts), but she told THR, “What’s interesting to me about working in this industry is that certain things become so public, even if you don’t really mean them to be, [like] the succession of events in which I left the internet for my own sanity....
Lamar’s latest single “The Heart Part 5” features the 13-time Grammy winner transforming into OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollett, Nipsey Hussle, Kobe Bryant, and Kanye West using deepfake technology from Parker and Stone’s Deep Voodoo studio under the Park County banner, as reported by Variety. “The Heart Part 5” is directed and executive-produced by Lamar and longtime collaborator Dave Free, comprising Lamar’s PGLang company, which inked a deal with the “South Park” creators’ company to craft a live-action feature film for Paramount Pictures....
The list of films was announced Wednesday by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Aside from “Iron Man,” other notable films on the list include the 1950 film version of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies,” the classic blaxploitation film “Super Fly,” Brian De Palma’s Stephen King adaptation “Carrie,” John Water’s “Hairspray,” Disney animated musical “The Little Mermaid,” Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal’s rom-com “When Harry Met Sally,” and teen comedy film “House Party....
In “Lightyear,” fearless Space Ranger Buzz (Chris Evans) strands his Star Command crew on an uncharted planet. The film contains 30 minutes of IMAX animation, thanks to Pixar developing a virtual IMAX camera system (including a large sensor equivalent to 65mm and spherical lenses) to shoot the sequences at full frame 1.43:1. Meanwhile, the rest of the movie was simultaneously shot in virtual anamorphic 2.39:1 by “center cropping” the image....
Soon after the movie premiered on HBO Max on June 10 and in theaters on June 11, some social media users and critics began to point out the dominance of light-skinned Latino actors featured throughout the movie, with critics observing that Black Latinx actors were primarily cast as background players in large-scale musical sequences. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the 2008 Broadway stage production on which Jon M....
Akira Kurosawa’s impact on modern cinema has been so complete that it can feel like semantics to distinguish the fistful of direct remakes that have been made of his films (e.g. “The Magnificent Seven,” “Last Man Standing”) from the endless list of movies that have been more broadly inspired by them (e.g. “Star Wars,” Johnnie To’s “Throw Down”). The worldwide reach of the Japanese auteur’s legacy — which continues to endure more than two decades after Kurosawa’s death, and a full nine years since Zack Snyder first threatened to set a version of “Seven Samurai” in a galaxy far, far away — is a testament to both the clarity of his storytelling and the internationality of his influences....
Truss’ exit was swift — she served as PM for 44 days, 10 of which were dedicated to public mourning for Queen Elizabeth II — but the decision was unsurprising to many, including Scottish satirist and writer Armando Iannucci, who appeared to respond to the news on Twitter by immediately posting a scene from his television series “The Thick of It.” — Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) October 20, 2022 “The Thick of It,” which began in 2005 and ran until 2012 (four series and two specials for a total of 23 episodes), was a brutal satire of the British government, focusing on the employees of the fictional Department of Social Affairs as they contend with constant media controversies and power plays....
As revealed by Collider, “Old” is inspired by the Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters graphic novel “Sandcastle.” Published in 2010 it’s an existential horror tale about mysterious and rapid aging occurring on a beach, where 13 people seem unable to leave. Shyamalan reportedly purchased the rights after he received “Sandcastle” as a Father’s Day gift. Here’s the “Sandcastle” synopsis, per Booklist: “By a tidal pool near a small beach on France’s Mediterranean coast, a North African–looking man glimpses a young woman stripping to swim....
At the top of the call was the announcement that 10 Marvel series’ will debut over the next few years. Several hours later they then showed this first footage from “Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” — Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020 And then a few minutes later, they revealed this first footage from “Loki,” starring Tom Hiddleston, who’d very much like you to sum this up with one word: “Glorious....
“No, I didn’t [shoot any scenes,]” Smith said. “We were close to me being in it and then it never quite happened. I think the thing they were thinking of me for, eventually it became obsolete and they didn’t need it, and so, I never got to be in ‘Star Wars,’ there we are.” Smith said he “could not possibly say” whether the role was Palpatine’s son, but it’s this tease that is getting the “Star Wars” fandom worked up: “But it was a pretty groovy thing, it was a really groovy part and concept....
Moss’ spry but often superficial film purports to explore what it’s like for an actual human being to run for the highest office in the land, and yet the competency and boy-scout-in-search-of-a-merit-badge resolve that (briefly) turned Buttigieg into an unexpectedly popular alternative to Donald Trump is also what renders him such an impenetrable subject for a documentary. Buttigieg isn’t robotic in the same way as so many politicians twice his age are — indeed, even the most intimate moments of this fully authorized but convincingly transparent film reaffirm the gee-whiz realness that he exuded on the campaign trail — but “what you see is what you get” is a much better incentive to vote for someone than it is to watch a movie about them....
The Emmy winner and four-time Oscar nominee revealed during the MoMA Contenders series panel that she takes acting classes to stay fresh between roles and retain the “technical” side of acting. “I take acting classes. It’s not like slating my name. It’s all technical,” the “Fabelmans” Academy Award contender said. “It’s about your body and intentions and super objections. Sometimes I think it’s really just a way to calm yourself and feel like when you do show up, you deserve to be there in some way....
In the early 1990s, an unassuming Belgian immigrant named Misha Defonseca went up to the bima of her Holliston, MA temple on Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — and told an incredible story that no one in the congregation had ever heard before. Trembling but defiant, Defonseca revealed that she was a survivor, herself. She said that she had been separated from her parents at seven years old and placed in the care of a Catholic family who might be able to keep her safe from the Nazis; she said they rechristened her “Monique,” a life-saving deception that nevertheless severed the young girl from her nascent sense of self just when she was first coming to understand what it meant to have one....
After Portman’s 1994 feature debut in “Léon: The Professional” was critically panned upon release, as well as her turn as Padmé Amidala in the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy and later “Thor: The Dark World,” the actress now points out that these are among her most beloved films. And her work on films like the “Star Wars” prequels prepared her when “Dark World” became widely reviled as one of the MCU’s worst movies....
