“Part of my brain was like, ‘Wow, I could die right now,’” Andre told USA Today. “Another part of my brain goes, ‘This is going to be great footage.’ I felt the movie needed a couple of death-defying scenes to give it real stakes. To make it feel raw and intense.” The knife incident resulted in Howery temporarily quitting “Bad Trip.” Andre explained: “He walked from the movie, we had to seduce him back....
Longtime “Fast” franchise helmed Lin abruptly announced his exit from the 10th film, “Fast X,” last week, mere days into the start of production. While he insisted the exit was amicable, a new report out of The Hollywood Reporter tells a different story. Allegedly, a “major disagreement” with lead star Diesel led Lin to throw in the towel on April 23. According to THR sources, Lin, Diesel, and two executives met to discuss Diesel’s new notes for the script....
Prior to Villeneuve’s anticipated take on Herbert’s novel, other attempts to adapt “Dune” for the screen mostly failed. Alejandro Jodorowsky famously tried to get a “Dune” movie off the ground in the 1970s but the project never made it past the development stage. David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation was a critical failure, one that remains a tragic experience for the director after his creative control was taken away by the studio....
Instead, the movie uses a complex assemblage of archival materials (including Zappa’s own home movies) to create a fascinating new window into the human behind the star. To that end, “Zappa” has much in common with “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” filmmaker Brett Morgen’s 2015 portrait of the ill-fated Nirvana frontman, which similarly uses a trove of personal recordings and artwork by Cobain to reveal a deeper side of him than the legend can provide....
The found footage project wasn’t a total bust — “Blair Witch” made a healthy $45 million compared to its $5 million budget — but it wasn’t the cash cow Lionsgate anticipated after the massive success of the original film. After its disappointing first weekend and mostly tepid reviews, Wingard and writer and frequent collaborator Simon Barrett took to Twitter to lament the film’s chilly reception, with some cheeky jabs at the weekend’s big winner, Clint Eastwood’s Tom Hanks-starring “Sully....
Styles is Tom, a gay police officer who hides his sexuality by dating schoolteacher Marion, played by “The Crown” breakout Corrin. Tom is also secretly linked to arts curator Patrick, but his marriage to Marion implodes both of his relationships. The film jumps between the 1950s and the 1990s, with Styles’ Tom later being played by Linus Roache and Marion now portrayed by Gina McKee, as the couple decide to take an ailing Patrick (Rupert Everett) in after he suffers a stroke....
“These titles will remain available in the library to allow viewers to make their own informed decisions about screening the work,” HBO said in a statement to The Wrap. HBO’s decision to continue streaming Allen’s films drew ire from many industry voices on social media, with Ernest Media Empire journalist Ernest Owens writing on Twitter, “White privilege is letting Woody Allen keep his films playing on HBO Max, while now running a documentary about his alleged sexual abuse....
In the five Broadcast categories, HBO film “Four Hours at the Capitol,” an inside look at the January 6th riot, led with three nominations: Broadcast Film, Broadcast Editing and Broadcast Cinematography. Other projects like the Disney+ docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back” and Showtime’s “We Need to Talk About Cosby” also received more than one nomination. Other announcements at the event include the annual Shorts List, which spotlights 10 of the year’s top documentary short films, and the recipient of the Legacy Award this year, Terry Zwigoff’s 1995 film “Crumb....
But it was all in the service of Rianda’s inventive debut about a dysfunctional family on a wacky road trip to save humanity from the robot apocalypse. In fact, because it emphasizes their weaknesses, you could call it his anti-“Incredibles.” “This is a very personal movie about my very weird family,” he told IndieWire during a recent interview. “And I wanted a movie where the artists have a say and the best idea wins....
Conducted in early 2020 (prior to recent nationwide racial justice protests), at the center of the study is the documentary “Always in Season,” an award-winning 2019 documentary which follows the tragedy of Black teenager Lennon Lacy who, in August of 2014, was found hanging from a swing set in North Carolina. His suspicious death was ruled a suicide by local law enforcement, but Lennon’s family believed Lennon was lynched....
In directing the film, Soderbergh took a guerrilla approach. He eschewed the usual trove of lights and equipment, favoring natural lighting and a wheelchair for dolly shots. Much of the dialogue was unscripted, too — Streep has said that Soderbergh provided the actors with outlines of each scene and directed them to improvise their lines. The result is an organic, off-the-cuff feel, and much of the magic of “Let Them All Talk” lies in watching Streep, Wiest, Bergen, and Chan act naturally and follow their own guide as they navigate the story....
The new year is right around the corner, which means it’s a great time to consider upgrading your home theater for your 2022 movie viewing needs. Whether you have an actual home theater room (congratulations!) or it’s really just a corner of your one-room apartment, you can purchase a few key accessories that will make your home movie viewing process as cinematic as possible. Maybe not quite theatrical enough for Christopher Nolan, but we’re all doing our best here, okay?...
Your favorite coverall-wearing, masked murderer sets out on another gruesome stabbing spree in “Halloween Kills.” The latest installment to the slasher film franchise arrived in theaters and on Peacock on Friday. Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, and Anthony Michael Hall star in the horror movie directed by David Gordon Green. There’s nothing like a slasher flick to get you in the spirit of Halloween, and if you’re a fan of the previous “Halloween” movies, then you might just enjoy Laurie Strode’s (Curtis) fresh attempt at killing her lifelong tormentor....
“Christmas Vacation” is streaming on several online platforms, including HBO Max, AMC+, The Roku Channel, fuboTV, Philo, and Sling TV. It can also be rented or purchased on VOD platforms, including YouTube, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, and Redbox, for $3.99. In addition, AMC will air the film throughout the next few days at 8 or 10 p.m. ET, including on December 21, December 22, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day....
During the program’s first six months, recipients will be individually mentored through production by IF/Then staff and participate in virtual trainings with the other grantees, consisting of keynotes from industry leaders and edit consultations. When their rough cuts are ready, filmmakers will be invited to screen their works in progress to an invitation-only audience for feedback. The remainder of the program will see filmmakers work on their final cuts, receive festival and distribution strategy consultations, and guidance for creating publicity materials, along with legal support....
This is the story of a New York City block that’s on the brink of disappearing, and it naturally carries an extra charge now that its medium is as delicate as its message. Then again, the threat of commercialized self-erasure has been cooked into Miranda’s anti-gentrification lament since he wrote the first drafts of it as an undergrad at Wesleyan. A full-throated celebration of the diverse Latinx community that’s been the lifeblood of Washington Heights since the white flight of the 1960s, “In the Heights” paved the way for “Hamilton” by transposing hip-hop, salsa, merengue, and other decidedly non-white sounds into a cadence that would appeal to Broadway audiences....
At this year’s Sundance, female filmmakers aren’t in short supply: 50 percent were directed by one or more women (after years of getting close, this year’s Sundance will be the first to unfold with gender parity behind the camera). Their projects include some of the hottest at the festival, including Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” Robin Wright’s “Land,” Sian Heder’s “CODA,” Nanfu Wang’s “In the Same Breath,” and Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come....
Earlier, August 11: Instagram has issued an apology for temporarily banning the new poster for Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.” The poster was released earlier this week and features the provocative image of a woman’s lactating nipple. The poster was removed from Facebook because of the nudity on display. The poster’s Spanish designer Javier Jaén issued a complaint over censorship. According to The Associated Press, Instagram parent company Facebook then backtracked on its decision and returned the poster to the social media platform....
As originally reported by Deadline, the film will be a biopic depicting how JFK became the 35th president of the United States, after growing up desperate to prove himself in his politically powerful family —his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was a successful businessman and a leading member of the Democratic Party. The film will particularly focus on Kennedy’s time in World War II, where he served as a commander of a patrol boat that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943....
The taping for Season 38 took place on Thursday, kicking off with a ceremony prior to honor Trebek and featuring Jennings and fellow former contestant Buzzy Cohen. Per the Times: The story states that Sony attributed the former contestants’ relegation to the green room to coronavirus procedures, limiting the number of people in the room. But the anecdote doesn’t help Richards’ case as a potential host who brought tensions to the “Jeopardy!...
