On our list of “actors who we’d like to have a beer with,”Michael Keatonis pretty close to the top. The legendary star not only undoubtedly has someinsanestories to tell about his time in the industry working with a multitude offamously eccentric names, but he also just seems like the kind of guy who you could sit down with at a dive bar and order the beer and shot special and have a good heart-to-heart....
After talking about wanting to direct a movie for over a decade, and getting to work with a diverse group of filmmakers that includesJudd Apatow,Martin Scorsese,Nicholas Stoller,Ricky Gervais,Bennett Miller,Evan Goldberg,Seth Rogen,JoelandEthan Coen, andGus Van Sant, I figuredJonah Hill’sdirectorial debut,Mid90s, was going to be something cool and unexpected. I was right. As you’veseen in the trailers, the film follows a 13-year-old (Sunny Suljic) over the course of a Los Angeles summer as he makes friends with a group of neighborhood skaters in, you guessed it, the middle of the 1990s....
A film likeMoney Monsterserves to remind me of the skill and craft that went into the far superiorThe Big Short. Both films use the financial crash as a springboard, but whereasThe Big Shortwants you to understand what happened and then use that understanding as your emotional investment,Money Monsterskips straight to the outrage. However, there aren’t any answers in outrage, and while directorJodie Fostergets some strong performances out of her excellent cast, her film is remarkably short on tension despite following a hostage crisis motivated by financial ruin....
Doctor WhoalumMatt Smithis nearing a deal to join Oscar winnerJared Letoin Sony’sMorbiusmovie, which is based on the Spider-Man villain of the same name. Daniel Espinosa(Safe House) will direct from a script byMatt SazamaandBurk Sharpless, who co-created the Netflix seriesLost in Space.Avi AradandMatt Tolmachare producing Morbius withLucas Foster, while Sony executivePalak Patelwill oversee the project for the studio. Production will begin in the next month or two, according to sources. In the latest expansion of theSpider-Manuniverse, Leto will play Morbius, a world-renowned biochemist dying of an unknown blood disease, who injects himself with vampire bat DNA in hopes of being cured....
Although I’m a fierce advocate for physical media (a fruitless attempt to find a digital copy ofAir Force Onethis past July cemented that for me), I do like the convenience of digital copies. It’s nice to buy a Blu-ray and then add the digital version to my Vudu account so that I can have it on my iPad for a plane ride or something. However, I also have movies I put into my iTunes in the past as well as films I got through Amazon Video....
Whatever questions or concerns fans may have aboutSolo: A Star Wars Story, and the bumpy road its taken to get to our screens, the one thing that looks like it will be an unassailable truth is thatDonald Glover’s Lando Calrissian is going to be the film’s true star. Glover has done a lot of really interesting things in his career, but if you’ve been watching his FX seriesAtlanta, you will know without a doubt that he is one of the most creative minds working today....
From filmmakerGregg Arakiand sex columnistKarley Sciortino, as well as executive producersSteven SoderberghandGreg Jacobs, the 10-episode, half-hour Starz comedy seriesNow Apocalypseis a surreal and wild coming-of-age story that follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends – Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Carly (Kelli Berglund) and Severine (Roxane Mesquida) – as they explore identity, sexuality and love in the often strange city of Los Angeles. As his premonitory dreams become more troubling and seemingly apocalyptic, Ulysses begins to wonder if something dark and dangerous is going on, or if the weed he’s been smoking is just making him hallucinate....
UPDATE 9 AM ET 03/25 : Hamdan Ballal’s co-director Yuval Abrahamreportedthat he was freed from Israeli custody and was returning home. Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the documentaryNo Other Landthat won Best Documentary Feature at theOscars, has been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers, according to his co-directorBasel Adraand other eyewitnesses at the scene. He was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank before being hauled away.Adra told CNNthat he had rushed to Ballal’s home in the village of Susya after he received a distressed phone call from his colleague, only to see Ballal and at least one other person escorted from the premises, with some settlers throwing stones while Israeli police and military fired at bystanders to keep them away....
If you’re still on the fence about the Oscar prospects ofBlack Panther, it’s time to see the light. The Venice, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals are about to get underway, at which point the key first phase of Oscar season begins. But Marvel Studios and Disney are also ready to pull the trigger on their Oscar campaign forBlack Pantherin earnest, and they’re aiming forallthat gold. After the film hit theaters in February to rave reviews and massive box office (it’s grossed a whopping $700 million domestic—more thanInfinity War), Disney hired veteran Oscar strategistCynthia Swartzto orchestrate a campaign....
Pacific Rim Uprisingpromises a pretty significant shakeup from the first film, bringing back a spare few original characters amongst a whole new generation of Jaeger pilots. But it’s not just the cast that’s getting a revamp, the next generation of Jaegers are getting some upgrades of their own. Directed bySteven S. DeKnight,Pacific Rim Uprisingpromises to unleash the new Jaeger squad - Gipsy Avenger, Bracer Phoenix, Saber Athena, Titan Redeemer and Guardian Bravo - and they’re showing off the upgraded weapons in a new teaser for the film....
We’re about a month away from the release ofSteven Spielberg’sReady Player One, an adaptation ofErnest Cline’s nostalgia-packed novel that centers on an ordinary kid who taps into extraordinary wealth and fame while playing a virtual reality game. In the book, that game and its promise of ultimate treasure was the sole thing that kept Wade Watts, a.k.a. Parzival, going as he had to use his knowledge of pop culture in order to solve increasingly complicated clues....
Originally debuting back in 1959,The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkleis now back in a big way thanks to DreamWorks Television Animation, DHX Media, and Jay Ward Productions, debuting this Friday on Amazon Prime Video. It’s a super-silly and expertly animated comedy series that’s sure to please returning fans as well as a whole new generation of audiences meeting Moose and Squirrel & Co. for the first time. I had a chance to chat withThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkleco-creator, writer, and executive producerScott Fellows(The Fairly OddParents,Big Time Rush) about bringing the classic cartoon into the modern era....
Netflix doesn’t really want you to go to the theater. They want you to stay home and watch Netflix. However, this has led to some conflict when it comes to some of the streaming service’s marquee film titles. Most theaters won’t waste their time with a day-and-date release (why use up one of your screens when the distributor is already cutting into your audience by also releasing the film on a streaming platform), but Netflix has been reluctant to give their movies a theatrical release before bringing them to streaming....
