When the show first premiered the emphasis on it being about and for Latinos was amped up, from music videos with Latino rappers being aired on USA and even having Argentinean soccer announcer Andres Cantor recapping the previous seasons in anticipation of the World Cup in 2018. “Queen of the South” tried its hardest to try to reclaim the narco world away from emphasizing that all Latinos are involved and are thus evil....
Navigating the comfort levels of each accuser when it came time to share their stories was key to Kantor and Twohey’s process. Five years later, as the story behind their investigation makes its way to the big screen in the form of Maria Schrader’s incendiary “She Said,” that same care and attention remains front and center. So does the continued search for the truth. Like the women who inspired her film, the German director’s first English-language feature is rooted in a desire for veracity, done with the kind of thoughtfulness that sets “She Said” a cut above....
With it, COVID Christmas No. 2 is a reasonably successful season. The incredible domestic 10-day total of $467 million (and reaching $1 billion worldwide) — as much as double expectations — does raise hopes that the end is in sight for gross-challenged exhibitors. That this comes in the face of the Omicron surge — with holiday plans disrupted, Broadway and other events shutting down, some sports postponed — has to be seen as a major boost for exhibitors’ viability....
Apple Original film “Spirited” stars Will Ferrell as the Ghost of Christmas Present who selects grumpy corporate executive Clint Briggs (Ryan Reynolds) as his newest project. However, Clint soon flips the script on the Christmas spirit and instead visits the spirit’s past, present, and future. Inspired by Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” the musical film also stars Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Patrick Page, Joe Tippett, Marlow Barkley, and Jen Tullock....
Kirk’s final line of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” sums up what most people think of “Star Trek.” That it’s about exploration, seeking out new life and new civilizations. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” the latest entry in Paramount+’s burgeoning constellation of series based on Gene Roddenberry’s beloved franchise, would seem to be a part of that. It’s right there in the title! But thankfully, it’s more than that too....
The Duffer Brothers announced new production company Upside Down Pictures, with a slew of projects in the works including the “Stranger Things” spinoff and an upcoming stage play adaptation of the series. According to The Duffer Brothers, Upside Down Pictures will “aim to create the kind of stories that inspired the Duffers growing up, stories that take place at that beautiful crossroads where the ordinary meets the extraordinary, where big spectacle co-exists with intimate character work, where heart wins out over cynicism....
The teaser trailer for “Succession” Season 4 shows the Roy siblings, played by Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck, and Sarah Snook, combining their respective corporate forces to take over conglomerate Waystar Royco. It’s a “rebel alliance,” as Ruck says in the trailer. The only issue, other than the Shakespearian coup? Shiv (Snook) has to confront her husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) over his siding with Logan. The first footage for the new season of the Emmy-winning HBO series showed Cox as Logan declaring that Waystar Royco is “killing the opposition....
After Will Smith assaulted presenter Rock on stage while Rock was announcing the Best Documentary category, Rock proceeded to list the award as going to “Ahmir Thompson and four white guys” for “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised,” despite the film only having four producers total: director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel, and David Dinerstein. Patel took to Twitter in a since-deleted thread to share his reaction to the evening....
More than most films, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” was made not only to be seen in theaters; it was shot in the 70mm and IMAX process, and produced to be seen on premium formats. IndieWire has compiled a list of 70mm and IMAX theaters playing “Tenet” in the United States. We also have confirmed 70mm print dates (that is, non-digital but projected on screen via film) among the initial dates. The list provided by IMAX shows 212 theaters in the U....
Other Warner Bros. release date changes include “The Matrix 4” moving from April 1, 2022 to December 22, 2021, “The Flash” jumping from June 2022 to November 2022, and “Shazam! 2” delaying from November 2022 to June 2023. The upcoming Christmas release for “Wonder Woman 1984” remains for now. “The Batman” stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Colin Farrell as the Penguin, Paul Dano as the Riddler, and Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon....
Listen to the full episode below, or read on for excerpts from our interview. Partial Transcript Below: Jackson and Olssen on creating “The Beatles: Get Back”: Olssen: Well, the first thing I ever heard [about the project], Peter, was that you sent me an email because you were in England and you had gone into the Apple offices and you had started watching it there on videotape in their conference room....
There has been plenty of buzz surrounding the latest additions to the show’s ever-evolving cast, with “The Great Gatsby” star Elizabeth Debicki taking over the role of Princess Diana for the show’s final seasons. Debicki spoke about the opportunity to play the coveted role and the high stakes that accompanied it. “That’s the amazing thing about playing these people at this time, because in the journey of ‘The Crown’ so far out of all the seasons, this is the most visual content we have of the Royal Family,” she told TUDUM....
“It’s gotta be a real story about Steven and why he picks the movies he does, but this is quite clear why he picked this one,” Kahn told IndieWire. He’s cut every Spielberg movie since 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” cultivating a strong, intuitive way of collaborating together that relies more on feeling than knowledge. “He is the brother I never had,” Spielberg once said. “We finish each other’s sentences and we finish each other’s sequences....
This alone is reason enough to see it, which audiences can on December 10 thanks to The Met Live in HD. For film lovers unsure about opera, let the reasonably priced ticket be a gateway to new experiences. Phelim McDermott’s creatively staged production and Tom Pye’s clever set and costume design should read beautifully onscreen, crafted as they are to be seen from afar. Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce leave only the meat of the story, choosing familiar lines of repetition as guiding refrains....
Unfortunately, like most of 2020, the global pandemic put a monkey wrench into everything, including the Emmy plans for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” which is up for a whopping 20 Primetime Emmy Awards. But like Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) herself, they’re adapting and working with what they got. This year’s Emmys campaign seeks to remind you just what makes “Mrs. Maisel” so marvelous — virtually. You can go on a journey deep into the world of 1950s New York and Miami, both heavily represented in Season 3 of the series, courtesy of the show’s beautiful new Emmy site....
“I read the script and took lots of images when I went to see him, and I hit the spot with my research,” Jackson said. “Joss loved my ideas about the Galanthi [the aliens that help humanity], which had never been seen before. I think that made him excited. We started to talk about this world with these people having extraordinary things happen to them. It wasn’t a straightforward process, ideas developed organically....
“So first of all, I just want you guys to know that [showrunner] Greg [Daniels] spoke with us about this,” Fischer said. “He said that he really wanted Jim’s proposal to Pam to be in the season premiere. He thought, number one — that would be unexpected. You usually end seasons with proposals. He said he also wanted to throw people off by having it in a very ordinary location....
If you’re not familiar with the work of Nicolaou, a cinephile favorite in New York whose fascinating story extends well beyond the realm of the movies, here’s the film’s official synopsis: “‘The Projectionist’ traces the life and livelihood of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas ‘Nick’ Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who moved to America as a young boy and began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan....
From the start, filmmaker James Gunn had a vision for “The Suicide Squad”: this thing had to be rated R. While Gunn is best known to most audiences for his successful Marvel franchise “Guardians of the Galaxy” — which, like all MCU films, are rated PG-13 — his early features like “Slither” and “Super” are decidedly R-rated outings. When Gunn moved over to Warner Bros. to write and direct one of the studio’s DCEU films after being fired (only to later be re-hired) by Disney, he was understandably looking for a bit of freedom....
“The limited series chronicles young Cora’s (Thuso Mbedu) journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.” Mbedu (“Is’thunzi”) stars in the series alongside Chase W. Dillon (“Little America”), Aaron Pierre (“Krypton)”, and Joel Edgerton....
