The Dowager is back. And so is the rest of the cast. Focus Features has officially announced the greenlight for the Downton Abbey Movie. Creator Julian Fellowes has written the screenplay (he wrote every single episode during the popular series' entire six season run), all original cast members will return (well, those still around at [...]
Well hello, what have we here? Writer/director J.J. Abrams is bringing back everybody's favorite smooth double-crosser with a heroic streak: Lando Calrissian. The Hollywood Reporter broke the scoop that Billy Dee Williams will be reprising his most iconic character for Star Wars: Episode IX. This news, of course, comes on the heels of the recent [...]
In a surprise to absolutely no one, Lucasfilm has decided to put the A Star Wars Story anthology series on hold (as first reported by Collider.com). It was inevitable in the wake of the disastrous showing of Solo, which was a box office bomb by all Star Wars standards, even the maligned prequels. There are some [...]
UPDATED FINAL NUMBERS: Thanos may have been a tough foe, but the Force wasn't. This movie's got some serious stones. Avengers: Infinity War, the cliffhanging "beginning of the end" for the current Marvel Cinematic Universe storyline, hauled in $258 million at the North American box office over its opening three-day weekend, beating previous record holder [...]
Comic Player One? In an amazing coup for the Zack Snyder-crippled DCEU franchise that no one could've predicted, Warner Bros. announced that Steven Spielberg will direct the film adaptation of DC Comics' "Blackhawk". Energized by the experience of Ready Player One even more than he was probably expecting, Spielberg wants to jump back into more [...]
https://youtu.be/_hTTvO50QTs?t=4m25s A movie on a movie screen is an Oscar movie. A movie on a TV screen is an Emmy movie. Why is this so hard to understand, let alone accept? Much of Film Twitter and nerdom is up in arms over Spielberg's "controversial" statement that movies which play in theaters should be up [...]
On the day the Oscar nominations were announced back on January 23rd, I tweeted this: I'll take 8 for 9. But the one I missed was the big one: The Shape of Water. The year's nomination leader with 13 went on to win Best Picture of the Year at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. It [...]
Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube, there are 12 Oscar nominees you can stream right now. Most are in the Documentary Feature and Short categories. Not only would watching them give you a better gauge on some of the harder categories in your Oscar pool, but the Documentaries this year (feature length and shorts both) [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmYWk7kerU Here's the sequel to Terrence Malick's To the Wonder that we never knew we needed. Kind of. Thy Kingdom Come is a 43-minute short film premiering this March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Directed by Euguene Richards, a photojournalist for The New Yorker, it utilizes bonus footage that Malick [...]
In the last major guild ceremony before the Academy Awards on March 4, winners went according to the awards season script as the Writers Guild of America announced their choices for the best screenplays of 2017. Jordan Peele won Original Screenplay for his debut film Get Out, while legendary Brit filmmaker James Ivory won the Adapted [...]