Welcome to the set of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. In a substantial series of tweets from @GreatCharlesSt, @Shelliweb, and @ChrisBevan89 on the London set, we've been gifted with a lot more looks at the upcoming dystopian sci-fi thriller about humanity's obsession with VR and technology in the near future. Below you'll find a series [...]
It was feast or famine at the Summer Box Office in 2016. Mostly famine. There’s a steep drop-off after the Top 4 movies that opened and played between May 1st and Labor Day, and even the last one in that top ranking is still deemed a mixed bag in terms of its success (in other [...]
And the critics are hailing it. (You can read my review here.) Fresh off its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Hacksaw Ridge - the World War II movie that marks Mel Gibson's return to the director's chair after a 10-year absence - is now seeing its first reviews land online. The first big one came from the legendary [...]
It's not a sequel. Or, more to the point, as director Mel Gibson puts it, "It's not The Passion 2". While promoting his upcoming World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson spoke with pastor Greg Laurie at the SoCal Harvest conference, held at Laurie's Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California. During the nearly 10-minute conversation [...]
Now we have a better idea of how some of these characters are going to look. To go along with the first teaser released earlier this year, two new official images from Disney's live action remake of their musical version of Beauty and the Beast have been released...but one isn't final. The picture of Lumière and Cogsworth (played [...]
Production on Steven Spielberg's dystopian sci-fi blockbuster Ready Player One is about to be in full swing, and so are the first of the (allegedly) unsanctioned image and video tweets. (See below) Based on the YA novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is the near-future reality of 2044 in which society is so immersed into the virtual reality [...]
News like this makes diehard Disney fans very fortunate souls. Further expanding his collaboration with Walt Disney Pictures - which currently includes writing songs for the upcoming Moana and co-starring in the sequel Mary Poppins Returns - the Hamilton creator phenom Lin-Manuel Miranda has signed on to be a key creative force in the live [...]
The closest thing we've had to the warmth, humor and charm of Nora Ephron are the films of Nancy Meyers. From the Father of the Bride movies to The Holiday, Something's Gotta Give, It's Complicated, and most recently The Intern (and all of their magnificent kitchens), Meyers films are the only films that still resemble the heart [...]
Now here's a collaboration nobody saw coming. Heroes to opposite sides of the political and cultural spectrum, yet each controversial in his own right, conservative Catholic Mel Gibson and liberal atheist Sean Penn are co-starring in the aptly titled Professor and the Madman - and this time, Gibson's not playing the crazy one. Set in the mid 1800s, the story dramatizes the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, an [...]
This dream cast just keeps getting more magical. Following her praised collaboration with director Rob Marshall in Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, Meryl Streep has signed on to reteam with the musical filmmaker in Disney's sequel Mary Poppins Returns. Joining Into The Woods cast mate Emily Blunt (who plays the titular magical [...]
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