The upcoming Marvel sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is expected to bring an end to the tenure of the original team. And filming the follow-up has now been described as a “sweet departure” by returning star Zoe Saldaña. Speaking with EW, Saldaña teased that the end is nigh regarding her character Gamora and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Gamora has had a more dramatic journey in the MCU than most....
The late Harold Ramis was not able to physically be a part of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but his family was there every step of the way. Along with portraying Egon in the original Ghostbusters movies, Ramis served as a writer and was instrumental in crafting the films. He had been hoping to get Ghostbusters 3 made for years before his death in 2014. One reboot later, Sony accepted Jason Reitman’s pitch to develop another Ghostbusters film that serves as a sequel to the first two installments of the series....
HBO is gearing up for a biopic on Doctor Jack Kevorkian. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie’s book Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia will serve as a blueprint for the screenplay. The film will shed light on Kevorkian’s controversial methods and subsequent action involving physician-assisted suicide, which led to his eight-year imprisonment in Michigan. Adam Mazer is writing the script....
MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY 6 Once Were Warriors (1994) Fine Line Features This New Zealand 1994 drama movie directed by Lee Tamahori (who later went on to direct 007 Die Another Day) is based on the 1990 novel of the same name. Definitely not an easy watch, but an important one, Once Were Warriors is an exercise in bleakness and brutality. The film follows the story of the Hekes, an urban MÄori family, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake....
You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas, you’ve just crossed over into… a MovieWeb article about The Twilight Zone. If you’re reading this article, you’ve probably found yourself at one time or another sitting in a dark room, alit only by the flicker of the television screen as eerie music crackles through your speakers and one of TV legend Rod Sterling’s iconic introductions begins....
Most of us can name this opening song to the Broadway musical Rent. However, less of us probably know the struggle of Jonathon Larson, playwright and composer of the brilliant smash hit. Netflix’s Tick Tick Boom (often stylized as tick, tick…BOOM!) debuted in November 2021 and explores the life, career, and hardships of the talented artist behind one of the most popular and beloved Broadway musicals. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes...
It’s a testament to the longevity of Mean Girls that it continues to be relevant to the struggles and experiences of young people navigating the teenage world of high school. The film follows Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan, in one of her best teen movies of all time) as she moves from Africa to the U.S. and quickly has to adapt to the difficult social dynamics and politics of American schools. Cady finds her way into the popular clique of the school headed by Regina George (Rachel McAdams), which is initially an experiment, but she soon becomes caught up in the social ladder of her new school....
Life and death become almost trivial matters in a war. Corpses, injuries, disease, burials, recommendation letters, survival, the ones waiting back home, yes, it’s been portrayed countlessly, but what is the meaning of all this in the context of a such a struggle? When soldiers are caught between living and dying in the midst of combat and decay, what is all the soul-searching for? Is there something more than this, this bloodshed and dirt?...
In 1966, one of the worst crimes in American history at the time occurred at the University of Texas. The 2016 animated documentary Tower, directed and produced by Keith Maitland, was released 50 years after the August 1, 1966 incident, telling the stories of what happened and what people did to survive (and the 16 people who didn’t). It was one of the first modern mass shootings in a country which has only gotten worse in this respect, from Columbine to Las Vegas to Parkland to Sandy Hook and many more....
After recently reviving Beavis and Butt-Head for Paramount+, there’s even more adult animation to come from Mike Judge. Per Deadline, it has just been announced that Judge will next swing on over to NBCUniversal’s Peacock to develop the animated series In the Know. The show, which Judge is teaming up with Silicon Valley star Zach Woods to create, has already been given a straight-to-series order on the streaming platform. This marks the first adult animated series for Peacock which enlisted one of the genre’s all-time greats in Judge to help get the ball rolling in that department....
As of press time, Warner Bros. has raked in a cool $753 million worldwide for the surreal heist thriller Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, according to Variety, and fittingly director Christopher Nolan has revealed videogame spinoff plans: It looks like an Inception game won’t surface for a few years. Meanwhile Christopher Nolan has his hands full with Batman 3. “[What] we are looking at doing is developing a videogame based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas that you can’t fit into a feature film,” Nolan said at a packed Rome press conference....
Is Jodie Whittaker already thinking of making her Doctor Who exit? That’s apparently on the table, if a new rumor is to be believed. Whittaker made history earlier this year when she debuted as the first ever female Doctor in the history of the long-running sci-fi series. But her historic run may be relatively short-lived as there appears to be a possibility that she will leave the show next year, alongside new showrunner Chris Chibnall....
As of 10 p.m. ET, James Cameron’s submarine Vertical Torpedo surfaced in the Pacific after diving nearly 7 miles below sea level. The director arrived at the bottom with equipment to collect data and deep sea specimens for scientific research. The director tweeted earlier today, showing his excitement about the challenge: James Cameron Tweets after dive He is the first human to reach the milestone, which began early Sunday morning just southwest of Guam in a 12-ton submarine headed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench....
The stars of this new spy show discuss the interesting relationship between their characters When spies get fired, they don’t get a letter from human resources, they get BURNED. Blacklisted spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) doesn’t plan to take being “burned” lying down. He wants to find out why he’s been terminated and by whom. Meanwhile, Westen puts his Special Ops training to use, helping those who the police can’t or won’t, in order to fund his ongoing personal investigation....
Jennifer Carpenter and the Dexter: New Blood team have revealed new details about her return in the upcoming Showtime revival series. During Showtime’s TCA presentation for the limited series on Tuesday, Carpenter personally confirmed her involvement while going on to offer specific details about how Deb Morgan factors into the new episodes. With this in mind, if you’d rather not know any specifics on her return in the new series, be warned that there are big SPOILERS ahead....
Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning comedian, actor and writer Jerry Seinfeld stays up late for a rare in-studio guest appearance alongside his former Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten on Talkshow with Spike Ferguson Saturday, Oct. 21 (Midnight-12:30 AM ET/PT) on FOX. Asked about Feresten’s new job as a talk show host, Seinfeld endorsed the move, saying: “He’s a really funny guy and he actually has a great thing with the audience....
The man behind everyone’s favorite ‘fat cat’ When I was growing up, there were two cartoon cats that caught my attention - Heathcliff and Garfield. But, if you asked who was my favorite, it has to be Garfield. Every time I’d go to the stores, I’d find the newest Garfield comic books - and not just because they were in these weird shaped books, but because they were simply funny....
Doctor Who is TV’s longest-running science fiction series in history. With a rich history reaching back to 1963, Doctor Who has left an indelible mark on television history. And now, it is getting ready to celebrate its 60th anniversary next year. As they did with the 50th anniversary, the BBC is planning a big event for the show’s 60th. Outgoing Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, recently teased her possible return for the 60th anniversary special even though she will have left the show, presumably, in the special episode prior to the 60th-anniversary episode....
Coming out on stage at Disney’s D23 Expo was bittersweet for actor John Stamos, who was present to help promote his Disney+ series Big Shot. Back in January, Stamos lost his longtime best pal and Full House co-star Bob Saget who passed away at the age of 65. Because Saget had always been there to celebrate every new step Stamos had taken with his career, Stamos was very much missing his friend at D23, and he took the time to pay tribute....
A few days ago, Michael B. Jordan revealed that part of the inspiration for the fights in Creed III came from anime. And it seems that the successful John Wick saga also has a strong base coming from popular Japanese cartoons. The influence of Japanese cinema on western action films is nothing new; In fact, it is quite common. However, the growth in popularity of anime, in particular, seems to be paying off in films and series that involve melee combat or heavy fighting, such as the Creed and John Wick franchises....
