“‘Fountainhead’ right now is on the back burner,” he told the Times. “I don’t know how that movie gets made, at least not right away.” As to why he thinks it’s not happening, Snyder believed the political climate still isn’t right for the feature film. “We need a less divided country and a little more liberal government to make that movie, so people don’t react to it in a certain way....
“Abbott Elementary,” which follows a group of teachers at an underfunded elementary school, has become a breakout sitcom for ABC. The series was the brainchild of creator and star Quinta Brunson, inspired by interactions with her own mother, who was a former teacher. It’s quickly grown a devout bevy of followers, many of whom see the series as highlighting the struggles teachers face every day. As series regular Tyler James Williams noted during an interview with IndieWire earlier this year, “[Teachers] choose this vocation knowing what comes with it, knowing how hard it is, and choosing to help raise your kids....
With so much still unknown about Angelyne and anyone outside LA understandably hard-pressed to know who she is, star Emmy Rossum and creator Nancy Oliver have their work cut out for them. “Angelyne” is a hot pink, rapid-fire series focused on the nature of identity and the way our memory informs who we are. With a fun, unique structure, and producer-star Rossum slathering herself in prosthetics and body-hugging costumes, “Angelyne” becomes a highly entertaining and heartfelt look at a Los Angeles icon....
If “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie, then “Antichrist” is a Halloween one. Lars von Trier’s haunting two-hander about a couple unraveling over the grief of their dead child transforms those horrible circumstances into a gripping, hellish descent replete with jump scares and sudden flashes of blood. It was “elevated horror” before that horrendous term was in vogue, an art movie engineered to immerse its audience in utter dread....
After getting kicked out of NBC’s school, “A.P. Bio” enlisted in a new program over at Peacock. The recently launched streaming service from NBCUniversal will be the exclusive home for Season 3 of the show when it launches September 3, and Peacock has released the first trailer which you can watch below. “A.P. Bio” follows Jack’s tenure as a high school teacher in Toledo, Ohio, after he’s forced out of his dream job at Harvard....
So when Idris Elba was looking to cast his onscreen daughter in Baltasar Kormákur’s new lion attack movie “Beast,” it was natural for him to consider his real life 20-year-old daughter. But in a recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club” (via Variety), he revealed that she “wasn’t right” for the part. And unsurprisingly, the decision caused a bit of family tension in the Elba household. “She wants to be an actress and she auditioned,” Elba said about his daughter....
One of Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) greatest strengths is pinpointing people’s relationship to money. It’s a psychological pressure point that he’s used to his advantage when dealing with people who have everything to lose. As someone who fashions himself a bit of a legal vigilante, Jimmy gives himself a steady dose of self-righteousness, justifying a little ethical murkiness if it separates someone from what they didn’t rightfully earn. So how better to illustrate that “angle called justice” than a reunion with Albuquerque’s quaintest, nine-figure fraudsters, Craig and Betsy Kettleman (Jeremy Shamos and Julie Ann Emery)?...
At this juncture of “Better Call Saul,” the biggest unanswered question might well be “What does this guy have left to live for?” And that’s not just true of Gene Takovic (Bob Odenkirk), firmly entrenched in his third distinct identity of the show’s run. That question has effectively become a virus spread to everyone now wrapped up in his monochrome Omaha existence. This mustachioed suburban crime savant may not have a proper answer, but as has been his fallback many a time before, money can be a pretty decent temporary substitute....
“Black Widow” took in $210 million so far via all platforms, but the return to Disney is approximately $135 million — estimate an average global share of 50 percent on theatrical revenues, 100 percent of PVOD revenue, and an unknown benefit from the value of Disney+ subscriptions. For theaters, that $210 million haul translated to about $75 million. “Black Widow” was never going to have the appeal of “The Avengers,” nor the breakout interest of “Black Panther....
In late 2021, Scott teased that a 10-episode “Blade Runner” series was in development and being shopped to streaming services, with a pilot script and series bible already completed. But today’s news marks the most information that fans have received about the show’s actual plot. After the critical success of “Blade Runner 2049,” the fact that the show will be a sequel should be welcome news to many fans....
Written and directed by Andrew Dominik, the film premieres September 23 on Netflix, with Ana de Armas starring as Norma Jeane Baker, who later uses the stage name of Monroe. “Blonde” is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel of the same name, which reimagined Monroe’s tragically short life, culminating in her death at age 36. While at the 21st Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, Oates confirmed that she has seen a final cut of the NC-17 rated film....
IndieWire can confirm that an official “CODA” musical is in the works, courtesy of Vendôme Pictures and Pathé partnering with Tony Award–winning Deaf West Theatre. “CODA,” which stands for Child of Deaf Adults, stars Emilia Jones as a teen trying to launch her singing career as the only hearing member of a deaf family. While Ruby’s life is centered on being an interpreter for her parents, played by Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur, plus working on their fishing boat with her brother (Daniel Durant), she dreams of attending a prestigious music school....
But whether you’re on a mountainside in the Himalayas or navigating a perilous stretch of metaphorical road with your partner, it always helps to have a guide to help navigate the darkest parts of the journey. Enter Dr. Orna Guralnik, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and center of Showtime’s “Couples Therapy,” now entering its second season. In Season 1 of the critically-acclaimed reality series, audiences got to know Guralnik as she aided four separate couples trying to mend their fractured relationships....
We can assume that far more watched movies at home, including multiple titles that in a non-COVID 19 world would either be playing in theaters now or would have already earlier this year. But we don’t know the actual numbers of these movies seen at home; only, in some cases, their relative order of popularity. At a time when the future of movie theaters is uncertain, knowing the specifics is critical to analyzing what is likely to happen strategically when the pandemic fades....
Given the story, it’s easy to imagine plenty others reacting the same way. The print edition had a simple headline: “Swinging on a Star.” But the online version puts its awe-inspiring question right up top: “Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?” “They think it’s a UFO — they genuinely believe it’s a UFO,” Tucker said. “And they call the UFO ‘Oumuamua,’ which is named from the Hawaiian language [where the object was first spotted]....
“It was so fun for me because all these years I’ve been playing a character who is struggling,” Olsen explained to Harper’s Bazaar UK. “Now, she has clarity for the first time — she knows exactly what she wants, and she doesn’t want to apologize for it.” Olsen continued, “I think there’s a womanliness that comes with that: a strength in feeling completely entitled.” However, Wanda’s morally ambiguous multiverse-jumping plan (which also, spoilers, has to do with sucking the life out of supernatural teen America Chavez, played by Xochitl Gomez) is the crux of the Sam Raimi-helmed sequel....
“I was terrified,” Mangini said when he learned creating the Ornithopter sound was his responsibility. “It’s an unknown method of transportation and it uses wings and we don’t even know what the propulsion is. We embarked on an extensive experimentation process of trying to find the individual elements. What could we make wings out of? What could we make propulsion sounds out of? We knew we didn’t want it to sound like a helicopter or anything we were familiar with terrestrially....
Soon, however, they are torn apart, though not in the way Georgetown-bound Riley expects. Riley’s parents don’t dig Chris (again, that motorcycle), and his panache for hauling off their just-graduated high schooler to college parties thrown by their friends (also recently graduated!) isn’t helping matters. (Note: None of the timing in the film makes sense, and is best viewed as an accidental meditation on the intractability of time in the spiritual realm....
Accompanying Jackson on this six-episode journey are British author/broadcaster Afua Hirsch and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici, who are there to put Jackson’s discoveries into context. Each episode follows three separate story lines: the quest for a sunken slave ship, a personal journey by Jackson and a historical investigation. “When the project was presented to me they told me that they identified these ships that were in the Atlantic that were ships that were taking enslaved people all the way to the New World and they sank,” Jackson said....
In an exclusive interview with IndieWire, Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development and “Falcon and Winter Soldier” executive producer Nate Moore said they started planning to run the series as a Drama fairly early on. “[The decision] came about sort of as the series was launching, but it was something we were thinking about even as we were making it — not because we think, ‘Oh my God, it’s so great,’ but because it does feel a bit more dramatic than some of our typical stuff,” Moore said....
