‘The World To Come’ Trailer: Katherine Waterston And Vanessa Kirby Have A Fiery Frontier Romance Another year, another doomed lesbian period romance. At least, that’s what we’re going to assume considering the track record of LGBTQ feature romances following 2019’sPortrait of a Lady on Fire, which appears to have kicked off a trend of lesbian romances set exclusively in the past, primarily featuring slim white women. But it is admittedly hard to resist a movie starring both acting heavyhittersKatherine WaterstonandVanessa Kirby....

Bill Hader Thinks Barry Might Lose Some Fans In Season 3 “Barry” returns with its third season this Sunday and althoughthe reviews are promising, it doesn’t seem like good times are in store for any of the show’s characters. Bill Hader’s Barry in particular will start the season in a particularly dark place, having just gone on a murder rampage that killed 25 people. And that’s before he has to deal with the fact that Cousineau (Henry Winkler) knows about the murder of his girlfriend....

Breaking News: The Muppets' Kermit And Miss Piggy Have Broken Up You may have gotten a sense of this if you sawthe 10 minute sizzle realforThe Muppetsnew ABC TV show, but Kermit the Frog confirmed it at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Kermit and Miss Piggy have indeed broken up. They are still working together on the series, and Kermit is producing Piggy’s upcoming late night talk show, so expect tensions to flare up....

David Cronenberg Sees Superhero Movies As “Mostly Boring;” Can Superhero Films Ever Mature As Horror Once Did? As I watchedDavid Cronenberg’s new filmCosmopolis, I thought a lot aboutThe Dark Knight Rises, and that led me to thinking abouteXistenZandThe Matrix. Those last two movies came out within weeks of each other in 1999, and whileThe Matrixwent on to be the mega-successful take on living in conjunction and conflict with machines, it waseXistenZthat really tried to dig deep into the ways in which our lives are being changed by interfacing with digital technology....

David Fincher On “The Best Movie Of The Year”, EPKs, And Shooting Harvard Accurately I want to highlight a couple quotes fromThe Social NetworkdirectorDavid Fincher, who did a great interview with my friend Quint from AICN. The first quote is about the value of being called “The Best Movie of the Year”, the second is about the dislike for movie studio produced EPK (electronic Press Kit) materials for home video releases, and lastly his efforts to shoot the film on Harvard property and how accuracy meant more to him than getting a cool shot....

Director Hires: Don Scardino For Steve Carell Comedy ‘Burt Wonderstone;’ Mary Harron To Direct ‘Wicked Lovely’ The comedyBurt Wonderstone, which is planning to starSteve Carellas a “traditional magic man who is dethroned by a hip younger illusionist and must then find a way to rediscover his love for magic,” has been kicking around for a few years.John Francis DaleyandJonathan Goldstein(Horrible Bosses) wrote the script, and the film has had a couple different directors attached....

Extended TV Spot For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Focuses On The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Daniel Craig’s Mikael Blomkvist may be the protagonist ofDavid Fincher’sThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but just as the title suggests, it’sRooney Maraas mysterious, tough-as-nails Lisbeth Salander who’s the real draw of the story. A new extended TV spot for the thriller wisely puts the computer hacker front and center, establishing her fierce badassery before Craig’s character comes along to pull her into the actual plot....

First Look: Animated ‘Batman: Year One,’ Plus Key Voice Cast Announced Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight Risesisn’t the only new Batman film in the works. Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation are continuing their string of animated DC films with a long-awaited animated version ofBatman: Year One, the seminal Batman origin story written byFrank Millerand drawn by the incomprableDavid Mazzucchelliin 1987. Now the core voice cast has been announced, which includesBryan Cranston,Ben McKenzie,Eliza DushkuandKatee Sackhoff....

First Look: David Spade Reprises Joe Dirt For ‘Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser’ David Spadehas posted a photo of him in costume for Crackle’sJoe DirtsequelJoe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Hit the jump to see the photo and find out more about the upcoming sequel Star David Spade posted the following photo oninstagramwith the caption “Day 1. Lets get this sh*t started! #imjoedirt #whatscrappenin”: ProducerAdam Sandlerposted the following photo of the Joe Dirt mullet and the script forJoe Dirt II: Beautiful Loseron his personalFacebook:...

George R.R. Martin’s ‘Wild Cards’ Series Moves To Peacock From Hulu Over two years ago, a multi-series adaptation ofGeorge R.R. Martin’s expansiveWild Cardsbook serieswas picked up by Hulu. The intention was to create an entire universe of shows based on the anthologies, mosaic novels, and stand-alone stories about various superheroes and villains, all written by a variety of authors and overseen by Martin. But now the series has hit a bit of a snag in development....

How ‘The Grinch’ Sent A Brilliant Make-Up Artist Into Therapy The make-up job for the live-action 2000 version ofHow the Grinch Stole Christmaswas notoriously arduous.Jim Carreycompared the eight-hour process to “being buried alive,” and the production nearly came to a screeching halt because of how much the actor hated the make-up. But what about the poor make-up artist on the other side of the brush? That would beKazuhiro Tsuji, the Academy Award-winning make-up artist behind acclaimed films likeMen in Black, Hellboy,and TheCurious Case of Benjamin Button....

Is Sam Raimi Really Going To Direct The ‘Poltergeist’ Remake? MGM, which is remaking movies left and right, wants to do a new version ofPoltergeist. We’ve known thatfor some time, and over the past year the story got interesting with news of theinvolvementof playwright andRabbit HolewriterDavid Lindsay-Abaireand then the addition ofSam Raimi. (The former of whom did work on Raimi’s laterSpider-Manefforts, and also on hisOz: The Great and Powerful.) Raimi’s role was quickly clarified as that ofproducer rather than director....

Jason Patric Joins The Losers Jason Patricis an actor I’d like to see work a lot more. He’s more choosy than most, and dismissive of a lot of mainstream fare. (Yeah, despite havingSpeed 2on the resume.) SoVariety’s report that he’s joined the cast ofThe Losers, directed bySylvain White, is pretty significant. His presence as the film’s bad guy just upped my interest in the project by a huge margin. Patric will play Max, “a CIA agent who has gone off the rails and sets up the title characters, a black ops team, to be killed....