‘Mad Dogs’ Season 2 Won’t Happen, Despite Amazon Wanting More My favorite television show so far this year isShawn Ryan’s Amazon original seriesMad Dogs. And I’m not alone, as the series is loved by both critics and Amazon Prime users. But alas, we will not be getting a second season of Mad Dogsbecause Shawn Ryan is cursed. It’s not because the show didn’t perform well or because Amazon doesn’t want to makeMad DogsSeason 2....
‘My Little Pony’ Movie Heading Straight To Netflix Instead Of Playing In Theaters Heads up, bronies: the latestMy Little Ponymovie is no longer coming to theaters in the United States. The animated family film wasonce slatedto hit theaters onSeptember 24,2021, but it will now debut on Netflix instead. It’s unclear if the film will begin streaming on that same date, but the assumption is that it will still arrive on Netflix at some point this year....
‘Tenet’ Featurette: How “The Plan” Came Together For Travis Scott To End The Movie With Style We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Christopher Nolan’s complex time inversion blockbusterTenetis finally leaving theaters and coming to4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVDjust in time for Christmas. To hype the forthcoming home video release, Warner Bros. Pictures released a featurette that showcases hip-hop artistTravis Scott’s original song “The Plan” and how it came to be in the movie....
‘The Favourite’ Trailer: Rachel Weisz And Emma Stone Fight For Olivia Colman’s Favor Rachel WeiszandEmma Stonemay be fighting forOlivia Colman’s favor inThe Favourite,but all three are fighting for a place in the upcoming Oscar race.Yorgos Lanthimos' highly anticipated new film received rave reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, pushing all three actresses to the forefront of the acting categories at the Oscars. And on the tail of the period piece’s buzzy festival debut, Fox Searchlight has dropped the officialThe Favouritetrailer....
‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Trailer: Those Zany Pets Are Back For Seconds Are you ready for more goofy pet antics? Illumination Entertainment certainly hopes so, becauseThe Secret Life of Pets 2is coming next summer. The first movie became an animation juggernaut, pulling in over $875 million worldwide, but will the sequel fare as well? Check out the first trailer below, in whichPatton Oswaltreplaces original star Louis C.K. and leads a cast that includes returning membersJenny Slate, Kevin Hart, andEric Stonestreetand new additions likeTiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll, andPete Holmes....
‘The Strangers: Prey At Night’ Review: An Effective Sequel That Conveys The Triviality Of Terror The merit of most sequels is hard to evaluate without bringing up their predecessors — especially when it’sThe Strangers. The 2008 horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino that had all the makings of a rudimentary home invasion thriller ended up being a statement on the weaponization of idle behavior among seemingly innocuous young adults....
‘Westworld’ Season 2 Officially Announced As Showrunners Tease Future Developments We all saw this coming, but it’s always nice to finally have confirmation. HBO has confirmed thatWestworldwill return for a second season, as will the network’s other freshman show,DivorceandInsecure. However,Westworldfans may have to wait a little longer to get their next fix. While the big news here is thatWestworld,Jonathan NolanandLisa Joy’s ambitious science fiction series about a robot theme park, will get another season to solve its many mysteries, it’s clear exactly when the show is set to return....
‘Your Name’ Remake Taps ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Director Marc Webb To Helm Native American-Centric Story The English-languageYour Nameremake has officially landed a director.500 Days of SummerandThe Amazing Spider-MandirectorMarc Webbhas been tapped to helm the new version. Webb will be directing a reimagined version of the hit 2016 anime sci-fi/romance film, which will now center around a Native American woman and a young man from Chicago. Deadlinebroke the news that Webb has been, ahem, webbed in to direct theYour Nameremake, which will be penned by Oscar-nominatedArrivalscreenwriterEric Heisserer....
/Film Visits The Set Of Prince Of Persia - Part 1 It has been over a year since I boarded a plane to London to visit the Pinewood Studios set ofPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Disney’s big screen adaptation of the popular video game. It’s a one hour ride from our hotel near downtown London to Pinewood Studios. Prince of Persia has taken over the UK-based production studios, currently occupying eight out of ten of the sound-stages on the lot....
After ‘The Hobbit’ Peter Jackson Wants To Make Films In “The Heavenly Creatures Mode” What does one do after spending years in Middle-Earth? If you’rePeter Jackson, you remakeKing Kong, adaptThe Lovely Bones, and then gobackto Middle-Earth. (Even if the return trip was unplanned.) The Fellowship of the Ringbegan early pre-productiin in 1997 and really kicked into gear in 1999, which means that by the time the third and finalHobbitmovie is released in 2014, Peter Jackson will have spent a healthy chunk of the last seventeen years in or thinking about Middle-Earth....
An Alita: Battle Angel Sequel Is Still Possible, Says Director Robert Rodriguez Live-action adaptations of anime and manga properties continue to present a challenge for the U.S. film and TV industry, as shown most recently by Netflix’sabrupt cancellationof its live-action “Cowboy Bebop” series after a single season. Director Robert Rodriguez’s “Alita: Battle Angel” stands as the rare exception to that rule, having become a modest critical and box office hit upon its release in 2019....
Attention Industry Execs: We Still Want Vampire Content, Morbius Just Sucked (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) This year marks the 100th anniversary of “Nosferatu,” and here at /Film we’ve been celebrating the occasion with our ongoing “Year of the Vampire” series. Bloodsuckers have always been a favorite bedfellow for film fans, which is why so many of us have been excited for the upcoming flood of vampire projects....
Björk Is Unleashing Her True Form To Play A Witch In Robert Eggers' Viking Movie ‘The Northman’ Björkplaying a witch? What will they think of next? The musician and actress is known for her otherworldly persona, so it’s no surprise that she is set to play a witch inRobert Eggers' next film, which is not in fact titledThe Witch II. Björk will be joining the cast ofThe Northman, Eggers' Viking revenge movie featuring a hell of a star-studded cast includingNicole Kidman,Alexander Skarsgård,Anya Taylor-Joy,Bill SkarsgårdandWillem Dafoe....
