What Harris is describing sounds more like the production of “1917 or “The Revenant” and less like a studio franchise film. The actor continued, “You’d film pages at a time in 30 minutes and then be done. You would think that a giant movie would be 100% storyboarded, animatics, and we’d be checking off shots. I think she lived that before three times over, and I would suspect that she wants to do things her own way now....
It’s that a growing number of artists and bands with spots on network talk shows are slowly figuring out a new form that exists somewhere between concert and music video. Of course, that’s a line that was pushed well before last spring. (Take Spike Jonze’s live-to-tape video for Karen O & Danger Mouse’s “Woman” or Travis Scott’s euphoric “goosebumps” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”) But what used to be a rare occurence has inched a lot closer towards the norm....
John Waters, for example, bristles at being called an “openly gay director.” In sharing this fact with Luca Guadagnino, whom he spoke to recently at the Provincetown Film Festival, the “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker concurred. “I don’t believe in openly anything,” Guadagnino said. There is no doubt that the man who introduced Divine to the world makes queer films, his work is both defines and defies the very label....
Announced in 2017, details about the highly anticipated multi-season show have been kept heavily under wraps. What we do know is that J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional locations of Númenor, the Misty Mountains, and the elf-capital of Lindon will appear in the series, and the show will take place in Tolkien’s Second Age era, a millennia before the events of “The Hobbit.” And now, IndieWire can officially announce the title of the series: “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power....
Eagle-eyed viewers might remember Rainsford from “Severance,” the final season premiere of TV’s “Mad Men,” starring as a lithe and slightly mischievous young woman modeling a fur coat for ad executive Don Draper, and looking like she has a secret. She’s also had appearances in “Mighty Fine” and “Ocean’s 8,” and has a role in the upcoming Freeform rom-com series “Love in the Time of Corona,” but where she’s really carved a space is as a singer/songwriter....
Over a decade after the movie became the stuff of comedy legend, the braintrust behind that adaptation has brought the vest-wearing, throat-ripping failsoldier back to TV, the place where he first started in the odd bygone days of January 2007. In its eight Peacock episodes, the “MacGruber” TV show may not have something quite as inspired or surprising as the sight of a charred husk of an SUV smoldering. But it does have MacGruber himself, Will Forte, in all his shrieking-at-the-sky glory....
After the “Kardashians” mogul donned two Monroe gowns for the 2022 Met Gala festivities, select costumes from Monroe’s film legacy were auctioned during a four-day “Hollywood Legends” event hosted by Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles. A sheer white gown worn by Monroe in the 1954 musical comedy “There’s No Business Like Show Business” marked the highest purchase out of the 1,700 items, fetching a bid of $218,750. A sequin leotard worn by Monroe in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” sold for $102,400 alongside Jane Russell’s matching costume from the 1953 movie....
While this American remake of the Hong Kong film “Infernal Affairs” seemed a natural fit for a sequel, earning just under $290 million at the global box office after its fall 2006 opening, that plan fell through. It’s known that scribe William Monahan (who earned a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the film) had an idea for a follow-up that didn’t play out. But Mark Wahlberg, in a recent interview with KFC Radio (via Esquire), gave a little more detail on what that pitch — and sequel — could’ve looked like....
“Farewell Bake Off!” Lucas said in a statement posted to Instagram. “It’s been a delicious experience and I can’t imagine a more fun way of spending my summers, but it’s become clear to me that I can’t present both ‘Fantasy Football League’ and ‘Bake Off’ alongside all my other projects. After three series and 51 episodes, I am cheerfully passing on the baguette on to someone else.” Best known for creating the BBC sketch comedy series “Little Britain,” Lucas joined the show as co-host to Noel Fielding for its 11th series, following the departure of Sandi Toksvig....
Neon will release the film in theaters later this year domestically ahead of a broadcast premiere on National Geographic in 172 countries. “I feel deeply honored that I had the opportunity to document — through our subjects over four terrifying months — the impact of this pandemic. It has forced us to question everything, the fragility of our lives, and the way we live,” Heineman said. “The film explores every aspect of the human condition — fear and courage, death and birth, and the inescapable weight of trauma, both the kind that is deeply held and also newly experienced....
The drama is centered on a Scottish woman who, after hearing a strange banging sound at daybreak, begins to experience a bizarre sensory syndrome while she’s traveling through the jungles of Colombia. Weerasethakul has remained comfortably outside of any studio system, making the films he wants to make, from the beautiful and beguiling queer love story “Tropical Malady” to the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning folk tale “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives....
The true story behind the Walt Disney character that became the signature symbol for a century-old conglomerate is told in the upcoming Disney+ documentary, “Mickey: The Story of a Mouse,” debuting November 18 on the streamer to celebrate Mickey’s birthday. “Marwencol” helmer Jeff Malmberg directs the documentary, which Oscar winner Morgan Neville (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”), Meghan Walsh, and Chris Shellen produce. “Mickey” centers on Mickey Mouse’s ongoing artistic and cultural significance while unpacking the controversies surrounding the nearly 100-year-old cartoon mouse....
Bonus Reason: You can’t skip lunch, guys. And you can’t miss this. 2. “Never Have I Ever” Season 2 (available Thursday, July 15) Isabella B. Vosmikova / Netflix Why Should I Watch? The feel-good hit of a feel-bad year, Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s 2020 teen comedy made a star out of Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and addicts out of its viewers. Devi’s high school love life proved to be as necessary a diversion mid-quarantine as it was a delightful one no matter when you caught up....
Deadline reported that Richard Jenkins will co-star as Dahmer’s father, Carl Franklin will direct the pilot, and Janet Mock will write and also direct other episodes. Production is scheduled to begin in January. The role of Dahmer has not been cast. Deadline reported that Murphy and the limited series’ other producers are enacting a nationwide search for an actor to play the role. Casting is underway for the lead female role of Glenda Cleveland, a neighbor of Dahmer’s who repeatedly and fruitlessly warned law enforcement about the serial killer....
For the National Association of Theater Owners, this is a long, dark drink of schadenfreude with a caffeine boost. Netflix, to a near-absurd degree, symbolized a nuclear threat to box office. However, this proves that while Netflix is a disruptor, it operates under the same laws of gravity that govern every other business. However, to put this in perspective: It’s a dire prospect, losing more than 2 million users in six months — but that would represent one percent of the Netflix user base....
He also carried his share of noisy Hollywood actioners, from “Con Air,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” and “The Rock” to “Snake Eyes” and “National Treasure.” Cage steps up with a strong script and director, so it’s welcome news that the 57-year-old veteran — who has struggled with spending beyond his means, forcing him to work for lucre in B movies like “Ghost Rider,” “The Lord of War,” and “The Wicker Man” — recently decided to change direction....
Jerrod Carmichael’s “On the Count of Three” isn’t super heavy on the kind of koan-like quips that have always lent his confrontational standup comedy its velvet punch, but this one — delivered in the opening minutes of his suicide-dark but violently sweet directorial debut — resonates loud enough to echo throughout the rest of the film: “When you’re a kid they tell you the worst thing in life is to be a quitter....
“Joe is a Black man in New York, and part of your time you go through what I call ‘authentic Black spaces,’ where you’re around other people like yourself,” Powers said. “The barbershop scene came from that, and a desire, quite honestly, to see Black hair. When giving notes on the scene about Joe getting a suit from his mom, I also mentioned that Joe needs to get a haircut....
This is not a complaint: As someone raised on the grief-adjacent “My Neighbor Totoro” (and comforted much later in life by the wisdom and beauty of a film like “Kubo and the Two Strings”), I know that steering children through their worst sadness is one of the most valuable things that a movie can do. It’s just to say that Netflix’s “Over the Moon” — the story of a modern Chinese girl who thinks that proving the existence of the moon goddess Chang’e will convince her widower dad not to re-marry and “forget” her mother — might have seemed more urgent if it hadn’t come on the heels of “Kubo,” “Coco,” “Onward,” or even “Wonder Park....
His last feature as a director was “She’s Funny That Way” in 2014, though the always-bespectacled filmmaker appeared in episodes of “Get Shorty” on television and recently in the film “Willie and Me.” He also appeared regularly on “The Sopranos” as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, therapist to Tony Soprano’s own psychologist, Dr. Melfi. Peter Bogdanovich’s vivid personal life made him as conspicuous as his movies, from a torrid affair with actress Cybill Shepherd, the model he discovered when he was making “The Last Picture Show,” that cost him his marriage to collaborator Polly Platt, to the 1980 murder of his girlfriend Dorothy Stratten, who starred in his comedy “They All Laughed....
