The Funimation streaming service will cease operations on April 2, nearly three years after it and Crunchyroll were acquired by Sony Entertainment. And beginning on January 28, 2025 the price of Crunchyroll will nearly double—from $54.95 a year to $99.99. In an official announcement this week, Funimation told its subscribers, “Rest assured, this transition will…
@The Courtesy of IFC Films Dario Argento Panico is a documentary about the legendary Italian director of horror and slasher films who has been a master of the horror/slasher genre for half a century. Now in his eighty-fourth year, Dario Argento has always preferred to write his scripts in hotel rooms, which here provide a familiar…
@Courtesy of American Zoetrope Though no official announcement has been made, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is reportedly going to make its debut at Cannes this year. And the 84-year-old director has just shared an Instagram image depicting a scene from his elaborate passion project. Coppola began work on the script for Megalopolis some forty…
@Photo by Scott Garfield – © Sony Pictures Entertainment Universal Pictures has announced that filmmaker David Leitch is being considered for the job of directing the next Jurassic World installment, which is scheduled for release on July 2, 2025. An article in The Hollywood Reporter also noted that David Koepp would be writing the script. Koepp…
© 2003 – Paramount Pictures All Rights Reserved Francis ford Coppola’s 1974 film The Conversation is being revived as a television series to be written and directed by J.C. Chandor. The remake of the iconic film is being developed by Paramount via the MRC studio, which has optioned the TV rights from the Coppola estate. Chandor…
© 2015 – Well Go USA Martial-arts superstar Donnie Yen will be starring in a new feature-film adaptation of Kung Fu, which was an acclaimed series on ABC-TV in 1972. The upcoming film is being produced by 87North and Universal Pictures. Kung Fu had reappeared as a television series in 2021 but was cancelled after its…
Amazon MGM Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the new documentary I Am Celine Dion, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor. It’s being produced by Sony Music Vision, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Canada and Vermilion Films. According to an announcement from the studios, “This intimate exploration takes viewers on a journey inside Celine’s…
Located on the Ohio River just across from West Virginia, the village of Pomeroy (pop. 1,673) was a prosperous industrial town in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By 1870, Pomeroy had 5,000 residents who worked in a wide variety of industries including coal mines. steel mills, machine shops, a brewery, an organ factory, a…
After a hiatus of eight years, Derek Cianfrance is finally ready to direct a new film, declares Jeff Sneider in his insneider newsletter. Titled Roofman, it’s based on the true but quirky story of Jeffrey Manchester, an oddball serial robber who broke into more than 60 McDonald’s outlets around the country. The brazen franchise-filcher carried…
©Amazon, Foe, Paul Mescal Irish-born actor Paul Mescal will play the role of William Shakespeare in Chlóe Zhao’s upcoming film adaptation of Hamnet, the 2020 novel by Maggie O’Farrell. The yet-unnamed film will also star Jessie Buckley in the role of Agnes Shakespeare (aka Ann Hathaway), the wife of the celebrated dramatist. Buckley is noted…
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