Taika Waititi may finally be bringing the long-awaited live-action Akira movie to a screen near you. The news was broken this week by Justin Kroll of Deadline, who tweeted that the project will still need to pass final approval protocols before it can go into production, however. But there seems to be reason for optimism…
Kim Kardashian will be joining the cast of FX’s American Horror Story, starring with Emma Roberts in the show’s upcoming twelfth season. As the series co-creator Ryan Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter this week: “Kim is among the biggest and brightest television stars in the world and we are thrilled to welcome her to the…
Sacre bleu! Aux armes, cineastes!Maïwenn, the French actor-director, is being sued by a magazine editor for allegedly assaulting him–in a Paris restaurant, no less. In March, Edwy Plenel, the editor of Mediapart magazine, complained to the gendarmes that on February 22, Maïwenn grabbed him by the hair and spat in his face while he was…
In the wake of this week’s release of the much-heralded The Super Mario Bros. Movie, folks are taking a look at the live-action 1993 film that preceded it. Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, Super Mario Bros. starred Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. The movie tanked at the box office—plumbers…
Though the first half hour of Brit McAdams’s Paint flows about as fast as maple syrup in January, it’s worth enduring the long, slow drip as the buckets of this sappy, laid-back film inexorably fill with sweetness. Perhaps “bittersweetness” is a more appropriate term, for Paint depicts—albeit with a muted color palette—the saga of one…
@Photo by Steve Schofield Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge may be directing the 26th movie in the James Bond franchise, according to published reports in the UK. According to The Mail, Waller-Bridge has been in “early discussions” with Barbara Broccoli, thee producer of the Bond franchise via her Eon Productions. Broccoli has reportedly called the 37-year-old…
Junji Ito’s Bloodsucking Darkness manga series is about to be developed into a live-action feature film, says Fangoria Studios. Jeff Howard, whose credits include Midnight Mass, Oculus, and The Haunting of Hill House, has been tapped to do the honors as scriptwriter. A director has not yet been selected for the film. Bloodsucking Darkness will…
Megan Thee Stallion is reportedly the star choice for Josh and Benny Safdie’s upcoming film, says Deadline. If the reports are accurate, Stallion would be cast in the lead female role, opposite Adam Sandler. Though few details about the Safdie brothers’ upcoming project are available, it will be released by Netflix, with filming expected to…
@Logan Lerhman Superman may be faster than a speeding bullet—but the casting process for Superman: Legacy is not. Despite social-media rumors that DC Studios chief James Gunn is “very close” to finding an actor to play the Man of Steel, Gunn himself doused the reports with a dash of kryptonite when he tweeted this week: “Not…
Photo by Andrew Cooper, SMPSP – © 2012 – The Weinstein Company Quentin Tarantino confirmed today that his upcoming film “The Movie Critic” will not be about Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker cinemaphile whose first book, I Lost It At the Movies, appeared in 1965. In a conversation with Cannes Film Festival director Theirry Fremaux,…
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