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Barbie / Press Conference with Cast and Greta Gerwig

Photo by Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures – © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Barbie : To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Rating: PG-13 (Suggestive References|Brief Language) Genre: Comedy Original Language: English Director: Greta…

SAG Awards 2024 Nominations Announced

@Barbenheimer – Margot Robbie in Barbie and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer The nominations for the 2024 SAG Awards have been announced. Oppenheimer and Barbie are leading the film categories with four nods each, including in the top category of best cast. Succession, meanwhile, has received the most recognition in the television categories. Besides best cast, Oppenheimer…

American Fiction : Press Conference with Writer/Director Cord Jefferson, Actors Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Oritz, Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, and Sterling K. Brown

Synopsis : American Fiction is Cord Jefferson‘s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name…

AFI Fest Film Review – ‘American Fiction’ is a Smart and Savagely Entertaining Satire from Debut Director Cord Jefferson

Liberal society is in the process of reckoning with itself, realizing its shortcomings and the blindspots that have permeated culture for many years. While that’s led to a worthwhile spotlight on the previously underrepresented and a movement to showcase diversity, much of it has become little more than virtue signaling, where the aim of a…

Warner Bros. Discovery In Talks To License HBO Original Series To Netflix

In what has been described by Deadline as “a hugely surprising move,” Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly making some of its HBO archived titles available to its Netflix rival for North American streaming. Neither of the parties has yet commented publicly on the rumors. If true, it would be the first time in almost ten…

Review: Can Miles Morales Travel “Across the Spider-Verse”

One of the biggest shocks and surprises to the superhero film world was the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse in 2018. I’m not saying people were expecting it to fail before it came out, but fans didn’t seem to be ready for what many of them would consider the best comic book film, ever….

Barbie | Main Trailer : Finally Details Revealed and Wait, Aqua’s Music?

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer of “Barbie” that finally gives the idea of what audiences can expect to see director Greta Gerwig’s summer tentpole which detail was kept under the wrap until now. Gerwig’s upcoming film sets in Barbieland (where everyone is seemingly also named Barbie and Ken), Margot Robbie’s Barbie and Ryan…

Barbie | Teaser Trailer 2 : Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu

It was break the internet moment, when the entire world reacted to the “Barbie” teaser trailer in November, the first footage of Margot Robbie in the titular role was all that anyone could talk about, the teaser was only 75 seconds long, but it was bold, brilliant move to get the permission to use the reference to Stanley…

Tribeca Festival / Review – B.J. Novak Makes His Superbly Entertaining Directorial Debut with ‘Vengeance’

There’s a basic human instinct to seek revenge when someone is wronged. What constitutes being wronged is up for debate and will be interpreted differently by each person, but the natural response to any sort of offense will likely be first defined by a desire to get even and then a more rational evaluation of…

Ryan Gosling Made an Amazing Transformation as Ken in Upcoming ‘Barbie’ Movie!

Warner Bros. Pictures and Mattel Film have released a first photo of bleach blonde Ryan Gosling and his spray tan abs which makes it perfect Ken in the live-action film of “Barbie” which hits U.S. theaters on July 21st 2023. The image is the second official still pic from “Barbie” to be released following a…

Barbie and Ken Are Not Alone in the Cinematic Universe

Are Barbie and Ken alone in the cinematic universe? That’s the tantalizing question being floated around. “Little Women” helmer, Greta Gerwig is directing for Warner Brothers from a screenplay she co-wrote with her partner, Noah Baumbach. Though Margot Robbie will be playing the title role as previously announced, it’s now likely that she will share top billing with…