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“The path was always clear because the songs are so strong.” Netflix I wanted to start by asking you about your own Jonathan Larson origin stories and your connection to his work before the project. BIll Sherman: I definitely saw the original cast of “Rent.” I grew up on Long Island, my parents took me to see “Rent.” I was in the last row, literally the last row of the upper deck and I remember just totally being captivated....

Unraveling The Seams: Revisiting The Astonishing Costume Design Of ‘The Cell’ 20 Years Later By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 20, 2020 10:00 am EST Serial killers are true evil personified. And yet, fascination with them has increasingly grown over the past several decades. True crime books fly off shelves, murder-focused podcasts play in the ears of millions, and an entire population of self-professed “murderinos” enjoy digging through cold case files to learn about these heartless humans....

Wes Anderson’s Next Movie Adds Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Hope Davis, And Liev Schreiber By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 17, 2021 6:12 pm EST At this point, you might think that every person in Hollywood has been cast in Wes Anderson’s new movie. It’s like he’s on a quest to nip this Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon business in the bud. In the future, we’ll all just be playing Two Degrees of Wes Anderson because any living actor you can think of will only be a couple of layers removed, at most, from an Anderson film....

‘All These Sons’ Review: Bing Liu’s ‘Minding The Gap’ Follow-Up Is A Compassionate Portrait Of The Battle Against Gun Violence [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2021 9:00 am EST All These Sons, which Liu co-directs with his Minding the Gap collaborator Joshua Altman, is a powerful, if slightly by-the-numbers, documentary that doesn’t pretend to have all the answers to an issue as deep-rooted and devastating as gun violence in Chicago. The problems have already been well-documented by many others, to a more extensive degree....

‘Emergency’: Sabrina Carpenter, RJ Cyler To Star In 2020 Black List Comedy Thriller From ‘R#J’ Director By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 16, 2021 6:00 pm EST Written by KD Dávila, the short followed a group of partying BIPOC college students who are suddenly faced with a dangerous dilemma that forces them to wrangle with the role of police brutality against people of color. Williams, who directed the short, will return to the director’s chair for the feature version written by Dávila,which featured on the 2020 Blacklist....

‘Hustlers’ Trailer: Jennifer Lopez And Constance Wu Stick It To Wall Street Douchebags By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2019 10:30 am EST Remember all those a**hole types from The Wolf of Wall Street who conned people out of their money so they could take extravagant vacations and snort cocaine off the backsides of strippers? Those kind of people still exist today, and they’re about to get their comeuppance. Hustlers is a new crime comedy that gives women all the power as Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu use the primitive desires of Wall Street douchebags hitting up strip clubs to fill their pockets with cash....

‘Jurassic Park 3’ Could’ve Featured A Scene Where A Raptor Rode A Motorcycle Off A Cliff By Jeremy Mathai/July 20, 2021 8:08 am EST Jurassic Park 3 is…a deeply silly movie, to put it mildly. Acting as a sort of redheaded stepchild of the franchise, the movie sees Sam Neill’s Alan Grant inexplicably heading to the dino-infested island seen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, called Isla Sorna. It’s the flimsiest of premises and the script is clearly a cobbled-together rush job, but there’s a certain amount of B-movie fun to be had with it....

‘Only Murders In The Building’ Trailer: Steve Martin, Martin Short, And Selena Gomez Find Out Whodunit In This New Hulu Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 18, 2021 1:30 pm EST Steve Martin and Martin Short are comedy legends whose decades-spanning friendship has been going on for almost as long as their absence from the screen (barring the occasional stand-up special). So it must take something good to bring them back in front of the cameras together....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Is Apparently The Most Watched Disney+ Premiere Ever By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2021 11:30 am EST Even though Zack Snyder’s Justice League dominated the online conversation over the weekend, Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier enjoyed its fair share of success as well. Disney+ announced that the first episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series became the most watched series premiere ever on the streaming service....

‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Stars Dominic Monaghan And Billy Boyd Are Launching Their Own Podcast By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2021 3:30 pm EST Lord of the Rings fans, we’re eating breakfast, second breakfast, and elevenses today. Our beloved Merry and Pippin are setting off on a brand new quest together. Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, who played the lovable hobbits Merry and Pippin in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, are launching their own podcast about the film franchise, called The Friendship Onion....

‘The Muppet Show’ On Disney+ Makes It Clear: It’s Time For Variety Shows To Stage A Comeback By Josh Spiegel/March 11, 2021 9:00 am EST A few weeks ago, Disney+ took a big step forward in terms of what shows it presents to audiences worldwide. Although most audiences were spending each Friday talking about the latest installment of WandaVision, that nine-episode limited series pales in comparison to the long-awaited arrival of The Muppet Show....

‘The Simpsons’ Gets The ‘Star Wars’ Treatment In A New Animated Short Coming To Disney+ By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2021 8:30 am EST Star Was Day is nearly upon us, and to celebrate, Disney+ will be getting a little help from The Simpsons. Along with the premiere of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Bad Batch, subscribers to Disney+ will also be treated to a new Star Wars-themed animated short starring the Simpsons’ adorable toddler....

‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels Shift Release Dates, New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Coming, And Much More [Updated] By Ben Pearson/April 14, 2021 11:12 am EST Update 4/14/21: THR reports that part of the reason for the Top Gun: Maverick delay is because star Tom Cruise “wants to embark on a world tour in advance of the opening,” something that wouldn’t be possible now with the lockdowns in Europe and other international territories....

‘Voluntary Committal’ Series Based On Joe Hill Story Coming From Paramount TV By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 17, 2021 5:30 pm EST Pretty soon, Joe Hill might catch up to his father Stephen King when it comes to film and TV adaptations. Several of Hill’s books and short stories have been, or will soon be, adapted to the screen, and a new title has joined the list. That would be Voluntary Committal, a novella that appeared in Hill’s excellent short story collection 20th Century Ghosts....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2021 11:00 am EST Wicked, the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, has found a new director: Jon M. Chu. Universal has been trying to get a Wicked movie made for over a decade now, and at one point, the plan was to release the movie in 2019 with Billy Elliot filmmaker Stephen Daldry at the helm. But Universal pulled the movie from its 2019 release date, and Daldry eventually left the project....

Barry Levinson’s The Survivor, Starring Ben Foster, Lands At HBO HBO By Ryan Scott/Oct. 5, 2021 2:26 pm EST Barry Levinson and HBO are back in business. The filmmaker’s latest, “The Survivor,” has been acquired by the premium cable network, which will now serve as the movie’s home in North America. Levinson, known for directing movies such as “Rain Man” and “Bugsy,” helmed the biopic about boxer Harry Haft. “The Survivor” was produced by New Mandate Films and BRON Studios, in association with Baltimore Pictures, Endeavor Content, USC Shoah Foundation, and Creative Wealth Media....

Being The Ricardos: Release Date, Cast And More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2021 1:12 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Thanks to the classic sitcom “I Love Lucy,” stars Lucille Balle and Desi Arnaz are one of the most famous couples in the history of Hollywood....

Cool Stuff: Marvel Legends Finally Gives Fans The Beefy Thor From ‘Avengers: Endgame’ By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2021 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hasbro is typically pretty quick about getting action figures from Marvel Studios movies into shelves. But for some reason, it’s taken a little extra time for them to give fans a Thor action figure based on his new beefy superhero appearance from Avengers: Endgame....

Dune: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/June 15, 2021 11:50 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) This fall, Denis Villeneuve’s star-studded adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi epic Dune will be unleashed on the world. A notoriously tricky story to adapt (just ask David Lynch), Villeneuve’s Dune is bound to be an event film – although it might go the way of Villeneuve’s excellent Blade Runner 2049, and underperform at the box office....

Edgar Wright And Kevin Feige Are Friends Again After Not Speaking Since Wright Left ‘Ant-Man’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 4, 2021 11:30 am EST Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe had even taken shape, Edgar Wright was hired to direct an Ant-Man movie. Wright and co-writer Joe Cornish had written a treatment for the film back in 2003, and were hired by Marvel in 2006. From there, Wright spent the next few years developing the project....