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‘Finding The Mother Tree’: Amy Adams To Play Scientist Who Discovered How Trees Communicate By Ben Pearson/May 4, 2021 4:30 pm EST If you’re a casting director on the hunt for an actress to play a specialist who needs to crack a mysterious form of communication from an unexpected species, Amy Adams is your gal. After playing that character type in Denis Villeneuve’s excellent 2016 film Arrival (and being unfortunately overlooked by the Academy), Adams is preparing to suit up for a similar type of code cracking role in a new film called Finding the Mother Tree....

By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2017 3:04 pm EST It’s not often that you see a movie studio like Disney cancel a big budget animated film this far into production, but it happens. Gigantic, Walt Disney Animation’s take on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale (in which Jack befriends a female giant), is no longer on the way. The project was first announced in 2015 and has had a troubled road to the big screen, having been delayed twice on the release calendar....

‘Gordon Hemingway & The Realm Of Cthulhu’ Coming To Netflix From Director Stefon Bristol And Producer Spike Lee By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 23, 2021 3:00 pm EST Spike Lee is sticking with Netflix after Da 5 Bloods. The filmmaker will produce Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu, a Netflix movie directed by Stefon Bristol. The flick follows a “roguish Black American gunslinger” dealing with an ancient evil in East Africa in 1928, and based on that title, one has to assume H....

‘I Slept With Joey Ramone’ Casts Pete Davidson As The Ramones Lead Singer By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2021 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. STXfilms chairman Adam Fogelson shared even further insight into the project, adding in a statement, “Mickey Leigh not only collaborated with his big brother’s band – he has irreplaceable memories of and insights into Joey Ramone, having supported him when no one else would and witnessed him overcome adversity in the most dramatic way....

‘Jakob’s Wife’ Director Travis Stevens On Directing Horror Legends In A New Take On The Vampire Movie [SXSW 2021 Interview] By Kalyn Corrigan/March 16, 2021 11:00 am EST A nightwalker strolls into a small suburban town and all hell breaks loose. Married to the local minister, Barbara Crampton’s mousy Anne Fedder has been shrinking over the past 30 years, suppressing her adventurous ways in order to be without blemish. At her husband’s behest, Anne is quiet, withdrawn, devout....

‘K-Pop: Demon Hunters’ Is An Animated Musical About A K-Pop Girl Group That Hunts Demons (Obviously) By Chris Evangelista/March 8, 2021 2:30 pm EST Hey, are you interested in a movie about a K-Pop girl group? What if I told you the movie was animated? And then what if I told you the movie was also a musical? And then, just for fun, what if I added that the K-Pop girl group also hunts demons?...

‘Mindhunter’ Will Run For Five Seasons If David Fincher Has Anything To Say About It By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2019 3:30 pm EST Netflix has yet to renew Mindhunter for a third season – because they like to toy with our emotions. But if all goes according to plan we could be in for five seasons total – at least according to producer David Fincher. Star Holt McCallany recently revealed that Fincher is hoping for five seasons total, which would mean even more serial killers – like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy – would be heading our way....

‘The Undoing’ Trailer: Nicole Kidman Makes A Terrible Mistake In HBO’s New Limited Series By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2020 2:30 pm EST In HBO’s Big Little Lies, Nicole Kidman plays a woman whose life slowly becomes unraveled after a violent death occurs. Now she’s about to reunite with Big Little Lies writer David E. Kelley for another series in which something very similar seems to happen. In a new HBO limited series called The Undoing, Kidman returns to a high-status role playing a classy, big city author whose family’s life is thrown into utter chaos in the aftermath of a murder....

14 Sequels That Truly Didn’t Need To Happen Warner Bros. By David Court/Sept. 28, 2021 6:46 pm EST As Benjamin Franklin might have said, if he had witnessed the rise and continued growth of modern cinema, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes. And that most movies, if they make a reasonable profit, will get sequels whether they need one or not.” Anachronistic Ben Franklin has it spot on. Hefty profits can magically transform the most standalone and self-contained movies into a trilogy, tetralogy, or worse....

Bingo Hell Director Gigi Saul Guerrero Dishes On Slime And Senior Citizens [Interview] By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 1, 2021 11:03 am EST I got the chance to chat via Zoom with co-writer and director Guerrero about the movie, which she holds close to her heart. After all, she based the main character on her own feisty grandmother! This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. A Movie Where Grandma can be the Hero Oak Springs feels like so many small towns in suburban America....

Wakanda Forever Disney/Marvel It’s difficult to know how much this incident is being downplayed – if the injuries were really that minor, would she have been hospitalized in the first place? – but thankfully, there have been very few injuries overall in Marvel Cinematic Universe productions thus far (that we know about, anyway). Anthony Mackie and Elizabeth Olsen said they were slightly injured during the making of “Captain America: Civil War,” but it does not seem as if hospitalizations were required in those instances....

Dateline NBC To Stir Up Some S*** With Special Murder In The House Of Gucci MGM By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 1, 2021 9:20 am EST “Dateline NBC,” tied only with “48 Hours” for the title of America’s true crime gateway drug, is throwing their hat into the Gucci ring and pumping out their own special on the murder of Maurizio Gucci. If you plan to bet on whether or not they’ll also be hit with a lawsuit threat, like the director of “House of Gucci” Ridley Scott, you might want to place those bets now....

Did ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Get Rick Moranis To Make An Appearance After All? By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2021 8:30 am EST Ghostbusters: Afterlife was unfortunately delayed yet again, this time moving back from a summer release to November 2021. That means we have almost an entire year before we get to see the sequel that picks up around 30 years after the events of the first two Ghostbusters movies. The good news is it will be a reunion of many of the original Ghostbusters cast members…and there’s a chance one of the stars who was believed to be sitting this sequel out may actually make an appearance....

Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho Got Its Title After A Conversation With Quentin Tarantino Focus Features By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 14, 2021 10:05 pm EST Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino are pals, and they even worked together briefly on one film “Grindhouse” back when it was a double feature and not sold separately as Tarantino’s “Death Proof” and Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror.” Wright directed “Don’t,” one of the funny fake trailers between the two movies....

Fast and Furious 10 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Universal “Fast and Furious 10” is being split into two parts, similar to how the final entries in franchises like “Harry Potter,” “Twilight,” and “The Hunger Games” were handled. “I’m doing Fast 10, part one and part two, the finale of the saga, in January,” Diesel confirmed this past summer. “Part Two” does not have a release date yet, but the first part was initially slated for an April 7, 2023, release....

Hulu Wants Their Own ‘The Last Dance,’ Announces Los Angeles Lakers Docuseries By Chris Evangelista/May 10, 2021 5:00 pm EST There’s already a series set to dramatize the L.A. Lakers in the works, and now a docuseries is getting in on the action as well. Perhaps realizing they want their own The Last Dance, Hulu has ordered an “expansive docuseries” that focuses on the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. The series comes from Lakers’ CEO and controlling owner Jeanie Buss, Lakers senior executive Linda Rambis, and director Antoine Fuqua....

Last Night In Soho Ending Explained: Nostalgia Is A Killer Focus Features By Jeff Ewing/Nov. 2, 2021 10:27 am EST Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” a shot-across-the-bow warning of the dangers of nostalgia, centers on young hopeful fashion student Eloise “Ellie” Turner (Thomasin McKenzie). Eloise is both literally and figuratively haunted by the past. In one sense, she’s a girl out of time — ill at ease in her own contemporary era and idealizing 1960s London with all its glamorous extravagances....

Marvel Studios Creative Exec Jonathan Schwartz On Shang-Chi, Secret Invasion, And Planning The MCU Marvel By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2021 3:43 pm EST Before becoming a full-fledged producer on Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Jonathan Schwartz worked as Kevin Feige’s assistant before quickly rising up the ranks to creative executive in time for “The Avengers” in 2012. He went on to co-produce the first “Guardians of the Galaxy,” executive produce “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Netflix’s ‘Resident Evil’ Series Casts ‘John Wick’ Actor Lance Reddick As Villain Albert Wesker By Ben Pearson/June 11, 2021 11:17 am EST Netflix has taken a different approach to casting a key role in its live-action Resident Evil series. Whereas the villainous character of Albert Wesker, the Big Bad of the entire Resident Evil franchise, has previously been portrayed as a blonde white guy, showrunner Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) has opted to switch things up by casting Lance Reddick (John Wick, The Wire) in that significant role....

New ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Photos: Tom Cruise Has A Train To Catch (And A Dirt Bike To Ride) By Ethan Anderton/May 8, 2021 12:00 pm EST Last month, we learned that we’ll be waiting a lot longer to see Mission: Impossible 7 in theaters. The sequel starring Tom Cruise was pushed back from the previously set November 2021 release to a summer date in May 2022. Thankfully, we’ve got a little bit of a tease to hold us over with a few new photos from the set, including Tom Cruise on a big steaming locomotive and speeding around on a dirt bike....