The breakout success of Money Heist took the world by storm. The original series, known as La Casa de Papel (The House of Paper) had been cancelled after it was first televised in Spain. But when Netflix picked the show up, it became a surprise hit, and blossomed into a global phenomenon that earned numerous prestigious awards and captured the title of Netflix’s second most watched series behind only Squid Game....
According to the trade, the pair and Warner Bros. Pictures co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy decided to pull the plug on Wonder Woman 3 with writer-director Patty Jenkins, who had only recently turned in a story treatment she co-wrote with Geoff Johns, and which was to star Gal Gadot. However, our own sources close to the project have suggested the events are not so cut and dry as initially reported....
That’s undoubtedly why the tuxedo bois have become a fixture of nature documentaries, starring in full-length features like March of the Penguins and Disney’s Penguins. Now Netflix’s new docuseries Penguin Town, narrated by Patton Oswalt, is betting on the unshakable fact that pop culture can never have too many penguins. Penguin Town bets correctly. “They’re incredibly clumsy because they’ve got short little legs,” Penguin Town field producer Cayley Christos says....
Shizuka Satomi, a violin teacher known as the Queen of Hell, owes one more soul to demons due to an infernal bargain she struck. Young violinist Katrina Nguyen needs to escape her homelife, where her transness is rejected by her family, and to start anew, hopefully making videos with her music. And Lan Tran and her crew are striving to build a stargate—before the Galactic Empire falls to the Endplauge—while selling donuts at Starrgate Donuts in Los Angeles....
Dying Light 2’s choice system isn’t quite as expansive as some fans hoped it would be based on the hype for the game, but there are certainly a few choices in the massive RPG that will likely leave you frozen in fear as you debate what the “best” decision is. As always, what you decide to do in these situations will ultimately come down to your personal preferences and whatever you feel is “right....
Recently, Bandai Namco released a press release that showered the FromSoftware team with praise. The statement commended Hidetaka Miyazaki for marrying his studio’s experience producing Soulsborne titles with George R.R. Martin’s worldbuilding, and the press release concluded by stating, “Please look forward to more of ‘ELDEN RING’ as an IP (characters and other intellectual property) in hopes of expanding beyond the realm of games.” While the wording was somewhat vague, the message was pretty clear: Bandai Namco has big plans for Elden Ring....
Today, we’re focusing on some of those secret areas. In a game as large and deep as Elden Ring, you could probably make an argument that any number of areas are actually secret areas. After all, everyone tends to experience Elden Ring in slightly different ways, which means that everyone will inevitably miss a few things that other players didn’t realize they happened to stumble upon. That being the case, I’ve decided to focus on what I would consider some of Elden Ring‘s best overall secret areas....
Set prior to the events of World War II, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore finds Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Grindelwald (now Mads Mikkelsen) attempting to mediate Grindelwald’s plans to overthrow the Muggle world. Due to their unbreakable vow to not harm each other—and essentially their love for one another—Dumbledore and Grindelwald must find others to do the job for them. Grindelwald, who has a bunch of plans lined up, is hopeful that Credence will use his anger from being abandoned by the Dumbledore family to end Albus’ life....
So it was again a different world, to say the least, on that dusty, scorching hot, pre-pandemic backlot in Albuquerque over two years ago. Maskless members of the press were huddled together in a small building, talking to a cavalcade of cast and crew members, including Hanks and director Miguel Sapochnik. The biggest safety concern on set wasn’t hygiene or social distancing, but the risk of snakes biting at your ankles (one of the first people we were introduced to was a snake wrangler holding a bucket and a long hook)....
It sits there in the distance, planted and proud. But it’s only once you’ve seen the haunting ending of Damien Chazelle’s First Man that it becomes apparent how manufactured the American flag “controversy” really is. After all, the flag is obviously visible following Neil Armstrong’s one small step into moon dust, just as it is throughout the stoic astronaut’s life, from the movie’s beginning with his son solemnly raising it outside their house, to it adorning the room at the end where Gosling’s newly minted national hero and Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) watch a broadcast echoing the immortal words of President John F....
Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 In retrospect it’s only natural that as Game of Thrones steadily approaches its climax eight years in the making, the speed and pace of the storytelling would only accelerate. Still, understanding that and accepting that are two different things, particularly as the narratives “blend” into one overall tapestry where there are fewer subplots; now it seems there’s simply the plot. And unexpectedly, to get to that wonderful plot realization of six blokes, all characters with names that we care about, walking to likely a few of their deaths, the narrative has had to spin its wheels faster than the one Daenerys Targaryen is always yammering on about, crushing everything in its path....
You wouldn’t want to be a henchperson of any denomination in Gangs of London, and season two ups the bodycount while maintaining the palpable tension and twisty plot audiences will be expecting. And don’t assume your favorite returning characters are safe either. Set one year after the events of season one (here’s a recap to get you up to speed), London is in chaos. With the Wallace family spread far and wide, pulling the strings in the background are the investors, with Alex Dumani (Paapa Essiedu) the acceptable face of the business and heroin baron Asif Afridi (Asif Raza Mir) as the slightly less acceptable one....
If there’s one thing you can’t accuse M. Night Shyamalan of, it is a lack of ambition. With his new film Glass, the writer/director attempts to bring to a close the trilogy of films he began some 19 years ago with Unbreakable and continued, unexpectedly, in 2016 with the funny and frightening Split. Along the way, he addresses the themes and concerns of both of those earlier pictures: how ordinary people can find themselves doing extraordinary things, what constitutes a hero and a villain, whether belief in ourselves is all we need to transcend our limitations, and if devotion to a fictional mythology like those found in comic books can warp our own sense of reality....
God of War games liberally borrow from different mythologies. Back in the PlayStation 2 and 3 days, God of War wove together a world crafted from various Greek myths and legends, while the God of War soft reboot from 2018 and Ragnarok take stories and characters from Norse mythology. However, one mythology reference in the most recent entry has even Norse legend buffs confused. Throughout God of War: Ragnarok, players once again receive aid from the Huldra Brothers, Brok and Sindri, and when it comes time to visit Alfheim, Sindri tags along to improve Kratos’ armor....
After the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been roundly (and rightly) criticized for snubbing women filmmakers for year after year in the Best Director category, Chinese helmer Chloé Zhao won the Director prize for her riveting and raw Nomadland, a film which blends documentary filmmaking with narrative; Daniel Kaluuya was able to (eventually) speak about the glories of Fred Hampton to a global audience after winning Best Supporting Actor with his role in Judas and the Black Messiah; Borat 2 is now a “Best Picture” winner (read that sentence back and let it sink in); and while The Crown again dominated the television Drama categories, audience favorite The Queen’s Gambit picked up the Globes for Best Limited Series or Made for Television Film and Anya Taylor-Joy won for playing Beth Harmon....
The second part of David Gordon Green’s rebooted Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills, is upon us with more murder, more Myers, and much much more mayhem. This film follows on immediately from 2018’s Halloween—Michael has been left for dead in the burning basement but (surprise!) he’s not dead. Meanwhile Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), Karen (Judy Greer), and Allyson (Andi Matichak) are on their way to the hospital to get Laurie’s wounds treated....
“I want to share some notes, some editorial suggestions that were prepared after the screening of a movie I was in,” Ford said with his trademark latter day gruffness. “‘Opening too choppy. Why is this voiceover track so terrible? He sounds drugged. Were they all on drugs? Deckard at the piano is interminable. Flashback dialogue confusing. Is he listening to a tape? Why do we need the third cut to the eggs?...
But the strategy is already garnering a fierce backlash from at least one of the studio’s top filmmakers, as well as a production company that has a major financial stake in several of Warner’s upcoming blockbusters. Director Christopher Nolan, who has possibly made more money for Warner Bros. in the past 20 years than anyone but J.K. Rowling, came out swinging with unusually sharp remarks about the plan. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, Nolan fumed, “Some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service....
Space Jam: A New Legacy premieres on July 16. will find LeBron teaming up with the Looney Tunes in a Warner Bros. IP-extravaganza. Can ‘Bron and the Looney Tunes beat the Goon Squad before Warner Bros.’ server steals LeBron “Bronny” Jr.’s soul (or something)? Let’s hope so. The two other major WB releases this month, No Sudden Move and Tom and Jerry in New York, both come to HBO Max on July 1....
The code works for new members in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland signing up via Shudder.com Shudder made the announcement via social media and said it would also be posting daily recommendations on Twitter with the #ShudderShutIn hashtag. In the US there’s also a ‘Shut In’ collection featuring people trapped, including titles like Escape From New York and Audition, should you wish to be comforted by the thought “at least I’m not locked in with the Kiri Kiri Kiri lady....
