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Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore to Star in Todd Haynes’ New Film May December
The present will crumble under the weight of the past in Todd Haynes’ new film May December. As Deadline reports, it stars the timeless talents of Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. The story follows a Hollywood starlet (Portman) as she travels to Maine to prepare for a biographical film based on a real-life woman (Moore). Two decades prior, Moore’s character became a tabloid sensation when she married a man 23 years younger. While she and her now-36-year-old husband prepare to send their twin daughters off to college, the actress probes the family’s dynamic, and her outsider’s perspective causes a radical reappraisal of this May-December relationship. The screenplay comes from Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. In a statement, Haynes said, “What ...
J. Rhodes’ Hip-Hop Musical ‘It’s A Wonderful Plight’ Aims To Shake Up Audiences
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: J. Rhodes / Handout A year after the unrest of 2020, there’s many who are wondering where all those allies that popped up back then are now. A new film that’s the brainchild of an award-winning producer looks to answer that question. J. Rhodes (born Justin Rhodes), whose musical production work includes teaming up with Dr. Dre, Black Thought, Rick Ross and many more is the main force behind the film It’s A Wonderful Plight. The film is billed as a Hip-Hop musical that focuses on a young white man in Dallas, Texas named Scott (played by Brian Shorkey) who gets called out for his professed love of Hip-Hop and Black culture hiding his own hidden prejudices and appropriation. He gets shown the error of his ways due to help from a “woke spirit” named Josef the...
Every Marvel Movie and TV Show Ranked From Worst to Best
This feature originally ran in April 2015 and will be periodically updated and re-published with the latest Marvel releases. Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. This time, we sort through the best and worst of Marvel’s seemingly never-ending cinematic universe. Have a quick glance at this: Related Video That was April 2006. Now, 15 years later, the outline for Marvel’s ambitious (many at the time said overzealous) plan to take over movie theaters has been made manifest. Under their watch, a movie partially centered around a sassy talking raccoon and a giant tree fighting space evil became one of the highest-grossing films of 2014. In 20...
Lord of the Rings Anime Movie The War of the Rohirrim in the Works
The Lord of the Rings franchise is expanding with a new anime movie titled The War of the Rohirrim. New Line Cinema is teaming with Warner Bros. Animation to produce the new addition to J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy world. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will be directed by anime veteran Kenji Kamiyama, who helmed the TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Blade Runner: Black Lotus. Kamiyama’s frequent collaborator Joseph Chou is set to produce. The script is penned by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who created Netflix’s Emmy-winning series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Consulting on the project is Oscar-winner Philippa Boyens, who co-wrote the live-action Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies with filmmaker Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Per The H...
Space Jam: A New Legacy Introduces the Goon Squad Team in New Trailer: Watch
Space Jam: A New Legacy just got a new trailer and it’s pitting the legendary Tune Squad against the villainous Goon Squad for the highly anticipated sequel. This time around, we get a closer look at LeBron James as a cartoon character, the all-star cast of Warner Bros. characters crossing into this universe, and the plot that’s previously been obscured. Watch the trailer below. The sequel to the 1996 smash hit centers around James’ relationship with his son Dom and his struggle to understand why he prefers creating games to playing games. When his son is pulled into a virtual server controlled by an A.I. villain named Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), James links up with the Toon Squad — Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Roadrunner, and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang — to defeat the Cheadle-...
Kingpin Sequel Coming Down the Lane from Farrelly Brothers
25 years later and still one pin short, the Farrelly brothers are working on a sequel to the cult bowling comedy Kingpin. As Collider reports, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are serving as executive producers for a project in the very early stages of development. Released in 1996, Kingpin starred Woody Harrelson as an unfortunate bowler who loses his hand, Randy Quaid as an Amish pin prodigy, and Bill Murray as the villainous Ernie “Big Ern” McCracken. It was a modest financial success, though in the Farrellys’ filmography it’s always had an unassuming presence, since it arrived sandwiched between the box office blockbusters Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There’s Something About Mary (1998). Few details are known at this time, and it’s unclear if the...
R.I.P. Ernie Lively, Veteran Actor and Father of Blake Lively Dead at 74
Ernie Lively, veteran character actor and father of Blake Lively, has died at 74. Lively had struggled for decades with heart problems. After a 2003 heart attack, he reportedly had trouble walking even short distances without a rest. In 2013, he received experimental stem cell therapy. Via Deadline, he passed June 2nd, 2021 of cardiac complications. Born January 29th, 1947, Lively had been a constant presence on screens big and small since the mid 1970’s. He had parts in such beloved series and films as The Dukes of Hazzard, Murder, She Wrote, Turner and Hooch, The Beverly Hillbillies, The X-Files, Seinfeld, thirtysomething, That ’70s Show, and The West Wing. Related Video In 2005, he acted alongside his daughter Blake, performing as her character’s father in&...
Don Cheadle and Benicio Del Toro Lead a Failed Heist in Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T20:30:15+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 4:30pm ET Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, No Sudden Move, is set to land July 1st on HBO Max. Today, the streamer released a trailer for the crime thriller, which centers around a heist gone wrong in 1950s Detroit. The star-studded cast is led by Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, and Brendan Fraser. Rounding out the ensemble are Kieran Culkin, Julia Fox, and Amy Seimetz. No Sudden Move is written by Ed Solomon. According to the official description, it follows “a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes horribly wrong, their search for w...
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan to Star as Reporters in Movie About Harvey Weinstein Investigation
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T21:39:31+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 5:39pm ET Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are in talks to star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in She Said, a new movie about the investigations into Harvey Weinstein’s crimes. As Deadline reports, the film is based on Twohey and Kantor’s 2018 book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Twohey and Kantor first outlined Weinstein’s predatory behavior in 2017 with a landmark article in the Times. It opened the floodgates, and eventually over 90 woman accused the disgraced producer of harassment or assault, while 15 accused him of rape. In the end, Weinstein was sentenc...
Rob Zombie Confirms He Is Directing The Munsters Movie
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T22:37:55+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 6:37pm ET Rob Zombie will indeed be putting his unique stamp on a film adaptation of the popular ’60s sitcom The Munsters. The rocker-filmmaker has confirmed an earlier report that he is writing and directing the movie for Universal Studios, fulfilling a decades-long dream. “Attention Boils and Ghouls,” wrote Zombie on Instagram on Monday (June 7th). “The rumors are true! My next film project will be the one I’ve been chasing for 20 years! THE MUNSTERS! Stay tuned for exciting details as things progress! #robzombie #themunsters #universalstudios.” A previous unconfirmed report revealed that the movie would be released in theaters and on NBCUniver...
Michelle Zauner’s Memoir Crying in H Mart to Be Adapted as Movie
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T18:14:49+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 2:14pm ET Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, became a New York Times bestselling author when her memoir, Crying in H Mart, was released in April. Now, the book is set to be adapted as a movie by MGM’s Orion Pictures. The film will be produced by Stacey Sher and Jason Kim, with Zauner providing the soundtrack as Japanese Breakfast. “It is a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize my mother in film, and I consider it of the highest honor to pursue that task alongside creative luminaries such as Stacey Sher, Jason Kim, and Orion Pictures,” Zauner said in a statement. Related Video Crying in H Mart is based on a 2018&nbs...
Sequel to Cruella in the Works at Disney
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-05T18:35:00+00:00“>June 5, 2021 | 2:35pm ET Disney has begun development on a sequel to Cruella, its live-action prequel to 101 Dalmations starring Emma Stone. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cruella director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Tony McNamara are both expected to return for the sequel. As Cruella served as the origin story of Cruella de Vil, one would assume that the sequel would pull from Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and Disney’s 1961 animated adaptation. ***SPOILER*** Then again, Gillespie and McNamara already took a significant detour from the book’s plot by introducing Roger and Anita as central figures in Cruella’s life. ...
