Film
ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres To Close Permanently
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-13T03:00:59+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 11:00pm ET The owner of ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres says it’s permanently closing many of its locations, including Hollywood’s legendary Cinerama Dome. In a statement shared by the theater chains’ owner Decurion, the company said it was financially unable to weather the pandemic, adding that it does “not have a viable way forward.” Here’s there statement in full: “After shutting our doors more than a year ago, today we must share the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not be reopening its ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations. This was not the outcome anyone wanted, but despite a huge effort that exhausted all pot...
Dave Grohl’s What Drives Us Documentary Picked Up by Amazon, Trailer Released: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T16:54:33+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 12:54pm ET Dave Grohl’s new documentary on van touring, What Drives Us, has been picked up for distribution by The Coda Collection, available via Amazon Prime Video. Arriving on the subscription streaming channel on April 30th, What Drives Us seeks to answer the question of why musicians put everything on the line to get into a van with their friends and try to make it big. It’s a tribute to anyone who ever dreamed of putting themselves through hell to form bonds and create art on the long roads between gigs, a right of passage for all those looking to rock. “This film is my love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old...
Live-Action Gundam Movie Suiting Up at Netflix
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T22:29:23+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 6:29pm ET Suit up and get ready to fight: A live-action movie adaptation of the popular anime series Gundam is booting up at Netflix. As Variety reports, Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) will direct. Scriptwriting duties will be handled by Brian K. Vaughn, the famed comic book writer behind Y: The Last Man. Story details haven’t been announced, but Vaughan will have no shortage of source material. Yoshiyuki Tomino launched the TV series Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979, and while the original run was cancelled due to lack of interest, it’s become a defining landmark in the mecha anime genre. Since then,...
Macaulay Culkin Welcomes First Child with Partner Brenda Song
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T19:41:35+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 3:41pm ET From Home Alone to a full house, congratulations are due to actor Macaulay Culkin, who has announced the birth of his first child with partner Brenda Song. As the pair told Esquire, Dakota Song Culkin was born Monday, April 5th in Los Angeles, weighing in at 6 pounds and 14 ounces. Both mom and child are reportedly healthy, and the family summed up their feelings in a two-word statement: “We’re overjoyed.” Dakota is named in honor of Macaulay’s sister Dakota Culkin, who died in a car accident in 2008. Both former child actors, the 40-year-old Culkin and 33-year-old Song first met on the set of the 2019 film&nb...
LeBron James Producing House Party Reboot Starring Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Tosin Cole
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T15:24:32+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 11:24am ET Wave your hands in the air, everybody, because it’s time to party again. Deadline reports that LeBron James is producing a remake of the 1990 cult favorite comedy House Party for New Line. James and his SpringHill Company partner Maverick Carter have long had their eyes on the classic House Party franchise, with news of the reboot first breaking in 2018. Things seem to be heating up on the project, as music video director Calmatic (Vince Staples, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”) has been tapped to helm the movie as his feature-length debut and New Line has entered negotiations with Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Boogie, the MCU Spider-Man series) a...
Indiana Jones 5 Casts Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Harrison Ford’s Co-Star
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T17:29:21+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 1:29pm ET Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been cast as the female lead in the upcoming Indiana Jones movie. According to Deadline, the Emmy-winning Fleabag actress will co-star alongside Harrison Ford in the fifth installment of the iconic adventure series. Unlike the first four movies, the most recent being 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg will switch from director to producer, while James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari, Logan) will step into the directors seat. Don’t worry, though: legendary composer John Williams, who’s scored every film in the franchise, will return to craft its soundtrack. Th...
Netflix’s Thunder Force Isn’t Super, But It’s Alright: Review
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T07:00:59+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 3:00am ET The Pitch: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone suit up for Thunder Force. It’s a chummy riff on the superhero craze, built around Lydia (McCarthy), a Chicago forklift operator who likes drinking Old Style on the job and wears her Cubs and Bears merchandise with pride. But also her old friend Emily (Octavia Spencer), a straight-A tech genius, on the cusp of an evolutionary breakthrough developing superhero steroids for (likely) high-paying consumers. The two are estranged, and as mismatch comedies sometimes begin, one thing leads to another, and soon McCarthy is an ill-mannered Superwoman and Spencer a taser-wielding Invisible Woman. Toget...
Cher Helps Rescue “The World’s Loneliest Elephant” in New Documentary Trailer: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T20:45:46+00:00“>April 8, 2021 | 4:45pm ET In late 2020, Cher made a herculean effort to move “the world’s loneliest elephant” to a sanctuary in Cambodia. Her animal rights work became the subject of a documentary, Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, which you can preview via the trailer below. The documentary follows the singer as she travels to Pakistan to oversee the relocation of the elephant, named Kaavan, who became known as the “world’s loneliest elephant” after his partner Saheli died in 2012. Kaavan, who was a gift from the government of Sri Lanka to the head of the Pakistani army 35 years ago, had become increasingly lonely and depressed while spending over a dozen yea...
Angelina Jolie Fights Off Assassins and Wildfires in Those Who Wish Me Dead Trailer: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T00:25:15+00:00“>April 7, 2021 | 8:25pm ET The official trailer for director Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming neo-Western, Those Who Wish Me Dead, has arrived, and it stars Angelina Jolie as a smoke jumper who must protect a 12-year-old murder witness. Check it out below. Those Who Wish Me Dead marks Sheridan’s follow-up to his 2017 Western, Wind River. The film is based on Michael Kortya’s 2014 novel of the same name and centers around Hannah Faber (Jolie), a survival expert who is tasked with saving Connor Casserly (Finn Little) from the assassin Blackwell brothers, played by Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen. Jon Bernthal, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, and Medina Senghore round out the c...
R.I.P. Walter Olkewicz, Twin Peaks Dead at 72
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T01:31:18+00:00“>April 7, 2021 | 9:31pm ET Character actor Walter Olkewicz, best known for his roles on Twin Peaks and Grace Under Fire, has died at the age of 72. Olkewicz passed away early Tuesday morning at his Reseda home in Los Angeles, as revealed by his son, screenwriter Zak Olkewicz, to The Hollywood Reporter. Over the past 20 years, he struggled with health issues and had a series of knee surgeries that caused infections, forcing him to take a leave from acting. In Twin Peaks, Olkewicz portrayed the Canadian bartender and croupier Jacques Renault during season one. He returned for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, and the 201...
Ray Fisher Details Justice League Drama with Joss Whedon and Warner Bros.
Any fan who has watched Zack Snyder’s Justice League realizes that Ray Fisher was done dirty by the theatrically released version spearheaded by Joss Whedon and Warner Bros. brass. But you need not have seen either movie to know that, as the Cyborg actor has been telling everyone for the last year about Whedon’s “gross, abusive, unprofessional” conduct on set and WB’s allegedly sketchy, racist attempts to cover up Fisher’s complaints. Today, The Hollywood Reporter published an extensive interview with Fisher, who digs into the weeds of his allegations against Whedon and studio executives Geoff Johns, Walter Hamada, and Jon Berg. He detailed how his concerns over representation of DC’s first live-action Black superhero were dismissed by the studio, which pushed for the character “to be...
Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Jason Isbell (photo by Ben Kaye), Sturgill Simpson (photo by Ben Kaye), and Martin Scorsese (photo by Jordan Strauss) The cast for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon is adding even more star power. First it was reported that Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio would star in the new thriller, and then news broke that Jesse Plemons would take on the lead role. Now, it looks like country rockers Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson are the latest to be cast in what’s shaping up to be a truly star-studded affair. Based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon follows FBI agent Tom White (Plemons) as he tries to solve the serial murders of members of the Osage Nation over oil rights. A prominent local cattleman named Will...
