The long-awaited Metal Gear Solid movie has finally found its Solid Snake. Deadline reports that Oscar Isaac of Ex Machina and the latest Star Wars trilogy fame will tackle the iconic video game soldier. The film adaptation of this iconic, long-running video game series has been in development at Sony Pictures for quite some time, […]
Disney+ Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Liu Yifei, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scot Lee, Gong Li, Rosalind Chao and Xana Tang. SYNOPSIS: A young woman pretends to be a man in order to take her ageing father’s place as a conscript in the Chinese Imperial Army. The recent wave […]
Exclusive Interview – The Broken Hearts Gallery director Natalie Krinsky on working with Selena Gomez, Dacre Montgomery, making a NYC-based movie before COVID and more
Justin Cook chats with director Natalie Krinsky about her film The Broken Hearts Gallery… When the book is written on 2020, there will be a short chapter in it devoted to the brave movies that ventured into cinemas, despite less than ideal conditions for theatrical distribution. And while, presumably, much of the chapter will be […]
Aubrey Plaza to star alongside Jason Statham in Guy Ritchie’s untitled action thriller
Deadline announced Aubrey Plaza (Happiest Season) is set to star alongside Jason Statham in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming action thriller which was formerly titled Five Eyes, but will now go by a new and as-yet-unknown title. Statham will star as MI6 guns-and-steel agent Orson Fortune who “is recruited by a global intelligence alliance to track down and […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Burke. SYNOPSIS: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” In attempting to reconcile alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to […]
Wonder Woman 1984 reportedly coming to Sky Cinema in the UK in January
While fans in the United States are going to have the option of watching Wonder Woman 1984 – and Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 slate, following yesterday’s huge news – from the comfort of their own home thanks to an HBO Max premiere alongside its theatrical release, international audiences are going to have to make a […]
Maggie Smith to play Goebbels’ secretary in A German Life
As revealed by Variety, Maggie Smith is set to take on the role of Brunhilde Pomsel, the infamous secretary of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, in an adaptation of the West End play A German Life from Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement). Smith will be reprising her role from the acclaimed stage […]
Netflix acquires sci-fi thriller Stowaway starring Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has acquired the distribution rights to Stowaway, a sci-fi thriller from director Joe Penna (Arctic) which stars Anna Kendrick (Noelle), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Daniel Dae Kim (Hellboy) and Shamier Anderson (Wynonna Earp). Scripted by Penna and his Arctic co-writer Ryan Morrison, Stowaway “charts how, on a mission to Mars, an […]
Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy star in trailer for Fatale
Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for the psychological thriller Fatale. Directed by Deon Taylor, the film stars Michael Ealy as a sports agent and married man who finds himself entangled in a murder investigation after a wild one night stand with a police detective (Hilary Swank); take a look here… After a wild […]
Warner Bros. sets its entire 2021 slate for hybrid HBO Max and theatrical release model
In some absolutely huge news coming out of Hollywood today, Warner Bros. has announced that it is moving its entire 2021 release slate to the simultaneous HBO Max and theatrical release model that it is employing for this month’s Wonder Woman 1984. Each of its theatrical releases next year will debut simultaneously on HBO Max […]
