Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) has been cast in Hulu’s drama pilot for Olga Dies Dreaming, a series adaptation based of Xochitl Gonzalez’s novel. Olga Dies Dreaming follows a “Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park in Brooklyn who are reckoning with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New […]
Exclusive Interview – Filmmaker Alfonso Gomez-Rejon talks The Current War: Director’s Cut and Edison as an Anti-Hero
Red Stewart chats with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon about The Current War… Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is an American filmmaker who has been working in the film and television industries since the 1990s. He is best known for his past collaborations with Martin Scorsese, as well as his directorial projects Glee, American Horror Story, and Me and Earl and […]
Movie Review – The Current War (2017)
The Current War, 2017. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston and Tuppence Middleton. SYNOPSIS: As the possibility of electric lighting in the home becomes a real thing, warring entrepreneurs Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battle to become the leading provider of electricity in the USA and, […]
The Current War trailer pits Benedict Cumberbatch against Michael Shannon
101 Studios has released a trailer for the upcoming biographical historical drama The Current War. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as rival industrialists Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, alongside a cast that also includes Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Tuppence Middleton, Matthew Macfadyen, and Nicholas Hoult; watch it here… […]
Uma Thurman to star in Netflix’s supernatural series Chambers
Netflix has cast Kill Bill star Uma Thurman in the upcoming supernatural series Chambers. The series was created by Leah Rachel who will co-showrun with Luke Cage‘s Akela Cooper and will be produced by Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic. Chambers centers on a young heart attack survivor who becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her […]
First trailer for The Current War starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult
The first trailer has debuted for the upcoming drama The Current War. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as rival industrialists Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, alongside Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between […]
Oscar Isaac confirmed for A Foreigner, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon to direct
Variety is reporting that Oscar Isaac (X-Men: Apocalypse, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) has now officially signed on to star in A Foreigner, a new thriller from Paramount Pictures. Isaac had previously been linked to the role in the latter part of last year but now his involvement is confirmed after he was able to fit the […]
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon departs Collateral Beauty over creative differences
Acclaimed director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has reportedly left New Line Cinema’s upcoming film Collateral Beauty, reports Deadline. Gomez-Rejon, who this year had huge acclaim with Sundance favourite Me and Girl and the Dying Girl, cited creative differences for his reason to leave the project, for which New Line had bought the worldwide rights to only a […]
Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch to star in The Current War
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Jake Gyllenhaal (Everest) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) are in talks to co-star in the long-gestating project The Current War. The script for the film has been doing the rounds for some time now, with the likes of Ben Stiller, Sacha Baron Cohen and Timur Bekmambetov linked to […]
Movie Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon. SYNOPSIS: High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a […]
