Get your stakes ready Slayer fans. Variety has reported Hulu is nearing a pilot order for a sequel series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer with original star Sarah Michelle Gellar in talks to reprise her iconic role. The purposed sequel series will focus on a new Slayer, following the show’s canon that a slayer is chosen once […]
Chloe Zhao to direct Shakespeare drama Hamnet
Following her high-profile one-two of Nomadland and Marvel’s Eternals, Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao has been slow to pick her next film, but has finally opted for an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. Deadline reports that Zhao will direct from a script adapted alongside Hamnet‘s author Maggie O’Farrell. Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions and […]
Director Chloe Zhao has “no comment” about returning for Marvel’s Eternals 2
Even though the film was hailed as one of the weakest in the MCU, fans have been curious about another Eternals with director Chloe Zhao. While attending a red carpet event for the 16th Annual Women In Film Oscar Party, The Hollywood Reporter asked the filmmaker for an update on Eternals 2 and if she […]
Movie Review – Eternals (2021)
Eternals, 2021. Directed by Chloé Zhao. Starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie. SYNOPSIS: Eternals arrives on digital with a smattering of bonus features. (The physical discs will be hitting online and physical retail stores […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Indie Director Conundrum
Tom Jolliffe on Marvel Studios bringing indie directors into a huge studio set up to direct its pictures… Indie cinema has been on something of an upsurge in recent years. Whilst there is still the general feeling that mainstream entertainment, namely anything under the Disney wing, is monopolising the cinemas, we’ve still seen an increase […]
Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness
Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU. Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable […]
Movie Review – Eternals (2021)
Eternals, 2021. Directed by Chloe Zhao Starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harrington, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS: Eternals is a story of immortal guardians charged with overseeing an Earth in perpetual evolution. Over thousands of years it tells […]
Chloé Zhao teases her sci-fi western Dracula film with Instagram image
Academy-Award winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao is returning to smaller-scale fare following her rummage in Marvel’s toybox with Eternals, and she has teased her science-fiction western horror genre mash-up Dracula by releasing an image of what appears to be Nosferatu on horseback. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chloé Zhao […]
Angelina Jolie responds to Marvel’s Eternals being pulled from theaters in some countries
As the fearsome warrior Thena in Marvel Studios’ Eternals, it only seems fitting that Angelina Jolie has stood up and addressed the reports that the blockbuster film won’t be receiving a release in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, calling the decision to pull the film due to the inclusion of a same-sex couple “sad” and […]
SPOILERS: Eternals director Chloe Zhao discusses the surprise post-credits cameos
Spoilers for Marvel’s Eternals follow. You have been warned… Unless you follow certain Variety writers on social media, you may have found yourself surprised during the end credits of Marvel Studios’ Eternals when former One Direction star Harry Styles popped up to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Eros, a.k.a. the superhero Starfox. Styles’ […]
