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When Film and TV Collide: Acclaimed Directors on the Small Screen

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Chris Connor on filmmakers venturing out onto the small screen… As television has come more and more into its own in recent years, the gaps between what we might have seen exclusively on the big screen and less so on TV has become less apparent. Certainly big budget TV series feel more cinematic and can […]

Whatever Happened To: Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man

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The story behind Edgar Wright’s unmade Ant-Man movie… Since launching back in 2008, Marvel Studios has went on to enjoy unprecedented box office success, churning out hit after hit to make the Marvel Cinematic Universe the highest-grossing movie franchise in history. While there’s been plenty of good fortune along the way, it hasn’t always been […]

First trailer for Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie

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After yesterday’s teaser, we now have the the full trailer for Last Night in Soho has been released, director Edgar Wright’s Wright’s moody psychological thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace) . Watch the trailer below… A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where […]

Teaser for Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho brings the moody lighting and ’60s style!

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Ahead of Tuesday’s trailer for Edgar Wright’s pandemic delayed Last Night in Soho, the official Twitter account for the movie released a teaser for the Anya Taylor-Joy thriller. Check it out in all of it’s neon-lit beauty below… SEE ALSO: Anya Taylor-Joy teases Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, calls it a “well-directed acid trip” […]

Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers will open Sundance London 2021

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The Sundance Institute and Picturehouse Cinemas have announced that Edgar Wright’s debut documentary The Sparks Brothers will open the 2021 edition of Sundance Film Festival: London on July 29th. “I was just 5 years old when I was hypnotised by Ron & Russell Mael (collectively Sparks) staring at me from the telly on a 1979 […]

Anya Taylor-Joy teases Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, calls it a “well-directed acid trip”

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Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) is set to release Last Night in Soho later this year which is being described as a “psychological horror-thriller” taking place in London’s Soho district. During an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Bloody Disgusting), one of the main actors of the film, Anya Taylor-Joy, has […]

Focus Features acquires Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers

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Sundance darling The Sparks Brothers has found a home with Focus Features. The documentary received rave reviews from critics and audiences and will now see a wide release through the distribution company. The Sparks Brothers offer a look at siblings Ron and Russell Mael, the duo that makes up the enigmatic rock-pop duo known as […]

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Sparks Brothers

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The Sparks Brothers, 2021. Directed by Edgar Wright. SYNOPSIS: How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band. As […]

Edgar Wright confirms Baby Driver 2 script is finished

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Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) has provided an update on the highly-anticipated sequel to Baby Driver after been silent about the project for two years by confirming that the script is officially complete. “It’s written,” Wright shared of the Baby Driver sequel in an interview with Variety. “I’ve actually written three drafts of it.. It’s funny, you […]