Sofia Coppola has made her name in the industry outside of just the legacy of her family or by crafting massive blockbusters. Yet, there was almost a time when Coppola helmed one of the biggest franchise entries ever. Speaking to Rolling Stone in a new interview, the filmmaker takes time away from promoting Priscilla to […]
Jennifer Lawrence looks back at failed Twilight audition: “My life would’ve been totally different”
Could you imagine Jennifer Lawrence as Bella Swan instead of Katniss Everdeen? We almost had a world where Lawrence swapped one young adult adaptation for another. While appearing in an interview on The Rewatchables podcast, Lawrence looks back at her time auditioning for Twilight before she headed down the Hunger Games path, stating: “I auditioned for Twilight. […]
The Twilight Saga set for TV series adaptation
Prepare to revisit the compelling work of Stephenie Meyer once again, as Twilight mania will return. News broke from The Hollywood Reporter that Lionsgate is in the very early development of a television series based on The Twilight Saga. Per THR, The new Lionsgate Television project based on the wildly successful books and later films […]
The Most Incredibly Annoying Movie Characters
Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the most annoying movie characters ever… Cinema at its best delights and enthrals. For that to work, we need engaging characters we can get behind. There’s a problem though. Sometimes for an array of reasons, some characters just end up being incredibly annoying. It can be the cherry on […]
New Twilight book Midnight Sun confirmed by Stephenie Meyer
Twelve years after canceling the project due to an online leak, Stephenie Meyer is returning to the Twilight franchise. Meyer announced she would finally publish Midnight Sun, a retelling of her bestselling series from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective. “I am very excited to finally, finally announce the release of Midnight Sun on August 4th,” Stephanie Meyer […]
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and the Art of Career Transformation
Tom Jolliffe on films stars who re-invent themselves after career decline… Hollywood is unforgiving. You find a degree of success and get to the top. Maybe a string of flops send you crashing back to anonymity. You may still work solidly. Mickey Rourke for example, perceived to have disappeared around the beginning of the 90’s […]
The History of the Multi-Part Film, Part I of I
Pim Razenberg on Multi-Part Film franchising… In the 2015 article The Future of Franchising: The Shared Universe, I discussed the development of franchising strategies within Hollywood. In the 2010s, these strategies cumulated in the dawn of interconnected franchising through “cinematic universes”, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. Today, as we […]
New look at Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel vs. The Hulk, more Twilight and Hunger Games movies and more – Daily News Roundup
AWW! LOOK AT THE CUTE THING! Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, some brand new images from Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Star Wars: The Last Jedi were revealed yesterday, featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley), Luke (Mark Hamill), Finn (John Boyega), Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Chewbacca and the Ahch-To inhabitants the Porgs and […]
Lionsgate keen on more Twilight and The Hunger Games movies
Lionsgate scored a couple of big successes with its YA franchises Twilight and The Hunger Games, and although it completed its adaptations of both book series (even managing to get split the finales into two films apiece), it seems the studio is keen on resurrecting both properties. “There are a lot more stories to be […]
Trends and the Lack of Originality in Hollywood
Eric Bay-Andersen on trends and the lack of originality in Hollywood… At the beginning of this year I went to the cinema and saw a preview of all the big films coming out in 2016, and it really depressed me because almost every upcoming ‘event’ film was a sequel, a re-boot, or a prequel to […]
