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Today, it’s impossible to imagine David Fincher directing a superhero movie. Honestly, in 1994, it was kind of impossible, too. Considering the hell Fincher went through making Alien³, it seemed like he was done with franchise filmmaking entirely. But leave it to screenwriter David S. Goyer to reveal that he and Fincher developed a Blade movie together before Se7en came along. In a conversation bursting with interesting tidbits about the last 30 years of genre filmmaking, David S. Goyer told Jos…
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Who’s ready to return to Office? Less than 24 hours after the WGA announced its tentative deal with the AMPTP, Puck reports that U.S. series creator Greg Daniels is returning to Dunder Mifflin for a reboot of his massively successful sitcom. Another U.S. remake of the series would mark the 11th incarnation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s original show. Of course, this isn’t the first we’ve heard of bringing The Office back. In 2019, following the success of the Will & Grace revival,…
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As the WGA celebrates its overwhelming victory and writers pick their pencils up again, The Daily Show and its late-night compatriots prepare to return to work. Comedy Central announced its flagship news and talk show would grace cable again on October 16, with “all-star guest hosts for the rest of 2023.” After that, it’s anyone’s guess. Two weeks ago, Comedy Central’s favorite for the gig, Hasan Minhaj, found himself at the center of a maelstrom about the importance of truth in comedy. Minhaj…
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It’s Christmas in October because John Woo has finally come back to Hollywood. For the first time since 2003’s Paycheck, Woo is in the U.S. with a pistol in each hand and a flock of doves fluttering around him. His latest Silent Night promises a return to form for the master of action movies and a challenge for him. Simply put: The title is a dare. Silent Night stars Joel Kinnaman, a tormented father who watched his young son gunned down amid gang violence on Christmas Eve. Left without a son…
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A24 has gazed upon the multiverse of madness, and it likes what it sees. Following the $100-million success and Oscar sweep for the Marvel-esque Everything Everywhere All At Once, A24 is looking to pull a page from the Netflix playbook: Leveraging its arthouse and awards show bonafides into more commercial prospects. Per The Wrap, A24 is looking into “action and big IP projects” while “deemphasizing the traditional character/auteur-driven dramas.” While the report comes from a series of anonymou…
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Six years after the finale of Orphan Black, the Canadian sci-fi mystery that showed off the many sides of Tatiana Maslany, a new clone is emerging from the pod of pink goo for another mystery. Krysten Ritter takes over for Maslany in the first teaser for Orphan Black: Echoes, “a unique copy” of the original series—which is to say, a spin-off series. The series launches in 2024, but AMC is getting all clones aboard the hype train by releasing the first teaser. Unsurprisingly, there’s not a lot…
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For all the talk of Alien sequels over the last few years, we haven’t heard much about the one from Fede Álvarez, the director of Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead. We know Neill Blomkamp isn’t directing an Alien and that Noah Hawley has a TV series on the way. As for Álvarez, his film is done and ready for Ridley Scott’s discerning eye. Appearing yesterday at the DGA Latino Summit in Los Angeles, Álvarez was in conversation with Guillermo del Toro and revealed that his director’s cut of Alie…
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Despite all the talk of noses in Bradley Cooper’s already-controversial portrayal of the legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, the latest trailer for Netflix’s Oscars offering Maestro focuses on the plot. Carey Mulligan and her Katharine Hepburn-inspired, Mid-Atlantic accent steal the spotlight from Cooper’s schnoz as the trailer reveals that living with the world’s most revered composer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Mulligan plays Felicia, Bernstein’s wife, who learns from Berstein’s sister…
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People like to think that Marvel created Hollywood’s love affair with shared universes, where popular characters pop up in, let’s say, unexpected places. Back when the idea of Spider-Man appearing in a movie starring Captain America would get you laughed out of Tinsel Town, America’s ad wizards were bringing together everyone’s favorite things, like OnStar and Batman, creating cross brand synergy for creators to tell their stories. More recently, Mean Girls aficionados are the latest fandom pl…
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2003 was an exciting time for Christmas movies. As Love Actually and Bad Santa gave adults a reason to get in the spirit, a little film about a big elf became a box office heavyweight. Jon Favreau’s Elf turns 20 on November 7, and it remains the most enduring and best Christmas film of the era for a reason. After the overblown, star-focused family comedies of the ’90s, the Christmas cheer was in short supply. While 2003 signaled a return to form for the holiday genre, the ’90s were on the nau…
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Following last year’s reality TV home deconstruction project, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder returns to screens this week with The Curse. True to form, the series sees Fielder, who also directs and co-writes, and Emma Stone starring as aspiring HGTV gentrifiers Asher and Whitney Siegel. Co-written by Benny Safdie, who appears on the show as Dougie Schecter, the director of the Siegels’ house-flipping show, The Curse tests the limits of reality TV in ways that reveal the craven, self-interested i…
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