According to The Hollywood Reporter, Danny Glover has been cast in Dreamgirls, the musical Bill Condon is directing for DreamWorks. Based on the stage musical, Dreamgirls follows the rise of a female singing group called the Dreamettes. The musical was a thinly veiled story of the Supremes. Beyonce Knowles already has been cast as Deena Jones, one of the Dreamettes, while Jamie Foxx has been cast as Svengali-like manager Curtis Taylor Jr....
David Milch’s Redboard Productions has entered into a new multi-year exclusive television deal with HBO, which will also cover any further services on the upcoming series Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman and debuting on the network Sunday, Jan. 29. Redboard has also concluded an agreement with the William Faulkner Literary Estate to produce films and television series based on selections from William Faulkner’s bibliography. The deal covers all of the 19 novels and 125 short stories in the estate, as well as other works, with the exception of those currently contracted with other parties....
South Korea has been one of cinema’s rising stars for quite some time. It has produced a significant number of the world’s most respected directors, including names like Bong Joon-ho, Lee Chang-dong, Kim Ki-duk, Hong Sang-soo, and Park Chan-wook. Whenever one of these master directors has a new movie coming out, the international film world will be quick to take notice. It is no surprise then that one of the most anticipated and promising movies of the year is Decision to Leave, the first film by Park Chan-wook in quite some time....
Park Chan-wook is iconic enough by now that his name alone will automatically make a new film seem interesting. That’s the contagious skill of great directors — it hardly matters what story they tell or which actors they cast; so long as their name is attached, you know what to expect. The thought of a Park movie immediately connotes a hyper-stylized combination of gorgeous imagery and sudden brutality, elitist classical music and slapstick comedy, truly disturbing plots, and incredibly luscious, romanticized cinema....
American actor and filmmaker Denzel Washington, is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of all time. Delivering raw and powerful performances in many gripping dramas, playing characters and real life people, such as the polarizing activist Malcolm X, a high school coach struggling with racial divisions in Remember The Titans, and real-life drug dealer and gangster, Frank Lucas, in American Gangster. Within his utterly compelling filmography, he similarly holds some equally enthralling action movies that fans of Washington surely love....
British network ITV has renewed the critically-acclaimed drama series Downton Abbey for Season 4. The news comes three weeks after the Season 3 finale aired in the U.K., and six weeks before Season 3 debuts in the United States on PBS. Although an official announcement hasn’t been made yet, PBS is expected to air Downton Abbey Season 4 in the U.S. ITV picked up eight new episodes for Season 4, with production scheduled to begin in February 2013....
There have been many stories of battles between movie directors and film studios about what a film should look like but you would think by the time Scream arrived in 1996, Wes Craven had done enough to gain the trust of the top brass of Dimension Films and avoid any kind of tussle over who was best placed to dictate how the movie panned out on screen. After all, by this time he had created A Nightmare on Elm Street- the movie that essentially saved New Line Cinema from going out of business a decade earlier - and only a year before Scream has reinvigorated Freddy Kruger with Wes Craven’s New Nightmare....
In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Rashida Jones will star opposite Paul Rudd in My Idiot Brother. Jesse Peretz is directing. Rudd is playing an idealist dealing with his overbearing mother who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and, in succession, brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives while also wreaking havoc. Banks, Deschanel and Mortimer are going to play the sisters....
Ernest Borgnine has had an acting profession that spans more than 60 years in both television and movies. Borgnine played memorable parts in iconic family movies, adventure flicks, westerns, television comedies, and illustrated children’s blockbusters and shows. Borgnine, who was born in 1917, transitioned from the Navy to performing. Despite the fact that he was frequently cast in secondary roles, he is most famous for playing the protagonist in Marty. In the latter half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century, Borgnine continued to produce a lot of work....
Ethan Hawke’s upcoming film, Wildcat, looks into Flannery O’Connor’s life. Starring Maya Hawke as O’Connor, it will follow her struggles to publish her first novel and explore themes important to all artists. The film features an impressive ensemble cast, including Oscar-nominee Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger (First Reformed), Rafael Casal (Blindspotting), Steve Zahn (White Lotus), Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza), and more. In addition to directing and producing Wildcat, Ethan co-wrote the script with Shelby Gaines....
Essie Davis has a kind of graceful formlessness to her. Like Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, there is almost a lack of ego in her which allows her to completely change depending on the role; she doesn’t inhabit characters, they inhabit her. From her many years starring as Miss Fisher and her acclaimed parts in shows like The Slap and Game of Thrones, to her international breakout in the modern masterpiece The Babadook and the acclaim of her recent role in Nitram, Davis is so good that more people know her characters’ names than her own....
Saving kittens in peril and posting no-dog-poop signs around the neighborhood isn’t the most glamorous job, but for somebody like Kevin, it’s heaven. In Koala Man, Hulu’s clever new animated series, middle-aged Kevin (voiced by Aussie Michael Cusack who also created the series) wants to keep his town, Dapto, in check. With nary a superpower or the physique to tackle, oh, real crime, Kevin certainly means well. He can wear a koala bear mask like no other....
The Austin, Texas-based SXSW Festival was the first major film festival to shut down in 2020 amidst soaring concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic. While last year’s festival was a purely digital experience, this year’s SXSW promises to be a hybrid of in-person and virtual events, including keynote and featured speakers, art installations and exhibitions, and, of course, movie premieres. Indeed, countless popular movies have premiered at SXSW in the past, from Bridesmaids and Baby Driver to Jakob’s Wife and A Quiet Place....
We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip for the new Falling Down Deluxe Edition, which will hit the shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on May 26. Click below for our exclusive clip, which features commentary by director Joel Schumacher talking about why he chose Michael Douglas for the lead role. Freeways are clogged. Terror stalks our cities. At shops and restaurants, the customer is seldom right. Pressures of big-city life can anger anyone....
Life Is Hot in Cracktown hits DVD August 25th, and we have an exclusive video featurette that takes the viewer behind the scenes of Buddy Giovinazzo’s latest drama. To learn how the director turned downtown Los Angeles into Cracktown, check out our clip below: Life Is Hot in Cracktown shows the gritty, hard realities of a drug neighborhood, as well as the struggling, proud people who try to survive there everyday....
We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming film Felon, which hits theaters on July 18. Click below for your exclusive first look at this film, featuring Val Kilmer explaining his extensive collection of tattoos. Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) lives a modest but comfortable life with a young family, a fledgling business and a promising future ahead.But in an instant, his life, and that of everyone he loves is threatened and possibly gone forever when he’s convicted of killing a man while protecting his fiancée, Laura (Marisol Nichols) and their three year old son....
Sometimes nostalgia can carry the vision of rose-colored glasses. Often times when one looks back on an older film, that film is better than they remembered it. In the case of Fantastic Four (2005), fans often remember this film as a disaster. However, when sitting down and reviewing the movie, there are many reasons why this film should be considered one of the best adaptations of Marvel’s first family. Here we are going to discuss reasons why this film doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it is often associated with....
Peter Rice, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Networks Group; and Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, today unveiled the Fox primetime schedule for the 2012-2013 television season to the national advertising community during its annual Programming Presentation at the Beacon Theatre. “Television continues to be the most vibrant, emotionally rich platform in the world,” said Rice. “Fox has been the No. 1 network for eight seasons by delivering groundbreaking, engaging and culturally relevant shows that connect with our audience, not only on-air, but wherever they are in the digital or social space....
Fox has ordered an additional nine episodes of The Cleveland Show, the highly anticipated spin-off, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. Additionally, Arianna Huffington has been tapped for a recurring role and joins previously announced series regulars Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Kevin Michael Richardson, Mike Henry and Seth MacFarlane. “Fox picking up nine more episodes of our show is proof that an African-American can make it in this country,” said Cleveland Brown....
You can bring two more adventures of Jason Voorhes home in brand new Deluxe Edition DVD’s this September. Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan will be released in new Deluxe Edition DVD’s on September 15. We have no pricing details or cover art as of yet, but we’ll be sure to update this story as soon as we have more information....
