The Writer’s Guild of America have been on strike for more than one hundred days, making it one of the longest in the industry’s history. Per Variety, representatives from the guild met with film studio heads last week to negotiate offers for the first time since May, and the WGA are slated to respond later … Read more
There’s this term that gets thrown around a lot to describe a certain kind of movie. The kind that, especially now in the summer blockbuster season, you find a lot of. Movies that you just turn your brain off for and have fun, the popcorn flick. I don’t have an inherent problem with the term. … Read more
Scream 2 is perhaps the best film in the series, while the Nancy Loomis reveal is still one of the best plot twists in movie history. Timothy Olyphant, who played an instrumental role in the film’s climactic ending as Mickey Altieri, reflected on the “overwhelming” experience of working on the sequel. With a career spanning … Read more
Louis Leterrier, the director behind Fast X, has clarified comments made by Vin Diesel concerning a potential “trilogy” to close out the racing franchise. Fast X Part 1 premiered in May, and while it was conceived as the first of two films to finalise the franchise, Diesel suggested at the film’s premiere in Rome that we could expect … Read more
It’s sometimes hard to imagine the film landscape for superheroes before the rampant saturation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008. Sometimes, it’s good to go back to the days before the MCU and remind ourselves of what made the superhero genre so good, particularly during the turn of the millennium. There are, of course, … Read more
Seth Rogen’s recent track record with comic book adaptations speaks for itself. The Boys (2019-) is one of the best comic book media out there right now, and while I didn’t love Invincible (2021-), it has more good things going for it than bad. However, both of those feature decidedly adult content, whereas Teenage Mutant … Read more
Disney has outlined a ‘quality over quantity’ method for the future – following a recent string of box office disappointments. Disney are looking to reduce the number of releases and budgets where they can following the recent Q3 Earnings Call. In a statement from Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, the company were … Read more
The potential for a sequel to the Uncharted adaptation seems increasingly likely after Charles Roven, a Sony Pictures producer, suggested the studio had plans for more films. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter (per a report from GamesRadar), Roven confirmed interest in making Uncharted 2 and was optimistic about expanding the adaptation into a franchise. “Oh yeah!” said Roven. “We had … Read more
With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie having crossed a billion dollars at the box office, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer making its way to becoming the director’s most commercially successful film outside of his Dark Knight trilogy, it’s easy to forget that there’s another juggernaut currently playing in theatres this summer: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. The … Read more
Visual effects (VFX) crews employed by Marvel Studios have voted to unionize, as announced by IATSE on Monday. “A supermajority of Marvel’s more than 50-worker crew had signed authorization cards indicating they wished to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE),” a press release reads, courtesy of a story from Variety. The … Read more
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