By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 3, 2020 1:30 pm EST The Magicians has cast its last spell. The beloved fantasy series has been canceled by Syfy after five seasons, with the show’s season 5 finale, set to air on April 1, now set to serve as the series finale. But it was a cancellation that creators Sera Gamble and John McNamara foresaw (no, not through some prophetic ability), which allowed them to craft the season 5 finale into a proper series finale....
‘The Midnight Sky’ Featurette: George Clooney Hates The Cold By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2020 12:30 pm EST George Clooney hates cold. Probably because snow is cold, and wet, and gets everywhere. But he would sacrifice discomfort, even embrace it, for cinema. That’s the thrust of the latest The Midnight Sky featurette, which Netflix has released ahead of the Clooney-directed sci-fi epic’s release on the streaming service. The Midnight Sky Featurette...
By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2020 4:00 pm EST Here’s the somewhat wordy synopsis for The Peripheral book: Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby....
‘This Isn’t Me’ Is The Sex Positive, Open-Minded TV Comedy We Need [SXSW] By Amelia Emberwing/April 9, 2020 8:00 am EST (The SXSW Film Festival may have been cancelled, but our coverage will go on with reviews of films and TV shows made available to our critics.)You ever have one of those days where you feel like the you that everyone sees isn’t the real you? Like you’ve got these ideas in your head of how you want things to go, but absolutely nothing goes that way?...
By Ben Pearson/March 9, 2020 3:26 pm EST It has now been ten years since Tron: Legacy hit theaters, and while fans continue to hold out hope for a possible Tron 3, news has arrived that Disney+ has derezzed a Tron TV series that was being developed by writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Three Kings). The Hollywood Reporter brings the news about the Tron TV series being scrapped before it ever got its balance on its light cycle....
‘Work It’ Trailer: Sabrina Carpenter And Liza Koshy Bring It On In Netflix Dance Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2020 11:30 am EST Work It is a new dance comedy starring a bunch of Gen Z household names, including The Hate U Give’s Sabrina Carpenter, YouTuber Liza Koshy, and the hunky new romantic rival from To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Jordan Fisher. Netflix has released the trailer for Work It, which looks like a blend of beloved dance movies like Center Stage and Step Up, with a dash of Pitch Perfect....
‘Youth’ Will Rapidly Age Pierce Brosnan In New Science Fiction Drama By Chris Evangelista/June 11, 2020 5:00 pm EST Pierce Brosnan, the former Bond who has aged into a welcomed character actor, is set to star in the sci-fi thriller Youth. Brosnan will play a man in the not-too-distant future who undergoes a procedure to de-age himself. Unfortunately, the procedure backfires, and Brosnan’s character finds himself suddenly aging rapidly. The film is a feature-length adaptation of a short film directed by Brett Marty, who will also direct the feature....
By Ethan Anderton/June 17, 2020 8:00 am EST John Boyega may best be known for his role as a defected Stormtrooper turned Resistance hero in the most recent Star Wars trilogy, but back in 2011, his career was just taking off with a breakthrough performance in the sci-fi action comedy Attack the Block. Directed by Joe Cornish, the movie saw Boyega playing the leader of a teen gang in South London who have to protect their block from an alien invasion....
Cool Stuff: New ‘Star Wars’ Black Series And Vintage Collection Figures Dig Into The Clone Wars By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2019 6:00 am EST Hot on the heels of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker figures from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones coming to the Black Series line, another batch of figures inspired by the Battle of Geonosis will be coming in the spring of 2020 too. Count Dooku and a couple of Jedi Masters will be coming to shelves, as well as a different kind of Battle Droid....
Jessica Chastain And Anne Hathaway Are Rival Housewives In Psychological Thriller ‘Mothers’ Instinct’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 29, 2020 2:30 pm EST Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are going to play rival housewives in the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, the English-language remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 Belgian film Duelles. Masset-Depasse will be directing this English-language remake, which Chastain will also be producing.Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway have starred in films together before — namely Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar — but we never got to see these two talented actresses cross paths onscreen....
John Carpenter’s ‘Tales For A Halloween Night’ TV Series Is Alive At Paramount By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 24, 2019 11:00 am EST A TV series based on John Carpenter’s Tales for a Halloween Night comic book series was originally in development at SYFY, but earlier this year word arrived that the adaptation was dead. But anyone who has ever watched a horror movie can tell you that what’s dead doesn’t always stay dead....
Martin Scorsese Explains His Stance On Marvel Movies In New York Times Essay, So Now The Discourse Can Stop By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2019 7:30 am EST It’s been 84 years since Martin Scorsese lit the internet on fire with his less-than-glowing words about Marvel movies. After weeks of superhero fans whipping themselves into a frenzy over what “cinema” entails, and outlets cycling through every auteur they can find to comment on the outrage, the legendary filmmaker is stepping back into the conversation....
Michael Bay Is Turning Mark Greaney’s Audio Book ‘Armored’ Into An Action Film For Sony By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 21, 2020 3:30 pm EST Bayhem won’t even stop for a pandemic. Michael Bay is proving to be quite the lockdown busybody, following up his coronavirus-inspired thriller with a feature film adaptation of a new audiobook by Mark Greaney, Armored. Bay is producing the cartel crime drama with 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff for Sony and are looking to hire a writer for the project....
New ‘Back To The Future’ 4K Box Set Featurette Shows How Accurate Some Of The 2015 Props Turned Out To Be By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2020 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Back to the Future trilogy is getting re-released on home video yet again, but this time it will be in glorious 4K Ultra HD, the highest quality release of the trilogy yet....
New ‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge’ Teaser Arrives With Anthony Daniels Joining The Cast As C-3PO By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 12:30 pm EST There may not be a new Star Wars movie arriving in theaters this holiday season (there might not be any blockbusters arriving in theaters this holiday season), and theme parks may still be closed, but Lucasfilm is making up for it by releasing a new virtual reality video game experience called Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge....
Paramount Launching Paramount Presents, A Banner For Speciality Blu-Ray Releases And Theatrical Re-Releases By Chris Evangelista/March 10, 2020 3:00 pm EST While some studios have their fingers crossed that physical media will eventually die out, Paramount is going in the opposite direction with Paramount Presents. The new label plans to highlight films from Paramount’s library with specialty Blu-ray releases of remastered films and limited runs of classic titles in select theaters....
Phil Lord & Chris Miller’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ Brings In ‘The Martian’ Writer Drew Goddard By Chris Evangelista/June 19, 2020 10:30 am EST Project Hail Mary, another movie that will send Ryan Gosling into space, is bringing in Drew Goddard. Goddard has been tapped to help with the story for the Phil Lord and Chris Miller movie, making this the second time Goddard has adapted the work of author Andy Weir (Goddard also wrote the script for the adaptation of Weir’s book The Martian)....
The Best Movies Coming To Disney+ And Hulu In December 2020 By Ben Pearson/Nov. 22, 2020 12:00 pm EST It’s that time again: time for another batch of movies to be dropped onto Disney’s most popular streaming services, Disney+ and Hulu. As usual, we’re highlighting five favorites before sharing the entire list of titles that will be coming soon, so if you’ve hit a wall during quarantine and have run out of recommendations, maybe you’ll be interested in adding some of these to your queues....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Outsider’ Is A Supernatural Stephen King Mystery That Is Best When Binged By Jacob Hall/May 20, 2020 7:00 am EST After the fireworks of its first two hours, the series begins to slow down. Rather than let a shocking event propel the plot into overdrive, it instead taps the brakes as everyone affected stands among the ruins and tries to make sense of it all. The Outsider is less of a procedural and more of an exploration of belief....
Tom Holland And Kevin Feige Open Up About The Spider-Man Deal Debacle Between Disney And Sony By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2019 4:27 pm EST This past week, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were hit with the bomb that Disney and Sony Pictures might not be able to finalize a new deal to keep sharing the movie rights to Spider-Man. That means we may not see Spidey swinging around with The Avengers anymore, and that means Peter Parker would be playing in a much different sandbox in the creative control of Sony Pictures instead of Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios....
