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‘Klaus’ And ‘I Lost My Body’ Win Big At 2020 Annie Awards As Netflix Dominates By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2020 8:30 am EST The race to the Oscars heats up with the annual Annie Awards, held every year by the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Association. While the ceremony is usually a predictor for only one major category at the Academy Awards, the unusual domination of Netflix over Disney may point to a huge shake-up at the Oscars this year....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Wants To Redefine How We Talk About “Strong Female Characters” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2021 9:30 am EST The term “strong female character” is bandied about in Hollywood so much that it’s lost much of its meaning. It’s become a buzz word to describe physically strong and usually stoic female characters — not the emotionally nuanced and complex characters that should be the first thing to come to mind....

‘Scream 5’ Adds ‘The Boys’ Star Jack Quaid By Ben Pearson/Sept. 1, 2020 12:30 pm EST Scream 5 has snagged another potential victim…or possibly even a killer. Paramount Pictures’ confusingly titled Scream, the upcoming fifth entry in its long-running horror film franchise, will feature The Boys star Jack Quaid in a mysterious role. Read what we know about the movie so far below. ‘Scream 5’ Adds ‘The Boys’ Star Jack Quaid...

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Showrunner Talks New Tech And Ships 930 Years In The Future [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 1, 2019 7:30 am EST CBS Television Studios held a panel on “Impact Storytelling” with four of its showrunners for the Television Critics Association. The panel included Dead to Me’s Liz Feldman, The Good Fight’s Michelle King, In the Dark’s Corinne Kingsbury and Star Trek: Discovery’s Michelle Paradise. The panel addressed how each show uses their narratives to discuss social issues....

‘The Midnight Sky’ Teaser Asks “Is Anyone Out There?” Ahead Of This Week’s Full Trailer By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 26, 2020 5:00 pm EST George Clooney’s new Netflix movie The Midnight Sky is dropping its full trailer later this week. But first, here’s an enigmatic little teaser that gives absolutely nothing away, but does put Clooney’s name in big letters. It’s the teasiest of teasers – 43 seconds of footage that essentially winks at the audience and says, “Check back with us later!...

‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Cast To Reprise Their Roles For Universal Studios Hollywood Theme Park Ride By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 22, 2020 10:00 am EST The Secret Life of Pets is coming back with the upcoming Universal Studios Hollywood attraction The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! But a Secret Life of Pets theme park ride wouldn’t be complete without the celebrity voices that helped make the Illumination animated films box office hits....

‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Adds ‘Someone Great’ Writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 11, 2020 7:00 am EST Thor: Love and Thunder is getting a little more writing love from a new scribe. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who wrote and directed the Netflix dramedy Someone Great and created the MTV dark comedy Sweet/Vicious, has been tapped as a new writer on the project, alongside director Taika Waititi. She will help shape the script with Waititi, who just won an Oscar for Jojo Rabbit....

‘WandaVision’ Trailer: Reality Gets Distorted In Wanda And Vision’s Happily Ever After By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 27, 2020 9:00 am EST Vision is dead. Thanos killed him by removing the Mind Stone from his head during the climactic battle of Avengers: Infinity War. But somehow, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) finds herself living a happily ever after with her synthetic significant other (Paul Bettany) in a picture perfect sitcom world in Marvel’s new series WandaVision....

‘Wasp Network’ Review: Even Recut, It’s Still A Clunker [NYFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Oct. 18, 2019 4:00 pm EST Assayas must have had his reasons for taking on a project like Wasp Network, a tale of espionage and counterterrorism. Whatever they were, however, do not come through clearly. The film offers few pleasures beyond the crossing of wires in its tale of tangled alliances in post-Cold War Cuba. Assayas becomes so subservient to the sheer volume of events and information he must bring to life that the film completely subsumes any sense of personal style or voice....

‘Without Remorse’ Teaser Trailer: Michael B. Jordan Becomes A Tom Clancy Character By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2019 7:30 am EST Michael B. Jordan has upheld the legacy of Apollo Creed and taken on the king of Wakanda, and now he’ll dive into the world of Tom Clancy in Without Remorse, an adaptation of the book of the same name that focuses on one of the author’s recurring characters. The first Without Remorse teaser trailer has arrived, and while it doesn’t really feature much footage, it does promise an intriguing mystery set in the heart of the military....

3 Ways Hollywood May Change Permanently After The Pandemic By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 24, 2020 11:30 am EST The resounding wish throughout the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is for things to return to normal. But as the pandemic wears on, it’s becoming increasingly clear that nothing — the state of the economy, the medical industry, the way that people conduct their daily lives — will be able to return to that state of “normalcy” that we crave....

A24 Is Auctioning Off Film Props, Including The Bejeweled Furby From ‘Uncut Gems,’ For Coronavirus Charities By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 22, 2020 12:30 pm EST This is how we all win: with a massive A24 auction of the studio’s most iconic film props in which the proceeds will go to charities helping those hit hardest by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The studio announced an online A24 Auction for props from acclaimed films like Midsommar, The Lighthouse, Eighth Grade, and of course, Uncut Gems and its famed bejeweled Furby....

Anthony Mackie Thinks The Only Place To Work With “Filmmakers You Adore” Is On Streaming By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 3:30 pm EST Anthony Mackie may be the star of one of the biggest franchises in the world, but he’s probably on your computer screen (or if you’re really fancy, your television via a streaming device) more often than he’s on the silver screen. Many actors, once they make it big, are reluctant to go back to TV or streaming unless it’s a big prestige project....

Cool Stuff: Super7 ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Figures Give The Original Playmates Toys A Detailed Makeover By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2019 6:00 am EST NECA has been crushing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure game in the past couple years. Not only have they released incredibly detailed figures that accurately recreate the look of the characters in the original movie from 1990, but they’ve also given the animated series version of the heroes in a half-shell the perfect figures too....

Disney+ Cut A ‘Saludos Amigos’ Scene With Goofy Smoking, But Left Another Smoking Scene Untouched By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2020 1:30 pm EST Subscribers to Disney+ have been enjoying access to a big library of classic movies from the House of Mouse that otherwise haven’t always been easily available. This includes several titles that contain “outdated cultural depictions,” which are pointed out in the synopses of movies such as Saludos Amigos....

How ‘Hamilton’ Director Thomas Kail Translated The Stage Sensation To The Screen [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 30, 2020 11:00 am EST Accessibility has always been the bane of theater. The Richard Rodgers Theatre can only house so many people in its seats, and the cast of Hamilton can only perform eight shows a week for so long. But before that moment could fade, Hamilton director Thomas Kail wanted to shatter the show’s long-held reputation of exclusivity and share “the energy of what it was like to be in the Richard Rodgers Theatre in June of 2016, because I never felt anything like that....

Margaret Qualley Will Get ‘A Head Full Of Ghosts’ From Director Scott Cooper By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2020 4:00 pm EST Margaret Qualley is going to find herself with A Head Full of Ghosts for her next feature film, starring in the adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s psychological horror novel directed by Scott Cooper. Cooper, best known for directing Crazy Heart, Black Mass, and most recently, Hostiles, is taking over directing duties from The Blackcoat’s Daughter director Oz Perkins, who was attached to A Head Full of Ghosts back in 2018....

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Gets A November Release In Theaters And On Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2019 7:40 am EST Just last week, we heard Netflix and a couple major movie theater chains were struggling to work out a deal for the theatrical release Martin Scorsese’s upcoming mob drama The Irishman. Movie theaters wanted a more traditional three month window in which the movie could play in theaters before it was added to Netflix’s library, but the streaming service didn’t want it to be in theaters for more than a few weeks....

Michael Giacchino’s Short Film ‘Monster Challenge’ Starring Patton Oswalt Is Available Online Now By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 20, 2020 12:00 pm EST Two years after Michael Giacchino’s directorial debut premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Monster Challenge finally stalks online today. The short film, which stars Patton Oswalt playing himself as an unwitting participant of a series of outrageous challenges inspired by Japanese game shows, is available to watch online now....

Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ Is Getting Adapted Into A Star-Studded Audiobook Featuring James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2020 8:00 am EST Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman has long been one of Hollywood’s white whales — a seemingly unadaptable series following the adventures of the physical embodiment of Dreams that the industry has tried and failed to bring to the big screen for years. But while chatter of the in-development Netflix series has (unsurprisingly) died down, The Sandman will be adapted in another medium for the first time: audiobooks....