The Hollywood Reporter continued their Directors Roundtable series with an in-depth discussion between Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips (Joker), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes). The hour-long interview covers a wide range of interesting topics about filmmaking and the entertainment industry, with a good chunk of time devoted to the current state of movies in the streaming era. Scorsese goes into what he feels has changed about the industry for better and for worse, illustrating the fact that it took his star-studded film The …
If you've enjoyed a comic book from the past 20ish years, chances are Brian K. Vaughan has had something to do with it. A multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winner, Vaughan's sterling titles include Saga, Y: The Last Man, and Runaways, which was recently turned into a Marvel/Hulu show. But around 10 years ago, roughly at the same time when Vaughan was writing for Lost, he wrote a darkly comedic high-concept feature screenplay called Roundtable. It ranked high on The Black List, an industry list of well-liked, unproduced screenplays. And now, while it's not …
While we know almost nothing about Avengers: Endgame, all involved have made it very clear that this is a culmination event for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What began in 2008 as a risky gamble called Iron Man is now one of the most successful and consistently popular film franchises in history. But a decade on, it appears we’re due for a changing of the guards of sorts. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has made clear that it’s no coincidence that the dusting at the end of Avengers: Infinity War left us with the original Avengers surviving: Tony Stark (…