The Walt Disney Company, in a cost-cutting move, is planning on beginning layoffs, implementing a targeted hiring freeze, and limiting company travel.
Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid didn't hold back for the video game adaptation, explaining that R-rating.
Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid has detailed the extent of the brutality in the R-rated reboot of the film series.
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It’s probably no surprise to hear that Minari is generating serious Oscar buzz. The drama directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring The Walking Dead veteran Steven Yeun is one of the best-reviewed films of the year (it’s currently sitting at 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and holding since its debut at Sundance this past January). As reported by Variety, the film is finally getting a theatrical release, with a limited Oscar-qualifying run beginning December 11 in New York and Los Angeles. A wider rollout is set to begin February 12, with a plan to continue …
Animation is an ever-evolving medium, and the upcoming Netflix limited series The Liberator stands as proof of that fact, using a new technique to tell the story of an infantry unit which fought for over 500 days during World War II. The official description, as provided by Netflix: On September 9th 1943, over three thousand naval vessels and 150, 000 troops began Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of Italy... In an attempt to achieve tactical surprise, the allies forgo naval and air bombardment. But the invasion surprised no one and was met by fierce German resistance. By the second …
Jake Gyllenhaal has set up a new television project that will no doubt attract major attention. The project in question is a limited series adaptation of Jo Nesbø's book The Son. If Nesbø's name rings a bell, it's because also wrote The Snowman, which was (infamously) adapted into a 2017 movie starring Michael Fassbender. Gyllenhaal's involvement in The Son marks the second big TV project for the actor — a notable anomaly considering his resumé has been populated with movie roles and one-off guest appearances on the occasional TV show. [caption id="attachment_938829" align="alignright" width="…
America’s favorite serial killer will return to Showtime, which has ordered a new 10-episode Dexter limited series that will once again star Michael C. Hall. Clyde Phillips will return as showrunner, and the limited series is set to begin production early next year, with a tentative premiere date in the fall of 2021. “Dexter is such a special series, both for its millions of fans and for Showtime, as this breakthrough show helped put our network on the map many years ago,” said Showtime president Gary Levine, who made the announcement on Wednesday with Jana Winograde. “We would …
Another tale of Manichean struggle is set to hit our screens this December with CBS All Access’ adaptation of The Stand, and now a new trailer has arrived. Based on the epic novel by Stephen King, the story takes place in the fallout of a worldwide pandemic where the survivors find themselves caught in a battle between good and evil. It’s been fascinating to watch the King resurgence over the past few years, and I’m curious to see how that carries over into interest for The Stand. The book was previously adapted into a miniseries in 1994 and …
After mining the depths of American Crime Stories and American Horror Stories to wildly successful results, prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy will combine these two impulses. Per Deadline, Murphy is bringing the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to Netflix in the form of a limited series called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. And he's bringing quite the creative team with him. Monster (which, it must be said, is also the name of the Charlize Theron-Oscar winning examination of killer Aileen Wuornos' life, and I do find that weird) comes from co-creators Murphy and Ian Brennan, the …
Two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain is set to play country music legend Tammy Wynette in the limited series George & Tammy, which will debut exclusively on Spectrum for that cable company's subscribers before making its way to Paramount Network and ViacomCBS' forthcoming streaming service nine months later. Created by Abe Sylvia (Dead to Me), the limited series follows country music power couple George Jones and Tammy Wynette, whose complicated relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time. Known as the “First Lady of country music,” Wynette’s lyrics tackled serious issues including loneliness, divorce and …
The official trailer for FX on Hulu's A Teacher has arrived. The 10-episode limited series stars Kate Mara and Nick Robinson as a teacher and her student who must face the serious consequences of their illicit (and very illegal) affair. A Teacher comes from creator, writer, director, and executive producer Hannah Fidell. Fidell also wrote and directed the 2013 indie of the same name on which the series is based. [caption id="attachment_926987" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via FX on Hulu[/caption] The trailer for A Teacher hits what will likely be the big beats of the …
https://youtu.be/Cj6AUuRs1A4 https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps5/ Welcome to a new world of immersion. Discover haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and 3D audio on PS5. PLAY HAS NO LIMITS™ Sony is gearing up for the launch of the PlayStation 5 but is slow to rollout any new details about the upcoming console release. The first global ad spot for the PS5 launched today in order to highlight the tech that will literally be in the hands of gamers all around the world this holiday season. But the spot was light on details, as was the …
After working together on Vice and Talladega Nights, Amy Adams and Adam McKay are reteaming for a third time on Kings of America, a Netflix limited series about a famous lawsuit involving Walmart. Kings of America hails from creator Jess Kimball Leslie, a journalist/author who will write the script and serve as an executive producer on the series, which follows three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world's largest company -- a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class …
Despite having more than 40 projects in development around town, Adam McKay is slapping his name on one more, hopping back into business with HBO on an untitled limited series about the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine. HBO has optioned the non-fiction book The First Show from author Brendan Borrell, who writes for the New York Times, the Atlantic and Wired, the latter of which published his piece The Dire Diplomacy of the Global 'Race for a Vaccine.' The book will explore the people and companies risking everything to find a vaccine, as well as the science it'…
From writer/director Gavin Rothery, the indie sci-fi drama Archive is set in 2038 and follows George Almore (Theo James), who has isolated himself while working on a true human-equivalent AI. Having built on each of his two previous robot prototypes, the risk of failure is high, as his goal is to be reunited with his dead wife. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, British actor Theo James talked about responding the more existential themes of this script, why the filmmaker’s vision interested him, what having actors in the larger robot suits and getting …
Mahershala Ali is making moves under his first-look deal at HBO, as the two-time Oscar winner and True Detective star is set to play legendary boxer Jack Johnson in a limited series titled Unruly that Ali will executive produce with Tom Hanks and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Unruly is described as an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Jack Johnson, the so-called Galveston Giant who rose to greatness and became the world’s first Black heavyweight champ (1908–1915) at the height of the Jim Crow era. Tony-nominated scribe Dominique Morisseau will write the six-…
Oscar-nominated actor Michael Keaton has signed on to star in Hulu's eight-episode limited series Dopesick, which concerns the opioid crisis ravaging America. Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) will direct from a script by Emmy winner Danny Strong (Game Change), who adapted Beth Macy's bestselling book of the same name. Levinson, Strong, Macy and Keaton will executive produce Dopesick alongside John Goldwyn (Dexter), Warren Littlefield (Fargo) and Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight), and the series hails from Fox 21 Television Studios and The Littlefield Company. The show is expected to premiere on Hulu in 2021. Hulu describes Dopesick …