Magic and romance can't fix everything, folks.

Last week I conducted an interview with Kenneth Branagh for our ongoing remote interview series Collider Connected. As you’ve hopefully seen in our previous episodes, Collider Connected allows us to go in-depth with our subjects due to the length of the conversations, and the discussion with Branagh was no different. Over the course of the extended interview, Branagh talked about a ton of things including making Artemis Fowl, how he got into directing movies with Henry V, being an uncredited extra in Chariots of Fire when he was nineteen, how he’s thinking about doing an animated Shakespeare …

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Folks, Disney’s $125 million adaptation of Artemis Fowl was finally dumped released on Disney+ this weekend after a year of delays and reshoots. The story of a boy genius searching for his missing father and nearly starting a race war with the magical world of faeries, the movie is the kind of expensive gibberish that sends studio executives flying out of their penthouse windows. (Luckily, Disney learned to put bouncy castles on the roofs of all of their valet stands after John Carter and The Lone Ranger.) It’s not just bad – it is astoundingly, fascinatingly awful, a film …

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Artemis Fowl goes in a different direction than its book, but it's certainly not the first adaptation to do so.

Artemis Fowl, released last weekend on Disney+, is an almost incomprehensibly bad film in which Josh Gad shoots dirt out of his ass like a woodchipper and the main character keeps visibly aging and de-aging between scenes like a YA Benjamin Button. The film is a cursëd artifact, one I'd normally recommend burying at the bottom of the ocean like a foul mythical beast were it not for the genuinely fascinating performance by Judi Dench as Commander Julius Root of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance. In Artemis Fowl, Seven-time Olivier Award-winner Judi Dench—one of …

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Artemis Fowl is based off a series of best-selling young adult novels. It combines high tech with mythological creatures led by a kid who's a criminal mastermind. This should be a slam-dunk, but Kenneth Branagh's adaptation is a chore. I'm not exactly sure where this movie went so wrong, whether it was at a script level or in its reshoots, but the result is a movie that goes pretty much nowhere, and I mean that literally. For a film that teased some globetrotting adventure and a wild journey, Artemis Fowl is largely a siege picture …

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With the feature film adaptation of Artemis Fowl poised to debut on Disney+ this Friday, cast member Lara McDonnell, who plays Holly Short in the film, shared with us what she's been doing to pass the time during quarantine.

Kenneth Branagh has assembled some of his frequent collaborators for his new Disney+ film Artemis Fowl.

In April 2018, a group of fellow journalists and I visited the set of Artemis Fowl in England. The film, which arrives on Disney+ on June 12th, follows young Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) and his trusted guardian Domovoi Butler (Nonso Anozie) as they cross over into the world of faeries to rescue Artemis' father (Colin Farrell). During our visit, we got to talk with Josh Gad, who plays the thieving dwarf Mulch Diggums who becomes a partner to Artemis on his quest. Gad talked about reteaming with director Kenneth Branagh, the compliment he received from Judi Dench that made him …

Disney has released a new clip from Kenneth Branagh‘s upcoming film, Artemis Fowl. The movie follows young supergenius Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) and his guardian Butler (Nonso Anozie) as they search for Artemis’ missing father (Colin Farrell), who has been kidnapped by a mysterious figure. In order to rescue his father, Artemis must pay the ransom by executing a dangerous plan, which eventually has him crossing paths with all sorts of mystical creatures. In this clip, you can see that Artemis and his father don't get on too well because the elder Fowl is always leaving on his …

In April 2018, a group of fellow journalists and I visited the set of Artemis Fowl in England. The film, which arrives on Disney+ on June 12th, follows young Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) and his trusted guardian Domovoi Butler (Nonso Anozie) as they cross over into the world of faeries to rescue Artemis' father (Colin Farrell). During our visit, we got to talk with Anozie about the film. We discuss his martial arts training to play Artemis' protector, reteaming with director Kenneth Branagh, the look of his character, his character's relationship with Artemis versus his niece, the benefit of …

Artemis Fowl's Nonso Anozie says one scene he filmed for the movie was "the most crazy" thing he's ever shot -- and he was on Game of Thrones.