Oscar-nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog and Professor Clive Oppenheimer are teaming up once again to direct the feature documentary Fireball for Apple TV+, the streamer announced Friday. Per Apple, Fireball aims to take viewers on an extraordinary journey to discover how shooting stars, meteorites and deep impacts have focused the human imagination on other realms and worlds, and on our past and our future. Hailing from Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film, Fireball will be produced by André Singer and Lucki Stipetić, and executive produced by Richard Melman. The documentary is being made with the help and support of Sandbox …

From creator Elwood Reid and based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Annie Proulx, the National Geographic eight-part limited series Barkskins transports viewers to the wild frontier of the late 17th century, as the mysterious massacre of settlers in New France threatens to tear everything apart. This treacherous new frontier forces the collision between civilization and commerce, while the dream of carving out their own place on the new American continent turns into a fight for survival. The series stars David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor, Christian Cooke, David Wilmot, Thomas M. …

Thanks to Disney+'s newest original series The Mandalorian, the world has baby Yoda fever and it's not hard to see why. The reveal of an impossibly adorable baby Yoda (officially referred to as "The Child" in the Star Wars canon but let's be real here: it's a behbeh Yoda) at the end of the series premiere and repeat displays of adorableness in Episode 2 have made this little green guy a household name. Baby Yoda's powers of cuteness are so overwhelming, in fact, that its mere existence made another cast member on The Mandalorian, the …

There’s been a lot of discussion these past few weeks over what is and isn’t cinema. Legendary documentarian and film director Werner Herzog through his incredibly German hat into the ring to declare that Star Wars is firmly on the cinema side of the equation. At least, that’s how Herzog feels about the new Disney Plus series The Mandalorian, in particular the series creator and showrunner Jon Favreau. Favreau, of course, is the man most directly responsible for the style and tone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to his work on the original Iron Man, and …

Parks And Recreations had some brilliant guest stars over its seven season run, but German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s cameo was one of its funniest.

Given that Werner Herzog unveiled two documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival, Meeting Gorbachev (co-directed by Andre Singer, it released on May 3) and Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, you might naturally assume that Family Romance, LLC was a doc too. The film certainly has documentary elements. Shot in Japanese and with a Japanese cast, the film focuses on a thriving Japanese company that hires actors to pose as friends and family members. The story follows a man (played by Yuichi Ishii, the company’s actual founder) who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a …

Leave it to Werner Herzog to deliver something fresh and unexpected, as the auteur and Oscar-nominated filmmaker often does. This time around, we are treated to a fascinating drama that Herzog shot in Japan with Japanese actors, and a story that centers on a cultural reality that many in the West might find odd and not easily understandable. That's the sort of niche that Herzog's films like to live in because the filmmaker does such a remarkable job of taking foreign concepts and making them accessible. Here's hoping the same goes for his upcoming drama, Family …

Now, when you heard the great Werner Herzog was playing a role in Lucasfilm's upcoming Disney+ series The Mandalorian, you probably had a pretty good idea of what you were in for -- probably not the heroic lead. The celebrated filmmaker and king of gold medal interview quotes has leaned into fun acting roles in recent years, including a villainous turn in Jack Reacher and a delightfully insane moment as Keg Jeggings on Parks and Rec. And as you might have expected, his role in the Bounty Hunter-based series will be yet another small, villain-tinged appearance. While speaking …