“Cinema is not dead.” It was a fitting opening remark to begin the morning press conference announcement of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where festival director Thierry Frémaux announced 63 films from around the world set to premiere at this year’s July gathering. Arriving on the Croisette one year after the 2020 edition was canceled, the lineup delivers a dense assemblage of cinema from around the world, some of which has waited […]
As Marvel Cinematic Universe fans gear up for Loki kicking off on Disney Plus next week, you might be wondering about upcoming movies. Fantastic Four is part of the cinematic lineup -- it'll be helmed by Jon Watts (director of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Far From Home and upcoming sequel No Way Home). This movie is still early in production, but we can look at release date possibilities and a few casting options, as well as the characters' comic and cinematic history. […]
Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Fans of the hit sitcom Friends can catch up with all the stars of the show with the Friends reunion special airing on HBO Max. Monica (Courteney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David […]
Longtime Hollywood golden boy Tom Cruise is a little less golden now. The “Mission Impossible” actor gave back his three Golden Globes to protest the awards show’s organizer, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, according to reports on Monday. Entertainment Tonight and Deadline were among the outlets to confirm that Tom Cruise returned the hardware amid mounting pressure on the HFPA as it confronts its stunning lack of diversity. A report […]
At one point in 2020, Ryan Reynolds had no less than thirteen films in various stages of development. By now, many of those projects have finished shooting and a few seem to have fallen by the wayside, but he’s still an incredibly busy guy with all of his Hollywood commitments. And that’s without even mentioning his rapidly-expanding business empire. Looking ahead, there’s buddy sequel The Hitman’s Bodyguard, video game-inspired blockbuster […]
https://ew.com/movies/disney-parks-real-life-lightsaber-video/ Cue the "take my money" memes because Disney has unveiled something they've been working on for a while: a real-life, working lightsaber. As part of the many reveals on May 4, a.k.a. May the 4th (Be With You), a.k.a. Star Wars Day, Disney Parks released the first video of this beauty in action. The saber will be part of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a new Star Wars attraction coming to Disney World in 2022 […]
The 2021 Oscars Sunday had a different, more relaxed vibe compared with previous years. Play-off music didn't even interrupt the speeches and history was made, with Chloé Zhao becoming the second ever woman to win best director and the first woman of color to nab that award. Minari's Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress, the first Korean acting win in the show's 93-year history. Perhaps surprisingly, Anthony Hopkins won best actor for The Father, […]
An entire month has already passed since the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but that hasn’t stopped the prolific director and his screenwriter, Chris Terrio, from dropping some interesting nuggets about the tumultuous production of the DC Extended Universe. Case in point, in a recent interview during Justice Con over the weekend, Snyder confirmed that Warner Bros. indeed chose Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as the title for the epic superhero showdown, […]
In the ever-evolving plan to get viewers to like ― no, really like ― the Oscars again, this year’s ceremony is hoping to turn the very concept of the awards show on its head. So prepare for the very chaotic, COVID-impacted awards season to come to an end with a mostly in-person Academy Awards later this month that will “feel like a film” instead of the glitchy, virtual gatherings over the […]
