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“Fast X,” the 10th installment in Universal’s high-octane franchise, is revving up to lead global box office charts. The movie is projected to open to $60 million or more in North America and at least $220 million at the international box office. Based on those estimates, “Fast X” is looking to capture $280 million worldwide in its first weekend of release.
In terms of domestic box office projections, a soft start around $60 million is below the latest entry, 2021’s “F9: The Fast Saga,” which kicked off to $70 million and ended its theatrical run with $173 million in North America. And that was at a time when Covid era restrictions meant only 80% of theaters were open and attendance hadn’t yet rebounded. It also lags way behind pre-pandemic “Fast” installments, including 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” ($98 million debut), 2015’s “Furious 7” (a series-high $148 million debut) and 2013’s “Fast and Furious 6” ($97 million debut...
In terms of domestic box office projections, a soft start around $60 million is below the latest entry, 2021’s “F9: The Fast Saga,” which kicked off to $70 million and ended its theatrical run with $173 million in North America. And that was at a time when Covid era restrictions meant only 80% of theaters were open and attendance hadn’t yet rebounded. It also lags way behind pre-pandemic “Fast” installments, including 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” ($98 million debut), 2015’s “Furious 7” (a series-high $148 million debut) and 2013’s “Fast and Furious 6” ($97 million debut...
- 5/18/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety - Film News
With the new Disney+ series The Muppets Mayhem, Disney is going all-in on what has always made the Muppets great: music. The series focuses on the Muppet house band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, and the efforts of junior music executive Nora (Lilly Singh) to get the group to finish an album - their first - that they have yet to deliver for the small record label she works for. It's only been 50 years, though. That's musicians for you. And as we know, anything that involves Muppets trying to focus on finishing something is akin to herding cats. Among the chaos is a number of new and old Electric Mayhem tunes (a reprise of "Can You Picture That?" from 1979's The Muppet Movie is a welcome highlight) along with a handful of classic rock covers. It's the blend of the original and unique covers of songs, from old standards to contemporary,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Lloyd Farley
- Collider.com
Joanna Arnow is understandably stressed. The writer/director/actor is recovering from a long bout of Covid and about to premiere her narrative feature debut, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes. “Having Covid while trying to finish this is such a crunch,” she says.
On the one hand, she shouldn’t be too worried. Indie film sensation Sean Baker is exec producing it, and she won a Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize for her 2016 short “Bad at Dancing.” Her semi- and fully autobiographical works have passionate admirers like Andrew Bujalski and Baker. “When he saw ‘Dancing,’ he wrote me a kind message about it and stayed in touch,” Arnow says.
But she also has detractors like New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis, who described Arnow’s 2013 autobiographical and darkly comic documentary “i hate myself :)” as “whiny,” and called...
On the one hand, she shouldn’t be too worried. Indie film sensation Sean Baker is exec producing it, and she won a Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize for her 2016 short “Bad at Dancing.” Her semi- and fully autobiographical works have passionate admirers like Andrew Bujalski and Baker. “When he saw ‘Dancing,’ he wrote me a kind message about it and stayed in touch,” Arnow says.
But she also has detractors like New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis, who described Arnow’s 2013 autobiographical and darkly comic documentary “i hate myself :)” as “whiny,” and called...
- 5/20/2023
- by Gregg Goldstein
- Variety - Film News
Nothing is more important to the country right now than Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield’s alleged rift, and Marina Hyde is absolutely here for it (1m30s); in the wake of a racially-charged backlash, Halle Bailey talks about overcoming self-doubt and her soulmate sister Chlöe (8m15s); and author Kat Lister explores the stigma of grieving partners’ sexuality and the loss of sexual intimacy (25m56s).
- 5/20/2023
- by Hosted by Savannah Ayoade-Greaves, written by Marina Hyde, Rebecca Nicholson and Kat Lister, narrated by Laura Shavin and Rachel Handshaw, produced by Rachel Porter, the executive producer Ellie Bury.
- The Guardian - Film News
Recently I was speaking to a friend, who's a few years younger than me, about our favorite movies. And to my dismay, it transpired that he'd never heard of "Heat." Not just hadn't seen it, but never heard of it. And honestly, I felt like I had to sit him down and have a little Al Pacino and Robert De Niro-style heart-to-heart after he dropped that bombshell.
Unfortunately, this was one of those moments when I realized that I am, in fact, incredibly old and that 1995 actually wasn't just a few years ago. To be specific, it was almost 30 years ago — more than enough time for the film to be obscured beneath several layers of cinematic sediment.
This is why it's so great to see Michael Mann's excellent crime epic (though the director doesn't consider it a crime movie) in the Netflix top 10 these days. It seems "Heat...
Unfortunately, this was one of those moments when I realized that I am, in fact, incredibly old and that 1995 actually wasn't just a few years ago. To be specific, it was almost 30 years ago — more than enough time for the film to be obscured beneath several layers of cinematic sediment.
This is why it's so great to see Michael Mann's excellent crime epic (though the director doesn't consider it a crime movie) in the Netflix top 10 these days. It seems "Heat...
- 5/20/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
John Ford is best known for directing some of the most iconic Westerns of the mid-twentieth century. From Stagecoach to The Searchers to How The West Was Won to his Calvary trilogy and more, Ford's filmography is largely a list of gun-slinging, horse-racing, desert-dwelling American movies that defined a generation. That being noted, with a career spanning six decades and over a hundred films, John Ford made more than a few movies that fell outside of the Western genre, including literary adaptations like The Grapes of Wrath, military documentaries like The Battle of Midway, political dramas like Young Mr. Lincoln and The Last Hurrah, and one dark melodrama that toes the line of expressionism, experimentalism, and at times, the avant-garde.
- 5/20/2023
- by Andrew McGowan
- Collider.com
When Hollywood was just acres of orange groves, and the film industry was still centered in Fort Lee, New Jersey, books were already being adapted to movies. The first Shakespearean play was adapted for the screen in 1899 (King John), and the first feature-length film was an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables in 1909. Some directors, like Alfred Hitchcock, worked almost entirely off adapted screenplays. While the attraction is easy to understand, there's that ever-present risk of hearing that time-worn criticism: “The book is better than the movie.”...
- 5/20/2023
- by Neeraja Viswanathan
- Collider.com
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, currently airing on Paramount+, shows how Grease's iconic girl group came to be. Following in the source material's footsteps, the prequel series is full of original songs about the trials and tribulations of high school... but should it be? The show is doing a lot right, but its musical numbers are falling flat, so much so that it makes one wonder if Rise of the Pink Ladies would actually be a better show if the songs were cut altogether.
- 5/20/2023
- by Jenna Post
- Collider.com
Drama stars Stephen Lang in the true story of Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller.
Avenue Of The Giants, a drama from writer-director Finn Taylor, has wrapped production in California and the Czech Republic.
The film stars Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert and Luke Blumm in the true story of Herbert Heller, who keeps his experience as a teenage boy in Auschwitz hidden from his family until he meets a teenager whose own brush with death inspires him to open up.
Jeanine Thomas and George Rush are producing, with Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin and Noah Lang serving as executive producers. David Minkowski...
Avenue Of The Giants, a drama from writer-director Finn Taylor, has wrapped production in California and the Czech Republic.
The film stars Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert and Luke Blumm in the true story of Herbert Heller, who keeps his experience as a teenage boy in Auschwitz hidden from his family until he meets a teenager whose own brush with death inspires him to open up.
Jeanine Thomas and George Rush are producing, with Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin and Noah Lang serving as executive producers. David Minkowski...
- 5/20/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
When Ted Lasso premiered in August 2020 it gave Apple TV+ its first big hit series. Spun off from a series of bits for NBC Sports, the Jason Sudeikis-led led show works on multiple layers. There is Sudeikis as the quirky titular character, an ultra-positive man who is now a fish out of water, trading in coaching American football for moving across the pond to coach British football, a sport he knows nothing about. There are also the series' multiple fascinating supporting characters, from the grumpy aging footballer Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), the strong but vulnerable AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), and a self-doubting coach, Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed), weighed down by his insecurities.
- 5/20/2023
- by Shawn Van Horn
- Collider.com
This article contains spoilers for "Fast X."
Louis Leterrier's new film, "Fast X," is wonderfully enjoyable hooey stuffed with explosions, chases, and acts of vehicular manslaughter that defy the laws of physics. It also boasts one of the largest celebrity casts in the "Fast and Furious" series, assembling most all of the familiar faces from previous chapters, as well as a few Oscar winners to boot; the film stars Rita Moreno, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, and Helen Mirren. All told, there are at least 17 main characters. Also, in addition to Vin Diesel and his crew, the filmmakers also included several notable cameos from "Furious" actors who haven't been seen in a few films.
For Dom (Diesel), "Fast X" ends on a nail-biting cliffhanger as an evil villain named Dante (Jason Momoa) has trapped him right next to a dam that he intends to blow up. A plane just crashed,...
Louis Leterrier's new film, "Fast X," is wonderfully enjoyable hooey stuffed with explosions, chases, and acts of vehicular manslaughter that defy the laws of physics. It also boasts one of the largest celebrity casts in the "Fast and Furious" series, assembling most all of the familiar faces from previous chapters, as well as a few Oscar winners to boot; the film stars Rita Moreno, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, and Helen Mirren. All told, there are at least 17 main characters. Also, in addition to Vin Diesel and his crew, the filmmakers also included several notable cameos from "Furious" actors who haven't been seen in a few films.
For Dom (Diesel), "Fast X" ends on a nail-biting cliffhanger as an evil villain named Dante (Jason Momoa) has trapped him right next to a dam that he intends to blow up. A plane just crashed,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Season 3 of The Great.Hulu's historical drama The Great has just released its third season, and it's no surprise that fans want more. While not strictly true, the story follows Russia's Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) in her rise to power as she overthrows her husband and attempts to bring change to the country. The satirical show offers a unique and bloody take on events, not relying heavily on the history of the story. The three seasons have incorporated much already, but there is more to tell. Despite a fourth season remaining unconfirmed by the streamer, the show sets up many exciting plots that could factor into a new season.
- 5/20/2023
- by Kendall Myers
- Collider.com
Alec Guinness's complicated relationship with "Star Wars" is well documented. Depending on his mood, he'd either call that first film "a marvelous, healthy innocence" or "fairy-tale rubbish." The intense fandom that was inspired by the 1977 original film played a role in alienating the classically trained actor who wished to be known for nuanced portrayal of Shakespearean characters instead of a space wizard, but once "Star Wars" released, his performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi became a career-defining part and Guinness had no say in the matter.
Reports differ on Kenobi's fate in that first film. What fans had heard for years was that Guinness forced that decision on Lucas because he thought the movie was a stinker and he wanted to be killed off, but in J.W. Rinzler's incredible "The Making of Star Wars," George Lucas says that was a decision he himself came to very late in the process.
Reports differ on Kenobi's fate in that first film. What fans had heard for years was that Guinness forced that decision on Lucas because he thought the movie was a stinker and he wanted to be killed off, but in J.W. Rinzler's incredible "The Making of Star Wars," George Lucas says that was a decision he himself came to very late in the process.
- 5/20/2023
- by Eric Vespe
- Slash Film
It’s a sad day for “Bounty Law” fans. Rick Dalton, the actor who rose to prominence for playing Jake Cahill on the popular Western series, died at the age of 90 today. If you believe Quentin Tarantino, that is.
The official Twitter account for Tarantino and Roger Avary’s Video Archives Podcast announced the news that the fictional actor, who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” is no longer alive in the universe of Tarantino films.
We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy.
Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca.
Rip Rick Dalton 1933-2023 pic.twitter.com/j51sNEh7AP
— The Video Archives Podcast (@VideoArchives) May 19, 2023
“Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” covered...
The official Twitter account for Tarantino and Roger Avary’s Video Archives Podcast announced the news that the fictional actor, who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” is no longer alive in the universe of Tarantino films.
We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy.
Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca.
Rip Rick Dalton 1933-2023 pic.twitter.com/j51sNEh7AP
— The Video Archives Podcast (@VideoArchives) May 19, 2023
“Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” covered...
- 5/20/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The Aziz Ansari comedy was shooting within strike rules.
Lionsgate’s Cannes market title Good Fortune has become one of the first major features to hit by the US writers strike since the stoppage began, with shooting on the project in downtown Los Angeles being suspended this week, according to reports.
It is not yet clear whether production will resume in the near future or be put on hold until the strike, now in its third week, is over.
The comedy is the directing debut of Aziz Ansari, who also wrote the script, and stars Ansari along with Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves.
Lionsgate’s Cannes market title Good Fortune has become one of the first major features to hit by the US writers strike since the stoppage began, with shooting on the project in downtown Los Angeles being suspended this week, according to reports.
It is not yet clear whether production will resume in the near future or be put on hold until the strike, now in its third week, is over.
The comedy is the directing debut of Aziz Ansari, who also wrote the script, and stars Ansari along with Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves.
- 5/20/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
"There's no place like home." "May the Force be with you." "The stuff dreams are made of." The greatest lines of dialogue in motion picture history often have one thing in common, and that's no matter what year they came out, no matter what their story is about, when you hear that line you think of that movie.
Anyone can say something smart or funny -- it's the context that makes a great line memorable. When we believe in the characters and we're immersed in that world, we pay attention to what they're saying and we remember when they say something great. The last line in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd" resonates because "Alright Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my close-up" is creepy and weird after everything we've just been through. If you overheard someone say the exact same thing on the street it would have no power.
I bring...
Anyone can say something smart or funny -- it's the context that makes a great line memorable. When we believe in the characters and we're immersed in that world, we pay attention to what they're saying and we remember when they say something great. The last line in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd" resonates because "Alright Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my close-up" is creepy and weird after everything we've just been through. If you overheard someone say the exact same thing on the street it would have no power.
I bring...
- 5/20/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
From cutthroat to endearingly incompetent bosses, the ten best bosses on television have shown us what it takes to be an inspiring leader—and how easy it is to fall just as quickly. Whether you relate to their struggles to make their mark, find comfort in the chaos of their life, or revel in their strength in the face of adversity, there's a boss that speaks to everyone.
- 5/20/2023
- by Vidhi Narula
- Collider.com
We had all become so accustomed to the hero’s journey story that there was a collective freakout in 2017 when Rian Johnson decided to upend it with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars is one of the great American stories and a major part of its popularity rests on the revelation that Luke Skywalker is the son of Darth Vader. He’s not a farm boy from nowhere; he’s the son of one of the most powerful people in the galaxy, and hence his power is hereditary. Of course, stories like these go back to antiquity where heroes are related to the gods. The Last Jedi turned this relationship on its head by arguing that its central hero truly came from nowhere, had no special lineage, and that greatness could come from anywhere.
- 5/20/2023
- by Matt Goldberg
- Collider.com
Spoiler Alert: Spoilers are ahead for “Fast X,” which is now playing in theaters.
“You believe in ghosts?” Agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) asks at the end of 2011’s “Fast Five.” She’s just presented agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) with a surveillance photo of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was believed dead after a horrific crash in the fourth film, 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”
With one mid-credits coda, the “Fast” franchise established that if you don’t see a body, no one is really dead.
(In fact, Rodriguez recently revealed that didn’t know about the third-act twist until she saw “Fast Five” in theaters. “I’m in Paris. I’m like, ‘Oh, hell no,'” she said in Feb. at the “Fast X” trailer launch event, explaining that she called producer and star Vin Diesel right away. “I find out by going to the movies, Vin?” she asked him.
“You believe in ghosts?” Agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) asks at the end of 2011’s “Fast Five.” She’s just presented agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) with a surveillance photo of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was believed dead after a horrific crash in the fourth film, 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”
With one mid-credits coda, the “Fast” franchise established that if you don’t see a body, no one is really dead.
(In fact, Rodriguez recently revealed that didn’t know about the third-act twist until she saw “Fast Five” in theaters. “I’m in Paris. I’m like, ‘Oh, hell no,'” she said in Feb. at the “Fast X” trailer launch event, explaining that she called producer and star Vin Diesel right away. “I find out by going to the movies, Vin?” she asked him.
- 5/20/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety - Film News
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 4 of Barry.]The news of a Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) biopic is troublesome for a lot of people in HBO's Barry. It carries on with the series' tradition of drawing on reality to base its own story, as the very real trend of true crime and serial killer content seems to have no end in sight. By now, it's difficult meeting anyone who doesn't watch at least one series or likes at least one movie in the genre, and it's pretty meta on Barry's part to use it as the main driver for the end of the show, but we know that's exactly what it likes to do.
- 5/20/2023
- by Julio Bardini
- Collider.com
Chukwudi Iwuji became one of the McU's best villains with his appearance as The High Evolutionary in James Gunn's trilogy capper "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3." His ego and cruelty know no bounds in this film, but Iwuji was still able to imbue some humanity to the character (even if he couldn't defend The High Evolutionary). And that's without even having two or three previous appearances to set him up as a complicated, if ultimately evil man.
Gunn first worked with Iwuji on his "Suicide Squad" spin-off show "Peacemaker," where the actor got to flex a completely different set of acting muscles. His character in that show could be seen as villainous (and was seen that way for a hot second) because he's an outsider that had to get by on deception.
Ultimately, his Clemson Murn is found to have the same goals as our heroes and, oddly, really...
Gunn first worked with Iwuji on his "Suicide Squad" spin-off show "Peacemaker," where the actor got to flex a completely different set of acting muscles. His character in that show could be seen as villainous (and was seen that way for a hot second) because he's an outsider that had to get by on deception.
Ultimately, his Clemson Murn is found to have the same goals as our heroes and, oddly, really...
- 5/20/2023
- by Eric Vespe
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for "Fast X."
Fans of the "Fast & Furious" franchise have known for months now that Jason Momoa's Dante is a pretty twisted dude. They know because the trailers make him out to be an explosive-happy villain who wants nothing more than to see our heroes dead. They also know because Momoa himself has said so, telling Variety last summer that the villain is "very sadistic," but also noting that he's "got a lot of issues." In another interview, Momoa described Dante as the type of predator that distracts its prey, saying, "I wanted to make him look inviting and easy-going, to have a softer side ... I want you to be intrigued by Dante Reyes, and when you get close, he has you."
After a full year spent hyping the character, I wondered exactly how "Fast X" would be able to deliver on the promise...
Fans of the "Fast & Furious" franchise have known for months now that Jason Momoa's Dante is a pretty twisted dude. They know because the trailers make him out to be an explosive-happy villain who wants nothing more than to see our heroes dead. They also know because Momoa himself has said so, telling Variety last summer that the villain is "very sadistic," but also noting that he's "got a lot of issues." In another interview, Momoa described Dante as the type of predator that distracts its prey, saying, "I wanted to make him look inviting and easy-going, to have a softer side ... I want you to be intrigued by Dante Reyes, and when you get close, he has you."
After a full year spent hyping the character, I wondered exactly how "Fast X" would be able to deliver on the promise...
- 5/20/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Few things have the same narrative weight in a story as death. In most cases, death is permanent and will irrevocably alter the way the story progresses. This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it runs the risk of changing the story’s dynamics too much and driving away the audience. But on the other, a character’s death can leave a huge emotional impact on the audience and change the direction of the story in a new and exciting way. Sometimes, however, writers try to earn the emotional impact of death without killing a character at all. This lets them keep the character around and not meaningfully alter anything about the story, but they still get their moment of heartbreak. And most of the time, it sucks.
- 5/19/2023
- by Caleb Fesmire
- Collider.com
Jim Brown was everything. He was the greatest football player of all time, a trailblazing Black movie star, a vital voice during the Civil Rights Movement, and a man around whom controversy persistently swirled because he did not give a single, solitary f**k ... to a fault.
Brown was a model of American manhood. He played nine seasons of football as the Cleveland Browns running back, and he made the Pro Bowl in every one. Brown averaged 5.2 yards per carry for his career (third-best of all-time) and did so by scrapping for every inch inbounds. He blasted into defenders with rib-cracking velocity. He took his lumps (which were bruisingly visible in his later years), but when you tackled Brown you got the worst of it. The man didn't believe in running to the sideline. He ran through you.
Brown was also a model of defiance at a time when Black...
Brown was a model of American manhood. He played nine seasons of football as the Cleveland Browns running back, and he made the Pro Bowl in every one. Brown averaged 5.2 yards per carry for his career (third-best of all-time) and did so by scrapping for every inch inbounds. He blasted into defenders with rib-cracking velocity. He took his lumps (which were bruisingly visible in his later years), but when you tackled Brown you got the worst of it. The man didn't believe in running to the sideline. He ran through you.
Brown was also a model of defiance at a time when Black...
- 5/19/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
[Editor's note: The following contains some spoilers for Mrs. Davis.]From co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tara Hernandez (who’s also the showrunner), the Peacock original series Mrs. Davis follows Sister Simone (Betty Gilpin), a nun on a mission to destroy a powerful artificial intelligence that is determined to have her complete an epic quest. Begrudgingly participating with the goal of ending the AI in return, Simone is forced to deal with her past, in the form of her ex-boyfriend Wiley (Jake McDorman), who’s part of an underground resistance, while figuring out how to defeat an all-knowing enemy.
- 5/19/2023
- by Christina Radish
- Collider.com
The Flash is racing towards the big screen, and it will feature the return of one of the most iconic superheroes in cinema history, as Michael Keaton will suit up as Batman once again. In a new behind-the-scenes featurette released by Warner Bros., Barabara Muschietti, a producer for the upcoming movie, talks about how securing the actor's return to the Batcave was one of the deciding factors that convinced the studio to move forward with the project, creating high expectations for another adventure partially focusing on this version of the Caped Crusader. While his return might be good for audiences, it only means trouble for the protagonist of the movie.
- 5/19/2023
- by Diego Peralta
- Collider.com
Director Calmatic’s take on White Men Can't Jump follows Jeremy (Jack Harlow), a former basketball star whose injuries have kept him from playing at the level he dreamed of, and Kamal (Sinqua Walls), a promising player who knows what it’s like to have life turn out different than you expect. When the two meet and realize that they might very well be the answer to their financial struggles and life pressures, they decide to team up on the court, where they can also bond over their mutual love of the game.
- 5/19/2023
- by Christina Radish
- Collider.com
Editor's Note: The below contains full spoilers for 'Ted Lasso' Season 3, Episode 10Apple TV's smash hit sports comedy Ted Lasso is well-known for being a gleefully uplifting series about second chances, but the latest introduction of a potential redemption arc is bound to be a divisive development. Throughout the show's three seasons, we've seen several characters go from completely unlikable into beloved fan favorites (and vice versa). A great example of this is Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), who is now a loyal best friend to assistant coach Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) after being a snobby and obnoxious brat in Season 1. We've already seen another redemption arc front and center in Season 3 with Nate Shelley's (Nick Mohammed) story, with the disgruntled former employee of AFC Richmond shocking the soccer world by quitting his manager job at West Ham United after an uncomfortable encounter with his boss, Rupert Mannion (Anthony Head...
- 5/19/2023
- by Aidan Kelley
- Collider.com
The new animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai jumps back in time to 1920s Shaghai to explore the origins of Sam Wing — played by Keye Luke in the original 1984 film — and how he first comes to meet Gizmo. In the series, 10-year-old Sam (Izaac Wang) is tasked by his grandfather (James Hong) with returning Gizmo (A.J. Locascio) to his home. He is joined on his quest by Elle (Gabrielle Nevaeh Green), as the two try to stay out of the clutches of the dastardly Riley Greene (Matthew Rhys).
- 5/19/2023
- by Arezou Amin
- Collider.com
Editor's Note: The following contains major spoilers for Fast XWhen The Fast and the Furious premiered in theaters in 2001, it seems almost impossible to imagine that anyone could have predicted how massive of a franchise it has become. What started as a fairly straightforward racing action movie has blossomed into a massive multi-billion dollar franchise with an ever-evolving universe. To this day, there have been nine films in the Fast and Furious series, ten if you include the Hobbs and Shaw spin-off film, and the franchise, isn't going anywhere quite yet.
- 5/19/2023
- by Aidan Kelley
- Collider.com
Michael Cera might be best known to many as Arrested Development’s bumbling George Michael Bluth, but his titular character in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) tops all his comedy roles on any given day. It has been 13 years since the romantic action-comedy film was first released, and in all that time, it's built up a reputation as one of the best coming-of-age films of the 2010s, thanks largely to the storytelling and eye-popping visuals. Edgar Wright of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame, directed, produced, and co-wrote the film with Michael Bacall, based on the original graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World follows the titular protagonist, a 22-year-old slacker indie musician who falls in love with the uber-cool Ramona Flowers. But to win her over, Scott must defeat seven of her evil exes in video-game-style fights.
- 5/19/2023
- by Maddie P
- Collider.com
The franchise installment is on course to open with $65m in North America.
Fast X has clocked up $68.7m from 65 markets over its first two days on international release and $7.5m from Thursday (May 18) previews in North America.
The latest entry in Universal Pictures’ hugely successful action franchise opens this weekend in 84 international markets and at more than 4,000 locations in North America, where it appears to be on course for a $65m weekend gross.
Two years ago, the franchise’s previous installment, F9: The Fast Saga, opened with $70m in North America on its way to a domestic total of...
Fast X has clocked up $68.7m from 65 markets over its first two days on international release and $7.5m from Thursday (May 18) previews in North America.
The latest entry in Universal Pictures’ hugely successful action franchise opens this weekend in 84 international markets and at more than 4,000 locations in North America, where it appears to be on course for a $65m weekend gross.
Two years ago, the franchise’s previous installment, F9: The Fast Saga, opened with $70m in North America on its way to a domestic total of...
- 5/19/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Though the final season of HBO's Succession sees the Roy siblings seemingly more isolated than ever, that wasn't always the case — particularly when it comes to Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong). From early on in Season 1, audiences were introduced to his old school friend — and cocaine buddy — Stewy Hosseini (Arian Moayed). While the two have been engaged in their fair share of shady deals and backstabbing in the past few years, the two are still close when it counts. That said, the audience still doesn't know a ton about who Stewy is outside of his dealings with Waystar Royco.
- 5/19/2023
- by Arezou Amin
- Collider.com
If you think the craziest moment of One Tree Hill was when a rogue nanny dressed up as a nurse and tried to spoon-feed cockroaches to an ex-con, you are sorely mistaken. In Season 6 of One Tree Hill, at least according to his sons, it was about time that everyone’s favorite bad dad Dan Scott (Paul Johansson) finally got a heart. In Episode 18, Dan is informed that a heart has become available for his much-needed transplant, but in what is undeniably One Tree Hill’s most bizarre moment, a string of bad luck ends with a stoned dog gobbling up the heart and running away. In the vast landscape of teen dramas, One Tree Hill set itself apart by showing that it was able to laugh at itself and that no matter what you thought was possible, anything can happen in Tree Hill. So...how did this even happen?...
- 5/19/2023
- by Shaina Weatherhead
- Collider.com
[Editor’s Note: Jim Brown died May 18 at the age of 87. In honor of his memory, IndieWire is reposting this piece from October 2022 about Quentin Tarantino’s love of Brown’s films.]
Quentin Tarantino has finally revealed his goal for cinema: return to the feel of movie theaters in the 1970s.
The Oscar winner detailed the formative moviegoing experience that shaped how he viewed masculinity after his mother’s boyfriend took him as a child to see “100 Rifles.” Starring Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, and Raquel Welch, the film is a classic American Western about a thief (Reynolds) who is trying to outrun the local sheriff (Brown).
Tarantino explained on “Real Time with Bill Maher” while promoting the book “Cinema Speculation,” out November 1, that he watched “100 Rifles” with an all-Black audience, and the crowd loudly complained about opening film “The Bus Is Coming.”
“The first time I ever heard, ‘Suck my dick’ was someone in the audience,...
Quentin Tarantino has finally revealed his goal for cinema: return to the feel of movie theaters in the 1970s.
The Oscar winner detailed the formative moviegoing experience that shaped how he viewed masculinity after his mother’s boyfriend took him as a child to see “100 Rifles.” Starring Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, and Raquel Welch, the film is a classic American Western about a thief (Reynolds) who is trying to outrun the local sheriff (Brown).
Tarantino explained on “Real Time with Bill Maher” while promoting the book “Cinema Speculation,” out November 1, that he watched “100 Rifles” with an all-Black audience, and the crowd loudly complained about opening film “The Bus Is Coming.”
“The first time I ever heard, ‘Suck my dick’ was someone in the audience,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
When people are talking about the Fast & Furious movies, there’s a whole slew of factors that serve as a person’s favorite part of the series. Maybe your favorite ingredient in this franchise is the sick cars. Maybe large-scale spectacle is more your speed. Perhaps you’re even a fan of the camaraderie between the principal players. But it’s doubtful anyone will ever say that the villains are their absolute favorite part of the Fast & Furious movies.
- 5/19/2023
- by Lisa Laman
- Collider.com
Big plot twists are perfect for horror movies. A jaw-dropping reveal can raise the stakes, intensify the horror and keep the viewer’s heart racing. But the most powerful plot twists aren't just terrifying, but tragic. This is when characters the viewer has come to empathize with, and root for, are suddenly faced with an awful reality or impending doom.
- 5/19/2023
- by Louise Y. Wilson
- Collider.com
Good shows to binge-watch on Hulu aren't hard to come by. From classics like The Handmaid's Tale to new gems like Unprisoned, there's a wealth of great content on the platform. To help you find exactly what you're looking for, we've compiled a list of the best shows on Hulu, whether it be a half-hour comedy for some quick laughs or an hour-long drama you can sink your teeth into.
- 5/19/2023
- by Collider Staff
- Collider.com
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Fast X.The primary reason to watch the woefully overstuffed experience that is Fast X is one actor: Jason Momoa. Of the four scattered movies that are playing out in this most recent entry in the Fast & Furious franchise, the one with him at the wheel of it is the very best. While Momoa is not the only new presence to enter the fray, as there is also Alan Ritchson of the spectacular series Reacher who emerges as the most entertaining side character, no one can hold a candle to all the silliness that he brings to the table. Forget the car races, of which there are surprisingly few, and the stunts already spoiled from the trailer, it is this performance that presents the most unrestrained spectacle of the whole experience. As the villainous Dante, who is ludicrously introduced as the...
- 5/19/2023
- by Chase Hutchinson
- Collider.com
Late on in Kaouther Ben Hania’s compelling, ambitious hybrid “Four Daughters,” Olfa Hamrouni — the film’s focus, its fixation and its most charismatically contradictory character — strokes a purring, heavily pregnant ginger cat. Sometimes, she tells us, a cat will be so scared for her babies that she eats them. It’s Olfa’s covert acknowledgement that her own misguided protective urge, forged by her hard history with men and mother alike, might have contributed to her life’s great, rupturing tragedy: when, in 2015, the elder two of her four girls ran away to join Isis. But it also recalls one of her earlier to-camera segments, when she described her daughters, as though shielding herself from the pain of the real with the language of fable, as having been “devoured by the wolf.” So which is it: Were Ghofran and Rahma, 16 and 15 at the time of their disappearance, eaten up...
- 5/19/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety - Film News
Elijah Wood has done a bit of everything. He’s dabbled across mediums and across genres for decades now. We all know him best from his iconic role as Frodo in Lord of the Rings and while his dramatic chops are clear for all to see in roles like this and countless others he’s taken over the years, he also has a habit of picking some goofier, stranger roles that let him flex what might be his greatest talent: playing the strangest little guys you've ever seen. What’s impressive isn’t just his prolificness nor his ability to get into these zanier roles but rather the many varieties of weird little guy Wood has managed to breathe life into over the course of his career.
- 5/19/2023
- by Emily Kavanagh
- Collider.com
Every couple of years, a new Fast & Furious hits the big screen, people flock to the theaters in the thousands, and some of us are left wondering: what's this all about? Now this is happening again as Fast X is finally here, the first movie that's promised to conclude the whole series on a three-part arc. With so much fuss about it, this might as well be the time to get up to speed on this that's one of the most successful franchises ever - you don't want to be left out, and there's room for everybody inside Dominic Toretto's (Vin Diesel) 1970 Dodge Charger.
- 5/19/2023
- by Julio Bardini
- Collider.com
The beginning of the 20th century was accompanied by two new technologies that would permanently alter life as we know it: the automobile and the motion picture. The timing was extremely convenient for the movie business, as cars quickly became a favorite subject for artists exploring their newfound abilities to capture moving images. For as long as people have been driving cars, there have been people who wanted to stand next to them with a camera and film it.
The two art forms have essentially grown up together, as the past 100 years of movies also serves as a document of the way car design has evolved. The most glamorous vehicles of the 1930s and 1940s fit right into the lavish Art Deco sets of Old Hollywood. And when cars became faster and more colorful after World War II, the movies did too. When New Hollywood auteurs started making boundary-pushing road...
The two art forms have essentially grown up together, as the past 100 years of movies also serves as a document of the way car design has evolved. The most glamorous vehicles of the 1930s and 1940s fit right into the lavish Art Deco sets of Old Hollywood. And when cars became faster and more colorful after World War II, the movies did too. When New Hollywood auteurs started making boundary-pushing road...
- 5/19/2023
- by Alison Foreman, Christian Zilko and Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
The "Fast and Furious" saga did a transformation no other Hollywood franchise has, going from a series of small movies with simple premises to a franchise that almost went straight to DVD, all before finally churning out some of the biggest and most profitable movies in Hollywood.
It would be easy to credit the success of the franchise on the bigger budgets, the increasingly more ridiculous and impressive stunts, the plot becoming about international espionage, or maybe the arrival of Dwayne Johnson in "Fast Five." At the end of the day, however, the franchise survived its change in tone and its disregard for physics for one reason: family.
Sure, the topic of family in "Fast and Furious" has become a bit of a meme, but when the crew went from stealing VHS players to dragging vaults across the streets of Rio, or when they jumped cars out of planes, each...
It would be easy to credit the success of the franchise on the bigger budgets, the increasingly more ridiculous and impressive stunts, the plot becoming about international espionage, or maybe the arrival of Dwayne Johnson in "Fast Five." At the end of the day, however, the franchise survived its change in tone and its disregard for physics for one reason: family.
Sure, the topic of family in "Fast and Furious" has become a bit of a meme, but when the crew went from stealing VHS players to dragging vaults across the streets of Rio, or when they jumped cars out of planes, each...
- 5/19/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Whenever Quentin Tarantino makes a movie, the movie news apparatus kicks into overdrive. Ideally, we would walk in cold to every movie, but with Tarantino there's a breadcrumb dropping game that invites us to suss out plot details. For years, it was common for his scripts to get leaked to the internet (and he seemed relatively okay with this), but he was furious when an early draft of "The Hateful Eight" made the cyber rounds prior to shooting. He wasn't done, and he didn't want the public taking a look under the hood before he was done calibrating the engine.
The plot of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was kept almost completely under wraps until its 2019 Cannes debut, and I expected more of the same with his next (and purportedly final) feature, "The Movie Critic." But minor details have been seeping out here and there, and Paul Schrader just...
The plot of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was kept almost completely under wraps until its 2019 Cannes debut, and I expected more of the same with his next (and purportedly final) feature, "The Movie Critic." But minor details have been seeping out here and there, and Paul Schrader just...
- 5/19/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
1941 was a time filled with global conflict, and the United States of America plunged into World War II with a new ally: Walt Disney. Armed with a studio that was embellished with beloved characters, and a revolutionary medium, Disney was a shiny new weapon ready to be wielded, one animated short at a time. Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and a lot more were drafted into the cinematic front lines of what was to be a wild era of cartoons.
- 5/19/2023
- by Ron Evangelista
- Collider.com
Artificial intelligence is continuing to advance at a rapid pace that is honestly getting a little bit terrifying, depending on how often you allow the ethical conundrums that A.I. brings to infect your mind. A.I. and automation are impacting just about every industry known to humanity, but the ways it has impacted (or has the potential to impact) the entertainment space is at the heart of a number of labor rights movements, including the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. We've previously written extensively about the ways the voiceover industry is already preparing for the potential future of the industry as A.I. gets smarter and faster, but according to an exclusive report from Deadline, things are about to get even more complicated.
Last year the generative A.I. firm Flawless made headlines when they successfully modified the faces of the actors in the survivalist thriller "Fall" to...
Last year the generative A.I. firm Flawless made headlines when they successfully modified the faces of the actors in the survivalist thriller "Fall" to...
- 5/19/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
At the start of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund told a roomful of journalists that he would rather win his third Palme d’Or than an Oscar. For this year, at least, the previous Cannes winner for “Triangle of Sadness” and “The Square” will have to settle for handing the Palme d’Or to someone else.
As the president of this year’s jury for the Official Competition of the 76th festival, Ostlund is leading a team of nine writers, directors, and actors (as well as two writer-director-actors): Fellow Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau (“Titane”), Brie Larson, Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani, Paul Dano, French actor Denis Ménochet, Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, and Argentinian director Damián Szifron. The group will spend the festival watching two to three competition films per day, and Ostlund has said that they will gather to deliberate every...
As the president of this year’s jury for the Official Competition of the 76th festival, Ostlund is leading a team of nine writers, directors, and actors (as well as two writer-director-actors): Fellow Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau (“Titane”), Brie Larson, Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani, Paul Dano, French actor Denis Ménochet, Afghan director Atiq Rahimi, and Argentinian director Damián Szifron. The group will spend the festival watching two to three competition films per day, and Ostlund has said that they will gather to deliberate every...
- 5/19/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Barry threw everyone for a loop a couple of weeks ago when it featured an unexpected and seemingly permanent eight-year time jump at the end of Episode 4. Barry (Bill Hader) and Sally (Sarah Goldberg) have gone off the grid and have a child now, named John (Zachary Golinger). Barry is now "Clark" and Sally is "Emily." John is unaware of his parent's real identities and questions why his mother wears hair on top of her hair. If you think you grew up sheltered, think again, because the life Barry has created for his child is utterly terrifying.
- 5/19/2023
- by Alec Smith
- Collider.com
This article contains massive spoilers for "Fast X."
If there's a guiding principle to the "Fast & Furious" franchise, it's best summed up by one Cady Heron: the limit does not exist. After all, this is a series that, in the very first movie of the franchise, features street racing scenes where the cars go so fast they appear to travel into a psychedelic hyperspace — there's a legitimate argument to be made that "The Fast and the Furious" influenced the Wachowski's work on "Speed Racer," for cryin' out loud. Despite what a recent Twitter debate begun by people who clearly haven't been paying attention posited, the Fast Saga has never troubled itself with resembling any sort of reality.
With "Fast X," the franchise is now 10 films deep, and each successive installment has seen increasingly improbable events occur. A few examples: cars being able to fly across bridges and drop safely from airplanes,...
If there's a guiding principle to the "Fast & Furious" franchise, it's best summed up by one Cady Heron: the limit does not exist. After all, this is a series that, in the very first movie of the franchise, features street racing scenes where the cars go so fast they appear to travel into a psychedelic hyperspace — there's a legitimate argument to be made that "The Fast and the Furious" influenced the Wachowski's work on "Speed Racer," for cryin' out loud. Despite what a recent Twitter debate begun by people who clearly haven't been paying attention posited, the Fast Saga has never troubled itself with resembling any sort of reality.
With "Fast X," the franchise is now 10 films deep, and each successive installment has seen increasingly improbable events occur. A few examples: cars being able to fly across bridges and drop safely from airplanes,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
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