Pixar is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. To help celebrate, the producers of Cars 2 surprised Pixar chief creative officer and Cars 2 director John Lasseter by naming a character after him in the upcoming animated sequel. You can take a look at this character below, which is named “John Lassitire,” and read below for more information on who this character is and John Lasseter’s reaction to be included in the summer release....
Any film production features a wide range of characters, and generally speaking, the ones that stand out the most tend to be the same: heroes and villains. The latter are usually antagonists in any story, responsible for hampering the heroes on their way to success. There is a villain in every story, regardless of how terrifying they are or the evil deeds they commit. The image of villains gradually changes depending on the age of the audience....
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have released the names of fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards®. The 14 submitted features are: Bolt Delgo Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who Dragon Hunters Fly Me to the Moon Igor Kung Fu Panda Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $9.99 The Sky Crawlers Sword of the Stranger The Tale of Despereaux...
It seems that Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film already has sequel plans, with one of Ritchie’s former actors. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog, a sequel to Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is already in the works, with Brad Pitt in negotiations to come aboard. The site is reporting that Pitt would play longtime Holmes enemy Moriarty in the proposed sequel, althought a deal has not been reached yet. It was also said that Justice League: Mortal screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney were being brought on to write the sequel....
An Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, Mary J. Blige and Nelly Furtado, an execution of a major character and a successful four-day musical event are all part of the drama, achievement and acclaim for ABC’s One Life to Live in the past year. The Emmy Award-winning drama reaches a new milestone on FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, the airing of the 10,000th episode. Beloved characters will return to Llanview to celebrate the life of character Asa Buchanan....
MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Despite the process, Paper Girls is finally making its way to screens. Buckle up, just in case a time war starts waging near you, as we venture into the purple sky and tell you everything you need to know about the new series. Paper Girls: The Plot It’s the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intense time war and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019....
CW has sent along some new casting call info for its series America’s Next Top Model. Here are all the details for the New York City casting call below. America’s Next Top Model Cycle 13 casting call details: SATURDAY, APRIL 11 The Penn Plaza Pavilion located at the Hotel Pennsylvania 401 7th Avenue, 18th Floor New York, NY 10001-2062 (Entrance is on 33rd street between 6th and 7th) Registration will begin at 7:00am....
Brendan Fraser may have missed out on a Golden Globe win last week, but at last night’s Critics’ Choice Awards he walked away with the Best Actor award everyone has waiting for him to take home. Fraser was there to accept the award, and gave an emotional speech in response to the win for his performance in the Darren Arnonofsky drama The Whale. Having already gained huge acclaim for his role from critics, Fraser is also expected to pick up the same award at the upcoming Academy Awards....
The family comedy is a real family affair Keeping up with the Steins is a family comedy about reconciliation and understanding the true meaning of the Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish ceremony of initiating a boy into manhood. Daryl Sabara (of Spy Kids fame) stars as twelve-year-old Ben Fiedler. His father Adam (Jeremy Piven) and mother Joanne (Jami Gertz) are obsessed with outdoing the luxurious, incredibly expensive Bar Mitzvah thrown by the Stein family for their son....
Apple TV+ and Muse Entertainment are putting their best foot forward with their new family series following twelve-year-old amputee Josh Dubin (Logan Marmino) as he integrates into public school after being homeschooled. Best Foot Forward is based on the book Just Don’t Fall, a memoir by Josh Sundquist, an amputee and motivational speaker. Sundquist is involved with the series as an executive producer and writer. Matt Fleckenstein (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, iCarly) serves as the showrunner and an executive producer....
Bella Ramsey sat down with Screen Rant to discuss the current series she’s in, Becoming Elizabeth. The show follows the early years of Queen Elizabeth I’s (Alicia von Rittberg) adolescence. Ramsey plays Jane Grey, who was thought by some people to have a better claim to the throne. According to Ramsey, the scripts for the show were so well-researched and brilliant that there was hardly any need to find out more about the characters....
The two stars and the executive producer talk about the new NBC series Southland premieres tonight, Thursday April 9 at 10 PM ET on NBC and three of the big factors on this new series are stars Ben McKenzie, Regina King and executive producer John Wells. We were in on a conference call with this trio from the freshman series and here’s what they had to say. So watching the pilot last night it’s obviously, you know, it’s pretty dark and it’s pretty gritty....
It may come as a surprise to you that many of today’s blockbuster Hollywood films are attributed to French-Canadian directors. Director Denis Villeneuve, for example, who is known for Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Prisoners, and Sicario, was born and raised in Quebec. He became interested in filmmaking early on and would study film at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Before his time in the limelight, the talented auteur directed many powerful French-Canadian films, among them Polytechnique, an unnerving and emotional dramatization of one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history....
Chosen families have been synonymous with the queer experience. Indeed, per Psychology Today, the term originated within the LGBTQ+ community, referring to the non-biological kinship bonds that a lot of queer people make as they find a supportive network of people that would typically come from biological families. For many LGBTQ+ characters in TV and film, queer narratives often consist of a character either finding or already existing — and, more significantly, thriving — within their chosen family....
Back in 2018, when we got the chance to see Nicolas Cage’s latest weirdness extravaganza Mandy, our minds were blown. Not only because it seemed to amplify Cage’s presence in a different style of cinema that we love, but because the film projected a cool premise, with aesthetics that were simply uncommon. We went to see the film because of the actor, and we got so much more. For most horror fans, this was new and exciting....
After two critically-acclaimed seasons on the U.K.’s Channel 4, Black Mirror Season 3 shifted to the Netflix streaming service, which earned series creator Charlie Brooker two Emmy nominations. Since the cast changes for each episode, it has long been believed that none of these stories are connected in the same universe, but now that has changed. Charlie Brooker revealed in a new interview that now he thinks all of these stories are actually set in the same universe....
Starring Natalie Portman in her Academy Award winning role, Black Swan is a seductive yet haunting film that will leave you breathless. Directed by innovator Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), this Best Picture nominated film boasts a wealth of talent including Portman (Closer), in the performance of her career, as well as Mila Kunis (Date Night), Winona Ryder (Girl, Interrupted) and Vincent Cassel (Ocean’s Twelve). In the film that Daily Variety hailed as “…wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating… fascinating,” Natalie Portman’s mesmerizing transformation into the Black Swan leaves you breathless - and wanting to see it again....
Weekend Box Office: The Game Plan $16.2 million The Heartbreak Kid $14 million The Kingdom $9 million Resident Evil: Extinction $4.3 million The Seeker: The Dark is Rising $3.7 million Good Luck Chuck $3.5 million Feel the Noise $3.4 million 3:10 to Yuma $3 million The Brave One $2.2 million Mr. Woodcock $2 million The Rock has charisma to spare. He proved it this weekend when he tackled The Heartbreak Kid, knocking the new comer down to the second place spot....
There is nothing on television right now that is quite like Brand New Cherry Flavor. Released to Netflix in 2021, the limited series follows protagonist Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar), whose unsettling indie horror movie has caught the attention of major Hollywood producer Lou Burke (Eric Lange). When Lou turns out to be a predator who takes advantage of vulnerable women aspiring to be successful filmmakers, Lisa seeks serious revenge. She doesn’t want to destroy his career — she wants to ruin his life....
Rolling Stone has just posted the first one-sheet poster for Taking Woodstock, which is set for release on August 14. Click below for your first look at this new one-sheet poster image. PH4Ee55bYHP477|Taking Woodstock|PG4uW55bRnfu76 An adaptation of Elliot Tiber’s memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, A Concert, and A Life.” Tiber played an unexpected but pivotal role in making the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was....
