Boyega said upon seeing the reference to being a “Jedi” in the script, he was initially taken aback. “I was more like, ‘Is this a moment where professional actors are supposed to come and say, ‘Oh, Steve, don’t you think this is a bit too much?’” Boyega said. “And then something in my brain said, ‘Do you actually even care?’” The actor said, ultimately, he was fine with the reference being put in there considering the context....
In the trailer for “Stranger Things 4: Volume 2” it seemed certain someone would die. And someone did die, but just one someone and not necessarily a someone who seemed in terrible danger before the two supersized episodes hit Netflix July 1 (or who even existed before the first batch of episodes debuted May 27). Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), newcomer and fans’ Season 4 favorite, went out in a blaze of glory, decimated by otherworldly bats while he bought time to save everyone else....
“I have no idea whether this is true, but I sort of have this idea that if you look at Sergio Leone when he made ‘Once Upon A Time In The West,’ there’s a slight feeling of… I’m not sure he watched any westerns while he was making it,” Nolan said. “It expresses his love for the genre that’s grown over years and years and years. And there’s something so fabulously heightened about the way he then engages with that genre....
For Seyfried, who recently spoke with IndieWire via Zoom, the nature of dramatizing figures like Holmes is almost akin to watching “Titanic.” “I don’t know about you, but I still have this weird hope that it doesn’t sink,” she said. The series, written by Elizabeth Meriwether (“New Girl”), tries to get at the heart of what made Holmes strive for success, and her subsequent failure. Part of what Seyfried found interesting was how Meriwether interpreted Holmes’ unknown though process....
The first trailer for the Apple Original Film “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” gives a glimpse at Efron as Chickie Donohue, a real-life hero who traveled to Vietnam during the war to bring soldiers their favorite American beer. Per an official synopsis, however, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime as Chickie confronts the reality of this controversial war and his reunions with his childhood buddies thrust him into the complexities and responsibilities of adulthood....
“The Matrix 4” features Keanu Reeves (consummate game stuntman of all time) and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively, as well as Jada Pinkett-Smith as Niobe, Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian, and Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson. They’re joined by a wave of high-profile co-stars including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff, Toby Unwumere, Priyanka Chopra, and more. As the last trailer revealed, the franchise’s main characters no longer remember each other following the events of the original “Matrix” trilogy....
According to Entertainment Weekly, it’s the first time anyone’s been able to watch the scene unfold since the table read of the finale. The cold open is dedicated to late actor Hugh Dane, who died in 2018 and played security guard Hank throughout the run of the show. In the cold open below, Hank is dressed as “Dorpheus,” the brother of Laurence Fisbburne’s Morpheus from the original film, in full regalia with sunglasses and leather trench....
There are no talking heads in “The Princess.” There are no graphs or charts or diagrams or maps. There are no chyrons to tell us dates or names or places. There are plenty of voices, all of them nameless, all of them freely allowed to share their thoughts on a person they (likely) never met. There is plenty of video, some of it shot by everyday people, some by professional news organizations, some of it by paparazzi....
“I Can’t Remember Love,” the melancholic piano-driven track from the limited series’ sixth episode, garnered attention from audiences shortly after the show debuted on Netflix last October. Below, IndieWire premieres an exclusive behind-the-scenes video on the making of the song, which was performed and written by Anna Hauss. William Horberg, lyricist and “The Queen’s Gambit” executive producer, noted that he suggested that Hauss sing the song live in the background of Episode 6 and was eager to include her performance in the series....
Based on Jandy Nelson’s 2010 New York Times bestselling novel, the upcoming Apple TV+ film “The Sky Is Everywhere” follows Lennie (Grace Kaufman), a shy teen who is grieving from the sudden death of her older sister. “There is no more music in me, no more dreams in me,” Lennie explains in the trailer. “I lost the one person on Earth who understood me.” That is, until Lennie meets new student Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), who wows her with his musical prowess....
The look and design were explicitly laid out in a photo album that Coen shared with Dechant, after the director spent a year refining his black-and-white vision with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. It cried out German Expressionism, with images from movies (“Siegfried,” “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” “Sunrise,” “The Night of the Hunter”), architecture (Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City, with its square tower with two very black walls), photography (Hiroshi Sugimoto’s monochromatic, soft focus impression of the Barragan house), and theater (modernist stage designer Edward Gordon Craig’s use of large geometric blocks)....
This week alone, Oscar winner Laura Dern played Taylor Swift’s evil stepmother in the Cinderella-inspired music video “Bejeweled” and lent her voice to the first episode of “The White Lotus” Season 2 as the angry, estranged wife of Michael Imperioli. Dern was the voice telling Imperioli’s character Dominic Di Grasso to “fuck off” in the October 30 episode. After Dominic arrives at the White Lotus Sicily hotel with his father Bert (F....
The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday stated that seven newcomers are joining the cast alongside Henry Cavill; Adjoa Andoh, Cassie Clare, Liz Carr, Simon Callow, Graham McTavish, Kevin Doyle, and Chris Fulton are all set to appear in “The Witcher” Season 2, which still does not have a release date. Per the publication, Andoh (“Bridgerton”) will portray Nenneke, a priestess of Melitele, and the head of the Temple of Melitele. Clare (“Brave New World”) will play Philippa Eilhart, an advisor to Redania’s King Vizimir II and leader of the Lodge of Sorceresses....
Leading that charge is Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Prods., the prolific banner behind some of the most successful horror franchises of the last decade, including “Paranormal Activity” and “The Purge” as well as “Get Out” and “Us.” But in its rapid expansion, Blumhouse is in danger of becoming the Ryan Murphy of horror: Commercial, vaguely political, and mostly average. Blumhouse’s new slasher “They/Them” (the slash is pronounced) turns the very real horror of gay conversion therapy into a bloody nightmare....
On the nature of his new film, the “Enter the Void” director said, “These are two forms of life that are not shared but they are complimentary. Each one is living in their own tunnel, but each one is interlaced with the other one. Life is a bit like that. The only true reality is the addition of all the perceptions of it.” With regard to the visual approach, he said, “Originally I didn’t think I’d do the whole movie with a split screen....
“The decades themselves were the biggest style influences,” Anderson-Lopez told IndieWire. “It was really important to everyone, from the top down, to make sure that we didn’t do specific parodies of any one song or any one show, but that they were evocative of many shows.” So, if you’re like us, and felt the pilot theme felt like a mash-up of “The Donna Reed Show” meets “Patty Duke,” then you aren’t exactly wrong....
What if Peggy Carter (Haley Atwell) became the first Captain America through the lens of World War II expressionism? What if T’Challa/Black Panther (the late Chadwick Boseman) became Star Lord in a Guardians universe that reflects his personality? What if Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) turned detective in a film noir procedural? And what if Doctor Strange lost his heart instead of his hands in a surreal nightmare? “We have the advantage that people have seen these places before, and so we have a lot of latitude and can do all sorts of things and they will get it,” said production designer Paul Lasaine....
From the moment that nine actresses from “Women Talking” crowded the stage before the movie’s premiere, it was clear that the movie offered up a wide array of performances. Polley’s absorbing, stripped-down adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel almost exclusively unfolds in the confines of a barn, where the women in question gather to discuss their options. Having discovered that men in their community have been drugging and raping them in their sleep, they’ve already managed to get a few of them arrested — while the rest of the men have left town to arrange for their compatriots’ release....
Gadot is joined by co-stars from the first film, including Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, and Robin Wright, plus a pair of fresh new villains in the form of franchise newbies Kristen Wiig as Cheetah and Pedro Pascal as Max Lord. While the DC Extended Universe entry brings back plenty of the elements that made Jenkins’ original “Wonder Woman” such a smash hit back in 2017 — with Jenkins back behind the camera, and Gadot, Pine, and Wright in front of it — the filmmakers have said this is not a traditional sequel, but instead just another “chapter” in the evolving story of Wonder Woman....
In a memorable scene from the classic sitcom “Seinfeld,” Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) is explaining a teenage bullying technique once suffered by George (Jason Alexander): the wedgie. First clarifying how the underpants-yanking attack gets its name, Jerry then notes there’s also the “very rare” atomic wedgie, which involves pulling the waistband above the unfortunate young man’s head. Elaine, played by the great Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is left with a simple conclusion: “Boys are sick....
