Seberg seeks to tell the true story of French New Wave star Jean Seberg, famous for her work in films like Breathless. Kristen Stewart plays Jean Seberg, whose vocal support for the Black Panther Party in the 1960s made her the target of FBI harassment. Jack O’Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, and Anthony Mackie also star in the drama, which comes from Amazon. Watch the Seberg trailer below.
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What did Bruce Campbell say in response to Martin Scorsese’s Marvel movie comments? How much is Marvel Comics #1 expected to fetch at auction? Want to see Captain Marvel played out in emojis? What roles did Chadwick Boseman, Karen Gillan and Chris Pratt originally audition for in the MCU? Who was responsible for making sure Wolverine got comic accurate hair in X-Men? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. Read More »
Joel Coen‘s take on Macbeth already has Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as stars, and now it might add another heavy-hitter into the mix. Brendan Gleeson, known for his work in Paddington 2 and some other movies that aren’t Paddington 2, is said to be in talks to join the A24 movie based on the play by a hot up-and-comer named William Shakespeare. The project has Coen going solo for the first time, working without brother Ethan Coen.
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The buzz is strong for Knives Out, the latest film from Looper and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson. This time he’s reaching back to his roots by tackling another murder mystery. But instead of the film noir set in high school that we got with Brick, this time it’s a whodunit set squarely in the center of an affluent family, where all the members seem to be extremely inconvenienced by the mere prospect of a murder investigation, especially since it appears the family patriarch committed suicide.
A new batch of Knives Out clips serve as introductions to certain characters, including Chris Evans being quite a douchebag, Daniel Craig being a patient investigator and observer of the truth, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Collette not being too keen on this investigation in any capacity. Read More »
Amy March is probably one of the most hated characters in literary history. The youngest of the March sisters who come of age during the Civil War in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Amy was always a little bratty, a little spoiled, a little too typical of the kind of feminine girls that young female readers always abhorred. Everyone wanted to be strong-willed Jo, the “not like other girls” tomboy and protagonist of Little Women. So when Amy committed her infamous act of sabotage against Jo, she shot to the top of the list of most-hated literary characters of all time.
But could Greta Gerwig‘s upcoming Little Women give a more forgiving depiction of Amy March than she has received in the past? The new Little Women clip, which shows Florence Pugh as Amy giving Timothée Chalamet‘s Laurie an economics lesson, suggests as much.
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Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid has finally found its Prince Eric. Jonah Hauer-King, whose credits include A Dog’s Way Home and the recent, non-Greta Gerwig-directed BBC adaptation of Little Women, has landed the role of the human who falls hard for mermaid Ariel, played by Halle Bailey. At one point Harry Styles was announced in Prince Eric role, but the singer-turned-actor had to bow out of the project.
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Posted on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 by Ben Pearson
Just one day after the launch of Disney+ and the debut episode of The Mandalorian, Disney chief creative officer and co-chairman Alan Horn is already talking about the possibility of a The Mandalorian movie. Read his recent quote from an industry event below.
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Posted on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 by Ben Pearson
In this edition of TV Bits:
- DC Universe’s Titans has been renewed for a third season
- The terrific NBC comedy The Good Place is wrapping up with a 90-minute series finale and a post-show special
- Eli Roth’s History of Horror has been renewed for season 2
- Fresh Off the Boat has been cancelled by ABC
- Showtime’s long-awaited Halo TV show has finally begun production
- And more!
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Posted on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 by Ben Pearson
The first episode of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian features a surprising reveal, one that ties back to the prequel trilogy and may have significant implications for the rest of the Star Wars franchise moving forward. There will be spoilers ahead as we dig into that last minute discovery.
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Drug addiction recovery is always difficult to watch, but Aaron Taylor-Johnson‘s road to recovery as a young drug addict in A Million Little Pieces is straight up violent. It’s rare that you’ll find a red band trailer for a film based on a memoir of a recovered drug addict, but A Million Little Pieces warrants one when it shows the violent and bloody journey that Taylor-Johnson’s drug addict James goes through. Watch the red band A Million Little Pieces trailer below.
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