Matthew Weiner’s Next Project The Romanoffs is Crazy Packed with Talent

It is really good to see the name Matthew Weiner on the screen again. Especially alongside all of these many other really good names. Seriously, there are a ton of them, but we will get to that in a minute. Amazon delivered a teaser this weekend for Weiner’s new anthology series, The Romanoffs and it’s literally a list of the crazy go nuts number of incredible cast members that will appear on the show. Even so, it was enough to spark hysteria over the powerhouse project...

Star Wars: Episode IX Will Feature New Carrie Fisher Footage

The force seems to be with us all this Friday. Leia Organa’s story is not finished yet. The Star Wars princess turned General will appear in Star Wars: Episode IX Lucasfilm announced today in a statement.

The legendary late Carrie Fisher passed away prior to the final installment of the Skywalker saga being written, but where there is a will, there is a way. Do not panic. Lucasfilm is sticking to their promise that General Organa will not be recreated using CG as Grand Moff Tarkin was in Rogue One...

A New African Princess is Coming to Disney

Make room for one more Disney princess. The House of Mouse has secured a new fairytale for the screen. The project is titled Sadé, according to Deadline, and stars an African princess. The idea for Sadé comes from writing team Ola Shokunbi and Lindsey Reed Palmer who collaborated Break, a romantic comedy short film, last year.

While Disney has been churning out spectacular live-action remakes of animated classics like Mulan and Lady and the Tramp,...

James Corden Has a Mission Impossible Moment on The Late Late Show

This sketch of James Corden and Tom Cruise skydiving is the buddy comedy of the year. I saw the clip from last night’s The Late Late Show with James Corden and thought, “Eleven minutes? I’m not watching eleven minutes.” And then I watched it twice. It is absolutely darling.

Cruise has endless patience for being the most daring and professional action actor in Hollywood. Corden is (understandably) petrified which makes for some adorable interactions.  Corden shakes off his nerves with a little game of tag on the runway,...

Cody Fern Will Play the Adult Version of a Memorable AHS: Apocalypse Character

Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk are possibly the biggest risk takers in TV right now. Murphy’s Pose has been the most impactful show of the summer and Feud was just spectacular TV all around. American Horror Story has contorted to top itself each season, but I am not sure it can ever be as good as it was that first season. Even the credits sequence terrorized me. I would have taken eight more seasons of ‘Murder House’ alone,...

Disney Live-Action Remakes Add New Cast for Lady and the Tramp and Mulan

Disney has lots in store for us this coming year, but probably most exciting is to hear that more live-action remakes are churning out. Two of the most beloved animated Disney films have just released casting announcements for their upcoming live-action remakes. From Ashley Jensen in Lady and the Tramp to Jason Scott Lee starring in Mulan, these films are heading in the right direction.

Deadline reported yesterday that Ashley Jensen (Lobster,...

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is Coming Back to Haunt Us On Screen

Stephen King works are being adapted for film and TV at a blinding pace, which is a rapturous delight that I vow never to take for granted. Yet, if there is another author who I would like to see commemorated in such a way, it would be Shirley Jackson. Luckily, the powers that be seem to agree with me. Jackson’s short story masterpiece The Lottery is set to become a feature film according to Deadline...

Josh Brolin Wore an Infinity Gauntlet for His Avengers: Infinity War Performance And It’s Amazing

The best actors seem to be the ones who are able to sympathize with their characters. Even if their character is scheming to destroy half the universe. “What he’s doing, from his point of view, is a very positive thing,” actor Josh Brolin says in a new behind-the-scenes clip from the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War Blu-Ray. Hm, sure he is.

Regardless of philosophical debates about vaporizing half the living population, i09 has the first look at the Brolin behind the brawn and it’s crazy cool...

Tom Cruise Trained for Three Months to Pull Off This Crazy Mission: Impossible – Fallout Stunt

Think you could pull off all the stunts Tom Cruise does in a Mission Impossible movie? Here’s what it would take to do just one of his death defying feats. That amazing helicopter sequence we got a glimpse of in the Fallout trailer is called a corkscrew dive, apparently. Cruise spent three months training at Airbus’ helicopter school in Texas so he could fly the helicopter himself. WIRED sent a crew there to go through some training of their own and see the kind of work Cruise put in to make the scene as thrilling as possible...

Ryan Reynolds Hilariously Debauching Another Childhood Favorite, Home Alone

Being Home Alone when you’re eight is a very different than when you’re 28. Or is it? Deadline has reported that Ryan Reynolds is set to produce and potentially star in Stoned Alone, a film with all of the fun and gags from Home Alone in a decidedly adult version. Leave it to Reynolds to cash in on a beloved holiday favorite by completely corrupting it. This is, of course, the guy who mixed foul-mouthed Deadpool with Bob Ross and Good Housekeeping...

Ben Kingsley Has a Close Shave in Final Operation Finale Trailer

Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac navigate a deadly power dynamic in the final Operation Finale trailer. Isaac stars as the heroic Mossad agent Peter Malkin who brought Nazi Lieutenant Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) to justice. Tracking down Eichmann 15 years after the war was just the beginning. Malkin gets close enough to take Eichmann’s life in his hands in the final trailer, but just who has the advantage here?

Kingsley plays the master manipulator with chilling callousness...

Pooh Brings His Childlike Wonder to an Adult World in Christopher Robin Sneak Peek

It feels like just yesterday when I would pick my favorite Winnie the Pooh movie out from our rack of cassettes and pop it in the VCR. I still remember Pooh’s Grand Adventure like the back of my hand. As a child, my mom telling me stories of how she grew up reading Winnie the Pooh, and wanting nothing more than to live in the Hundred Acre Wood. One of my favorite quotes to this day is from Pooh’s Grand Adventure...

HBO Gives a (Broad) Window for When Game of Thrones Will Return

We know the final season of Games of Thrones is coming, but just when it will arrive is an agonizing mystery. Mercifully, we aren’t being left out in the cold. HBO programming president Casey Bloys confirmed today that we are in the six months to one-year range. Rejoice! Bloys said at a Television Critics Association event today that season eight would begin in the first half of 2019.

The cast and crew have said goodbye to the idyllic sets they called home for eight seasons...

Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher Discuss the Social Media Influences that Shaped Eighth Grade

When writer-director Bo Burnham set out to make Eighth Grade, his acclaimed new account of middle-school anxiety, he had plenty of reasons to be anxious himself. He’d never directed a feature film before, and his subject was a 13-year-old girl, something he’d never been. But any apprehension was balanced by his relief at not being in front of the camera.

“I was very aware of my limitations,” Burnham told The Credits recently while in Washington with his star,...

FX Uniting Show-Stopping Creative Team for Fosse-Verdon Series

It’s showtime! Oscar winning actor Sam Rockwell will portray Oscar winning director Bob Fosse in a new biographical miniseries for FX. Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams will star opposite Rockwell as legendary dancer, Gwen Verdon.

Married couple Fosse and Verdon were the most influential entertainers in dance since Fred Astaire. Fosse’s choreography and Verdon’s inimitable style revolutionized Broadway musicals.

Married from 1960-1971, Fosse and Verdon collaborated on Redhead, Sweet Charity, and Chicago...

The Coen Brothers Morph The Ballad of Buster Scruggs into a Feature Film

The anticipated six-episode anthology TV series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is not exactly what we thought, as it appeared on the lineup for the Venice Film Festival today. The Coen brothers are always surprising us. Variety confirmed that their new theatrical and innovative TV show has turned into a movie and will be eligible to compete this Oscar season. For the Coen brother it’s go big or go home and they often seem to be only capable of topping themselves...

Peter Dinklage Enjoys Post-Apocalyptic Solitude in the First Teaser for I Think We’re Alone Now

If I found myself alone in a post-apocalyptic world, the first thing I would do was try to make contact with other people. But Del (Peter Dinklage) isn’t like the rest of us. In his empty town, formerly of 1600 people, he feels at peace. The first trailer for I Think We’re Alone Now, released yesterday, gives us a peek into Del’s world, just as it turns upside-down.

Director Reed Morano’s cinematic follow-up to her excellent work on The Handmaid’s Tale,...

A Breakdown of How the Jaegers and Kaiju Were Digitally Constructed for Pacific Rim Uprising

Aaron Gilman, DNEG Animation supervisor for Pacific Rim Uprising, takes us behind the scenes of the animation work on the Jaegers and Kaiju. It’s always extraordinary to see how artists put together very unrealistically animated films, especially when there are 240-foot Jaeger monsters and their 300-foot rivals that partake in massive city destruction. In a Behind the VFX clip, Gilman explains a step-by-step description of the animation process, emphasizing the importance of finding the perfect Motion Capture actors as a key starting point...

Three Former Secretaries of State Will Counsel Tea Leoni on Madam Secretary

Secretary of State is one of the loneliest jobs in the world, which is why it’s good to have friends when things get choppy. Secretary McCord (Téa Leoni) is going to find that out this fall when she falls into a tough spot. Luckily, she has backup. Former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Madeleine Albright will be on call in Madam Secretary’s darkest hour.

CBS announced yesterday that Madam, Madam, and Mister Secretary would appear on Madam Secretary in the new season...

How Politics Inspired the Costume Design of The First Purge

The Purge films have become a phenomenon of fear, hinging on the normalization of horrific acts. The first film premiered five years ago, and the franchise seems to have been a clairvoyant warning sign as political tensions struggle for the soul of our country. Playing to the celebratory nature of the event, SDCC fans were invited to ‘Purge City’, a play on ‘Party City’ where every fun event begins. The First Purge takes a chilling look back at the environment in which parties were able to convince voters to allow the violent tradition...