Castle Rock Trailer is a Stephen King Mash-Up
Stephen King is continuing his entertainment reign with Castle Rock set to launch on Hulu. The plot is incredibly unclear, but it’s the first trailer is an intriguing mash up of King’s greatest hits. Everyone looks very on edge, and it’s basically a slideshow of awesome actors, so we’re hooked.
André Holland plays a man who goes home to Castle Rock after receiving a call from Shawshank prison that seems to set the story in motion.
Zachary Quinto Will Become a Paranormal Investigator for In Search Of
Zachary Quinto is again going where Leonard Nimoy has gone before. The original Spock hosted docuseries In Search Of from 1977 to 1982. History Channel announced today that it is rebooting the show and has ordered 10 episodes.
Quinto has been tapped to take over hosting duties. The actor will investigate a paranormal topic in each episode from aliens to time travel. The Unsolved Mysteries style program will feature witnesses and experts in the field.
The Leftovers Director Will Helm the Watchmen Pilot
Good news for Rorshach and the gang. Damon Lindelof has recruited The Leftovers director Nicole Kassell to his new show, HBO’s Watchmen. Kassell, who drove the meaty storyline of priest Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) in The Leftovers, will direct the pilot.
It’s always a good sign when creative teams stick together on new projects, and Kassell has proven she is supremely talented. Kassell’s episodes No Room at the Inn and It’s a Matt,
Living Biblically‘s Showrunner on Bringing the Bible to CBS—in a Comedy
A.J. Jacobs’ best seller, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, is now a new television sit-com that premiered on CBS on February 26, 2018. Mad Men’s Jay R. Ferguson plays Chip, a journalist who consults a priest (Ian Gomez) and a rabbi (David Krumholtz) for guidance when he is rocked by two life-changing events, the death of a friend and the news that his wife is having a baby.
How Does Your Favorite Movie Monster Size Up?
The joy of monster movies is often seeing how much destruction an enormous mutant can wreak on a city, or lost island, as the case may be. Visual effects artists often fill the entire screen with King Kong’s eyes or dwarf Dwayne Johnson with a silverback gorilla that doesn’t even fit on the poster to emphasize their enormous proportions. Godzilla and Kong are slated for a showdown in 2020, but we often don’t get to see giants of the screen side by side.
Will Ferrell Brushes Off His George W. Bush Impression for Saturday Night Live
One of the most successful SNL alums returned on Saturday to reprise his most famous impersonation. The legendary sketch comedy show is in a heyday with golden material coming out of the White House. Will Ferrell returned to remind viewers, however, that former President George W. Bush used to be at the center of the show’s punchlines.
Ferrell retired as a regular cast member in 2005, but has returned as a guest host four time since.
Meryl Streep to Make Rare TV Appearance in Season 2 of Big Little Lies
With 4 Golden Globes and 8 Emmy wins, Big Little Lies was the talk of the TV year. Avid reader Reese Witherspoon sparked the passion project when she began pushing for an adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel. Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Alexander Skarsgård came on board for a star studded first season cast. Now, the explosive HBO drama has caught the eye of record holding Oscar nominated actor,
Sundance 2018: This Close Director on Shoshannah Stern & Josh Feldman’s Groundbreaking Series, the First by two Deaf Creators
Director Andrew Ahn made at splash at Sundance in 2016 with his feature Spa Night, which focused on a closeted Korean-American teenager who takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, and ends up discovering a underground world of gay sex that terrifies and thrills him. Ahn was back at Sundance this year for another intriguing project, This Close, a groundbreaking new series on Sundance Now created by Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern,
J.J. Abrams May Return to TV With New Sci-Fi Series
J.J. Abrams is not a man who shies away from opportunity, nor does he seem to lack for ideas. You may have heard he’s currently prepping Star Wars: Episode IX, which he’s co-writing and directing. For most mortals, this would be quite enough. Bringing this new trilogy to a satisfactory close (as if Star Wars fans would be content with satisfactory) is the biggest job in Hollywood,
Could David Harbour Be the Next Indiana Jones?
David Harbour is really living our best life for us. He’s the Golden Globe nominated smoldering savior of Hawkins in Stranger Things, he’s making all our dreams come true rebooting Hellboy, and his Twitter game is the strongest. Collider caught up with Harbour for a fantastic post-Hellboy shoot interview and the revelations are super exciting. Harbour seems to be at the center of the coolest projects on screen right now.
Here’s Your First Look at Morgan on the Set of Fear the Walking Dead
We really like Lennie James. He was a joy to speak with when we interviewed him in 2016, and ever since, we’ve been delighted that the talented actor’s career has been booming. His brief but crucial role in Blade Runner 2049 proved that, no matter how much screen time he’s given, James has the kind of gravitas that the camera loves.
As Morgan Jones on The Walking Dead,
Cecil B. DeMille Honoree Oprah Owns the Night at the Golden Globes
This year #MeToo movement, which led to Time Magazine’s ‘Silence Breakers’, which led to the Golden Globes theme of the night, ‘Time’s Up,’ was given a moment of such overpowering clarity, conviction and brilliance that it will stand the test of time. We are, of course, talking about Oprah Winfrey’s incredible acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award. We will be talking about it for a long time to come.
When it comes to stars,
Helena Bonham Carter In Talks to Play Princess Margaret In The Crown
Due to both it’s popularity and critical acclaim, The Crown is becoming the ‘it’ show for actors to appear on. The luster seems to have attracted the eye of Helena Bonham Carter, who is reportedly nearing a deal to play Princess Margaret, according to EW.
The series intends to chart the Queen’s lifespan, she’s 91 now, over six seasons. That’s a lot of ground to cover in just a few years,
The Production Designer Who Recreated the Famous Kaczynski Evidence for Manhunt: Unabomber
Mentions of the Unabomber immediately call to mind the deadly postal packages containing explosives and that famous police sketch of the suspect in a hoodie. While working on Manhunt: Unabomber, production designer Erik Carlson realized, however, that the case actually hinged on hundreds of handwritten documents. The eight-episode Discovery Channel miniseries delved into the infamous FBI investigation that eventually resulted in Ted Kaczynski’s arrest. Carlson painstakingly recreated all 17 of the homemade bombs,
Game of Thrones Final Season Will Air in 2019
While winter is here all across the country in a major way (who had heard of a bomb cyclone before this week?), we’ll have to wait an entire year (and possibly a bit more) for Winter with a capital W to end. HBO has confirmed that the final season of Game of Thrones will be airing in 2019. In a short press release, they announced season 8’s directors and writers:
Directors for the new season are: David Benioff &
How a Scandal Director Pulled off the Most Explosive Episode of the Final Season
When Scandal first aired in 2012, it joined Grey’s Anatomy as must-see TV from prolific hit maker Shonda Rhimes, one of the most powerful and consistently excellent show creators in the business. Two years later, How to Get Away With Murder aired and ABC’s Thank God It’s Thursday lineup was born. Now in it’s final year, Scandal is going out with a bang. A crossover event with Murder was announced yesterday as stars Kerry Washington and Viola Davis swapped Instagram posts.
Stunt Performer Annabel Wood is a Real Life Wonder Woman
*We’re sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year this week in our ‘Best of 2017’ roundup.
When she hears the word action, Annabel Wood’s job is to take the command literally. She very often makes her living dying. All in all, Wood has died more times than she can count – and she keeps coming back from more. She’s a stunt performer, and one of the best in the business.
The Handmaid’s Tale DP on Using Old Lenses, Vermeer and Drones to Conjure Dystopia
*We’re sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year this week in our ‘Best of 2017’ roundup.
Liverpool-born cinematographer Colin Watkinson quit his job as a surveyor to work as an entry-level “runner” on a British soundstage, rose through the ranks to shoot Tarsem Singh’s The Fall in 2006, and on the strength of that film’s universally hailed visuals, became one of Los Angeles’ most prolific television commercial DPs.
New Details on What We Do in the Shadows TV Spinoff
When we first became humble, yet maniacal, fans of What We Do in the Shadows, we never would have dared to dream what would become of our favorite vampire flat mates. We cheered when the sequel We’re Wolves was announced and burst with joy when a TV spinoff was mentioned. Now our fervor seems to be coming to fruition. This is happening, people. The show will be titled Wellington Paranormal and star Jemaine Clement just opened up about the show’s details.
The Goldbergs Composer on Bringing Fresh Life to 1980s Nostalgia
The 1980s were an awkward time for us all. No one escaped the fashion nightmares of track suits in bright colors, the huge hair, and an abundance of shoulder pads. Nearly all sins are forgiven with the passing of time, and The Goldbergs, now in season 5, proves there has been enough space between then and now for us to laugh at ourselves again.
The decade was, however, a golden age for nerds as cinematic classics like Ghostbusters,
