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Lee Isaac Chung on Why Helen Hunt’s Character Wasn’t in ‘Twisters’: ‘She’s Out There Chasing’ Tornadoes
[Editor’s note: The following story contains mild spoilers for “Twisters”]Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her in 'Eyes Wide Shut' for Her 'Provocative Nature' Lee Isaac Chung’s “Twisters” hits theaters this weekend, 28 years after the release of Jan de Bont’s original “Twister.” But while the classic branding will no doubt inspire some disaster movie fans to check the film out in theaters, many have pointed out that the sequel stands on its own without relying on many direct connections to the 1996 first film. Still, some have noticed that one scene in “Twisters” felt like a natural opportunity to bring...
Everything Coming to Netflix in August 2024
Look, there’s no way around this: August is a slow month for TV, and Netflix isn’t any different. Splashy fall TV is right around the corner, but August seems best designed to catch up on some of the best TV of the year so far that you may have missed. The Road to 'Kite Man: Hell Yeah!' Was Paved by a Defunct DC Streamer It’s not a total wasteland, however: “Emily in Paris” returns this month for Season 4 Part 1. The internet loves to make fun of it, but the dreamed is truly one of the best brain-dead shows to...
Was ‘Twisters’ Not the Fun Popcorn Movie You Expected? Give the Original ‘Twister’ a Spin
[Editor’s note: The following story contains spoilers for “Twisters”]Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her in 'Eyes Wide Shut' for Her 'Provocative Nature' There’s nothing quite like a big, loud, summer blockbuster. The kind of film that shakes your seat, blasts your ears, and tugs at your heartstrings with excessive, yet entertaining force. Many films this summer have tried to service this need, including “The Fall Guy” and “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” but “Twisters” may finally be the one to exceed financial expectations, if not at least meet them. Critics have already praised its direction and VFX, plus this Glen...
Love ‘Longlegs’? Then the Japanese Serial Killer Thriller ‘Cure’ Is the Movie for You
Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for “Longlegs” and “Cure.”Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her in 'Eyes Wide Shut' for Her 'Provocative Nature' The oozy, hypnotic dread of “Longlegs” may be scaring up dreams of “Seven” and “The Silence of the Lambs” as a mid-‘90s-set thriller about the games between a serial killer and an FBI agent. But there’s another movie Osgood Perkins’ Nicolas Cage-starrer (now a record-smashing box office hit for Neon) shares a darker kinship with. That’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cure” from 1997, a gruesome serial killer tour de force the Japanese director himself was inspired by David Fincher’s...
A New Doc Looks Inside Kubrick’s Overlook Hotel — Watch the Trailer for ‘Shine On — The Forgotten Shining Location’
Few movie sets in Hollywood history have generated more interest than the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” The fictional Colorado hotel provides the backdrop for Jack Torrance’s (Jack Nicholson) descent into madness, and Kubrick devotees have spent countless hours analyzing symbolism in the production design and the disorienting effects created by the hotel’s impossible floor plan. The hotel sets, hailed by many as some of the defining craftsmanship of Kubrick’s filmmaking career, now get their moment in the spotlight in a new documentary set to be released on the late director’s birthday.Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her...
Armie Hammer Thanks Luca Guadagnino for Being ‘Vocally Supportive’ Amid Controversies
Armie Hammer is calling out Luca Guadagnino by his name for standing by him amid a rape allegation and other accusations of sexual misconduct.Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her in 'Eyes Wide Shut' for Her 'Provocative Nature' Hammer, who worked with the Oscar-nominated director on “Call Me by Your Name,” said during “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that Guadagnino has been “vocally supportive” of him — even when it hasn’t been fashionable. “Luca Guadagnino has also been vocally supportive, which is something that I could not appreciate more,” Hammer said. “But at the same time, I’m also well aware that it is...
‘Lady in the Lake’ Review: Natalie Portman’s Apple Noir Dives Deeper Than a Traditional Whodunit
A bird’s eye view of “Lady in the Lake” may make Alma Har’el’s ambitious new Apple series sound as generic as its title. In 1966, just outside of Baltimore, a young girl is found dead. The woman who discovers her body, an aspiring journalist, becomes obsessed with the case, and it soon leads her to another body, another suspect, and a criminal conspiracy with dangerous ties to cops, politicians, and more. Everything Coming to Netflix in August 2024 All of this is true, but none of it is the full truth. Throughout the ethereal, furious, seven-episode limited series, layers are peeled...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Actor Nell Fisher Couldn’t Tell Her Classmates Where She Was for ‘a Year’
It’s not uncommon for kid actors to be told they’re turning into big stars at their movie premieres, but such praise felt especially fitting when it came to celebrating Nell Fisher at the world debut of Ant Timpson’s “Bookworm.” The 12-year-old actor, whose other work includes Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise,” was announced earlier this week as one of a few new faces expected on screen when “Stranger Things” finally returns with Season 5 sometime next year. She’ll replace twins Tinsley and Anniston Price as Mike and Nancy Wheeler’s little sister Holly, now old enough to play a real part...
‘Eyes in the Trees’ Producer Says He’s Being Extorted Over His Anthony Hopkins Footage
Anthony Hopkins’ latest indie film “Eyes in the Trees” has found itself at the center of a FBI complaint. With IATSE in the Rearview, Teamsters Are 'Far Apart' with Studios as the Clock Is Ticking to Make a Deal Producer Daemon Hillin first told Deadline that he is being extorted over 18 minutes of unedited footage from the feature that was allegedly obtained through hacking. The footage includes all of Hopkins’ scenes that were filmed in Los Angeles in 2023; the movie received a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement waiver to remain in production. Hillin said a “Korean Zombie address” has sent him “disturbing...
Free Community Film Screenings in Toronto May Soon Be Coming to an End
Should cinema be treated as a luxury or as a necessary form that brings people together? That’s the question facing another Toronto institution today as news surfaces of the city’s beloved Toronto Outdoor Picture Show facing dire financial straits. Beginning as the Christie Pits Film Festival in 2011, TOPS became a registered non-profit organization in 2015 with a focus on presenting film programming to areas throughout Toronto, including Christie Pits Park, Fort York, Bell Manor Park, and Corktown Common. Over 25,000 people come out each summer for its free screening series, but TOPS Founder and Artistic & Executive Director Emily...
A New L.A. Queer Film Series Fills the Summer Void Left by Outfest
Queer film fans in Los Angeles are feeling the summer void left by the beloved Outfest, which paused its programming last year amid financial issues and staff layoffs and has yet to resume. But a new film series, called Queer Rhapsody, looks to fill that crater across five venues July 19-28 — and with curation from the UCLA Film and Television Archive and one of Outfest’s former own. Even if they aren’t looking just to replace the 40-year-long legacy of L.A.’s oldest film festival. Plus, Queer Rhapsody is decidedly a series, not a festival.With IATSE in the Rearview, Teamsters Are...
‘Bookworm’ Review: Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher Save the Adventure Genre in Ant Timpson’s Adorable Epic
The good old-fashioned family adventure is a genre unto itself, and one worth celebrating when kid-friendly films as good as “Bookworm” open events like Fantasia Fest 2024.Nicole Kidman Thinks Stanley Kubrick Cast Her in 'Eyes Wide Shut' for Her 'Provocative Nature' Director Ant Timpson and writer Toby Harvard reunite for their second scrappy feature following the 2019 cult horror hit “Come to Daddy.” This time, they’ve cast repeat collaborator Elijah Wood as a low-rent American magician (excuse me, “illusionist”) and an absentee dad who is suddenly conscripted back into parental service by an emergency overseas. For this crowd-pleasing comedy, the camera...
Sundance Names 6 Finalists for New Home in 2027, Including Park City
Sundance Institute has announced the six finalists of host cities that could potentially become the new home of the Sundance Film Festival beginning in 2027. With IATSE in the Rearview, Teamsters Are 'Far Apart' with Studios as the Clock Is Ticking to Make a Deal Those cities are, in alphabetical order: Atlanta, GA; Boulder, CO; Cincinnati, OH; Louisville, KY; Park City/Salt Lake City, UT; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s a surprising list spread out across the U.S., including some locations such as Boulder and Atlanta, which have been public about wanting to attract Sundance to their town, and others like...
‘Twisters’ Needed to Create Tornado-Force Winds and Rainstorms on Set for Action Scenes
[Editor’s Note: IndieWire will cover VFX contributions to “Twisters” next week.] Halle Berry: Critics Have 'So Much Power' to Tank Films One key to the success of “Twisters” is how well the CGI tornados are integrated with the action of characters running away from — or, in the case of the storm trackers, driving toward — these terrible forces of nature. Director Lee Isaac Chung recently told IndieWire about how he thought he designed action scenes in terms of layers. “The ultimate layer, the background layer is going to be the tornado within any frame,” said Chung. “And that I knew had to be...
Manny Jacinto Says ‘People Were Yearning’ for What ‘The Acolyte’ Provided
[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “The Acolyte,” including the season finale that premiered on July 16.]Winona Ryder Had 'One Condition' When Joining 'Stranger Things': Don't Interfere with 'Beetlejuice 2' Manny Jacinto knows what he did to the internet on June 25. When his goofy low-level criminal Qimir on “The Acolyte” was unmasked as the show’s big bad — known as the Stranger and clad in sweeping sleeveless robes — the entire trajectory of Leslye Headland’s space-set crime thriller shifted. “She posed the question of: how do you tackle this sort of low status character, and transform him into someone who...
Sharon Stone Says More Female Filmmakers Means Less ‘Male Fantasy’ Storylines
Sharon Stone is crediting the rise in female filmmakers for undercutting perversely pervasive “male fantasy” characters.Winona Ryder Had 'One Condition' When Joining 'Stranger Things': Don't Interfere with 'Beetlejuice 2' The actress said during the 2024 Taormina Film Festival (via Deadline) that today’s films are “less about male-driven fantasies” as more women are writing and directing features. “I think that now that women are writing, directing, producing, filming, and more and more a part of filmmaking, films are less about male-driven fantasies,” Stone said. “Actresses are less asked to portray the male fantasy and critics are less asked to tell us if we fulfilled the male...
Winona Ryder Had ‘One Condition’ When Joining ‘Stranger Things’: Don’t Interfere with ‘Beetlejuice 2’
Winona Ryder had “one condition” when joining “Stranger Things”: Don’t blow “Beetlejuice 2” for her.All the 'Bridgerton' Books, Ranked Worst to Best Ryder had been meeting with “Beetlejuice” director Tim Burton in secret before “Stranger Things” even happened. Should “Beetlejuice 2” finally be greenlit, Ryder wanted assurances that Netflix would let her press pause on the TV series to go do the film sequel. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar (video below), Ryder says the “Beetlejuice 2” carveout was the first thing she discussed with “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer when she met with them to play their Joyce Byers. “At...
All the ‘Bridgerton’ Books, Ranked Worst to Best
The “Bridgerton” Netflix TV series is about a family with eight siblings, all either horny rakes or attracted to horny rakes, looking for love on the Regency marriage mart. Based on a beloved bestselling series of books by Julia Quinn that began in 2000, each season of the show is a loose adaptation of one of the books about the Bridgerton family, highlighting one specific sibling. 'House of the Dragon' Check-In: Who Is Season 2 Meant for? So far, that includes Book No. 1, “The Duke and I,” which became Season 1 of “Bridgerton,” focusing on Simon and Daphne; Book. No. 2, “The...
Streaming App KINO Announces Digital Premiere of ‘The Secret Art of Human Flight’
After premiering in the U.S. Narrative Competition at Tribeca Film Festival in 2023, the H.P. Mendoza dramedy “The Secret Art of Human Flight” will finally be released wide on August 3 with a digital premiere on the streaming app KINO in conjunction with Level33 Entertainment. The online event will include appearances from cast and crew including Grant Rosenmeyer, Maggie Grace, Academy Award nominee Paul Raci, and director H.P. Mendoza.Halle Berry: Critics Have 'So Much Power' to Tank Films According to an official synopsis, “‘The Secret Art of Human Flight’ follows a grieving widower (Rosenmeyer) who, in the wake of a tragedy,...
Halle Berry: Critics Have ‘So Much Power’ to Tank Films
Before the love-to-hate-it phenomenon of “Madame Web,” the original critically panned superhero cult classic was “Catwoman.” And now, 20 years later, lead star Halle Berry is detailing just how powerful film critics were when it came to the film’s grossings. Apple TV+ May Finally License More Movies from Other Studios -- Report Berry told Entertainment Weekly for the anniversary of the feature that it took years for audiences to “have the freedom to discover” “Catwoman” on their own, without reviews clouding perspectives. In turn, “Catwoman” has become a sleeper hit, despite — or rather, maybe because of — its Razzie wins....
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