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Wait, Now Roku Wants Paramount?
How do you get The Roku Channel to compete with the likes of Pluto TV? Maybe you buy Pluto TV. And Paramount+. Hell, buy the whole company while you’re at it.Maybe Don't Cut the Cord Just Yet, Sports Fans The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported that Seagram’s heir Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman of Fubo, has not yet given up on acquiring control of Paramount Global. And he’s recruiting: In his ragtag group are Fortress Investment Group (private equity, makes sense), “Baby Geniuses” producer Steven Paul (sure, he’s already expressed interest), and Roku, the number 1 manufacturer of streaming devices. Wait,...
‘Good One’ Shows How to Build Drama in the Details
Usually, hikes are all about silences and sound swaps — insects buzz instead of phones, streams murmur instead of people on the street. But one of the sneakily great filmmaking choices in “Good One” is how it doesn’t shy away from dialogue during its long stretches of meditative walks through the woods; it just shows us how easy it is to tune people out when they aren’t saying anything of substance. Alain Delon, French Film Icon and 'Le Samouraï' Star, Dies at 88 That’s one aspect of the relationship management with which teenage Sam (Lily Collias) engages on a three-day backpacking trip...
Maybe Don’t Cut the Cord Just Yet, Sports Fans
If Venu sounded too good to be true, well, now we won’t know until next year (at least).Here's How Reality TV Casting Directors Decide Who Makes the Cut A court has granted Fubo’s injunction against the sports-streaming service, a joint venture between Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, set to launch on August 23. Now it is grounded until at least 2025, pending the joint venture’s appeal. The Venu companies and executives wanted their service out in time for the 2024 NFL football season. At this rate, it’s missing all of that, most of basketball season, probably (at least) some baseball. It...
How One ‘Reservation Dogs’ Scene Helped D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai Reconnect with His Grandfather
Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together. Walton Goggins Couldn't Believe His Hotel Bill After Filming 'The White Lotus' Season 3 It’s been a year since the final season of “Reservation Dogs” premiered on FX, and even longer since the cast and crew worked on Sterlin Harjo’s FX series, but the show’s impact lingers and won’t soon be forgotten. Case in point: the welcome surprise of an Emmy nomination for 22-year-old D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, who plays Bear and has a weighty arc...
Zach Braff Says ‘Scrubs’ Cast Worked ‘Insane’ Hours: ‘I Wouldn’t’ Do That Again
Zach Braff is looking back on what is perhaps the biggest role of his career to date: starring in “Scrubs.”Sofía Vergara Recalls Challenge of Bringing 'Griselda' to Screens: 'He's Going to Laugh in My Face' The beloved series ran from 2001 to 2010, but Braff admitted that the ensemble cast was “pretty fried” by the end of the show. “We would do insane hours that people don’t even do anymore,” Braff said during the “Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum” podcast in the below video. “We didn’t really have much of a life outside of it. So we were just kind of...
Did Pete Docter’s Pixar Gems Help You Face Your Fears? They Did the Same for the Filmmaker
This article is part of IndieWire’s 2000s Week celebration. Click here for a whole lot more.The Criterion Collection's November 2024 Releases Include 'Paper Moon,' 'The Shape of Water,' and a 4K Restoration of 'Seven Samurai' Pete Docter, Pixar’s chief creative officer and Oscar-winning director of “Up,” “Inside Out,” and “Soul,” first learned to face his fears on his debut, “Monsters, Inc.” (2001), the buddy comedy about monsters coming out of closets to scare kids. Docter’s obvious knack for channeling personal problems into universal stories helped propel the films to both Oscars and staggering box office. It also helped shape Docter as a person, something...
Crispin Glover Is in Search of an Exit in the Kafkaesque ‘Mr. K’ — Watch the Trailer
Crispin Glover is a man in search of an exit — from a hotel — in the TIFF-bound “Mr. K.” The cult-favorite character actor — known for “Willard,” “River’s Edge,” “Dead Man,” and, who could forget, Cousin “I’m making my lunch!” Del in David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” — stars in Tallulah H. Schwab’s surreal tale headed for the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the film ahead of the festival, which runs September 5-15 in the thick of the fall fest season.The Criterion Collection's November 2024 Releases Include 'Paper Moon,' 'The Shape...
Getting Jinky with It: How 2002’s ‘Scooby-Doo’ Raised an Entire Generation of Bisexuals
This article is part of IndieWire’s 2000s Week celebration. Click here for a whole lot more.Did Pete Docter's Pixar Gems Help You Face Your Fears? They Did the Same for the Filmmaker Contrary to what conversion therapy might have you believe, it’s impossible to turn someone gay or bisexual. That is, unless you watched the first “Scooby-Doo” movie at a young, formative age. If that’s the case, then you’re almost definitely bisexual now, even if you don’t know it yet. Sorry you had to find out this way. Despite giving us this great gift, critics at the time were still pretty harsh on cinema’s first-ever...
‘It Ends with Us’ Is a Movie About Domestic Violence, So Why Are Blake Lively and Colleen Hoover Acting Like It Isn’t?
On August 14, after Justin Baldoni’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends with Us” opened to $50 million domestic bucks (and the Blake Lively movie began winning the weekday box office over her husband Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool & Wolverine”), Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra had words of praise. He cited Lively for her “passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence,” adding: “We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.”'Skincare' Knows That, in the Right Light, Nothing Is Weirder Than 2013 Hollywood That’s one perspective. For fans of the Colleen Hoover’s...
Kit Harington Says He Won’t ‘Pretend’ That ‘Eternals’ Was an ‘Interesting’ Role
Kit Harington may have had a “Game of Thrones” reunion with Richard Madden in 2021 Marvel film “Eternals,” but the actor isn’t going to “pretend” like the MCU is high art. How the 'Daughters' Filmmakers Captured Emotional Lightning for Their Netflix Documentary Oscar Contender Harington told GQ UK that playing Dane Whitman in the film, directed by Chloé Zhao, was something he just had to do, given that it was a mega-franchise with Marvel. “I’m not gonna pretend I took that [role] because it was different and interesting,” Harington said. “If Marvel calls, you’ve got to do it.” The film received...
Sofía Vergara Recalls Challenge of Bringing ‘Griselda’ to Screens: ‘He’s Going to Laugh in My Face’
All in all, it took 15 years for Sofía Vergara to produce and star in the hit Netflix crime drama “Griselda,” which led to an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Sitting down for a video interview with IndieWire, she said that before she had any idea what the project could be, Vergara had a strong connection to Griselda Blanco’s story. “I just love that character because she was Colombian. I’m a mother, I’m Colombian. Of course, I have not killed any of my husbands, but I would understand why she had...
How the ‘Daughters’ Filmmakers Captured Emotional Lightning for Their Netflix Documentary Oscar Contender
No question, the documentary “Daughters” is a tearjerker. At the Sundance 2024 premiere, its two rookie filmmakers saw the power of their father-daughter story. Music video director Natalie Rae and Girls for a Change CEO Angela Patton had witnessed the emotions unleashed when incarcerated men at a Washington D.C. prison shed their orange gear and dressed up for a father-daughter dance. When they line up on chairs in a hallway to anxiously await their daughters, who run into their fathers’ arms, there was not a dry eye in the house.Karate and Vomit Make 'Little Manhattan' a Midnight Movie for Kids...
Kaitlyn Dever Needed Extra Security Because ‘The Last of Us’ Fans Hate Her Character, Co-Star Isabela Merced Says
Any actor who has portrayed a live-action version of a comic book or video-game character has faced some backlash from haters, but Kaitlyn Dever’s experience as Abby on “The Last of Us” Season 2 is a whole ‘nother thing.Sofía Vergara Recalls Challenge of Bringing 'Griselda' to Screens: 'He's Going to Laugh in My Face' According to her co-star Isabela Merced, Dever required extra security on the HBO series’ set to keep some overzealous (to put it one way) fans of the game away. Merced suggested it’s not because Dever, who was cast in January 2024, wasn’t up to the task, but...
George Clooney: Hollywood Is ‘Getting Eaten Up’ by the ‘Walmarts and Amazons’ of the World
George Clooney is lamenting conglomerates taking over Hollywood. The actor told GQ UK that studio Paramount, which has long been on the market, is akin to a “mom-and-pop shop” nowadays.Karate and Vomit Make 'Little Manhattan' a Midnight Movie for Kids -- and Basically 'Sex and the City' for Boys “Paramount’s one of the great original studios,” Clooney said when asked about how Hollywood has changed. “But some of it you just have no say in. Because the business, it’s all getting eaten up. It’s like everything — it’s all getting eaten up by big Walmarts and Amazons around the world. Our version of mom-and-pop...
‘The Deliverance’ Review: Lee Daniels’ Horror Effort Sees Glenn Close Tortured via Netflix Drama
Lee Daniels’ first-ever horror effort, “The Deliverance,” is not to be confused with 1972’s “Deliverance.” Although, much like John Boorman’s three-time Oscar nominee about idiot canoers going through hell in rural Georgia, it does make movie-watching pretty painful. Did Pete Docter's Pixar Gems Help You Face Your Fears? They Did the Same for the Filmmaker Not since “Hillbilly Elegy” has Netflix done Glenn Close so dirty. That’s true even taking into account her small part in the hugely horrible “Heart of Stone” for the streamer last year. “The Deliverance” director Daniels, an ambitious storyteller with an admirably spotty track record, is best...
‘The Union’ Review: Mark Wahlberg Is the Only Guy Normal Enough to Join the Government’s Top Secret Department of Normal Guys
Roxanne Hall (Halle Berry) is a globetrotting superspy who executes intricate missions without breaking a sweat. Need to kidnap a billionaire crime lord from a heavily guarded hotel room without disturbing the other guests? She’s your woman. Is the world order as we know it threatening to collapse due to an unprecedented intelligence leak? She’s the one you call. So when Roxanne is faced with the most important mission of her career, it’s somewhat surprising that she decides to bring in extra help. What’s even more surprising is that her preferred phone-a-friend is her old boyfriend, who has never left...
15 Years Later, the Adventure of Making ‘Coraline’ Continues
“Coraline,” the masterful stop-motion debut from Oregon-based Laika, turns 15 this year. It’s currently being honored with a 3D remaster in theaters (also screening in 2D through Fathom). In addition, there’s a bevy of merch, including a new Mondo vinyl soundtrack by Bruno Coulais, a Converse collection, and a partnership with Portland’s Stumptown Coffee.Crispin Glover Is in Search of an Exit in the Kafkaesque 'Mr. K' -- Watch the Trailer Which is why “Coraline” director Henry Selick was recently in London promoting the 3D remaster and appearing at the launch of the “Laika: Frame x Frame” exhibition at BFI Southbank. He spoke...
Every ‘Alien’ Movie Ranked, from Worst to Best, Including ‘Romulus’
[Editor’s Note: This list was originally published in May 2017. It has since been updated to coincide with the release of “Alien: Romulus.”] The 'Rebel Child' of Ridley Scott and James Cameron: Fede Álvarez on 'Alien: Romulus' Very few film franchises in history have the pedigree that “Alien” can lay claim to. The 20th Century Fox science fiction saga has evolved over the decades from claustrophobic horror to bloody action and back again, and it’s managed that transition by producing two undeniable classics. First is Ridley Scott’s 1979 original, “Alien,” which made Sigourney Weaver an iconic final girl and became the...
Nicolas Cage to Play NFL Icon John Madden in Next David O. Russell Film
We need someone to break this one down for us. Nicolas Cage, who just played a serial killer in “Longlegs,” is going in a completely different direction for his next role. Cage will portray a truly beloved icon of football and the NFL, John Madden. Boom!What's It Like When a Xenomorph Comes After You? Let 'Alien: Romulus' Breakout Aileen Wu Explain Cage has been set to star in “Madden,” the next film from director David O. Russell that is set up at Amazon MGM Studios, IndieWire has confirmed. He’ll portray Madden throughout his tenure as the coach of the Oakland Raiders...
‘The Alpha and Omega of Bickering’: Jeff Schaffer on the Series Finale of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
One might think that a showrunner and director would feel an intense degree of pressure heading toward the finale of a series widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies in the history of television, but Jeff Schaffer was surprisingly relaxed when heading into the home stretch on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I think we would have felt a lot of pressure knowing this was the final season if we hadn’t had so much practice with final seasons,” Schaffer told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We have ended the show, I don’t know, seven times? I mean, the final episode of...
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