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Ambulance Trailer: Michael Bay Returns With A New Action Thriller
Director Michael Bay has only made three films in the past 15 years that didn’t have the word “Transformers” somewhere in the title, but thankfully, he’s about to add a fourth. “Ambulance” is Bay’s latest action flick and he’s gathered an excellent cast for the explosive thrill ride, including Jake Gyllenhaal (“Spider-Man: Far From Home”), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“The Matrix Resurrections“), […]
Continue reading‘Last Night in Soho’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Delirious Horror Movie Is a Mod Delight
Edgar Wright’s long-awaited new film has plenty of what you might call The Wright Stuff. That is, it mixes comedy with more nerve-racking genres, it bursts with his love of pop culture, it explores his mixed feelings about the lure and the risk of nostalgia, and it includes several of his other favorite subjects, including […]
Continue readingLily James: ‘All sorts of people can become great loves of your life’
The actor on her role in the BBC’s new Nancy Mitford adaptation, the joy of female friendship, and preparing to play Baywatch star Pamela AndersonLily James was born Lily Thomson in Esher, Surrey, in 1989. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made her TV debut as Ethel Brown in the […]
Continue readingRian Johnson’s Production Company Launches New Label, Will Produce Low-Budget Films From New Directors
T-Street, the production company founded by Knives Out and Brick director Rian Johnson and his longtime producer Ram Bergman, is expanding its reach. Their production banner is teaming up with MRC Films, the indie studio that developed and produced movies like Knives Out, Baby Driver, Ted, and The Adjustment Bureau, to launch a new untitled […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright’s ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Documentary Has Been Acquired by Focus Features
Edgar Wright‘s first documentary has found a home. The filmmaker, whose previous feature directing credits include the Cornetto trilogy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Baby Driver, debuted his first documentary, The Sparks Brothers, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And now Focus Features, the indie label which has worked with Wright on multiple projects […]
Continue reading‘The Sparks Brothers’ Clip Gives You a Look at Edgar Wright’s New Music Documentary
Edgar Wright‘s return to narrative features, Last Night in Soho, is set to arrive later this year. But that’s not the only thing the Baby Driver filmmaker has up his sleeve. He also has The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about the pop-rock band Sparks. Wright’s doc has a cavalcade of famous faces turning up to […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright Releases His Top 100 Songs Of 2020 Playlist
Edgar Wright is known for many things, but perhaps his best skill as a filmmaker is being able to put an iconic needle drop at exactly the right moment. Between the “Don’t Stop Me Now” scene in “Shaun of the Dead,” or basically the entire “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “Baby Driver,” the filmmaker […]
Continue readingLily James True Crime Drama ‘Peggy Jo’ Scores Multiple Sales — Film News in Brief
Monday, Nov. 23 HanWay Films Closes Sales on ‘Peggy Jo’HanWay Films has closed multiple international sales for Phillip Noyce’s “Peggy Jo,” with Lily James attached to star as Peggy Jo Tallas, who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.A deal with Universal Pictures Content Group includes Benelux, German speaking Europe, […]
Continue readingU.K.’s Twickenham Studios Taps Cara Sheppard as Managing Director (Exclusive)
Cara Sheppard is joining the U.K.’s Twickenham Studios (TW1), where she will lead and guide all aspects of production, post-production and emerging technology as managing director.Sheppard joins from post-production facility Warner Bros De Lane Lea, where she was managing director for the last four years. She previously spent some five years with Sky as a […]
Continue readingStream of the Day: As ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Turns 10, the Time Is Ripe to Reconsider Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright’s movies go down easy, but the aftertaste always stings, and it’s often misinterpreted. The British director has made only four features since “Shaun of the Dead” became a sensation in 2004, and each one unfolds with a delirious sense of comic timing, rapid-fire dialogue, and staccato editing that wraps each ludicrous twist in […]
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