Tag: Birds of Prey
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2021 Muah Awards: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and ‘Birds of Prey’ Are Top Makeup, Hairstyling Winners
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” captured the top period feature prizes for makeup and hairstyling at the 8th annual Muahs Guild Awards Saturday night, making it the prohibitive Oscar favorite for the dramatic transformation of Viola Davis as the titular pioneering blues singer. Davis, who landed her fourth Oscar nomination as the sexy, subversive Rainey —…
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‘Dead Pigs’, the First Feature Film From ‘Birds of Prey’ Director Cathy Yan, is Finally Being Released Domestically on Mubi
Before she made Birds of Prey, Cathy Yan made her feature debut with Dead Pigs, a film that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Despite high praise at Sundance, Dead Pigs was never released domestically. Now that’s finally going to change, with a Dead Pigs release exclusive to the streaming […]The post ‘Dead Pigs’,…
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Women Directed Record Number of Films in 2020, Behind-the-Scenes Growth Remains Slow
Not all news was bad news for filmmakers during the pandemic year. According to the latest study from the Celluloid Ceiling, the longest-running and most comprehensive study of women’s employment in film, women directors were up overall in 2020. The 23rd edition released Saturday from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and…
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The Quarantine Stream: ‘Birds of Prey’ is a Blast and a Breath of Fresh Air for DC Movies
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: After breaking up with the Joker, Harley Quinn suddenly loses…
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Superhero Bits: ‘DC Future State’ Trailer, ‘Hawkeye’ Set Photos, Jim Lee’s New ‘The Batman’ Sketch & More
Want to learn how to draw Miles Morales as Spider-Man? How many copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin have sold so far? What’s one request Rosie Perez has if there’s a Birds of Prey sequel? Which characters are joining Marvel Future Fight in December? How will the Batman in DC’s Future State…
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New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Movie Will Star Margot Robbie, With Script From ‘Birds of Prey’ Screenwriter Christina Hodson
Yo-ho, yo-ho, it’s a pirate’s life for Margot Robbie. The Birds of Prey and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star is hoisting the mainsail and swabbing the poop and doing other naval terms you’ve heard in movies but don’t know what they mean, because she’s set to star in a new Pirates of the…
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Superhero Bits: The Real Godspeed Coming to ‘The Flash’, Tom Ellis Closes ‘Lucifer’ Deal & More
Are you ready for Godspeed to come to The Flash? When does Marvel get the rights to Daredevil back? What’s the status of the sixth season of Lucifer? What did Cathy Yan have to say about a Birds of Prey rumor perpetuated by an unreliable YouTuber? Which X-Men movies got canceled thanks to Disney buying…
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Margot Robbie’s ‘Birds of Prey’ Producer Role Proves She’s an Influential, Necessary Voice
Just as we’ll remember 2013 as the year Margot Robbie made her break-out as an actor in The Wolf of Wall Street, I have a good feeling we’ll look back on 2020 as the year Robbie broke big as a producer thanks to Birds of Prey. Robbie has a decade and some change under her…
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‘The Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Adds Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Paul F. Tompkins, and More to Cast
CBS has announced a new batch of names for The Twilight Zone season 2, as well as new episode titles for this summer’s return trip to that dang dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. The new names include Jurnee Smollett-Bell—who is having a heck of a run recently between Birds of…
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‘Birds of Prey’ Honest Trailer: A Hot Topic Version of Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’
What happens when Harley Quinn emancipates herself from The Joker after playing second fiddle to him all throughout Suicide Squad? Well, she forms her own criminal gang, doesn’t take it too seriously, keeps the clown make-up, and uses weird weapons to tangle with a rich masked guy wearing all black. Like the Birds of Prey…