Tag: Knives Out
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Three Pines: Everything We Know So Far
Audiences of every age level sure do love a good mystery. The idea of following likable characters in solving a mystery gives the illusion that the audience members are putting the pieces together alongside them, and that’s a narrative device that can easily be translated into a variety of mediums, be it video games, films,…
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Natasha Lyonne Is on the Case in Rian Johnson’s ‘Poker Face’ Trailer
One month after the second “Knives Out” film premieres on Netflix, Rian Johnson is bringing his brand of whodunnit to television. The director’s upcoming series “Poker Face” is set to premiere January 26, 2023, on Peacock, the streamer announced Wednesday.The mystery-of-the-week series stars “Russian Doll” Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a private investigator…
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Rian Johnson and ‘Glass Onion’ cast talk theatrical release, relevance and Angela Lansbury
”I’m really grateful Netflix has stepped up [with a theatrical release]”, said Johnson.Rian Johnson, writer and director of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, expressed his delight Netflix is giving a theatrical release, including one week of exclusivity, in the US and UK in November, at the press conference ahead of the film’s gala screening…
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‘Glass Onion’ Gets One-Week Theatrical Sneak Preview, Netflix to Screen Film in 600 U.S. Theaters
Rian Johnson’s highly-anticipated “Knives Out” sequel will first debut in theaters after all.While Netflix previously teased that “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” would play “in select theaters on a to-be-announced date,” the streamer has announced that the movie will hit theaters for a “special sneak preview” over Thanksgiving, a full month before it launches…
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What Killed ‘Blonde’ at Netflix? The Gerard Butler Did It
Few Netflix originals have received as much advance press and social media attention than Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” his adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel about Marilyn Monroe starring Ana de Armas. It would have been surprising had it not immediately risen to #1 on the streamer’s top 10 movie list — and it did. That…
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Ana de Armas’ ‘Blonde’ Ambition: How She Channeled Marilyn Monroe’s Body and Soul for Netflix’s Nc-17 Gamble
A few years back, Ana de Armas needed to convince Netflix that she could be Marilyn Monroe.She was already the first choice of director Andrew Dominik, whose film “Blonde,” a surrealist vision of the life and death of the screen legend, had been reportedly cast with various leading ladies before alighting on de Armas, but…
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Knives Out 2 Review: Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion Is His Greatest Mystery Yet
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is all about disruptors. As a character states in the film, disrupters are those who break from the norm, those who take something people are already growing tired of, and prepare the world for the next better step. There are few greater disrupters working in modern cinema than Rian…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review: Rian Johnson Outdoes Himself With A Hilarious New Benoit Blanc Whodunit [TIFF]
Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” was a wonderful breath of fresh air — an original film with a stellar cast and a funny, engrossing mystery with twists and turns. It reminded us that movies could be, ya know, fun. Seemingly the moment the movie ended, audiences wanted more. Specifically, they wanted the return of Benoit Blanc,…
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Ana de Armas Receives Deauville Fest’s Young Hollywood Award, Pays Homage to ‘Cinephile Grandfather’ Who Gave Her ‘Big Dreams’
Rolling off a banner world premiere of Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” at the Venice Film Festival, Ana de Armas’s next stop was the Deauville Film Festival in France where she received the Hollywood Rising-Star Award on Friday (Sept. 9) in the jam-packed Palais des Congres.Attended by Dominik and the film’s producers, the ceremony was followed by…
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Daniel Craig Worked With a Dialect Coach for Months for ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’: ‘I’d Forgotten the Accent’
Daniel Craig brushed up on his voice to shoot “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” sharing that he worked with a coach in order to regain the Southern accent that he used to play detective Benoit Blanc in the first “Knives Out.”“I went away to work with an accent coach for three or four months…