Included in Netflix’s massive 2021 film preview is footage from Chris Appelhans’ animated fantasy movie “Wish Dragon,” featuring the voices of Jackie Chan, Constance Wu, and John Cho. The project was produced for Sony, but now it’s going to be released on Netflix in the new year. It’s hardly the first time Netflix has acquired […]
Continue readingRyan Reynolds’ “Detective Pikachu” is already getting a sequel.Oren Uziel will write the script for the second installment to the upcoming live-action movie “Detective Pikachu.”Uziel most recently worked on the screenplay for Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog.” His past credits include writing and directing “Shimmer Lake,” and penning “The Cloverfield Paradox” and “22 Jump Street.”“Detective […]
Continue readingParamount has preemptively picked up the sci-fi spec script Aporia from Jared Moshe. Moshe wrote the script and is attached to direct.J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is producing with Neda Armian.As with many Bad Robot projects, Aporia’s logline is being kept secret. It is, however, being described as a grounded sci-fi drama with time travel elements.Bad […]
Continue readingGugu Mbatha-Raw has been on a sharp, upward trajectory in the film industry as an actor of late. The British actress burst into the international stardom stratosphere with “Black Mirror’s” hit episode, “San Junipero.” Not long after, Mbatha-Raw starred in “The Cloverfield Paradox.” The “Belle” actor’s latest work, “Fabled,” a new anthology TV series that […]
Continue readingFollowing in the footsteps of her Pulitzer Prize-winning father, Zosia Mamet has penned a new television series for Refinery29. Co-created with husband Evan Jonigkeit (Joe Swanberg’s “Easy”), “Fabled” is an anthology series that upends classic fairy tales by giving them a feminist bent. The first episode of the series, titled “Anodyne,” sees Alice from “Alice […]
Continue readingOne day in the future, all movies will be “Cloverfield” movies. The ever-expanding universe, which most recently added “The Cloverfield Paradox” to its orbit, almost pulled another project into its gravitational field: John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place,” which was also made by Paramount. It ultimately avoided that fate, screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods reveal […]
Continue reading“There were things about it that made us have a pause about its commercial playability.”Paramount chief operating officer Andrew Gumpert has explained why the Us studio sold the global distribution rights for the The Cloverfield Paradox to Netflix.In an unorthodox move, the J.J.-Abrams produced film was released unexpectedly by the streaming giant straight after the […]
Continue readingIt’s been an eventful first year at Paramount Pictures for COO Andrew Gumpert, who reflected on his efforts to help steer the struggling studio back on course in a keynote Q&A on Saturday at the UCLA Law School’s annual Entertainment Symposium.After 12 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Gumpert joined Paramount in January as a No. […]
Continue readingEnglish actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw isn’t a household name yet, but I feel like it’s only a matter of time. She’s already headlined a quiet romantic drama (Beyond the Lights), a sci-fi thriller (The Cloverfield Paradox), and what might be the best episode of the anthology series Black Mirror (season 3’s “San Junipero”). In Disney’s A […]
Continue readingIn this edition of Sequel Bits: Game Night writer already has sequel ideas Gugu Mbatha-Raw didn’t know The Cloverfield Paradox was going to drop on Netflix J.J. Abrams explains the Cloverfield Paradox ending The Purge TV series casts its leads A Planet of the Apes Vr game gets a trailer Wreck-It-Ralph 2 directors discuss their […]
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