Tag: The Fault in our Stars
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far
There are crime thrillers and then there is Tokyo Vice, a gritty story that explores crimes and criminals with a very different approach. This Max original series looks at the underworld of 90s Tokyo from the inside out, following one young journalist and a detective who are both determined to uncover the truth, no matter…
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Emily Deschanel, Sam Trammell and Noma Dumezweni to Star in Sci-Fi Romance ‘ReEntry’ (Exclusive)
Emily Deschanel, Sam Trammell and Noma Dumezweni lead “ReEntry,” the first film from the production company PlotNaut, helmed by filmmakers Brendan Choisnet and Daniel Nayeri.The sci-fi romance stars Deschanel as Elenore, a woman grappling the disappearance of her husband (Trammell), after he enlists in a scientific experiment run by Dumezweni’s character. But, a year later…
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Willem Dafoe Gave Us One of His Most Menacing Villains in This YA Movie
Willem Dafoe is an actor renowned for his versatility, but it’s his villainous qualities that have become his most beloved roles. Whether he’s a crazed supervillain like the Green Goblin in Spider-Man, a hulking hitman in The Grand Budapest Hotel, a probing investigator in American Psycho, an insane sailor in The Lighthouse, or a ruthless…
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‘Life In A Year’ Trailer: Terminal Illness Forces Jaden Smith & Cara Delevingne To Rush Through Love
You can probably thank “The Fault In Our Stars” for kickstarting this trend in recent years, but Hollywood has seemingly been in love with the idea of a YA film focused on a new love affair between teens that is interrupted by one of their terminal illnesses. And that’s grabbing the baton this year from…
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The New Mutants review – troubled kids add hit of horror to X-Men saga
The superhero franchise is refreshed with a thoughtful study of childhood trauma before noisy CGI battles come to the foreMeet the new mutants, same as the old mutants … or sort of. This is an X-Men spin-off, based on the characters by Marvel Comics artists Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, and they are younger than…
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‘Stargirl’: Film Review
Maybe it’s the fault of “The Fault in Our Stars” that we assume, in the flourishing modern era of the young-adult genre, that one of the story’s romantic leads has to die in order to advance the dramatic stakes. Fortunately, that’s not the case with director Julia Hart’s “Stargirl.” Adapted by Hart, Kristin Hahn and…
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New Mutants Should Have Hit Theaters This Weekend, Will We Ever See It?
Today is, or perhaps we should say, would have been, an important day for X-Men fans, as today would have been the day that The New Mutants was going to hit theaters. But that is no longer the case, as the troubled project is still sitting on a shelf waiting to be released. Many would-be…
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Hannah Marks to Direct ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ Movie for Fox
Fox 2000 has hired 25-year-old Hannah Marks to direct the film adaptation of John Green’s bestselling young adult novel “Turtles All the Way Down.”Marks is one of the youngest female studio directors in history. She will direct from a screenplay by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker. Temple Hill’s Isaac Klausner and Marty Bowen are producing…
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Reese Witherspoon to Produce ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Adaptation for Fox 2000 (Exclusive)
Fox 2000 has acquired the best-selling novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” and has tapped Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to produce a feature film adaptation.Witherspoon’s involvement is not a great surprise. The Oscar winner has been a champion of the book, selecting it for inclusion in her Reese’s Book Club. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” Delia Owens’…
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James Emswiller, Emmy-Winning Sound Mixer, Dies at 61 After Fall on Set of Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers Movie
Emmy-winning sound technician James Emswiller died Thursday night after falling from a balcony on the Mt. Lebanon, Penn., set of the Tom Hanks film about children’s television legend Fred Rogers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Friday.Emswiller, 61, died about an hour after the incident, which occurred at 7:30 p.m. Et, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office…