February is set to be a busy month for Hollywood in China. “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story” and “Dolittle” will all get their crack at the world’s second largest film market next month, Chinese reports confirmed on Tuesday. The news comes just after the big reveal that three Oscar best picture contenders rank among […]
Continue readingChristian Bale is in negotiations to join Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Variety has confirmed.Should the deal happen, it would be Bale’s first big franchise movie since his final performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.”The fourth film in the “Thor” franchise — which is slated to open Nov. 5, 2021 […]
Continue readingAfter its official trailer debuted in November, many were equal parts horrified and enraged by the litany of humanoid cats preparing for the Jellicle ball and Jellicle sacrifice in “Cats.” Based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of the same name, said outrage came to no one’s surprise.Unfortunately for director Tom Hopper and team, the rage […]
Continue readingTaika Waititi’s next movie Next Goal Wins for Fox Searchlight has added to its cast Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale (Hawaii Five-0), Lehi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo (Harry), Uli Latukefu (Alien: Covenant), Rachel House (Thor: Ragnarok) are joining the cast with Kaimana in her debut role.Searchlight has global rights to the pic, which is their […]
Continue readingThor: Ragnarok is one of the best movies on Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s largely thanks to director Taika Waititi breathing new life into the comic book franchise and really pushing Thor in an exciting new direction. Chris Hemsworth was very much excited to give the God of Thunder a new […]
Continue reading“Jojo Rabbit” has the best intentions and a very confused way of showing them. Taika Waititi’s sunny fairytale focuses on ostracized Hitler Youth Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) and the buffoonish Fuhrer (Waititi in an off-kilter mustache) who serves as the boy’s imaginary friend. There’s a lot to appreciate about the unusual connotations this scenario invites. […]
Continue readingTaika Waititi’s imagination runs wild in the official trailer for “Jojo Rabbit,” one of Fox Searchlight’s big indie releases this fall movie season. The movie stars Waititi opposite newcomer Roman Griffin Davis, who plays a young boy in Nazi Germany whose nationalistic worldview is thrown for a loop after he discovers his mother (Scarlett Johansson) […]
Continue readingWriter/director/star Taika Waititi’s anti-hate satire “Jojo Rabbit” — about a young boy (Roman Griffin Davis) in Nazi Germany, whose imaginary best friend is Adolf Hitler (Waititi) — has some ingenious tricks up its marketing sleeves. The film’s Twitter account has gone full meta.The account has posted its own spin on the infamous “Hitler Meme,” a […]
Continue reading“Thor: Love and Thunder,” the fourth part of Marvel’s single superhero franchise, will shoot in the Disney-owned Fox Studios, in Sydney, Australia. The film is set to receive over $16.7 million (A$24.1 million) of subsidies from the Australian federal government and the New South Wales state government.The announcement, made Friday by Nsw minister for the […]
Continue readingTaika Waititi’s follow-up featuring Natalie Portman as ‘female Thor’ to create 2,500 local jobs, with production to start in March 2020The next Thor film – which stars Natalie Portman as a female embodiment of the Marvel superhero – will be filmed in Sydney after a multimillion dollar grant from the Australian government.Director Taika Waititi and […]
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