Of all the mind-bending occurrences 2019 has brought us thus far, in hindsight it may well go down as the Year of the Deepfake—when the nascent technology collided with the mainstream. Over the past ten months alone, viral deepfakes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, Jordan Peterson, and Bill Hader have been viewed by hundreds of millions—if not billions. Yet the...
Among the many new project announcements coming out of AFM this year, some undoubtedly sound more promising than others, and As Sick As They Made Us is one of the more intriguing ones. The comedy-drama, as reported by Deadline, will be the directorial debut of Mayim Bialik, who also wrote the script. If that name doesn’t ring a...
Sony just unleashed a singularity of wholesomeness by releasing a new behind-the-scenes vignette for the upcoming Fred Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers. The two-and-a-half minute video features a series of interviews with the cast and crew, describing the process of how they all came together to recreate Fred Rogers as best they...
Sometimes you just need an immersive drama, and thankfully, Netflix delivers. From what are now TV classics (like Breaking Bad and Mad Men) to Peak TV gems (Hap and Leonard, Mindhunter), Netflix is home to some of the most wonderfully crafted and engaging television of our time. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be rolling out more lists of TV subgenres...
I wondered why Warner Bros. didn’t release Doctor Sleep before Halloween. It seemed pretty obvious to release a sequel to one of the greatest horror films of all-time at a time when people are craving horror movies. But after seeing Doctor Sleep, the decision makes sense because Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel isn’t really a horror movie. It...
John Boyega, who will soon be seen reprising his role as everyman hero Finn in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has signed on to star in the Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge, which hails from Green Room writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, Collider has learned. The project finds Saulnier returning to Netflix, which released his most recent film Hold the Dark starring Jeffrey Wright, Riley Keough and Alexander Skarsgard. Rebel...
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Current War: Director’s Cut) has found his next project, and it sounds like award bait. Greg Silverman’s Stampede announced today that Newsflash, from writer Ben Jacoby’s Black List script, will star Chris Pine (Hell or High Water) as none other than Walter Cronkite! Here’s an official story summary: NEWSFLASH takes place on November 22nd, 1963, when Walter Cronkite put everything on...
Kristen Bell will be returning to Gossip Girl for HBO Max. The series is a sequel / reimagining of the popular CW show based on the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, about a group of upper-class teens attending a fictional boarding school in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The show jump-started the careers of several actors, including Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Penn...
The element that most viewers tend to gravitate toward when it comes to documentaries is the essence of real life that one gleans from the assemblages of historical footage, photographs, talking heads, pre-recorded audio, and sequences of physical excursion or simple quotidian tasks. There’s an undeniable feeling of authenticity even when you’re watching something clearly...
There’s no crying in baseball, but there is casting afoot on the series adaptation of A League of Their Own. Amazon Studios has started putting together its lineup, and The Good Place star D’Arcy Carden is in negotiations to star opposite writer-executive producer Abbi Jacobson, Collider has exclusively learned. The show is based on the hit 1992 movie that starred Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie...
