George Clooney and Brad Pitt are about to meet their heist comedy match in Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. The Oscar-winning actresses are front and center in the upcoming “Ocean’s 11” spin-off “Ocean’s Eight,” which also stars Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, and Awkwafina.
Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Clooney’s Danny Ocean, who brings together a ragtag group of women to pull off the heist of the century at the Met Gala in New York City. The plan is to rob Debbie’s ex-lover. The supporting cast includes Richard Armitage and James Corden.
“The Hunger Games” director Gary Ross is behind the camera for the spin-off, while original director Steven Soderbergh has a producing credit. “Ocean’s Eight” opens in theaters June 8. Watch the first trailer.
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Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Clooney’s Danny Ocean, who brings together a ragtag group of women to pull off the heist of the century at the Met Gala in New York City. The plan is to rob Debbie’s ex-lover. The supporting cast includes Richard Armitage and James Corden.
“The Hunger Games” director Gary Ross is behind the camera for the spin-off, while original director Steven Soderbergh has a producing credit. “Ocean’s Eight” opens in theaters June 8. Watch the first trailer.
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- 12/19/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The opening paragraphs of IndieWire’s review of “The Emoji Movie” may have read like a desperate cry for help, but the fact remains that movies are literally a light in the darkness, and that’s never been more true than it was (and continues to be) during the summer of 2017.
While the season tends not to be associated with high art, this hasn’t really been one of those years where the past has all that much bearing on the present. Things don’t make a lot of sense anymore, and that’s proven to be as true for pop culture as it has for every other aspect of our country. Generally speaking, that hasn’t been great news (the world is falling apart, we’re all gonna die, etc.). But when it comes to the multiplexes, people may have been happy to find that down is the new up.
While the season tends not to be associated with high art, this hasn’t really been one of those years where the past has all that much bearing on the present. Things don’t make a lot of sense anymore, and that’s proven to be as true for pop culture as it has for every other aspect of our country. Generally speaking, that hasn’t been great news (the world is falling apart, we’re all gonna die, etc.). But when it comes to the multiplexes, people may have been happy to find that down is the new up.
- 8/2/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Too Hollywood for art houses and too art house for Hollywood, iconoclastic French filmmaker Luc Besson has always had to blaze his own trail. Unwilling — or unable — to compromise from the very start (his debut feature was a dialogue-free post-apocalyptic drama about a waterless future where it occasionally rains fish), Besson continues to offset his pigheadedness with his passion. He eventually got so sick of looking for support that he launched his own production company, EuropaCorp, which has become one of the most profitable in all of Europe by churning out the kind of carnivalesque shlock that made its founder so famous in the first place. Besson may not have directed the likes of “Taken,” “Lock-Out,” and “Colombiana,” but his fingerprints are all over them.
Read More Review: ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Is Like ‘Star Wars’ on Crystal Meth, and It’s Almost Crazy Enough to...
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- 7/20/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
From the start, French film culture told Luc Besson where he stood: He’s too American and too commercial to be taken seriously. That messaging began when he was 17-year-old applicant at the National School for Cinema.
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“The interview was 30 seconds long, because after 30 seconds [the interviewer] felt I had nothing to do with the school,'” said Besson. “I was always shocked by that because he just asked me one question and then, ‘Get out.’ The question was, ‘Give me the three directors you love.’ Obviously, I gave the wrong answer because I said Spielberg, Coppola, and Scorsese, and the right answer was probably Godard, Truffaut, and Eisenstein, and I was never able to get in the school.”
Instead, Besson interned on a short film, then made short films of his own. By the time he was 30, he already...
Read More: ‘Valerian’: Luc Besson Reveals Why Americans Resist Bold Cinema
“The interview was 30 seconds long, because after 30 seconds [the interviewer] felt I had nothing to do with the school,'” said Besson. “I was always shocked by that because he just asked me one question and then, ‘Get out.’ The question was, ‘Give me the three directors you love.’ Obviously, I gave the wrong answer because I said Spielberg, Coppola, and Scorsese, and the right answer was probably Godard, Truffaut, and Eisenstein, and I was never able to get in the school.”
Instead, Besson interned on a short film, then made short films of his own. By the time he was 30, he already...
- 7/18/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
It’s unfortunate that Luc Besson’s latest multi-million dollar action spectacle is called “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” because the film is as much about its male hero (the eponymous Valerian, played by Dane DeHaan) as it is about his female partner, Laureline (Cara Delevingne). A long-time passion project of the filmmaker, Besson’s newest feature is based on the French sci-fi comics series “Valérian and Laureline,” written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, a childhood favorite of Besson. Like the series that inspired it, the film follows a pair of “spatio-temporal agents” who are charged with keeping the peace across the universe.
Valerian may get title billing, but both DeHaan and Delevingne’s characters exist on very equal footing. Most of the time, it’s actually Laureline who saves the day when the notoriously hot-headed Valerian goes off the rails and biffs yet another important mission.
Valerian may get title billing, but both DeHaan and Delevingne’s characters exist on very equal footing. Most of the time, it’s actually Laureline who saves the day when the notoriously hot-headed Valerian goes off the rails and biffs yet another important mission.
- 7/18/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Like any director about to release a massive summer blockbuster, French filmmaker Luc Besson is anxious about how his $180 million dollar sci-fi adventure will be received.
“I can feel the resistance when it comes to the American audience,” said Besson. “I can feel it, I’m not blind. ‘Oh, that’s not a Marvel? Oh, she’s not totally an actress yet? [Star Cara Delevingne was a successful fashion model.] What is Rihanna doing there and who’s this weirdo French guy?’ I can feel all that.”
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From the start, Besson knew his vision for adapting Pierre Christin’s 1967 comic series “Valérian and Laureline” did not fit Hollywood’s tentpole model, which is why his EuropaCorp raised the $180 million production budget and partnered with Stx to bypass studios completely.
To some degree, that is the story of Besson’s film career. As either...
“I can feel the resistance when it comes to the American audience,” said Besson. “I can feel it, I’m not blind. ‘Oh, that’s not a Marvel? Oh, she’s not totally an actress yet? [Star Cara Delevingne was a successful fashion model.] What is Rihanna doing there and who’s this weirdo French guy?’ I can feel all that.”
Read More: ‘Valerian’: How Luc Besson Made a $180 Million Indie That Can’t Fail
From the start, Besson knew his vision for adapting Pierre Christin’s 1967 comic series “Valérian and Laureline” did not fit Hollywood’s tentpole model, which is why his EuropaCorp raised the $180 million production budget and partnered with Stx to bypass studios completely.
To some degree, that is the story of Besson’s film career. As either...
- 7/17/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The pitch for “Wish Upon” has plenty of potential: A high concept horror movie that basically aims to be “Heathers” meets “Final Destination” with a dash of “The Monkey’s Paw.” Unpopular teenager Clare (Joey King) comes across an ancient Chinese box with the ability to grant eight wishes, which she leverages to make her family wealthy and improve the quality of her life bit by bit, not realizing that every wish comes with a tradeoff — someone close to her must die. And so they do, again and again, as the gears in the box turn slowly and an eerie song plays, so by the time Clare learns her lesson, it’s obviously too late. Unfortunately, by the time “Wish Upon” gets around to establishing this grim premise, it’s already too late to turn it into anything remotely exciting on its own terms.
Accept the sheer absurdity of the...
Accept the sheer absurdity of the...
- 7/13/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Nobody is more virile than a blind man in a bad movie. From Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in “Scent of a Woman” to Virgil Adamson in “At First Sight,” these characters are cartoons of masculinity, using their dicks like antennae as they help guide the sighted people in their lives towards some kind of personal growth. While blind women are often rendered as pretty, pitiable things in desperate need of assistance (a trope that Charlie Chaplin inadvertently helped cement in “City Lights,” and that Lars von Trier very deliberately weaponized in “Dancer in the Dark”), their male counterparts are seen as horny, feral animals who compensate for their sightlessness with bat-like sonar and a bloodhound’s sense of smell.
And so we end up with movies like Michael Mailer’s divertingly banal “Blind,” in which Alec Baldwin plays a vision-impaired (but hyper-sexual) writer who can tell from halfway...
And so we end up with movies like Michael Mailer’s divertingly banal “Blind,” in which Alec Baldwin plays a vision-impaired (but hyper-sexual) writer who can tell from halfway...
- 7/13/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
There’s plenty of star power behind “Girls Trip,” including always-bankable director Malcolm D. Lee and big names like Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith, but the film’s biggest breakout belongs to relative newcomer Tiffany Haddish, who makes off with not only the comedy’s best lines and bits of physical humor, but its most eye-popping performance. Best known to mainstream audiences for her work on “Keanu” and “The Carmichael Show,” Haddish has been working steadily since 2005, but “Girls Trip” seems destined to launch her into the big time (it doesn’t hurt that she’s also got her first stand-up special teed up for an August debut on Showtime). And it should, because she’s the best thing going in a film that has plenty else to recommend it, especially for audiences eager to see a truly wild summer comedy.
Lee’s film will inevitably draw comparisons to...
Lee’s film will inevitably draw comparisons to...
- 7/12/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
TLC is plotting a revival — or should we call it a makeover? — of its classic home-design series Trading Spaces, which originally ran from 2000 to 2008.
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The announcement was made Tuesday at TLC’s upfront presentation by network president Nancy Daniels, per Fox News. “This is a big one,” she began. “I am excited to announced that TLC’s most successful and most iconic series … is coming back.”
For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Trading Spaces was a reality show in which two pairs of...
RelatedSytycd, Love Connection Reboot Get Summer Premiere Dates at Fox
The announcement was made Tuesday at TLC’s upfront presentation by network president Nancy Daniels, per Fox News. “This is a big one,” she began. “I am excited to announced that TLC’s most successful and most iconic series … is coming back.”
For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Trading Spaces was a reality show in which two pairs of...
- 3/28/2017
- TVLine.com
With its second season finale airing on Wednesday (TLC, 10/9c), Too Close to Home promises to answer many of fans’ lingering questions from the past seven weeks. But here’s a burning question I’d like answered: Why can’t I stop watching this show?!
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Crazy Enough to Work?
Frankly, the latest offering from the House of Tyler Perry is the creative equivalent of a train wreck making love to a dumpster fire, then slapping a man bun on top for good measure. And that wasn’t a...
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Crazy Enough to Work?
Frankly, the latest offering from the House of Tyler Perry is the creative equivalent of a train wreck making love to a dumpster fire, then slapping a man bun on top for good measure. And that wasn’t a...
- 2/22/2017
- TVLine.com
Few things bring a fractured family together like a crisis — and Queen Sugar‘s got ’em in spades.
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Crazy Enough to Work?
Tuesday’s series premiere, written and directed by executive producer Ava DuVernay, introduced viewers to the Bordelon family, whose eclectic members include Hollywood-based sports manager Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), journalist/activist Nova (Rutina Wesley) and single father Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe), who can’t seem to escape his past as a convict — or give up the destructive behavior that landed him behind bars in the first place.
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Crazy Enough to Work?
Tuesday’s series premiere, written and directed by executive producer Ava DuVernay, introduced viewers to the Bordelon family, whose eclectic members include Hollywood-based sports manager Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), journalist/activist Nova (Rutina Wesley) and single father Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe), who can’t seem to escape his past as a convict — or give up the destructive behavior that landed him behind bars in the first place.
- 9/7/2016
- TVLine.com
2 Close 2 Home?
Two weeks into its seven-episode freshman run, Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home has been renewed for Season 2, TLC announced on Thursday.
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Just Crazy Enough to Work?
The series — which follows Anna, a young woman who comes face-to-face with her checkered past after an alleged affair with the president — “captured viewers” and “brought in new viewers at an even greater rate in its second week,” the network’s press release reads. Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) famously guest-stars.
In Live+Same Day ratings, the sudser has...
Two weeks into its seven-episode freshman run, Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home has been renewed for Season 2, TLC announced on Thursday.
RelatedToo Close to Home: Is Tyler Perry’s TLC Drama Just Crazy Enough to Work?
The series — which follows Anna, a young woman who comes face-to-face with her checkered past after an alleged affair with the president — “captured viewers” and “brought in new viewers at an even greater rate in its second week,” the network’s press release reads. Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) famously guest-stars.
In Live+Same Day ratings, the sudser has...
- 9/1/2016
- TVLine.com
Stan Lee is one of popular culture’s more fascinating icons, a man whose importance to various artistic mediums cannot be understated. In his wake lies a complex legacy, where his undeniably vital contributions continuously do battle with those who were left wounded by him (just ask Jack Kirby’s estate). Without Lee, the Marvel comic book universe as we […]
The post Stan Lee Is Just Crazy Enough to Think a ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Avengers’ Crossover Could Happen appeared first on /Film.
The post Stan Lee Is Just Crazy Enough to Think a ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Avengers’ Crossover Could Happen appeared first on /Film.
- 1/19/2016
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
It’s time you meet your new favorite actress, How To Get Away with Murder star Aja Naomi King. You’ll get along great because she loves Shonda Rhimes, Beyoncé, and Empire‘s Cookie Lyon as much as you do.
VH1 caught up with the up-and-coming star, who dished on the behind-the-scenes action of Murder (Shonda!) and how she feels about diversity being at the forefront of TV’s current lineup. Did we mention she supports Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes, she rocks.
How are you feeling about season 1 coming to an end?
It’s kind of sad, we’ve had so much fun shooting it and spending all this time together. I don’t want it to end, I enjoy people watching it and telling me what they think about it.
What has been your favorite scene to shoot so far?
Before it was the woods scene because it...
VH1 caught up with the up-and-coming star, who dished on the behind-the-scenes action of Murder (Shonda!) and how she feels about diversity being at the forefront of TV’s current lineup. Did we mention she supports Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes, she rocks.
How are you feeling about season 1 coming to an end?
It’s kind of sad, we’ve had so much fun shooting it and spending all this time together. I don’t want it to end, I enjoy people watching it and telling me what they think about it.
What has been your favorite scene to shoot so far?
Before it was the woods scene because it...
- 2/19/2015
- by Taylor Ferber
- VH1.com
It’s time you meet your new favorite actress, How To Get Away with Murder star Aja Naomi King. You’ll get along great because she loves Shonda Rhimes, Beyoncé, and Empire‘s Cookie Lyon as much as you do.
VH1 caught up with the up-and-coming star, who dished on the behind-the-scenes action of Murder (Shonda!) and how she feels about diversity being at the forefront of TV’s current lineup. Did we mention she supports Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes, she rocks.
How are you feeling about season 1 coming to an end?
It’s kind of sad, we’ve had so much fun shooting it and spending all this time together. I don’t want it to end, I enjoy people watching it and telling me what they think about it.
What has been your favorite scene to shoot so far?
Before it was the woods scene because it...
VH1 caught up with the up-and-coming star, who dished on the behind-the-scenes action of Murder (Shonda!) and how she feels about diversity being at the forefront of TV’s current lineup. Did we mention she supports Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes, she rocks.
How are you feeling about season 1 coming to an end?
It’s kind of sad, we’ve had so much fun shooting it and spending all this time together. I don’t want it to end, I enjoy people watching it and telling me what they think about it.
What has been your favorite scene to shoot so far?
Before it was the woods scene because it...
- 2/19/2015
- by Taylor Ferber
- TheFabLife - Movies
We’ve already sat through the premieres of Gotham and The Flash, and new seasons of Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and we’ve still got the premiere of iZombie and Netflix’s Daredevil to get through before the TV year is over. But now, it’s time for Constantine, NBC’s highly anticipated series which debuted tonight.
Based on the long-running DC Comics/Vertigo book Hellblazer, and the subject of a somewhat successful yet critically derided Keanu Reeves movie, NBC is hoping that this paranormal detective/master of the dark arts will make a fine Friday night companion for their established hit Grimm. In Constantine‘s favor is that it ably sets up an easy-to-replicate procedural-style format. The pilot is efficiently creepy, and star Matt Ryan seems at least engaging in the title role. But will Constantine prove as engaging as some of its fellow comic book series? That remains to be seen.
Based on the long-running DC Comics/Vertigo book Hellblazer, and the subject of a somewhat successful yet critically derided Keanu Reeves movie, NBC is hoping that this paranormal detective/master of the dark arts will make a fine Friday night companion for their established hit Grimm. In Constantine‘s favor is that it ably sets up an easy-to-replicate procedural-style format. The pilot is efficiently creepy, and star Matt Ryan seems at least engaging in the title role. But will Constantine prove as engaging as some of its fellow comic book series? That remains to be seen.
- 10/25/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
Amore — from the Alamuddins! Us Weekly has learned who's footing the bill for George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's highly-anticipated wedding in Venice, Italy, and it turns out it's not the two-time Oscar winner. "Crazy enough," a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly, "her family is paying for most of it!" As previously reported by Us, the bride's parents also had a say in when the wedding would take place. Like Clooney, Ramzi and Baria Alamuddin were anxious to have the nuptials this fall. An [...]...
- 9/17/2014
- Us Weekly
It's hard to imagine Ryan Gosling being Ryan Gosling without "Drive." The 2011 film became the quintessential example of Gosling's particular brand of performance: laconic, whimsical, child-like and cool. Gosling's so Gosling-y in "Drive" that it's almost impossible to picture other actor playing the film's lead role. Crazy enough, though, that almost happened: Before Gosling made "Drive," Hugh Jackman was attached to the project.
Gosling, of course, isn't the only actor with a near-miss like that on his resume. Ahead, 16 other iconic roles that were almost played by different actors.
Gosling, of course, isn't the only actor with a near-miss like that on his resume. Ahead, 16 other iconic roles that were almost played by different actors.
- 5/24/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
Chris Kattan To Host
At&T U-verse 2012 Sundance Special
It was announced today that actor Chris Kattan will be the host of Sundance 2012 coverage on At&T U-verse® Buzz.
Daily coverage of the festival, including interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, will be offered by At&T U-verse on their Buzz Channel (Ch. 300 and 1300 HD for U-verse subscribers), Facebook (www.facebook.com/uverse), Twitter (@Sundance2012), Instagram (#Sundance2012), U-verse Online (uverseonline.att.net/uverse/exclusive), as well as a dedicated Sundance website (att.com/sundance2012). In addition to the daily coverage, a comprehensive 30-minute special will air on U-verse Buzz February 15 through March 15.
About Chris Kattan
Chris Kattan got his start with the famous La-based comedy improvisational group .The Groundlings.. He is best known for his memorable characters during his seven seasons on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003, alongside Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey. Kattan...
At&T U-verse 2012 Sundance Special
It was announced today that actor Chris Kattan will be the host of Sundance 2012 coverage on At&T U-verse® Buzz.
Daily coverage of the festival, including interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, will be offered by At&T U-verse on their Buzz Channel (Ch. 300 and 1300 HD for U-verse subscribers), Facebook (www.facebook.com/uverse), Twitter (@Sundance2012), Instagram (#Sundance2012), U-verse Online (uverseonline.att.net/uverse/exclusive), as well as a dedicated Sundance website (att.com/sundance2012). In addition to the daily coverage, a comprehensive 30-minute special will air on U-verse Buzz February 15 through March 15.
About Chris Kattan
Chris Kattan got his start with the famous La-based comedy improvisational group .The Groundlings.. He is best known for his memorable characters during his seven seasons on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003, alongside Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey. Kattan...
- 1/20/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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