Samuel Goldwyn Films has released a trailer for another shark attack horror thriller movie titled Something in the Water. The film comes with the tagline, “This summer, fear will find new depths.”
In the film, “An idyllic destination wedding turns into a battle for survival in this emotionally fraught, action thriller.” The dream wedding turns deadly as five friends are forced to confront their fears and brave the open waters.
The story follows Meg (Hiftu Quasem), “who tentatively attends the wedding of old friend Lizzie (Lauren Lyle) in the Caribbean along with fellow pals Cam (Nicole Rieko Setsuko) and Ruth (Ellouise Shakespeare-Hart), plus her former partner Kayla (Natalie Mitson) who she parted ways with after both survived a deeply traumatic event.”
The movie comes from VFX artist turned-director Hayley Easton Street, and it looks like almost every other shark attack movie that has been made.
The movie will be released in theaters and on VOD on May 3rd, 2024.
FX has released the trailer for the upcoming NBA series Clipped, which tells the scandalous story of the notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks that were captured on a tape and head around the world.
The series is based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, and the series charts “the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.”
The series has a great cast that includes Laurence Fishburne, Jacki Weaver, Cleopatra Coleman, and Ed O’Neill.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Fishburne) “arrives as coach of the Clippers in 2013. With a promising roster of big personalities, Rivers had the building blocks to win the franchise’s first championship. The team’s owner, Donald Sterling (O’Neill), is a well-known problem: he’s cheap, he’s erratic, he’s a bully.”
But “minimizing Sterling’s influence to win a title becomes a personal quest for Doc. Meanwhile, a courtside power struggle escalates between Sterling’s ambitious personal assistant V. Stiviano (Coleman) and his wife and business partner of 60 years, Shelly (Weaver).”
The limited series also stars Kelly AuCoin as Sterling’s right-hand, Andy Roeser,J. Alphonse Nicholson as Chris Paul, Rich Sommers as the Clippers’ PR man, Seth Burton, Corbin Bernsen as Pierce O’Donnell, Clifton Davis as NBA great Elgin Baylor, and Harriet Sansom Harris as “Justine.”
The six-part limited series debuts June 4 on Hulu with back-to-back episodes.
Gina Welch executive produces the series and serves as creator and showrunner. The show consists of six episodes and it will premiere on June 4th.
Sam Raimi is set to produce a series adaption of the webtoonI’mThe Grim Reapercreated by Grave Weaver, and Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane, Horizon Line) have been hired to write the project.
Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who will also be a part of the development process.
I’m the Grim Reaper centers on Scarlet, “a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper.
“But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.” The story is said to have a good balance of scares, gore, and humor.
The official description reads: “On earth there are bad people, and then there are REALLY BAD people. If you’re one of the latter, you don’t just get sent to Hell, you get sent to Hell and get assigned a job collecting the souls of some of the worst people on Earth.
“Such is the career path of a young woman named Scarlet, who dies and is delivered down to the fiery underworld only to find herself in an entry level position as…The Grim Reaper!”
This sounds like fun! I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out!
Ben Stiller recently opened up about Zoolander 2and how he was blindsided by the fact that it bombed at the box office.
As you might have expected, he was confused that the film flopped at the box office in a big way. The sequel was made on a $50 million budget and it ended up only making $29 million domestically.
The first movie was moderately successful and audiences seemed to enjoy it, so he thought that everybody wanted to see a sequel, but the numbers proved otherwise.
Stiller was recently a guest on David Duchovny’s podcast Fail Better , and when talking about the film’s failure, he said: “I thought everybody wanted this. And then it’s like, ‘Wow, I must have really f***ed this up. Everybody didn’t go to it. And it’s gotten these horrible reviews.”
He continued, “It really freaked me out because I was like, ‘I didn’t know was that bad?’ What scared me the most on that one was l’m losing what I think what’s funny, the questioning yourself … on Zoolander 2, it was definitely blindsiding to me. And it definitely affected me for a long time.”
It probably didn’t help that Zoolander 2 was up against the first Deadpool movie, which dominated the box office at the time. Of course, everyone was more excited about Deadpool than Zoolander.
Stiller went on to talk about what came out of that experience: “The wonderful thing that came out of that for me was just having space where, if that had been a hit, and they said ‘Make Zoolander 3 right now,’ or offered some other movie, I would have just probably jumped in and done that.”
He added: “But I had this space to kind of sit with myself and have to deal with it and other projects that I had been working on — not comedies, some of them — I have the time to actually just work on and develop.”
Stiller continued: “Even if somebody said, ‘Well, why don’t you go do another comedy or do this?’ I probably could have figured out something to do. But I just didn’t want to.
He said: “I was just hurt. Finding yourself in terms of what creatively you want to be and do, I I always loved directing. I always loved making movies. I always, in my mind, loved the idea of just directing movies that since I was a kid, and not necessarily comedies. And so, over the course of like the next like, nine or 10 months, I was able to develop these limited series.”
The series that he is referring to are Escape From Dannemora and Severance.
I thought Zoolander 2 was right in line with the first movie. No better, not worse, just silly wacky comedy. While Stiller was feeling a little down in the dumps, he ended up picking himself back up and creating more great and entertaining entertainment!
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola’s is creating a whole new “shared universe” of stories in comic book form with the help of writers and artist Ben Stenbeck.
This will be a new anthology comic series published by Dark Horse and it will be called Curious Objects. The first comic in the series is titled Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown.
It will include a collection of strange folklore stories written and drawn by Mignola, along with his longtime collaborators colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Clem Robins. The universe will then expand with another comic created by Stenbeck.
In Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown, “the stories are fantastical, odd and charming — from a search for the beating heart of a long-dead sorcerer, to a pirate girl who makes a deal with the devil, to the titular boy who wins a grim prize in a game with undead interlopers.”
It’s also explained that Curious Objects will focus on the folkloric elements in what Dark Horse calls its “weird, wicked, and whimsical stories.”
Mignola said in a statement: “It all started with an Italian Folktale about a boy who goes bowling with corpses. I fell in love with the story as soon as I discovered it but I wanted to play fast and loose when adapting it, so I created a whole new world.”
He added: “Not TOO different than our world a few centuries ago, but with a lot more gods and monsters. Once I created that world new characters and stories just started pouring out of it. There is a whole lot to play with here and I expect to be at it for a very long time.”
I love folklore and old legends and this sounds like a pretty cool and fascinating comic series that I’ll enjoy reading!
Zack Snyder has shared the first image from his upcoming Netflix animated series Twilight of the Gods, and it offers a first look at the art style.
When the project was first announced it was said to be an anime series, but this style is not the style of anime. It’s more in line with the styles of projects like The Secret of Kells and Wolfwalkers.
The Netflix project was announced a couple of years ago and it’s a Norse mythology series that will tell a revenge story.
When talking about the story for the series, Snyder said: “It’s basically this: there’s a king and his queen in a small Viking village, and they want to get married. An event happens to them at their wedding that causes Sigrid, who is the bride to be, who is the child of giants, to go on a crazy mission of revenge.
“She enlists a cast of characters – a seer, a dwarf – and they come together to form a band that has this one mission to find a god and fight him. It’s a mission, it’s a revenge story.
“Sigrid is this beautiful, very Scandinavian kind of cold but passionate character that I’ve really enjoyed working through and with because she’s just so cool. Sylvia Hoeks voices her.”
Snyder also said that the show will have “a lot of sex […] because that’s fun” and that the first season will consist of eight episodes.
When talking about developing an animated series, Snyder didn’t realize how much of an undertaking it would be: “I just think that it was one of these things that we kind of did not understand, first of all, the rigors of what it would take to make eight episodes of animation. If I had known, I don’t know if I would have done it.”
The full voice cast for Twilight of the Gods includes Sylvia Hoeks as Sigrid, Stuart Martin as Leif, Pilou Asbæk as Thor, John Noble as Odin, Paterson Joseph as Loki, Rahul Kohli as Egill, Jamie Clayton as The Seid-Kona, Kristopher Hivju as Andvari, Peter Stormare as Ulfr, Jamie Chung as Hel, Lauren Cohan as Inge, and Corey Stoll as Hrafnkel.
The series is set to be released next Fall.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldiercelebrated its 10th anniversary last month. It’s pretty crazy that it’s been ten years since that movie was released, and it still stands as one of the best films that Marvel Studios has produced.
The film was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, who went on to direct Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They recently talked about their time making The Winter Soldier during an interview with Games Radar.
Anthony said: “It makes me feel really old! It was honestly a thrill. I mean that whole period was so immersive and thrilling for us. We basically entered the MCU on that movie and exited it seven years later with Endgame.”
He added: “That whole ride was like a rollercoaster that more and more people kept joining. We started working with Marvel in 2012 and Endgame released in 2019. I mean, when you think about it only being seven years, that’s a lot to pack in – four movies in seven years.”
As their productions got bigger with Marvel one thing they want to emphasize is that it always felt like family, just a really big family!
Anthony went on to say: “Family is really important to us. We grew up in a big Italian family and we have always seen our movies and our work as an extension of our family. If you’re gonna go spend time away from the ones you love, you want it to be with other people that you love.”
He continued: “The thing that stands out to me most is how long our relationships have lasted coming out of those movies – our creative collaborators, our actor friends, everyone that we worked with, we still spend a great deal of time with them, are very close to them, and share a lot of memories with them.”
As you’ve seen, the filmmakers continue to cast the actors that they worked with on those movies.
Joe went on to talk about what they are always looking to accomplish with the films that they make and how they aim for their movies to be “in dialogue with the audience”, adding “that’s how we’ve always approached it and you can see this in different ways through our work”.
Anthony elaborated on that saying: “We like active audiences because we grew up as film fans and as pop culture fans in general. We love the way that fandoms can make storytelling their own and the creative process that you can bring to it as a fan.”
He went on to say: “To be able to sit in those movie theaters, for Avengers: Endgame, and to feel the volume and the energy, and just that intensity of audience reaction within a movie theater, I don’t think Joe and I had ever experienced that level of intensity before in a theater. And that was special.”
These guys did something special with the Marvel films that they made and Marvel is still trying and struggling to tap into that creative energy that they left behind.
Kevin Feige recently talked about Captain America: Brave New Worldand how he wants that film to reach the bar that The Winter Soldier set. Good luck with that!
Aaron Sorkin has talked about making a sequel to his hit film The Social Network over the years, but now he’s planning on actually writing it.
The original film examined the dramatic and messy origins of Facebook, and this sequel will put a focus on the social media platform’s impact on U.S. democracy.
On a recent episode of the entertainment business podcast The Town, Sorkin shared his intention to write the sequel, telling hosts Matthew Belloni and Peter Hamby: “Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this. I blame Facebook for January 6.”
Sorkin was then asked to elaborate on how the project will handle the events of that event, which saw a crowd of Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol. He responded: “You’re going to need to buy a movie ticket.”
The screenwriter did go on to say that he’s been “trying” to crack the project saying: “Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible, because that is what will increase engagement.”
He added: “That is what will get you to, what they call inside the hallways of Facebook, ‘the infinite scroll.’ There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t; there’s just growth.”
Sorkin previously talked about the sequel saying: “I do want to see it. And Scott wants to see it. People have been talking to me about it. What we’ve discovered is the dark side of Facebook.”
It was also reported that “Sorkin has taken an interest in Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor who published the 2019 book Zucked, which was critical of the company. Sorkin has met with McNamee, who raised red flags to Zuckerberg and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg after noticing strange political activity on the platform.”
Sorkin has stressed in the past that, “I will only write it if [original filmmaker David Fincher] directs it. If Billy Wilder came back from the grave and said he wanted to direct it, I’d say I’d only do it with David.”
Fincher has talked about doing the film, and when asked about it, he said: “Aaron [Sorkin, The Social Network’s screenwriter] and I have talked about it, but, um… that’s a can of worms.” Fincher didn’t elaborate on that.
If Sorkin is actually writing the script now, Fincher is obviously involved and considering returning to direct it. Maybe Fincher is waiting for the script before he decides if he wants to commit or not.
Sorkin also said in the past: “There’s no question that there is a story. Whether you want to call it a sequel or not, there’s a story there. Whether I’m the guy to tell it or not, I’m not sure.”
He continued: “What I mean is right now, as we speak, I would not be able to write. I don’t know quite how to tell the story, and I think it’s probably also something I wouldn’t want to do without David Fincher.”
I loved the first film, and I’d be very curious about watching this sequel that Sorkin is working on.
DC’s Superman is poised to kick off a brand new era at the studio, and fans have high hopes that it will deliver. So far, so good, as fans are happy with the casting, and director James Gunn has continued his streak of giving us photos and a few breadcrumbs to tide us over until a poster or trailer comes our way.
But today we have some behind the scenes info from the lead stunt performer on the film, Justin Howell, who is the double for David Corenswet’s Clark Kent/Superman.
During a recent interview with Be More Super (via CBM), Howell praised his co-star, calling Corenswet a “down to earth and just a sweet guy.” He went on to say the actor “embodies the character so well.”
While he was reluctant to say too much about the film, he did go on to praise the suit he wears as the character, and the film as a whole, as well as the direction it’s taking the DC universe.
He said that after previously doubling for Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder and serving as Halo‘s Master Chief, Superman’s suit “is the most mobile of any of the other suits I’ve worn.”
He’d also say serving as Superman’s stunt double is the “mountain top” of his career, calling the whole thing “a very, very cool experience.” Howell called the movie “the start of a new era,” adding, “The things James [Gunn is] doing with it are very interesting.”
While these aren’t specifics that give us much of anything to go on, they do give Gunn’s project a boost of endorsement that seems pretty standard from the people he works with. It’s par for the course, but also exciting as we get closer to the film.
Superman will launch the movie part of DC Studios’ Gods and Monsters: Part 1. It’s scheduled for a theatrical release on July 11, 2025.
It looks like Netflix is moving out of The Witcher business. It was recently announced that the main series is set to come to an end with Season 5, and now What’s on Netflix is reporting that the streaming service has decided not to move forward with it two Witcher spinoff projects.
Those projects are The Rats and an untitled kid’s series. The Rats are an infamous group of young Nilfgaardian misfit criminals who targeted the rich and wealthy. The Rats are featured in Ciri’s storyline as she joins them for a period of time.
The show was going to revolve around “six teenage thieves [who] must rely on their criminal skills as they plan the biggest heist of their careers against the most dangerous crime ring in the kingdom.”
As for the untitled kid’s series, there wasn’t really anything revealed about it, so we don’t know what we lost with that one.
So, the final spinoff that will be released is the animated movie, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, starring Doug Cockle as Geralt.
In the story, “Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, is hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople.
“He must count on friends — old and new — to solve the mystery before the hostilities between the two kingdoms escalate into all-out war.”
So, it seems Netflix has enjoyed its run with The Witcher franchise but they are ready to discard it an move away from it after the show comes to an end.
