Keanu Reevesis in talks to star in an airplane disaster movie titled The Entertainment System Is Down, which will be directed by two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness).
The movie has been described as a “social satire set on a long-haul flight on which the entertainment system isn’t working, sparking chaos and rages among passengers.”
Yeah, that’s something I could actually see happening in today’s society. Reeves will be part of an ensemble cast that will comprise of several international stars.
When previously talking about the project, the director said the film will be “a study of how human beings interact in this little laboratory that is a plane” and “will look at how modern human beings are wrecked under these circumstances.”
He went on to say that he hopes the movie will cause the biggest walkout in the history of Cannes Film Festival. So, he’s going to go for something completely unhinged, bonkers, and filled with wicked humor. Should be fun!
The Entertainment System Is Down is said to be Östlund’s most ambitious film to date.
Sydney Sweeney is a rising star in Hollywood right now. She’s recently appeared in several film projects, and she’s got many more lined up.
With success comes people who are looking to drag them down. This happens everywhere, even outside of Hollywood.
Last week veteran Hollywood producer Carol Baum said at an event that Sweeney is “not pretty” and “can’t act.” She also commented on her hit rom-com Anyone but You, saying it was “unwatchable.”
Baum, who has produced films such as Dead Ringers, Father of the Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, made these comments about Sweeney during a discussion in Pleasantville, N.Y., with New York Times film critic Janet Maslin.
According to the Daily Mail, Baum said, “There’s an actress who everybody loves now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney. I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney’s movie [Anyone but You] because I wanted to watch it.
“I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her. I watched this unwatchable movie — sorry to people who love this … romantic comedy where they hate each other.”
Baum, who is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, continued: “I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’ Nobody had an answer.”
She added: “But then the question was asked, ‘Well, if you could get your movie made because she was in it, would you do it?’ … That’s a very hard question to answer because we all want to get the movie made and who walks away from a green light? Nobody I know. Your job is to get the movie made.”
A representative for Sweeney has since fired back at Baum, saying in a statement to Variety: “How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman.
“If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful. To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.”
The actress’s acting coach, Scott Sedita, also came to her defense saying: “She’s been through the ups and downs of this business.
“So you have to be pretty much a serious actress if you’re gonna go through all that. When taking feedback or critique, she processes it, uses her acting technique and makes the adjustment.”
He went on to say: “Sydney is beautiful because she has inner depth, intellect, compassion, style and facial features — eyes, smile, cheekbones — that the camera angles pick up on.
“The camera loves her ‘look’ as well as the audience. Audiences love her because she’s relatable and approachable.”
While a lot of people feel the same way about Sweeney as Baum does, she is kind of the star of the moment, and it’s safe to say we’re going to be seeing more and more of her.
Tom Feltonplayed Draco Malfoy throughout eight Harry Potter films, and he played the part quite well. All these years later the actor still looks back on his time in the franchise and is sharing his thoughts on it.
During a recent interview with US Weekly, the actor opened up about Draco’s story arc in the film and what it was that made his redemption so cool. All these years later, fans are seeing Draco in a new light.
When addressing this, Felton said: “I mean obviously he’s a slimy, he’s not exactly the most desirable character at times. But, it’s nice to see, yeah, it’s really, really cool to see the correlation between the fact that Harry had no parents, and he came out brilliantly with honor, love and respect and truth being at the heart of it.”
He continued: “And Draco having both parents, but not so good ones, and that he ended up being the bully because…You know, there’s so many different subtle arcs now that are being discovered, and I think it’s really cool.”
Felton concluded: “I think the redemption of Draco, slight redemption, I don’t think he was born to be the hero at all, but the slight understanding that he was a bully because he was basically bullied it’s quite cool.”
While you can’t really call Draco a hero, by the end of the story, he’s also not the villain anymore. There were plenty of opportunities that could’ve driven Draco to become a full-on villain. I mean, at one point he could’ve killed Dumbledore! But, he chose not to.
It just shows that not everything deals with heroes and villains, some people are just in that grey area trying to figure their shit out.
AMC has revived Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire stories in the current series, but fans were first introduced to the characters in that world in the 1994 film of the same name. The movie starred Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Thandiwe Newton, and it has remained a fan-favorite film, even three decades later.
Because of its favorable reviews, as well as its gross in the box office, many have wondered why we never saw a sequel to the film. Christian Slater himself questions even now why that didn’t work out.
Speaking with ComicBook ahead of The Spiderwick Chronicles series coming to Roku on Friday, April 19th, Slater — who played Daniel Molloy, the interviewer in the film — revealed that both he and Cruise were surprised that the film didn’t get a sequel, especially considering the first film ended with Cruise’s Lestat biting Daniel.
“Tom Cruise and I were both surprised that Interview With a Vampire didn’t get a sequel. That would have been fun. I mean, he did bite me at the end of that thing.”
Joy Bryant, who costars with Slater in The Spiderwick Chronicles, noted that in this era, a sequel would have definitely happened, something Slater agreed with.
Several sequel ideas as well as reboots have been kicked around in the years since, but we never have seen another movie set in this world. Is that something you’d be interested in seeing return to the big screen?
This isn’t the first attempt that Scorsese made to get this biopic off the ground with DiCaprio. Several years ago around 2011, a script was written by Field of Dreams scribe Phil Alden Robinson, but that project was scrapped due to a clash with the Sinatra family.
Back in 2016, while doing press from his religious drama Silence, Scorsese told The Toronto Sun that his plans to direct DiCaprio in a Sinatra biopic had been scrapped due to tensions between the director and the Sinatra estate.
The filmmaker said: “We can’t do it! I think it is finally over. They [remaining members of the Sinatra clan] won’t agree to it. Open it up again and I’m there!”
So, what is it that caused the tension? Scorsese wanted to explore the darker side of Sinatra, and the family didn’t want that. Scorsese said: “Certain things are very difficult for a family, and I totally understand.”
He explained: “But, if they expect me to be doing it, they can’t hold back certain things. The problem is that the man was so complex. Everybody is so complex — but Sinatra in particular.”
The family had a different vision, but the thing is, we all know that Sinatra had a dark side! He was in the mob, he was talented, but he did a lot of shady shit! That’s the stuff that audiences are interested in, the dark and gritty side of things and Scorsese is great at telling those stories!
Variety reported that Scorsese “might encounter a similar problem as he plans to relaunch the Sinatra biopic with DiCaprio and Lawrence.: The Sinatra’s estate is run by his daughter, Tina Sinatra, who has not yet given her blessing to the film.”
Lawrence being attached to the role of Ava Gardner might be the reason why; Gardner broke up Sinatra’s marriage to Tina’s mother, Nancy Barbato. It takes two to tango, though! Sinatra also made his own choices.
Anyway, Scorsese wants to shed some light on the darker side of Sinatra’s life and his infidelity is still a sore spot all these years later.
We’ll just have to wait and see if Scrsese will get the family’s blessing this time around.
Zack Snyderrecently was a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and during that interview, he revealed an interesting bit of casting trivia for Watchmen.
Snyder shared that he wanted to castTom Cruise in the role of Ozymandias, but that wasn’t the character Cruise wanted to play. Cruise wanted to play Rorschach in the film!
Snyder explained that they had already cast Jackie Earle Haley in the role, and since he was perfect for that role, Snyder didn’t want to switch him out for Cruise, which was the right choice!
Matthew Goode ended up in the role of Ozymandias, and in the end, everyone who was cast in that movie was perfect for the roles that they played!
Snyder thinks Cruise would’ve been good in these roles, but things just didn’t work out. It certainly would’ve been interesting to see the actor play either of these characters in the film. It would’ve been a very different kind of role for him.
What do you think about Cruise almost being cast as these characters in Watchmen? Do you think he would have been a good match for either one?
Tom Cruise wanted to be in WATCHMEN. But only as…wait for it…Rorschach. Another bombshell @ZackSnyder dropped in our chat.
Giancarlo Esposito is a staple of great TV shows these days, with an impressive resume, and many projects in development at any given time. But his work wasn’t always so steady or so high profile.
In fact, before he landed the iconic role of Gus Fring in Breaking Bad, his one off roles and background appearances in film and TV were so unsustainable to maintaining his family that he was close to bankruptcy, and close to making some desperate decisions.
In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam show while promoting his new AMC drama series Parish, Esposito revealed that he was so broke prior to signing on to Breaking Bad that he once considered arranging his own murder so that his children could have some financial protection courtesy of his life insurance money.
The actor considered this around 2008, a year before the hit series inextricably changed his career and opened the door for roles in The Mandalorian, The Boys, and more.
When asked how he got out of near bankruptcy around 2008, Esposito said: “My way out in my brain was: ‘Hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide? Do they get the bread?’ My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff. I started scheming.
“If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my kids] would get the insurance. I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time. I literally thought of self-annihilation so they could survive. That’s how low I was. That was the first inkling that there was a way out, but I wouldn’t be here to be available to my kids.
“Then I started to think that’s not viable because the pain I would cause them would be lifelong, and there’d be lifelong trauma that would just extend the generational trauma I’m trying to move away from. The light at the end of the tunnel was ‘Breaking Bad.’”
Esposito appeared as Gus Fring on 26 episodes of Breaking Bad, then reprised the role on the prequel series Better Call Saul for 34 episodes. He told British GQ earlier this year that he is highly interested in playing Gus for a third time in a prequel series about the villain.
He said: “Yeah, I would love that. My backstory is he was a military guy who worked his way up through the ranks and could have become president, even possibly the dictator and have taken over. But he wanted to do something that could not be controlled by others, and he wanted to control his own destiny.
“And so he took off to create a new life for himself in America and become a meth dealer, a businessman. I think, in his younger years, he was someone who could have been more Tony Montana. But he worked his way into becoming level enough to listen, hear, and see through his emotional state. We would hope that it might be ‘The Rise of Gus.’”
I think tons of fans would tune in to watch that. Esposito was incredible in that role! I’m so glad he never took his idea of suicide seriously, and I’m sure his family is glad too. Esposito is a cool guy and a great actor. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazakiis still riding high off the success of his film and he is looking to the future of the franchise. We’re all waiting to see what the filmmaker does next, but I’m sure that one day he will get back into the world of Godzilla.
In a recent interview, the filmmaker shared that he’s interested in working with two big Kaiju monsters… Mechagodzilla and Ghidorah.
While talking to Encount about his experience with Godzilla Minus One, Yamazaki was asked if he had any interest in tackling other kaiju, and he said that Dolby enhancements make him curious about Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla.
He explained: “Huh… to make use of Dolby Vision. That’s right, it’s a possibility. I hadn’t thought about it, but now that you’ve said it, I think you’re right.”
In a previous interview, the director said: “If I were to direct the next Godzilla movie, I would like to do a sequel to this one. There have been two standalone Godzilla films in a row now, so perhaps the next one will need to feature a villain monster.”
He also explained that he wants to make a Kaiju vs. Kaiju movie that’s actually good, saying: “I don’t know if anyone has achieved a more serious tone of kaiju vs kaiju with human drama, that challenge, is something I would like to explore.”
He went on to add, “When you have movies that feature [kaiju battles], I think it’s very easy to put the spotlight and the camera on this massive spectacle, and it detaches itself from the human drama component.”
So, when Yamazaki does jump back into the Godzilla sandbox, we know that Godzilla will most likely be facing off with another Kaiju monster. Mechagodzilla and Ghidorah will both be great choices to bring into the franchise!
As director Zack Snyderis out promoting his upcoming Netflix film Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, he offers an update on his planned director’s cuts for the first two films, revealing they will clock in at six hours. Oh yeah, he’s also got a third film planned!
While talking to Forbes, the filmmaker confirmed that each of the two Rebel Moon movies will be three hours long. That’s six hours of Rebel Moon! Obviously, you don’t have to do that in one sitting! The two films include Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire and Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver.
Snyder talked about those, saying: “Yeah, the director’s cuts are three hours each, so if you were to watch the director’s cuts back-to-back, it’s a six-hour affair but I think it’s going to be fun and definitely worth it.”
He went on to explain: “What’s exciting is that on April 19, you’ll be able to watch Part One and Two together, if you feel like doing that. I cut the movies in half. I wrote it as a single story and then kind of broke it in half.”
He added: “You can’t underestimate that immersive feeling that you would get going all the way through the two movies. With the director’s cuts, that’s just going to be more intense because of the additional scenes and the sort of coloring in the corners of the world in the way that we’re able to do, frankly, with more scenes and more time.”
As for when the extended cuts will be available to watch on Netflix, the director said: “We don’t have a hard date but probably sometime in August, I would say.”
He goes on to talk about the third film they’ve been developing, saying: “We have definitely been working on a Part Three, as far as the story goes. We definitely know where we’re all headed – we’ve known that for quite a while, to be honest. So yeah, I’m excited to make some more Rebel Moon movies – that would be fun…”
I’m curious to see how long Netflix will let Snyder play in the Rebel Moon universe that he’s created. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how many people show up to watch the sequel and the director’s cuts. Snyder obviously wants to continue!
While the first movie wasn’t very good, Snyder does have a strong fan base that will continue to show up and support his work.
In the first film, “After crash landing on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a stranger with a mysterious past, begins a new life among a peaceful settlement of farmers.
“But she soon becomes their only hope for survival when the tyrannical Regent Balisarius (Fra Fee) and his cruel emissary, Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein), discover the farmers have unwittingly sold their crops to the Bloodaxes (Cleopatra Coleman and Ray Fisher) — leaders of a fierce group of insurgents hunted by the Motherworld.
“Tasked with finding fighters who would risk their lives to defend the people of Veldt, Kora and Gunnar (Michiel Huisman), a tenderhearted farmer naive in the realities of war, journey to different worlds in search of the Bloodaxes, and assemble a small band of warriors who share a common need for redemption along the way: Kai (Charlie Hunnam), a pilot and gun for hire; General Titus (Djimon Hounsou), a legendary commander; Nemesis (Bae Doona), a master swordswoman; Tarak (Staz Nair), a captive with a regal past; and Milius (E. Duffy), a resistance fighter. Back on Veldt, Jimmy (voiced by Anthony Hopkins), an ancient mechanized protector hiding in the wings, awakens with a new purpose.
“But the newly formed revolutionaries must learn to trust each other and fight as one before the armies of the Motherworld come to destroy them all.”
The Scargiver “continues the epic saga of Kora “and the surviving warriors as they prepare to sacrifice everything, fighting with the brave people of Veldt, to defend a once peaceful village, a homeland for those who have lost their own in the fight against the Motherworld.”
On the eve of their battle the warriors must face the truths of their own pasts, each revealing why they fight. As the full force of the Realm bears down on the burgeoning rebellion, unbreakable bonds are forged, great heroes emerge, and legends are made…”
Here’s a fun trailer for a little sci-fi UFO indie comedy titled Foil. In the film, an unusual piece of foil with potential alien origin causes a rift between two former best friends camping in the California desert.
The synopsis reads: “After opting out of their high school reunion to reconnect on a desert camping trip, Rex and Dexter realize their intentions for the weekend are at odds. Dexter, a failed filmmaker, hopes to harness a fabled vortex in the area to inspire a movie idea.
“Rex, a rebellious conspiracy theorist, plans to investigate a rumored UFO crash believed to explain the anomaly. Tensions quickly boil over when they meet an unusually friendly camper who claims to have found some wreckage from the crash: a mysterious piece of shiny foil.
“In over their heads, the two friends are unsure what to believe. Reconciling their past may be the only way either of them walks out of this desert with a future.”
This wacky-looking movie comes from filmmaker Zach Green, from a script he co-wrote with Devin O’Rourke. The movie stars Chris Doubek as Tom, Brian McGuire, Devin O’Rourke, Zach Green, Ari Stidham, Ashley Rae Spillers, and Jasmine Wattar.
Cranked Up Films will release Foil direct-to-VOD starting on May 10th, 2024.
