The weakest link in the DC Comics Universe is reconceived as a hero every bit Superman\u2019s equal in this water-logged DC origin story.<\/b>
\nRichard E. Grant is so memorable in \u201cCan You Ever Forgive Me?\u201d that it\u2019s a shock to realize he\u2019s only in a fraction of the film. Fox Searchlight\u2019s \u201cCan You Ever Forgive Me?\u201dcenters on biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) when she is broke and desperate, and begins forging celebrity letters. Israel has encounters with multiple […]
Female-led movies outperformed male-led titles at the worldwide box office during the 2014-17 period, a study released Tuesday showed. Creative Artists Agency and technology company Shift7 said that the analysis found that female-led films outperformed male-led films at all budget levels. The study grew out of the Time\u2019s Up movement in a collaboration aiming to […]
Aquaman isn\u2019t like the other DC Comics superheroes, so it seems only right that his bigscreen solo show should have a personality all its own \u2014 which, in the hands of \u201cFurious 7\u201d director James Wan, it does. Gone is the Aryan-looking Atlantean in green-and-orange spandex, replaced with a bare-chested Hawaiian super-stud with long, shaggy […]
Issa Rae\u2019s production company, ColorCreative, has signed a multi-picture production deal with Columbia Pictures. The pact is unique in that under the agreement, ColorCreative will work with and back projects from emerging, diverse screenwriters. The move comes as the entertainment industry is under pressure to develop films and shows that feature underrepresented talent both in […]
Virtual reality has been making inroads in the entertainment business for several years, but 2018 has been an especially big one for animated projects. This year, there are at least two VR-animated shorts vying for Oscar nominations: Google Spotlight Stories\u2019 \u201cAge of Sail\u201d and Baobab Studios\u2019 \u201cCrow: The Legend.\u201d Disney has created its first VR […]
Celebrating its 10th year anniversary, Les Arcs Industry Village is launching the Talent Village, a new development workshop and platform for emerging talents which will be under the patronage of Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (\u201cThe Hunt\u201d). Kicking off on Dec. 12 and hosted at the Cine\u0301fabrique Film school in Lyon, the workshop will take place […]
\u201cCall of Duty: Black Ops 4\u2019s\u201d latest zombie addition delivers players to a 1912 manor where they take on the roles of characters voiced by Helena Bonham Carter, Kiefer Sutherland, Charles Dance, and Brian Blessed. \u201cDead of the Night\u201d is set at Rhodes Manor, a palatial estate in the English countryside, in the year 1912. Dozens of […]<\/p>\n