Park Chan-wook is bringing his iconic revenge thriller Oldboyto television for the first time. Lionsgate announced today they were partnering with Park on an Oldboy TV show. This would be an English TV series. Park’s film, released in 2003, was made in his home country of Korea. It was based on an acclaimed Japanese manga series by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. “Lionsgate Television shares my creative vision for bringing Oldboy into the world of television. I look forward to working with a studio whose brand stands for bold, original and risk-taking storytelling,” said P...
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Marvel’s Eternals is one of the biggest critical and commercial disappointments in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. It had a really talented direector, an incredible cast that included Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington, and Kumail Nanjiani, and one of our favorite weird Marvel comics, created by Jack Kirby. So what went wrong? That’s the subject of our latest ScreenCrush video, which looks back at Eternals, tries to figure out where things went wrong and puts forward a plan that could have changed everything: Making it a Disney+ television series instead of a feature film. We’ll also discuss ...
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Just a few months after the release of their latest film, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are looking to re-team again — this time on a biopic about the life of musician and actor Frank Sinatra. This would mark DiCaprio and Scorsese’s seventh movie together, following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon. (Or their eighth if you also count the short film“The Audition.”) According to Variety, Scorsese intends to make this Sinatra movie after his next project, which is a film about the life of Jesus Christ. Di...
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A lawsuit that threatened to hold movie studios accountable for the content of their trailers — especially the ones that weren’t especially accurate depictions of their subjects — has been settled. It all stemmed from the Danny Boyle movie Yesterday. The film imagines a world where a musician (Himesh Patel) gets into an accident and when he wakes up, he is the only one on the planet who remembers the Beatles. That allows him to present the Beatles’ classic songs as his own, and to become a huge star in the process. The trailers for Yesterday included a scene featuring Ana de Armas. When the fi...
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The Jinxcould have been created to prove the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. It told the story of Robert Durst, the black sheep of an obscenely wealthy New York real estate dynasty, who police connected to the mysterious disappearances or deaths of three different people: His first wife Kathy, his best friend Susan Berman, and his neighbor, Morris Black. Durst had even been tried for Black’s murder; he managed to beat the charge despite acknowledging, in open court, that he had chopped up the neighbor’s body in order to cover up what he had done (in self-defense, he claimed). Th...
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Disney+’s X-Men ’97rolls on in March, with new episodes every Wednesday through the season finale on Wednesday May 15. Disney+ will also get a documentary about the making of the hit animated show, and it could potentially be an interesting film, given that Marvel fired the series’ creator, Beau DeMayo days before the show premiered on streaming. May also has two very high-profile music docs: The Beatles’ long-unavailable final film, Let It Be, and a new doc about The Beach Boys. The service will also premiere a documentary about Muppets creator Jim Henson, from director Ron Howard. There’s al...
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Liam Neeson’s The Naked Gun has its leading lady: Pamela Anderson. It’s maybe an off-kilter pick, but it’s fitting for the franchise, a spoof of old cop movies and TV shows that began as the short-lived television series Police Squad! and then became the hit trilogy of films The Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen played bumbling LA cop Frank Drebin in the show and the movies. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while “plot details [for the remake] are being locked away with other police files … it is known that Neeson is playing Drebin.” Anderson is the film’s main love interest. In the originalNaked ...
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The next Transformers movie is launching its promotional campaign in an extremely literal way: The first trailer for the movie will supposedly debut in space. Truth be told, I do not fully understand what that means. (Hopefully I do not have to go to space to watch it; I specifically became a film critic because I was promised that this job meant I would never under any circumstances have to go into space.) But according to the press release, the upcoming Transformers One — an animated origin movie for the Transformers franchise — will “launch in space.” The show will begin online this Thursda...
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Thor: Ragnarokand Thor: Love and Thunderwere both from the same director, Taika Waititi, and featured much of the same cast, including Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder. They both have very similar plot structures; they start with humorous recap monologues that lead to big fight scenes followed by a return to Asgard (or New Asgard), when a new villain with a personal beef with Thor is unleashed, then Thor heads to another planet where a comedic secondary villain tries to imprison him, leading to a big battle, an escape, and then an ending that involves Thor making a noble sacrifice to atta...
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A remastered edition of the Beatles’ Let It Be film will stream on Disney+ on May 8. It’s the first time the film has been available in over 50 years. The new movie was restored by Peter Jackson’s team at Park Road Post Production and contains footage not featured in Jackson’s 2021 Get Back docuseries, which also streamed on Disney+. The original Let It Be film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was released on May 13, 1970, about a month after the Beatles had broken up and a week after the album of the same name arrived. “Peter Jackson seesLet It Be and his Get Back as companion pieces,” Hogg...
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