Unfortunately, it seems that Netflix’s Masters of the Universe movie is done for before work even properly started on it. The pre-production costs, which were mostly eaten up by buying the property from Sony in the first place, reportedly around $30 million dollars. Supposedly, the budget for the final film would have been in the … Read more
“Memento” “The purpose of the movie is not for us to solve the murder of the wife (“I can’t remember to forget you,” he says of her). If we leave the theater not sure exactly what happened, that’s fair enough. The movie is more like a poignant exercise, in which Leonard’s residual code of honor … Read more
Despite widespread criticism over its crackdown on password sharing, netflix reported a subscriber increase in their second-quarter 2023 earnings on Wednesday. How many new subscribers did Netflix gain? While analysts had initially projected that Netflix would see an increase of about 1.7 million new subscribers in Q2, the company actually reported a whopping 5.89 million … Read more
Gigli was such a notorious flop that director Martin Brest can’t even bring himself to say the name of the Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez movie. Martin Brest directed Beverly Hills Cop, MidnightRun, Scent of a Womanand Meet Joe Blackbut his last movie was such a flop that it brought his career to a grinding halt … Read more
When you look at lists of the great movie sequels, most of the very top picks — The Godfather Part II, Bride of Frankenstein, The Dark Knight, Toy Story 2, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mad Max: Fury Road, Spider-Man 2— have something in common. They were all directed by the same filmmaker who’d helmed the … Read more
Zecchini was so ambitious it made her tense and temperamental. She pushed herself too hard. Even other free divers thought so. But then, in 2017, during a competition in the Bahamas at the Vertical Blue, Zecchini met Keenan in his capacity as a safety diver. He offered to train her after Zecchini blacked out on … Read more
After watching Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One for the second time, one thought struck me: Hayley Atwell is a superstar. Despite her solid work in Black Mirror and Marvel’s Captain America, this gem has somehow remained hidden in obscurity, stuck making pointless cameos in silly superhero adventures and voicing CGI animals. Fortunately, game … Read more
Franchise producer Peter Safran confirms that The Curse of La Llorona is NOT part of The Conjuring Universe. The Conjuring Universe is the highest-grossing horror franchise in the world, but one installment of the series doesn’t belong. The Curse of La Llorona is based on Latin American folklore and follows a mother in 1973 Los … Read more
While The Flash was sold as the film that would transform the old DC Extended Universe into the new cinematic universe that’s currently in development at Warner Bros., that was never quite true. In fact, two more DCEU movies are still coming to theaters before the end of 2023. Blue Beetle arrive next month and … Read more
Sometimes the close-ups of people’s faces are interrupted by flash-cuts of events that haven’t happened, or already happened. There are recurring images of flame, debris, and smaller chain-reaction explosions that resemble strings of firecrackers and non-incendiary images that evoke other awful, personal disasters. (There are many gradually expanding flashbacks in this film, where you see … Read more