They are calling it “The Last Beatles Song.” It started as a John Lennon demo called “Now and Then” that Yoko Ono had given to Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr during the work on The Beatles Anthology in the 1990s. While Paul, George, and Ringo did work on the song at that time, it … Read more
Something that I really loved about the film is just how tactile and textural it is. Like the scene during the funeral when they’re in their grandma’s car. I felt like I was in their car. I felt like I could smell that car. How did you capture those textures? At every level I was … Read more
Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series director James Bobin says there will be some differences from the novels. Percy Jackson and the Olympians will bring Rick Riordan’s fantasy series to life once again, but fans shouldn’t expect the Disney+ TV series to be a word-for-word adaptation of the novels. While speaking with CBR, Percy … Read more
Rick Riordan “wrote off Hollywood” after being left frustrated by the Percy Jackson films. The 59-year-old author has never watched either of the movie adaptations of his work – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters – and refused to consider other takes on the books as the … Read more
Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Joe Manganiello team up for crime-thriller The Kill Room, out this month. An exclusive clip for crime thriller The Kill Room has arrived, reuniting Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman on the cast list for the first time in two decades. In The Kill Room clip, Uma Thurman’s art … Read more
The Kill Room trailer finds Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Joe Manganiello using an art gallery as a front to commit crimes. The art world is a cutthroat and judgemental arena. You’re the cat’s pajamas one day, but you’re old news if you take too long to deliver your next masterpiece. Surrounded by snobbery, … Read more
Like a god of Greek myth, Percy Jackson just refuses to fade into obscurity. He’s appeared in multiple series of books by author Rick Riordan, and to date, he’s starred in two theatrical features: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. While the film series stopped there, the character will now get … Read more
Samuel L. Jackson in talks to play the US President in The Beast, which is also set to star Suicide Squad’s Joel Kinnaman. Given the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, there hasn’t been a lot of casting news over the last two months, but Deadline has reported that Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star as … Read more
The Michael Jackson sexual abuse lawsuits have been revived. Michael Jackson lawsuit The HBO documentary Leaving Neverland features accounts from two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, accusing the King of Pop of sexually abusing them when they were children. The cases were dismissed but the lawsuits have recently been brought back from dismissal. Robson … Read more
The Percy Jackson series was supposed to be one of the biggest movie franchises of its era. Based on the mega bestselling novels by Rick Riordan, Fox had hoped it would become their Harry Potter or Hunger Games young adult tentpole series. But while the first film, Percy Jackson and the Olympains: The Lightning Thief became a solid hit, … Read more