It seems like TV shows based on video games have turned a corner with titles like “The Last of Us” and “Fallout,” after years of all adaptations in the direction of film or television being generally disastrous. You know a path that still struggles? Film to video game. For years, it was little more than … Read more
“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” director Thom Zimny’s latest documentary film about The Boss, is a peek behind the curtain of the six-decades-long creative collaboration between the legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist and the musicians that make up The E Street Band. Filmed during the first year of the band’s most … Read more
Saber Interactive and Stormind Games are trying to make the most immersive A Quiet Place game possible with A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. The latest live-action trailer reveals a new feature that will truly plunge players into the film’s post-apocalyptic world. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead features microphone noise detection A Quiet Place: … Read more
There was an abundance of music documentaries at TIFF last year for what feels like an obvious reason: musicians aren’t actors or directors. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes so limited the red-carpet star power at the event that the programmers needed to find a way around them, and so getting Paul Simon, Lil Nas X, … Read more
Larry David will launch a speaking tour later this month, with each of the 10 dates being moderated by a mystery guest. Curb your enthusiasm, but Larry David is hitting the road, announcing a 10-date tour titled, simply enough, “A Conversation with Larry David”. We can safely assume that Elmo will not be his opening … Read more
Macaulay Culkin will hit more than a dozen cities to celebrate Christmas classic Home Alone, even doing post-show meet-and-greets. I’m gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister into a theater with Macaulay Culkin. Sure, it’s barely after Labor Day but that means it’s basically Halloween. And if … Read more
Arguably, the most important feature to accurately adapt Paramount’s horror film franchise A Quiet Place into a game is sound design. The film’s most memorable and tense moments can be credited to its use of sound, or lack thereof. A new video for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead shows how Saber Interactive and Stormind … Read more
So do the terms of the original contract mean you could make a “Repo Man” sequel but you couldn’t show it outside of the United States? We [could, but we] would have to sell it to Universal [first], because they own the foreign rights to a “Repo Man” sequel. In theory, could Universal do a … Read more
Ryan Reynolds has revealed the third Deadpool movie nearly became a budget road trip comedy. Several ideas were touted, including a movie of Reynolds’ superhero, the alter ego of Wade Wilson, and his taxi driver Dopinder (Karan Soni), and the antics they get up to, but they ultimately decided to do the Deadpool & Wolverine movie. The … Read more
It still feels oddly rare to see Black road movies. There are a couple of famous ones spanning genres like John Singleton’s swooning romance Poetic Justice or the comedic Johnson Family Vacation. But in total there are very few. Filmed in Champaign, Urbana, Albany Road, which had its World Premiere at Ebert Fest 2024, is … Read more