Liev Schreiber Would Consider Reviving Ray Donovan

“I would consider it,” Schreiber said. The actor made it clear that any decisions about bringing back “Ray Donovan” are above his pay grade, but made it clear that the Showtime brass has a lot of passion for the show. “It was always [Showtime CEO] David Nevins’ baby,” he said. “I know he loves this character and this story, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear more from David.”...

February 2, 2023 · 2 min · 385 words · Sharon Wright

Love Death And Robots Season 2 Animation Goes Deeper Interviews

Indeed, the sci-fi anthology, produced by Blur Studio for Netflix, so impressed the TV Academy that it was awarded four juried prizes on Wednesday: Robert Valley, production designer (“Ice”); Patricio Betteo, background artist (“Ice”); Dan Gill, stop-motion animator (“All Through the House”); and Laurent Nicholas, character designer (“Automated Customer Service”). “We tried to elevate the stories further and to give deeper explorations of some of these adult themes,” said supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (“The Darkest Minds” and the “Kung Fu Panda”sequels)....

February 2, 2023 · 4 min · 769 words · Brandon Day

Mare Of Easttown Evolves Hbo S True Detective Who Needs Season 4

An investigator plagued by the past has to get to the bottom of a pivotal case in order to save the day — and themselves. Did you guess “The Outsider”? Maybe “The Night Of”? Perhaps you thought of “Sharp Objects,” or even “Perry Mason”? Wait, of course, never mind: You said “True Detective” — Season 1, 2, or 3. Well, no matter what you thought of, you were probably right. Ever since Detective Rust Cohle declared time to be a flat circle, TV networks have followed his looping logic to lucrative ends....

February 2, 2023 · 12 min · 2380 words · Catherine Davis

Martin Scorsese Honors Bob Rafelson A Pivotal Figure

“Bob Rafelson was a pivotal figure in the history of cinema, American cinema most of all, and he was a bridge between two eras in Hollywood moviemaking,” Scorsese wrote. “He was literally born into the old Hollywood — his cousin was the great screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, one of Lubitsch’s key collaborators — and he was one of the people who made the New Hollywood possible, as a producer and then as a director....

February 2, 2023 · 2 min · 298 words · Jorge Collins

Matrix 4 Wrap Party Broke Covid Laws By Faking Film Shoot

Health safety guidelines in Berlin and the state of Brandenburg allow parties to be thrown but at a 50-person capacity. Furthermore, any party has “to be registered in advance along with the submission of a ‘hygiene concept’ that has to be approved by authorities.” Government approved film shoots like “Matrix 4” can reportedly bypass these laws. The city of Potsdam is responsible for granting permissions for parties under the new health safety rules, but a city spokesperson told The Guardian that “no event was announced to us....

February 2, 2023 · 2 min · 397 words · Julia Murray

Mcdormand Winslet And Kirby Will Vie For Best Actress Oscars

Also on Friday night, Francis Lee’s “Ammonite” (November 13, Neon) which had been selected by Cannes and Telluride, debuted at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. The next day, on Saturday, at closing ceremonies in Venice, “Nomadland” took home the festival’s Golden Lion, while Vanessa Kirby won Best Actress for Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman,” which had just played at TIFF and was scooped up by Netflix to add to its fat awards slate....

February 2, 2023 · 3 min · 567 words · Garrett Melendez

Michelle Rodriguez Forced Fast And Furious Rewrites To Prevent Sexism

In a new oral history published by Entertainment Weekly, “Fast” cast member Jordana Brewster remembered, “When Michelle [Rodriguez] read her role, she was like, ‘No, I’m not playing that.’ And then she changed it completely. It went from a trophy girlfriend to this really layered character.” “It was a reality check for them to realize that the streets don’t work like that,” Rodriguez said about pushing for rewrites to the original script to empower her character....

February 2, 2023 · 2 min · 421 words · Terry Marshall
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