“I would see Phoebe Waller-Bridge to join,” Brewster said when asked her dream addition to the franchise. “It’s funny, because Michelle and I were talking about her right before she started writing for Bond. We were like, ‘She would be so awesome.’ And then we were like, ‘Damnit! They snagged her.’ I think she would be great, because Tej (Ludacris) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson) bring so much humor. Which I think you need....
However, “Futurama” fans had their patience rewarded this week, as Hulu announced it had ordered a 20-episode revival of the cult show. To make matters better, the majority of the original voice cast has signed on to reprise their roles for the streamer, including Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman. But for many “Futurama” fans, that was not good enough. The list of returning voice actors had one notable omission in John DiMaggio, who voices the robot Bender, along with several smaller characters....
“Godzilla vs. Kong” continued as #1, accounting for more than a third of all admissions. It stands at $80 million domestic and it will likely it will pass $100 million all while showing for free for HBO Max subscribers. Worldwide, it is at $390 million in theaters even while missing multiple key markets. Added revenue from streaming is indirect, measured by new and sustained subscriptions. With its estimated $165 million budget, along with marketing costs, will the film enter profit?...
“I was production assistant in a movie with Gabriel Figueroa, who was the greatest Mexican cinematographer,” del Toro said. “He had a great kinship with Gregg Toland, they were good friends. He said to me when you art direct for black and white, you use the greens and the reds and the golds to give the mid-tones to do all the grey color. We decided to take that palette [on ‘Nightmare Alley’]....
Adapting a 2000 memoir by Annie Ernaux, Audrey Diwan directs French-Romanian actress Anamaria Vartolomei (a quietly volcanic presence) as Anne. She’s a promising young student steadfastly committed to her studies, who dreams of becoming a writer, in France in 1963, a period right on the verge of social and political tumult (the students depicted are deep into reading and vigorously debating Sartre). But Anne is unexpectedly pregnant, and we slowly see her start to drift away from her studies and her social background, framed increasingly out of focus by cinematographer Laurent Tangy as the movie progresses....
While the British press and tabloids are still pointing their fingers at Meghan, many Black and brown people worldwide aren’t the least bit surprised to hear some of the things the former actress said she endured. Meghan described a horrendous and very racist conversation that centered “concerns” around the Sussexes’ then-unborn son Archie’s skin-tone. However, it was more shocking to many people of color to learn that Meghan spent weeks on end locked away in her Frogmore Cottage estate without her passport, keys, or a way out....
“Hatching” follows Tjina (remarkable first-time actress Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast whose already complicated young life gets much weirder after she discovers an abandoned egg in the forest near her idyllic home. Feeling guilty — she’s fairly certain that its mother was offed by Tjina’s own maniacal mom — she takes the egg home. She cuddles it close. It grows. And grows some more, until Tjina hatches…a bird? a girl? both?...
