And while the wait for Season 2 has been long, there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel. We’re getting our first look at where best friends Maya and Anna are headed in their middle-school adventures, in a Season 2 trailer announcing the Sept. 18 release date. Typical school-age awkwardness ensues, with Anna and Maya partaking of slumber parties and a pool party they’re obviously too good to attend....
While Warner Bros. told Bruce Lee it would listen to his request to let go of the original screenwriter, the studio ended up lying by keeping the writer in Hong Kong to make “small tweaks” to the new pages of the script that Lee turned in. Lee also urged the studio to get rid of the original titles, “Blood and Steel” and “Han’s Island,” and use “Enter the Dragon” instead....
The “Basic Instinct” icon and recent “Flight Attendant” star addressed the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the #MeToo movement. “When they’re saying that rape victims have to have their baby, I think you have to be very clear that women’s rights are on pretty thin ice,” Stone told Vogue Arabia in a cover story. “What’s happening now is the absolute, dramatic backlash to #MeToo.” Stone continued, “I really grew up in the country, and if you get kidnapped and put in a hole in a barn by a hillbilly, that’s when you’re in real trouble....
Early in the supersized finale of “Stranger Things 4” — or what would be roughly one-quarter of the way through a standard TV episode, but what’s less than one-tenth into the 140-minute “Chapter Nine: The Piggyback” — a stoner doofus stumbles into a two-pronged revelation. For plot purposes, Argyle (Eduardo Franco) thinks of the perfect place for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) to conduct her “mind fight.” His place of employment, Surfer Boy Pizza, not only carries the necessary amount of salt to better focus our hero’s powers, but it’s also got a bathtub-size container to help her travel into her friend’s mind....
KATE ERBLAND: This past weekend saw the much-anticipated release of two distinctly different pieces of entertainment: the theatrical and streaming release of Sian Heder’s Sundance smash hit (it swept the awards in January and sold to AppleTV+ for a record-breaking $25 million) “CODA” and the final episode of the first season of Mike White’s devilishly entertaining HBO series “The White Lotus.” In the particular corner of the film world IndieWire happily occupies, there was no bigger movie last weekend than “CODA,” a feel-good family film with a festival pedigree, awards aspirations, and a winning message about love and inclusion....
Elle Fanning leads the series, premiering March 29, as Michelle Carter, who was prosecuted in the case following the death of her boyfriend Conrad Roy III (Colton Ryan). The real-life court case was at the center of Jesse Barron’s 2017 Esquire article of the same name, and was captured in the 2019 HBO documentary “I Love You, Now Die.” The Massachusetts-set Hulu saga revisits Carter’s alleged abusive behavior, encouragement, and persuasion that was thought to have led to 18-year-old Roy’s suicide....
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, recently promoted to co-CEO with founder Reed Hastings, said he made the no-festival decision back in March, at the start of the lockdown. “At that time it looked pretty bleak, and the idea of getting folks together to go to the mountains and watch movies in small dark rooms didn’t seem that appealing to a lot of people,” he said on IndieWire’s Screen Talk. “Not only that, when we had to commit to these festivals in that time frame, the films were in various states of being complete....
