579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Noah Hawley's Alien prequel show is just going to skip past all that Prometheus stuff, thanks
AV Club,
Our condolences to Michael Fassbender and the makeup-slathered husk of Guy Pierce this week, as Fargo’s Noah Hawley has stated that he has no interest in using multiple major elements from Ridley Scott’s prequel film Prometheus in his upcoming Alien TV show. Read more...
Weekend Box Office: Mean Girls' queen bees beat The Beekeeper
Despite Jason Statham’s newfound command over the bees, he wasn’t able to overcome the power of Mean Girls’ queen bees at the domestic box office this weekend, as Variety reports that the musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 classic is the highest grossing movie of the week. The film, which stars Angourie Rice as… Read more...
Godzilla Minus One Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger in the US
Gizmodo,
Ever since Godzilla Minus One came to North America in December, it’s been raking in cash and catching audience attention. Either on its own merits or because the MonsterVerse movies have helped keep him in folks’ minds over the last few years, there’s a larger Godzilla fever that made Minus One’s reception and… Read more...
Noah Hawley's Alien Show Plans to Keep Things Simple
For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Promet… Read more...
Daredevil's New Show May Reunite Its Original Trio
The upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. Read more...
What's on TV this week—True Detective: Night Country and the Emmy Awards
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, January 14 to Thursday, January 18. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.] Read more...
Selena Gomez and David O. Russell are teaming up for a biopic of Linda Ronstadt
David O. Russell has just lined up his latest high-profile film project in the wake of the crash of 2022's fairly disastrous Amsterdam, with Variety reporting that the American Hustle director will be tackling a biopic of American music legend Linda Ronstadt. Russell is working on the film with musician Selena Gomez,… Read more...
Emma Stone applies to be on Jeopardy! every year—and not that "Celebrity" horsecrap
There’s nothing better, when reading or listening to a celebrity interview, than those moments when the interviewer stumbles onto one of their subjects’ secret obsessions: Those little things we all have lodged in our heads that will grind any professional, public conversation to a halt in favor of a few minutes of… Read more...