With Broadway ticket prices skyrocketing (and a number of productions shut down due to the global COVID-19 pandemic) Hamilton fans have felt that their dream of seeing the beloved musical is further away than ever before. Now, you can turn your very own living room into “the room where it happens” with the official filmed … Read more
This past spring, the majority of in-progress films and TV shows were forced to halt shooting due to the spread of the novel coronavirus commonly called COVID-19. A particularly tragic and frightening example was the second season of the Netflix original series The Witcher, which was forcibly shut down when actor Kristofer Hivju, who plays … Read more
Since the unbelievable success of the Harry Potter films, every studio and their mother has been trying to find the next young adult IP to make into a money-printing franchise. The Hunger Games is the only one that succeeded, leaving behind other critical or commercial flops like Divergent, The Maze Runner, Cirque du Freak, Ender’s … Read more
Jurassic World: Dominion will be the third and latest entry in the Jurassic World series, a reboot of the popular Jurassic Park series about a theme park inhabited by scientifically recreated dinosaurs. Dominion is a sequel to both 2015’s Jurassic World and 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It is currently planned to be the final … Read more
Earlier this month, streaming service HBO Max made the decision to remove the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, often heralded as a “classic” of American film-making, from its library. Their reasoning included the film’s problematic portrayals of Black characters and Black slavery. Speaking with Variety, HBO Max executives confirmed that the film was removed … Read more
An official tweet by The Academy has confirmed that the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will be delayed. Originally, the event was planned to be broadcast on February 28, 2021. The new date has been announced as April 25, 2021. This revised date has led to the entire nomination and voting process being shifted back by … Read more
Film fans are always eager for the smallest piece of news – and they aren’t afraid to ask in what might not always be the most appropriate of situations. Recently, a fan asked for news of the upcoming Flash film on an Instagram post by producer Barbara Muschietti, even though the post had absolutely nothing … Read more
Criterion Channel, the streaming service managed by the Criterion Collection, has long focused on preserving and spreading important films both classic and contemporary. Now, the company has removed the paywall on a number of movies written, filmed, directed, and starring Black individuals and covering topics related to Black lives. In an official Tweet, the company … Read more
Movie theater chain American Multi-Cinema (AMC) recently filed financial reports for the first quarter of 2020. As predicted, the business suffered a severe loss of revenue, as all of its 1000-plus theaters across the country were forced to close in order to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus typically referred to as COVID-19. The … Read more
Despite its official cancellation due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, the team behind the 2020 edition of the world-famous Cannes Film Festival have decided to announce an official lineup. This list, which currently features a total of 56 films, represent movies which would have been shown, had the festival been held in May as … Read more