After just one week atop Netflix’s English-language TV charts, Depp V. Heard has been bumped to No. 2 in favor of Who is Erin Carter?
11.08.2023 - 01:05 / deadline.com
Netflix is clearly determined to play the major studio game of big star-driven action franchises. Extraction and its current sequel, The Gray Man (with the promise of more), Red Notice, and many others represent big screen type entertainment designed ultimately for people to watch on their couches at home. This kind of stuff, while skillfully and expensively executed still works best at IMAX rather than your living room but the streamer is convinced they will goose subscriptions so expect more of it, and movies like Heart Of Stone , a convoluted spy thriller loaded with James Bond-style action set pieces but with a wonder woman in the name of Gal Gadot in the center of it all. Taking a cue from Charlize Theron’s Netflix franchise, The Old Guard, this is a female-driven enterprise where the men, namely Jamie Dornan’s complicated bad guy, take a back seat for the most part. In fact this is a Gadot vehicle all the way.
Even right from the start we feel we are in Jane Bond territory with a 20 minute pre-credits action sequence set at a luxurious ski resort location in the Italian Alps (the Glacier Hotel Granaund at the highest point in Europe) where after pulling off some bait and switch moves in the Casino, MI6 tech expert Rachel Stone (Gadot) gets things flying with a thrill-a-second chase up and down the icy mountains in a scene clearly inspired by the 007 films. You half expect Billie Eilish to turn up with a theme song at any moment.
The heart of the story however comes soon in Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder’s exposition-laden script as we learn Rachel is working with lead agent Parker (Dornan) and their associates Yang (Jing Lusi) and Bailey (Paul Ready) to thwart an ambitious hacker , Keya Dhawan (Indian star
After just one week atop Netflix’s English-language TV charts, Depp V. Heard has been bumped to No. 2 in favor of Who is Erin Carter?
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The easy-to-apply criticism of Netflix is that they make big-budget films with massive global stars— “Red Notice” with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson, “The Gray Man” with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling—the streaming service touts the first weekend numbers (“most streamed ever!!”), and then the films are never heard from again after that opening, let alone ever entering the cultural zeitgeist conversation.
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Robert Pattinson’s success early in his career.Appearing alongside his Heart Of Stone co-stars Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt in an interview with Wired, Dornan reflected on his long-time friendship with Pattinson.“I’ve known Rob forever, he’s a really good friend,” Dornan said. “I love him.
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fans; it seems like the third installment isn't coming so soon after all.Despite Gal Gadot's recent claims that James Gunn and Peter Safran — the new heads of DC Studios — have spoken with her about a threequel being planned under their direction, ET has learned there are no current plans for 3 or any new project aside from the prequel series at Max, the latter of which was announced in January 2023 as part of DC Studios' Chapter 1 plans.Gadot stoked fans' flames when she first suggested Diana Prince could make a comeback while chatting with ET at Netflix's Tudum: A Global Fan Event, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in June, ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike, where she hinted at hope for the franchise. «Things are being worked behind the scenes,» Gadot told ET at the time, «and once the right moment arrives, you'll know about it.»Then, in an interview with ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike and published on Aug.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Given the $1 billion success of “Barbie,” it’s hard to picture anyone in the title role other than Margot Robbie. But the actor explained to Vogue back in May that it was actually Gal Gadot who was her first choice to star as Barbie. Robbie is a producer on “Barbie” and did not immediately envision herself in the role.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic We all know what a MacGuffin is (and in case you don’t, here’s what it is): an object or event that the plot of a thriller hinges on, and which everyone onscreen keeps talking about, yet it has no intrinsic interest apart from how it serves the structure of the movie. The term was mythologized by Hitchcock, and as shorthand for the way a certain kind of movie works it has never gone out of style. But what do you call a MacGuffin that’s so boring the audience can’t pretend to care about it? Let’s call it a MacMuffin.
DC fans have really been through the wringer in the last 12 months. There was recent hope for fans who loved the previous DC Extended Universe created by filmmaker Zack Snyder: Gal Gadot had teased that she and James Gunn—the new co-head of DC Studios—had discussed and maybe even confirmed a “Wonder Woman 3” film (a project that had been put on hold earlier this year when Gunn rejected filmmaker Patty Jenkins’ treatment).
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