What’s there to say about “Thor: Ragnarok” four a half years after its release? For one, it’s a bold, colorful extravaganza true to its source material’s Silver Age roots. It’s the movie that launched Taika Waititi‘s career into superstardom.
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Animator Chris Williams, who takes his place at the helm of the new Netflix animated feature “The Sea Beast,” has been a stalwart of animated cinema for almost 25 years. Starting with the 1998 film “Mulan,” Williams has served as a storyboard artist on multiple projects, including “Lilo and Stitch,” “Chicken Little,” and, more recently, the wildly successful “Frozen” films.
What’s there to say about “Thor: Ragnarok” four a half years after its release? For one, it’s a bold, colorful extravaganza true to its source material’s Silver Age roots. It’s the movie that launched Taika Waititi‘s career into superstardom.
“The Bubble” will do the trick. This Netflix original follows the crew of a massive blockbuster trying to film a franchise sequel in the midst of the pandemic, as the ensemble cast and crew are locked away in a hotel in London together for quarantine purposes.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentA few hours after unveiling Cannes Film Festival’s 2022 Official Selection on the Champs Elysees, artistic director Thierry Fremaux sat down with Variety to discuss the festival’s drive to not give in to calls for a cultural boycott of Russian films and filmmakers, efforts to have more female directors in competition, discussions to bring back streamers in a near future and what those rumors about David Lynch in the lineup were about. The all-star competition lineup of this upcoming 75th edition boasts no less than four Palme d’Or winning directors, including Japanese master Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan) and Swedish helmer Ruben Ostlund (“Triangle of Sadness”), as well new films by David Cronenberg (“Crimes of the Future”), Kelly Reichardt (”Showing Up”), James Gray (“Armageddon Time”) and dissident Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov (“Tchaïkovski’s Wife”).
a trailer for “David Spade: Nothing Personal,” which marks his first comedy special with the streamer. You can check out the trailer above.“Someone tried to hug me today,” he says as he’s met with chuckles from the audience.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has dropped a trailer for “The Takedown,” a cop comedy directed by “Lupin” helmer Louis Leterrier and starring Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte. The movie is a sequel to the French comedy “On The Other Side Of The Tracks.”Sy and Lafitte star as two cops with very different styles and backgrounds who are reunited for criminal investigation across France.
The debut trailer for Netflix‘s The Lincoln Lawyer series has just dropped!
Hoping to change the course of World War II and save tens of thousands of lives, two intelligence officers plot to break Hitler’s deadly grip on Europe by recruiting the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. That’s the story of “Operation Mincemeat,” a meat and potatoes looking WWII thriller from Netflix and director John Madden (“Shakespeare In Love”) Due in select theaters on Friday, May 6, and premiering on Netflix Wednesday, May 11, the film does feature a solid cast that includes Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, and Johnny Flynn.
The bidding war had reportedly reached £10 million before both platforms pulled out. READ MORE: BBC The Split: What happened at the end of series two? A source told The Sun: "Netflix and Apple+ have quietly removed their bids for a Will Smith biopic and will instead relocate the funds and develop original ideas from new black actors.
The trailer teasing the final episodes of Ozark have just debuted online!
EXCLUSIVE: TV executive Chris Regina left Netflix last week, I have learned. He spent the last several years at the streamer, most recently as Director, Original Series, Drama Development.
While Chris Rock immediately went into “joke mode” after being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars, there was some underlying emotion.
New details have emerged surrounding the question of why Will Smith wasn’t removed from the 94th Academy Awards following his viral smacking of Chris Rock. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Wednesday said that Will Smith was asked to leave Sunday's Oscar ceremony after striking Rock but, they claim, he refused to do so. "Jada, ‘GI Jane 2,’ I can’t wait to see it," Rock said on stage in front of the Oscars audience, including to an unhappy Pinkett Smith. The actress has been publicly outspoken about how she deals with alopecia – an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss.
Netflix announced today that Karl Urban (The Boys), Zaris-Angel Hator (The Power), Jared Harris (Foundation), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Boxing Day), Dan Stevens (Gaslit) and Kathy Burke (Tinker Tailor Solider Spy) will topline The Sea Beast, its upcoming animated film from Academy Award winner Chris Williams (Moana, Big Hero 6).
Karl Urban and the voice cast of “The Sea Beast” are treading into unknown waters in the brand new teaser for the upcoming Netflix animated film.In the clip, released on Wednesday, Urban voices monster hunter Jacob Holland. In an era when terrifying beasts roamed the seas, monster hunters were celebrated heroes — and none were more beloved than Holland, per a logline from Netflix.But when young Maisie Brumble (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator) stows away on his fabled ship, he’s saddled with an unexpected ally.
altercation between Smith and Chris Rock at Sunday night’s ceremony.“We don’t know all the details of what happened,” Richard Williams said via his son Chavoita LeSane to NBC News. “But we don’t condone anyone hitting anyone else unless it’s in self-defense.”According to LeSane, Williams was no less surprised than anyone else when Smith walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock for joking that his wife Jada Pinkett Smith – who has alopecia – should star in a “G.I. Jane” sequel.
Oscar winner Will Smith has been filmed dancing to his own music at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hours after he stunned audiences by hitting Chris Rock on stage. Smith won his first Academy Award for King Richard but appeared to take offence to a gag Rock made about Pinkett Smith’s short haircut.
The Oscars were thrown into chaos after Will Smith stormed the stage and hit Chris Rock in the face after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, just minutes before Smith was named best actor at the ceremony. The incident overshadowed a night which saw Coda, which features a predominantly deaf cast, named best picture, while Troy Kotsur made history as the first deaf male actor to win a gong and Sir Kenneth Branagh won the best original screenplay prize for his semi-autobiographical film Belfast. Smith, who won his first Academy Award for King Richard, appeared to take offence to a gag Rock made about Pinkett Smith’s short haircut.
Will Smith’s son has spoken! Jaden Smith posted telling tweets after his dad made headlines at the 2022 Academy Awards.