‘Voyagers’ Director Neil Burger on Channeling ‘Lord of the Flies’ in Space

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFrances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s McDormand’s third win in the category, tying her with Meryl Streep and Ingrid Bergman, who each have three victories and within striking distance of the current record-holder, Katharine Hepburn, who has four statues.In her acceptance speech, McDormand suggested that there

Chloe Zhao is making Oscars history!

STXfilms has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “The Marsh King’s Daughter,” a psychological thriller that will be directed by “Divergent” filmmaker Neil Burger and star Daisy Ridley.

We first told you about the Neil Burger-directed thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter, starring Daisy Ridley, which Black Bear Pictures, Anonymous Content and STX International were selling at EFM. Today, STXfilms is taking U.S. rights to the feature, putting them back in business with Burger who directed the $100M-plus B.O. hit for them, The Upside, which the studio licensed from Lantern Entertainment.

From appearing on The X Factor to hosting some of the biggest shows on television, including Ready Steady Cook and Supermarket Sweep, Rylan Clark-Neal has done incredibly well to get to where he is today.The presenter, who hosted Strictly Come Dancing's It Takes Two, said he has met many good people during his time in the industry, but Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford will always stand out to him.

After the complete and utter failure of the Dark Universe several years ago, it appears that Universal has made a complete 180-degree shift and decided to just let filmmakers take the studios Monster characters and do whatever they want. We saw that already with Blumhouse’s take on “The Invisible Man” from last year.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s “Settlers.” The film, which marks Rockefeller’s feature narrative debut, stars Sofia Boutella or “Kingsman: The Secret Service” fame, and Brooklynn Prince, who first captured audiences’ hearts in “The Florida Project.” Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller round out the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film in summer 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix Chief Talent Officer Jessica Neal, who has headed HR for nearly four years, is exiting the company.

EXCLUSIVE: A documentary about American Gladiators, widely considered one of the first reality competition series, is set as ESPN’s latest 30 for 30.

BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema to “the underrepresented” tonight (April 10).The actor collected the trophy at the “opening night” ceremony, which precedes tomorrow’s (April 11) main show.In a moving and powerful speech, the British actor reflected on his last BAFTAs win, which came in 2009 when he won the Rising Star Award. Speaking about accepting that award, he said: “I bounced off my chair and I popped my collar as I went up.

To say that Lionsgate’s sci-fi film “Voyagers” never honors its true nature would be overstating the case and unfair to filmmaker well-intentioned Neil Burger’s latest directorial effort.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed The 39 Steps, a limited series star vehicle for Benedict Cumberbatch. Edward Berger, who previously teamed with Cumberbatch on Patrick Melrose, will direct and The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith will write the series. It’s an update of the classic thriller novel by John Buchan that was famously turned into the 1935 film classic by Alfred Hitchcock.

Writer-director Neil Burger's visually alluring but dramatically underpowered sci-fi thriller about an interplanetary mission blitzed by a hormonal explosion, Voyagers, is basically Lord of the Flies in space. Or Passengers without hypersleep pods.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticEvery era gets the youth sci-fi action movie it deserves.

The most surprising thing about “ Voyagers,” a sci-fi thriller about a group of young adults who have been tasked with travelling to and repopulating a new planet, is that it isn’t based on a Young Adult book series. Writer and director Neil Burger, who was also behind the “Divergent” films apparently decided to cut out the Intellectual Property middleman and make his own YA statement.

Kourtney Kardashian's new boyfriend, Travis Barker, is here to stay.

Travis Barker is celebrating Easter with new girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian and the rest of the Kardashian-Jenner family!

It all started so innocently. “I’m passing the phone to someone who can’t get acrylics,” Alabama Barker, the 15-year-old daughter of Travis Barker, said in a TikTok video posted on Thursday (Apr.

Don’t worry, y’all — Niall Horan is safe!

For those who weren’t alive or paying attention to music in 1998, there was a time when Travis Barker wasn’t completely covered in tattoos. The blink-182 drummer has since become known for his ink, but fans got a glimpse of what he used to look like courtesy of his daughter, Alabama Luella Barker, on Tuesday (Mar.