It’s always interesting when live-action filmmakers decide to get into stop-motion animation.
But watching the first trailer for Peacock’s upcoming series In The Know (out January 25th) from Mike Judge, it’s hard to say whether you’re meant to be laughing at the digs at public radio or the straight man celebrity guest appearances.
The latest trailer for director Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein might not spark joy for people who were looking forward to seeing it in theaters for themselves. But for the folks who love it when trailers essentially give them the entire gist of a film in just a few minutes, you’re in a treat.
One of the bigger takeaways from Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was how nightmarish it would be if the internet of the future ended up being a corporate-owned amusement park built around an eccentric billionaire’s obsession with IP they loved as a child.
But that isn’t stopping Cline and Warner Bros. Discovery from trying to launch the Readyverse — “a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse” — which is absolutely a thing people people are going to sign up for.
Regardless of how you feel about Kim Kardashian, Glu Mobile’s Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile was an undeniable hit, but after almost a decade of turning players’ real cash into K-Stars, the game is set to shut down on April 8.
Over the weekend, the extended edition of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King vanished from Max without a trace.
Given Warner Bros. Discovery’s recent pivot to disappearing films, it wasn’t hard to imagine the studio quietly pulling the beefed-up high fantasy epic, and hoping that people might not notice. But it now seemed like this was all the result of a “tech issue” that’s soon to be resolved.
Hollywood’s entertainment studios seem dead set on incorporating artificial intelligence tools into their production workflows in ways that stand to put people out of jobs.
But during a recent studio executive roundtable discussion, Warner Bros. Animation president Sam Register stressed the importance of protecting human artists “because I think we should give jobs to people who really do that and so they can get their entry-level experience.”
Netflix’s new stop-motion Pokémon series from Dwarf Animation Studio is on the shorter side of things, but each episode is a gorgeous testament to the power of relaxation.
What If’s second season is at its best when it’s exploring the edges of Marvel’s established cinematic canon.
Lee Sun-kyun, the South Korean actor whose performance as member of the privileged elite in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won him a Screen Actors Guild Award, has died by suicide at the age of 48. Per the Associated Press, Lee was found dead in his car by Seoul police on Wednesday morning after the authorities had been alerted about his disappearance.
Aside from a report from an anonymous police officer about Lee leaving a suicide note, few details about his death have been provided to the public. But news of Lee’s passing comes after weeks of South Korean police bringing him in for questioning under suspicion of his violating the country’s strict recreational drug use laws.
In yet another reminder that audiences absolutely can and will show up for movies starring predominantly Black casts if studios give filmmakers the chance to produce them, director Blitz Bazawule’s new take on The Color Purple is dominating at the box office, and making some Hollywood history.