Now that Jon M. Chu’s Wicked has cleaned up at the box office, made even more bank thanks to an early digital release, and been nominated for a bunch of awards, the musical is making its Peacock streaming debut on March 21st.
It’s hard to imagine The Substance working nearly as well without its exquisitely deranged third act turn, but in a new interview with Vulture, director Coralie Fargeat says that Universal — which was originally slated to distribute the film — “wanted everything changed” and was convinced that audiences wouldn’t respond to her ideas:
The movie was exactly what I wanted to do, which was to show that yes, this is violent, this is excessive, this is gross. They didn’t want to see that.
One thing that was really not liked was the monster. The monster is the most sincere and risky part, where I show my inner self. I show the way I felt since I was a little kid, because I don’t totally fit what is expected. You show yourself naked and people find you ugly. But I was like, okay, so even monsters have to meet some beauty standards. It’s really an endless battle.
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In Apple TV Plus’ new adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel Dope Thief, best friends Ray and Manny (Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura) come up with the bright idea to pose as Drug Enforcement Administration agents in order to rob other criminals more easily. Very little about the duo’s plan seems to be paying off in a new trailer for the series that highlights how quickly things start to go sideways. But the show looks like it might scratch that Breaking Bad itch for Apple TV Plus subscribers when it debuts on March 14th.
As disappointing as it was to see Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto’s Interstella 5555 mangled by AI for its recent theatrical rerelease, the new Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust Blu-ray remaster (whose first 10 minutes you can watch down below) looks like it’s going to be a stunner. The anime classic is coming back to Japanese movie theaters on February 28th, and will be able to purchase on Blu-ray beginning March 26th.
It wasn’t hard to imagine John Malkovich being able to embody the spirit of an eccentric, reclusive pop star in A24’s new thriller Opus. But it’s kind of shocking to hear how good he sounds singing “Dina, Simone”, one of the movie’s original songs written and written by Nile Rodgers and The-Dream.
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Nothing is official until HBO confirms it, but Deadline is reporting that John Lithgow is in talks to play Dumbledore in the network’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot series scheduled to debut some time next year.