MrBeast, one of the most popular content creators in the world, will be producing and hosting one of the most lucrative game shows in history on Amazon Prime Video. Beast Games will feature a $5 million prize for the winner, which Amazon claims is the “biggest single prize” awarded in television history.
MrBeast, one of the most popular content creators in the world, will be producing and hosting one of the most lucrative game shows in history on Amazon Prime Video. Beast Games will feature a $5 million prize for the winner, which Amazon claims is the “biggest single prize” awarded in television history.
As an artist, you can’t always please everyone—especially if you’re stepping into an established fandom. Jonathan Nolan, the creator of the upcoming Fallout TV series for Amazon Prime Video, seems to understand that. In fact, he recently said that trying to please fans is something of an impossible task.
As an artist, you can’t always please everyone—especially if you’re stepping into an established fandom. Jonathan Nolan, the creator of the upcoming Fallout TV series for Amazon Prime Video, seems to understand that. In fact, he recently said that trying to please fans is something of an impossible task.
Made on a budget of less than $100,000, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (watch it HERE) earned more than $6 million during its global release in early 2023, so the sequel Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is set to receive a three-day theatrical run in the United States on March 26, 27, and 28th, courtesy of Fathom Events, ITN Studios, and Jagged Edge Productions. (Tickets can be purchased online at Fathom Events or at participating theatre box offices.) We’ve previously heard that Frake-Waterfield and producer Scott Jeffrey Chambers are planning to create a cinematic universe with the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and other horror movies inspired by children’s stories, like Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, Bambi: The Reckoning, and Pinocchio Unstrung. Now Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios have officially announced that this cinematic universe, which is being referred to as The Twisted Childhood Universe, is building up to a crossover movie Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, which will be released in 2025!
Frake-Waterfield explains, “It will be complete carnage. We are heavily influenced by Freddy vs. Jason and The Avengers. We would love to see a horror movie where the villains group together and are going after their survivors. We have some incredible set pieces in mind and some sequences I think will truly shock people. The movies we are working on now as stand alones are all building towards Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.“
Chambers added, “Similar to The Avengers, we will follow Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The Mad Hatter, Peter Pan, and Tinkerbell joining forces to wreak havoc. We are working with a larger scale budget on this one and are excited for what the future will hold. When you see the stand alone movies you will see the easter eggs hinting toward the crossover. Some of the villains also will not see eye to eye, which will allow for some carnage within the group in some epic sequences of monster vs. monster.“
Frake-Waterfield will be directing the crossover film, and it has already been confirmed that the cast will include Chambers as Christopher Robin, Megan Plactio as Wendy Darling, Roxanne Mckee as Xana, and Lewis Santer as Tigger.
Stuart Alson and Nicole Holland serve as executive producers on Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
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Zack Snyder and Netflix want to kick your work week off with a bang! So, steal a few minutes away from your job, ask your co-worker for a distraction, and bask in the science-fiction spectacle of the Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver trailer. The follow-up to Snyder’s 2023 hit finds Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her motley crew of rebels preparing for the ongoing battle against an oppressive ruling force, the Motherworld.
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver continues the epic saga of Kora and the surviving warriors as they prepare to sacrifice everything, fighting alongside the brave people of Veldt, to defend a once peaceful village, a newfound homeland for those who have lost their own in the fight against the Motherworld. On the eve of their battle the warriors must face the truths of their own pasts, each revealing why they fight. As the full force of the Realm bears down on the burgeoning rebellion, unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge, and legends are made.
Sofia Boutell returns to Zack Snyder’s dark Star Wars-like world as Kora in the Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver trailer as the Scargiver, with Ed Skrein rising from the grave as the nefarious Atticus Noble. Returning cast members from Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire include Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Staz Nair, and Anthony Hopkins as the voice of evolving robot guardian Jimmy. Part Two also stars Fra Fee, Cleopatra Coleman, Stuart Martin, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Alfonso Herrera, Cary Elwes, Rhian Rees, Elise Duffy, Sky Yang, and Charlotte Maggi.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver launches on Netflix on April 19, one day shy of, well, you know. You might want to hit your local dispensary a day or two early so you can fly as high as the streaming numbers inevitably will be for the Rebel Moon sequel’s debut. Even without the accompaniment of recreational “refreshments,” Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is sure to answer burning questions from the original while expanding the world and characters like never before. While Rebel Moon came out of the gate swinging, the second chapter of Snyder’s Rebel Moon could deliver on the promise of being bigger and better than its predecessor.
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Last year, Australian filmmaker Peter Weir was given an honorary Oscar for having “illuminated the human experience with his unique and expansive body of work.” Sadly, it’s now official that his filmography is complete, as Weir confirmed during an appearance at the Festival de la Cinémathèque in Paris that he has retired from directing.
Télérama reported (and IndieWire was kind enough to translate their report) that Weir was asked why 14 years have gone by since his last movie. Weir replied, “I am retired. Why did I stop cinema? Because, quite simply, I have no more energy.“
Born in 1944, Weir got his career started in television back in the 1960s, working on the TV projects The Life and Times of the Reverend Buck Shotte and Man on a Green Bike. After contributing a segment to the anthology film Three to Go, he made the 50 minute movie Homesdale and the documentary Whatever Happened to Green Valley? In 1974, he made a horror comedy with a very popular title: The Cars That Ate Paris. The following year, he directed the mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is one of the films he’s best known for. Since then, Weir films have included The Last Wave, The Plumber, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, Fearless, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. His last film, the historical drama The Way Back, was released in 2010.
Weir’s honorary Oscar came after he was nominated for multiple Academy Awards over the years, but never won. His nominations include Best Director for Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; Best Screenplay for Green Card; and Best Picture for Master and Commander.
Although Russell Crowe is very proud of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and has said, “Peter Weir’s film is brilliant,” Dead Poets Society cast member Ethan Hawke has previously suggested to IndieWire that the experience of working with Crowe, and dealing with Johnny Depp on an abandoned project called Shantaram, drove Weir away from filmmaking. Hawke said, “I think he lost interest in movies. He really enjoyed that work when he didn’t have actors giving him a hard time. Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp broke him. He’s someone so rare these days, a popular artist. He makes mainstream movies that are artistic. To have the budget to do The Truman Show or Master and Commander, you need a Jim Carrey or Russell Crowe. I think Harrison Ford and Gerard Depardieu were his sort of actors. They were director-friendly and didn’t see themselves as important.“
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Chances are you have heard of author Lianne Moriarty. If you haven’t read her novels, you likely have seen the series based on her books Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. Comprised of ensemble casts involved in intricate murder mysteries, these series are a blend of dark comedy and biting melodrama and have become big hits thanks to stars ranging from Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, and more. Now, Moriarty’s recent novel Apples Never Fall becomes the latest to be adapted as a limited series (read our review).
Apples Never Fall follows the Delaney family, led by Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening). Running a tennis club in Florida, the Delaneys are parents to Troy (Jake Lacy), Amy (Alison Brie), Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner), and Brooke (Essie Randles). Empty nesters who have just retired, Stan and Joy welcome in stranger Savannah (Georgia Flood) whose presence causes a rift in the family. When Joy mysteriously vanishes, the Delaney kids question whether their father could have had something to do with it. Across the series, each episode dives into each character and how lies and secrets led to Joy’s disappearance.
I had the chance to chat with the Delaney kids as well as showrunner Melanie Marnich. Marnich talked about the balance between drama and humor and what makes Lianne Moriarty’s novels so enjoyable to adapt. Alison Brie talked about playing a character very different from any role she has taken before. Essie Randles discussed what it was like acting with Sam Neill and Annette Bening in her first major role. Jake Lacy talked about portraying the eldest sibling while Conor Merrigan Turner chatted about developing camaraderie with his on-screen family. Georgia Flood also talked about playing a villain and whether she thinks Savannah truly is a baddie. Check out the full interviews in the embed above.
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Hyper Light Breaker might share a similar name to its 2016 predecessor, and it even takes place in the same universe (though it’s set 15 years earlier), but it’s a very different game from the atmospheric Zelda-like that blew fans away eight years ago. “It’s called Breaker for a reason, not Hyper Light Drifter 2,”…
Hyper Light Breaker might share a similar name to its 2016 predecessor, and it even takes place in the same universe (though it’s set 15 years earlier), but it’s a very different game from the atmospheric Zelda-like that blew fans away eight years ago. “It’s called Breaker for a reason, not Hyper Light Drifter 2,”…