Month: July 2024

Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna, Rossa Arquette

While some of us often dream of labyrinthine houses and ’80s horror icons who invite you to skateboard with them down at the local park (me), Rosanna Arquette is having night fantasies about starring in a sequel to Susan Seidelman’s 1985 comedic drama Desperately Seeking Susan. Arquette played Roberta Glass in the film alongside Madonna as Susan, with Aidan Quinn playing Dez. The cult classic focuses on a bored New Jersey suburban homemaker whose fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her getting mistaken for the woman herself. While discussing the film on Anna Smith’s Girls On Film Podcast, Arquette said she often thinks about what happened to the film’s lookalike duo.

“I always had a fantasy about what happened to them?” Arquette said about the character she plays in the movie alongside Madonna, who made her acting debut in the film.  “Who are they now? It would be so great to make that movie. And see where everybody ends up. Do Dez [Aidan Quinn’s character] and her stay together? What happens to them?”

Arquette speaks highly of the filming experience for Desperately Seeking Susan. Still, she acknowledges some brief “moments of tension” on the set as Seidelman navigated ways to communicate with her cast. Desperately Seeking Susan was Seidelman’s second feature, so it’s possible she was still finding her footing in the filming environment.

“I remember specifically her saying ‘That Sucked.’ It was harmful to me at that time because I didn’t know where it was coming from,” Arquette explained about working under Seidelman.

“But it was just her inexperience and my hyper-sensitivity. I had just come off from working with Martin Scorsese on After Hours. He was the ultimate director of life and loved his actors and would nurture them… you don’t talk to actors that way because you can get more out of them if you don’t do that.”

Arquette put a bow on the conversation and said, “She [Seidelman] didn’t know that at the time. Since then, I have understood her and think she understands me. And that’s growing up in life.”

Everyone matures at different rates. I can’t begin to imagine the mental price directors pay for spearheading a star-studded project and think it’s perfectly normal for Seidelman to experience growing pains. Thankfully, Arquette still thinks of the experience fondly, and the thought of a Desperately Seeking Susan sequel is a fun concept to contemplate. I recall the film playing on a loop in my house back in the day, thanks to my sister’s obsession with Madonna. I have no doubt others would like to see another film focusing on Roberta and Susan as they continue their lives.

Would you watch a Desperately Seeking Susan sequel? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Unsolved Mysteries has been airing, off and on, presented in different styles and by different hosts, for nearly forty years at this point. It all began with specials hosted by Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, and Robert Stack in the ’80s, followed by a series that went for several years with Stack as the host. (And Virginia Madsen being added as co-host eventually.) Dennis Farina hosted a revival that lasted a few years. And in 2020, the Netflix streaming series brought the world their Unsolved Mysteries reboot, which doesn’t have a host at all. The first six episodes of this revival, called volume 1, arrived on Netflix on July 1, 2020. Volume 2, also consisting of six episodes, dropped on October 19, 2020. Volume 3, which consisted of nine episodes that were released over a period of three weeks, came along in October and November of 2022. All five episodes of Unsolved Mysteries volume 4 will be streaming on Netflix as of July 31st – and with just a few weeks to go before that date arrives, a trailer has dropped online! You can watch it in the embed above.

On July 31st, the iconic and gripping series returns, featuring more unexplained deaths, baffling disappearances, and bizarre paranormal activity.

What’s on Netflix recently revealed that the directors of the volume 4 episodes are: Robert M. Wise – Served as an executive producer on prior seasons and directed three previous episodes: Death in Oslo (S2E2), Death Row Fugitive (S2E3), and Body in the Bay (S3E7), Skye Borgman – Director of Girl in the Picture plus prior episodes of Unsolved MysteriesLady in the Lake (S2E5), Mystery at Mile Marker 45 (S3E1), and Death in a Vegas Motel (S3E4), and Gabe Torres – Director of Brake and December, plus prior episodes of Unsolved MysteriesSomething in the Sky (S3E2) and What Happened to Josh? (S3E5).

A collaboration between the original show’s production company Cosgrove-Meurer Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the production company that brings us Stranger Things, the new Unsolved Mysteries uses re-enactments in a documentary format to profile real-life mysteries and unsolved crimes, lost love, cases involving missing persons and unexplained paranormal events.

Our friends at Bloody Disgusting report that co-creator Terry Dunn Meurer provided the following statement: “This is our most unique volume yet. From one of the most notorious unsolved cases of all time to all-new baffling mysteries, there’s something for everyone to solve.

Executive producer Shawn Levy added, “Unsolved Mysteries continues to resonate with viewers in ways we could never have imagined, with some episodes leading to solving cases that were once thought unsolvable. It is a privilege to collaborate with Terry Dunn Meurer and her team on this iconic franchise, and we are so excited to share this next installment of compelling and fascinating mysteries with viewers around the world.

What did you think of the Unsolved Mysteries volume 4 trailer? Will you be watching these new episodes on Netflix? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, Season 2, San Diego Comic-Con

It sounds like San Diego Comic-Con is returning to full power later this month, with guests like Marvel Studios and Prime Video bringing surprises to the annual celebration of entertainment and all things geeky. Amazon Prime Video is pumping fans up for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, with a significant presentation for the series’ upcoming return to the airwaves. Prime Video will host an exclusive press and influencer reception (by invitation only) on Thursday, July 25, to mark the occasion.

Additionally, Prime Video is bringing a Power of the Rings panel to Hall H on Friday, July 26, from 11:05 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay lead the panel for an exclusive look at the new season. After the main event, at 1:45 p.m., fans can head to Venue 808 in San Diego for a meet-and-greet with cast members courtesy of the fan site TORn (TheOneRing.net). The event includes a display of costumes and props from the second season, giving fans an up-close-and-personal look at relics and fashion from Middle-earth.

In Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, “Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.”

Are you excited about Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power marching into San Diego Comic-Con? Have you purchased tickets to the show? We’ll cover the event from the show floor, with news hounds writing from their home offices. SDCC is always a whirlwind, and with the past few years being shaky because of the pandemic, people are more than ready to help get SDCC back on track.

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