By now, most players who have dived into Shadow of the Erdtree have probably met Igon, Elden Ring’s most tortured but ardent hater. Since the release of the expansion some weeks ago, Igon’s quickly become a fan-favorite character, which has a lot to do with the impassioned delivery of his lines by his voice actor…
By now, most players who have dived into Shadow of the Erdtree have probably met Igon, Elden Ring’s most tortured but ardent hater. Since the release of the expansion some weeks ago, Igon’s quickly become a fan-favorite character, which has a lot to do with the impassioned delivery of his lines by his voice actor…
A lot of horror movies nowadays try to build up hype with critics claiming that they’re “one the scariest movies ever” or “the scariest movie since The Exorcist.” And while that buzz is similarly surrounding Longlegs, the marketing for the film alone is certainly making an impression that sets it apart from the others. In the review from our own Chris Bumbray, he explains that the film lives up to a lot of the claims, “Once the credits rolled, I found myself surprisingly shaken up by what I’d just seen, and it’s a film I’ll need to chew on in the coming weeks. Expect this one to make major waves among horror fans when it opens on July 12th. Will it be considered a new classic? Time will tell, but for me, this was a pretty dazzling piece of work.”
Longlegs director Osgood Perkins has close ties with the horror game, as many will point him out to be genre royalty, being the son of Norman Bates himself, Anthony Perkins. According to The Hollywood Reporter, although he joins the ranks of many talented auteurs of modern-day scare maestros, Perkins doesn’t actually watch contemporary horror movies. He explains,
On the one hand, I want to identify or atone with the father by going down the same path and representing the good name in the genre in question, but then I also have a sort of a distaste for it.”
Perkins continued to expound on that, “I wouldn’t say I’m someone who likes or dislikes horror movies. I don’t see new ones. I have no interest. I’ll never see MaXXXine, I’ll never see Pearl. I saw X for reasons; it wasn’t on purpose. I don’t see contemporary things. They don’t interest me at all, and that’s not to say that they aren’t great. I’m sure they are great and make a lot of people happy, which is all that really matters. But I like the horror genre because it’s the genre that permits the most invention and it encourages the most poetry. It’s all guessing and grasping at what is essentially unknowable.”
His history around the genre would be particularly personal as he grew up with one of the most famous faces in cinema history and when Anthony Perkins entered the later part of his career, the drop in the quality of work would provide its own kind of dread with Osgood, “When I was coming into my 12- to-15-year-old self and getting into movies, my father was making very bad horror movies. He was being paid well to go to Europe and do shit. And it was obvious that this stuff was shit; it used to upset my mom [Berry Berenson] quite a lot. So the disparity between the zenith of things, which was Psycho, and the basin of things, which was, for instance, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie [Edge of Sanity] that he made when I was a kid, has always planted in me an uneasiness around the horror genre.”
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Benji Gregory, who played son Brian Tanner on sitcom ALF, has passed away. While no official cause of death has been released, a family member told TMZ that the actor was found in his car on June 13th.
The same family member posted on Facebook this week, just shy of one month since Benji Gregory was found. The heartbreaking post reads: “It is with a heavy heart my family has suffered a loss way too early. Ben was a great Son, Brother and Uncle. He was fun to be around and made us laugh quite often. Still, going through his things, I find myself laughing at little videos or notes of his, in between crying. My brother Ben was found in his car, along with his beloved service dog Hans, deceased on June 13. We believe he went there the evening of the 12th to deposit some residuals. (Found in his car) and never got out of the car to do so. He fell asleep and died from vehicular heatstroke.”
Benji Gregory had a handful of one-off television credits before landing ALF, including The A-Team, T.J. Hooker and Punky Brewster. Following ALF going off the air in 1990, Gregory had very few credits, although he did appear on an episode of Murphy Brown and lend his voice to the Back to the Future animated series, playing Biff Jr. Later in life, Benji Gregory joined the Navy. In 2005, he received an honorable medical discharge.
But it will always be ALF that Benji Gregory is best remembered for, playing eventual companion to the adopted alien. Really, Gregory and the puppet had some terrific chemistry that helped make the show work on that level.
As per TMZ, Benji Gregory also “suffered from depression, bipolar disorder and had a sleep disorder that often kept him awake for days.”
While the series of events is unofficial, the signs and words from his sister are simply tragic. We here at JoBlo.com want to extend our condolences to the family of the late Benji Gregory and hope you do the same in the comments below.
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Could you imagine David Duchovny as Danny Tanner, Joey Gladstone, or Jesse Katsopolis on Full House? Well, it could have happened, as the actor recently revealed on his Fail Better podcast that he auditioned for each one of those roles.
Duchovny obviously didn’t get the parts, but at the time, he was certain it was going to happen. “I auditioned for all three parts on Full House,” Duchovny said. “At first, they had me for, I think, the dad. And then they had me for the Stamos character. And then they had me for the other guy. I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to get one of these, and it’s going to change my life.’” At the time, Duchovny was a struggling actor who was auditioning for a lot of different pilots. “I had plenty of those pilots that I went up for when I was first out in L.A. and I thought each one was going to be the break,” he said. “I just needed to be able to pay my rent too.“
While it must have been disappointing not to get the gig, Duchovny admitted it was probably for the best as he wasn’t adept at sitcom acting. “I did not know how to do that sitcom stuff,” he said. “I don’t know what they were thinking, that they thought I was going to exist in that world. I mean, I guess I could have learned, but I wasn’t ready for that kind of, energetic performance that they need.” Thankfully, the actor’s career would start to take off with roles in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Twin Peaks, Chaplin, Red Shoe Diaries, and, of course, The X-Files.
In some alternate universe, we might have seen David Duchovny as one of the main leads of Full House, but would The X-Files have been a success with Lori Loughlin and Bob Saget?
One of the actor’s most recent projects was Reverse the Curse, a comedy-drama which Duchovny wrote and directed based on his own novel Bucky F*cking Dent. He also starred in the movie alongside Logan Marshall-Green and Stephanie Beatriz. You can check out a review from our own Alex Maidy right here, as well as an interview with Duchovny, Marshall-Green, and Beatriz.
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Deadline reports that Zoë Kravitz is set to star alongside Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing.
The Sony Pictures project is based on the book by Charlie Huston, who will write the script for the movie as well. Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson, “a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s NYC.” It’s not known who Kravitz will play in the project.
“I am excited to be teaming up with my old friends at Sony Pictures to bring Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked roller coaster ride to life,” Aronofsky said in a statement earlier this year. “I can’t wait to start working with Austin and my family of NYC filmmakers.” Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, added, “Darren is one of the most brilliant audiovisual storytellers in the world, and adapting these wonderful books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too exciting an opportunity to not be a part of.“
Before Zoë Kravitz sets her sights on Caught Stealing, she will be overseeing the release of her directorial debut, Blink Twice, which she also co-wrote. You may recall that the film was originally announced under the title of Pussy Island, and Kravitz recently explained why she was forced to change it. “It was made very clear to me that ‘p—y’ is a word that we, our society, are not ready to embrace yet,” she said. “There were a lot of roadblocks along the way, whether it be the MPAA not wanting to put it on a poster, or a billboard, or a kiosk; movie theaters not wanting to put it on a ticket.” Kravitz added that she was surprised to learn that women were actually the ones who were most offended by the title.
“Interestingly enough, after researching it, women were offended by the word, and women seeing the title were saying, ‘I don’t want to see that movie,’ which is part of the reason I wanted to try and use the word, which is trying to reclaim the word, and not make it something that we’re so uncomfortable using,” Kravitz said. “But we’re not there yet. And I think that’s something I have the responsibility as a filmmaker to listen to. I care about people seeing the film, and I care about how it makes people feel.“
Blink Twice will hit theaters on August 23rd.
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Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is set to join the cast of Criminal, Prime Video’s upcoming adaptation of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
Criminal tells “the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past.” Clarke will play Mallory, “a slick and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits. Part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Gus Halper), who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with. Mallory is a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone.“
Charlie Hunnam will star in Criminal as Leo, “a brilliant master thief who sees all the angles, and specializes in plans with no guns and no violence. Like a chess player, Leo thinks three moves ahead. Other crooks think he’s a coward, especially compared to his father Tommy, who went to jail for murdering the most feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless.” In addition to Emilia Clarke and Hunnam, the cast of Criminal also includes Adria Arjona, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier, and Dominic Burgess.
Ed Brubaker wrote the script for the pilot and will serve as co-showrunner of the series with Jordan Harper. Both will also executive produce alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, Phillip Barnett, and Legendary Television. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes of the series.
“Criminal is a beloved graphic novel created by the most iconic team in the history of comics,” said Nick Pepper, head of U.S. SVOD wholly-owned development, Amazon MGM Studios, when the project was first announced. “I know our global Prime Video customers will immediately embrace this story, and I look forward to working with Ed, Jordan, and the team to bring it to the screen.“ Brubaker added, “Sean and I have been building this world in our books for over a decade, and now to be able to bring it to life for Amazon is just incredible. And to have Amazon support the project the way they have, and show so much faith in my and Jordan’s vision for the show is even more incredible.“
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We already know Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have romance and spicy scenes. That’s par for the course with a BioWare RPG in a post-Mass Effect world. But sounds like the upcoming game in the beloved fantasy series isn’t restricting nudity to when protagonist Rook and their chosen partner are getting it on. What’s…
We already know Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have romance and spicy scenes. That’s par for the course with a BioWare RPG in a post-Mass Effect world. But sounds like the upcoming game in the beloved fantasy series isn’t restricting nudity to when protagonist Rook and their chosen partner are getting it on. What’s…
Barbenheimer was a phenomenon. On paper, Barbie and Oppenheimer had little in common, but fans embraced the counter-programming and helped propel both movies to massive success, with Barbie taking in $1.4 billion and Oppenheimer grossing $976 million. With Gladiator II and Wicked set to premiere on the same day later this year, some are hoping we’ve got Barbenheimer 2.0 on our hands.
It seems that Gladiator II star Paul Mescal is also a fan of the match-up. “Wickdiator doesn’t really roll off the tongue does it? I think my preference would probably be Glicked if it has a similar effect to what it did for Barbie and Oppenheimer,” Mescal told Entertainment Tonight. “It would be amazing ’cause I think the films couldn’t be more polar opposites and it worked in that context previously. So fingers crossed people come out and see both films on opening weekend.” While I’m unsure if that Barbenheimer lightning will strike twice, it would be something to see.
The first trailer for Gladiator II was finally released yesterday, bringing fans back to Ancient Rome. “From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome,” reads the official synopsis. “Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.“
The official synopsis for Wicked reads: “[Two students] meet at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.“
Both Gladiator II and Wicked are set to hit theaters on November 22nd.
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