Who knew the end of the world would prove so difficult to survive? In the city-building survival world of Frostpunk 2, a worker’s strike is one thing, but a strike in the middle of a whiteout proves devastating. You must keep everyone warm, fed, and satisfied; otherwise, your settlement crumbles into dust and, along…
Who knew the end of the world would prove so difficult to survive? In the city-building survival world of Frostpunk 2, a worker’s strike is one thing, but a strike in the middle of a whiteout proves devastating. You must keep everyone warm, fed, and satisfied; otherwise, your settlement crumbles into dust and, along…
While details on the Peaky Blinders movie remain pretty secretive, the only information available is some of the featured cast. Deadline has revealed that Stephen Graham is confirmed to be working on the new feature film. Graham played Hayden Stagg in the last season of the show, but he hasn’t revealed what his involvement with the movie entails. Graham says he is “looking forward to seeing the lads again” as he squeezes in this project before playing Bruce Springsteen’s father in the upcoming film, Deliver Me from Nowhere.
The Peaky Blinders movie will bring back the show’s star, Cillian Murphy, who’s hot off his Academy Award win for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Rebecca Ferguson will also be starring opposite Murphy in the movie, along with Barry Keoghan and Tim Roth. The nature of Roth’s, Ferguson’s and Keoghan’s roles have yet to be revealed.
Tom Harper (Heart of Stone) will direct the Peaky Blinders movie for Netflix, marking his return to the franchise. He previously directed the last three episodes of the first season. Series creator Steven Knight has written the screenplay, and production is expected to kick off in Digbeth, England, later this year. Knight is co-producing alongside Murphy, Caryn Mandabach, and Guy Heeley. Executive producers include Harper, David Kosse, Jamie Glazebrook, Andrew Warren, and David Mason.
We don’t have plot details at this time, but Knight has confirmed that the story is set during World War II. He has also said, “I’m genuinely thrilled that this movie is about to happen. It will be an explosive chapter in the Peaky Blinders story. No holds barred. Full-on Peaky Blinders at war.” The movie is said to be a “fitting conclusion” to the TV series, but there “will be other TV shows… that will continue to tell the story of this part of society and this family.“
Murphy previously provided the following statement: “It seems like Tommy Shelby wasn’t finished with me. It is very gratifying to be recollaborating with Steven Knight and Tom Harper on the film version of Peaky Blinders. This is one for the fans.“
Harper said, “When I first directed Peaky Blinders over 10 years ago, we didn’t know what the series would become, but we did know that there was something in the alchemy of the cast and the writing that felt explosive. Peaky has always been a story about family — and so it’s incredibly exciting to be reuniting with Steve and Cillian to bring the movie to audiences across the world on Netflix.“
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PLOT: Follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel “Stinger” by Robert McCammon.
REVIEW: The name James Wan attached to a production likely makes you think you are in for something similar to The Conjuring or Insidious. The filmmaker has become synonymous with scary movies as much as he has directed big-budget tentpoles like Aquaman and Furious 7. Still, his prowess as a producer has fostered several cool projects under his Atomic Monster banner in recent years. The new series Teacup carries Wan’s name recognition but is the brainchild of Ian McCulloch. Inspired by the Robert McCammon novel Stinger, Teacup is a unique and original foray into genre storytelling that combines horror, science fiction, and family drama for a creepy drama series that is much more than the teasers will have you believe.
Set on the isolated farmstead of the Chenoweth family, Teacup opens with Maggie (Yvonne Strahovski) and her husband, James (Scott Speedman), dealing with a personal rift. Their relationship is tenuously held together for the sake of their daughter, Meryl (Emilie Bierre), and young son, Arlo (Caleb Dolden), along with James’ mother, Ellen (Kathy Baker). When neighbors Ruben Shanley (Chaske Spencer), his wife Valeria (Diany Rodriguez), and son Nicholas (Luciano Leroux) bring their injured horse to be checked out by Maggie, they must also search for Arlo, who goes missing in the woods. Donald Kelly (Boris McGiver) arrives looking for his lost dog, and soon, they all find themselves trapped by a mysterious force that will brutally kill them if they cross it. Gas-masked sporting stranger McNab (Rob Morgan) warns them not to cross the line, and soon, they all learn that a more sinister situation is unfolding that echoes the popular video game Among Us: an entity has arrived that leaves everyone wondering who the wolf is lurking amongst the sheep.
Thrust together the families include complexities that I will not spoil here that add to the challenge of staying alive with people you do not fully trust. The arrival of outsiders who know what the entity is adds to the complex narrative at play in the series. What I anticipated to be a supernatural or horror series is much more layered as Teacup hews closer to science fiction. The core narrative remains similar to the novel that inspired it, but Teacup changes the setting from an urban setting to the rural environs of Georgia. The diverse cast centers on family units and how parents and children react when their seemingly idyllic lives are disrupted in an apocalyptic fashion. There is a War of the Worlds sensibility to Teacup that echoes the isolationist feel of Stephen King’s Under the Dome. Still, keeping the ensemble small gives us more time with each character as they develop over the first eight-season episode.
What helps sell Teacup is the talented cast. Led by Yvonne Strahovski, best known for the spy series Chuck and her awards-worthy turn in The Handmaid’s Tale, the cast fully inhabit their characters. Scott Speedman plays a more mature variation on his character from The Strangers, while Boris McGiver is great in a less creepy role compared to his recent turn in M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant. Chaske Spencer (Echo) and Rob Morgan (Daredevil) are both fantastic as always, especially Morgan, who is a chameleon in supporting roles but has much more to do in this prominent performance. The younger cast members are good, with Caleb Dolden evoking an eerie character well beyond his years. Kathy Baker is a welcome return to the small screen, but this series never feels small despite the limited distance the characters can venture. That isolation helps add to the anxiety and tension in the story while setting up what will come next if the series gets a sophomore run.
Series creator Ian McCulloch has experience writing on procedural series like Chicago Fire and Deputy but uses his time scripting for Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone to mine the familial drama and tension that is central to Teacup. Yes, this is a genre project, but it focuses more on the characters than the supernatural. Four directors split duties helming the eight-episode first season, including E.L. Katz (The Haunting of Bly Manor, V/H/S/94), John Hyams (Chucky), Chloe Okuno (Let The Right One In), and Kevin Tancharoen (Titans, Warriors). All of the directors have experience with genre projects and use the look and feel of horror and sci-fi to subvert expectations with this story. Yes, there is a reliance on special effects in places to augment the eerie and otherworldly parts of the narrative. Still, most of Teacup is told in a grounded, realistic way that focuses on this story’s psychological and human side, which is anything but grounded in reality.
By parsing out Teacup in half-hour chapters, Ian McCulloch has crafted a series that shifts from what you expect in the trailers within the first thirty minutes and then continues to upend your expectations with every subsequent episode. Teacup is not horror, but it is scary. It is not science fiction, nor is it solely a realistic drama. Regardless of genre conventions, this series is a thriller with a unique twist that keeps you engaged and trying to figure out the truth from the opening scene to the credits of the season finale. This is not a limited series, so there is a plan to expand this story beyond this first thread of the narrative, setting Teacup to potentially be the next big serial drama hit. I had a blast watching this story and figuring out what would come next. I would have liked some more concrete answers by the end of the season, but I am bought into sticking with this story wherever it goes next.
Teacup premieres with two episodes on Peacock on October 10th.
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The French creature feature Survive is making its way to North America, as Deadline reports that Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up the distribution rights and are planning to give the film a theatrical and VOD release sometime in January.
Directed by Frédéric Jardin and from a screenplay written by Matt Alexander (which is actually a shared pseudonym for Mathieu Oullion and Alexandre Coquelle), Survive follows Julia and her loving husband who celebrate their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh. That sounds like a set-up for a good time to me!
The film stars Emilie Dequenne (Close), Andreas Pietschmann (Dark), Arben Bajraktaraj (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1), and newcomers Lisa Delamar and Lucas Ebel. It was produced by Marc Stanimirovic and Marc-Etienne Schwartz, with Ludovic Naar serving as an executive producer.
Zach Martin, Goldwyn’s head of marketing, provided the following statement: “Survive is a gripping adventure with high production value and a strong emotional core that has blown away audiences in Europe. We’re confident that the U.S. will embrace this exceptional thrill ride.“
Jardin previously directed the comedies La folie douce, Les frères Soeur, and Cravate club, the crime thriller Sleepless Night, and episodes of the TV shows Braquo, Spiral, Totems, and Ein paar Tage Licht. The French film Sleepless Night went over so well, it received a Tamil and Telugu remake called Thoongaa Vanam, an English-language remake called Sleepless (which starred Jamie Foxx), and a Hindi remake called Bloody Daddy.
Does Survive sound interesting to you, and are you glad to hear that it’s going to get a North American release in just a few months? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and if you caught the movie during its European release, let us know what you thought of it.
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Back in June, we heard that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are set to share the screen again in RIP, a crime thriller that’s written and directed by Joe Carnahan and is set up at the Netflix streaming service. Earlier this week, Sasha Calle, who played Supergirl in The Flash, and singer/songwriter Teyana Taylor, who starred in the drama A Thousand and One, joined the cast. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that two more actors have signed on to appear in the film: Catalina Sandino Moreno of the MGM+ series From and Néstor Carbonell, who was recently seen on the FX / Hulu series Shōgun.
RIP will follow a group of Miami cops whose trust begins to fray after they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question — including who they can rely on. Details on the specific characters being played by Damon, Affleck, Calle, and Taylor have not been revealed, but The Hollywood Reporter was able to learn that Moreno and Carbonell are playing members of the police force.
Damon and Affleck are producing the film alongside Luciana Damon and Dani Bernfeld for Artists Equity. Michael Joe and Kevin Halloran of Artists Equity serve as executive producers. Filming is expected to begin later this month and will take place in Miami and Los Angeles.
Joe Carnahan has previously directed Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane; Narc, Smokin’ Aces, The A-Team, The Grey, Stretch, Boss Level, and Copshop. He also worked on the screenplays for Pride and Glory, the Death Wish remake, El Chicano, and Bad Boys for Life. He was also attached to direct the Death Wish remake and Bad Boys for Life during the development of those films, but dropped out over creative differences – which is something he also did when he was attached to direct Mission: Impossible 3.
The other movies that have both Damon and Affleck in the cast are School Ties, Glory Daze, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, The Last Duel (which they wrote with Nicole Holofcener), Air, and Good Will Hunting (which they won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for writing). They were also extras on the set of Field of Dreams.
Does RIP sound interesting you? What do you think of Catalina Sandino Moreno and Néstor Carbonell joining the cast? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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It’s weird how many Pokémon have just never made it to kerbillion-player mobile hit, Pokémon Go. Astonishingly, the game has yet to feature major monsters like Arceus, Naganadel and Silvally, and even the most banal minor names like Phione, Honedge and Blipbug. The gaps in Gen VII are inexplicable. But fortunately,…
It’s weird how many Pokémon have just never made it to kerbillion-player mobile hit, Pokémon Go. Astonishingly, the game has yet to feature major monsters like Arceus, Naganadel and Silvally, and even the most banal minor names like Phione, Honedge and Blipbug. The gaps in Gen VII are inexplicable. But fortunately,…
In an absolute wild twist of fate at the box office, it’s looking increasingly likely that Terrifier 3, the low-budget slasher flick from Damien Leone, might actually unseat Warner Bros’s $200 million Joker: Folie a Deux at the box office this weekend. A few months ago, this would have been unthinkable, but given how toxic word of mouth has been for Joker, it looks like the film will have a massive drop-off at the box office this weekend after opening to a MUCH lower than expected $37 million. Morbius and The Marvels, which both had similarly bad openings, dropped off 74% and 78% at the box office in their second weekends, and neither had Joker’s D CinemaScore rating to contend with. I’m expecting Joker 2 to fall about 70%, which would give it an $11 million weekend.
Terrifier 3, from the indie studio Cineverse, should be able to topple Joker 2. It looks like it will open with at least $12 million—possibly more. The word of mouth has been excellent on this gruesome sequel (our critic Tyler Nichols disliked the other movies in the series but loved this one), and Terrifier 2 proved to be an unexpected hit, so this looks like it might be a big success story for all involved, especially as the cult fervour around the series grows.
Third place should go to Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, which has performed well in limited release. The movie tells the story of the hours before the first airing of Saturday Night Live, and it’s earned Reitman his best reviews since Up in the Air (we loved it). It should nab about $10 million. The Wild Robot shouldn’t be too far behind it with about $8 million, while Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice should take fifth place with about $7 million.
Here are our predictions:
Do you think Terrifier 3 will pull off the upset of the season? Let us know in the comments!
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Last year, a Jules Verne-inspired sea adventure series that explores the origins of Captain Nemo was canceled by Disney+. The show, Nautilus, then found a new home at AMC. It will also stream on Prime in the UK and Ireland and on Stan in Australia. Nautilus had already finished shooting when Disney dropped the series as a cost-cutting measure. As stated by CFO Christine McCarthy, “We are in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation…As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms, and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” Nautilus has now unleashed a new trailer courtesy of Prime Video, by way of Deadline.
The description reads, “Based on Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, joining him as he steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company.”
The series stars Shazad Latif as Nemo, the Indian Prince who sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, where he not only battles with his enemy but also discovers a magical underwater world. In addition to Shazad Latif, Nautilus also stars Georgia Flood, Thierry Frémont, Pacharo Mzembe, Arlo Green, Tyrone Ngatai, Ling Cooper Tang, Andrew Shaw, Ashan Kumar, Céline Menville, and Kayden Price.
Nautilus was developed and produced by Xavier Marchand of Moonriver TV and Anand Tucker of Seven Stories. The series was written and is executive produced by James Dormer, as well as executive produced by Johanna Devereaux, Chris Loveall, Colleen Woodcock and Daisy Gilbert. Cameron Welsh is on board as the producer and Michael Matthews serves as the lead director and later episodes are directed by Ben Lucas and Isabelle Sieb.
Last October, Ben Davis, EVP of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios stated, “Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes. We are looking forward to bringing it to AMC+ and AMC as a special television event next year.”
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