What was it W. B. Yeats wrote, that line Joan Didion lifted and twisted in her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” about West Coast chaos in 1967? Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. That’s how it felt on Thursday, a few minutes before lunch with some seasoned film executive-friends at the Academy Museum (Salad Niçoise
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Six weeks into the writers strike, the early returns on summer studio films have been some of the best since Covid brought the exhibition business to a screeching halt. But if SAG-AFTRA members trade lines of dialogue for picket lines beginning July 1, the business might well look like pandemic redux. The domestic box office
The Walking Dead cast appeared Saturday at New York Comic Con, and the cast brought some exciting news. The main series is set to wrap in November, but the Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan-led spinoff The Walking Dead: Dead City will debut on AMC in April. News of the premiere date comes as the
Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will ramp up early next year, it has been announced. New details dropped during Marvel’s turn at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, and it’s hard not to be a little excited. Phase 5 is set to launch with the third Ant-Man movie, subtitled “Quantumania.” That flick will hit
The last time Deadpool director Tim Miller was here at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, he was promoting his R-rated revival of the Terminator series, Terminator: Dark Fate. There was a lot of hope around the film, and Miller was set to right the wrongs of previous installments. Per James Cameron’s suggestion, he returned the sequel to a hardcore rating.
Star Trek: Prodigy, Paramount+’s newest addition to the Trek family of shows, is not only created with a younger audience in mind but is also crewed by a cast of young people as well. Fresh from a fun and exciting panel at New York Comic-Con, Rylee Alazraqui and Brett Gray met virtually with a roundtable
The Walking Dead may be ending, but at least we have 24 episodes to say goodbye to this thrilling drama about survival. AMC on Saturday dropped the full-length trailer for The Walking Dead Season 11, and damn, do we have some questions. Off the bat, the series looks darker than before, and the show has
It’s July, which means ComicCon, except this is 2020… So the San Diego convention center is sadly silent. (If I could insert a crying emoji here, I would.) Thankfully, the creative people behind the spectacle that is ComicCon would not let a virus kill our fun, so they moved it all online. Which left us