Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is making its way to the big screen. Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the Broadway hit, with Wonder director Stephen Chbosky set to handle filmmaking duties. We hear that Ben Platt, who originated the role and won a Tony for his performance, is stepping back into his […]
The New York Film Critics Circle has named Roma the best film of 2018, with the film’s helmer, Alfonso Cuarón, taking best director. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Regina Hall (Support the Girls) received the group’s top acting honors, while Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Regina King (If Beale Street Could […]
The National Board of Review (NBR) has announced its picks for the best films and performances of 2018. The organization is made up of film enthusiasts, industry professionals, academics, and filmmakers. The NBR is one of the first organizations to announce its end-of-the-year selections, followed closely by the New York Film Critics Circle (November 29). […]
Sony Pictures is taking their Spider-Man universe into a new direction in a #metoo moment where Wonder Woman is being followed by a growing number of female superheroes. The studio is working on an animated Spider-Women film that will focus on three generations of women with Spidey powers. Bek Smith is writing the script. One […]
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director and screenwriter whose films include Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, for which he won the Academy Award for best picture, director and adapted screenplay, died Monday in Rome. He was 77. A spokeswoman said the filmmaker, who became known for movies with a colorful visual style and […]
The feast at the 2018 movie box office continued over the Thanksgiving week as a pair of sequels — Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II — powered record holiday revenue, not accounting for yearly inflated ticket prices, in North America. Ralph Breaks the Internet topped the Wednesday-Sunday chart with a hefty $84.5 million from […]
Julie Andrews is heading to theaters in December, but not in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns. Aquaman producer Peter Safran told Entertainment Weekly that Andrews has voiced a role in the DC superhero movie that opens December 21, two days after Mary Poppins hits theaters in a revival of a character Andrews made famous. She is […]
Ralph Breaks the Internet Mixes Family Fun With Social Satire In a world filled with wonder and knowledge at our fingertips, it’s arguably one of the greatest inventions ever known to man. It’s a vast wonderland of fun, shopping, personality and image enhancement, and even money making that we can’t seem to get enough of. […]
The second in JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series, which incorporates the world of Harry Potter, not surprisingly, took the #1 spot at the box office, both in the United States and worldwide. Its combined gross, worldwide, after just three days in theaters is $253 million. Also new in theaters this past weekend, and featuring in […]
Black Panther returns to the big screen with free screenings at nonprofit art house theaters nationwide on Tuesday, November 27 at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET. Presented by Film Comment, a publication of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and supported by the Art House Convergence, the event will feature a post-screening Q&A with director Ryan Coogler, […]
Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali Achieve Onscreen Magic in Green Book The movie Green Book, which takes its title from the book of the same name, “a travel guide to safe lodging, dining and business options for the Negro,” during the era of segregation and Jim Crow laws, is set against the backdrop of a country […]
Rosamund Pike Brings Attention to the Frontlines in A Private War According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 45 journalists have been killed delivering the news to the world. Before hearing about the film A Private War, I had never once heard the name Marie Colvin before. Now I’m an avid news follower, and a woman […]
J.K. Rowling’s Magical World Prevails in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald On November 16, 2001, J.K. Rowling’s written masterpiece Harry Potter graced the big screen for the first time, opening the floodgate for a roughly $6.5 billion dollar on-screen franchise. Now, exactly seventeen years later, her magical world is still at large with the release of Fantastic […]
Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic-book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95. Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, X-Men, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, The […]
By Dylan Tracy From the moment I saw the trailer for Boy Erased, I had a strong feeling in my gut that the film would be a stand out amongst every other film in theaters this year. Boy is one of the most powerful films of our generation, and will strike at every emotion. It teaches extremely valuable […]
Shrek and Puss in Boots are getting rebooted and Chris Meledandri, the man behind Despicable Me, is overseeing their revival. Universal Pictures has tasked Meledandri (of Illumination) with finding some fresh story lines to reintroduce the lovable ogre and the sword-wielding feline to new generations of moviegoers. One thing the animation guru doesn’t want to […]
First, it was a book. Then a hit movie, earning 11 Oscar nominations, and famously winning zero. Then it became a Broadway musical. And now, the musical version is going to be adapted for film. The Color Purple, the Alice Walker novel turned into a Steven Spielberg drama and later into a Broadway musical, is […]
Tyler Perry’s Madea character has appeared in dozens of films, plays, and television appearances. But in 2019, exactly 20 years after audiences first met the tough-talking grandmother, Perry is taking off the makeup and wig once and for all. Spanning 10 installments, the Madea film franchise has earned more than $500 million worldwide. Madea was […]
Gladiator won the Best Picture Oscar in 2001, and its star, Russell Crowe, won the Best Actor Oscar. Now its director, four time Oscar nominee, eighty-one year old Ridley Scott, (Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, The Martian, Black Hawk Down, and also Alien), is returning to the director’s chair with a Gladiator sequel, sans Russell Crow, of […]
Judy Blume’s classic, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, is finally coming to the big screen. The book was published in 1970, and Blume has rejected several opportunities in the years since to adapt the book into a movie. But Blume has changed her mind. The author has granted producer James L. Brooks, the […]
Halloween 2018 Review: Michael Meyers Is Back For More Blood It’s hard to believe that the movie H20, the 20th anniversary sequel to the seminal 1978 horror movie Halloween, is 20 years old. I interviewed its stars, Jamie Lee Curtis and Josh Hartnett (who played her son) and thought to myself, why did the studio […]
Breaking Bad may have had its finale in 2013, but The Albuquerque Journal published a report today that says series creator Vince Gilligan is working on a new film with ties to the beloved series. Details are sparse, with no information on what shape the movie will take. The Albuquerque Journal includes a logline stating […]
WildAboutMovies is proud to announce the first annual WAMMYS; Awards bestowed upon the best movies of 2018. Awards will be given out in February 2019 at one of the nation’s best movie theaters. Stay tuned for details. Best Picture: Best Director: Best Actor: Best Supporting Actor: Best Supporting Actress: Best Cast: Best Foreign Film: Best Animated Film: Best […]
Lilo and Stitch are back. Lilo & Stitch, the 2002 animated movie from Walt Disney Pictures, is getting the live-action treatment, Wild About Movies has learned. Disney has hired up-and-comer Mike Van Waes to pen the script for the remake that will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback. The two are […]
CJ 4DPLEX, the world’s leading cinema technology company, is releasing Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in ScreenX, bringing the Wizarding World to the big screen for the first time ever in the immersive, one-of-a-kind format. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the third film in a multi-picture agreement between Warner Bros. Pictures and […]