The 1995 cult classic Clueless is getting a big screen remake at Paramount with Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver producing and Glow writer Marquita Robinson penning the script. The original 1995 film written and directed by Amy Heckerling is loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma, and provided a satirical window into the Beverly Hills high […]
By Tim Nasson Rupert Everett sits down exclusively with Wild About Movies publisher Tim Nasson and editor Dylan Tracy to talk about his movie The Happy Prince, in theaters October 10, 2018. Everett wrote, directed and stars in The Happy Prince, a movie about the final years of author and playwright Oscar Wilde’s life. Everett […]
Jean-Marc Vallee is directing a film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Universal Pictures has optioned Anthony McCarten’s script. Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Big Little Lies) is attached to direct and edit. He will also rewrite the screenplay alongside McCarten. Ono is producing the film. Ono and Lennon met in 1966 at a London art […]
First Man is Dramatically Dull But Viscerally Stunning Let me make one thing clear, OK, two. First, Ryan Gosling is a great actor. I have found him to be one of the greatest living actors working since the movie The Notebook was released in 2004. Of course, he started out acting as a kid on […]
Bradley Cooper sings “Tell me something good…” and boy do I have something good to tell you about A Star Is Born. I’ll admit, I have not seen any of the previous three A Star Is Born films, so I do not have anything to compare this film to. A Star Is Born has been towards the top of my […]
Owen Vaccaro Talks to Tim Nasson about the movie The House With A Clock In Its Walls, in theaters September 21, 2018. Interviewing movie stars has been part of my life since I was in high school. And make no mistake, you, the readers, love to get the scoop on Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Brad […]
Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Steal A Simple Favor The movie A Simple Favor, directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), isn’t as funny as you might imagine it would be given its impressive cast of comedic actors – Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding (the breakout Eurasian star of Crazy Rich Asians), Andrew Rannels, Jean Smart […]
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara and chairman of Warner Bros. Pictures Group Toby Emmerich are looking to reinvigorate the studio’s DC Universe, which is still playing second fiddle to the Marvel Universe in terms of box office and critical acclaim. Just six years ago, when The Dark Knight Rises closed out the Christopher Nolan trilogy, DC was […]
Lizzie Borden had an axe She gave her mother 40 whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 Do you remember that rhyme from childhood? I watched a screener of the new movie, Lizzie, courtesy of Roadside Attractions, at home. When the movie began, one of my friends whom I was […]
Burt Reynolds, the charismatic star who got his start on the hit TV show Gunsmoke and who starred in films as Deliverance, The Longest Yard and Smokey and the Bandit and who set out to have as much fun as possible on and off the screen — and wildly succeeded — has died. He was […]
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today “While remaining committed to celebrating a wide spectrum of movies, the Academy announced today that it will not present the new Oscars category at the upcoming 91st awards. The Academy recognized that implementing any new award nine months into the year creates challenges for films […]
Chris Evans just announced he has officially hung up his shield. After playing Captain America for nearly a decade, Evans tweeted that it was over. “Officially wrapped on Avengers 4. It was an emotional day to say the least. Playing this role over the last 8 years has been an honor. To everyone in front […]
To commemorate the 25th anniversary release of Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece Schindler’s List, one of the most significant endeavors in the history of cinema, Universal Pictures will re-release the film with picture and sound digitally remastered—including in 4K, Dolby Cinema and Dolby Atmos—for a limited theatrical engagement on December 7, 2018, in theaters across the United […]
Searching Is One of This Year’s Best Films At first glance, especially taking a look at the poster and trailer of the movie Searching, you might think that it is just another low budget, B-movie thriller, reminiscent of the recent films Friend Request, Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web, which feature a bunch of unknown teens getting […]
The Crazy Rich Asians gang is getting back together in a story based on the second novel in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. Jon M. Chu, who directed the film (that Netflix wanted to buy and that he said no to), and that ruled the box office its first week in theaters, with a $35.3 […]
Two huge pieces of 007 news were revealed in the middle of the night. First, MGM has found a new director for their 25th official James Bond movie. Second, they have also found a new release date for Daniel Craig’s fifth (and presumably final) 007 flick. Cary Fukunaga has been tapped to replace the departed Danny […]
Natalie Portman is directing and starring as twin sisters Ann Landers and her twin sister “Dear Abby” in a drama about dueling advice columnists Esther and Pauline Friedman. Portman will play dual roles as the writers behind the Ann Landers and Dear Abby columns, which were the most popular articles in the thousands of newspapers […]
Beverly Hills, CA – “And the Oscar goes to… Glenn Close for The Wife.” That is what Sony Classics hopes will be announced at the next Oscars ceremony, (February 12, 2019), when the Best Actress statue is handed out. For the most part, Oscar contender movies are released in the fall, when voting is fresh […]
Huge changes are coming to the Oscars. Tuesday night, just five months after the lowest-rated Academy Awards telecast on record (only 26.5 million viewers tuned in), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors not only re-elected cinematographer John Bailey as its president, but also approved several major changes to the tradition-bound ceremony’s […]
Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are developing a new Supergirl film. They have hired 22 Jump Street writer Oren Uziel to write the script. The character has been played by Melissa Benoist in the CW series that’s heading into its fourth season, and is executive produced by Greg Berlanti. The superheroine first appeared in Action […]
Entertainment Weekly is touting that their recent interview with Robert Redford for his upcoming movie The Old Man and the Gun as the ‘exclusive’ quote from him where he says he ‘might’ be retiring from acting. The news about Redford’s impending retirement from acting has been around for two years, actually, so they’re most likely in bed […]
Want to get $5 Off A Ticket to Venom? If you’re an Amazon member, you can get $5 off your ticket, while supplies last. CLICK HERE. One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and bad-ass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom. Venom tells the story of the Marvel […]
Award-winning singer, actress, producer, and entertainer Jennifer Lopez has been cast in Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers. The film is inspired by the Jessica Pressler article in New York Magazine entitled, The Hustlers at Scores, which details a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. […]
The retirement of one’s childhood, and graduation into adolescence and ultimately adulthood, is one of life’s most unsettling events. Stuffed animals and other assorted toys and memories are boxed away and forgotten. First love takes precedence over everything else for many. And then work and family, but mostly work, occupies much of the brain, sometimes […]
20th Century Fox is developing a prequel to the 1993 cult classic The Sandlot, with David Mickey Evans, the original film’s writer and director, attached to co-write the script with Austin Reynolds. The plot of the prequel involves the legend of the beast from the first iteration. The news comes as the film recently hit […]