Vol. 31
No. 12
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The Spengler family returns to where it all started, the iconic New York City
firehouse, to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a
top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the
discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and
old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice
Age. The original cast join Paul Rudd in this new adventure.
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Poor Things (Hulu)
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and
producer Emma Stone comes the incredible
tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone),
a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and
unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).
Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn.
Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs
off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo),
a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure
across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her
times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for
equality and liberation.
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
The love story between Rick and Michonne. Changed by a
world that is constantly changing, will they find
themselves in a war against the living or will they
discover that they too are The Walking Dead? Originally
planned to be an AMC original film for
television, it was later announced that it would be a
film trilogy with a wide theatrical release by Universal
Pictures. However, over the pandemic and news of the
mothership concluding, it transitioned itself into a
television miniseries.
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After a substantial delay, production on the final season of Yellowstone
is set to resume this summer, and it seems that we may be getting slightly more
than anticipated. Josh Lucas, who plays the younger John Dutton
(played by Kevin Costner) in flashback scenes, has revealed that
there could be more episodes than first planned for the final part of the Dutton
family saga.
It’s been over five years since Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a.
Stormy Daniels, rocked the political world. The former adult film
star revealed in 2018 she’d been paid $130,000 in hush money by Donald
Trump’s attorney fixer Michael Cohen to silence her story
about a sexual encounter with the then candidate ahead of the 2016 presidential
election. In Peacock’s new documentary Stormy, the actress turned
director details just how much of a toll her experience in the spotlight and
standing up to a sitting president has taken on her, and how much of that bill
is still due.
Bill Hader or, at least, an animated character that he voices,
will don a red and white striped top hat in a new adaptation of Dr. Seuss’
The Cat in the Hat.
Grainne Brunsdon has been promoted to chief operating officer
within federal funding and policy body Screen Australia. She was
the organization’s director of content, where she led production investment and
development, distribution support, and business initiatives for the last two
years.
The Boy and the Heron, the Oscar winning animated feature film by
iconic Japanese director Miyazaki Hayao, is finally to be given a
release in cinemas in mainland China.
On Sunday, March 17, ID Network’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids
TV began its deep dive into the toxic workplace allegations and child abuse
reports that emerged out of Nickelodeon following Dan Schneider’s
ousting in 2018. Within hours of the docuseries’ premiere, dozens of press
outlets and at home viewers started posting TikTok supercuts of the most
damning moments from the first two episodes.
After weeks of rumors, Sony Pictures has confirmed that all eight
live action Spider-Man movies are indeed returning to theaters beginning
next month. Each film in the franchise, beginning with Sam Raimi's
original 2002 superhero classic, will be given a week long run in theaters from
Monday to Sunday.
Five upcoming Spanish TV fiction projects, involving top local production and
distribution companies, feature in Coming Next from Spain, a showcase of series
unspooling March 19 at Series Mania.
Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction’s latest
period series Disko 76 is set in a pivotal time in the industrial
heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the
airwaves and dance floors.