As a former writer and creative director on
Gravity Falls, Mike Rianda is no stranger to heartwarming content ostensibly made for kids but equally beloved by adults. That’s certainly the case with his new movie,
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, which was made with the help of Phil Lord and Chris Miller and premiered over the weekend on Netflix. Packed full of amazing actors we’re talking Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, et al and quirkily hilarious techno-references, the film is an animated classic for the most modern age. It speaks to how we live today and in particular, how younger people live, work, and connect on the internet.
Rick Riordan says casting has begun to find Percy in Disney's streaming show adaptation of the beloved YA fantasy series. Meanwhile, Creepshow teases Darcy Carden's turn in the upcoming season finale.
Screenshot: West Side Story
Originally slated to snap its way into theaters last December, Steven Spielberg’s
West Side Story will finally debut this year, and the Oscars just gave us our first look. The surprisingly quiet teaser, which aired after Daniel Kaluuya won his first Oscar for Best Support Actor for
Judas And the Black Messiah, relies on a modern trailer trope of a slowed-down version of “Somewhere (A Place For Us) plays over a montage of greasers grabbing chainlink fences. That is to say, it looks like a West Side Story remake
Spielberg’s
West Side Story is based on the Broadway musical by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, and stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria. A re-telling of
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For a time, CIA analyst-turned-man-of-action Jack Ryan looked like the perfect role for actors looking to flex their leading-man muscles. Playing Ryan requires a performer commanding enough to plausibly interact with movie presidents; restrained enough to assume an action hero’s faux humility; and confident enough to accept easy replacement when the job inevitably fails to work out. It’s the part that everyone wants and almost no one is willing to keep.
Ryan is the most famous character created by the late novelist Tom Clancy, in part because he has appeared in blockbuster movie adaptations and has been brought to life by the likes of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. It’s easy to imagine Clancy satisfied with this arrangement, given his admiration for actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan. Yet somehow, this steady stream of star-powered, big-budget thrillers has failed to produce a viable long-running film series for long-time distributor Paramount.