Get ready for a festive treat this Christmas as Nithiin and director Venky Kudumula’s film, titled “Robinhood,” is set to hit the screens on December 20, 2024. Produced by Naveen Yerneni and Y Ravi Shankar of Mythri Movie Makers, the Telugu film promises to bring action and entertainment to audiences during the holiday season.

With Nithiin in the lead role, “Robinhood” is anticipated to be a captivating addition to the Christmas lineup. The collaboration between the talented actor and director, along with the backing of experienced producers, has created high expectations among fans.

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As the release date draws closer, excitement mounts for “Robinhood” to unfold its story on the big screen.

The second season of What If? has been dropped by Marvel Studios in a year that has seen both the rise and fall of the MCU. The final Guardians of the Galaxy and the second season of Loki were absolute triumphs, while the rest was pretty much a let down. I’m not even going to go into the Jonathan Major fiasco, but that must have hurt the MCU, and the future of this thing doesn’t look too bright. Considering all these, it was essential for Marvel to wrap up this year strong, and the good news is that What If? has been quite successful in doing that. With the anthology format, it was a given that some of the episodes would not be that good, while others might just be extraordinary. And that’s exactly how it went. We’re going to rank the new batch of episodes...

“I like the stock.”

If only the world of high finance could accept things as simply as that.

As we learned in 2021, the so-called masters of the universe had written off GameStop, the venerable supply of used video games and assorted tech gear. The only one, it seemed, who still believed in them was Keith Gill, who live-blogged as Roaring Kitty. With incredible transparency, he shared his spreadsheets and showed his faith by buying up shares, which encouraged others to follow suit.

The run-up of the stock, fueled by the disruptor app Robinhood, spooked Wall Street and led to at least one capitol group crumbling with hubris.

Finance can make you want to shut down and read a book, such as The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, which inspired the film, but like the superb The Big Short, the 2023 film Dumb Money walks you through this Byzantine world. Director Craig Gillespie...

Actor Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled ‘The Student’ from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi.

The cast also includes ‘Succession’ Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and ‘Borat 2’ and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, reports Variety.

According to the logline: “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country’, will write the film about Trump.

As per Variety, his novel inspired the Showtime miniseries ‘The Loudest Voice’, which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. ‘The Student...

Actor Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled ‘The Student’ from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi.

The cast also includes ‘Succession’ Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and ‘Borat 2’ and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, reports Variety.

According to the logline: “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country’, will write the film about Trump.

As per Variety, his novel inspired the Showtime miniseries ‘The Loudest Voice’, which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. ‘The Student...

Sebastian Stan is set to portray Donald Trump in the upcoming biopic, The Apprentice, directed by Ali Abbasi.

According to Deadline, the film will follow a young Trump’s ascent to power and prestige in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with Maria Bakalova cast as Ivana Trump and Jeremy Strong (Succession) as Roy Cohn.

Per Variety, the film’s logline explains that it’s an “exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

The Apprentice will be written by Gabriel Sherman, whose book, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country, was adapted into Showtime’s The Loudest Voice,...

Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled “The Apprentice” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), Variety can confirm.

The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. According to the logline, “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,” will write the film about Trump. His novel inspired the Showtime miniseries “The Loudest Voice,” which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. “The Student...

The Craig Gillespie directorial venture Dumb Money is a prime example of how a movie about characters involved in technical stuff should be made. Based on the book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, the 2023 film is the story of a few retail investors who began to buy stocks of a video game store called GameStop and how that impacted the billion-dollar hedge fund managers who made their money primarily through ‘short selling’. The performances are great, and the pacing, the cinematography, and the overall setting surely remind one of David Fincher’s The Social Network. Funny that this film is based on a book with almost the same name! The casting is spot on, and with a great background score, the movie creates an atmosphere where this big fish vs. little fish fight really becomes palpable, even though the jargon might go over our heads.

Spoilers Ahead

Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?...

The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s $40 billion crypto empire shocked the world with its speed and scale. In mere days, the company he founded, Ftx, fell from its perch as a top cryptocurrency exchange and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Customers who deposited funds on Ftx — sometimes their life savings — learned that billions had gone missing. A viral tweet from a crypto executive read: “The insanity of Theranos, speed of Lehman and scale of Enron.”

What are Bankman-Fried’s charges and his alleged criminal conduct?

Next week, Bankman-Fried will finally face the music.

What happens when a group of small-time investors take on a privileged clique of Wall Street billionaires? Absolute chaos. The new movie Dumb Money, which hits theaters on Sept. 15, is a fictionalized take on the infamous GameStop saga, when the beleaguered video game chain became a meme stock thanks to a Reddit user known as RoaringKitty (played by Paul Dano).

‘Dumb Money’ is a fictionalized take on the GameStop saga

In early 2021, RoaringKitty – real name, Keith Gill – and his online compatriots banded together to execute a short squeeze of GameStop stock. The move sent share prices skyrocketing and ended up costing the hedge fund owners who’d bet on GameStop’s failure a ton of money. It also made the little guys rich (at least on paper).

The wild trading was possible in part due to Robinhood, a retail investing platform that many investors were using to buy and sell stock.

Pete Davidson, Paul Dano in Dumb Money Image: Sony If there’s one thing HBO’s Industry and the Oscar-winning The Big Short have taught me, it’s that no matter how many times characters explain the ins and outs of the stock market, I will forever remain immune to its intricacies.

Pete Davidson, Paul Dano in Dumb MoneyImage: Sony

If there’s one thing HBO’s Industry and the Oscar-winning The Big Short have taught me, it’s that no matter how many times characters explain the ins and outs of the stock market, I will forever remain immune to its intricacies.

[Editor’s note: In solidarity with the WGA strike, Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum are only participating in interviews arranged through personal connections like this one.]

You could say that Craig Gillespie got in on the ground floor. Sort of. During the early days of the Covid lockdown — i.e., the early days of what would become the GameStop stock phenomenon that his new feature “Dumb Money” chronicles — one of the filmmaker’s sons returned home to live with Gillespie and his wife.

“He started dabbling in the stock exchange. He was looking for opportunities everywhere,” Gillespie said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “He found WallStreetBets and started following, and he was on there for months prior to the GameStop thing. He was in it, as it was happening in real-time. He’d be around the house, like, ‘Hey, Elon Musk just tweeted GameStonk, people are freaking out. Mark Cuban just commented on it.’ So you started...

The GameStop short squeeze of 2021, in which a new generation of online-savvy retail traders found a way to massively disrupt and break into an American stock market dominated by large hedge funds, has been recognized as a revolutionary moment for the financial industry. It’s hard to square that, though, with the cinematic treatment it gets in Craig Gillespie’s blithely conventional Dumb Money. For a story about the ability of new technology to upend traditional modes of power, the film itself is a dispiritingly outmoded affair.

The title of the film refers to the derisive moniker that retail traders are given by hedge funds—that is, that they have no real knowledge of or impact on the financial world. Chief among the retail traders involved in the GameStop saga is Brockton, Massachusetts, native Keith Gill (Paul Dano). In the real world, he’s a middle-class financial analyst and devoted family man,...

Movies about the financial markets inevitably have the same problem. It simply isn’t that visually compelling watching people stare at their computers or phones and muttering expletives. Adam McKay’s The Big Short managed to avoid the pitfall thanks to its truly memorable characters and such stylistic flourishes as having Margot Robbie explain complicated financial concepts directly to the camera while lounging in a bathtub.

Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, about the 2021 GameStop stock phenomenon fueled by individual investors driven by social media, doesn’t prove quite as successful. Nonetheless, the film receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival proves entertaining enough, thanks to its canny screenplay relating the story as a Frank Capra-style battle between the little people and the rich bigwigs hoisted by their own petards, and the fun performances by a terrific ensemble.

Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network...

It is only appropriate that Sony’s terrific new comedy Dumb Money starts with the Columbia Pictures logo. That was the studio that Frank Capra famously helped build with his movies where the little guy triumphs over the corporate bad guys. Dumb Money is positively Capra-esque in the way it tells its improbable David vs. Goliath story about how an internet geek started a movement that blew up the heretofore loser stock of shopping mall game store GameStop and became the toast of Wall Street, while bankrupting a couple of billionaire hedge funds in the process. It movie had its world premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival before its theatrical release later this month.

On its most basic level, Dumb Money hits on the financial frustrations of everyday Americans fed up with the billionaire class, and dreaming of a fantasy to get rich quick themselves. This phenomenon that took...

Mumbai, May 16 (Ians) Actor Randeep Hooda, who is known for films like ‘Laal Rang’, ‘Jannat 2’, ‘Monsoon Wedding’, ‘Sarbjit’ and several others, has shared that for his webseries ‘Inspector Avinash’, he spent time with real life cop Avinash Mishra.

The cop drama is inspired by Avinash Mishra and his fight against crime. Set in Uttar Pradesh of the 1990s, it shows Avinash Mishra battling with his team to curb the growing mafia dominance and illegal arms trade.

Talking about the series, Randeep Hooda said: “As an actor, I am always drawn towards real-life stories of unsung heroes. It is important to tell stories rooted in India, stories that depict the struggles and triumphs of our people. Mishra’s story is nothing short of a real-life modern day Robinhood, fighting against crime and standing up for what’s right and I am truly honoured to be a part of this heroic story.

The future is either an incredibly exciting place where decentralized ledgers bring about change rapidly or a hellish landscape where organized groups can exploit vulnerabilities in rigged systems. Fourteen years ago, director Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public predicted the toxic hellscape some social media platforms have become, documenting Josh Harris’ Y2K era project “Quiet.” In a doomsday-style bunker, Harris simulated a societal breakdown in 30 days that has taken Facebook nearly twenty years to achieve. The director’s latest documentary The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution applies some of the same insights as GameStop: Rise of the Players as it explores the relationship between gaming, crypto, mediated mobilizations, and the stock market.

Timoner includes a wide range of personalities to tell this story, including the experts that misread just how volatile a market can be when retail investors have the time and the money to learn how to play the game.

Ondi Timoner’s documentary The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution surely doesn’t lack for ambition.

In a jam-packed 102 minutes, The New Americans aims to explain a string of recent Internet-fueled financial misadventures; to somewhat update the meditations on Internet-connected communities and online social anxiety that were part of her acclaimed 2009 film We Live in Public; and to link those things to a toxicity that culminated in the chaos of January 6, 2021.

The New Americans takes a meme-ified approach to understanding the meme-ified intersection of online culture, the financial sector and the rise of different strains of extremism. But like a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox, the relationship between the documentary and the information it’s attempting to elucidate becomes a blur.

The film wants to separate the signal from the noise in the public discourse, but it’s so enamored with the sensory madness that it just becomes more cacophony.

Wanna feel old? Contrary to popular depictions of millennial youth as being disenfranchised, politically feckless and bone idle, the eye-opening documentary The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution might be the bazooka that’s needed to shatter all those cozy assumptions. So of-the-moment is Ondi Timoner’s latest work that it premiered almost exactly when the collapse of Svb made international news, and though that particular eventuality isn’t foreseen here, it won’t take much post-festival fine-tuning to bring her film bang up to date.

After last year’s Last Flight Home, an emotionally intense but beautifully calibrated meditation on her father’s right to medically assisted death, Timoner returns to her forte, which is an uncanny ability to intuit the vicissitudes of pop culture while embedding herself in it while it’s happening. With awards season now a year away, it’s hard to say whether the immediate relevance...

The idea that following your dream will lead to a happier and healthier life isn't just fluff. Research has found that people who pursue their passion experience lower stress levels and are happier overall. That's good news for Dominican comedian and actress Sasha Merci Medina, who has been living her life based on this principle ever since she decided to take her first stab at comedy.

Medina, 33 who was born and raised in the Bronx, started performing in 2016 at open mics and standup shows. But she really started making a name for herself when she began posting comedy clips to her Instagram account, @sashamerci, after the social media platform added the video feature.

Shortly after building a decent following, Medina started landing everything from standup gigs to bona-fide acting roles, including one in 2016's "Honorable Mike" and in the 2019 indie film "De Lo Mio." In "De Lo Mio," she played...

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were told to vacate their U.K. residence, Frogmore Cottage, following Spare’s January 2023 release. The decision, according to a historian, doesn’t reflect a “confident monarchy.” King Charles is “going directly against” Queen Elizabeth II’s “conciliatory style.” Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton, and Princess Charlotte | Karwai Tang/WireImage

It’s a new era for the royal family, which King Charles III highlighted by having Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Frogmore Cottage. A historian says the king made a “big mistake” by telling the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to vacate their U.K. residence. Not only does it go against Queen Elizabeth II’s “style” but the “optics” are “terrible.” Additionally, King Charles has “bigger fish to fry” with his upcoming coronation.

Historian says a ‘confident monarchy would have weathered the storm’ involving Harry,...

Before Batman, Bond, and seemingly everything else got the gritty reboot treatment in the early 2000s, Hollywood tried a similar thing with none other than Robin Hood. Unfortunately, 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" didn't quite manage to pull off its attempt at a rebrand of the classic English hero. In fact, these days it's remembered more for Kevin Costner's magnificent mullet and what co-star Alan Rickman called its "glorious mixture of accents."

That said, it's not like there's nothing to love about "Robin Hood". The score's not bad and it was a cool idea to try to reimagine Robin Hood for the '90s. It just didn't really work out in the end, with the movie failing to garner any critical praise of note despite raking in an impressive £390 million at the global box office.

But if there's one undeniably great thing about the movie, it's Rickman, whose...

Feature will be directed by Ludovic Bernard.

French studio Gaumont and Albertine Productions are readying a French-language feature film about legendary outlaw and archer Robin Hood.

The film will be directed by Ludovic Bernard, whose credits include feature film The Climb and episodes of Netflix hit series Lupin, and co-written with Julien Lambroschini who is behind male synchronized swim team comedy Sink or Swim and Melanie Laurent’s Breathe.

The French take on Robin Hood, currently titled Robin des Bois, Prince des Voleurs in French, will be produced by Sidonie Dumas for Gaumont and Matthieu Tarot for Albertine Productions. Gaumont...

Exclusive: Rushi Kota (Never Have I Ever) has signed on for a role in Sony and Black Bear’s GameStop film Dumb Money, from director Craig Gillespie. He joins an ensemble that already includes Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Anthony Ramos, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dane DeHaan, America Ferrera and Myha’la Herrold.

The dramedy based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network tells the story of fortunes made and lost overnight in the David vs. Goliath GameStop short squeeze of January 2021, when a loosely affiliated group of amateur investors and internet denizens took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, thereby threatening to upend the establishment.

While unconfirmed, we hear that Kota will play Baiju Bhatt, one of the co-CEOs of the stock trading and investing app Robinhood. Almost always overshadowed by CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev (Stan), Bhatt doesn’t always...

Law and Order: Organized Crime As Nottingham Was to Robin Hood Trailer — NBC‘s Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2, Episode 11: As Nottingham Was to Robin Hood TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew Law and Order: Organized Crime stars Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Tamara Taylor, Ainsley Seiger, [...]

Continue reading: Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2, Episode 11: As Nottingham Was to Robin Hood TV Show Trailer [NBC]...

Welcome Dan, aka Comic Concierge, back to Nerdly with his new YouTube channel dedicated to all things comics. From weekly new releases to graphic novels. Comics are for everyone but the key is finding the right one. Comic Concierge is here to help with that journey, with a range of videos discussing everything from weekly pick-ups, dollar-bin dives, comic book theory, analysis and more!

Comic Book Countdown (May 12th 2021)

Another week down another Top 10 list to go through. This week’s list is dominated by indie titles but one Big Two release does sneak onto the countdown. A lot of genres represented this week as well including Westerns, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery. As always no spoilers so watch with no worries, but as always there are time stamps below.

Time Stamps:

00:00 – Opening

00:32 – Hailstone #1

05:41 – Nottingham #3

08:32 – 1000 Storms #1

12:16 – Black Hammer: Visions #4

16:13 – Scout’s Honor #5

18:43 – Sea...

The musical from the director of ‘Blindspotting’ was first seen at Sundance.

London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has picked up world sales rights to musical feature Summertime.

Directed by Carlos López Estrada, whose credits include Blindspotting, the film received its world premiere at Sundance in January. FIlm Constellation will be introducing it to buyers at the virtual TIFF market next month and will host private digital screenings.

The slam poetry musical is set in Los Angeles during a heatwave and follows the lives of 25 young Angelinos as they intersect over the course of a single day. It was developed with 25 young poets,...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was one of the most important movies to arrive at the turn of the millennium, one that would launch leading man Russell Crowe to A-list stardom, win five Academy Awards from twelve nominations including Best Director for Scott and Best Actor for Crowe and become the second highest-grossing movie of 2000 behind only Mission: Impossible II after bringing in $460 million at the box office.

The success of Gladiator also led to a huge resurgence in the popularity of both the sword-and-sandal genre and the historical epic, with theaters soon becoming deluged by titles like Troy, The Last Samurai, Alexander, King Arthur and many more, and Scott himself even returned to the well twice with Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood, the latter of which starred Crowe in the title role.

Gladiator may have infiltrated the public consciousness and stayed there for a while, as well as having...

On August 18, Ron Meyer was forced to resign his chairmanship at Universal Studios in the face of a sexual liaison come to light. As a longtime executive admitting that he paid off a mistress in order to prevent his company from facing embarrassment, it’s hard to imagine who would call him a victim of cancel culture. However unwittingly, he is part of a cultural revolution in Hollywood, one that is seeing the new Hollywood order push aside the old. Expect more veterans to be put out to pasture, victims of their fat paychecks, limited viability, or in the cases of Meyer and respected Warner Bros. studio head Kevin Tsujihara, the lure of the same femme fatale.

Dallying with Charlotte Kirk cost both 25-year studio executives their jobs, after each admitted to having consensual affairs with the British actress, who was trying to leverage a Hollywood career. Like WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey before him,...

On August 18, Ron Meyer was forced to resign his chairmanship at Universal Studios in the face of a sexual liaison come to light. As a longtime executive admitting that he paid off a mistress in order to prevent his company from facing embarrassment, it’s hard to imagine who would call him a victim of cancel culture. However unwittingly, he is part of a cultural revolution in Hollywood, one that is seeing the new Hollywood order push aside the old. Expect more veterans to be put out to pasture, victims of their fat paychecks, limited viability, or in the cases of Meyer and respected Warner Bros. studio head Kevin Tsujihara, the lure of the same femme fatale.

Dallying with Charlotte Kirk cost both 25-year studio executives their jobs, after each admitted to having consensual affairs with the British actress, who was trying to leverage a Hollywood career. Like WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey before him,...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it, anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” These were the words spoken by Richard Harris at his most regal in Gladiator, adding some blockbuster poeticism to the democratic ideals of the Roman republic—a dream lost long before Gladiator begins. But he could just as easily be speaking about the beauty and grandeur of the historical epics which inspired Gladiator .

Decades before Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott reawakened that whisper to a mighty roar, historical war epics, from swords and sandals beefcake cinema to Napoleonic and Revolutionary melodramas, were the order of the day in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas’ Spartacus and Charlton Heston’s Ben-Hur were the superheroes of the early ‘60s, before the genre’s popularity receded to camp TV miniseries ignominy. Then came Gladiator (and to a lesser extent Braveheart five years earlier), and...

Iron Man and Black Widow may have met their demise, and Captain America chose to retire from the superhero life to grow old with Peggy Carter, but there are still more than enough Avengers left on the table for the next time Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are forced to assemble.

The climactic battle in Avengers: Endgame just went to show the depth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s roster, and that’s without even considering the huge number of new characters that are set to debut throughout Phase Four and beyond. The old guard might be on the way out, with replacements for the Hulk, Hawkeye and Thor already waiting in the wings, but all signs point to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man stepping up to fulfill the potential that his mentor Tony Stark obviously saw in the youngster.

Of course, he’s going to have to clear his name first,...

‘Metro Sexual’.

Humdrum Comedy’s Lgbtiq mockumentary series Metro Sexual has sold to US streaming service Crackle and Canada’s OUTtv, to premiere September 1.

The 8 x 10-minute sitcom, which originally aired locally on 9Go! and 9Now, follows the lives of doctors Stephanie Huddleston (Geraldine Hickey) and Langdon Marsh (Riley Nottingham), who work at Metropolitan Sexual Health and whose different approaches to patient care mean they’re always butting heads.

Faced with government cuts to their clinic, the duo must put aside their differences and do whatever it takes to get more patients through door, facing a crabs out break in a retirement village, a Bikie gang leader who needs his prostate checked and more.

Metro Sexual was co-created, written and directed by Henry Boffin and co-created, written and edited by Nicholas Kraak, both partners in Humdrum Comedy with co-creator and star Nottingham.

It is the largest series so far for the Brisbane and Melbourne-based company,...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and In Good Company Films are developing the utopian series “Island,” based on Aldous Huxley’s novel “Island.”

Huxley’s final book, published in 1962, follows a cynical journalist shipwrecked on the fictional utopian island of Pala in the Indian Ocean. Originally tasked with exploiting Pala’s natural resources, he uncovers an independently developed society and embraces the people, their culture and traditions — including psychedelic adventures and alternative social structures. His experience alters the course of his mission.

Huxlery wrote “Island” as the utopian counterpoint to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel, “Brave New World.” “Island” explores the themes of freedom and the power of human potential. Huxley died of cancer in 1963.

Davisson and DiCaprio will executive produce for Appian Way along with George DiCaprio and Roee Sharon. Andrew Alter and Jason Whitmore will executive produce for Igc Films.

Appian Way launched in 2004 as a...

Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving starlet of Hollywood’s Golden Age and leader of a studio rebellion to end stars’ crippling contracts, had a legendary career. Here are a few of her most memorable performances.

De Havilland, the last surviving starlet of Hollywood’s Golden Age, appeared in a 1935 Hollywood Bowl production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” led to a Warner Bros. contract she later fought to escape. Her lawsuit led to “De Havilland’s Law,” which limits such contracts to seven years.

She was paired eight times with Errol Flynn, who often played a thief, pirate, or thieving pirate trying to steal her heart. Their most famous film was 1938’s “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”

De Havilland played Scarlett O’Hara’s frenemy Melanie, who is, let’s be honest, more sympathetic than Scarlett, in “Gone With the Wind,” the top-grossing film ever, adjusted for inflation.

She appeared in...

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

The Beguiled (1971)

Tenet (2021? Maybe?)

Smokey Is The Bandit (1983)

Robin Hood (2010)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Devils (1971)

Song of the South (1946)

Gremlins (1984)

Dillinger (1973)

Marcello I’m So Bored (1966)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Big Wednesday (1978)

Swamp Thing (1982)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Payback (1999)

Bell, Book And Candle (1958)

Blowup (1966)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Medium Cool (1969)

25th Hour (2002)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Palm Springs (2020)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Mandy (2018)

The Sadist (1963)

Spider Baby (1968)

Night Tide (1960)

Stark Fear

Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Devil’s Messenger (1961)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Léolo (1992)

The Howling (1981)

Showgirls (1995)

Green Book (2018)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

The Best Man (1964)

Advise and Consent (1962)

The Candidate (1972)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Seven Days In May (1964)

The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)

The Man (1972)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Four Lions (2010)

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Nightmare In The Sun (1965)

The Wild Angels (1966)

The Omega Man (1971)

The Nanny (1965)

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man...

With Netflix’s lease expiring on the characters, Marvel is gearing up to reintroduce the Defenders into the McU. As has been much speculated, Charlie Cox is believed to be returning as Daredevil, following overwhelming fan demand. It’s very possible that Jon Bernthal could come back, too, as the Punisher, something the actor has said he’d be open to. But what about Jessica Jones, played by Krysten Ritter to much acclaim?

Previously, we had heard that Marvel wanted Ritter to return alongside Cox and Bernthal for future projects. That still seems to be the case, but according to our sources – the same ones who told us a She-Hulk show is coming to Disney Plus and Disney is developing live-action remakes of Bambi and Robin Hood – the situation is looking a lot less encouraging now. And that’s because it seems that the actress doesn’t want to play the heroine anymore.

As every webhead knows, Peter Parker has two major love interests – Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy – and you can’t really have the hero without the two most important ladies in his life. Right now, the McU is exploring a romance between Tom Holland’s Parker and Zendaya’s M.J., but eventually it seems fair to assume Gwen will enter the fray, too. And here’s who Marvel and Sony might be eyeing up to take the role in future Spider-Man movies.

According to sources close to Wgtc – the same ones who told us Disney is developing a live-action Robin Hood remake and a She-Hulk show is coming to D+, both of which were correct – Gwen will likely make her debut in Spider-Man 4. And, even though that’s still a while away, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actress Kiernan Shipka is already their top choice for the role.

Netflix’s “Project Power” has been in the works years, but the wait for the action movie’s release is almost over. The streaming service is releasing the movie on its platform August 14 and has unveiled the trailer for the sci-fi action thriller. “Project Power” takes place in a world where a special drug empowers humans with random superhuman abilities for five minutes. A father (Jamie Foxx) must rescue his daughter (Dominique Fishback) from the drug’s villainous manufacturers while working alongside unexpected allies. The film also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays a police detective who gets involved in Foxx’s character’s quest, Machine Gun Kelly, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker, and Allen Maldonado.

While “Project Power” features a drug that grants humans superpowers, the wild first trailer below suggests the film isn’t shaping up to be your everyday summer superhero flick. “Project Power” marks a major step forward...

As the old saying goes, nobody ever really stays dead in comic books or comic book movies apart from Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben and Batman’s parents, so despite being killed at both the start and end of Avengers: Endgame, speculation has persisted about a potential return to the screen for Thanos.

The Mad Titan loomed large for years as the Infinity Saga’s end-of-level boss, and justified his status as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s greatest threat by wiping out half of all life in existence. You’d think that Thanos’ arc had been wrapped up pretty definitively, but there’ve nonetheless been constant rumors about Josh Brolin once again donning the mo-cap suit.

Given his ties to the title characters, a cameo in The Eternals can’t definitively be ruled out, while a prequel series on Disney Plus has also been mentioned as a possibility, along with flashbacks...

To mark the release of The Luminaries on 20th July, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on DVD.

1865, New Zealand: welcome to the Gold Rush. Fresh-faced young woman Anna Wetherell sets out for a new life, and has a romantic encounter with fellow passenger Emery Staines on the voyage to New Zealand. But fate has other plans for them…and so does scheming fortune-teller Lydia, who takes Anna under her wing; while naive Emery falls in with ex-convict Francis Carver.

Nine months later, the cruel George Shepard is investigating the murder of the mysterious Crosbie Wells…and Anna is the prime suspect. With help from vengeance-seeking opium war veteran Sook Yongsheng and Maori greenstone-hunter Te Rau Tauwhare, will the truth out?

As the lovers try to find their way back to each other, they are confronted with magic and murder, romance and revenge, all fuelled by the gold-lust...

Going from “Bob’s Burgers” to “Central Park” was a great fit for Loren Bouchard. Drawn to both family stories and songs, it became a natural progression to embrace a Broadway-style animated musical, with co-creator Josh Gad, devoted to the community within Manhattan’s beloved park. The Apple TV+ series thus contains a sense of spectacle and diversity that work well in animation.

“A musical felt like a natural next step for us, and I’m an old fart so talking about trees and flowers and public space also appealed,” Bouchard said. “The epic scope of it sort of emerged and evolved as we were working on it. We like telling stories about underdogs who find themselves in a position to save their world. But with Central Park, that world is pretty big — so the scale keeps creeping up.”

Gad serves as the amiable but unreliable narrator Birdie, a busker who...

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‘Think of the sky like a looking glass, what you see is who you are.’

If the sight of Eva Green dressed in witchy velvet and hosting a 19th century séance doesn’t prompt an instant ‘oh yes’ from the depths of your heart, then back to your Top Gears and your Linekers Gary, go.

Everybody else, settle down for The Luminaries, a new six-part adventure-romance arriving on BBC One on Sunday the 21st of June. After episode two airs the next day on Monday the 22nd at the same time, the hour-long instalments will come out weekly in the Sunday night slot.

If you prefer to binge though, the whole lot will also be available to stream on BBC iPlayer after the first ep.

The Luminaries stars Eve Hewson and Himesh Patel as Anna and Emery, two young emigrants seeking their fortune in the 1866 New Zealand Gold Rush. When...

Netflix officially closed their deal to acquire the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard and will team with the venue’s nonprofit American Cinematheque. Deadline first broke the news last August of the streamer’s interest in the Sid Grauman built venue.

The American Cinematheque organization, established in 1984 will remain a non-profit, with the organization’s curation team intact, and along with Netflix will continue to expand the cinema’s movie and event programming. Netflix will invest in the theatre’s renovation and will use the revitalized space for special events, screenings and premieres during the week. The Cinematheque will continue to program and operate a second historic theater, the Aero in Santa Monica.

“The Egyptian Theatre is an incredible part of Hollywood history and has been treasured by the Los Angeles film community for nearly a century,” said Scott Stuber, head of Netflix Films. “We’re honored to partner with...

Netflix and the American Cinematheque are partnering on a deal to invest in the restoration of the historic, century-old Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, the two groups announced Friday.

TheWrap reported in April 2019 that Netflix was in early talks to buy the Egyptian Theatre from American Cinematheque, and the deal has now closed, though it was reported at the time the deal is part of an effort to restore the cinema and not expand to brick and mortar theater operations.

Netflix will invest in the theater’s renovation and will use the space for events, screenings and premieres during the week, while the non-profit film organization American Cinematheque will continue to curate its movie program on the weekends. The announcement says that the partnership will allow American Cinematheque to expand the scope of its event programming, festivals and educational outreach.

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Netflix has finalized a deal to buy Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre for an undisclosed price, closing a transaction that had been in the works for more than a year.

The acquisition represents a major milestone in Netflix’s effort to become part of the Hollywood filmmaking community. Major cinema chains like AMC and Regal had been reluctant to play films from the streaming service, since Netflix wouldn’t adhere to the same exclusive windows, usually consisting of 90 days, that other studios abide by. Now, Netflix has a venue to showcase its own content.

The streaming giant announced Friday that the Egyptian will remain the home of the American Cinematheque and the organization’s curation team will continue to autonomously program content over the weekend. Netflix said it invest in the theatre’s renovation and will use the facility for special events, screenings and premieres during the week.

“The Egyptian...

Scores of Marvel fans were hoping they hadn’t seen the last of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher following his outings in the comic book giant’s Netflix shows and thankfully, based on recent reports, it seems that it’s a case of when, rather than if, he’ll return to the role. In fact, we’ve just gotten wind of where he might show up next.

According to our sources – the same ones who told us that Disney were developing live-action remakes of their animated classics Bambi and Robin Hood well before either was officially announced, and that a She-Hulk show is in the works for Disney Plus – the trigger-happy anti-hero will make his McU debut in the upcoming Moon Knight TV series.

Though it would likely only be a small cameo, this seems like as good a place as any for Frank Castle to join the fray. After all,...

If any other studio had acquired the rights to a franchise that had earned over $1.5 billion at the box office, then they’d be desperate to get it rebooted and back onto our screens as soon as possible. However, it isn’t quite that simple when it comes to Deadpool joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

For one thing, there are plenty of questions surrounding just how Marvel are planning on introducing a character well known for his self-awareness and fourth wall-breaking humor into a franchise that has a well-established and defined mythology and set of narrative rules that have been painstakingly constructed over more than a decade, as well as the obvious R-rated elephant in the room.

We recently learned that the current plan is for the title hero to be the only person aware that he’s part of a reboot under a different studio, which is a very much in-character development,...