‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Director Kimberly Peirce To Remake Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ Kimberly Peircehas been hired to direct a remakeStephen King’sCarrie. Peirce made her name with the 1999 indie filmBoys Don’t Crywhich featured an Oscar-winning performance fromHilary Swank. Peirce was voted one of Hollywood’s upcoming best new talents, but the filmmaker has yet to deliver a worthy follow-up, helming the 2008 war filmStop-Lossand an episode ofThe L Word. This summer, MGM and Screen Gemsannouncedthat they hiredRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa, a playwright whowas recently brought ontothe troubled Broadway productionSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, to pen the new script based on King’s first published work....

‘Hard Kill’ Trailer: Bruce Willis Is A Billionaire In An Action B-Movie It’s a natural result of the pandemic that movie lovers are starved for content, leading studios to dig deep into their coffers to finally release on VOD the star-studded B-movies they’ve been hiding away. Maybe that’s why we’ve seen the release of movies likeMoney Planestarring Kelsey Grammar or the latestBruce Willisaction flick,Hard Kill. Watch theHard Killtrailer below. Hard Kill Trailer Hard Killfollows Willis' tech billionaire Donovan Chalmers, who hires a team of mercenaries to protect a dangerous piece of technology, or something....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Box Office Lands The Fourth Biggest Weekend Of The Year Jurassic Worldraked in a huge $208 million in the summer of 2015, landing one of the best opening weekends of all time (the only non-Disney distributed title in the top 10). That meansJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomhad a lot to live up to. But the sequel had a satisfying debut with the fourth biggest opening weekend of the year, and Universal’s second biggest debut ever, coming in behind onlyJurassic World....

‘Luke Cage’ Trailer: The Hero Of Harlem Meets One Of His Own Heroes Here’s hoping you had the foresight to clear your calendar for this weekend, because in case you’ve forgotten, we’re just a few days away from the highly anticipated premiere ofLuke Cage. And if you really did forget, Netflix has one moreLuke Cagetrailer here today to remind you. Following the events ofJessica Jones, Luke heads uptown to hide out in Harlem… only to find himself battling a whole new bunch of baddies, like crime boss Cornell Stokes (Mahershala Ali) and politician Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard)....

‘Mister Rogers’ Google Doodle Invites You To Be Its Neighbor We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Happy Friday everyone, are you ready to cry? Because the latest Google Doodle paying tribute to the belovedFred RogersofMister Rogers' Neighborhoodwill do its darnedest to make you sob sweet, nostalgic tears. A Mister Rogers Google Doodle has been released to celebrateMister Rogers' Neighborhood’s 51st anniversary, right on the heels of the moving documentaryWon’t You Be My Neighbor?...

‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Gal Gadot And Kumail Nanjiani As October Hosts The end of this month will bring the 43rd season premiere ofSaturday Night Live, fresh off winning several Emmys recently, including Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. They’ve got a lot to live up to after last season really brought out the best in the writers room and the cast, and it sounds like they’ll be starting things off on the right foot with a great batch of hosts to start things off....

‘Slender Man’ Trailer: The Internet Myth Comes To Life Slender Man, the creepy, well-dressed supernatural creature who originated as a creepypasta meme, has taken on a life of his own since his original 2009 incarnation. The character has found its way into the public consciousness, and even inspired a real-life attempted murder. Now the murderous ghoul is getting his own movie,Slender Man,and the firstSlender Mantrailer has arrived to give everyone the creeps....

‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Didn’t Take A ‘Deadpool 2’ Meeting For A Very Good Reason This weekend, you can catchThe Death of Dick Long, a dark comedy with some oddball charm directed byDaniel Scheinert. The filmmaker is best known for working with fellow directorDan Kwanas a duo known asDANIELS. And here’s a piece of trivia: instead of continuing to give us more wholly original and peculiar movies after their 2016 breakout filmSwiss Army Man, the duo had an opportunity to meet with producers that could have led to them directingDeadpool 2....

‘The Big Sick’ Writers Kumail Nanjiani And Emily V. Gordon On Making A Universal Romantic Comedy [Interview] The Big Sickis one of the best movies you’ll see in 2017 and one of the most refreshing, romantic, and emotionally brutal romantic comedies…of all time? That sounds like hyperbole, but in the weeks since Inamed it my favorite movie of SXSW 2017, it feels more and more true. DirectorMichael Showalterand Amazon Studios, who acquired the film after its Sundance debut, have a gem on their hands....

‘The Conjuring 2’ Trailer: England’s Amityville Still Haunts Ed & Lorraine Warren After delivering a dose of horror for the summer back in 2013 withThe Conjuring, directorJames Wanis back with the sequel, and if the new trailer is any indicator, this looks like one of the most intense hauntings that the genre has ever seen. Patrick WilsonandVera Farmigaare back as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, and this time they’re going across the pond to check out what many have referred to as England’s Amityville, where a single mother and her children are being terrified over and over again by dark forces....

‘Together Together’ Review: A Sweet, If Inconsequential, Comedy [Sundance 2021] Together Togetheris a love story – kind of. This is not the typical romantic love story that Hollywood usually pumps out; it’s a story about platonic love. About finding a connection with another human being that isn’t based on seduction or romance. And that’s refreshing! More stories like this from the movies would be welcomed. Unfortunately, the film that’s built around that platonic love story is lacking, resulting in a film that’s sweet and kind but also kind of forgettable....

‘Transparent’ Finale Trailer: Amazon’s Flagship Series Comes To A Musical End We’ve known for over a year that the fifth season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning seriesTransparentwould be its last, but now we finally have a first look atJill Soloway’s musical finale, which killsJeffrey Tambor’s transgender character and family matriarch Maura Pfefferman off screen and follows the Pfeffermans as they grapple with that loss.Transparentwas Amazon’s first show to win an Emmy, and the first ever streaming show to win a Golden Globe for Best Series, so this conclusion feels like it marks the end of an era....

‘Tyrel’ Review: Jason Mitchell Headlines This Uneasy And Uneven Racial Drama [Sundance] As a flurry of white snowflakes fall on a pitch-black sky, the word TYREL is superimposed over them in bold black font. It’s writer/directorSebastian Silva’s first attempt of many to underline the differences between this film’s black protagonist, played byJason Mitchell(Mudbound, Straight Outta Compton), and the group of all-white bros he’s staying with during a weekend trip to the Catskills to celebrate one of their birthdays....