Finally, the first trailer of one of the most anticipated movies of this year, Rebel Moon, has been released online and has managed to capture the attention of viewers worldwide in a short span of time. Over the years, director Zack Snyder has amassed a cult following, especially after his rocky tenure in the director’s chair at Dceu, and it would be an understatement to say that his fans were waiting with bated breath to get a first look at his upcoming space epic. And if the trailer is any proof, Zack is going all out to challenge biggies like Star Wars and Dune, among others. The movie is going to be released in two parts, the first of which, Rebel Moon: Part One: A Child of Fire, is going to be released later this year.
Rebel Moon is important for Snyder’s filmography for a couple of reasons.
Rebel Moon is important for Snyder’s filmography for a couple of reasons.
- 8/24/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Keanu Reeves has been lighting up movie screens for nearly 40 years. From his breakthrough in “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” to his blockbuster action flicks like “The Matrix,” “Speed,” “Point Break,” and “John Wick,” his career has been as unpredictable as it is entertaining. Whether you want to fire up an old favorite or discover a new-to-you Keanu flick, we’ve collected all his films and where to stream them.
John Wick: Chapter 4 March 22, 2023
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
DC League of Super-Pets July 27, 2022
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound,...
John Wick: Chapter 4 March 22, 2023
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
DC League of Super-Pets July 27, 2022
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Ben Bowman
- The Streamable
Keanu Reeves hid a spinal injury so he could star in 'The Matrix'.The 58-year-old actor accepted the role of Thomas Anderson/Neo in the 1999 sci-fi action film and recalled how he had to keep the problem secret through four months of training so he didn't lose the part.Speaking on The Art of Action podcast, Keanu said: "I met with the Wachowskis and I loved the script, and they showed me pre-vis for bullet time which was extraordinary, and one of the things they talked about in the meeting was training in Hong Kong-style martial arts and asked if I was okay with that, and that it was over four months and I was like, 'Yeah, that sounds okay.'"The only problem – I was dealing with a neck issue which was getting worse, I'd spent a couple of years fighting it off, I was getting tingling."I had...
- 4/24/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
There are near-countless stories of actors passing on roles that ended up looking like extremely poor decisions in hindsight. Rather famously, Will Smith passed on starring as Neo in "The Matrix," for example. Nicolas Cage also could have starred in "The Lord of the Rings." But Rachel McAdams, the star of "Mean Girls" and "Spotlight," among many other things, has entered the all-time pantheon of actors who passed on big roles. She passed on not one - but five huge movies in a row. Between 2006 and 2008, McAdams passed on "The Devil Wears Prada," "Casino Royale," "Mission: Impossible III," "Iron Man," and "Get Smart."
The impressive streak of turning down eventual hit films was revealed in a profile of the actress by Bustle in anticipation of her new movie, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." It's explained that McAdams took a break from 2006 to 2008 and moved back to Canada, after...
The impressive streak of turning down eventual hit films was revealed in a profile of the actress by Bustle in anticipation of her new movie, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." It's explained that McAdams took a break from 2006 to 2008 and moved back to Canada, after...
- 4/19/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Rachel McAdams turned down a string of huge movies – and we should all be thankful | Stuart Heritage
McAdams nixed the likes of Mission Impossible, Casino Royale and The Devil Wears Prada – but there’d be no Game Night if things had gone differently
Hollywood etiquette dictates that when a Hollywood star passes on a role, they don’t talk about it. To do so wouldn’t be fair on the actor who eventually took the role, since this would doom them to an indefinite future of potentially invidious comparisons.
There are exceptions, of course. Matt Damon tells a nice story about how he didn’t want to star in Avatar, largely out of faux bitterness at the payday he missed out on. Brad Pitt, too, will admit that he turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix, but this is famously the only instance he’ll name. The other exception, of course, is Rachel McAdams. This is because Rachel McAdams will happily tell everyone all about...
Hollywood etiquette dictates that when a Hollywood star passes on a role, they don’t talk about it. To do so wouldn’t be fair on the actor who eventually took the role, since this would doom them to an indefinite future of potentially invidious comparisons.
There are exceptions, of course. Matt Damon tells a nice story about how he didn’t want to star in Avatar, largely out of faux bitterness at the payday he missed out on. Brad Pitt, too, will admit that he turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix, but this is famously the only instance he’ll name. The other exception, of course, is Rachel McAdams. This is because Rachel McAdams will happily tell everyone all about...
- 4/19/2023
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
There was once a time – many, many moons ago – when Keanu Reeves star, before reinventing what it even meant to be a streamlined, teeth-gritted action star.
Over the last three decades he’s found a way to be both soft and rough, cosmic and earthy. He has the spaced-out aura of The Dude until the very moment a switch flips in his head, and he goes into the I-must-break-you mode which has left piles of bad lads beaten in his wake. He is Ted; he is Neo. He is a doofus; he will kill you using a library book. And tying it all together is the sense that, underneath it all, he very earnestly believes in whatever his characters are doing. Keanu Reeves doesn’t do irony, but he does slowly dawning disbelief like nobody else. His superpower isn't dodging bullets – it's really meaning it. From his action classics, to...
Over the last three decades he’s found a way to be both soft and rough, cosmic and earthy. He has the spaced-out aura of The Dude until the very moment a switch flips in his head, and he goes into the I-must-break-you mode which has left piles of bad lads beaten in his wake. He is Ted; he is Neo. He is a doofus; he will kill you using a library book. And tying it all together is the sense that, underneath it all, he very earnestly believes in whatever his characters are doing. Keanu Reeves doesn’t do irony, but he does slowly dawning disbelief like nobody else. His superpower isn't dodging bullets – it's really meaning it. From his action classics, to...
- 3/28/2023
- by Tom Nicholson, Alex Godfrey
- Empire - Movies
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)
There are few stars who will ever (and I mean ever) know the level of success that Will Smith has in his career. Heck, there are artists who would be thrilled to have had a music career as big as his that led to a sitcom like "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Yet, that was all just a preamble for an even bigger movie career, one the likes of which only a few people have ever seen. You're talking about Tom Cruise levels of superstardom. But no well-paved road is without its speed bumps and, for Smith, that speedbump came in 1999 in the form of his infamous flop, "Wild Wild West." And when it came, it came hard.
The run Smith had...
There are few stars who will ever (and I mean ever) know the level of success that Will Smith has in his career. Heck, there are artists who would be thrilled to have had a music career as big as his that led to a sitcom like "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Yet, that was all just a preamble for an even bigger movie career, one the likes of which only a few people have ever seen. You're talking about Tom Cruise levels of superstardom. But no well-paved road is without its speed bumps and, for Smith, that speedbump came in 1999 in the form of his infamous flop, "Wild Wild West." And when it came, it came hard.
The run Smith had...
- 12/3/2022
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Singapore-based producer and distributor Clover Films is teaming with filmmaker Jack Neo’s J Team Productions to launch a joint venture production company, HiJack Pictures.
The new outfit, which has 50:50 ownership between Clover Films and J Team Productions, aims to produce quality content that appeals to international audiences. Clover Films founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua, along with Neo and Irene Kng for J Team Productions, are directors of the company, which is based in Singapore.
Neo is Singapore’s most bankable filmmaker with credits including a string of hits, such as the Ah Boys To Men franchise, I Not Stupid series and award-winning drama Homerun. His production house J Team creates content for both cinema and television.
Clover Films is one of the region’s best-known distributors, often acquiring films for regional Southeast Asian distribution. The company has handled titles such as Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite,...
The new outfit, which has 50:50 ownership between Clover Films and J Team Productions, aims to produce quality content that appeals to international audiences. Clover Films founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua, along with Neo and Irene Kng for J Team Productions, are directors of the company, which is based in Singapore.
Neo is Singapore’s most bankable filmmaker with credits including a string of hits, such as the Ah Boys To Men franchise, I Not Stupid series and award-winning drama Homerun. His production house J Team creates content for both cinema and television.
Clover Films is one of the region’s best-known distributors, often acquiring films for regional Southeast Asian distribution. The company has handled titles such as Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
New Singapore-based production company HiJack Pictures is being launched by distributor and producer Clover Films and J Team Productions, the company controlled by the country’s most commercially successful filmmaker Jack Neo.
HiJack will be equally owned by the two parties and sets itself the mission to “produce quality content that appeals to the global audience.” The new company’s board directors are Clover Films founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua and J Team’s Neo and Irene Kng.
“We hope to nurture a new generation of Singaporean filmmakers, to produce commercially viable content which also connects with the audience. We hope to work with regional partners in producing a slate of feature content that I will helm or supervise. There is great potential in this collaboration of our two companies and we look forward to making this synergy work,” said Neo. No new titles or business relationships were disclosed.
HiJack will be equally owned by the two parties and sets itself the mission to “produce quality content that appeals to the global audience.” The new company’s board directors are Clover Films founders Lim Teck and Paulyn Chua and J Team’s Neo and Irene Kng.
“We hope to nurture a new generation of Singaporean filmmakers, to produce commercially viable content which also connects with the audience. We hope to work with regional partners in producing a slate of feature content that I will helm or supervise. There is great potential in this collaboration of our two companies and we look forward to making this synergy work,” said Neo. No new titles or business relationships were disclosed.
- 11/22/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Lim Teck and Jack Neo to serve as co-CEOs.
Leading Singapore firms Clover Films and J Team Productions have joined forces to set up new venture HiJack Pictures and produce Chinese-language projects in Singapore and the region.
Lim Teck of distributor Clover Films and director-producer Jack Neo of J Team Productions will serve as co-CEOs of the new 50:50 Singapore-based joint venture, which will produce three to five films a year.
“In combining our expertise in production, marketing and distribution, we are confident that this synergy will create something much greater than the sum of its parts,” said Lim. He...
Leading Singapore firms Clover Films and J Team Productions have joined forces to set up new venture HiJack Pictures and produce Chinese-language projects in Singapore and the region.
Lim Teck of distributor Clover Films and director-producer Jack Neo of J Team Productions will serve as co-CEOs of the new 50:50 Singapore-based joint venture, which will produce three to five films a year.
“In combining our expertise in production, marketing and distribution, we are confident that this synergy will create something much greater than the sum of its parts,” said Lim. He...
- 11/22/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Jack Neo, who is by far Singapore’s most commercially successful filmmaker, has begun production on “King of Musang King,” a comedy that he envisages being ready for release at Chinese New Year in January. The narrative gives prominent position to durians, the smelly Southeast Asian fruit that most people either love or hate.
Neo will co-star, direct and produce through his J Team Productions. The film will be presented by J Team, mm2 Entertainment and Cathay Cineplexes.
The story revolves around a man (played by Mark Lee), his abandoned Malaysian wife (played by Yeo Yann Yann), and childhood friend Mao Shan (played by Jack Neo).
Dumped by the man for a Vietnamese lady, the wife continues to tend to the durian plantation left to her by her late father while she single-handedly raises her three children. The woman wants to pass down the business to her children but there...
Neo will co-star, direct and produce through his J Team Productions. The film will be presented by J Team, mm2 Entertainment and Cathay Cineplexes.
The story revolves around a man (played by Mark Lee), his abandoned Malaysian wife (played by Yeo Yann Yann), and childhood friend Mao Shan (played by Jack Neo).
Dumped by the man for a Vietnamese lady, the wife continues to tend to the durian plantation left to her by her late father while she single-handedly raises her three children. The woman wants to pass down the business to her children but there...
- 9/9/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In “The March on Rome,” which world premieres in the Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival Wednesday, Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins tracks the ascent of fascism in Italy in the 1920s, and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. He also draws a dotted line from those events to the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in January 2021.
The documentary, illustrated with archive footage and Cousins’ characteristic cinematic analysis, starts with Donald Trump defending his decision to retweet a quote from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” Later in the film, Cousins inserts footage of Trump supporters attacking the Capitol, hoping to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The issue of the Mussolini quote made a strong impression on Cousins at the time. “I remember seeing that thing on TV and thinking, ‘Wow, he’s actually not denouncing Mussolini,...
The documentary, illustrated with archive footage and Cousins’ characteristic cinematic analysis, starts with Donald Trump defending his decision to retweet a quote from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” Later in the film, Cousins inserts footage of Trump supporters attacking the Capitol, hoping to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The issue of the Mussolini quote made a strong impression on Cousins at the time. “I remember seeing that thing on TV and thinking, ‘Wow, he’s actually not denouncing Mussolini,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Keanu Reeves is headed to the small screen.
The legendary actor has closed a deal to executive-produce and star in the forthcoming Hulu series Devil in the White City.
Based on the best-selling novel by Erik Larson, Devil in the White City “tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary architect who races to make his mark on history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ built in the Fair’s shadow,” according to the official logline.
Eight episodes of the series have been ordered, with a planned 2024 launch.
News of the casting broke in January, but this is the first time Hulu has confirmed it.
The project brings Sam Shaw (Castle Rock) back to the streamer.
He will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson,...
The legendary actor has closed a deal to executive-produce and star in the forthcoming Hulu series Devil in the White City.
Based on the best-selling novel by Erik Larson, Devil in the White City “tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary architect who races to make his mark on history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ built in the Fair’s shadow,” according to the official logline.
Eight episodes of the series have been ordered, with a planned 2024 launch.
News of the casting broke in January, but this is the first time Hulu has confirmed it.
The project brings Sam Shaw (Castle Rock) back to the streamer.
He will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson,...
- 8/4/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The Sundance Institute announced a new annual scholarship and fellowship program for Asian American filmmakers, in partnership with the Asian American Foundation (Taaf).
Officially titled “Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Collab Scholarship,” the program provides Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) artists with “creative and tactical support to develop their skills and grow professionally” and improve Aapi representation in film and TV.
The new fellowship will annually promote emerging artists in both fiction and nonfiction storytelling with funding provided by Panda Express and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fellowship and Scholarship are made possible by support from Taaf, through a 400,000 grant provided by its Aapi Giving Challenge partner Panda Express, with MacArthur contributing 140,000.
The fellowship will offer six Aapi artists a year-round learning experience to advance their professional development in the arts. Through the fellowship, each artist will receive a 20,000 unrestricted grant to support their individual projects, as...
Officially titled “Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Collab Scholarship,” the program provides Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) artists with “creative and tactical support to develop their skills and grow professionally” and improve Aapi representation in film and TV.
The new fellowship will annually promote emerging artists in both fiction and nonfiction storytelling with funding provided by Panda Express and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fellowship and Scholarship are made possible by support from Taaf, through a 400,000 grant provided by its Aapi Giving Challenge partner Panda Express, with MacArthur contributing 140,000.
The fellowship will offer six Aapi artists a year-round learning experience to advance their professional development in the arts. Through the fellowship, each artist will receive a 20,000 unrestricted grant to support their individual projects, as...
- 8/3/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The term "bullet-time" was first used in the original script for "The Matrix," in the context of the memorable sequence in which bullets glide through the air in slow motion while Neo (Keanu Reeves) bends back and evades them like a boss. The effect is still incredibly cool to see, even after so many years since the film's release in 1999.
The bullet-time effect is usually achieved with the aid of multiple cameras to give the impression of time slowing down or coming to a standstill. Created by John Gaeta and Manex Visual Effects, bullet-time, also known as the Matrix effect, helped...
The post The Matrix's Original Bullet-Time Method Was A Little Too Risky To Work appeared first on /Film.
The bullet-time effect is usually achieved with the aid of multiple cameras to give the impression of time slowing down or coming to a standstill. Created by John Gaeta and Manex Visual Effects, bullet-time, also known as the Matrix effect, helped...
The post The Matrix's Original Bullet-Time Method Was A Little Too Risky To Work appeared first on /Film.
- 7/5/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
"We're all trapped inside these strange, repeating loops..." What if they made a sequel to The Matrix that was actually all about Agent Smith instead of Neo? Would anyone watch it? I bet they would. A Matrix fan created this clever 42-second trailer for a re-imagined sequel called The Matrix: Smith Remembers - which is a pretty good title. By now we all know they "upgraded" Smith in The Matrix Resurrections last year by casting Jonathan Groff instead of Hugo Weaving. This trailer borrows various clips from a few recent films starring Hugo Weaving and uses audio from the Resurrections trailer to create a new concept. I dig it. One comment on Yt pitches a great idea: "the story follows Agent Smith somehow reprogrammed to be a normal civilian in The Matrix as he slowly remembers his past and gets his powers back." Check it out. Welcome back, Mr. Smith.
- 6/17/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Laurence Fishburne-produced and Laura Checkoway-directed documentary, The Cave of Adullam, which premieres tonight at the Tribeca film festival, and repped by CAA Media Finance, ICM Partners and Paradigm–is a love letter to masculine vulnerability. Cave leader Jason Wilson uses a quote from Frederick Douglas for reference, “It’s easier to raise boys than repair broken men.” Through martial arts, meditation, discipline, and emotional expression, he’s helping the young men of Detroit create a new way of living beyond the temptations of crime and gang culture.
His teachings encourage young men to cry, be upset, and be okay with expressing their feelings, which forgoes the idea that Black men must bottle up their feelings because it’s not what men do. The film follows four young men as Wilson reprograms their understanding of masculinity and gives them problem-solving tools to break the generational trauma of manhood.
His teachings encourage young men to cry, be upset, and be okay with expressing their feelings, which forgoes the idea that Black men must bottle up their feelings because it’s not what men do. The film follows four young men as Wilson reprograms their understanding of masculinity and gives them problem-solving tools to break the generational trauma of manhood.
- 6/13/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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