By Back in June last year, shortly after delays due to a malfunctioning $25 million submarine, came word that Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” film was hitting a budget blowout. A nine-month delay due to the strikes and other delays had ballooned the eighth M:I film’s expenses with
Nick Frost Up For Hagrid In HBO’s “Harry Potter”
British actor and comedian Nick Frost (“Hot Fuzz,” “Into the Badlands”) is reportedly close to a deal to play Hogwarts groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the upcoming “Harry Potter” TV series for HBO. Should the deal be closed, he would join John Lithgow as Professor Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Professor
The Woman in the Yard: Inside a Blumhouse Ghost Story Shattering Every Stereotype
It’s broad daylight. A towering woman dressed in all black, her face covered in an ominous black veil, stands in the yard of a farmhouse. Acres upon acres of land sit empty in the distance. This is the first clip we are shown on the studio’s monitors of Blumhouse Productions’
A Closer Look At The “Snow White” Disaster
A new feature piece over at Variety has gone into the public relations mess surrounding Disney’s live-action “Snow White” which opened to a disastrous $43 million domestically and $87 million worldwide this past weekend. As the trade effectively puts it, the film debuted to $34 million less than “Joker: Folie
Denzel-Led “Othello” May Get A Film
A new stage adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello” has just hit Broadway, the production sporting Denzel Washington in the title role and Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, and has already broken records. The Kenny Leon-directed title quickly scored the highest weekly gross ever for a Broadway play, taking in $2.8 million across