Today, Marvel released its special edition of THE PULL LIST, unveiling exclusive information for titles coming to comic shops this December.
Presented by hosts Ryan “Agent M” Penagos and Tucker Markus, THE PULL LIST sheds light on some of the most highly-anticipated Marvel comics news, sharing details on Incoming #1, an sprawling one-shot that will shape the Marvel Universe for the year to come, and Guardians of the Galaxy #12, the exciting conclusion to Donny Cate’s legendary cosmic run, as well as first looks at new series Dr. Strange #1, Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider #1, Marvel’s Avengers: Iron Man #1, and Spider-Ham #1.
A24 has released the first full-length trailer for “Waves,” the upcoming critically acclaimed ensemble drama headed by This Is Us actor, Sterling K. Brown.
“Lord knows I’ve held on to way too much hate in my life,” Brown’s Ronald says in the trailer. “But all we have is love. All we have is now.”
The beautifully shot trailer prominently features Frank Ocean’s 2016 cut “Godspeed.” From writer-director Trey Edward Shults (“It Comes At Night”), the film has garnered rave reviews at the Telluride Film Festival when it premiered during Labor Day Weekend.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails scored the film. Having won Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network, the two has certainly built an eclectic body of work in similarly impressive wide-ranging types of films including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Gone Girl (2014).
In addition to Brown, the film features Alexa Demie, Taylor Russell, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Lucas Hedges. The film will next screen at Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its release on November 1, 2019 by A24.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family—led by a well-intentioned but domineering father—as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. From acclaimed director Trey Edward Shults, Waves is a heartrending story about the universal capacity for compassion and growth even in the darkest of times.
Warner Bros.’s upcoming psychological thriller kicks off the award season on Saturday, winning the 76th Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion jury award, the festival’s highest prize.
Centered on the titular DC Comics villain, “Joker,” was received ecstatically during its premiere at the festival, with many praising Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of the iconic character.
“There is no movie without Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin is the fiercest and bravest and most open-minded lion I know. Thank you for trusting me with your insane talent,” director Todd Phillips said about the film’s lead.
The win is considering somewhat a surprise, and the award is rarely bestowed upon a big Hollywood production. Recent Golden Lion recipients include Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.”
See partial list of winners below. For the full list of winners, go to www.labiennale.org.
Venice 76 Awards
Golden Lion: Joker, directed by Todd Phillips
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: An Officer and a Spy, directed by Roman Polanski
Silver Lion Best Director: Roy Andersson, About Endlessness
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride in Gloria Mundi
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli in Martin Eden
Best Screenplay Award: No. 7 Cherry Lane, written and directed by Yonfan
Special Jury Prize: The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be, directed by Franco Maresco
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Young Actor: Toby Wallace in Babyteeth, directed by Shannon Murphy
Bishop Gunn, Blackberry Smoke, Dirty Honey, Shooter Jennings, And Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown To Appear On Upcoming U.S. Dates
Today internationally revered rock band Guns N’ Roses announced the special guests appearing on their enduring and monumental Not In This Lifetime Tour, revving back up on September 25th. Bishop Gunn, Blackberry Smoke, Dirty Honey, Shooter Jennings, and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown will open for GNR on select dates throughout the fall run.
The legendary group returns to the U.S. later this month – their first time touring the United States in 2019. This includes two nights at Las Vegas’ legendary Colosseum at Caesars Palace, their most intimate venue since the 2017 performance at The Apollo Theater. GNR will also make highly anticipated stops at major festivals, along with two goliath Mexico dates at stadiums in Guadalajara and Tijuana. Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com.
In conjunction with the announcement, GNR has released a video featuring Not In This Lifetime special guests alongside some of the incredible names appearing prior to GNR on their festival dates including Ice Cube, The Raconteurs, Deftones, and Brandi Carlile. The band will play at Louder Than Life Festival, Austin City Limits, Exit 111 Festival, and Voodoo Festival.
The Saturn Awards organization today announced exciting new show elements as well as who is expected to appear at the 45th annual celebration taking place on Friday, the 13th of September (6pm PT / 9pm ET).
The show will feature appearances from beloved film and television performers and story tellers including: Melissa Benoist (Supergirl), Gina Carano (The Mandalorian), Jon Cryer (Supergirl), Cameron Cuffe (Krypton), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Dean Devlin (Outpost), The Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), Jon Favreau (Visionary Award recipient), Kevin Feige (Stan Lee World Builder Award recipient), Robert Forster (Twin Peaks, Jackie Brown), Vince Gilligan (Better Call Saul), Jessica Green (The Outpost), Harvey Guillen (What We Do in the Shadows), Faithe Herman (Shazam), Sydney Lemmon (Fear the Walking Dead), Jeph Loeb (Dan Curtis Legacy Award Recipient), Christopher Markus (Avengers: Endgame), Stephen McFeely (Avengers: Endgame), Tonya Pinkins (Fear the Walking Dead), Lance Reddick (Bosch, John Wick), Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Reboot), George Takei (Star Trek), Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House), Jennifer Tilly (Bound, Bride of Chucky), Gina Torres (Pearson, Firefly), and Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs), The show will also feature holographic appearances by some of the biggest virtual YouTubers and digital performers in Japan, including Kizuna AI (2.68M YT Subscribers) and Kaguya Luna (996K YT Subscribers).
Tune in September 13th at 6PM PT/9PM ET to the #SaturnAwards for @LindseyStirling's once in a lifetime performance. Also we're confirming 2019 attendee names. Tell us below, are your favorite stars coming to our 45th show?!:
The show format reboot is built specifically for the social media age with a number of unique interactive presentations and fandom firsts including: live “Fantasy Fight” panels where creators and stars argue who would win in mythic mash ups (such as Star Wars vs. Star Trek), fan influencers participating in the award presentation, a once in a lifetime performance from acclaimed musician Lindsey Stirling (11MM YouTube subscribers) and fan social media competitions to win two Lindsey signed violins live. Continue reading →
Amazon Prime Video today announced that the second season of the fan-favorite, action-thriller Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski (A Quiet Place), will premiere globally on Friday, November 1, 2019. In addition to the series’ launch date, the official trailer and key art was also released today.
In the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, after tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle, CIA Officer Jack Ryan, portrayed by Krasinski, heads down to South America to investigate. As Jack’s investigation threatens to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy, the President of Venezuela launches a counter-attack that hits home for Jack, leading him and his fellow operatives on a global mission spanning the United States, UK, Russia, and Venezuela to unravel the President’s nefarious plot and bring stability to a country on the brink of chaos.
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is co-produced by Amazon Studios, Paramount Television and Skydance Television and will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. In addition to Krasinski, the second season of the dramatic series also stars Wendell Pierce (The Wire) as James Greer, Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) as Harriet ‘Harry’ Baumann and Michael Kelly (House of Cards) as Mike November.
The official Season Two trailer will also be shown during tonight’s NFL Season Opener on NBC, marking the first time Prime Video will be running a full-length trailer on broadcast television. Additionally, travelers flying into LAX Airport this month will be greeted to “Jack is Back,” a 50,000 square foot rooftop billboard marking the largest rooftop advertising placement of all time. The rooftop billboard will be illuminated, allowing travelers to view the signage any hour of the day or night.
The series is executive produced by Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Michael Bay, Krasinski and Allyson Seeger, along with Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, who created the series for television. Additionally, Andrew Bernstein, Vince Calandra, David Graziano, Tom Clancy, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Mace Neufeld, Lindsey Springer, Dennie Gordon and Phil Abraham also executive produce the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.
E! People’s Choice Awards has announced its 2019 nominees on Wednesday, with some of the biggest films and popular artists making the cut.
The awards show will honor fan favorites in film, television, animation and music in 43 categories. Fans will be able to vote for up to 25 times per day, per category, per method. The awards are set to be handed out on Nov. 10.
Among those nominated in the main categories are Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Riverdale’ and ‘This Is Us’.
The movie of 2019 category includes some of the year’s biggest hits including Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum among others.
Recording artists Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus scored a nod for Song of 2019 for or their collaboration on a smash hit remix of “Old Town Road,” a fitting nomination given how the song shattered records this summer, eventually becoming the longest-running number one song on Billboard Hot 100 charts.
See the list he nominations below.
Male artist of 2019
Bad Bunny
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Khalid
Lil Nas X
Post Malone
Shawn Mendes
Travis Scott
Female artist of 2019
Ariana Grande
Billie Eilish
Cardi B
Camila Cabello
Halsey
Miley Cyrus
P!nk
Taylor Swift Continue reading →
“10/20. Tick Tock.” HBO has set the premiere date for “Watchmen,” the upcoming superhero drama adaptation created and developed by Damon Lindelof.
Watchmen is set to premiere on Oct. 20, Sunday, at 9 p.m. And then a week later, this will be followed at 10 p.m. by “Silicon Valley” which is returning for its sixth and final season.
Based on the DC Comics limited series of the same name created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, HBO describes it as being set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, and that it will embrace the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Last May, Lindelof stated via a five-page letter posted on twitter that his version will not be a straight adaptation of the comic books.
“We have no desire to ‘adapt’ the twelve issues [Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons] created thirty years ago,” Lindelof writes. “Those issues are sacred ground and they will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted…they will, however, be remixed. Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them.”
In 2009, Zack Snyder (Man of Steel) adapted Watchmen a live-action film.
Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival has announced its slate of films, and it features some of the most Oscar-buzzed films of the year and Hollywood’s biggest names.
The event will see the premiere of Rupert Goold’s Judy, the biographical film about singer and actress Judy Garland starring Renée Zellweger. The actress is also set to accept the Silver Medallion award for significant contribution to the world of cinema, along with actor Adam Driver and filmmaker Philip Kaufman.
Speaking of Driver, the actor is set to receive double billing this year, appearing in the docudrama The Report, written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story co-starring Scarlett Johansson.
Among those also premiering will be Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts, with Felicity Jones Eddie Redmayne re-teaming for the biographical adventure, Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Kitty Green’s The Assistant, and James Mangold’s Ford V Ferrari starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
Telluride Film Festival officially kicks off on Friday Aug. 30 and ends Monday Sept. 2.
See the full list of the festival’s feature films below:
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, U.S.-Germany, 2019)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2019)
Coup 53 (Taghi Amirani, U.K., 2019)
Diego Maradona (Asif Kapadia, U.K., 2019)
Judy (Rupert Goold, U.K.-U.S, 2019)
Family Romance (Werner Herzog, U.S.-Japan, 2019)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, U.S., 2019)
Ford v. Ferrari (James Mangold, U.S., 2019)
The Kingmaker (Lauren Greenfield, U.S., 2019)
Lyrebird (Dan Friedkin, U.S., 2019)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, U.S., 2019)
Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, U.S., 2019) Continue reading →
The final trailer for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker has just arrived, ahead of the highly-anticipated film’s premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival later this weekend.
The trailer is dark and bleak, showing the character’s slow descent into madness. Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) lives a lonely life and tends to his ailing mother. He just wants to make people laugh as a stand-up comedian, but he can’t seem to catch a break. “Can you please stop bothering my kid?,” says the mother of a child he was trying to entertain.
We also see late night variety show host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) mocking him. But he may have something in store for everyone. When Fleck appears on his show he said: “Can you introduce me as Joker?”, widely smiling and wearing a clown makeup as he heads onstage.
Joker is one of the most iconic in comicbook history, has been played by numerous celebrated actors on the big screen, from Jack Nicholson in Batman (1989), Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008), and most recently Jared Leto in the supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad (2016).
Director Todd Phillips is best known for writing and directing The Hangover Trilogy and Borat, for which he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Also in the film are Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Shea Whigham, Brett Cullen, Douglas Hodge and Josh Pais.
Joker is set to invade theaters on October 4, 2019.
