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Ana de Armas is a brilliant and beautiful actor and she has proven her acting chops time and time again by giving several brilliant performances in recent years. She even added James Bond to the growing list of films. The Cuban actress is fluent in both Spanish and English and she has made a great career for herself in Hollywood by working with brilliant directors and actors. So, if you also love Armas’ brilliant performances and want to see more of her here are the 7 best movies starring Ana de Armas you can watch right now.

7. Ghosted (Apple TV+) Credit – Apple TV+

Ghosted is a romantic comedy spy action-adventure film directed by Dexter Fletcher from a screenplay co-written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers. The 2023 film follows Cole who falls head over heels for...

Venom: The Last Dance is hitting theaters soon, but what happened in the last film? Here’s a quick recap!

The Venom franchise began with the aptly-titled Venom in 2018 and is so far the only true live-action success of Sony’s attempts to build up its own “Spider-Verse” movie series based on Spider-Man characters. It’s helped by the fact that it features one of Spidey’s most iconic foes, although the term "foe" is somewhat debatable here.

The original film focused on Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), a disgraced investigative journalist who becomes the host of an alien creature. The monstrous creature gives Eddie unique strength and other skills as this bizarre odd couple ends up stopping another symbiote attack.

The movie was a massive hit and ended with Eddie heading to an interview with imprisoned serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson). That set up the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Venom: The Last Dance is hitting theaters soon and it’s still kind of boggling to me that this franchise made it to three movies. Venom as a character is intrinsically linked to Spider-Man, but the two characters aren’t connected at all in the films. Plus, Sony’s other spinoff movies include the critically reviled Madame Web and Morbius, the latter of which might be the only film in box office history to bomb twice.

Yet the Venom movies have slowly managed to become fan-favorites; with the third entry building up plenty of buzz as the grand finale of the trilogy. So how did we get here from a premise so seemingly destined to not work? Well, let’s look back at those first two movies and see if we can figure it out.

Venom (2018) Tom Hardy as Venom

Our story centers on Eddie Brock, played by Tom Hardy,...

Naomie Harris, Jameela Jamil and Romesh Ranganathan are set to star in a new feminist dramedy from Olivia Lee semi-inspired by controversial figure Andrew Tate, Variety has learned.

Titled “Hysterical,” the show from “Dirty, Sexy, Funny” creator Lee centers around a group of friends who – fueled by rage and rosé – decide to take down a global misogynist icon.

In “Hysterical,” Harris is set to play therapist Leonora, who finds herself going down a rabbit hole of toxic masculinity after her daughter is assaulted. Realizing the boy responsible is a fan of “alpha” influencer Tommy T, who’s grown a global following spewing toxic advice to young men, Leonora unloads on her friends during one of their weekly “rage release” rant sessions. Intoxicated by anger and alcohol, the group soon decide to take matters into their own hands as they plot to take down Tommy T themselves.

“From clumsy surveillance attempts to pranks that fizzle out,...

Venom: The Last Dance is fast approaching but whether it will be the palette cleanser fans need after Joker: Folie à Deux remains to be seen.

Recent rumours have led us to believe the threequel will have major implications for Spider-Man 4 and the Multiverse Saga, so even if you're not a fan of the divisive franchise, this instalment may be worth checking out.

Today, we have a new TV spot for Venom: The Last Dance teasing Eddie Brock and the Symbiote's battle with Knull's monstrous Xenophage. With the latter forced to face his creator, is his time nearly up?

To go with that teaser, we have an international poster, a new banner, and another promotional tie-in which sees Venom try his hand at being a rapper.

While we're expecting Venom: The Last Dance to feature at least a couple of familiar faces - including Stephen Graham as Toxin...

Directed by Guillem Morales, “The Wasp” is a two-hander psychological thriller with Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer. The film follows a sinister plan brewed by a married woman to seek revenge for her troubling past and repellent marriage. Harris plays the married woman in this equation, and Dormer plays her old-school friend. Written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, the screenplay is based on Malcom’s own 2015 play. It examines power equations in different settings to build a taut tale of vengeance that stings even more than it bites.

Spoilers Ahead

The Wasp (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

“The Wasp” follows Heather, a married woman who meets Carla, her childhood friend, after years with a strange proposal. Through their discussion, old wounds resurface, leading them on a wild ride. Before reading further, please note that the film covers themes of domestic abuse and childhood trauma.

What happens in Naomie Harris starrer ‘The Wasp...

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s horror franchise, which is finally on its path to complete the trilogy, has finished filming 28 Years Later recently. This past summer, the duo was busy with the shoot, which has concluded, and things are looking good for what is about to come. Although plans for this third installment have been ongoing for years, nothing was concrete for a long time. But thankfully, fans of this franchise are finally getting a third part to make way for a horror trilogy.

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later | Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures

After 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, it took years before a third installment was put to work. The first movie was a pretty big hit, earning $84.7 million from an $8 million budget. This led to a second movie, although neither Boyle nor Garland were a part of it. The movie did well financially but received a lukewarm critical response.

Ben Whishaw played James Bond’s technology and weapons expert Q in three 007 movies with Daniel Craig, joining the franchise on a high note in 2012’s acclaimed “Skyfall” and also appearing in 2015’s “Spectre” and 2021’s “No Time to Die.” The latter title marked Craig’s last Bond movie, which has Whishaw predicting that his time as Q is also over.

“I don’t think I’m going to be in the next one,” Whishaw recently told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg about his future in the James Bond film franchise. “I think they’re going to start all over again, and with a new cast, a completely new cast. I think that’s my hunch, but I don’t know. I have no idea.”

“I think it might need a new lease of life and a whole new group of people,” he added. “But if they asked me, I would do it,...

The U.K. needs to be better represented in all its diversity on film and TV screens, fight polarizing fake news, and level the playing field for streamers and traditional broadcasters, Lisa Nandy, U.K. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the relatively new Labour Party government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, told a London conference on Tuesday, highlighting the “challenging” time the industry is going through amid digital disruption and after the impact of the Covid pandemic and advertising downturn.

Outlining her priorities in her first major public speech since her appointment during a keynote appearance at the Royal Television Society’s London Convention 2024, she said: “There’s a choice ahead of us, whether we choose to be the last guardians of this chapter, or whether we choose to be the first pioneers of the next.”

Addressing the TV industry folks in the room, she vowed the...

Ben Whishaw doubts he will return to the James Bond franchise.The 43-year-old actor starred opposite Daniel Craig as the MI6 gadgets whizz ‘Q’ from 2012’s ‘Skyfall’ to ‘No Time to Die’ in 2021, though has now admitted he likely won’t be in the next installment as series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson will probably want "a completely new cast" for the reboot.During an appearance on BBC One’s ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, Whishaw said: "I don’t think I’m going to be in the next one. I think they’re going to start all over again, and with a new cast, a completely new cast, I think that’s my hunch, but I don’t know. I have no idea."The ‘Paddington’ star did suggest that he was open to appearing in the franchise again if the opportunity to do so ever arose.He added:...

Early on in “The Wasp,” Naomie Harris provides an elaborate description of tarantula hawks, a species of spiders that feeds on other tarantulas. They paralyze their prey before eating them alive. It’s a gruesome idea that writer-director Guillem Morales clearly intends to circle back around to in his twisty two-hander, which stars Natalie Dormer and Harris as two former friends embroiled in a cat-and-mouse game of violence and intimidation. Unfortunately, Harris’ monologue marks the highlight of the film. None of the plot swerves — and there are far too many of them — manage to reach that apex of encroaching dread.

Harris is Heather, a wealthy childless Londoner in a tense marriage with Simon (Dominic Allburn). In middle school, she was friends with Carla (Dormer), who’s now a grocery store cashier with four kids, a fifth on the way and a hopeless drunk gambler for a husband. The disparity in...

A pair of moderate releases with a handful of docs and titles in limited release topline an end-of-summer specialty market. Labor Day weekend can be slow and indie openings are up against few new wide releases and holdovers from Deadpool & Wolverine to Inside Out 2. Meanwhile, the Venice film festival, with Telluride and TIFF coming soon, is generating indie headlines and the new crop of arthouse films.

Bleecker Street goes the widest under 1,000 screens with Mikael Håfström’s Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne, at 840 locations.

This psychological space thriller follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality.

Written by R. Scott Adams...

Will Johnny Depp don the tricorn hat and eyeliner once again as Captain Jack Sparrow in the much-anticipated Pirates of the Caribbean 6? Well, producer Jerry Bruckheimer is keen to see Depp return to his iconic role. However, the actor’s potential return to the acclaimed franchise is like a ship lost at sea—adrift and uncertain.

Still from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | Credit: Walt Disney Pictures

Meanwhile, Naomie Harris, who once morphed into a million crabs as Tia Dalma, has recently expressed fervent enthusiasm for a return, despite her character’s rather crustacean finale. In true pirate fashion, she recognized that the franchise has a knack for resurrecting the seemingly unsinkable, so she’s not ruling out a comeback in the next installment, Pirates of the Caribbean 6.

Bruckheimer himself is drafting multiple scripts for the sixth flick, tempting fans with the promise of yet another adventurous voyage.

“The Wasp” is a new ‘psychological thriller’, directed by Guillem Morales, starring Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn, Jack Morris, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Naomi Richards and Evelyn Temple, opening August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…estranged childhood friends, ‘Heather’ and ‘Carla’, reunite for a cup of tea after not having spoken in many years.

“But at their meeting, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition …

‘…asking her to kill the abusive man in her life, that will change their lives forever…”

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Naomie Harris has "absolutely no idea" what's next for the James Bond franchise.The 47-year-old actress starred opposite Daniel Craig, 56, as Eve Moneypenny from 2012's Skyfall' to 'No Time To Die' in 2021, though has now revealed she's been left in the dark as to where producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are planning to take the series in the future as they prepare to welcome a new performer to play the iconic spy.During an appearance on SiriusXM's 'The Jess Cagle Show', she said: "I don’t know what’s gonna happen for the next."I don’t know where they’re going, what direction. I have absolutely no idea and I’m so glad that I don’t have any idea, otherwise, I’d slip up, so nobody tells me anything."The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star reflected on her time as...

Naomie Harris admitted James Bond producers typically don’t tell her about upcoming sequels, as she’s not very good at keeping spoilers a secret.

The Oscar-nominated actress, who starred in three installments of the popular spy franchise, said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show that while she misses being part of the James Bond universe, she has “no idea” about the franchise’s future.

“I don’t know what’s gonna happen for the next,” Harris confessed. “I don’t know where they’re going, what direction. I have absolutely no idea and I’m so glad that I don’t have any idea, otherwise, I’d slip up, so nobody tells me anything.”

The Moonlight actress said she’s convinced that producers “do think I’m the weak link ’cause I’m literally the last person to know any piece of information, which is terrible.”

Harris played Eve Moneypenny,...

Guillem Morales’s thriller The Wasp is about two women, Heather (Naomie Harris) and Carla (Natalie Dormer), who haven’t spoken since high school. They both still live in the same English town, and their houses are probably only a brief bus ride apart. But they live in different worlds, mostly because only one of them would ever take the bus.

Living a prettified suburban existence, Heather has a posh accent, a beautiful home, and a stylish wardrobe. Her husband, Simon (Dominic Allburn), is successful, though the audience never finds out exactly what he does, just that his is the sort of job that involves hobnobbing with other elegantly dressed people over bottles of presumably expensive wine.

As for Carla, she huddles up with her four kids inside a cramped apartment alongside her husband, Jim (Rupert Holliday-Evans), who seems to divide his time between snoozing in his armchair and gambling away their rent money.

Cate Blanchett has signed on to star in a new stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican in London.

The production will mark Blanchett’s first stage appearance in six years.

Blanchett will portray Arkadina in the adaptation, which is also set to star Tom Burke (The Souvenir). The production will run for six weeks from February 2025.

The production will be directed by Thomas Ostermeier who told BBC News of Blanchett’s casting: “I have known and admired Cate for many years, and to see her on stage is always a privilege.”

He added: “I am thrilled that we will make our first artistic collaboration with this production of The Seagull at the Barbican, and that London will experience this once-in-a-generation actress in one of the greatest theatrical roles of Arkadina. I’m also very pleased to be forging a new artistic relationship with Tom Burke,...

Das Fantasy Filmfest hat erstmals einen Jury-Wettbewerb ausgelobt, bei dem der Fear Good Award vergeben wird. Die Jury sitzt in den jeweiligen Festival-Städten. In München macht den Job Filmemacher Sebastian Niemann.

Sebastian Niemann (Credit: Imago/Future Image)

Beim 38. Fantasy Filmfest gibt es erstmals einen Jury-Wettbewerb, in dem nach dem Motto „Sieben Festivalstädte – Sieben Jury-Mitglieder – Sieben Filme“ europäische (Ko)Produktionen um den Fear Good Award konkurrieren. Die Jury-Teilnehmer:innen sind in ihrer jeweiligen Fantasy-Filmfest-Stadt vor Ort im Kino. Dabei handelt es sich um Filmemacher Sebastian Niemann (München), Filmemacher Lukas Rinker (Frankfurt), Jens Gutfleisch, Leiter der Film Commission Region Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Moderator und Filmjournalist Daniel Schröckert (Hamburg), Carlos Rincón, Programmgestalter und Filmvorführer (Berlin), Bibi Blackcraft, Moderatorin und Produzentin (Nürnberg) und Alper K. Turfan, Moderator und Produzent (Köln).

Eröffnungs- und Abschlussfilm der 38. Festivalausgabe waren schon bekannt („Speak No Evil“ bzw. „Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In“ (hier ist unsere Meldung). Weitere Highlights sind die...

Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer lead director Guillem Morales’s psychological thriller The Wasp, adapted from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s acclaimed stage play. Morales crafts an unnerving tale of two former friends whose chance meeting turns ominous.

Heather, a housewife feeling trapped in her marriage, seeks out Carla after years apart. Once classmates, their lives have diverged greatly. Heather now lives comfortably but struggles with isolation and infertility. Meanwhile, single mother Carla scrapes by on low wages, with money troubles adding to daily stresses.

When these women meet again, it’s not for a pleasant catch-up. Heather has a disturbing proposal for Carla – she wants her to commit murder. Kill Heather’s husband in exchange for a handsome payoff. Shocked but desperate, Carla hears Heather out. Their teacup chat soon reveals hidden depths to both characters, and dark secrets from their shared past.

As tensions rise, memories emerge of childhood events that shaped these friends-turned-foes.

Videogame IP, a remake, and a children’s film: August’s blockbuster titles don’t really need marketing help. So, Borderlands (August 9), The Crow (August 23), and Harold and the Purple Crayon (August 2) go heavy on the Photoshop to slap something on the wall and rake in the cash. If Bill Skarsgård didn’t look so much like Jared Leto’s Joker, I’d probably be more interested in his film’s goth artistry. Alas.

That leaves the little guys. And not just the indies either—although they take up most of the space below. Because despite one title’s own IP legacy and another’s director’s pedigree, those two Hollywood productions aren’t necessarily slam dunks. Every bit of intrigue therefore helps. Tease the horror and suspense to come.

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First up is B O N D’s Strange Darling and its slow melt of candle wax. Not quite...

With 28 Years Later having wrapped production, we look at what the sequel’s story might potentially look like.

Nb: The following contains spoilers for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, plus potential plot details for 28 Years Later.

Given just how influential and financially successful it was, it’s a little surprising that 2002’s 28 Days Later hasn’t spawned more sequels. Instead, the past 22 years have seen the release of just one follow-up: 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, a film even more dark and despairing than its predecessor.

Things are about to change, however, with the 2025 release of 28 Years Later. It’ll see director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reunite for a belated sequel, which as its title suggests will take place almost three decades after the outbreak of the Rage virus that swept across the UK in the original film.

Nor is it the only sequel on the way; Candyman...

Focus Features will release Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming spy drama Black Bag in theaters on March 14, 2025. Focus will release the film in the United States with Universal Pictures International handling international distribution.

From Academy Award® winning director Steven Soderbergh, Black Bag is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan.

About The Film

Genre: Thriller Starring: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, Pierce Brosnan Director: Steven Soderbergh Screenplay: David Koepp Producer: Casey Silver, Greg Jacobs

Black Bag will be in theaters on March 14, 2025!

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11 years on from very publicly — and very prematurely — announcing his retirement, prolific American auteur Steven Soderbergh continues to be one of the biggest and busiest filmmaker in the business. And whilst the Ocean's movie mastermind's most recent effort, horror-thriller Presence, has yet to officially hit cinemas following its Sundance premiere earlier this year, that hasn't stopped ol' Soderbergh from setting a release date for his next film. Per Deadline's reporting, Soderbergh's Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender starring spy drama Black Bag — which we first found out about back in January — is set to hit cinemas on 14 March, 2025.

Written by Soderbergh's Kimi collaborator and Jurassic Park screenwriting legend David Koepp, precious little is known about Black Bag's plot as of yet — although we'd confidently hazard a guess that the title's not just Soderbergh reminding himself which week's bins to put out. What we do know however is that the...

As the Hollywood news cycle continues to churn with anticipation for the launch of Deadpool & Wolverine, presidential candidate endorsements, and enthusiasm for the increasing numbers of the summer box office, Focus Features is ready to make headlines by assigning a date for Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming spy drama Black Bag. The studio says Black Bag opens in theaters on March 14, 2024. Focus will release the film in the US, and Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution.

Black Bag is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, as well as Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, and Pierce Brosnan. Steven Soderbergh directs Black Bag from a script by David Koepp. Soderbergh and Blanchett previously worked together on his 2006 noir thriller The Good German. Additionally, Blanchett played a part in the film Ocean’s 8, part of Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11 franchise. Soderbergh produced Ocean’s 8 but didn’t direct that one.

Focus Features has set a release date for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming “Black Bag,” starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. The spy drama will open in theaters on March 14.

Universal Pictures International will handle the international release with Focus Features handling domestic distribution.

Also starring in the high-stakes mystery are Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. “Jurassic Park” scribe David Koepp, who collaborated with Soderbergh on “Kimi” and his most recent feature “Presence,” wrote the screenplay. Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs are producing.

Two-time Oscar nominee Fassbender previously starred in Soderbergh’s action movie “Haywire,” while Blanchett starred in “The Good German” and “Ocean’s 8.” Blanchett, a two-time Oscar winner, is starring in video game adaptation “Borderlands,” which opens Aug. 9. Fassbender stars in the Irish feature “Kneecap,” opening Aug. 2.

Plot details for Soderbergh’s latest are being kept under wraps. In addition to this year’s “Presence,...

Focus Features said Tuesday that it has set Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming spy drama Black Bag for a March 14, 2025 theatrical release.

The high-stakes mystery stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. Producers are Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs. David Koepp wrote the screenplay.

Focus’ upcoming fall slate includes the Morgan Neville documentary Piece by Piece, which is headed to TIFF, about performing artist Pharrell Williams as told through LEGOs. There’s also Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave, also set for TIFF, as well as Robert Eggers’ reimagining of Nosferatu.

Related: ‘Conclave’ Trailer: Ralph Fiennes In Thriller From ‘All Quiet’ Oscar Winner Edward Berger

Focus also has the Sundance-winner DÌDI (弟弟) from Sean Wang, Yorgos Lanthimos’s next film Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and the third feature film installment of Downton Abbey.

Focus has domestic, while...

Steven Soderbergh’s spy drama Black Bag has been set for a March 14, 2025, release date by Focus Features.

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are set to star in the feature alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan.

David Koepp penned the screenplay for the film that is set to be produced by Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs.

Soderbergh’s Sundance ghost story Presence, also written by Koepp, is due for an upcoming release by Neon. As for Focus, the distributor will be at The Toronto International Film Festival with Vatican-set political thriller Conclave and the animated Pharrell Williams bio-film Piece by Piece.

The armoured knights and magic thunderbolts of a child’s play world are threatened by a property developer in this formulaic yet fun family feature

This family comedy is not only another iteration of the legendary outlaw yarn; it’s an entertaining feature film focusing on the importance of a child’s imagination.

Robin (Darcey Ewart) is the bright-eyed leader of a group of children, the Hoods, who love to play fantasy games on a patch of land they call the Kingdom. Their biggest concern is a rival gang looking to take over their domain until plans emerge to turn the area into a new leisure facility for their town. Faced with the ruthless property developer Clipboard (a delightful panto-esque turn from Naomie Harris), Robin and her friends must find a way to save their play area.

"Are you sure you want him actually dead?" Oh, I bet she does... Shout Studios has revealed the official trailer for an indie thriller titled The Wasp, adapted by Morgan Lloyd Malcom from her acclaimed play of the same name. This doesn't seem to be about a Wasp, rather it's about a wasp, as in the bee-like insects with big scary stingers that like to menace humans (and other bees). In this tense, twist-filled psychological thriller, Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer deliver captivating performances as two estranged friends who reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter both of their lives. Described as "a masterclass in suspense," this seems to be about murdering a husband, but that's not so easy to pull off. And maybe that's not all that's going on? Also with Dominic Allburn & Jack Morris. This premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival,...

Shout! Studios will be giving the psychological thriller The Wasp, starring Naomie Harris of Skyfall and Natalie Dormer of Game of Thrones, a theatrical release on August 30th, and with that date just eight weeks away a trailer for the film has made its way online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Julia’s Eyes director Guillem Morales was at the helm of The Wasp, working from a screenplay written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, based on Malcolm’s stage play of the same name. Harris and Dormer are said to deliver captivating performances in this “tense, twist-filled” film as two estranged friends who reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.

Dominic Allburn (A Place to Call Home), Jack Morris (Into the Deep), Rupert Holliday-Evans (Silent Witness), Naomi Richards (The Ballad of Lucy Sands), Jake Donald-Crookes (Hill of Vision...

I can guarantee, you've never seen Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer quite like this. Last month's Tribeca Film Festival here in New York gave attendees a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor for a number of the best and most fascinating non-franchise movies of the year. Of all the standouts, however, "The Wasp" was one that managed to crawl under our skin and bury itself down deep as one heck of a dark, disturbing, and unforgettable experience. Playing out almost like a stage play -- which was not a coincidence, given that it's adapting Morgan Lloyd Malcom's play of the same name -- the plot follows estranged childhood friends Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), who reconnect as adults under awfully inauspicious circumstances: a good ol' fashioned murder for hire.

This afternoon, Shout! Studios and XYZ Films released the first official trailer for "The Wasp" and, while marketing...

“The Wasp” is a new ‘psychological thriller’, directed by Guillem Morales, starring Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn, Jack Morris, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Rupert Holliday-Evans, Naomi Richards and Evelyn Temple, opening August 30, 2024 in theaters:

“…estranged childhood friends, ‘Heather’ and ‘Carla’, reunite for a cup of tea after not having spoken in many years.

“But at their meeting, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition …

‘…asking her to kill the abusive man in her life, that will change their lives forever…”

Click the images to enlarge...

How do you get away with murdering your husband? In the new thriller, “The Wasp,” the answer comes from a reunion of sorts.

As seen in the trailer, “The Wasp” tells the story of a woman in an abusive relationship. She’s driven to the edge of sanity when she reconnects with an estranged friend from school. As they talk, the woman decides that this friend would be the perfect person to kill her husband.

Continue reading ‘The Wasp’ Trailer: Naomie Harris & Natalie Dormer Plot A Murder In Upcoming Thriller at The Playlist.

Check out the trailer for Sky Cinema’s Family action-adventure ‘Robin and the Hoods.’

For the tenacious 11-year-old Robin (Ewart) and her loyal band of friends ‘The Hoods’, the patch of overgrown scrubland at the end of their cul-de-sac is a magical kingdom. Sticks and bin lids have become swords and shields, drones have become majestic eagles and the hippy lady in the forest (Christie) is a terrifying witch. The only thing limiting their colourful imagination is the prospect of losing their kingdom forever. When the slippery property developer Clipboard (Harris) turns up and dazzles the parents of the area with promises of health spas and day-care facilities, Robin and The Hoods’ world is faced with an existential threat. Despite the children’s best efforts, their protests fall on deaf ears. When their parents can’t see the wood for the trees, Robin and her friends take matters into their...

Steven Soderbergh is taking a page from Taylor Swift’s playbook.

“People laugh that there is a college class being taught about her and I go, ‘There should be,'” the director tells Variety during a roundtable interview at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. “What she is doing, the way she is doing it… Nobody has ever done this before. The amount of control she has taken over. She is relentless.”

He continues, “These stories about doing the whole show on a treadmill, just to make sure she can do it?! It’s a success story and I am fascinated by that. [Screenwriter] David Koepp took his daughter to see the show and said, ‘You cannot believe what it’s like to be there.’ I would go if I could. There aren’t any tickets! But I watched the film.”

The Eras Tour is also on his mind when developing new work.

On September 16, 1984, a little TV show named Miami Vice hit cable and was a huge success for NBC. It was created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by an up-and-coming filmmaker named Michael Mann. The show would become iconic for its stylish depiction of the Miami drug scene, its use of contemporary music and its distinctive fashion. Years later, in 2006, a movie that has gone down as very divisive would be made. It’s a movie that defines what it means to be revisited. So today, let’s check out Michael Mann’s film adaptation of Miami Vice.

As stated earlier, Michael Mann helped create the captivating TV show. During the 1980s and 90s, Michael would go on to make some of the greatest films of the era, including Heat (which is getting a sequel soon), The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans,and Manhunter. In 2001, after wrapping his biopic Ali,...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage was a marked improvement over Venom, but still dropped the ball in ways many comic book fans couldn't forgive.

Woody Harrelson was a suitably bonkers Cletus Kasady, while No Time to Die star Naomie Harris did her best with the material she was given as the villainous Shriek.

Her sonic blasts played a key role in the sequel's final battle, and after failing to take revenge on Detective Patrick Mulligan, Shriek fell to her death before a massive church bell landed on top of her. It was a pretty definitive end for the character, though comic book fans will be all too aware that heroes and villains have managed to come back from worse than that.

Alas, in an interview with MovieWeb, Harris confirmed Shriek is done and won't be making a surprise appearance in this year's threequel, Venom: The Last Dance.

"Shriek was well and truly dead.

The 2024 Tribeca Festival kicked off June 5 with the world premiere of the documentary Diane Furstenberg: Woman In Charge, launching the 12-day New York-set fest that features narrative and documentary competitions as well as a slew of A-list panels that always seem to make news.

Among the 108 feature films in this year’s lineup includes world premieres of movies starring Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone, Elizabeth Banks, Naomie Harris and Jenna Ortega to name a few. In addition to Furstenberg, high profile documentaries include Brats, Andrew McCarthy’s look back at the Brat Pack, and ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!, about South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone restoring an iconic Colorado restaurant.

Check out Deadline’s reviews from the festival, and keep checking back as new titles are added. Click on the film’s title to read our full review.

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Reconnecting with a childhood friend is always a little strange, but "The Wasp" takes it to a whole other level. This psychological thriller is all about Heather (Naomie Harris), a seemingly put-together, well-off woman who reaches out to Carla (Natalie Dormer), a standoffish pregnant former classmate who barely seems to remember her. Heather wants to hire Carla to do a dangerous, morally dubious task, but more importantly she wants to talk through everything that happened back when they were kids. Their childhood friendship fell apart the day young Carla killed a wounded bird in front of young Heather; as we learn throughout a suspenseful, emotional 96 minutes, things are weird between them for reasons far more complicated than that. 

I hesitate to say more about the plot, because "The Wasp" is one of those movies where it's best to know as little as possible going in. It's a film split into three clear acts,...

In one of Moonlight's most iconic shots, Mahershala Ali's Juan holds Alex Hibbert's Little on the surface of the ocean, his hands gently cradling the boy's head and legs. The water laps around the camera. The score swells. "That right there?" Juan says. "You in the middle of the world." He is teaching Little how to swim. This film will teach you how to feel, as director Barry Jenkins gently guides you through one of the most heartbreaking, moving and beautifully executed character studies in recent cinematic memory.

Moonlight first came into being as an unproduced play, titled 'In Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue' and penned by Tarell Alvin McCraney back in 2003, after his mother passed away. A semi-autobiographical piece based on McCraney's experience growing up in Miami's Liberty City, it was shelved – until a few years later, when fellow Liberty City kid Jenkins read it and...

Guillem Morales’ adaptation of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play The Wasp is an unsettling drama-thriller that delves into the complexities of its characters with precision in a way that is chilling and engrossing. The film stars Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, and Dominic Allburn, each delivering powerful performances that elevate this story of revenge and unresolved childhood bullying.

The film opens with Heather (Naomie Harris) crying alone in a dreary park, a setting that perfectly encapsulates the somber tone of the narrative. The camera follows the sound of buzzing flies into her pristine kitchen, where a wasp hovers over the window. Heather traps the wasp under a glass, a metaphor for her own trapped and anxious state. She asks her indifferent husband, Simon (Dominic Allburn), if he’s called the exterminator about the wasp nest. It becomes clear that Heather is deeply unhappy and struggling to conceive, her detachment and unease palpable.

Emerald Fennell, Cara Delevingne and Naomie Harris also among 25 signatories asking companies to fund the the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority

A collection of stellar British film industry names, including Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Naomie Harris, have joined calls to ensure that funds will be available to back a newly established independent organisation designed to combat harassment across the creative industries.

They are among the signatories of an open letter calling on companies to commit to provide financial contributions to the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority (Ciisa), which is due to begin operations in 2025. There are 25 signatories in all, including Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, Cara Delevingne, Rebecca Ferguson, Ruth Wilson and Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant Zelda Perkins.

Post-apocalyptic stories have always held a special place in the hearts of film enthusiasts. There is just something about seeing what would happen if a zombie apocalypse was somehow going to become a reality. After all, these films can be pretty helpful in giving notes on how to survive. Cillian Murphy’s 28 Days Later is one such post-apocalyptic horror film that received positive reviews from critics.

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Released in 2002, 28 Days Later follows the story of Cillian Murphy’s Jim, who gets caught in the middle of an outbreak of a highly contagious and rage-inducing virus that puts society in a vulnerable state. While the film ended more or less on a good note for Jim, it had 3 alternate endings planned and filmed where things did not end well for the character.

’28 Days Later’ Had Three Alternate Endings 28 Days Later ending | DNA...

British stars Keira Knightley, Cara Delevingne, Carey Mulligan, Rebecca Ferguson, Naomie Harris and Emerald Fennell have penned an open letter demanding a crackdown on bullying and sexual harassment in the U.K.’s entertainment industry.

The group are just six of 25 names who called on creative organizations to help fund a new watchdog, the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority (Ciisa), to investigate complaints in industries spanning music, film, TV and theater.

The letter reads: “So many of us in this industry would have loved to have an objective outside body that we could go to for advice, for mediation and in the very extreme circumstances, that we might need some outside body to hold people accountable for the bad behavior or bad practices that sometimes happen on our sets, on our stages, behind the scenes. And we are far from being alone in recognizing this need.”

It adds that the...

The UK’s Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (Ciisa) – the independent body for tackling bullying and harassment in the creative industries – has published an open letter signed by 25 prominent creative industry figures urging the industry to make final financial commitments to guarantee the organisation’s operation for its first two years.

Emerald Fennell, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson, Naomie Harris, Ophelia Lovibond and casting director Kharmel Cochrane have all signed the letter to back the authority’s calls for the additional financial support on which Ciisa’s launch by the end of 2024 is dependent.

”So many of us in...

Stars including Keira Knightley, Emerald Fennell and Gemma Chan have called for extra funding so that the UK’s new bullying and harassment reporting body for the film and TV industries can launch on time.

The trio are three of 25 to have signed an open letter to the creative industries seeking a “final commitment to the creation of the Ciisa, the new independent standards authority designed to keep our creative industries safe and to secure your support to this essential part of the ecosystem that is currently missing.”

Others to have signed include Cara Delevingne, Carey Mulligan, Rebecca Ferguson and Naomie Harris. The letter with signatories can be found below.

The body was first mooted three years ago in the wake of the Noel Clarke allegations, which he denies, by Time’s Up UK, but funds have been slow to come by. Ciisa has said that it will only be...

"Don't you get it? It's not you vs. me, it's us vs. them." Sky Cinemas has revealed an official trailer for a fun family adventure movie called Robin and the Hoods, set for a release in the UK this summer. This Sky Original Film creation is the latest directed by film geek filmmaker Phil Hawkins, probably best known for the fan film Star Wars: Origins and the most recent Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022) update. This time he reinvents Robin Hood as a fresh new urban tale. For the tenacious 11-year-old Robin and her loyal band of friends 'The Hoods', the patch of overgrown scrubland at the end of their cul-de-sac is a magical kingdom. When a property developer wants to take it over, the kids fight back and do everything they can to get their parents to speak out and stop the gentrification. Starring Darcey Ewart as Robin, with Naomie Harris,...

This article contains spoilers for "Furiosa."

When I was 8 years old, I attended a friend's birthday party where we were going to watch "Titanic" on its double-sized VHS. All of our parents had to give expressed permission due to the nude scene, and I'm grateful every day to be the spawn of Cool Parents™ who saw this as a moment for cultural education, but it was a comment from my friend's extremely progressive mother that I think about every time I watch a disaster or post-apocalyptic film. It's when the wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) grabs a small, poor child and claims to be a single father in an attempt to secure a spot on the lifeboats reserved for women and children. His plan works, and he survives the shipwreck, which encouraged my adult supervision for the evening to scoff and utter, "Leave it to a man to manipulate the...

The genre-bending detective fiction series that is quickly becoming everybody’s favorite of the year is Sugar. The Apple TV+ series created by Mark Protosevich is set in Los Angeles and it follows the story of a private detective John Sugar as he is hired by a big-time film producer Jonathan Siegel to find his missing granddaughter Olivia. While, trying to find Olivia, Sugar stumbles into something far more dangerous than he could have anticipated. Sugar stars Colin Farrell in the lead role with Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Sydney Chandler, Nate Corddry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Dennis Boutsikaris starring in supporting roles. If you loved the mystery and thrill of Sugar here are some similar shows you could check out next.

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