The plot of director Dean Parisot's cult-favorite 1999 sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" hinges on a race of extraterrestrials, the Thermians, believing that an '80s space adventure series is a collection of "historical documents" of real-life events. When one of the show's actors, Gwen DeMarco (Sigourney Weaver), tries to explain to them that many TV series are purely fictional, she adds (with more than a hint of exasperation), "Surely, you don't think 'Gilligan's Island' is a ..." before trailing off as she watches the Thermians' faces drop in heartfelt despair. "Those poor people," their leader, Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni), somberly replies.
A naive group of other-worldly beings thinking that Sherwood Schwartz's zany '60s sitcom is really an authentic documentary about an eclectic group of humans — including (sing it with me now), "Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann...
A naive group of other-worldly beings thinking that Sherwood Schwartz's zany '60s sitcom is really an authentic documentary about an eclectic group of humans — including (sing it with me now), "Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann...
- 3/9/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
There are some hardcore Trekkies in the world who consider Dean Parisot's 1999 comedy to be the best "Star Trek" movie. The main characters in Parisot's film are all struggling actors, still most fondly remembered for their work on a short-lived cult sci-fi series from decades prior. The in-universe show, called "Galaxy Quest," resembles "Star Trek" in several key ways, and the egotistical lead actor Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), who played the captain of the starship Protector on "Galaxy Quest," was clearly modeled after William Shatner.
The plot of "Galaxy Quest" is amusing: a species of shapeshifting aliens, requiring defense from marauders, recruit the original "Galaxy Quest" actors to serve as their champions. The aliens assumed that rogue TV broadcasts they once saw were very real and have recreated "Galaxy Quest" in real life. The put-upon thespians don't have the heart to explain to the aliens that their show is...
The plot of "Galaxy Quest" is amusing: a species of shapeshifting aliens, requiring defense from marauders, recruit the original "Galaxy Quest" actors to serve as their champions. The aliens assumed that rogue TV broadcasts they once saw were very real and have recreated "Galaxy Quest" in real life. The put-upon thespians don't have the heart to explain to the aliens that their show is...
- 2/27/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The core creative team are ‘tinkering’ with an idea for Bill & Ted 4, reveals Alex Winter.
It’s far from assured, but it seems that the creative minds behind 2020’s Bill & Ted Face The Music are playing with the idea of revisiting the series’ beloved characters once more.
Alex Winter forms one half of the titular duo, and while out on the press tour for Destroy All Neighbors, he spoke on The Sarah O’Connell Show about the prospect of re-teaming with co-star Keanu Reeves for another turn as Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, the beloved pair of slackers who are eternally on the verge of actually doing something meaningful with their lives.
Apparently, Winter and Reeves are working with the series’ writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson to figure out if there’s another story to tell… and it looks like that might possibly be the case.
It’s far from assured, but it seems that the creative minds behind 2020’s Bill & Ted Face The Music are playing with the idea of revisiting the series’ beloved characters once more.
Alex Winter forms one half of the titular duo, and while out on the press tour for Destroy All Neighbors, he spoke on The Sarah O’Connell Show about the prospect of re-teaming with co-star Keanu Reeves for another turn as Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, the beloved pair of slackers who are eternally on the verge of actually doing something meaningful with their lives.
Apparently, Winter and Reeves are working with the series’ writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson to figure out if there’s another story to tell… and it looks like that might possibly be the case.
- 1/17/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
We love rock & roll, and so do most moviegoers, which is why cinema is filled with heroes who get together with their friends to pound out some numbers. Whether they do it for fame and fortune or to just hang out with buddies, pop bands are inherently cinematic, tying together moving images and sound to create something spectacular. That’s particularly true of fictional groups, who often draw from real-world inspirations and transform them into moving protagonists or hated villains.
This list covers ten of the best fictional bands in cinema history. The key word here is “bands,” as we ignore solo acts, even from really good films. So Mac Sledge from Tender Mercies won’t show up, nor will Noni Jean from Beyond the Lights. Also, we’re looking at fictional groups here, so the Ramones from Rock & Roll High School don’t show up, nor do Talking Heads,...
This list covers ten of the best fictional bands in cinema history. The key word here is “bands,” as we ignore solo acts, even from really good films. So Mac Sledge from Tender Mercies won’t show up, nor will Noni Jean from Beyond the Lights. Also, we’re looking at fictional groups here, so the Ramones from Rock & Roll High School don’t show up, nor do Talking Heads,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Every month brings a new slate of entertainment to streaming services everywhere, but each turn of the calendar also brings the tragic removal of a list of movies and television shows. While Netflix is debuting a bevy of releases in May 2023, the streaming service is losing some treasured titles. Good thing you have this guide to make sure you catch everything that may have been sitting in your Netflix queue before they mysteriously disappear.
Unfortunately, juggling distribution rights in the ongoing proliferation of streaming services makes it a headache to keep up with who owns what. HBO Max is the biggest offender of losing its own original content, as the merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and the induction of CEO David Zaslav has wiped a chunk of HBO Max exclusives from the platform. Netflix has a better grasp on its properties, but even the longest-running streaming service has lost some of its licensing,...
Unfortunately, juggling distribution rights in the ongoing proliferation of streaming services makes it a headache to keep up with who owns what. HBO Max is the biggest offender of losing its own original content, as the merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and the induction of CEO David Zaslav has wiped a chunk of HBO Max exclusives from the platform. Netflix has a better grasp on its properties, but even the longest-running streaming service has lost some of its licensing,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
It's a big day for "Star Trek" news. First, Paramount+ announced the long-developing "Star Trek: Discovery" spinoff series "Section 31" has been reworked as a streaming movie. Now we have word the streaming platform is also planning to send the crew of the Nsea Protector on a new mission in the form of a "Galaxy Quest" TV series.
Okay, fine, Dean Parisot's semi-cult 1999 sci-fi action-comedy isn't technically a "Star Trek" film, but it is an unabashed and loving send-up of Gene Roddenberry's creation (one that "Star Trek" fans adore for its playful skewering of the franchise). The movie centers on the cast of the titular fictional TV show, a "Star Trek"-styled 1980s space adventure series that's mistaken for being a collection of "historical documents" by a naive extra-terrestrial race known as the Thermians. Facing extinction at the hands of the sadistic other-worldly warlord Sarris, the Thermians turn to...
Okay, fine, Dean Parisot's semi-cult 1999 sci-fi action-comedy isn't technically a "Star Trek" film, but it is an unabashed and loving send-up of Gene Roddenberry's creation (one that "Star Trek" fans adore for its playful skewering of the franchise). The movie centers on the cast of the titular fictional TV show, a "Star Trek"-styled 1980s space adventure series that's mistaken for being a collection of "historical documents" by a naive extra-terrestrial race known as the Thermians. Facing extinction at the hands of the sadistic other-worldly warlord Sarris, the Thermians turn to...
- 4/18/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
“Galaxy Quest” is coming to television. According to Variety, Paramount+ and Paramount Television Studios are in the early stages of adapting the cult classic film.
A source close to the discussions told TheWrap that the project is in very early stages of development with Mark Johnson, who produced the original film, currently attached as an executive producer on the series.
Paramount Television Studios declined to comment.
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This isn’t the first time a streamer has eyed a “Galaxy Quest” series. In 2015, Paramount Television along with the film’s director, Dean Parisot; one of its co-writers, Robert Gordon; and its executive producers Johnson and Melissa Bernstein announced that they were looking for find a home for a TV adaptation. Amazon Prime Video grabbed the project that same year, but it was thrown into chaos following Alan Rickman’s death,...
A source close to the discussions told TheWrap that the project is in very early stages of development with Mark Johnson, who produced the original film, currently attached as an executive producer on the series.
Paramount Television Studios declined to comment.
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This isn’t the first time a streamer has eyed a “Galaxy Quest” series. In 2015, Paramount Television along with the film’s director, Dean Parisot; one of its co-writers, Robert Gordon; and its executive producers Johnson and Melissa Bernstein announced that they were looking for find a home for a TV adaptation. Amazon Prime Video grabbed the project that same year, but it was thrown into chaos following Alan Rickman’s death,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
There has been interest in making a small screen follow-up to the 1999 sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest (watch it Here) for several years. Back in 2015, Paramount TV Studios got a Galaxy Quest TV series set up at Amazon, with the film’s writer Robert Gordon working on the script and director Dean Parisot and producer Mark Johnson also attached. Much of the film’s cast – which included Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, and Enrico Colantoni – was expected to return… but unfortunately, the project was derailed when Rickman passed away in 2016, and not even a new script from Paul Scheer (The League) was able to get it back on track. Now Paramount TV Studios is giving Galaxy Quest another try, and The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the TV series is set up at the Paramount+ streaming service.
Mark Johnson, whose producing credits now include Breaking Bad,...
Mark Johnson, whose producing credits now include Breaking Bad,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Actors in a sci-fi television series became real-life heroes in the 1999 spoof Galaxy Quest, and THR reports today that Galaxy Quest is now becoming a real TV series at Paramount+.
THR reports, “Paramount+ is teaming with its studio counterpart, Paramount Television Studios, for a live-action adaptation of the 1999 cult favorite sci-fi spoof.
“Sources say the project is in the early development stages and a search is under way for a writer to pair with Mark Johnson, the Breaking Bad alum who exec produced the film and is returning for the scripted update,” the website’s report this afternoon continues.
Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Tony Shalhoub starred in 1999’s Galaxy Quest, which was directed by Dean Parisot. You can watch the original trailer below.
In the film, “The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.
THR reports, “Paramount+ is teaming with its studio counterpart, Paramount Television Studios, for a live-action adaptation of the 1999 cult favorite sci-fi spoof.
“Sources say the project is in the early development stages and a search is under way for a writer to pair with Mark Johnson, the Breaking Bad alum who exec produced the film and is returning for the scripted update,” the website’s report this afternoon continues.
Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Tony Shalhoub starred in 1999’s Galaxy Quest, which was directed by Dean Parisot. You can watch the original trailer below.
In the film, “The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.
- 4/18/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A “Galaxy Quest” series is in early development, this time at Paramount+.
Variety has learned that Paramount+ and Paramount Television Studios are in the nascent stages of adapting the cult classic comedy film into a television show. At this time, the only member of the creative team officially attached is Mark Johnson, who produced the original film and would serve as an executive producer on the potential series.
Paramount Television Studios and Paramount+ declined to comment.
This is the latest attempt to adapt “Galaxy Quest” for the small screen. It was previously reported in 2015 that Amazon was developing a series version that would have reunited the film’s cast, but those plans ended upon the death of Alan Rickman. There have since been various writers attached to the project, though none of their versions have ultimately gone forward.
“Galaxy Quest” was originally released in 1999. The film parodied franchises like “Star Trek...
Variety has learned that Paramount+ and Paramount Television Studios are in the nascent stages of adapting the cult classic comedy film into a television show. At this time, the only member of the creative team officially attached is Mark Johnson, who produced the original film and would serve as an executive producer on the potential series.
Paramount Television Studios and Paramount+ declined to comment.
This is the latest attempt to adapt “Galaxy Quest” for the small screen. It was previously reported in 2015 that Amazon was developing a series version that would have reunited the film’s cast, but those plans ended upon the death of Alan Rickman. There have since been various writers attached to the project, though none of their versions have ultimately gone forward.
“Galaxy Quest” was originally released in 1999. The film parodied franchises like “Star Trek...
- 4/18/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Galaxy Quest is going from a fictional series to an actual TV series.
Paramount+ is teaming with its studio counterpart, Paramount Television Studios, for a live-action adaptation of the 1999 cult favorite sci-fi spoof. Sources say the project is in the early development stages and a search is underway for a writer to pair with Mark Johnson, the Breaking Bad alum who exec produced the film and is returning for the scripted update. Johnson and his Gran Via Productions banner are the only execs currently attached to the project.
Reps for Paramount+ and the Nicole Clemens-led Paramount Television Studios declined to comment.
This is not Paramount TV Studios’ first attempt to adapt Galaxy Quest for television. The studio first developed a new take on the beloved pic that starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell and Enrico Colantoni as a ragtag group of actors...
Paramount+ is teaming with its studio counterpart, Paramount Television Studios, for a live-action adaptation of the 1999 cult favorite sci-fi spoof. Sources say the project is in the early development stages and a search is underway for a writer to pair with Mark Johnson, the Breaking Bad alum who exec produced the film and is returning for the scripted update. Johnson and his Gran Via Productions banner are the only execs currently attached to the project.
Reps for Paramount+ and the Nicole Clemens-led Paramount Television Studios declined to comment.
This is not Paramount TV Studios’ first attempt to adapt Galaxy Quest for television. The studio first developed a new take on the beloved pic that starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell and Enrico Colantoni as a ragtag group of actors...
- 4/18/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg and Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Television Studios is taking a new stab at a Galaxy Quest TV series based on DreamWorks’ cult 1999 sci-fi comedy movie. The project, which is in early stages of development, is set up at Paramount+. It is executive produced by the film’s producer Mark Johnson via his Gran Via Productions. There is no concept or a writer yet. Reps for Paramount+ and Paramount TV Studios declined comment.
Getting a Galaxy Quest TV series off the ground has been a goal for Paramount TV Studios over the past eight years. The original idea was to do a continuation of the movie with the same cast, and Johnson was initially joined by the feature’s writer, Robert Gordon and director, Dean Parisot. The proposed sequel series, which landed at Amazon in 2015, suffered a major blow when one of the main stars of the movie, Adam Rickman, died in 2016.
The Galaxy Quest...
Getting a Galaxy Quest TV series off the ground has been a goal for Paramount TV Studios over the past eight years. The original idea was to do a continuation of the movie with the same cast, and Johnson was initially joined by the feature’s writer, Robert Gordon and director, Dean Parisot. The proposed sequel series, which landed at Amazon in 2015, suffered a major blow when one of the main stars of the movie, Adam Rickman, died in 2016.
The Galaxy Quest...
- 4/18/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
American Cinema Editors handed out its 73rd Eddie Awards on Sunday, with Top Gun: Maverick editor Eddie Hamilton and Everything Everywhere All at Once editor Paul Rogers collecting trophies for best edited dramatic feature and comedy feature, respectively.
Everything Everywhere – which won the BAFTA in film editing – and Top Gun: Maverick, along with Eddie nominees Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár and Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for The Banshees of Inisherin are nominated for the Oscar in film editing.
Everything Everywhere’s Rogers thanked mentors, friends and family, including the Daniels, remembering cutting the movie during lockdown. He also urged diversity, saying, “We can choose what stories we get to tell.” Hamilton wasn’t in attendance and colleagues accepted, reading thanks to those including Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie.
Also on Sunday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ken Schretzmann and Holly Klein collected the animated feature prize,...
Everything Everywhere – which won the BAFTA in film editing – and Top Gun: Maverick, along with Eddie nominees Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár and Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for The Banshees of Inisherin are nominated for the Oscar in film editing.
Everything Everywhere’s Rogers thanked mentors, friends and family, including the Daniels, remembering cutting the movie during lockdown. He also urged diversity, saying, “We can choose what stories we get to tell.” Hamilton wasn’t in attendance and colleagues accepted, reading thanks to those including Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie.
Also on Sunday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ken Schretzmann and Holly Klein collected the animated feature prize,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What's the best "Star Trek" movie? Is it "The Wrath of Khan"? "The Voyage Home"? "First Contact"? Many a Trekkie have said, half or fully seriously, that the answer is the loving parody film, "Galaxy Quest." "High concept" doesn't even begin to cover the film: aliens (the Thermians) who believe that a short-lived sci-fi series was a documentary recruit the cast to help them battle a galactic tyrant.
The sci-fi show in question is a "Trek" parody, a program that was cut short but kept alive decades later by an obsessive fandom. Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) is William Shatner, the egomaniac who soaks up public adoration so much he doesn't notice how his co-stars loathe him. Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman) isn't a one-to-one for Leonard Nimoy, but his resentment of playing the alien "Dr. Lazarus" is in line with Nimoy's autobiography, "I Am Not Spock". Sigourney Weaver, a silver screen...
The sci-fi show in question is a "Trek" parody, a program that was cut short but kept alive decades later by an obsessive fandom. Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) is William Shatner, the egomaniac who soaks up public adoration so much he doesn't notice how his co-stars loathe him. Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman) isn't a one-to-one for Leonard Nimoy, but his resentment of playing the alien "Dr. Lazarus" is in line with Nimoy's autobiography, "I Am Not Spock". Sigourney Weaver, a silver screen...
- 11/19/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
What is the best "Star Trek" movie? There are a handful of options that Trekkies tend on agree on being acceptable answers to this question. Their ranks include often "Galaxy Quest," itself a loving sendup of "Star Trek: The Original Series" that, in some ways, honors the spirit of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's utopian sci-fi vision better than many actual "Star Trek" films.
Directed by Dean Parisot, the beloved 1999 film follows the washed-up stars of a popular "Star Trek"-style 1980s sci-fi series as they're pulled away from their monotonous routine of fan conventions and promotional work and into a real-life interplanetary conflict. Parisot had mostly worked in TV prior to making the movie and had recently called the shots on "Home Fries," the 1998 Drew Barrymore dramedy that's only really notable for being one of "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan's early writing credits. The film was also produced by Mark Johnson,...
Directed by Dean Parisot, the beloved 1999 film follows the washed-up stars of a popular "Star Trek"-style 1980s sci-fi series as they're pulled away from their monotonous routine of fan conventions and promotional work and into a real-life interplanetary conflict. Parisot had mostly worked in TV prior to making the movie and had recently called the shots on "Home Fries," the 1998 Drew Barrymore dramedy that's only really notable for being one of "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan's early writing credits. The film was also produced by Mark Johnson,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
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Because the documentary marketplace is every bit as beholden to the sway of nostalgia as any other, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that one of its most lucrative genres has focused on TV shows that helped form a target demographic.
If you’re trying to woo a hesitant audience of Gen X or millennial viewers — less a worry with today’s documentary-filled streaming landscape than it might have been a decade ago — looking back on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) or Sesame Street (Street Gang) represents an easy way to do it.
Not coincidentally, those shows are the two longest-running children’s series in PBS history, followed by Reading Rainbow, which gets its own documentary retrospective with Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky, debuting at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
While Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
Because the documentary marketplace is every bit as beholden to the sway of nostalgia as any other, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that one of its most lucrative genres has focused on TV shows that helped form a target demographic.
If you’re trying to woo a hesitant audience of Gen X or millennial viewers — less a worry with today’s documentary-filled streaming landscape than it might have been a decade ago — looking back on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) or Sesame Street (Street Gang) represents an easy way to do it.
Not coincidentally, those shows are the two longest-running children’s series in PBS history, followed by Reading Rainbow, which gets its own documentary retrospective with Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky, debuting at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
While Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
- 6/10/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The future awaits when “Bill & Ted Face the Music” arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital. Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” see’s Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (the “Bill & Ted” films) reprise their roles as the respective title characters in the third film in the Bill & Ted franchise. To mark the release, we’ve been given 3 Blu-ray copies to give away.
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-travelling exploits of William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Keanu Reeves). Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures,...
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-travelling exploits of William ‘Bill’ S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Keanu Reeves). Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures,...
- 1/24/2021
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Kid Cudi, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor, Beck Bennett, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr., Amy Stoch | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Dean Parisot
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
- 1/21/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Throughout Johnny Depp‘s bitter split from ex-wife Amber Heard and the subsequent legal battles that followed, fans have always vociferously supported the actor, and their unwavering loyalty has only intensified since he was dumped from Fantastic Beasts 3. Hardly a day goes by when the former Pirates of the Caribbean star isn’t trending for one reason or another, but an incendiary new article has now painted him in an entirely different light.
As well as offering up a series of revelations that include some expletive-ridden tirades about Heard and the fact that he picked up a massive $16 million payday for shooting one scene as Grindelwald on the Wizarding World prequel, the report provides details on yet another high profile gig that the 57 year-old now looks set to miss out on.
Depp was attached to star as Harry Houdini in a prestige TV drama to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer,...
As well as offering up a series of revelations that include some expletive-ridden tirades about Heard and the fact that he picked up a massive $16 million payday for shooting one scene as Grindelwald on the Wizarding World prequel, the report provides details on yet another high profile gig that the 57 year-old now looks set to miss out on.
Depp was attached to star as Harry Houdini in a prestige TV drama to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer,...
- 12/10/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
Happy Cyber Monday, dear readers, and welcome to the next installment of Daily Dead’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide. Today, I’ll be recapping a handful of online sales that are still underway today (and a few new ones), and going through the year’s best home media releases as well. Amazon has also been sporadically offering up tons of deals on movies already this shopping season, so be sure to keep your eye on their deals every day to save yourself some cash whenever possible.
Happy shopping, everyone!
Cyber Monday:
Last week, we gave you the skinny on a ton of horror-related sites that were having Black Friday deals, and here’s a quick look at the sites that are still offering up discounts through today:
Mondo: Mondo’s Holiday Sale runs through tonight at midnight Cst.
Fright Rags: The Fright Rags Black Friday Sale ends tonight at 11:59 pm Est.
Happy shopping, everyone!
Cyber Monday:
Last week, we gave you the skinny on a ton of horror-related sites that were having Black Friday deals, and here’s a quick look at the sites that are still offering up discounts through today:
Mondo: Mondo’s Holiday Sale runs through tonight at midnight Cst.
Fright Rags: The Fright Rags Black Friday Sale ends tonight at 11:59 pm Est.
- 11/30/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
November 10th looks to be an extremely busy day for home media releases, as we have a ton of horror and sci-fi headed home this Tuesday. Two of this writer’s favorite films of 2020 are being released this week—Bill & Ted Face the Music and Spontaneous—and if you’re looking for some classic genre offerings, Scream Factory is keeping busy with a terrifying trifecta of releases: Brides of Dracula: Collector’s Edition, War of the Colossal Beast, and How to Make a Monster.
Giallo fans will want to pick up Cult Epic’s Blu-ray for Death Laid an Egg on Tuesday, and Kino Lorber is showing some love to Play Misty for Me, too. Arrow Video is also doing a few re-releases this week, including American Horror Project: Volume One and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, and if you somehow haven’t had a chance to check it out on Shudder yet,...
Giallo fans will want to pick up Cult Epic’s Blu-ray for Death Laid an Egg on Tuesday, and Kino Lorber is showing some love to Play Misty for Me, too. Arrow Video is also doing a few re-releases this week, including American Horror Project: Volume One and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, and if you somehow haven’t had a chance to check it out on Shudder yet,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar legend who died Tuesday at 65, has received tributes from countless rockers and celebrities — including the fictional Wyld Stallyns from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
“Bill & Ted” writer Ed Solomon said that he and co-writer Chris Matheson desperately wanted Van Halen to make a cameo of some kind in this year’s sequel “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and that his music greatly shaped the narrative direction of the film.
“Super sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Van Halen. He was a big influence on Chris and me as we were writing ‘Bill & Ted.’ In fact, when director Stephen Herek was reading the script he got three pages in, stopped, put on ‘1984’ and resumed. We wanted the movie to be a cinematic ‘Jump,'” Solomon wrote on Twitter. “We tried to get him to do something — anything — in ‘Face the Music,’ but they...
“Bill & Ted” writer Ed Solomon said that he and co-writer Chris Matheson desperately wanted Van Halen to make a cameo of some kind in this year’s sequel “Bill & Ted Face the Music” and that his music greatly shaped the narrative direction of the film.
“Super sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Van Halen. He was a big influence on Chris and me as we were writing ‘Bill & Ted.’ In fact, when director Stephen Herek was reading the script he got three pages in, stopped, put on ‘1984’ and resumed. We wanted the movie to be a cinematic ‘Jump,'” Solomon wrote on Twitter. “We tried to get him to do something — anything — in ‘Face the Music,’ but they...
- 10/6/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: With the domestic box office still ailing, studios have been keen to make their finished films revenue events to the widest audience possible, maximizing profits by whatever means.
For MGM’s Orion, that meant releasing the long-awaited Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music on Premium VOD and whatever theaters would play it. The pic in its stateside theatrical release via United Artists Releasing has grossed $3.3 million since its August 28 opening, but in the pic’s PVOD run sources tell us Bill & Ted Face the Music has notched around $32M. The movie hit theaters on a weekend that 62% of theaters were open. Bill & Ted Face the Music was available on...
For MGM’s Orion, that meant releasing the long-awaited Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music on Premium VOD and whatever theaters would play it. The pic in its stateside theatrical release via United Artists Releasing has grossed $3.3 million since its August 28 opening, but in the pic’s PVOD run sources tell us Bill & Ted Face the Music has notched around $32M. The movie hit theaters on a weekend that 62% of theaters were open. Bill & Ted Face the Music was available on...
- 9/30/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are joined by lookalike daughters to party on through time and save the world, with the help of Mozart, Hendrix and Louis Armstrong
Not excellent maybe, but by no means bogus either, this cheerful Bill & Ted threequel brings the story of our two laidback heroes up to the melancholy autumn of their middle age.
Alex Winter is Bill – and he’s eerily the same – and Keanu Reeves is Ted; though with that dark mop of hair framing his now rather Easter-Island-stern face, Ted looks more forbidding to me, as if carrying the baggage of Neo (from Matrix) and hitman John Wick. But with his weirdly lovable awkward gestures, Ted clearly still has no idea how or why to move his arms. Like the other two films, this is written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and the director is Dean Parisot, renowned for the sci-fi comedy classic Galaxy Quest.
Not excellent maybe, but by no means bogus either, this cheerful Bill & Ted threequel brings the story of our two laidback heroes up to the melancholy autumn of their middle age.
Alex Winter is Bill – and he’s eerily the same – and Keanu Reeves is Ted; though with that dark mop of hair framing his now rather Easter-Island-stern face, Ted looks more forbidding to me, as if carrying the baggage of Neo (from Matrix) and hitman John Wick. But with his weirdly lovable awkward gestures, Ted clearly still has no idea how or why to move his arms. Like the other two films, this is written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and the director is Dean Parisot, renowned for the sci-fi comedy classic Galaxy Quest.
- 9/15/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
‘After We Collided.’
Five new mainstream titles entered the market last weekend – but none could beat the third frame of Warner Bros’ Tenet, which is benefiting from repeat business.
Product-starved exhibitors welcomed the influx and were pleasantly surprised by the turnout for Roadshow’s After We Collided but disappointed with Madman Entertainment’s Bill & Ted Face the Music.
A home entertainment release in the US, Paramount’s Paw Patrol: Jet to the Rescue drew a reasonable number of kids and families while fans of Korean boy band BTS flocked to Trafalgar Releasing’s Break the Silence: The Movie.
Released by Universal, Slim & I, Kriv Stenders’ biopic on country music star Joy McKean and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right, resonated in regional locations.
Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $4.2 million, nearly 30 per cent up on the previous frame. “We have what I...
Five new mainstream titles entered the market last weekend – but none could beat the third frame of Warner Bros’ Tenet, which is benefiting from repeat business.
Product-starved exhibitors welcomed the influx and were pleasantly surprised by the turnout for Roadshow’s After We Collided but disappointed with Madman Entertainment’s Bill & Ted Face the Music.
A home entertainment release in the US, Paramount’s Paw Patrol: Jet to the Rescue drew a reasonable number of kids and families while fans of Korean boy band BTS flocked to Trafalgar Releasing’s Break the Silence: The Movie.
Released by Universal, Slim & I, Kriv Stenders’ biopic on country music star Joy McKean and her determination to be recognised as a performer and songwriter in her own right, resonated in regional locations.
Numero reported the top 20 titles generated $4.2 million, nearly 30 per cent up on the previous frame. “We have what I...
- 9/14/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
First their adventure was excellent. Then their journey was totally bogus.
Now our favourite metal-heads are facing the music
Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, Bill & Ted: Face the Music is set decades after Bogus Journey. The Wyld Stallions were meant to save the world with a song but instead, they have faded into obscurity. On top of this, their marriages are falling apart. It is about to get much worse, however, as an agent from the future tells them that if they don’t invent a song to unite the whole world, reality could crumble.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves take on the titular roles once more in a movie that is nice, if albeit a little uninspiring. The aged pair tackle a version of their characters who are way past their prime but the actors slip into the characters with a scary ease.
Now our favourite metal-heads are facing the music
Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, Bill & Ted: Face the Music is set decades after Bogus Journey. The Wyld Stallions were meant to save the world with a song but instead, they have faded into obscurity. On top of this, their marriages are falling apart. It is about to get much worse, however, as an agent from the future tells them that if they don’t invent a song to unite the whole world, reality could crumble.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves take on the titular roles once more in a movie that is nice, if albeit a little uninspiring. The aged pair tackle a version of their characters who are way past their prime but the actors slip into the characters with a scary ease.
- 9/2/2020
- by Sarah Cook
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Kid Cudi, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor, Beck Bennett, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr., Amy Stoch | Written by Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon | Directed by Dean Parisot
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
To fulfil their rock and roll destiny the now middle aged best friends, William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan, set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Growing old sucks. As kids we have hopes and dreams that we think we can accomplish, we’re told by our parents that we...
- 8/31/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Superhero thriller “The New Mutants,” one of the first major movies to open since coronavirus forced theaters to close in March, launched to $7 million over the weekend. Though ticket sales were on the lower end of expectations, the Disney and 20th Century Studios title marks the biggest debut yet for a new release during the pandemic.
Around 60-70% of theaters have reopened across the U.S. and Canada, according to Disney. However, some of the biggest moviegoing markets, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, New Jersey and New York, still remain closed. In parts of the country where theaters have resumed business, venues are capping capacity and keeping space between seats to comply with social distancing measures. “The New Mutants” played in 2,412 theaters, making it the widest release in months.
Overseas, “The New Mutants” amassed $2.9 million from 10 markets, bringing its global haul to $9.9 million.
“We’re encouraged by the results,...
Around 60-70% of theaters have reopened across the U.S. and Canada, according to Disney. However, some of the biggest moviegoing markets, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, New Jersey and New York, still remain closed. In parts of the country where theaters have resumed business, venues are capping capacity and keeping space between seats to comply with social distancing measures. “The New Mutants” played in 2,412 theaters, making it the widest release in months.
Overseas, “The New Mutants” amassed $2.9 million from 10 markets, bringing its global haul to $9.9 million.
“We’re encouraged by the results,...
- 8/30/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – It’s time for Round Three, 29 years after the second film. “Bill & Ted Face the Music” opened August 28th, 2020 in theaters and VOD platforms. Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, reviewed the film during the Eddie Volkman Show (Star 96.7 FM) in Joliet, Illinois.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” presents the former teenage heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) as middle aged men, failing to get their band Wyld Stallyns off the ground since their heroic number one song in the second film. The future is represented by Kelly (Kristen Schaal), the daughter of their old mentor Rufus, and recruits the clueless duo to again create a song that this time will save reality. Oh yeah, and Bill & Ted have two daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine) helping them out.
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is available through VOD and in theaters. See local listings for details.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” presents the former teenage heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) as middle aged men, failing to get their band Wyld Stallyns off the ground since their heroic number one song in the second film. The future is represented by Kelly (Kristen Schaal), the daughter of their old mentor Rufus, and recruits the clueless duo to again create a song that this time will save reality. Oh yeah, and Bill & Ted have two daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine) helping them out.
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is available through VOD and in theaters. See local listings for details.
- 8/29/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Too late to salvage a summer movie season wiped out by coronavirus, but boldly hoping to bring audiences back to cinemas (or drive-ins at least), a handful of movies are opening widely this weekend — or as widely as they can in a country where many communities are still restricting public gatherings.
If time travel were a real thing, one might hope that air-guitar aces Bill and Ted would have warned the world this pandemic were coming. Instead, their reunion sequel “Bill and Ted Face the Music” find the duo still trying to unite humanity with a song. After multiple delays for reasons that had nothing to do with the coronavirus, X-Men spinoff “The New Mutants” finally sees the light of day. And indie champions Searchlight Pictures try a 2020 variation on their limited-release strategy with “The Personal Life of David Copperfield,” skipping New York and Los Angeles (where such films typically...
If time travel were a real thing, one might hope that air-guitar aces Bill and Ted would have warned the world this pandemic were coming. Instead, their reunion sequel “Bill and Ted Face the Music” find the duo still trying to unite humanity with a song. After multiple delays for reasons that had nothing to do with the coronavirus, X-Men spinoff “The New Mutants” finally sees the light of day. And indie champions Searchlight Pictures try a 2020 variation on their limited-release strategy with “The Personal Life of David Copperfield,” skipping New York and Los Angeles (where such films typically...
- 8/28/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The day Anthony Carrigan learned that he was nominated for an Emmy for the second season of “Barry,” he was arriving for his first day on set for “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” where news about his honor had already spread, including to Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves. He was already humbled, to say the least, but he then put on a hulking, 40-pound robot suit in the summer heat of New Orleans.
Carrigan’s role as a futuristic robot sent back in time to assassinate Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan is a sleek white, athletic, full body armor suit, with blue machinery bulging from his chest, shoulders and skull and his face encased in all white. Carrigan told TheWrap in an interview he donned not one, but two latex masks glued to his face in addition to the 40 pounds of costume he’s encased in.
Carrigan’s role as a futuristic robot sent back in time to assassinate Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan is a sleek white, athletic, full body armor suit, with blue machinery bulging from his chest, shoulders and skull and his face encased in all white. Carrigan told TheWrap in an interview he donned not one, but two latex masks glued to his face in addition to the 40 pounds of costume he’s encased in.
- 8/28/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Long in the making sequels have been having a bit of a moment in Hollywood over the last handful of years. Properties long since thought dormant have come back to life, sometimes to great success. Now, Bill & Ted Face the Music hopes to be the latest IP to do so, with this newest effort nearly 30 years after Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (not to mention over three decades since the initial outing in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure). The franchise always leaned on creativity, but that’s in short supply here. This likely conclusion to the misadventures of the title character best friends is fan service and fan service alone, but everyone seems to know that the joke has more than worn thin. Hitting screens today, it’s a huge disappointment. The movie is the second sequel and third installment in the Bill & Ted series. Once upon a time, William “Bill” S.
- 8/28/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
[This story contains spoilers for Bill & Ted Face the Music.]
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
- 8/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[This story contains spoilers for Bill & Ted Face the Music.]
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
The two great ones, Bill and Ted, are back! After a decade of development, the follow-up to cult classics Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) has finally arrived in our timeline. Bill & Ted Face the Music not only sees Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their respective roles as Bill and Ted, but also brings back the writers of the first two films, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. The film, directed by Dean Parisot, is a worthy successor to the first two, offering the same charming ...
- 8/28/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bill & Ted Face the Music is a very kind-hearted movie. There’s not a single mean-spirited bone in its body. With its unironic heroes, its passion for music, and most importantly, the love between best friends and family, Bill & Ted Face the Music appreciates the best in life. Whatever obstacles came in the way of the sequel, […]
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- 8/28/2020
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
It’s been almost 30 years since Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan rocked out in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, but Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back in this summer’s Bill & Ted Face the Music as the iconic duo, spurred to action once more when a visitor from the future tells them one of their songs can save the world and bring harmony to the universe.
Was it worth the wait? Here’s what critics are saying about the long-awaited comedy threequel, as it’s finally released in the U.S. today…
Katie Rife – Av Club
“While the high stakes couldn’t be higher, the film simply takes too long to find its focus. It’s not the most excellent of outcomes, but not a total bummer, either.”
John DeFore – THR
“Imagining the return of the time-traveling Messrs. Preston and Logan, Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted...
Was it worth the wait? Here’s what critics are saying about the long-awaited comedy threequel, as it’s finally released in the U.S. today…
Katie Rife – Av Club
“While the high stakes couldn’t be higher, the film simply takes too long to find its focus. It’s not the most excellent of outcomes, but not a total bummer, either.”
John DeFore – THR
“Imagining the return of the time-traveling Messrs. Preston and Logan, Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted...
- 8/28/2020
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
It’s been three decades between gigs for those Wyld Stallyns William “Bill” S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves). Was it worth the wait to once again see these two knuckleheads be excellent to each other? Totally, dudes. When Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure debuted in 1989, The New York Times called it “painfully inept.” To paraphrase Bill, the movie, in which the duo traveled back in time to pass their high school history final (with some help from Socrates, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Abe...
- 8/27/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
For a movie in which the world could end at any moment, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” is awfully sweet and cheery.
And for that, we have to thank Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan, who 30 years ago were the sweetest and cheeriest of teen heroes and are now hanging onto that into middle age. They’re not the smartest of heroes, of course, but they know what works for them: As Ted says at one point in this movie, “Maybe we should always not know what we’re doing!”
But “Bill & Ted Face the Music” does know what it’s doing, which is to preserve the essence of the characters played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves even as it dumps a most unpleasant midlife crisis and an even more heinous threat to reality as we know on their still-shaggy heads.
Written by original “Bill...
And for that, we have to thank Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan, who 30 years ago were the sweetest and cheeriest of teen heroes and are now hanging onto that into middle age. They’re not the smartest of heroes, of course, but they know what works for them: As Ted says at one point in this movie, “Maybe we should always not know what we’re doing!”
But “Bill & Ted Face the Music” does know what it’s doing, which is to preserve the essence of the characters played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves even as it dumps a most unpleasant midlife crisis and an even more heinous threat to reality as we know on their still-shaggy heads.
Written by original “Bill...
- 8/27/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reunite for a Most Excellent Sequel
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” has a high-fluff effervescence. It’s about how Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves), those chuckle-brained metal heads who speak like Jeff Spicoli with a thesaurus, have just 77 minutes to travel through time and get the song — from themselves! Because they wrote it already! Whoa!! — that will unite humanity and save reality as we know it. As they trip further and further into the future, they keep meeting older versions of themselves, a variation on the doubling-up-of-identity-through-space-time stunt that the first two “Bill and Ted” films played with, only here it gets a major metaphysical stoned workout. Meanwhile, Bill and Ted’s respective daughters, Thea (Samara Weaving) and Billie (Brigitte Lundy-Paine), who are of course chips off the old blockhead, go back in time to gather a band of musicians that includes Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, and Kid Cudi.
That sounds like...
That sounds like...
- 8/27/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Bill & Ted Face the Music” is the long-awaited conclusion to to an unlikely teen comedy franchise that launched the careers of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The original two movies have over time developed a cult fanbase and have their DNA in numerous slacker comedy duos throughout the ’90s and beyond. But did anyone think it would actually nearly three decades for a reunion to happen? Whoa.
In fact if you ask Reeves and Winter — and we did — they’d say they really didn’t think it would ever happen at all, despite the repeated efforts of producer Scott Kroopf, writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and director Dean Parisot, to bring all the pieces together over the last 10 years. And the new movie even plays with the idea that we’ve been away from Bill & Ted for so long, with each of them now middle-aged dudes with families...
In fact if you ask Reeves and Winter — and we did — they’d say they really didn’t think it would ever happen at all, despite the repeated efforts of producer Scott Kroopf, writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and director Dean Parisot, to bring all the pieces together over the last 10 years. And the new movie even plays with the idea that we’ve been away from Bill & Ted for so long, with each of them now middle-aged dudes with families...
- 8/27/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Reviews are in for Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third installment in the Bill & Ted trilogy starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
In the latest film, a middle-aged Bill and Ted are warned by a time traveler from the future that a concert that’s supposed to save all of space and time is going to occur in 78 minutes and the boy must create a song to save all life on Earth and the entire universe.
And in classic Bill and Ted fashion, the two go on an excellent journey meeting with their families, old friends and famous musicians to complete ...
In the latest film, a middle-aged Bill and Ted are warned by a time traveler from the future that a concert that’s supposed to save all of space and time is going to occur in 78 minutes and the boy must create a song to save all life on Earth and the entire universe.
And in classic Bill and Ted fashion, the two go on an excellent journey meeting with their families, old friends and famous musicians to complete ...
- 8/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reviews are in for Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted Face the Music, the third installment in the Bill & Ted trilogy starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
In the latest film, a middle-aged Bill and Ted are warned by a time traveler from the future that a concert that’s supposed to save all of space and time is going to occur in 78 minutes and the boy must create a song to save all life on Earth and the entire universe.
And in classic Bill and Ted fashion, the two go on an excellent journey meeting with their families, old friends and famous musicians to complete ...
In the latest film, a middle-aged Bill and Ted are warned by a time traveler from the future that a concert that’s supposed to save all of space and time is going to occur in 78 minutes and the boy must create a song to save all life on Earth and the entire universe.
And in classic Bill and Ted fashion, the two go on an excellent journey meeting with their families, old friends and famous musicians to complete ...
- 8/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
They saved the world by writing the perfect song, but it didn’t take. (Maybe somebody actually listened to the song: “God gave rock & roll to you,” really?) Imagining the return of the time-traveling Messrs. Preston and Logan, Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted Face the Music is almost exactly as good as its two big-screen predecessors — make of that statement what you will — while cleaning up some, but not all, of the things that might make an old fan of those films cringe today. Despite a dicey opening, the pic should please those looking forward to it,...
- 8/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
They saved the world by writing the perfect song, but it didn’t take. (Maybe somebody actually listened to the song: “God gave rock & roll to you,” really?) Imagining the return of the time-traveling Messrs. Preston and Logan, Dean Parisot’s Bill & Ted Face the Music is almost exactly as good as its two big-screen predecessors — make of that statement what you will — while cleaning up some, but not all, of the things that might make an old fan of those films cringe today. Despite a dicey opening, the pic should please those looking forward to it,...
- 8/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Orion Pictures and Bill & Ted Face The Music, with the help of the film’s most excellent fans, have successfully set the Guinness World Records Title for “Most People Playing Air Guitar Online Simultaneously,” bringing the most bodacious air guitarists from around the world together to celebrate the film. On August 24, 2020, 186 participants from over 20 countries around the world completed the virtual jam session with support from the Air Guitar World Championships (Agwc) as part of their #MakeAirNotWar initiative.
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves). The now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe, with the helped by their daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine), a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends.
The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves). The now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe, with the helped by their daughters (Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine), a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends.
- 8/27/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Have lingering questions about the ending of I May Destroy You on HBO? Here’s what show creator and actress Michaela Coel has to say.
“When I ask Michaela Coel whether she would make another season of her breakout HBO series I May Destroy You, she turns the question back on me. ‘What do you think?’ she responds in a genuine, but almost cheeky manner, laughing a little. I tell her that I think the series is a masterpiece, and that, while I would love to spend more time with the characters, the story does feel whole.”
Read more at Thrillist.
The video game industry is full of stories. Here are ten tales that would make awesome documentaries.
“This month sees the premiere of Pretending I’m A Superman, a documentary film chronicling the development and cultural impact of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. One of the most influential games of its generation,...
“When I ask Michaela Coel whether she would make another season of her breakout HBO series I May Destroy You, she turns the question back on me. ‘What do you think?’ she responds in a genuine, but almost cheeky manner, laughing a little. I tell her that I think the series is a masterpiece, and that, while I would love to spend more time with the characters, the story does feel whole.”
Read more at Thrillist.
The video game industry is full of stories. Here are ten tales that would make awesome documentaries.
“This month sees the premiere of Pretending I’m A Superman, a documentary film chronicling the development and cultural impact of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. One of the most influential games of its generation,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
A few days before the release of “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” Steven Soderbergh was on a Zoom call with Alex Winter, and decided to turn it into a job interview. The filmmaker served as an executive producer on “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” the long-awaited third entry in the cult saga of two hard-rocking pals who travel through history to unite the world through music. The project took over a decade to get off the ground, and resulted in Winter — who left acting for documentary filmmaking years ago — returning to play the iconic doofus opposite Keanu Reeves that launched both of their careers 30 years ago. Winter even resumed acting classes to get back in the groove, and Soderbergh took note.
“Alex,” the filmmaker said, looking into his screen. “Are you available to me?” Winter chuckled. “Steven,” he said, “I will always be available to you.”
For all...
“Alex,” the filmmaker said, looking into his screen. “Are you available to me?” Winter chuckled. “Steven,” he said, “I will always be available to you.”
For all...
- 8/26/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back for another excellent adventure in “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” hitting theaters and digital platforms on Aug. 28. This time, the time-traveling, middle-aged best friends journey out in search of one song that will unite the world.
Whether creating present day or futuristic looks for Reeves and Winter, costume designer Jennifer Starzyk, who recently worked on David Fincher’s “Mindhunter,” knew no one would understand the character looks better than the film’s stars. After all, they had been with these characters for decades, since 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
Starzyk spoke with Variety to break down some key looks from the film:
Bill and Ted’s return
“Director Dean Parisot first said, ‘No one is going to know these characters better than Keanu and Alex,’ so I deferred to them. Everyone has an emotional attachment to these characters, and I had mine.
Whether creating present day or futuristic looks for Reeves and Winter, costume designer Jennifer Starzyk, who recently worked on David Fincher’s “Mindhunter,” knew no one would understand the character looks better than the film’s stars. After all, they had been with these characters for decades, since 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
Starzyk spoke with Variety to break down some key looks from the film:
Bill and Ted’s return
“Director Dean Parisot first said, ‘No one is going to know these characters better than Keanu and Alex,’ so I deferred to them. Everyone has an emotional attachment to these characters, and I had mine.
- 8/26/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The third “Bill & Ted” movie is here at last.
Released 31 years after “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and directed by Dean Parisot, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” sees the return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted, now middle-aged former rock stars who are warned by a visitor from the future that they have just 78 minutes to create a song that will save the world — and the universe — from obliteration. With the aid of their families, they time travel to cobble together a band of history’s greatest musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong and Mozart, to help them fulfill their destiny.
“We never intended to make a third,” Winter says during a joint interview with Reeves on Wednesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We never felt the world particularly needed a third, but when we were pitched this idea...
Released 31 years after “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and directed by Dean Parisot, “Bill & Ted Face the Music” sees the return of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as Bill and Ted, now middle-aged former rock stars who are warned by a visitor from the future that they have just 78 minutes to create a song that will save the world — and the universe — from obliteration. With the aid of their families, they time travel to cobble together a band of history’s greatest musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong and Mozart, to help them fulfill their destiny.
“We never intended to make a third,” Winter says during a joint interview with Reeves on Wednesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “We never felt the world particularly needed a third, but when we were pitched this idea...
- 8/26/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Galaxy Quest Dean Parisot’s Bill and Ted Face the Music with Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves hits theaters this Friday. And today, franchise creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson say the film will be Bill and Ted’s final adventure. Solomon tells ComicBook.com: “We’re good to stand down at this point, and so we told the […] More...
- 8/25/2020
- by Mike Sprague
- DreadCentral.com
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