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20 years ago, comic book movies were in an odd place. "X-Men" helped open the floodgates in 2000, particularly for Marvel, but it was the absolutely astonishing success of 2002's "Spider-Man" that represented the point of no return. Thus, other superheroes quickly made their way to the silver screen in the years that followed, with mixed results. One fascinating example is 2003's "Daredevil," which starred Ben Affleck as the Man Without Fear, and his future wife (and eventual ex-wife) Jennifer Garner as Elektra. The movie wasn't quite a flop, though not quite a hit, and didn't start a franchise for Matt Murdock like Marvel's mutants and Peter Parker now had. It was an up-the-middle, modest misfire.
The project was originally set up at Sony,...
20 years ago, comic book movies were in an odd place. "X-Men" helped open the floodgates in 2000, particularly for Marvel, but it was the absolutely astonishing success of 2002's "Spider-Man" that represented the point of no return. Thus, other superheroes quickly made their way to the silver screen in the years that followed, with mixed results. One fascinating example is 2003's "Daredevil," which starred Ben Affleck as the Man Without Fear, and his future wife (and eventual ex-wife) Jennifer Garner as Elektra. The movie wasn't quite a flop, though not quite a hit, and didn't start a franchise for Matt Murdock like Marvel's mutants and Peter Parker now had. It was an up-the-middle, modest misfire.
The project was originally set up at Sony,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Actors Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) and Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings) have signed on to star in the upcoming Netflix movie Love, Guaranteed. Cook is also producing the Netflix original. Mark Steven Johnson is directing from a script by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, who also wrote the recent Netflix rom-com Falling Inn Love.
Deadline reports the following synopsis for the movie:
The story centers on an earnest, hard-working lawyer Susan (Cook) who has taken one too many pro bono cases. To save her small law firm, Susan begrudgingly takes a high-paying, high-profile case from Nick (Wayans Jr.), a charming new client who wants to sue a dating website that guarantees users will find love. But Susan and Nick soon find themselves in the middle of a media storm, and as the case heats up, so do their feelings for each other — which could jeopardize everything.
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Deadline reports the following synopsis for the movie:
The story centers on an earnest, hard-working lawyer Susan (Cook) who has taken one too many pro bono cases. To save her small law firm, Susan begrudgingly takes a high-paying, high-profile case from Nick (Wayans Jr.), a charming new client who wants to sue a dating website that guarantees users will find love. But Susan and Nick soon find themselves in the middle of a media storm, and as the case heats up, so do their feelings for each other — which could jeopardize everything.
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- 10/8/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
In a desolate summer of blockbuster sequels and Disney remakes and Pokémon moonlighting as detectives, it’s hard to overstate how refreshing it is to see a studio movie as silly and self-contained as Michael Dowse’s “Stuber.” Spider-Man is nowhere to be found. The biggest action scene is set in a sporting goods store. And the hero isn’t fighting to save the planet, but only to help pay for the small business he wants to open with his crush (it’s a spinning gym geared towards single women called “Spinsters”). If not for the triple-underlined nowness of an action-comedy about a rideshare driver — will that premise make even a lick of sense to anyone in the future? — and a socially conscious subtext about the perils of toxic masculinity, this is the kind of fun July diversion that Hollywood might’ve made 20 years ago.
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- 7/9/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A woman in Los Angeles destroyed a whole row of pieces of art while trying to get a selfie. The whole thing was caught on camera and can be seen in the 35-second surveillance video below. The sculptures were a part of Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch‘s latest immersive art project at The 14th Factory, a temporary […]
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- 7/17/2017
- by Aleks Simeonova
- Uinterview
My God, it’s full of chairs. Devoted fans of Stanley Kubrick in general and “2001: A Space Odyssey” in particular may want to consider a pilgrimage to the 14th Factory, an abandoned jail in Los Angeles that British artist Simon Birch has turned into a series of micro-exhibitions, perhaps the most exciting of which is an exact replica of the bedroom that appears at the end of Kubrick’s sci-fi benchmark.
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That’s notable in part because Kubrick was known to destroy the materials used in his films. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong–based Birch explains that he and architect Paul Kember “always wanted to reference the film producer and director Stanley Kubrick in the show and then I thought, ‘Why not do something more blatant...
Read More: ‘Barry Lyndon’ Live Score First Look: Experience Stanley Kubrick’s Period Drama Like Never Before — Watch
That’s notable in part because Kubrick was known to destroy the materials used in his films. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong–based Birch explains that he and architect Paul Kember “always wanted to reference the film producer and director Stanley Kubrick in the show and then I thought, ‘Why not do something more blatant...
- 3/30/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
New Original Programming:
“Meet the Donors” (8/1)
“Dios, Inc.” - Season 1 Finale (8/5)
“Hitchcock/Truffaut” (8/8)
“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the La Rams” (8/10)
“El Negocio” - Season 3 Premiere (8/12)
IndieWire Pick: “The Night Of” (Series Finale) (8/28)
HBO’s well-received limited series “The Night Of” will wrap up its eight-part whodunnit in late August. Steve Zaillian’s gritty drama, which examines a man’s fate after he wakes up charged with the murder of a relative stranger, debuted to rave reviews from critics and audiences. IndieWire’s Ben Travers writes, “By actively engaging on personal and political levels, Zaillian sucks the viewer into a nightmare scenario wholly dependent on two verdicts: first, whether or not Naz is found guilty, but also if he really did it.” Here’s hoping the series can maintain its slow burn thrills all the way to the end.
Read More: Review: ‘The Night Of’ ‘Serial’-izes ‘Law & Order,...
“Meet the Donors” (8/1)
“Dios, Inc.” - Season 1 Finale (8/5)
“Hitchcock/Truffaut” (8/8)
“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the La Rams” (8/10)
“El Negocio” - Season 3 Premiere (8/12)
IndieWire Pick: “The Night Of” (Series Finale) (8/28)
HBO’s well-received limited series “The Night Of” will wrap up its eight-part whodunnit in late August. Steve Zaillian’s gritty drama, which examines a man’s fate after he wakes up charged with the murder of a relative stranger, debuted to rave reviews from critics and audiences. IndieWire’s Ben Travers writes, “By actively engaging on personal and political levels, Zaillian sucks the viewer into a nightmare scenario wholly dependent on two verdicts: first, whether or not Naz is found guilty, but also if he really did it.” Here’s hoping the series can maintain its slow burn thrills all the way to the end.
Read More: Review: ‘The Night Of’ ‘Serial’-izes ‘Law & Order,...
- 7/31/2016
- by Kate Halliwell
- Indiewire
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