Starring in an Alien movie, co-writing a Halloween film, and a second season of Vice Principals on the way, it's a good time to be a Danny McBride fan. McBride and David Gordon Green , who directed most of season 2 of Vice Principals , are working on getting Michael Meyers back in theaters next October.
The production of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hasn't been an easy one for Johnny Depp , whose personal and professional issues have been duly noted in the past year. This latest story isn't likely to make anything easier for Pirates 5 or Depp.
"As a longtime fan of Twin Peaks, I was initially nervous this revival would pull an X-Files and function as simple nostalgia fuel while being not great," posted Yahoo TV's Price Peterson, who attended a Friday screening of the first two episodes in Los Angeles. "But two hours later, a stunned crowd left the theater with the distinct feeling that David Lynch had gotten away with something.
The film, being shopped to buyers in Cannes by The Works International, will the tell the real-life story of how two anti-Apartheid activists in South Africa broke out of Pretoria's maximum security prison in 1978. Neill takes the role of South African social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the ANC's military wing and a key player in the struggle against apartheid.
At last a contemporary horror film that is actually scary. Under the Shadow , the debut feature of London-based, Iran-born Babak Anvari, uses 1980s Tehran as the backdrop for a story about the haunting of a child.
Thirty-Eight years after the original film in the series, "Alien Covenant" is crawling into theaters this weekend. This entry in the Alien series is the sixth film overall, but being a prequel, it happens before the Sigourney Weaver films.
The tagline for David Lynch's Inland Empire , which he has avowed is his final film, is a four-word fragment: "a woman in trouble."
When movie fan Philip Wyn Jones announced he was leaving Wales for Scotland, his friends knew just what to do for a leaving present. So pals, led by local cafe boss Lewys Wootten, got together to reconstruct classic scenes from Hitchcock movies to help him remember them.
Vive l'anti-terrorisme! Watching a fabulously coiffed woman in couture having her ruffles patted down by a security guard is the new Cannes; less amusingly, so is a television journalist weeping as her professional make-up is chucked into the bin at the theatre entrance. We're on high alert.