The latest trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has a lot more alien and, worryingly, a lot more cat. Thankfully, this seems like a pretty docile, meow-free cat, so he’ll probably do fine in the muted world the characters in this franchise are forced to occupy. The people, on the other hand, aren’t doing so hot. Day One—which stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou—takes fans of the original John Krasinski series back to the first day of this hushed apocalypse. We still...
Last year, Andy Serkis said he would happily return to Middle-earth if Peter Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens were involved. Seems he’s gotten his wish, and then some: Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Thursday that Jackson would produce a new Lord Of The Rings film, directed by and starring Serkis (via Deadline). On WBD’s quarterly earnings call, CEO David Zaslav said the studio is aiming for a 2026 release of the new movie, which is currently titled Lord Of The...
Apple did one of its big, fancy press events yesterday, showing off the upcoming iPad Pro, the biggest immediate selling point of which is that it’s very, very thin. In order to convey that thinness, Apple did what any giant tech firm that secretly hates the weak, fleshy meat of the human race might do: Filmed a commercial in which they stuck basically every implement of human creativity to date under a crusher, utterly demolished it, and then displayed the new iPad as a suitable replacement for...
“It’s not a challenge. This is the war!” Laura battle-cried during Wednesday’s episode of Top Chef: Wisconsin. Yes, eight episodes in, it’s officially time for our chef-testants to take up arms for the return of Restaurant Wars. The show’s signature challenge is a polarizing one for Top Chef fans, with some loving the added drama that managing waitstaff and choosing napkins can bring to the competition, while others eye-roll their way through watching executive chefs unrealistically having to...
It’s been several years now since Pushing Daisies and Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller last produced a full season of TV, with his most recent projects being an executive producer role on Sam Wineman’s Netflix docuseries Queer For Fear—and then a blistering denunciation of Wineman, after the latter sued him for sexual harassment in 2023. (Legal action which has gone quiet since October 2023, when several mutual colleagues came forward supporting Fuller’s version of events.) Fuller’s history over...
In a collaboration unseen since Judge Doom attempted to drown Toontown in Dip to make way for a freeway to connect Hollywood to Pasadena, Disney and Warner Bros. are joining forces. Announced via press release today, Disney and Warner Bros will begin offering a streaming bundle in the coming months that combines Disney+, Hulu, and Max in one Netflix-killing package. ABC, CNN, the Snyder Cut, Flip Or Flop, Coyote Vs. ACME, Batgirl, Willow, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are finally under the...
If there’s a running joke currently going in Hollywood that’s funnier to us than Chris Pine saying “Fuck if I know” every time someone asks him about a new Star Trek movie, we’re not privy to it. Pine, who’s debuting his new film Poolman this week, got asked the obligatory question about the film franchise that made him a movie star—and which he is still, hypothetically, the star of, eight years after it last released a movie—and made it clear that he’s still getting his Star Trek news from the...
Maya Rudolph is one of the most prolific and beloved players to ever grace the Saturday Night Live stage. Without her, we wouldn’t have Beyoncé on Hot Ones (a sketch that still needs to become a reality), a version of Kamala Harris that we can laugh at with slightly less trepidation for the future of our country, or—perhaps worst of all—Pamela Bell and her perfect, horrible National Anthem. Still, because of how often things are taken out of context that exists in the world of comedy on the...
Sunspot, also known as Roberto “Bobby” da Costa, is not only hot, rich, and single; he’s also the first Latino character to be a core part of a televised X-Men team. It only took 30 years for an X-Men team to on the small screen to make a Latinx character one of the main members. That’s correct: This super-powered group that is known for diversity and inclusion did not have a core Latino mutant until the fantastic animated series X-Men ’97 premiered in 2024. Not great. Yes, Roberto da Costa and...
As the Planet Of The Apes franchise has shown us for almost 60 years, its primates won’t stop evolving, and neither will its movies. Case in point: the saga of Caesar, brought to motion-capture life by Andy Serkis in three films released throughout the 2010s, was a bleaker affair compared to the sci-fi shocks that sent Charlton Heston into a belligerent froth in 1968's Planet Of The Apes. This change in tempo felt like a deliberate response to the morally complex blockbusters of the period; the...
On television, what’s died never stays dead. We’ve done this reboot dance before, we’ll do it again—but in truth, few TV reboot/spin-off/continuations are as high profile as The Office. There’s been buzz about this potential new series for months, and with Greg Daniels behind the wheel, it does actually have the potential to be good. Of course, the show has landed at Peacock, which is not exactly prime streaming real estate. It seems a shame, given that The Office was (after a rocky start) a...
Steve Albini, among the most influential and respected figures in American independent music, known for producing Nirvana, The Pixies, and his bands, has died. As confirmed by the staff of his recording studio to Pitchfork, Albini died of a heart attack. He was 61. It’s hard to overstate Albini’s impact on American underground music. First as producer in the revolutionary electronic punk band Big Black and later Shellac, and, of course, as the producer of some of American punk’s most iconic...