Paramount must be very high on “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” because here’s yet another trailer before its theatrical release next week. But the studio has good reason to be excited about the upcoming film.
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this is my world now,” Crawford said. It was the moment that art, for him, became “more than a hobby.” “It’s a central thing to express myself.
As we tell stories, like ‘Puss in Boots,’ there’s so many layers of conscious and even unconscious storytelling that we’re using to glue things together.”And in the most obvious “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” terms, that accident with the wall was probably one of his nine lives. Just like in the exceptional animated feature, as Puss (voiced once again by a lively Antonio Banderas) is forced to examine his choices when it’s revealed he’s on his ninth life, Crawford’s life took on a different dimension.Crawford has been a DreamWorks Animation stalwart for more than 15 years.
He was first credited as a story artist on Jerry Seinfeld’s future meme-generator “Bee Movie” and he worked in the story department of future DreamWorks favorites like “Kung Fu Panda,” “Rise of the Guardians” and “Trolls.” In 2017, he directed “Trolls Holiday,” a Christmas special set in the world of “Trolls.” That same year Crawford was also installed as the director of “The Croods: A New Age,” another long-awaited sequel to a DreamWorks blockbuster that had been temporarily shelved when Universal outright bought the Glendale, California-based animation studio in 2016.At the time that Crawford took over the “Croods” sequel, the original filmmaker Chris Sanders wasn’t at DreamWorks Animation. (He has since returned to the studio.) Described by Crawford as “one of my idols,” Sanders met with Crawford.
“He came back to meet with me and went through the script with me and gave me his thoughts on the characters,” Crawford said. “He gave me this really nice, sweet handoff that fully gave me the confidence to go.
Paramount must be very high on “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” because here’s yet another trailer before its theatrical release next week. But the studio has good reason to be excited about the upcoming film.
Florence Pugh gives a sweet kiss to her grandmother, Pat Mackin, at the premiere of her new movie, A Good Person.
An iconic clothing shop chain that has now vanished from our high streets was once THE place in Manchester to meet friends or a date.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Somebody must be flashing their pearly whites. Paramount Pictures has entered a multi-year, first-look deal with Parker Finn to write, produce and direct features. The pact comes on the heels of Finn’s breakout horror hit “Smile,” which became a sleeper box office sensation. Finn wrote and directed the creepy tale, which went on to be the top grossing original horror movie of 2022, raking in $216 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. It was based on his short film “Laura Hasn’t Slept.” “‘Smile’s’breakthrough success is a testament to Parker’s unique and fresh filmmaking, and we are thrilled that he will make Paramount his home,” said Paramount Pictures President & CEO Brian Robbins.
The best part of waking up! Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page revealed that he and Phoebe Dynevor had “horrendous coffee breath” while filming the sexy period drama.
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield – who co-presented at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony – are set to star in “We Live in Time” for StudioCanal and director John Crowley.Plot details are under wraps for now but the film is being described as a funny and emotional love story. Production is tentatively expected to start later this year.
When Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield hit the Oscars stage side-by-side to present an award, social media blew up with folks excited by the prospect of seeing the two actors working together at some point. Well, what everyone didn’t know is that the plan for those two to collaborate could have already been in the works with the upcoming film, “We Live in Time.” According to Deadline, StudioCanal is in talks with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield to co-star in the upcoming film, “We Live in Time.” The exact plot details are unknown at this time, but the film is described as funny, deeply moving love story.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” stole the hearts of the audience at its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 10, no matter whether or not they’d played the 50-year old role playing game that shares its title. The action comedy stars Chris Pine as a rakish bard named Edgin and Michelle Rodriguez as his platonic life-partner, the tough-as-nails warrior, Holga. The two set off on a quest to reunite Edgin with his estranged daughter, Kira (Chloe Coleman), and they wind up working with Xenk (Regé-Jean Page), a valorous paladin; Simon (Justice Smith), a sorcerer with an inferiority complex; and Doric (Sophia Lillis), a no-nonsense shapeshifting druid. Rounding out the cast are Hugh Grant as Forge Fitzwilliam, Edgin and Holga’s untrustworthy former compatriot; and Daisy Head as Sofina, a powerful wizard who is more than she initially seems.
Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez headed straight to their fans at the 2023 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
Last year, as the industry was looking to lift itself out the pandemic’s purgatory at the box office, SXSW lit the wick on A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which wound up dynamiting the 18-34 hipster moviegoer set in what became the highest-grossing indie film of 2022, the best ever for the New York-based distributor, and now a potential Oscar Best Picture winner.
Deadline reports that Peacock has an exciting project in development: “Excellence: 8 Fights,” an eight-part events series about boxing legend Muhammed Ali. But it’s more who’s involved with the series that’s exciting.
K.J. Yossman Florence Pugh and Zach Braff reunited in London on Wednesday evening for the premiere of their movie “A Good Person,” which Braff wrote, directed and produced and which Pugh starred in and produced. In the film, Pugh stars opposite Morgan Freeman as a young woman who descends into opioid addiction after a car she is driving is involved in a serious crash. During a Q&A session after the screening, Braff told the audience he wrote the screenplay for Pugh during the COVID-19 lockdown while still grappling with grief over the deaths of his sister and father in 2018 followed by his close friend Nick Cordero, who died from COVID complications in 2020.
EXCLUSIVE: As we mark the 52nd anniversary of the Ali-Fraser fight today, Deadline can reveal that Peacock is developing Excellence: 8 Fights, a scripted eight-part event series about boxing great Muhammad Ali, based on the definitive biography Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig. The project hails from Oscar-winning BlackKklansman co-writer Kevin Willmott, Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment, Regé-Jean Page and Emily Brown. Page is executive producing; there is currently no deal in place for him to star as Ali. CBS Studios and UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, serve as the studios. Eig is producing.
EastEnders, though she is not the only one, as she pointed out in tonight’s episode. Whitney and Zack Hudson (James Farrar) made the devastating discovery that their baby had Edwards’ Syndrome after undergoing a number of tests. Edwards’ syndrome is a rare condition that occurs when a baby has three copies of chromosome 18, instead of the usual two.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.The actor, who plays rogue character Forge Fitzwilliam in the upcoming fantasy film, said he thought the woman was a studio executive on the set, when she was actually a chaperone of a young child actor.Speaking to Total Film (via Yahoo! Entertainment), Grant said: “I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one. I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better.
Katcy Stephan SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from Episode 8 of “The Last of Us,” now streaming on HBO Max. Troy Baker has been at the center of the “Last of Us” universe for a decade. The esteemed voice actor originated the role of grizzly survivalist Joel Miller in the 2013 game and its sequel in 2020. When HBO’s series adaptation was announced, Baker didn’t expect to be a part of it. “If there was a role for me, then I would have been happy. But if not, I was completely content to just be an observer for this onel,” he says. Luckily, co-showrunner Neil Druckmann, who is also the co-creator of the game, had a role in mind for him.
It’s contest time again! Earlier this week, on February 28, 2023, DreamWorks and Universal Home Pictures released the newest film from the “Shrek” universe, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” on 4K UHD, Blu-Ray, and DVD. For the first time, though, everyone’s favorite adventurous cat is found in a collectors edition featuring exclusive bonus content! READ MORE: Antonio Banderas On ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ & Whether He’s Down for ‘Shrek 5’ [Interview] The film, directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Januel Mercado, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Film.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been a huge success and the film even garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, but the only way to watch the movie at home right now is through a $19.99 digital download.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish will soon head to Peacock after a staggeringly successful run both in theaters and on PVOD. The film bows on the streaming platform on March 10, there joining a series of Puss In Boots shorts, as well as other films in the Shrek franchise, and such additional DreamWorks favorites as The Croods and Trolls World Tour.
It’s contest time again! Earlier this week, on February 28, 2023, DreamWorks and Universal Home Pictures released the newest film from the “Shrek” universe, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” on 4K UHD, Blu-Ray, and DVD. For the first time, though, everyone’s favorite adventurous cat is found in a collectors edition featuring exclusive bonus content! READ MORE: Antonio Banderas On ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ & Whether He’s Down for ‘Shrek 5’ [Interview] The film, directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Januel Mercado, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Film.