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Kate Aurthur editor Elizabeth Olsen is one of creative leaders honored for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women presented by Lifetime. For more, click here. Elizabeth Olsen’s film career began — explosively — with the 2011 Sundance sensation “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” after which she went to co-star in a number of independent films. But she soon noticed, Olsen tells Variety in an interview for her Power of Women cover story, that she was perhaps being pigeonholed. “I wasn’t being considered for studio films,” Olsen says. “I asked my agent and manager why, and they said, ‘Well, you don’t do them.’”

There’s an update regarding the planned Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot series.

Bad news for fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as the reboot halts production.

impossible for “Event Horizon” to return with new material. “So it’s just not there,” Anderson told Entertainment Weekly. “I think to really reinstitute what the old cut was, you’d need to probably do what they did with the Snyder Cut where you have to go and shoot some material again.” Anderson is referring to “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” released on HBO Max in 2021.

Saturday, 2:30 – 3:30pm PT - Hall HCan you successfully adapt Neil Gaiman’s sprawling, 75-issue saga of life, death, love, literary theory, comparative mythology and – yes – Shakespeare fan fiction – for live-action drama? We sure as hell hope so, because after literal decades of people trying, it’s finally happening. There are so many details yet to be announced – Hob Gadling? Destruction? Puck? – and we’re expecting a lot come Comic-Con time.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was boosted by bots, according to a report.Released in 2017, Justice League was originally directed by Snyder before he stepped down in the middle of post-production following the death of his daughter, Autumn. After he left the project, Joss Whedon was hired by Warner Bros.

Zack Sharf Zack Snyder mobilized the #SnyderCut fandom with a single tweet that reads: “#SnyderCutOnDigital.” Tuesday, July 19 marked the film’s official digital release date. Snyder’s tweet about the film’s digital debut was accompanied by a black-and-white image of film reels, the same image he posted to social media years ago to signify to fans that the #SnyderCut was real.Snyder’s tweet and the digital release of the #SnyderCut comes less than a day after of an exclusive report from Rolling Stone claimed that bots were used on social media to fuel the #SnyderCut army.

Filmmaker Joss Whedon (“Avengers”) has had a bad couple of years. Starting in the summer of 2020, after “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” was announced, a wave of accusations about the director’s reportedly appalling behavior on the set of 2016’s “Justice League,” started to surface.

several toxic workplace and harassment allegations against him.On an episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast, Fillion noted that Whedon is a “funny, self-deprecating, incredibly talented” filmmaker who is “maybe a little haunted.”He also touched upon a January 2022 article from New York Magazine where Whedon addressed some of the accusations.“I read that article, and nowhere in there at any point in time did he mention ‘Firefly,’” Fillion told the “Smallville” alum. “I had an entirely … that was not my experience with that man,” he continued.“I mean, listen by his own admission, that guy’s a work-in-progress, and I appreciate that,” the “Waitress” actor went on.

Nathan Fillion has had many positive experiences with Joss Whedon.

Zack Sharf Nathan Fillion is sticking up for his frequent collaborator Joss Whedon, revealing on the “Inside of You” podcast that he would “would work with Joss again in a second.” Fillion had main roles in Whedon’s “Firefly,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” plus appeared in several episodes of Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Whedon has been accused of misconduct and toxic workplace behavior by several actors, including “Buffy” star Charisma Carpenter and “Justice League” actor Ray Fisher.

“Firestarter,” based on the 1980 novel by Stephen King, starred Drew Barrymore as Charlie, an 8-year-old girl who can set things on fire with her mind. Barrymore was fresh from stealing the show in 1982’s “E.T.”, but this 1984 thriller was a critical flop, with Roger Ebert observing that for a film about lethal telekinesis, “the most astonishing thing in the movie … is how boring it is.” Since then, pop culture has fully embraced the trope of the young girl with psychic powers, with many characters inspiring devoted cult followings.

“Fan-Favorite Movie” award)A year after the fan-demanded Snyder Cut of “Justice League” was released exclusively on HBO Max, a moment from the film was voted the most cheer-worthy moment of all time during the Oscars ceremony.In a bid to draw more interest from general moviegoers, the Oscars instituted two fan-voted “categories” during this year’s ceremony. For the Ultimate Oscars Cheer Moment, fans were asked to vote from five moments: the Spider-Man team-up in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the Avengers Assemble moment from “Avengers: Endgame,” Jennifer Hudson’s “And I’m Telling You” solo in “Dreamgirls,” Neo dodging bullets in “The Matrix” and the Flash speed force scene in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” Voting was conducted by tweeting the film’s title along with a specific hashtag.During the Oscars, the final results were revealed, with the standings as follows:5. “The Matrix”4.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer.In a new book titled Every Generation A Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Heart by Evan Ross Katz, the actor discusses the rumoured feuds between the cast.“I think that unfortunately, the set we were on and the world we were in was pitting us against each other,” Gellar said in the book (via Entertainment Tonight). “I think it would have been different if it was today. It would have been a totally different relationship.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.The actor, who played the titular vampire character in the original franchise, told author Evan Ross Katz that she was rooting for the Euphoria star.Katz recently interviewed Gellar for his new book Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts.The official synopsis obtained by Bloody Disgusting reads: “Evan Ross Katz explores the show’s cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later.”Meanwhile, Buffy star Charisma Carpenter has responded to Joss Whedon after he discussed allegations of misconduct against him in a recent interview.Speaking about Carpenter in an interview with Vulture, Whedon said: “Most of my experiences with Charisma were delightful and charming. She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punch line harder than her.

Who would YOU cast in a Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot? While quite a few of us have strong opinions, there’s no one we’d rather hear from on the subject than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

 cast had their own real-life issues to work through. In the new book Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, several members of the cast are interviewed by Evan Ross Katz about their time on the cult classic series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the titular role, is extremely candid in the book about the on-set tension and the rumored feuds between her and other castmates.“I think that unfortunately, the set we were on and the world we were in was pitting us against each other,” Gellar says of the Joss Whedon-run show. “I think it would have been different if it was today.

Getting real. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up about the tensions between her and her costars on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which she starred from 1997 to 2003.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking back at her time on the Buffy the Vampire Slayerset.

multiple workplace misconduct allegations from several stars across his productions in recent years.Evan Ross Katz’s new book about the iconic ’90s fantasy series, “Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How ‘Buffy’ Staked Our Hearts,” is full of cast and crew interviews about Whedon’s behavior.In the show retrospective, actor Danny Strong, who played the role of Jonathan Levinson, discussed that the accusations against the “Justice League” writer were “far beyond” what he noticed at the time, IndieWire reported.The vampire romantic drama aired from 1997 to 2003 on The WB and UPN for seven seasons.Strong, 47, noted in the book, “Look, my experience on the set was a very positive experience, including my interactions with Joss. And so I wasn’t aware of how toxic the set was for some.”Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff series, “Angel,” accused Whedon of “toxic” and “hostile” behavior towards her in a bombshell social media post last year.The “Empire” creator continued in the novel, “And it seems like who it was toxic for was the really attractive women.

Less than a week after the — brace yourselves!!! — 25th anniversary of the premiere of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we’re getting an unprecedented look behind the curtain courtesy of a new book.

A new book about “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is marking the 25th anniversary of the beloved series’ premiere, and includes star Sarah Michelle Gellar confronting longstanding rumours that she used to feud with her co-stars.

Nicholas Brendon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame is giving some hot takes about his former co-star, David Boreanaz, and his subsequent spinoff show Angel. “It was weird that Angel got a spin-off. Because how does the most boring character in TV history get a spin-off?” the 50-year-old told author Evan Ross Katz for his new book Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“9-1-1: Lone Star” has already featured guest appearances by two “Angel” alums, Julie Benz and Amy Acker, during the first few episodes of its currently airing third season. And if showrunner Tim Minear — who was a writer and executive producer on “Angel” and brought in Gina Torres, a vet of the WB series, as a lead on “Lone Star” at the start of Season 2 — is down for it, an actress from one of Minear’s other beloved series would love to make another reunion happen: “Firefly” star Morena Baccarin.“Oh, that would be fun! I haven’t seen those guys in forever,” Baccarin told Variety Friday, during an interview for her upcoming NBC drama “The Endgame.” “I love Tim.

Big Sean at an NFL game over the weekend.The Buffy star took to social media to post about being mislabelled as the rapper at the Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday (January 30) as they played the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship, winning 20-17.Gellar and Big Sean attended alongside R&B singer Jhené Aiko, with the SoFi Stadium’s Jumbotron confusing the different stars. Big Sean was labelled as Gellar while Aiko was named as Gellar’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr, despite him not being in attendance.“@bigsean do you get mistaken for me as often as I get mistaken for you?” Gellar captioned in a post she shared on Instagram, while Big Sean posted a photo of himself looking confused on his own story.A post shared by Sarah Michelle (@sarahmgellar)Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar last year said she “doesn’t want to be associated” with Buffy creator Joss Whedon in light of several allegations of abuse levelled against him.“While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon,” she wrote on social media at the time.“I am more focused on raising my family and surviving a pandemic currently, so I will not be making any further comments at this time.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, had previously claimed Whedon called her “fat” when she was four months pregnant.Speaking about Carpenter in an interview with Vulture, Whedon said: “Most of my experiences with Charisma were delightful and charming. She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punch line harder than her.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel actress Charisma Carpenter responded to Joss Whedon’s first lengthy comments regarding allegations of misconduct leveled at him over the past year. Whedon made the remarks in an in-depth interview with New York magazine this week.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticBy the time New York Magazine published its thorough and extremely damning new piece on how Joss Whedon and his entertainment empire fell apart, I couldn’t summon much more than an exhausted sigh. After years of loving his work, followed by years of reconsidering everything I knew about it within the context of the serious allegations against him, Whedon’s downfall in my own world was so swift and complete that I couldn’t stomach the idea of reopening that door at all.Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is the reason I first started thinking critically about television.

Charisma Carpenter has a few words for Joss Whedon.

Joss Whedon’s first major public response to Fisher’s repeated accusations of misconduct on the set of reshoots for the Warner Bros. film, and he’s pretty surprised at the director’s defense of himself given how long he had to craft it.In a lengthy profile of Whedon published in New York Magazine on Monday, the “Avengers” filmmaker spoke out on the many abuse accusations surrounding him, defending his actions.