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As a culture, we’re hard on our beautiful blondes. We may automatically presume everything should be easy for a conventionally gorgeous, flaxen-haired performer with a visible-from-space smile. We may even assume that because she’s beautiful, she can’t be all that smart. Tell it to Marilyn Monroe, who felt pressured the whole of her all-too-short career to prove that she was a serious actor, something we can now see clearly in her body of work. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] A comic actor is also, of course, a serious actor—there’s nothing more serious than the art of comedy.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wolf Man. When writer-director Leigh Whannell’s modern reimagining of The Invisible Man hit theaters in February 2020, the horror-thriller was hailed as a worthy remake that cleverly flipped the script of the 1933 Universal original to serve as an analogy for the perils of gaslighting and domestic abuse. Wolf Man, now in theaters, marks the latest attempt by Universal to revive one of its classic monster properties for today’s viewers.

Whether U. S. audiences just aren’t familiar with British pop star Robbie Williams or moviegoers don’t want to see a musical headlined by a CGI chimp, Paramount’s “Better Man” become a historic box office flop with just $1.9 million grossed in its nationwide debut. That’s one of the worst openings ever for a studio movie.

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” The Shakespeare quote, from Hamlet, was not a reference to whether or not someone could pull off creating an entire theatrical performance within the world of a video game. And yet, in 2022, that’s exactly what happened. The documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, tells the incredible true story of how a group of actors banded together to perform Hamlet in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online.

Animation company GKids has acquired theatrical rights for the North American distribution of “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-.” The film will be released Feb. 28 and is directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki (“Evangelion”). Yoji Enokido (“Revolutionary Girl Utena”) is the film’s screenwriter and is joined by Hideaki Anno for the screenplay. The official synopsis reads: “Amate Yuzuriha is […]

Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux had a special bond with David Lynch. During his very first edition of the festival as artistic director in 2001, Fremaux had programmed “Mulholland Drive,” which won best director at the festival and went on to earn an Oscar nomination. From then on, Fremaux and Lynch became friends.