Eric July wants to make sure the rising tide of the Rippaverse lifts all boats. Today, July announced the Rippaverse’s next venture: Rippasend. Rippasend is a fulfillment service where July and his team will utilize their infrastructure and the skills they learned since the Rippaverse’s inceptio...
Read MoreGreat filmmakers generate conversation about film, and Denis Villeneuve is doing that even outside of his movies. The director, whose Dune: Chapter Two opens this week, spoke to the UK newspaper The Times about his new film and said that he doesn’t like dialogue and that it is a detriment to fil...
Read MoreYou won’t have to look up in the sky to see Superman today; just check out Instagram. James Gunn, co-CEO of DC Studios and director of Superman: Legacy, posted a behind-the-scenes image on the social media site with most of the film’s major cast members, plus himself and fellow DC Studios head P...
Read MoreTime and again, Hollywood sends the message that it refuses to learn from its mistakes. Sonny Bunch, the culture editor at The Bulwark, posted a screenshot of something Matt Belloni of Puck shared in his newsletter. It’s a direct message Belloni received from “a Disney executive” talking about...
Read MoreMadame Web’s failure may not be surprising, but the scope of its fallout is. The Hollywood Reporter has a piece on the new superhero film’s disastrous opening weekend, and watching them try to make sense of its dismal performance is funny. (“I don’t get it! They used obscure characters; th...
Read MoreI’m not sure I’ve ever seen excitement for an upcoming show fade this quickly. Today, Disney and Marvel released a trailer for X-Men ‘97, the revival of the outstanding X-Men animated series from the ‘90s. One of Marvel’s – and certainly Disney+’s – most anticipated projects, X-Men ...
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