Author: Hollyood rep

The Owens sisters are heading back to the big screen soon. On Saturday, Nicole Kidman announced on Instagram that Practical Magic 2 has completed production by posting a video of her and Sandra Bullock laughing and walking into the sunset while on set. “That’s a wrap on Practical Magic 2,” Kidman wrote as the caption. “Thank you to the cast & crew for all your magic.” In July, Kidman shared a post to celebrate the first day of filming. The post showed another video of her and Bullock, hugging with the caption: “The witches are back. Owens sisters’ first day…

In films like Grizzly Man, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog has been drawn to obsessive men whose hubris tricks them into believing they can tame nature, only to find nature resistant to human control. South African conservation biologist Dr. Steve Boyes is a worthy addition to that canon of driven eccentrics, his background in environmental science never excluding the philosophical and spiritual reflections of an unabashed dreamer. In Ghost Elephants, Herzog accompanies Boyes to a remote highland plateau in Angola in search of a possibly mythical herd of giant elephants, which turns out to be exactly…

Eight years after he announced his retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is back acting in Anemone, which was directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. While speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of Anemone’s world premiere at the New York Film Festival, Day-Lewis admitted he regretted announcing his retirement in 2017. “Looking back on it now — I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut, for sure,” he said. “It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work.”…

Not everything needs a sequel or reboot. At least that’s what Kirsten Dunst thinks when it comes to the cult classic film, Bring It On. The high school cheerleading movie recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now, when it’s common to bring back TV shows and movies, and there’s been recent reboots and followups like Freakier Friday, Gossip Girl, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Snow White, to name a few, Dunst told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday that she wasn’t interested in rebooting the franchise. When Dunst was asked if we were getting close to seeing a sequel in…

Toni Collette, whose breakthrough role was the socially awkward title character in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding, has never shied away from playing women who downplay their attractiveness. In Curtis Hanson’s comedy/drama In Her Shoes, which had its world premiere at TIFF in 2005, the Australian actress starred as a slightly dowdy, buttoned-up lawyer who finds herself at odds with her flashier, if unreliable, sister, played by Cameron Diaz, as well as a long-lost grandmother portrayed by Shirley MacLaine.  But as Collette walked the red carpet at Roy Thompson Hall, she looked every bit as glamorous as her two co-stars. Collette, MacLaine testified as…

The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more about the individual.  The new film Eternity puts the romance right at the center. Directed by Dating Amber helmer David Freyne from a Black List script by Pat Cunnane, Eternity sets two marriages at odds with one another in the…

For a movie that’s mainly about algorithms and the havoc they wreak on society, the French dystopian thriller Dog 51 (Chien 51) doesn’t appear conscious of the fact that it was made by an algorithm as well. Or at least that’s what it seems like. Directed by Cédric Jimenez, whose heavy-handed, adrenaline-charged films (The Connection, The Stronghold) have always felt rather formulaic, this tale of two crimefighting lovebirds hunting down a killer in near-future Paris will give most viewers a major sense of déjà vu — which, if you don’t speak French, means “already seen.” Dog 51 The Bottom Line…

Few if any filmmakers can build and breathlessly sustain visceral intensity with the command of Paul Greengrass, who brings documentary realism, kinetic energy and heart-pumping adrenaline to stories drawn from life or fiction, generally about people caught in explosive situations. The Brit director is a master of chaos. That makes him an ideal fit for The Lost Bus, which plunges us into the 2018 inferno that ripped through Northern California’s Butte County, decimating entire communities. If the human drama is seldom as alive as the flames, that’s no fault of the fine leads, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera. About those…

Twinless is not only the most well-reviewed movie of Dylan O’Brien’s career; it’s also his finest outing as an actor. Written and directed by James Sweeney, the dark dramedy centers on O’Brien’s identical twin characters, Roman and Rocky. The former ends up meeting Sweeney’s Dennis at a support group for twins who’ve lost their fellow twin, and they strike up a fast friendship to help each other cope with their own respective losses. The movie then takes a turn structurally and narratively to show the twisty final days of Rocky’s life. Twinless began its decorated run at Sundance earlier this…

Tom Holland knows what Spider-Man fans want.  Going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the English actor told LADBible he wanted to make sure the next film appeals to viewers. To do so, Holland admitted he’s been scouring the internet to see exactly what fans want from his fourth Spider-Man movie — while bringing those ideas to the team working on the project.  “I have been actively sifting through the internet and trying to best understand what it is that the fans want from a Spider-Man movie, and that’s been my driving force in these pitch meetings,” he said. “I think…