Marvel’s Russo Brothers Developing TV Adaptation of ‘The Warriors’

It’s no shame to laugh your ass off at the crazyass music business. In 1984, This Is Spinal Tap took the art of the send-up all the way to 11. Now the mockumentary takes millennial form in the insanely funny Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, starring Andy Samberg as Conner4Real,…

10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in June
School’s out, birds are singing and the sun hangs high in a cloudless sky — time for the streaming junkie to retreat to the safe confines of the great indoors, safe from harmful non cathode rays of light. Those who think of summer as a season of sand and surf…

Where Did ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ Go Wrong?
Like a heroine tumbling through the rabbit hole, Disney took its own great fall this past weekend, as prospective tentpole Alice Through the Looking Glass coughed up a meager $34 million at the box-office in its opening days of release. A paltry sum in comparison to the $116 million opening weekend that Tim Burton’s 2010…

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’ Set for Film Revival
A film adaptation of Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s debut musical, In the Heights, has been revived by the Weinstein Company, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Universal was developing an In the Heights movie with screenwriter Marc Klein (Serendipity) and director Kenny Ortega, but dropped the project in 2011 over casting difficulties and its proposed $37 million budget. The Weinstein Company…

Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Dano Bring Bombastic ‘Montage’ to Life
Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano fittingly narrate their own montage in the short, pithy lyric video for “Montage” a song from their upcoming movie Swiss Army Man. Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull and Robert McDowell wrote the song and soundtrack. “Montage” is an exuberant, baroque indie pop track with the same cheekiness as Team America. Dano and Radcliffe provided…

How New Doc ‘Merci Congo’ Sheds Light on Deadly Conflict
“This machine is called a computer.” Neema Namadamu is standing in a small room in the remote Itombwe Plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teaching a group of women how to use a laptop. It’s the first time most of them have ever seen the technology. The scene serves…

Presenting Princess Shaw
He’s an Israeli composer who goes by the moniker Kutiman and scours the Internet for clips of amateur musicians, creating collage-like symphonies from the found footage. She’s a New Orleans native named Samantha Montgomery — stage name: Princess Shaw — who posts her own singer-songwriter compositions on YouTube, pining for…

10 Movies to Stream on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is that time Americans set aside each year to remember and honor the sacrifices of our fallen military veterans. But it’s also a day off from work, and for those who want to spend the day in front of their TV without feeling unpatriotic or ungrateful — relax,…

Director Sam Mendes Exiting James Bond Franchise
While fans of the James Bond franchise continue to wonder whether Daniel Craig will return to the role of 007 or if another actor will replace him, Skyfall and Spectre director Sam Mendes, a key contributor to the revitalization of Bond, has firmly announced that he won’t helm the next film in the…

‘Holy Hell’: How One Man Documented 22 Years Inside a Sadistic Cult
He was grooming me. I didn’t see it then, but it’s so obvious now. I wanted a mentor; a teacher. When I got around him more, that’s when I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s an asshole.'” For 22 years, Will Allen immersed himself 24/7 in Buddhafield, a Los Angeles…

Watch Stunning New Trailer for ‘The Little Prince’
The new trailer for the latest animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved children’s book The Little Prince shows the heart and magic of the classic tale. The animated feature will debut on Netflix and in select theaters on August 5th. In director Mark Osborne’s adaptation, the story of the aviator…

Watch Mark Wahlberg Fight Through the ‘Deepwater Horizon’ Disaster
Mark Wahlberg strives to survive the disaster that sparked the devastating 2010 BP oil spill in the new trailer for Deepwater Horizon. The film focuses on a crew of workers stationed at the titular offshore oil rig, centered around Wahlberg’s portrayal of Mike Williams (in The New York Times article the movie is…

11 Things We Learned Hanging With Oscar Isaac
No actor had a better 2015 than Oscar Isaac. He found a hilariously unsettling take on an eccentric tech billionaire (with serious dance chops) in Ex Machina; embodied the real-life tragedy of a Yonkers politician in his Golden Globe-winning turn in David Simon’s Show Me a Hero; and spent quality…

‘Miss Sharon Jones!’ Doc Secures Theatrical, On-Demand Release Date
A documentary about soul singer Sharon Jones’ life, career and ongoing cancer battle is heading to movie theaters. The Barbara Kopple-directed Miss Sharon Jones!, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and screened at SXSW Film last year, opens a theatrical run July 29th following by a digital, on-demand and…

Alex Pettyfer Talks Founding Publishing Company, Playing Elvis’ Buddy
At age 26, actor-model Alex Pettyfer has built a high-profile resumé (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Magic Mike). The multi-talented Brit admits he’s “always wanted to be in control.” Now he’s accomplishing that goal with his newly founded Upturn Publishing, an independent, L.A.-based publisher that aims to spotlight undiscovered writing talent. Pettyfer…

Francis Ford Coppola to Publish Massive ‘Godfather’ Notebook
The notebook Francis Ford Coppola kept while making The Godfather will be published as a 720-page book November 15th via Regan Arts. Related: Francis Coppola: The Rolling Stone Interview The Godfather Notebook will detail Coppola’s creative process and feature his personal annotations and directions written on the pages of Mario Puzo’s original…