Tag: JJ Abrams

  • Entertainment Weekly Claims Taylor Swift is Not in Deadpool & Wolverine

    Entertainment Weekly Claims Taylor Swift is Not in Deadpool & Wolverine

    Are Swifties going to sit out Deadpool & Wolverine? (And did I just lose a small piece of my soul by using the word “Swifties” for the first time?) Taylor Swift, the music icon who has turned herself into a billionaire with some shrewd business decisions, has long been rumored to be making an appearance…

  • JJ Abrams Told Daisy Ridley Star Wars is “A Religion”

    JJ Abrams Told Daisy Ridley Star Wars is “A Religion”

    Daisy Ridley recently sat down with Inverse to discuss her new film, Sometimes I Think About Dying. Inevitably, the inescapable topic of Star Wars came up. Ridley recalled The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams saying the following when she was cast: “This not a role in a movie… This is a religion for people. It changes things…

  • Adam Driver: Kylo Ren Originally Wasn’t Redeemed

    Adam Driver: Kylo Ren Originally Wasn’t Redeemed

    Adam Driver recently appeared on The Rich Eisen Show and discussed his role as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. This conversation primarily concerns Kylo’s redemption and how his character arc changed throughout filming the movies. Rich asked if Driver knew he was playing “Vader 2.0,” and this was his response: “I did,…

  • Warner Bros. Suspends Deals with Big Name Producers

    Warner Bros. Suspends Deals with Big Name Producers

    Warner Bros. Discovery is cutting costs amid the actors’ and writers’ strikes. After CEO David Zaslav claimed the studio was set to lose $300-500 million due to the strikes, The Hollywood Reporter has learned from sources that Warner Bros. is suspending its deals with several producers, including JJ Abrams and his production company Bad Robot,…

  • Barbie’s Success Means More Mattel Movies

    Barbie’s Success Means More Mattel Movies

    A host of other Mattel properties are getting ready to go party with Barbie. Variety exclusively reports that, upon Barbie’s massive success, Mattel is preparing fourteen of their IPs for the movie treatment. CEO Ynon Kreiz, who took over Mattel in 2018, has had a vision for a “Mattel Cinematic Universe” since he began. Variety…

  • Warner Bros. Buys Stephen King Book Billy Summers

    Warner Bros. Buys Stephen King Book Billy Summers

    The next Stephen King adaptation is facing a rocky road to the big screen. (At least, I think it’s the next one; his work has been mined more than California during the Gold Rush.) Deadline exclusively reports that Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to one of King’s newer novels, Billy Summers, which is being…