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When Sue Storm made her debut alongside Mr. Fantastic in Marvel Rivals, the fans couldn’t get enough of her. For many players, her versatile powers combined with abilities that favour strategic gameplay have made her an easy pick.

The Blood Shield Skin for Invisible Woman | Image Credits: Marvel Rivals

But let’s be honest, people like her not only for her abilities- it’s also about those jaw-dropping skins. If you’re on the hunt for one such exclusive Blood Shield skin then you’re at the right spot. Here’s a lowdown on how you can snag the skin for yourself.

Reach Through the Ranks: From Bronze to Gold Marvel Rivals Season 1 Release Image | Image Credits: Marvel Rivals

To obtain the skin, players need to first rise through the ranks and reach Gold, which is possible only in Competitive mode within a limited time window. Originally the Blood...

Ralph Fiennes, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded last week in front of 2,000 people at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Fiennes was honored with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award in recognition of his Oscar-nominated performance in Conclave — has been widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest screen actors for more than 30 years.

To name just a few of the films in which the Englishman has shined: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Strange Days, Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, István Szabó’s Sunshine, Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, David Cronenberg’s Spider, Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash...

Long before the likes of Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby got together to give modern MCU its first take on the Fantastic Four, Kate Mara starred alongside Miles Teller back in 2015. The Marvel bosses will surely be hoping that First Steps proves to be completely different from the 20th Century Fox offering, and in more ways than one.

Fantastic Four (2015) | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Apart from being a dud at the box office and critically, 2015’s Fantastic Four also resulted in some dismal claims. However, none stood out more than what Kate Mara said about director Josh Trank, for whom Fantastic Four was the second movie of his career.

Kate Mara made some startling claims about Josh Trank and 2015’s Fantastic Four Kate Mara as Susan Storm | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Mara, who played Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, revealed in an interview with Emmy Magazine that her time on set was far from positive.

British actress Felicity Jones is best known for her versatility and compelling performances in both independent films and major blockbusters. She first gained widespread recognition for her role as Jane Hawking in the 2014 biographical drama The Theory of Everything, portraying the wife of physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne). Her performance earned her critical acclaim and her first career Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In addition, Jones also received a BAFTA bid and won several other prestigious accolades for her portrayal of Hawking’s steadfast and intelligent wife.

After The Theory of Everything, Jones starred in her first big blockbuster, the 2016 “Star Wars” spin-off Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in which she portrays Jyn Erso, a rebellious leader on a mission to steal the nefarious Galactic Empire’s Death Star plans.

Jones has also appeared in films such as Like Crazy (2011), The Invisible Woman (2013), and biopic On the Basis of Sex...

From Schindler’s List to The English Patient to the Harry Potter films to Conclave, Ralph Fiennes has had a celebrated career as a leading star and character actor.

The British performer, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is adept at playing compromised men on the big screen, such as his Austrian Nazi Amon Göth, who oversees the building of a concentration camp in Poland in Schindler’s List. In 2011, Fiennes made his big-screen directorial debut and also starred in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus. He starred, produced and directed 2013’s The Invisible Woman, where he portrayed Charles Dickens. Most notably, Fiennes has been in several Best Picture Oscar winners including 1993’s Schindler’s List, The English Patient, and 2009’s The Hurt Locker. His 2022 movie The Menu brought him a Golden Globe nomination in the comedy/musical category. And his 2024 film Conclave, in which he plays an embattled...

After the official trailer dropped this week, Marvel fans around the world were introduced to a new piece in Marvel's sacred timeline. However, this "new" film certainly feels a bit too familiar.

With entries like X-Men '97 and some of the more comic-accurate designs seen in Deadpool & Wolverine and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Marvel seems to be getting back to its roots with more and more material. However, the new Fantastic Four flick seems to be the prime example of a comic-book movie, not just an entry in the MCU.

A blast from the past with hope for the future.

Right from the redesign of the Marvel Studios logo, it's clear that we aren't dealing with the typical NYC setting seen across multiple pieces of Marvel media. With the art deco styles and retro-futurist designs, it feels like we have stepped into the panels of one of Stan Lee...

Yesterday's trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps gave us a first glimpse of Ben Grimm fully transformed into The Thing, as well as Sue and Johnny Storm using their respective force-field and "flame-on" superpowers. But, for whatever reason, we never saw Reed Richards utilizing his stretchy abilities.

Mr. Fantastic's ability to bend, stretch, and expand every part of his body has never been the easiest to translate from page to screen, but it's still somewhat surprising that the teaser didn't include so much as a quick tease of Reed using his powers.

Did it at one point?

Fans are convinced that one oddly-framed shot from the trailer showing Reed scribbling an equation originally showed the hero's elongated left arm writing on the other end of the board. This wouldn't be the first time Marvel edited something out of a trailer, but it would usually be to hide a...

3… 2… 1… Blast off! The time has finally come for the Fantastic Four – aka Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing – to take their first steps into the MCU, after years and years of waiting. The blue-suited quartet are all-out Marvel royalty, long considered ‘Marvel’s first family’ since their comic debut in the 1960s – and now, they’re entering Kevin Feige’s shared universe at long last, after several (not-hugely-successful) attempts under Fox. This time, we have Pedro Pascal as super-stretchy Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as the transparent Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as the flame-headed Johnny Storm, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as rock-dude Ben Grimm – whose cosmic mission delivers them all-new abilities. Check out the trailer here:

Phew! There’s real pressure here for Marvel Studios to knock it out of the park with First Steps – and from the looks of things, they’re on the right track.

This year's Super Bowl will be held at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 9, and, as usual, we're expecting a number of big trailer/TV spot debuts during the annual sporting event.

Coming off a disappointingly quiet year for comic book-based movies, 2025 is shaping up to be a much more exciting 12 months for the genre. Superman director James Gunn has already confirmed that we will see something new from the Dcu reboot (likely Krypto-related) during the Puppy Bowl, and thanks to Cryptic HD Quality, we may now know at least some of the other major spots to look out for.

Our first look at some footage from Jurassic World Rebirth seems highly likely, as do new teasers for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and Thunderbolts*. The first official teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps is also long overdue after a number of leaks, but it's...

When Universal Pictures' plan for an McU-style "Dark Universe" fell apart, Blumhouse wasted no time putting its own spin on those iconic movie monsters. The Invisible Man was among the first and received rave reviews before grossing $144.5 million worldwide on a mere $7 million budget.

While filmmaker Leigh Whannell has since moved on to Wolf Man, there's been chatter for years about him helming a sequel revolving around Elisabeth Moss' "Invisible Woman."

The movie ended by teasing a vigilante-style follow-up and both Jason Blum and James Wan have left the door open to it becoming a reality in previous interviews.

Unfortunately, Whannell doesn't seem overly interested and closed the door on stepping behind the camera for The Invisible Woman while talking to The Hollywood Reporter (via FearHQ.com).

"An ending is the hardest thing to do in screenwriting. It’s the holy grail of screenwriting, and I revere movies with great endings.

At one point recently, Marvel Rivals became the most popular game on Steam, and this is well after a month beyond its release. After only a fortnight, 20 million players had tried the game, and that means that over 20 million players have been exposed to the game's main mascot and announcer, Galacta. Galacta is a bit of an odd character, being the daughter of the more famous Galactus, a world-eating sort-of villain that is often used as the center of Earth-defending events in Marvel Comics.

Galacta is more of a hero, beginning as a tapeworm-like parasite inside Galactus that became her own cosmic being. Weirdly, she was raised on Earth as a human teenager, able to satiate her cosmic hunger without eating worlds like her father. She seems to be the one guiding heroes in the Marvel Rivals version of the comic book universe, taking interest in the multiversal colliding after...

Since the two movies share a director, it is reasonable for viewers to wonder whether 2020’s The Invisible Man and 2025’s Wolf Man are canonically linked. 2025’s Wolf Man reboot sees Poor Things supporting star Christopher Abbott play Blake, an unfortunate father who has a run-in with a werewolf after moving into his childhood home with his wife and daughter. A reboot of 1941’s The Wolf Man, 2025’s Wolf Man is a straightforward contemporary horror retelling of the iconic story and the latest addition to Universal’s complex, ever-shifting Dark Universe project.

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2025's Wolf Man reboot is led by some exciting stars. Here's the main cast and who they'll be playing in Leigh Whannell's monster horror flick.

Beginning with Tom Cruise’s 2017 flop The Mummy, the Dark Universe was intended to be a series of Universal movie reboots that built a fictional...

Marvel Rivals season one is just around the bend, and the latest developer diary showcases new heroes, changes to Competitive matches and ranks, as well as hero balance changes fans will be thrilled about. While Marvel Rivals has only been out for a short time, the title has amassed a thriving fan base and community. There are, of course, several issues that have already arisen since launch, but it looks as thought NetEase was listening, as a few of the changes coming have been highly requested by fans.

The developer's diary details new heroes coming with season one, which included Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman. Both Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman now have their very own trailers, where we get a glimpse at their toolkits before the launch of season one. That isn't all either, as there will be new maps, a brand-new rank to reach, a new game mode,...

British actress Felicity Jones is best known for her versatility and compelling performances in both independent films and major blockbusters. She first gained widespread recognition for her role as Jane Hawking in the 2014 biographical drama “The Theory of Everything,” portraying the wife of physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne). Her performance earned her critical acclaim and her first career Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In addition, Jones also received a BAFTA bid and won several other prestigious accolades for her portrayal of Hawking’s steadfast and intelligent wife.

After “The Theory of Everything,” Jones starred in her first big blockbuster, the 2016 “Star Wars” spin-off “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” in which she portrays Jyn Erso, a rebellious leader on a mission to steal the nefarious Galactic Empire’s Death Star plans.

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Jones has also appeared in films such as “Like Crazy...

Yesterday, we got our first look at what was believed to be the new Wolfman design for Universal and Blumhouse's upcoming reboot (titled Wolf Man), with an actor donning a monster costume to jump out at passers-by at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights takeover attraction.

The reveal was met with a decidedly mixed response (and we're probably being kind there) from fans, most of whom felt that the titular lycanthrope looked more like some kind of mutant hillbilly from the Wrong Turn movies than an actual werewolf.

There was speculation that this might simply be a guy in a thrown-together outfit and not indicative of the Wolfman's official look, but insider Daniel Richtman believes this is indeed how the creature will be depicted in the movie - though it is said to "look slightly better in the actual film."

It's certainly... a choice! But we're sure it will look at lot better in the movie,...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is poised to have a fantastic collection of characters in the upcoming Phase 6, both new and returning. The upcoming Phase 6 is gearing up to be one of Marvel Studios' most important phases yet, promising crossover events with the same level of impact as Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Thus far, Disney has confirmed the introduction or re-appearance of several major players, both heroic and villainous.

As of the time of writing, movies confirmed for Phase 6 include Fantastic Four: First Steps, Blade, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. The latter two films are notable for being the first major crossover since the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, promising the appearance of a great many characters. While only a few of these have been revealed yet, those that have paint a picture of what audiences can expect going into the McU's biggest series of films yet. In addition to this,...

"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright."

Universal and Blumhouse's long-awaited Wolfman movie (now known as Wolf Man) went through a hairy (sorry) phase of production late last year, but cameras officially started rolling back in March, and we now have our first official look at an early promo poster for the film (via FearHQ.com).

The banner was spotted on display at Universal Orlando as part of the park's Halloween Horror Nights takeover. The image gives us a first look at the movie's logo and what will presumably be the primary location of the story, but no sign of the titular lycanthrope, who will likely be kept under wraps until well into the marketing phase.

A Photo op for the upcoming Blumhouse Wolfman film has been set up outside...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in September. The Peacock September 2024 schedule includes Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, which tells the infamous story of how an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight transformed Atlanta into the “Black Mecca”).

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Little House on the Prairie on September 11 (all nine seasons are currently streaming on Peacock). Plus, get a double dose of housewife realness with the two-part reunion of The Real Housewives of Dubai Season 2 uncensored on September 11 and 18, and the season five premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City on September 19.

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

September also brings the spooks! Peacock’s “Face Your Fears” horror collection starts to roll out on the 1st, with more than 75+ Halloween titles arriving in September alone,...

Spooky season is nearly here.

And Peacock, Universal’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform, has just unveiled its Halloween programming line-up, full of tricks and treats from the studio’s back catalog, as well as two new series (“Teacup” and “Hysteria!”) for some fresh scares.

In 2022 and ’23, there was at least one big Blumhouse movie that simultaneously debuted on Peacock — in ’22, it was David Gordon Green’s trilogy-capping “Halloween Ends” and last year, it was the video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s”. This year doesn’t have anything quite like that, but it’s still a powerful collection of titles for every viewer.

The Sept. 1 batch includes classics like “Bride of Frankenstein,” “It Came From Outer Space” and “Werewolf of London;” 1980s favorites like “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” “The Funhouse” and “The Thing;” along with more modern hits like the original “Candyman,” Jordan Peele’s “Us” and several entries in the “Saw” franchise.

This year, Peacock is bringing everything you need to face your fears, with more than 150 new Halloween titles heading to the service through October.

From Universal classics like Frankenstein, The Raven, and Phantom of the Opera to nostalgic favorites like Child’s Play, The Craft, and Candyman to frightening franchises like Saw, The Purge, and Leprechaun, and the best of Blumhouse like Get Out, Halloween Kills, and Happy Death Day, Peacock has all the titles to get you into the Halloween spirit.

Two new originals – James Wan’s horror series Teacup and the satanic panic thriller Hysteria! – and The Mouse Trap‘s streaming debut will also be available.

Peacock Halloween 2024 Lineup

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October 10: Teacup (Peacock Original)

New Episodes: October 17, October 24; Finale: October 31

Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by...

Peacock invites you to face your fears this Halloween with more than 150 new horror titles headed to the streaming service from September 1 straight through All Hallow’s Eve.

From Universal classics, like Frankenstein, The Raven and Phantom Of The Opera, and nostalgic favorites, like Child’S Play, The Craft and Candyman, to frightening franchises, like Saw, The Purge and Leprechaun, and the best of Blumhouse, like Get Out, Halloween Kills and Happy Death Day, Peacock aims to be “your Halloween HQ with a full spectrum of scares to enjoy.”

Not to mention, two new originals – James Wan’s horror series, Teacup, and satanic panic thriller, Hysteria! – as well as the streaming debut of The Mouse Trap.

Here’s the full Halloween 2024 lineup from Peacock…

September 1

30 Days Of Night (2007)

Amityville II: The Possession

Amityville 3-D

The Amityville Harvest

Amityville Moon

The Amityville Uprising

Bride Of Frankenstein

Candyman (1992)

Child’s Play (1988)

The Creature Walks Among Us...

Peacock was the underdog streaming service of the summer with the broadcast of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Now, NBCUniversal’s little streamer that could is gearing up to be the primo destination for spooky season. On Tuesday, Peacock declared its intent to “be your Halloween HQ” this year with the addition...

According to director Elizabeth Banks, her film The Invisible Woman has been superseded by a sequel to The Invisible Man and put on hold.

Elizabeth Banks may soon have a chance to make a sequel to Cocaine Bear, last year’s action comedy about a raging grizzly high on class A drugs. While that will come as welcome news to fans of the first film, a different Elizabeth Banks project appears to be no more.

The filmmaker popped up in an interview at Comicbook.com where she was asked about the status of her take on The Invisible Woman, a project commissioned in 2019. Banks was set to star in and direct Invisible Woman for Universal, and it was a project she pitched to the studio. Eric Cressida Wilson, who penned The Girl On The Train, was recruited to write the script.

The movie was set to follow Leigh Whannell’s take on The Invisible Man,...

Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) is Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received her extraordinary powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her to create invisibility and force fields.

"Her invisibility power bends light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including the creation of shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

“She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

The Invisible Woman...

Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) plays Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature film reboot "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her with invisibility and creating force fields.

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

The Invisible Woman was...

A key driver in Brazil’s late 1990s cinema resurgence, Globo Filmes has co-produced iconic box office blockbusters, Oscar and “A” Fest plays, arthouse breakouts. movies sparking big TV spin-offs. A brief selection of milestones in its storied history:

1990

President Fernando Collar’s government closes state owned film company Embrafilme, decimating Brazilian film production.

1993

A new Audiovisual Law offers companies income tax deductions for investment in Brazilian movies as Brazil’s Resurgence – economic and cultural recovery – lifts off.

1997

Globo Filmes is founded. Recalls Daniel Filho, its guiding spirit, in early years: “I started working in Globo TV but I always said: “I want to make cinema.’ I was on my way to close a deal with exhibitor Luis Severiano Ribeiro to launch a film production house when I got a call from Globo to launch Globo Filmes. I agreed: Globo had to do what French and British channels were doing: Participate in films.

With the studio set to introduce Marvel’s first family Fantastic Four in the MCU, fans are revisiting the previous adaptations of the superhero team, including Josh Trank’s 2015 reboot boasting a stellar cast including Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell. There is no denying that the film has not been the best the superhero genre has to offer and fans have now noted one glaring flaw that further compounds its shortcomings.

Fantastic Four | Credit: Marvel

The superhero team has always been defined as Marvel’s first family. However, the 2015 reboot film doesn’t seem too keen to follow the concept as two of the leading characters Susan Storm and The Thing hardly have a conversation in the movie.

The Fantastic Four Reboot Falters in Depicting Ben and Sue Storm’s Relationship

Directed by Josh Trank, the 2015 film Fantastic Four introduced a new cast. The film follows...

Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) plays Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature film reboot "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her with invisibility and creating force fields.

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

The Invisible Woman was...

George Waggner's 1941 horror film "The Wolf Man" introduced audiences to, essentially, the "second officer" of the Universal Monsters canon. Everyone knows that Dracula is the captain of the monster ship, and that Frankenstein is his first officer (a position he often shares with the Bride). The Wolf Man is always third in command, perhaps serving as a security officer or an enforcer. Mummies, gillmen, invisible men, Dr. Hydes, and other ancillary ghouls serve lower down in the crew. 

Watching the original "Wolf Man" film, however, reveals a dark and sad tale about Larry Talbot who is attacked by a wolf on a misty night in Wales, afflicting him with the curse of the werewolf. Throughout the year, Larry will transform into an animalistic wolf/human creature and stalk and kill random victims. The tale is terrifying and tragic and inspired many pop culture tales to follow -- as well as many nightmares.

Invisible Woman's force fields now rival the power of the Cosmic Cube and can protect against reality-warping abilities. Sue's abilities have evolved to match some of the most potent forces in the multiverse, including the Celestials. The Fantastic Four are discovering new, powerful ways to utilize their abilities, with Invisible Woman emerging as a key player.

Warning: Contains spoilers for Fantastic Four #19!The Fantastic Four are some of Marvel's most high-powered superheroes, but the Invisible Woman is taking her force fields to previously unimaginable levels. When faced with a Cosmic Cube, one of the most powerful objects in existence, Sue is able to hold back its reality-warping power. That means her powers have advanced so far as to engage with some of the most potent forces in the multiverse.

In Fantastic Four #19 - by Ryan North, Carlos Gómez, Jesus Aburtov, and Joe Caramagna - Trapster gets his hands on a...

Universal Monsters reboot continues with renewed hope after the failed Dark Universe attempt, with successful recent projects like The Invisible Man. Directors like Chloe Zhao and James Wan bring fresh, innovative takes on iconic characters like Dracula and Frankenstein to modern audiences. Universal explores different genres with plans for animated monster musicals, family-friendly hybrids, and potential crossovers like Dark Army, facing budget concerns.

Though the original plans for the so-called Dark Universe were an infamous misfire, there are still plans for a Universal Monsters reboot to bring some of the studio's most iconic creations back to the big screen. The studio's roster of horror creatures, including Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and his Bride, the Wolfman, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon (among others), are among the most recognizable horror characters in pop culture history. While these characters headlined countless hit movies in the 1930s and 1940s,...

Sony Pictures Classics has taken worldwide rights to Nicholas Hytner’s The Choral, written by Alan Bennett, and set to star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale.

This is the fourth feature collaboration between Bennett and Hytner after The Lady In The Van, The History Boys and The Madness Of King George. Unlike those films,The Choral is based on an original screenplay rather than a play.

Hytner will produce the film alongside Kevin Loader and Damian Jones. Backing comes from Sony Pictures Classics, BBC Film and Screen Yorkshire, and shooting will commence in Yorkshire this May.

Executive producers include Caroline Cooper Charles,...

Take a look at new images of actress Vanessa Kirby (“The Fantastic Four”), posing for the latest issue of "L'Officiel" (USA) magazine, wearing Balenciaga, Cartier, Dior and a whole lot more, photographed by Celeste Sloman:

In 2011, Kirby made her TV debut in BBC's "The Hour". She then played 'Estella' in the BBC' mini-series adaptation of "Great Expectations", followed by the TV movie "About Time".

In 2012, she filmed "The Rise", followed by film roles in "Kill Command", "Jupiter Ascending" and "Queen and Country".

In 2015, she appeared in "Everest", followed by "The Dresser" and May 2015, was cast as 'Princess Margaret' in Netflix's first original Brit TV series "The Crown", winning the 'British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress'.

Kirby gained wider recognition for her roles in the action films "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" (2018) and "Hobbs & Shaw" (2019)…

…winning a Venice Film Festival 'Best Actress'...

Ralph Fiennes is getting ready to begin production on The Beacon, which he will write, direct and star in. More details here.

Ralph Fiennes is a busy man. Not only is he currently starring in Shakespeare’s Macbeth in London’s West End, before the production moves to Washington DC for a run in April, Fiennes has been busy preparing for his next directorial feature film.

Fiennes has set The Beacon as his next feature film as a director, as reported by Deadline. The Beacon will be Fiennes’ fourth film as a director, but one thing sets it apart from Coriolanus, The Invisible Woman and The White Crow.

The Beacon will be based on Fiennes’ own screenplay. Talking to Deadline, Fiennes described his desire to move into screenwriting as having experienced an “impulse to try to write something myself and that just kept building”.

The film will follow “an eco-idealistic...

Exclusive: It is exactly 13 years to the day that Ralph Fiennes’ feature directorial debut Coriolanus – in which he also starred alongside Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox – world premiered to acclaim at the 2011 Berlinale.

The Oscar nominee and Bafta-winning actor has since directed Rudolf Nureyev biopic The White Crow and The Invisible Woman about Charles Dickens’ secret mistress, alongside appearing in another 40 films including The Menu, No Time to Die, The King’s Man and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The Berlinale will support another first for Fiennes, this time via its European Film Market, as Cornerstone kicks off sales on the actor’s next directorial feature project, based on his first feature film screenplay.

Set against Fiennes’ native English county of Suffolk, the drama revolves around an eco-idealistic family, living on a farm in a beautiful natural landscape by the sea, whose fault lines are revealed when the daughter’s...

Ralph Fiennes is directing and starring in class drama The Beacon with Cornerstone commencing international sales on the title at the European Film Market (February 15-21).

This is also Fiennes’ first feature screenplay and the story explores class, race and identity in contemporary Britain. Other cast members include Indira Varma, Charles Babalola and Alison Oliver.

CAA Media Finance is representing US rights on the feature.

The Beacon is produced by the UK’s Potboiler Productions and follows a Ugandan-born man who travels from London to the countryside to spend the summer with his girlfriend’s family.

Fiennes previously directed Coriolanus,...

Exclusive: Two-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List) has written and will direct The Beacon, in which he will also have a leading role alongside Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Obi Wan Kenobi), Charles Babalola (The Outlaws) and Alison Oliver (Saltburn).

Described as a meditation on family, class, race and identity, the contemporary UK-set drama marks Fiennes’ first feature film screenplay after previously directing The White Crow, The Invisible Woman and Coriolanus.

The official synopsis reads: “Joshua Nyaga travels to the countryside from London to spend a summer’s weekend with his girlfriend Cass’ family for the first time. Transplanted as a young boy from the violence of the Ugandan civil war to the concrete jungle of London, Joshua has never experienced the privilege that Cass’ family enjoys.

“Surrounded by the sea and lush natural landscape, the farm is an oasis, brimming with idealistic notions and lively debate amongst Cass’ father,...

The episode of Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? covering The Invisible Man (2020) was Written and Narrated by Adam Walton, Edited by Jaime Vasquez, Produced by Andrew Hatfield and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

One of the most recurring trends in Hollywood right now is the horror remake, and for better, or worse, it isn’t gonna disappear (pun intended) anytime soon. David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist remake may have been met with a geyser of pea soup from the mouths of critics and fans alike, but that isn’t slowing the trend down for the foreseeable future. The Halloween franchise has been picked up by Miramax with the intention of creating a TV series, and a possible cinematic universe, and that’s just hot off the heels of Halloween Ends, erm, ending the recent trilogy with somewhat of a whimper. Another classic horror franchise that...

January sees the launch of Blumhouse’s ‘haunted swimming pool’ movie, Night Swim. Catch a look here.

In the midst of the prestigious awards contenders that we get at the turn of the year, one of the more fun aspects to the annual movie merry-go-round is Blumhouse’s first horror flick of the year. Over the last four years, the horror house’s early-in-the-year release has given us such delights as M3GAN, The Invisible Woman and The Vigil, an underrated horror thriller, if you haven’t yet seen it.

Early 2024 is set to bring us Night Swim, a Blumhouse production that looks to be in the campier style of M3GAN as opposed to the other two films we’ve just mentioned. The project is one of the first collaborations between James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions at Universal Pictures.

Night Swim is a ‘supernatural thriller built...

Updated, 11:34 a.m.: Sony Pictures Classics has firmed up release plans for its drama Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which charts the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and author C.S. Lewis. Based on the stage play by Mark St. Germain, who wrote the script, the film opens in theaters in New York and L.A. December 22, with an expansion to follow in January.

The move positions the pic to open opposite A24’s wrestling drama The Iron Claw, Searchlight’s romantic drama All of Us Strangers, MGM’s buzzy festival title American Fiction, and Uni and Illumination’s original animated pic Migration.

Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) served as the film’s director. In addition to North America, SPC is distributing in the Middle East, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia) and Turkey, and on airlines worldwide. Read more about the project below.

The most wonderful time of year is nearly upon us! With Halloween season just around the corner, Peacock unveiled an impressive lineup today of more than 100 Halloween, horror, thriller, and spooky season titles hitting the platform this September.

Get ready, the list is massive…

Whether you’re looking for recent releases like Hypnotic, or cult gems like Slither, Peacock invites you to face your fears in September. Binge complete freakish franchises like Chucky, Saw, and Amityville, or tune-in for fun family fare that includes Ghostbusters and Casper. Look for a variety of classic horror to arrive on the streaming service mid-September.

Speaking of “Chucky,” if you’re looking to catch up on the series ahead of season three, Peacock brings “Chucky” season two to their Halloween HQ on September 4. That gives you a whole month to catch up before the October 4 premiere of “Chucky” season three.

Full Peacock Halloween horror highlights below.

When we first heard about Fear the Invisible Man last year, the project was seeking a distributor. Now 101 Films has given the film a digital, VOD, and DVD release, and you can check it out at This Link! To help you decide whether or not Fear the Invisible Man is a movie you would like to see, we have embedded the film’s trailer at the top of this article.

Directed by Paul Dudbridge from a script written by Philip Daay and based on a concept from Monika Gergelova, Fear the Invisible Man is described as being a “period action thriller”. It tells the following story: Adeline, a young British woman, shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible. As his isolation grows and his sanity frays, he schemes to create a reign of wanton murder and terror across the city – and Adeline...

With the McU's Fantastic Four casting rumors hotting up, reported frontrunner Vanessa Kirby has offered her first public reaction to the possibility of her playing Sue Storm Aka The Invisible Woman. Previous chatter suggests that Barbie star Margot Robbie is up for the lead role, but Mission Impossible star Kirby has emerged as a strong contender. That's despite the conspicuous silence from within Marvel on official Fantastic Four casting news to date.

Vanessa Kirby was asked about playing Sue Storm in the McU's The Fantastic Four reboot, and told Comicbook.com that she was aware of the rumors. While offering no concrete confirmation of being in talks with Marvel, Kirby said playing Sue Storm "would be an honor". Her positive but vague reaction is in stark contrast to the shutdown Mila Kunis offered after she was linked to the same role after being photographed with Matt Shakman in Los Angeles.

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Actress Margot Robbie has reportedly been offered the role of superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios developing live-action reboot of "Fantastic Four": 

"...'Sue Storm' received her powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space and was originally known as the 'Invisible Girl'. She possesses two powers: invisibility and force fields. Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects, including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation. 

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'. 

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his...

Exclusive: Here’s a first look at Alicia Vikander’s turn as Katherine Parr in the Cannes-bound Firebrand.

Gabrielle Tana’s Brouhaha Entertainment has released the first-look photo of the Ex Machina star in costume for Brazilian helmer Karim Ainouz’s first English-language film. See it below.

Alicia Vikander plays opposite Jude Law, who plays a scheming Henry VIII. Our exclusive photo shows Vikander with the ladies of her bedchamber, who are played by Ruby Bentall (Poldark), Bryony Hannah (Call The Midwife) and Maia Jemmett.

Images of Law as the much-married Tudor king are being kept under wraps at Ainouz’s behest until the movie has screened in competition in Cannes.

A screening date hasn’t been officially set yet but it’s strongly rumoured that Firebrand will premiere at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday, May 21. FilmNation will be shopping on the Croisette.

Benedict Cumberbatch is in final talks to star in the Netflix limited series “Eric,” Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

The six-episode series was originally announced in November 2021. Set in 1980’s New York, the show would see Cumberbatch star as Vincent Sullivan, the lead puppet maker and puppeteer of America’s most popular children’s show, whose life begins to unravel when his young son, Edgar, disappears. Now homeless and dealing with substance addiction, Vincent finds his only companion is Eric, a seven-foot tall blue puppet, who leads him on a journey to find his son and to find a way home.

Netflix declined to comment.

The series hails from writer and executive producer Abi Morgan, whose past onscreen writing credits include shows like “Sex Traffick” and the Emmy-winning series “The Hour,” as well as films like “The Iron Lady,” “The Invisible Woman,” and “Suffragette.” Jane Featherstone, Lucy Dyke, and...

As the crow flies, only about 30 miles separate the port towns of Dover and Calais — a distance that, in many parts of the world, wouldn’t span any greater culture shift than a slight tweak in accent. When those miles are filled with the English Channel, however, opposite coastlines represent opposite worlds, where everything from language to sexual mores are poles apart. It’s a short but jolting journey, an exercise in social and geographic disorientation that British-Pakistani filmmaker Aleem Khan probes to layered, thoughtful effect in his auspicious first feature “After Love.”

Galvanized by Joanna Scanlan’s quiet, searing turn as a white Muslim widow piecing together the separate lives her late husband led on both shores, Khan’s debut confidently blends old-school melodrama with a contemporary political consciousness, suggesting broader, Brexit-era cross-cultural friction while maintaining an intimate domestic focus. Selected for the Critics’ Week program of 2020’s nixed Cannes festival,...

Joan Washington, a veteran dialect and voice coach and the wife of Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant, died Wednesday. Grant posted the news on social media Friday morning but did not provide details.

“Only You Joan – Love of my Life & Giver of Life to our daughter Olivia,” Grant wrote in a tweet that includes a video of the couple dancing and smiling (see it below). “Our hearts are broken with the loss of your life last night. 35 years married and 38 together. To be truly known and seen by you is your immeasurable gift. Do not forget us, sweet Monkee-mine.”

Washington began her career working as a dialect coach on Barbra Streisand’s 1983 movie Yentl. She had worked steadily in film and TV since then, contribution voice and/or dialect instruction on such titles as The Dressmaker, Highlander, Brassed Off, 101 Dalmatians and its sequel, Elizabeth, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,...

Hopscotch Features’ Troy Lum and Andrew Mason have joined forces with UK producer Gabrielle Tana to form a new production house, Brouhaha Entertainment.

The company combines their respective slates, with upcoming projects including Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am, based on the novel by Anna Funder; Lee Tamahori’s The Convert; Richard E. Grant’s Majesty and Patrick Dickinson’s Cottontail.

To be based across Sydney and London, the company has received investment via the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the British Film Institute (BFI).

The fund aims to support the growth of dynamic and ambitious UK companies, and has also backed the likes of Wonderhood Studios, Raindog Films, Maze Theory and Maven Screen Media.

Tana is the producer of the Oscar-nominated Philomena, The Invisible Woman and most recently, Netflix’s The Dig, from Australian director Simon Stone.

Firm will operate from London and Sydney.

UK producer Gabrielle Tana is partnering with Australia’s Troy Lum and Andrew Mason on Brouhaha Entertainment, a new production company based in London and Sydney.

Brouhaha is backed by the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which launched in 2019 to use the UK government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme to support indie firms.

The BFI initiated the Fund although has no financial investment in it.

The Brouhaha slate will combine the upcoming projects of Tana, Lum and Mason. They include Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand starring Michelle Williams; Kate Dennis’ All That I Am; Lee Tamahori...