As a gamer, I’ve just heard that a fresh face is taking over the helm from Cathy Repola, our outgoing national executive director at the Motion Picture Editors Guild. It’s an exciting time for all of us as we welcome this new leader to our gaming community!
This year, a total of 31 animated films, 169 documentaries, and 85 international entries have been deemed eligible for Oscar nominations, as confirmed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday.
Since 2001, the actors from the Harry Potter films have essentially become one with their enchanting on-screen personas. It’s always fascinating to learn about potential alternative castings, such as Nicholas Hoult possibly playing Harry. At 34 years old, he has had numerous remarkable roles and continues to add more to his repertoire in our 2024 movie lineup. Given his past talent and this amusing video, I believe he could still contend for the role in the upcoming Max series.
Anticipation swirls around the upcoming release of the movie version of Wicked, and in anticipation, AMC Theatres has issued a fresh ad as a gentle reminder that humming along during the film isn’t appropriate. For years, fans have cherished the tunes from this hit Broadway musical, but with Wicked‘s promising box-office prospects and stellar reviews, some are both excited for and apprehensive about audience members singing along to the movie.
In Ridley Scott’s grand ‘Gladiator’ series, it’s clear that the emperors are, at the very least, not riding their chariots as one might expect. The emperor portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in the original ‘Gladiator’ was clearly mentally unstable, and this trend continues with the twins Geta and Caracalla in ‘Gladiator II’. Interestingly, Ridley Scott attributes this instability not merely to dramatic plot devices, but claims there is a historical basis for such madness among those in power, which he describes as “remarkably insane”.