There was a time when a cast of A-listers joining a TV project would draw major headlines. Now, that’s just not the case. In fact, you wouldn’t be wrong to be a little shocked that “The Perfect Couple,” with its starry cast, is actually debuting on Netflix this week with seemingly very little fanfare. That’s just a sign of the times. At least Netflix released a trailer for the show, even if it is only two days away.

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Over the past two decades, Elin Hilderbrand‘s prolific output of Nantucket-set romance novels made her “the Queen of beach reads.” But now that the novelist is retired (kinda), what will the Hilderbabes (and dudes) do? No worries here: Netflix is officially in the Hilderbrand business, and the streamer’s first (of presumedly many) adaptation of the writer’s works premieres in September.

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The first Hilderbrand book to get the mini-series treatment?  2018’s “The Perfect Couple,” about a wedding on Nantucket postponed after a body washes up on the beach.

Continue reading ‘The Perfect Couple’ Teaser: Netflix’s Erin Hilderbrand Adaptation Starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber & More Premieres On September 5 at The Playlist.

Just as the global pandemic seemed to profoundly accelerate the demise of movies and theatergoing—something we all cynically assumed would happen, but hell, not that fast! Not so soon! culturally, our internal clocks all have an impending sense of doom that seems to be ticking faster than ever. Climate change is something we presume will destroy our lives eventually, but globally, it’s been unnerving to watch raging forest fires in Australia that appear apocalyptic, or more recently, if you’re a New Yorker, experience firsthand alarming smoke and air quality pollution that looks like it’s been shot by Roger Deakins on the set of “Blade Runner 2049.” Intentional timed or not, this is where Steven Soderbergh and writer Kurt Anderson are coming from with their surprise new sci-fi-ish satirical series, “Command Z” (the Apple key command for “undo,” and specifically the computer power to negate a mistake; the serious was not officially announced until three days prior to release, and not for nothing, we were the only ones that reported about it months ago in advance).

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Surprise! Steven Soderbergh may have already dropped a new series—the botched-kidnapping drama “Full Circle,” which premiered yesterday, July 13, on MAX (read our review)— but the uber-prolific filmmaker has yet another series premiering in three days. No, really. Titled “Command Z,” the series, which premieres July 17, is only 90 minutes long, but there are eight episodes of varying length.

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Taking its title from a quote with which Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam during WWII, often ended her speeches later in life, “A Small Light” is the latest engaging, richly detailed biographical drama from National Geographic.

Co-creators Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (“Grey’s Anatomy”) find a deeply humanist angle to this well-known piece of history by telling the story of Frank and her family through those who aided them.

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Most people have learned the story of Anne Frank. In many schools, her story is taught in history classes and her diaries are read as classic works. But in the new series, “A Small Light,” the story of Anne Frank is told through the perspective of the woman who promised to keep her safe. 

READ MORE: ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Review: Jennifer Garner Can’t Save Apple TV+’s Plodding Thriller

As seen in the trailer for “A Small Light,” the limited series tells the story of Miep Gies, a young woman who takes on the challenge of hiding the Frank family from the Nazis during WWII after Otto Frank asked her to help.

Continue reading ‘A Small Light’ Trailer: Bel Powley, Joe Cole & Liev Schreiber Tell The Story Of Hiding Anne Frank’s Family in WWII at The Playlist.

Add another prestige limited TV series to Nicole Kidman‘s filmography. Deadline reports that the actress is in talks to star in the upcoming Netflix show “The Perfect Couple,” based on Elin Hilderbrand‘s 2018 mystery novel. The six-episode series follows a Nantucket native set to marry the man of her dreams on the 4th of July, only for a dead body found in the harbor to upend her perfect day.

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War is perhaps cinema’s most enduring — and prolific — muse. From Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” to Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” war movies are some of the greatest classics within cinema history, from the sense-numbing bloodbaths of battlefields to the adrenaline that lingers within operation rooms as history-making calls are about to be made. 

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Exclusive: Earlier this year, in Steven Soderbergh‘s annual Seen, Read list—where the filmmaker details everything he watched or read in the year—the “Contagion” and ‘Oceans’ trilogy director unveiled a new venture he shot called “The Pendulum Project.” What is it exactly? Well, Soderbergh didn’t say, but his Seen, Read list did reveal the enterprise was a TV series, making it the third film or TV project he shot in 2022, alongside “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” and the HBO Max mini-series “Full Circle.”

So, what is it exactly?

Continue reading Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Pendulum Project’ Is A Satire Series From Writer Kurt Anderson Featuring Michael Cera, Roy Wood Jr. & Liev Schreiber [Exclusive] at The Playlist.

The streaming wars have led to an excellent time for well-crafted television. The quality of TV shows keeps elevating with compelling dramatic performances from actors from both the worlds of film and television alike as it’s not as taboo these days to move between the two mediums. Disney+ is now looking to shift toward darker stories and will set its sights on an original series tackling the Holocaust.

Deadline reports that the streaming service is behind an eight-episode drama series, “A Small Light.” The National Geographic limited series tells the remarkable true-life story of a Dutch woman, Miep Gies, who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary that was later published for the public.

Continue reading ‘A Small Light’: Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber & Joe Cole Tapped For Disney+ Holocaust Limited Series at The Playlist.

It’s not a shock when we see Wes Anderson pull together a massively talented cast of A-listers for a film project. For decades, that’s been his modus operandi. But it really does feel like he’s pulling out all of the stops for his upcoming untitled film that is in production in Spain, as every day seems to find us talking about a brand-new addition to the already star-studded cast.

READ MORE: Scarlett Johansson Joins Wes Anderson’s Latest Movie

Instead of adding just one massive name to the cast, THR has revealed that Wes Anderson is adding four incredible actors to his growing troupe for his untitled film that is filming now.

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Typically, when a show does solid ratings, gets awards consideration, and runs for seven years, a network will give the creator and producers a chance to finish their story before outright canceling it. Unfortunately, that was not the courtesy given to the makers of “Ray Donovan,” as the long-running Showtime series was abruptly canceled after its 7th season, which actually left on a bit of a cliffhanger and zero resolution. Fans, as you might expect, were not happy.

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“Enter a universe where more than one wears the mask,” was the tagline for the teaser of “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.” The teaser debuted back in December. And now we get the full-length trailer for fans of comic book character favorite, Miles Morales. It’s a whole different world than what fans of the Marvel franchise have come to know. It’s an animated film, but still carries a dark tone to it.

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They growl and occasionally they howl, but the dogs don’t bark in Wes Anderson‘s stop-motion miracle “Isle of Dogs.” Instead, these beautifully scruffy puppet pooches, with uncannily expressive, liquid eyes, speak in clipped, droll, perfectly parsed English, debating plans of action democratically and relating heartfelt backstories with gruff, unsentimental candor. Consigned to Trash Island, which is exactly what it says it is, by the corrupt, dog-hating, cat-stroking Mayor of the nearby city of Megasaki, they roam in scavenging packs that are as riven with internal conflicts as they are with infectious ailments.

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When Sony and Marvel Studios announced they were working on a reboot of “Spider-Man,” many fans were hoping that they would actually start with Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker. Debuting in the comics in 2011, Miles Morales became Spider-Man to replace a dead Peter Parker in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe. He was hugely popular, developing a rabid fanbase. Unfortunately for these fans, Marvel and Sony decided to go with Peter Parker for their live-action films.

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If you want to know how strong the goodwill that Wes Anderson carries around is, all you have to do is look at the absolutely great and kinda bonkers cast for his new movie, “Isle Of Dogs.” In no particular order, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Akira Ito, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Kunichi Nomura, Edward Norton, Yoko Ono, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Tilda Swinton, Akira Takayama and Frank Wood, all lend their voices to what is hopefully another winning picture from the filmmaker.

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While you weren’t watching, Ray Donovan has run for four seasons, and this summer comes season five. And the first teaser has landed for the upcoming batch of episodes.

This season delves into the Donovan family in more depth and promises to maintain the dark and intense mood that the show. Liev Schrieber, Ray Donovan himself, told Collider it’ll be “a shocker. It really is a shocker. I’m afraid that I can’t tell you more than that because there are such critical plot things happening this season […] but it’s a very dark year for Ray.”

So when we last saw Ray, he was dealing with some heavy shit, as always.

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Very well-made, very sweet-natured and very, very familiar: how strange that Philippe Falardeau‘s “Chuck,” a based-in-truth film about pretty much the definition of a confrontational sport — boxing — should feel cozy as a down comforter from beginning to end. Maybe it’s that the picture signals a love for its flawed-but-forgivable central character Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner early on, so that we’re aware nothing very bad will happen (or if it does, he’ll learn his lesson).

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If you thought Sony‘s reboot plans for Spider-Man just involved their live-action movies with Marvel and the Venom universe of Spidey characters they’re building, you’re dead wrong. The studio is also swinging into the animated realm, with a film planned for next year, and they’re gearing up the voice cast.

READ MORE: The 30 Best Performances In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Shameik Moore (“Dope,” “The Get Down“) has been tapped to voice Miles Morales in the still-untitled animated movie.

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Last year, two boxing movies duked it out on the festival circuit: “Bleed Like This” starring Miles Teller, which also opened in the fall, and “The Bleeder,” led by Liev Schreiber. Now, perhaps as a bid to extinguish any confusion, the latter has been blandly retitled “Chuck,” as it gears up to hit theaters.

Co-starring Elisabeth Moss, Ron Perlman, Naomi Watts, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport, and Pooch Hall, and directed by Philippe Falardeau (“Monsieur Lazhar“), the film tells the true story of journeyman boxer Chuck Wepner, who suddenly found himself in sport’s biggest spotlight.

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I may not personally know any Bronies, but I do know enough about “My Little Pony” to realize the brand has extended far beyond the plastic horses that were advertised when I watched cartoons on Saturday mornings as a kid. An animated big-screen outing was pretty much inevitable, but I’m kind of amazed at the voice cast they’ve managed to assemble.

READ MORE: What Will Be The Biggest Box Office Blockbuster Of 2017?

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The Television Academy clearly loved “This Is Us” awarding it 11 nominations including Best Drama Series. One of the few categories they can actually reward it may be Lead Actor. Sterling K. Brown already won an Emmy for his work in “The People v O.J. Simpson” last year and is well known to Emmy voters. The question is whether Brown’s co-star, Milo Ventimiglia, will siphon off some of Brown’s support.

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Today, hockey is a much faster sport than it was two decades ago. Goal scoring has taken the lead over bone-crunching body checks and ice-based throwdowns. But if you’re longing for the day when big burly guys on skates punched each other, “Goon: Last Of The Enforcers” will bring back that rock ’em, sock ’em feeling.

Jay Baruchel directs this sequel to the surprise hit “Goon,” bringing together Sean William Scott, Alison Pill, Liev Schreiber, Elisha Cuthbert, and Wyatt Russell for the latest chapter in the saga of Doug Glatt who gets back on the ice to face his greatest foe yet.

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To be honest, I don’t get the fanboy love that the rather middling hockey comedy “Goon” has on some corners of the internet. A passable, sorta forgettable film, I’m frankly a bit amazed that its specific brand of broad Canadian comedy managed to travel beyond its borders, but indeed it has. More importantly, however, the movie was a big hit in its native land, and so now we have a sequel.

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Very well-made, very sweet-natured and very, very familiar: how strange that Philippe Falardeau‘s “The Bleeder,” a based-in-truth film about pretty much the definition of a confrontational sport —boxing— should feel cosy as a down comforter from beginning to end. Maybe it’s that the picture signals a love for its flawed-but-forgivable central character Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner early on, so that we’re aware nothing very bad will happen (or if it does, he’ll learn his lesson).

Continue reading Warm, Familiar ‘The Bleeder’ Tells The Story Of The Real-Life Rocky Balboa [Venice Review] at The Playlist.