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Gizmodo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Another TV Spinoff of ‘The Batman' Is On the Way
Crystal Lake expands its mysterious cast. Sam Raimi and Danny Elfman are teaming up once more. Gareth Edwards talks the majesty of Jurassic World: Rebirth's dinosaurs. Plus, what's coming on Lazarus. Spoilers now! Brides Deadline reports Olivia Cooke has replaced Maika Monroe as the lead of Brides, Chloe Okuna's upcoming film about the three brides of Dracula at NEON. The story follows 'Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband, who travel to a remote Italian villa whose owner, a mysterious count, takes a peculiar interest in Sally.' Superman A pair of tie-in FunkoPop figurines shared by Comic Book seemingly confirm that Ultraman and the golden-armored Hammer of Boravia are the same character. Head over there to have a look. Send Help According to Fangoria, Danny Elfman is attached to score Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre, Send Help. Jurassic World Rebirth Gareth Roberts states 'there's something very primal about dinosaurs, you can't dismiss them' in a new Jurassic World Rebirth featurette. Jimmy and Stiggs A 'down-on-his-luck filmmaker' promises to take down the aliens who abducted him in the trailer for Jimmy and Stiggs, the first feature from Eli Roth's new label, The Horror Section. Crystal Lake According to Deadline, William Catlett has joined the cast of Crystal Lake as a character named Levon Brooks. The Penguin/Matt Reeves' The Batman During a recent interview with Deadline, The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc revealed her team is 'in [the] early stages' of a developing another spinoff series based on Matt Reeves' The Batman. Lazarus Finally, Adult Swim has released a clip from this week's new episode of Lazarus.
Gizmodo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
All the Spooky Details We Loved at Epic Universe's Darkmoor
Universal Studios Orlando's Epic Universe is now open, and its horrors are loose in the Dark Universe. To Universal Monsters fans, the Dark Universe is everything we've wanted to see come alive in a horror theme park dedicated to the terrifying and strange. Without the films, there would be no Universal Pictures or the first Universal Studios theme park, for that matter. Epic Universe's Darkmoor is a monument to the monster legacy at the studio, and it's befitting of all the creature comforts in store for fans. The moment you enter, Danny Elfman's score for the land echoes through the nooks and crannies of the cobblestone streets and bounces off the brick buildings. You'll see little homages to various characters, such as Dr. Jekyll's Apothecary, which we wish was a real shop. There's a number of walk around characters that share the lore of the monsters, and you might run into the bandaged form of the Invisible Man, or even the Bride and the Monster. On the attractions, the first monsters of the franchise including the Hunchback of Notre Dame (look up when the bell tolls) and the Phantom of the Opera make their presence felt. The haunting worlds of original films are canon but do get expanded on in intriguing ways. When you meet the Monster you find out he's just the Bride's friend, and the experiment from the James Whale movie she was made for lies dead in the queue of Monsters Unchained. To really get the sense of what those stories would have evolved to in the modern day, you actively have to pay attention to all the small details. When you get there, Ygor asks you to volunteer to help Victoria Frankenstein bring glory back to the family name on her quest to control Dracula (yeah, good luck sis). And even the vampire familiars at Das Stakehaus echo the sentiment that there's no tying that undead man down. Over at the Burning Blade Tavern ,you get more about the villagers' sentiments about who the real monsters are in Darkmoor: the creations or the humans who seek to overpower them? I wish I'd been able to spend more time in the area to talk to every performer to get as much lore out of them as possible because it's dense. And we only got a few hours there to gather as much spooky intel as possible and try the food and do the Darkmoor Monster Makeup Experience. I am already itching to go back! To an extent, for the casual theme park fan, it might be a bit much to really wrap their heads around when they ride Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment. You do get to see that Victoria has continued the work of her family name in many ways including making her own version of the monster. But there's also video clips that play of her and Ygor capturing the Creature From the Black Lagoon and the Wolf Man—there might be more clips but we went through the queue rather quickly. I imagine that she thinks that by making some sort of Monster Squad she'll live up to her family reputation but might be in over her head. We can't wait to see how the world continues to grow as more people visit Darkmoor. Check out the gallery below to get a taste of the fun details and Easter eggs! Epic Universe is now open at Universal Studios Orlando. Travel and accommodations were provided for the purposes of this review.
Time Out
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Seemingly every cool film and TV composer is coming together for this Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross festival in L.A.
There's clearly an insatiable appetite for live film score performances in the Los Angeles area. John Williams has been a fixture at the Hollywood Bowl for decades, as has, more recently, Danny Elfman and a slew of orchestra-backed movie screenings. It's spilled into the music festival circuit, too; I can very distinctly remember its apparent origin, when the Coachella 2017 crowd lost its collective mind over Hans Zimmer's performance of his themes from Pirates of the Caribbean and Interstellar. So kudos to award-winning composer duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who are putting together an entire one-day-only festival with some of the coolest and most legendary film and television composers on the lineup. Future Ruins will take over the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on November 8, and it'll bring with it a blockbuster lineup of folks behind some of your favorite moody movie music, including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter and more than a dozen other composers behind films and shows like The White Lotus, Stranger Things, Joker and many, many more. 'There's no headliner. There's no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,' say Reznor and Ross in a statement (they're on the lineup too—though you can also catch them in September at the Forum under Reznor's more storied Nine Inch Nails moniker). Expect three stages at the outdoor Burbank venue with a mix of electronic, live band and orchestral performances, including appearances from composers who otherwise rarely perform live. The full lineup is frankly astonishing, and you'll find the list of performances below. Pricing info has yet to be released for the Live Nation–presented event, but tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 21 at noon. Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror, Utopia (UK), Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, Ponyboi, The Third Day, National Treasure (UK), The Girl With All The Gifts, Humans) Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror, Devs) Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Alice In Wonderland, Spider-Man, Milk) Claudio Simonetti's Goblin (Suspiria, Profondo Rosso/Deep Red, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera) Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Women Talking, Hedda) A performance of Howard Shore's score of David Cronenberg's Crash Isobel Waller-Bridge (Munich: The Edge of War, Emma., Black Mirror, I Came By, Wicked Little Letters, Fleabag, The Lesson, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Magpie, Sweetpea) John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York) Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Boom) Mark Mothersbaugh (The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok) Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield) Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Master, Telemarketers, The Color of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Power, Unvion, Seeds, Life After) Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I am Everything) Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Night in Miami, The Woman King, Perry Mason) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Light, Waves, The Vietnam War, Mank, The Killer) Volker Bertelmann a.k.a. Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, Lion, The Amateur, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal, Hollywoodgate, Adrift, War Sailor, The Old Guard, Stowaway, Patrick Melrose)
New York Post
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Bridget Fonda and husband Danny Elfman seen together for the first time in 16 years
Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman have popped up in public together for the first time in 16 years. The couple were photographed outside their Los Angeles home on Monday. 15 Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman at their LA home on April 28. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID 15 Bridget Fonda with her husband Danny Elfman. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID 15 Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman organizing items in their garage. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID Fonda, 61, wore a black peacoat, a white T-shirt and a pair of dark sweatpants, while Elfman, 71, had on a black and grey shirt, black pants and a black baseball cap. 15 Bridget Fonda at her Los Angeles home on April 28. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID 15 Danny Elfman inside his garage in LA. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID The stars, who have been married since 2003, appeared to be organizing items in their garage in the photos. 15 Bridget Fonda seen with her husband for the first time since 2009. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID 15 Bridget Fonda with her husband Danny Elfman. NORTH-SUNSET / BACKGRID The retired actress and her composer husband are rarely spotted together. Back in 2009, they attended the 'Inglourious Basterds' premiere at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Fonda has been photographed without Elfman a handful of times more recently. 15 Danny Elfman, Bridget Fonda at the 'Inglourious Basterds' premiere in 2009. Getty Images 15 Bridget Fonda, Danny Elfman attend the 'Inglourious Basterds' afterparty in West Hollywood in August 2009. WireImage 15 Bridget Fonda photographed in Los Angeles in January 2023. / In Aug. 2024, she arrived at LAX Airport with their son Oliver, 19, without her wedding ring on. The outing sparked speculation that Fonda split from Elfman, who was previously accused of sexual abuse and harassment. In 2017, pianist Nomi Abadi claimed she was sexually harassed by the star, who she accused of stripping naked and masturbating in front of her. Elfman denied those claims; however, he reportedly settled the lawsuit she filed against him for $830,000 in 2018. 15 Bridget Fonda and Danny Elfman in 2002. WireImage Then in 2023, a second accuser — known as Jane Doe XX — stepped forward with allegations against the famous musician. Her lawsuit accused Elfman of allegedly 'grooming' her when she was 21 and a student at the New York Film Academy in 1997. Elfman denied the accusations against him, with his spokesperson telling The Hollywood Reporter: 'The allegations of misconduct made against Mr. Elfman are baseless and absurd. His legal team is assessing all options and he will vigorously defend these claims in court.' 15 Danny Elfman at the 2023 Burbank International Film Festival. Getty Images 15 Bridget Fonda, Danny Elfman at the 'Charlotte's Web' premiere in 2006. Getty Images Fonda is a member of the famous Fonda family that includes dad Peter Fonda and aunt Jane Fonda. She's appeared in well-known movies like 'Singles' (1992), 'The Godfather Part III' (1990), 'Point of No Return' (1993) and 'Jackie Brown' (1997). She has not acted since the 2002 TV film 'Snow Queen.' 15 Bridget Fonda in 'Jackie Brown.' ©Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection 15 Bridget Fonda in 'Single White Female.' ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Fonda retired from the silver screen after she was involved in a 2003 crash on the Pacific Coast Highway due to rainy conditions. In April 2023, she told paparazzi while at LAX that she'd never return to Hollywood. 'It's too nice being a civilian,' she stated.
Bloomberg
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Horror Is Now a Year-Round Theme Park Business
A foreboding mist rolls over a plot of tombstones. A score by Danny Elfman swells. An electric current surges atop the Gothic spire of Frankenstein Manor. Nearby a windmill bursts into flames. It feels like a scene from a Halloween movie, except for one extenuating detail: It's all transpiring on a sunny spring morning in central Florida.
