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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A Quiet Place 3 finally gets the exciting update fans have been waiting for
A Quiet Place 3 has received an exciting update, with production due to get underway in the near future. The horror franchise tells the story of people who have survived an alien invasion, with the blind creatures relying on their strong sense of hearing to hunt their prey. The first two instalments focused on the Abbott family, with a prequel - A Quiet Place: Day One - showing the first days of the invasion. Related: With a third film in the main saga being delayed following the release of Day One, fans have been wondering when they will be able to see Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and her family again, but they now have a positive update after producer Brad Fuller outlined the film's future. "So, Day One is not A Quiet Place 3, just to be clear," he told The Direct. "A Quiet Place 3, we're starting to put it together right now. You know, when we made the first one, John [Krasinski] didn't have a lot on his plate. He had just come off The Office, and he wanted to be a director. "Now, he's so in demand, and it's hard to get him... He's making a movie now, so as soon as he finishes that, hopefully, he will turn his attention to [A Quiet Place 3]. We all want to finish that trilogy, and I'm hopeful there's even more Quiet Place movies beyond that." Related: Whilst A Quiet Place 3 is still some time away, Lupita Nyong'o did recently talk about the storyline in A Quiet Place: Day One, which saw her character battling a terminal illness in the face of an alien invasion. "[She] is really facing their mortality, even before this apocalypse takes place, and whose life is slipping between her fingers," she said. "I think that it was a very risky story that [writer-director] Michael Sarnoski chose to tell."£18.99 at at at at £49.99 at at EE at Audible£99.00 at Amazon at at at at at EE at at at at at Amazon at at EE at at at Game at at at at at at Sky Mobile at at Game£123.99 at at £259.99 at at Three at at at at Pandora at at at at Fitbit£49.99 at at £79.99 at at at at at at at at AO at at at at at at at at John Lewis£39.99 at at at at at at at John Lewis at at at at at at at at Amazon£184.00 at John Lewis & Partners at at Amazon£6.62 at at John Lewis & Partners at Three at at at Fitbit at at at at at Amazon£119.99 at at at at Apple at at at at at at Amazon at at at at Three£379.99 at at at Audible at at at John Lewis at at at at at EE at at at at John Lewis at EE at at £379.00 at at at at Amazon at at at at Apple at at Apple£229.00 at John Lewis at at at Samsung at $365.00 at Microsoft at at Three at at crunchyroll£79.00 at Samsung£1199.00 at AO£79.98 at at John Lewis at at at Amazon at at at at John Lewis & Partners at at Microsoft£79.98 at at at at Microsoft at at at Amazon£269.99 at at at at John Lewis at at at John Lewis & PartnersShop now at at at at Microsoft at at John Lewis at at at £6.65 at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at You Might Also Like PS5 consoles for sale – PlayStation 5 stock and restocks: Where to buy PS5 today? IS MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 THE BEST IN THE SERIES? OUR REVIEW AEW game is a modern mix of No Mercy and SmackDown
Los Angeles Times
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The Envy Awards honor tap dancing, Spartacus, and George Clooney and Brad Pitt
The weird, the wonderful, the what-the-heck? These are the elements of so many movies that rarely receive acknowledgement during awards season. Fortunately, the Envy Awards are held (in these pages) every year to honor all of those underappreciated moments. This season, we make sure to give special mention to a medal, a tap dance — and women who spend all of their screen time staring at men. Please enjoy the 2024-25 Envy Awards! Feline good award'A Quiet Place: Day One' The moment we see a fluffy cat named Frodo gathered up in the arms of terminal cancer patient Samira (Lupita Nyong'o), it seems hard to imagine that he's going to outlast his owner — or the picture. But Frodo is a master of appearing when needed and completely disappearing from the narrative when he's not, and he always ends up with the woman who saved his life. Spoiler alert: This cat lives, and that's what gives the 'Quiet Place' prequel so much of its humanity. Best performance by religious jewelrySt. Christopher medal The St. Christopher medal — representing the patron saint of travelers — dangles from more than one neck in films this season. Sported in both 'Blitz' and 'The Order,' the medal can be a quick shorthand not just to a character's faith but also their views of themselves (among the guilty and innocent alike). And in the case of 'Blitz,' it's also a family heirloom, handed down from Marcus (CJ Beckford) to Rita (Saoirse Ronan) to their son, George (Elliott Heffernan), that watches over the boy as he winds his way back home. Outstanding use of company headquarters'Babygirl' Watching movies at the HQ of the studio distributing it is nothing new to reviewers; however, watching 'Babygirl' at A24's Manhattan offices was a particularly jarring experience as apparently Romy's (Nicole Kidman) business is also located there. She's shown exiting the building and standing outside it for an extended beat in at least one scene, a funny, very specific kind of Easter egg for those paying attention. We see what you did there award'Gladiator II' If you're going full bore into swords-and-sandals shoutouts, you could do worse than summoning the ghost of a classic 'Spartacus' moment. In 'Gladiator II,' the gladiators' overseer demands to know which of his warriors shot a crossbow arrow at the Caesars in the stands — and the men all cover for Lucius (Paul Mescal) by claiming, 'I did it! I did it!' Kirk Douglas would be proud. Unexpected apocalyptic celebration choice awardTap dancing There are those who believe the world will end with trumpets signaling major cataclysms, but in both 'The End' and 'The Performance,' characters instead shuffle off to Buffalo and tap their little hearts out as the world crumbles around them. It's hard to resist Father (Michael Shannon) and Butler (Tim McInnerny) hoofin' it underground postapocalypse style in 'The End' or Harold (Jeremy Piven) and his troupe of tappers dancing for their lives in pre-World War II Germany in 'Performance.' Rarely has such mayhem been so sharply, poignantly choreographed. Women staring at men award'A Complete Unknown' Credit to the great comedy writer Merrill Markoe, who spelled out the two main issues with the inclusion of Pete Seeger's (Edward Norton) wife, Toshi (Eriko Hatsune), in her Substack article: No. 1, Toshi hardly says a word, just stares from offstage while the men make the music; and No. 2, Toshi — an 'Emmy Award-winning producer, director, political activist, documentarian and musicologist' was reduced to being 'some kind of DEI set decorating.' Should Toshi ever get her own much-deserved biopic, we look forward to the scenes where Pete stares lovingly at her from the shadows. For now, she gets Markoe's first-ever TOSHI Award. The bodies, bodies, bodies award'The Substance' From the suicide-by-head-hitting-table-repeatedly in 'Longlegs' to the human-faced xenomorph that emerges in 'Alien: Romulus' to Arthur's killer slicing up his own face at the end of 'Joker: Folie à Deux,' this was the year body horror went mainstream. But ultimately, we have to give an (extra?) hand to 'The Substance,' which continues to haunt our nightmares with the melding of two human bodies into the toothy horror of Monstro Elisasue. Now, can we get David Cronenberg to present the prize? Never too old for this award'Wolfs' It's astounding that Apple failed to realize that audiences will watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt read the phone book, so long as they do it together, and truncated 'Wolfs'' stay in theaters. Not only did the actors bring their Redford-Newman chemistry to a tale of bickering, competitive cleanup men, they also good-naturedly poked fun at the fact that both are now in their 60s. While no one in 'Wolfs' pulls out the hoary action movie cliché of 'I'm gettin' too old for this,' it's delightfully charming to see them acting like middle-aged guys who have back issues when they move dead bodies, or end up huffing and puffing while chasing a drug-fueled young troublemaker in his underpants through New York streets. Lean into it, guys! We sure did.
The Guardian
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Elevation review – high-altitude monster thriller offers twist on the Quiet Place formula
An efficient post-apocalyptic thriller, Elevation subscribes to the Quiet Place school of action streamlining: in this case, the remaining 5% of humanity must stay above an 8,000ft line; any lower, and they are prone to being set upon by Reapers, the giant insects that have conquered the planet. It is also reminiscent of Gareth Edwards's Monsters in the way it frugally reveals its shield-bug-like monsters, and it has an intriguing enough final twist to suggest that a viable franchise might be on the cards. Will (Anthony Mackie) lives in an isolated community at altitude with his son Hunter (Danny Boyd Jr). With everyone merely subsisting like 'rats on a sinking ship', he has to head down the mountain when the supply of air filters for Hunter's asthma runs out; his route to Boulder, Colorado, only involves dipping below 8,000ft twice. So he ropes in embittered alcoholic scientist Nina (Morena Baccarin) – who thinks the research she left behind in the city might hold the key to defeating the critters – and his ballsy friend Katie (Maddie Hasson) to watch his back. Director George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau) is no slouch on the action front, with a dicey cable-car set piece, and a series of close-quarters Reaper encounters when the trio take the mines of Moria route under the mountain. But despite regular adrenaline spikes, Elevation never develops a distinctive identity of its own, and not just because it is so thoroughly derivative. (It even adds a second action parameter in the shape of the red proboscises with which the creatures detect carbon dioxide.) Mainly it's due to its stock and scant characterisation, both in terms of Will's paternal mission and the not-that-interesting bickering with the nihilistic Nina. Mackie doesn't help matters with a bland performance more suited to a mid-life crisis drama than a mockbuster about the fate of the civilised world; Baccarin does better injecting notes of repressed rage and eventual acquiescence with her past. But prospective future instalments might want to aim higher than mere competency. Elevation is on Prime Video from 28 January.
