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Geek Tyrant
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Elizabeth Olsen Joins Kristen Stewart & Oscar Isaac in FLESH OF THE GODS – A Vampire Fever Dream Set in Hedonistic '80s L.A. — GeekTyrant
Elizabeth Olsen has officially joined Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac in Flesh of the Gods , a neon-lit vampire thriller that sounds like it was ripped straight from a fever dream. Directed by Mandy 's Panos Cosmatos, the film is set in a stylized version of 1980s Los Angeles. Isaac and Stewart will portray Raoul and Alex, 'a married couple in glittering '80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. 'When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.' The script comes from Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker, and it's based on a story he developed with Cosmatos. The project is backed by a producing team that includes Adam McKay and Betsy Koch of Hyperobject Industries, as well as Gena Konstantinakos and Oscar Isaac for Mad Gene Media. The film also serves as a kind of vampire homecoming for Stewart, who famously starred in Twilight . But this is no sparkly teen romance. It's clear Flesh of the Gods is going for something stranger, darker, and far more stylistically intense. There's no official production start date yet. Source: Deadline
Time of India
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Elizabeth Olsen joins cast of vampire thriller 'Flesh Of The Gods'
Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elizabeth Olsen has joined Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac to co-star in vampire thriller ' Flesh Of The Gods ' from director Panos Cosmatos . Isaac and Stewart will play Raoul and Alex, a married couple in 1980s Los Angeles who leave their luxurious skyscraper penthouse each evening to enter an electric twilight universe. When Raoul and Alex encounter the mysterious and intriguing Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, they are drawn into a beautiful, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence, reported Deadline. The film is written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) based on a story by Cosmatos and Walker, and is produced by Adam McKay and Betsy Koch of Hyperobject Industries and Gena Konstantinakos and Isaac for Mad Gene Media. Olsen is most recognised for her role as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes appearances in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and the Disney+ series WandaVision. She made her debut in the critically acclaimed independent movie Martha Marcy May Marlene and has since starred in Wind River, Ingrid Goes West, and Godzilla, among other films. 'Flesh of the Gods' marks the fourth collaboration between Cosmatos and XYZ, as they produced the upcoming Miley Cyrus film Something Beautiful, which will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. They also have Nekrokosm in development with A24, as per the outlet. Upcoming titles from XYZ Films include Banquet, starring Meghann Fahy and directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; the SXSW thriller Hallow Road, directed by Babak Anvari and starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys; and The Trip starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, which is currently in post-production, reported Deadline. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
Globe and Mail
30-04-2025
- Sport
- Globe and Mail
After Game 5 loss, the Maple Leafs can't help but think about the worst-case scenario
Toronto Maple Leafs Oliver Ekman-Larsson looks on as the Toronto Maple Leafs lose to the Ottawa Senators during NHL playoff action in Toronto, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press A couple of reactions after the series went from Advantage: Leafs to 3-2 and everyone's got a chance now. 'Closing out a series is a very difficult thing to do,' said the Leafs coach. 'There is a reason why it's been this many years.' 'It's good. We'll be alright,' said a Leafs defenceman. The coach was Sheldon Keefe, the defenceman was Jake Muzzin, the year was 2021 and it absolutely was not alright. But at 3-2, having failed to close out the Canadiens at home, the Leafs didn't seem scared. Four years and many disappointments further on, they will be now. The telling series in Toronto's Game 5 loss to Ottawa on Tuesday encapsulates everything about how things work out for the Leafs once the team starts thinking too hard. Early in the third period, Ottawa up 1-0. Senator Ridly Greig decides to rugby tackle Mitch Marner at centre ice. Just chased him down and jumped on top of him. Why? Why not, I guess. Greig gets two minutes. Toronto sets up for the power play. A minute into that, Auston Matthews turns over the puck. That becomes an Ottawa two-on-one. Boom, it's a 2-0 game. And that is the story how the Toronto Maple Leafs were gifted the dumbest penalty you will ever see at the absolute perfect moment in a pivotal game and turned it into a crushing loss. If this ends up the way it's starting to feel like it could end up, that was when it started. Every time we get to this position with the Leafs, and we've been doing it for what now seems like all of our adult lives, I think of a scene from a movie. It's the bit at the end of 'Se7en', where Morgan Freeman opens the box that the affectless serial killer, John Doe, has just had delivered. John Doe is in cuffs. Freeman's character has a gun. But he radios his back-up and says, 'Whatever you hear, stay away. John Doe has control.' On paper, the Leafs have still got this. They have better, more experienced personnel, several metric tons of human resources spread throughout the organization and 120 minutes in which to leverage them all. Ottawa is callow, limping and unarmed. But we all know who's in control now. The Senators have a singular advantage that no other team in the playoffs has - they don't need to believe in themselves. They just need to believe that the Leafs believe it's happening again. A few lingering shots of the faces on the Leafs bench right after that short-handed goal is the only game tape Ottawa coach Travis Green should show. It will convince them. Maybe he can throw in the shot of John Tavares stretched out in his own empty goal trying to Kung fu away the second-to-last insult. A lot of Leafs suffer in the playoffs, but whether he's good or bad, none seems to suffer like Tavares. He ends every game looking like he's climbing out of a trench. After that puck got through Tavares, the building began to empty out. Some of those who remained tried to perk their team's spirits up by booing them relentlessly. Then Ottawa scored again. Then it ended and everyone went home to figure out how to turn the parade into a funeral march. Just in case. The Leafs used to have a plan, but there was no sign of it on Tuesday. However this ends for them, it will be accomplished in the midst of another one of their flop sweat eras. Two factors strike you as significant now - Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark and the Leafs biggest star, Matthews. All series long, we've been hearing from Ottawa players about Ullmark's Vezina pedigree. He must be good, their thinking goes, because he was once been voted the league's best goaltender. Except he hasn't been. As Connor Hellebuyck is in the midst of proving again, that particular trophy doesn't mean much in the playoffs. But on Tuesday, Vezina Ullmark appeared. No more sliding around the net like the ice was frozen on an angle. No more bad reads. Totally zeroed in on target. If this guy shows up for two more games, Toronto has real problems. Then there's Matthews. One goal in six games isn't anywhere close to good enough. Since no team is more obsessed with their publicity, the Leafs' solution to that problem was to have Matthews let everyone know that he is injured. Injured how? How dare you ask. There's a reason most star players do this 'both of my knee caps were unattached' routine at the end of the playoffs - because they expect that to be a great many games away. People may know they're hurt, but they don't want them to know know. That just encourages shenanigans. Matthews doesn't seem confident on the 'long time to go' score? So why would his teammates feel any different? Watching your number one guy get his excuses prepped beforehand is not exactly 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' is it? If the Leafs win it on Thursday in Ottawa, some things will be forgiven. But the chance to face either Florida teams as the favourite is now gone. The Panthers (probably) and the Lightning (probably not) will both think these are the Leafs they know - erratic, soft, vulnerable. It's no fun seeing Matthew Tkachuk or Victor Hedman coming at you at the best of times. But when they've got their tails up? Good luck with that. So the uphill part of the playoff slog has already begun. That's the best case scenario. The worst case is not yet worth contemplating, though you know that regardless of what they say, every single Leaf is currently contemplating it non-stop.
Business Insider
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Steven Soderbergh isn't surprised David Fincher is making a 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' sequel — he's just shocked Quentin Tarantino agreed
David Fincher and Brad Pitt are making a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood." Tarantino, who wrote the sequel, agreed to let Fincher and Pitt continue the story of Cliff Booth. Steven Soderbergh says Fincher and Pitt are always looking for projects to work on together. When the news broke that David Fincher would be teaming with his "Fight Club" star Brad Pitt to make a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed 2019 movie "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" for Netflix, many didn't believe it to be true. (The news also broke on April Fools' Day, which didn't help.) Director Steven Soderbergh was one of the few who knew it to be true. As a good friend of Fincher's, he knows how close Fincher and Pitt are. "I think they're always on the lookout for something to do together," Soderbergh told Business Insider in a recent interview, referring to Fincher and Pitt. "So this was, it sounds like, an unusual set of circumstances where Quentin decided he didn't want to do it and Brad asked him, 'Can I show it to David?' and he said sure, and David read it and said, 'Let's do it.'" However, Soderbergh admits there is one aspect of the news that did shock him. "What's surprising is Quentin's agreeability," he said. The theory around Hollywood is that Tarantino, who has stated that he plans to retire after making his next movie, which will be the tenth of his career, didn't want to end on a sequel. Tarantino's sequel script to "Once Upon a Time..." focuses on Pitt's character Cliff Booth. Along with 1999's "Fight Club," Pitt and Fincher have worked together on 1995's "Se7en" and 2008's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" stars Leonardo DiCaprio as TV star Rick Dalton, who's struggling to keep his career afloat in the changing landscape of Hollywood in the late 1960s. Pitt plays Cliff Booth, Dalton's longtime stuntman and best friend. Pitt's performance won him a best supporting actor Oscar. Little is known about the sequel outside of the fact that the plot is focused on Booth, and that DiCaprio could return as Dalton in a cameo role. Given that he's friends with Fincher, did Soderbergh know about him taking on the sequel before the news broke? "I was aware, but I was also very cognizant that this was a newsworthy piece of information," Soderbergh said. "Actually, I was surprised it took that long for the story to come out. But it's happening, and it's happening soon."
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
David Fincher to direct Brad Pitt in major sequel for Netflix written by Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher is reportedly set to reunite with his longtime collaborator Brad Pitt for a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 62-year-old Fincher — who's directed Pitt on a handful of films, including Fight Club, Se7en, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — will once again direct the actor in the untitled new project for Netflix. The movie will see Pitt reprise his Once Upon a Time role as Hollywood stuntman and potential spouse-killer Cliff Booth, with Tarantino on board to write the script, according to Variety. It's not yet known if Pitt will be joined by his Once Upon a Time co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie. The Independent has contacted Fincher's representative and Netflix for comment. News of the movie comes a year after Tarantino abandoned plans for what was supposedly his final feature film. Titled The Movie Critic, the film had already cast Pitt as the lead in a role similar to that of his Once Upon a Time character, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. The movie's plot was said to be 'based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.' Tarantino previously explained that the inspiration came from a job he had as a teen, loading pornographic magazines into a vending machine. At the time, reports claimed that plans were scrapped after Tarantino 'simply had a change of heart.' Instead, he would be 'going back to the drawing board to figure out what that final movie will be,' sources told Deadline. The director, 62, has long said that he would retire after his tenth movie, and had the film moved forward, it would have been his tenth. 'I know film history and from here on in, filmmakers do not get better,' Tarantino told Bill Maher in 2021. 'I don't have a reason that I would want to say out loud, that's going to win any argument in a court of public opinion or supreme court or anything like that. 'At the same time, working for 30 years doing as many movies as I've done, it's not as many as other people, but that's a long career. That's a really long career.'
