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Extra.ie
2 days ago
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- Extra.ie
Fans all saying the same thing as trailer for new Colin Farrell flick drops
Fans are all saying the same thing as the trailer drops for Colin Farrell's highly anticipated new film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a romantic drama, directed by Kogonada and starring Margot Robbie alongside the Irish star. The flick is described as an original story about two strangers brought together by an extraordinary emotional journey. Fans are all saying the same thing as the trailer drops for Colin Farrell's highly anticipated new film Pic: Lisa O'Connor/Shutterstock for SAG A 10-second teaser trailer was released this week, and it's safe to say fans are more than excited to see these two take to the screen together. 'Robbie and Farrell? Yes sir,' one user wrote, while another added: 'The chemistry is real.' 'Colin farell means I'm seated,' a third shared while a number of fans made reference to the star's past cinematic crossovers. 'Penguin & Harley Quinn in another universe,' one penned, while another joked: 'Does the Joker know that Harley Quinn and Penguin are hanging out?' Sony pushed the film's release from May 9 to September 19, with plot details having been kept tightly under wraps. However, sleuthy fans have deduced that the film follows two strangers who meet at a wedding and set off on a GPS-guided adventure which involves time travel and a lot of romance. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a romantic drama, directed by Kogonada and starring Margot Robbie alongside the Irish star. Pic: Karwai Tang/WireImage This marks Margot's first acting role since the 2023 box office sensation, Barbie, while the Dublin native follows up his award-winning performance in The Penguin. The pair join a star-studded ensemble cast including Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Hamish Linklater. Looks like we'll be running to the cinema come September, how about you?
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Thursday Murder Club' trailer slays, the cast of ‘Hamilton' reunites, and more of today's top stories
Gold Derby's top news stories for May 29, 2025. Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan, and Celia Imrie are ready to start sleuthing in the first trailer for The Thursday Murder Club, director Chris Columbus' adaptation of the hit novel by Richard Osman. The film, like the bestselling book series, follows four retirees who take an interest in investigating cold cases, only to find themselves with a much warmer mystery on their hands. More from GoldDerby How 'The Penguin' transformed real NYC locations into Gotham's criminal underworld (see the exclusive concept art) Janelle James on Ava's challenging year on 'Abbot Elementary': 'They kind of threw everything at me this season' 'Death Becomes Her' costume designer Paul Tazewell on creating show's spectacular outfits: 'Theater-making is about the impossible' (exclusive images) Lin-Manuel Miranda and company are not throwing away their shot to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their blockbuster musical. The cast will take the stage at the 70th Tony Awards on June 8 to mark the occasion. Joining Miranda will be Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, among others. Hamilton is still the record-holder for most-ever nominations (16 in all). It went on to win 11 awards including Best Musical. Weatherman and Today cohost Al Roker is set to be feted with a Lifetime Achievement award at the upcoming News & Documentary Emmys. He will be honored alongside documentarian Jon Else at the end of June. "This is such an incredible honor," Roker said. "I am so thankful to be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Emmy and thank everyone that I've worked with who held me up and helped me achieve this great honor." A new horror movie starring SNL's Pete Davidson is putting an even darker spin on retirement homes. Take a look at the first trailer before the movie hits theaters on July 25. Prime Video has released the first images for the prequel series to the action hit The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. The show, which premieres Aug. 27, stars Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards "throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations." Chris Pratt, who leads the mainline Terminal List series, will reprise his character of James Reece in the prequel. Dark Wolf also stars Tom Hopper, Robert Wisdom, Luke Hemsworth, Dar Salim, Ron-Lee Shimon, Shiraz Tzarfati, and Jared Shaw. Prime Video The Academy Award nominee is set to appear in Os Corretores, a Brazilian production for which she penned the screenplay. The film is described as a "real estate tragic comedy." Torres will star as the female lead, one half of a real estate agent couple. The male lead has yet to be cast. The news comes off the massive success of I'm Still Here, which earned Torres her Best Actress nomination and the first Best International Film Oscar for the country of Brazil. The Arkansas fest is bringing back Geena & Friends, set to take place June 20 at the Thaden Theater and will feature the two-time Oscar winner alongside a group of talented female actors creating memorable all-male scenes from film history. Joining Davis on stage will be Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Penguin), Toks Olagundoye (Frasier), Alysia Reiner (The Diplomat) and Brenda Song (Running Point). The group will then take part in a Q&A moderated by Gold Derby editor-in-chief Debra Birnbaum. Best of GoldDerby 'Étoile' creators on writing a show for 'genius' Luke Kirby How 'The Handmaid's Tale' series finale sets up 'The Testaments' TV Visual Effects supervisor roundtable: 'Black Mirror,' 'The Boys,' 'The Wheel of Time' Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How ‘The Penguin' transformed real NYC locations into Gotham's criminal underworld (see the exclusive concept art)
Who knew The Penguin owes a debt of gratitude to Popeye Doyle? As production designer Kalina Ivanov tells Gold Derby, Matt Reeves, the director of 2022's The Batman and an executive producer on The Penguin, informed her that the "inspiration" for his vision of Gotham City was The French Connection, William Friedkin's 1971 neo-noir crime thriller starring Gene Hackman as the unorthodox cop Doyle, which won five Oscars, including Best Picture. "That is something I held very dear in my heart," Ivanov says, "because I really wanted to make a new version of The French Connection." See exclusive sketches, concept art, and set photos from The Penguin in our gallery above. More from GoldDerby Janelle James on Ava's challenging year on 'Abbot Elementary': 'They kind of threw everything at me this season' 'Death Becomes Her' costume designer Paul Tazewell on creating show's spectacular outfits: 'Theater-making is about the impossible' (exclusive images) Jamie Lee Curtis eyes historic back-to-back Emmy win as Comedy Guest Actress race heats up Colin Farrell reprises his villainous role of Oswald "Oz" Cobb/the Penguin in the HBO limited series, after having a supporting role in The Batman. Following the events of that motion picture, The Penguin chronicles the character's rise to power in Gotham's criminal underworld, which was filmed in and around New York City. "It's rare to meet a producer and actor that will actually come and talk to you and have a real design meeting," Ivanov says about Farrell. "I showed him all the designs, and particularly his apartment, and he was instrumental in the design of the whole show." Courtesy of Kalina Ivanov/HBO Max While Lauren LeFranc was the showrunner, producer, and writer of the TV spin-off, Reeves was still "involved," Ivanov explains. "We had some creative meetings, and occasionally, we would send him materials, and he was very aware of everything we were doing. He was staying behind the scenes, but he was communicative with Lauren in the script area." LeFranc is "one of the nicest people on the planet," claims the Emmy-winning production designer for Grey Gardens (2009). "I got to know her through this experience, and I can say that she is perhaps the best showrunner I've ever had. That doesn't come lightly, because I've had some good ones, but she's very communicative and very thoughtful. I just loved working with her." Growing up in Bulgaria, Ivanov was a "theater kid" who wanted to be an actress, until she realized "that was a disaster," so she set her sights on designing. "I suspect that was because my uncle was an architect," she reveals. "I studied theater, and then we escaped from Bulgaria. I ended up at NYU as an undergraduate in a graduate program, if you can imagine that. But it was a very, very good education." Courtesy of Kalina Ivanov/HBO Max One of Ivanov's favorite locations in The Penguin is the Falcone mansion, which is on Long Island. "It's one of The Great Gatsby mansions, but it wasn't on the Sound, it was more in inland," she recalls. "The owners were incredibly generous with us. They made time for us to be able to film. They did not bat an eye when we offered to enhance the exterior with our fountain. As a matter of fact, they thought it was a good idea to have a fountain!" For the interior of the mansion, she "enhanced it quite substantially" after being influenced by an Italian villa on Lake Como. "What I liked about that villa was the darker colors, and so I thought it would be good to have a lot of black, a lot of gold, but sparingly, not overwhelmingly," she details. "The rest of it was done in Venetian plaster. We had a lot of textures, and the amazing pre-Renaissance murals were everywhere." The trolley depot set was built inside Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, which Ivanov states is the "biggest one in New York, and for 15 years nobody could shoot there." She continues on, "I loved the lobby that existed, and I wanted it to be a working man's cathedral. Going with Matt's theme of The French Connection being always under subways and arches, I went with that idea of arches for the trolley depot. The columns that we put in mimicked the detail from the lobby, so the relationship between the location and the set was perfect." Courtesy of Kalina Ivanov/HBO Max She divulges, "The trolley cars were modern, so we retrofitted them and made them look like they've been there since 1957, because that's when we discovered the last trolley left the station. They were brought in, and the tunnel was built around the cars, in a sense." The Penguin's "journey" was important to Ivanov and LeFranc. As the artisan declares, "At the beginning, he lives on the third story of the abandoned hotel, and at the end he will graduate to the penthouse, to give him an arc of progression. The apartment at the beginning was a jeweler's repair shop, and I had done a little bit of research about that. And so the Penguin lived in a room that used to be the vault, basically." Ivanov designed the entire abandoned hotel "through visual effects," and planned to create the sets for it, but "our budget was not able to support that." Instead, the team found a real art deco building in downtown NYC with a floor that was under renovation, which she saw as a "completely blank slate." She remembers, "That worked well for us, because I was able to bring the columns, the floor, and the frescoes, which this time were the hounds of Zeus. We were able to create everything, from the chandeliers to every single piece of detail. In a way, it was a stage. But it was on the 30th floor of a real building." Courtesy of Kalina Ivanov/HBO Max Monroe's jazz club is one of Ivanov's favorite sets from The Penguin, as budget issues caused her to improvise on the fly. "We ended up with a location that had Hieronymus Bosch murals that were absolutely not appropriate for our movie," she recalls. "So, as I was wondering how I could handle that, a light bulb went off in my head, and I said, 'OK, we cover the murals.' And so we built in the columns, the booths themselves, the intricate work behind them, and the blue curtain, which hid the murals, and then we put our own paintings in front of that." The designer also "built this chandelier, and we put it up from the beginning, and then we dropped it in the end, and the scene is so good with the dropped chandelier." Ivanov adds, "It was so hard to come up with a solution, and yet I was able to find a solution and make and use the set that I had already planned on building." All episodes of The Penguin are streaming now on Max. The limited series is eligible at the 2025 Emmys, and Ivanov says a nomination "would mean the world to me." SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions Launch Gallery: 'The Penguin' exclusive sketches, concept art, and set photos from production designer Kalina Ivanov Best of GoldDerby 'Étoile' creators on writing a show for 'genius' Luke Kirby How 'The Handmaid's Tale' series finale sets up 'The Testaments' TV Visual Effects supervisor roundtable: 'Black Mirror,' 'The Boys,' 'The Wheel of Time' Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Yonkers Launches Multi-Platform Media Campaign to Position City as 'Hollywood on Hudson' with Largest Film & TV Production Hub in Northeast
YONKERS, N.Y., May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Yonkers has announced the launch of a multi-platform advertising campaign aimed at positioning Yonkers as "Hollywood on Hudson," the largest film and TV production hub in the Northeast. The ad campaign, which launched on May 28, includes TV commercials, bus exteriors, billboards, MTA car cards on trains, paid social and organic social. The goal is to position Yonkers as Hollywood on Hudson to residents and filmmakers alike and to continue to build the brand which is copyrighted. "Yonkers isn't just making movies; we're making history. This multi-platform campaign showcases our incredible studios and diverse locations, and it celebrates the Yonkers residents whose talent and hard work is fueling our transformation into 'Hollywood on Hudson.' Partnering with our local schools that are nurturing the next generation, the future of film and TV is undeniably bright right here in Yonkers, the fastest-growing city in New York State," said Mayor Mike Spano. The stars of the campaign are the Yonkers residents who work at Great Point Studio whose testimonials are featured in a TV commercial airing throughout the Westchester area. They include Stage Manager Jason DiPaola, Grip Rohan Corbin, Graphic Designer Jordan Weaver, Stage Manager Julia Carriero, Campus Ambassador Michael Hurtado and Custodian Nancy Delgado. Sixty percent of the those employed at Great Point Studios are either from or live in Yonkers. According to the Mayor's Office of Film, permits for filming generated a total revenue of $5.45 million since 2014 with 1,510 days of filming -- at both public and private non-studio properties throughout the city. Since Great Point Studios opened its Lionsgate Studios in January 2022, it has shot eight productions. Great Point also has studios throughout the city including 90 Warburton Avenue, and 134 Woodworth Avenue which features a 4Wall LED studio. Including the new Media Pro campus at 150 North Broadway opening in July, Yonkers will now have 10 stages open and 6 more about to go under construction. When completed, the city will have 245,000 SF of purpose-built stages and over 1,000,000 SF of support space. Among the recent productions filmed in Yonkers are "Dexter" for Paramount+, "Run The World" for Starz, "Raising Kanan" for Starz, the Golden Globe winning TV series "The Penguin" starring Colin Farrell and an Apple TV+ series. The top locations for filming were City Hall, Hudson River Museum, Untermyer Gardens and Oakland Cemetery. Last September, the Yonkers Public Schools held the grand opening of the Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television, a groundbreaking new academy that provides students with the skills and hands-on experience necessary for careers in film, television, and the broader media industry. It is named in honor of legendary and award-winning television producer Robert Halmi Sr. The city's booming film and TV production industry is just one example of why Yonkers is the fastest growing city in New York State and the safest city of its size in the nation. Yonkers also boasts the highest graduation rate among the state's big five cities. Yonkers recently opened two new schools and is expected to break ground on a new school in 2026. Yonkers is home to over $5 billion in private economic development, attracting national retail stores and businesses as well as national developers. The city is renovating and creating new open, green spaces including a new waterfront park in Ludlow. Yonkers is a leader in sustainability with a goal of ZERO emissions by 2050. Finally, Yonkers is awaiting a decision on one of the three remaining full gaming licenses in the downstate region. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE City of Yonkers, NY Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
Newsweek
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
'The Penguin' Showrunner Reveals More 'Batman' Spinoffs Could Be Coming
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Writer and director Matt Reeves created a fascinating version of the Caped Crusader with 'The Batman' in 2022. The realistic and gritty aesthetic, combined with excellent performances from its entire cast, has been met with critical acclaim and even Academy Award nominations. More Entertainment: 'Black Panther' Game Canceled and Studio Shockingly Shut Down by EA This sentiment continued with the HBO Max spin-off series 'The Penguin' starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti. Not only was it widely popular with fans, but it also garnered awards for both its leads. Needless to say, fans are clamoring for more of Reeves 'The Batman' universe. And according to 'The Penguin's showrunner, they will likely get it. Collin Farrell took home the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for his role in The Penguin. The star was full of praise for actors who have previously played Batman villains. Collin Farrell took home the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for his role in The Penguin. The star was full of praise for actors who have previously played Batman villains. HBO During an appearance on Deadline's Crew Call, 'The Penguin' executive producer and showrunner Lauren LeFranc revealed that more spinoffs based on Matt Reeves' 'The Batman' universe could be on the way, saying that they were in the "early stages." 'The Penguin' showrunner Lauren LeFranc says that other 'THE BATMAN' spin-offs are in the early stages of development. (Source: Deadline) — DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 28, 2025 Additionally, LeFranc spoke to what could potentially be in Season 2 despite it being intended as a limited series. "Beyond Colin (Farrell), it depends on whether there's a story that we can make richer than what we've already done," LeFranc said. "I'm in the process of exploring what that would be, if there will be more." More Entertainment: Official 'Superman' Trailer is Bursting With First Looks at Heroes and Villains While the news about spinoffs is certainly exciting, fans are still waiting for an update on 'The Batman: Part II.' The first film garnered $772.3 million in the box office while also earning Oscar nominations for Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Despite this amount of success, there have been very few official updates on 'The Batman: Part II,' including what the actual title may be. At this point, the only thing known about the film is that Robert Pattinson will reprise the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman as well as the return of Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, and Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot AKA The Penguin. More Entertainment: Michael B. Jordan's 'Sinners' Finally Has a Streaming Date—For a Fee 'Rick and Morty' Season 8 is Now Available to Watch—Here's How to Stream 'A Minecraft Movie' Hits HBO Max for Free Streaming in June: What to Know Exclusive: 'TMNT' Spinoff Series 'Casey Jones' Set for Release This Fall For more DC Comics and television news, head on over to Newsweek Entertainment.
