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Screenshot: Warner Bros. PicturesAlready the Joker movie has left a permanent scar on my mental psyche, but now it seems I’m destined to be heckled by this discarded laugh track of a film franchise forever. From Todd Phillips, the visionary director of The Hangover, The Hangover 2, and The Hangover 3, comes the next punchline on a resumé full of bad jokes, Joker: Folie à Deux. Lady Gaga was rumored to be joining its cast, and now it’s official. The source on that is the pop iconherself, whose social media announcement…

Moon Knight should be kicking ass in season two.Image: Marvel StudiosThe first season of Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight ended on quite the cliffhanger. Not only did we meet a new persona for our good friend Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac), but we didn’t learn how the character would fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Surely we’d find out if there was a season two.Well, it seems like that’s happening. Mohamed Diab, one of the show’s executive producers, just tweeted out a TikTok of him and star Oscar Isaac in Cairo seemingly…

The Joker is back. Image: Warner Bros.Fans aren’t going to see Batgirl—but we are getting *checks notes* Joker 2. The sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 smash hit starring Joaquin Phoenix has been in the works for some time and now Deadline reports the studio has slotted it for release on October 4, 2024, five years exactly after the original’s release. The film’s title, at least according to co-writer and director Todd Phillips’ script, is Joker: Folie à Deux, which roughly translates to “shared madness.” It’s used to…

Months after the infamous 2022 Oscars ceremony, Will Smith has shared an apology video in which he discusses slapping Chris Rock.In the clip, shared to YouTube, Smith addressed the comedian, whom Smith says has declined to speak with him directly.See below for the actor’s full remarks from the five-minute video, in which he answered questions he’s been asked since the controversial incident occured. Firstly, he was asked why he didn’t apologise to Rock on Oscars night when he accepted an award for his performance in King…

https://madcavestudios.com/I admit I’m a sucker for books like this, especially when they take classic stories from influential writers and add gorgeous art to them. This week’s Small Press Spotlight focuses on The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, the second edition of this particular Illuminated Edition from Beehive Books. Illustrations are by Yuko Shimizu, and the book comes with an introduction by Michael Cunningham.  The campaign to fund the book is currently running here on Crowdfundr, and backers can receive not only…

Using GPT-3, Calamity AI developed a short film script called Date Night. Using GPT-3, Calamity AI developed a short film script called Date Night. GPT-3 is the third generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a neural network ML model trained using internet data to generate any type of text. GPT-3 has been used to create articles, poetry, stories, news reports, and dialogue using just a small amount of input text that can be used to produce large amounts of quality content. Developed by OpenAI, it requires…

You can’t be too surprised, considering the fact that Shudder previously made the excellent Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, but the streamer’s latest documentary series looks like it’ll be a must-watch. Executive produced by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), Queer for Fear examines the horror genre through an LGBTQ+ lens. After the series’ San Diego Comic-Con panel, Shudder released a lengthy clip from the first episode, which you can watch here!“The documentary, when it was initiated, was a movie,” Fuller told the SDCC…

The Academy Awards usually have a few viral moments, but this year’s was on another level entirely. It’s been months, but the public is still reeling from seeing Will Smith storm the stage and slap Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. As the discourse continues, Rock’s brother has brought up Tupac and Jada when asked about motivations behind the infamous Oscars slap.The Slap happened late into Oscars Night, when Chris Rock was presenting the Best Documentary Feature category. He cracked a few jokes…

When Nope hits theaters this weekend it will be the third feature film directed by Jordan Peele. While all three movies are classified as horror, and deal with broad societal themes, nothing else connects the plots of the three movies together as each is an original concept from Peele dealing with very different characters, in very different places, and very different types of horror. The movies are all so original that the idea of seeing Jordan Peele make a sequel seems antithetical to his style, but the director isn’t…

Wolfwalkers on Apple TV+, from director Tomm Moore, is the culmination of a thematic trilogy — dubbed the “Irish folklore trilogy”, it consists of the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells, and Song of the Sea — that stretches over a decade ago. And for the third and final chapter, Moore (along with co-director Ross Stewart, and writer Will Collins who also wrote Song of the Sea) brings in the myriad themes from his previous ventures, about parenting and man's relation to nature, and marries them with new ideas that are a…