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• ‘Squid Game’ Racks Up Over 3 Billion Minutes Viewed in Nielsen’s Latest Streaming Report What does a massive viral success look like? Search no further, for the answer is “Squid Game,” which racked up a staggering 3.2 billion minutes in viewership in Nielsen’s latest report on streaming metrics. Nielsen’s latest report, which was based on viewership data from September 27 to October 3, marks the sixth time that a title had surpassed 3 billion minutes viewed in a week, per Deadline. “Squid Game” made its debut on Nielsen’s weekly reports last week, when it…
• The Best VR Headsets for Gaming: Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and More All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. While plenty of sci-fi movies have predicted a future dominated by virtual reality, the technology isn’t quite that widespread — yet. But more and more people are starting to discover what the world of VR, which allows you to strap on a headset…
• ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Top John Carpenter’s Favorite Halloween Films Director John Carpenter has directed some of the most iconic horror films of all time. In fact, his 1978 feature “Halloween” is as synonymous with the spooky season as trick or treating. But what movies is Carpenter planning to watch this Halloween? Le Cinema Club, a curated streaming platform that screens one movie a week for free recently saw the Master of Horror send them a list of his five favorite horror films and it’s a rogue’s gallery of some…
• ‘Rust’ Armorer Speaks Out on Halyna Hutchins Shooting: ‘No Idea Where Live Rounds Came From’ The armorer in charge of the guns on the set of the Western “Rust” has spoken out via her lawyers for the first time about the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed last week when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun containing live rounds. In her statement (shared with Variety and shown in full below), armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed offered her sympathies to Hutchins’ family, and said she had “no idea where the live rounds came from” that…
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Makes Slow Progress Toward a Live Golden Globes 2023 As the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) limps ahead with the reforms necessary to mount a real live NBC Golden Globes telecast in January 2023, they’ve finally hired the diversity officer the group promised to bring on board back in May. Neil Phillips, a public speaker and former professional basketball player, has joined the organization in the newly created role. The HFPA is slowly making strides towards realizing its diversity plan goals, but they are still encountering resistance from…
• ‘Morbius’ New Trailer: Jared Leto Bites into the Spider-Verse with Vampire Comic Book Film A new trailer for Sony Pictures’ “Morbius,” starring Jared Leto as a comic book hero with a form of vampirism, has arrived. The movie was twice delayed by the pandemic after originally being set to come out in July of last year before finally settling on a January 28, 2022 release. Check out the new look at the movie below. “Morbius” is based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name by Roy Thomas. In the comics, Leto’s Michael…
• ‘Marie Antoinette’ Recycled Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ Costumes Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” is an opulent and lush film that is still delighting eyes 15 years later. And a large part of the glamour comes from Milena Canonero’s Oscar-winning costumes. In a new oral history published via Vogue, Canonero, director Sofia Coppola, and the rest of the cast and crew discussed everything including the costume design. Before embarking on the costumes themselves Canonero discussed how Coppola brought her a box of Ladurée macarons. The delightful macarons weren’t just a…
• ‘No Time to Die’: How the VFX Served Daniel Craig’s Emotional Farewell as James Bond In “No Time to Die,” it was important for director Cary Joji Fukunaga to complete Daniel Craig’s arc as James Bond by tying up all five films. This meant emphasizing the emotional connection to Bond, even during the high-octane action sequences, which impacted the VFX. This included the Aston Martin DB5 gun battle in Matera, the sinking trawler with Bond and Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), and the explosive climax atop the control tower roof of baddie Safin (Rami Malek). “I…
• ‘Red Notice’ Review: Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, and Gal Gadot Star in Netflix’s Breezy Mega-Budget Caper Historically speaking, “Red Notice” should be unwatchable. For starters, Netflix’s previous fall blockbusters (e.g. “Bright,” “6 Underground”) have been very bad. Not just bad in the way that movies are bad, but bad in the way that war crimes are bad — they shouldn’t have been reviewed by critics so much as tried at the Hague. These are films so bad that Joe Rogan should have spent an episode of his podcast spreading batshit conspiracy theories about how they escaped from…
• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Says His ‘Matrix 4’ Role Is Just ‘Called Morpheus,’ So Maybe Not Fishburne’s Shortly after Warner Bros. premiered the official trailer for Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix Resurrections,” cast member Yahya Abdul-Mateen II confirmed the long-standing rumor that he is playing Morpheus in the fourth installment of the iconic action franchise. The trailer all but confirmed the role as Abdul-Mateen II is seen sporting the glasses made famous by Laurence Fishburne in the original “Matrix” trilogy. Abdul-Mateen II’s Morpheus offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) a red pill or a blue pill, just as Fishburne’s Morpheus…