The Muschettis have now opened up to Entertainment and clarified that this story mostly occurs in 1962 (while observing Pennywise’s 27-year dormancy period). Expect some jumping back to events of the 1930s, too, which is when the Black Spot nightclub burns down in the book, to explore the demonic being’s earliest Derry visits (which are chronicled by the Mike Hanlon-focused interludes within the It novel), and the demon could take other forms although it most commonly disguises himself as Pennywise.
Back in Action is coming to Netflix on Jan. 17, but you’ve got a top-secret opportunity to be one of the first to see it. A select number of lucky fans have the exclusive opportunity to attend the New York premiere of the new spy action thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz. You can reserve your tickets here before they run out.
Bill Skarsgård will definitely be on hand as the Pennywise of multiple generations, and the It: Welcome To Derry cast includes Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Madeleine Stowe, Stephen Rider, James Remar, Alixandra Fuchs, and BJ Harrison. Johnson became a breakout star on Saturday Night Live due to his impression of one of the world’s most famous men. But when I reached out to him with an interview request a few weeks ago, I wasn’t interested in talking about his hilarious and eerily accurate take on Donald Trump. I wanted to chat about his impersonation of a different world-famous man: Bob Dylan.
It’s time to turn the key on No Good Deed, from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman. The black comedy (now streaming on Netflix) follows three families competing to buy the same Los Angeles house — before realizing that this dream home might actually be a nightmare. The trailer offers an in-depth look at all the competing pairs — and hints at the secrets and lies this stacked cast might harbor. The film follows Foxx and Diaz as a pair of average suburban parents with a big secret: They’re actually a retired pair of superspies. When their past catches up with them, the couple — and their shocked children — must embark on a globe-trotting mission to save the day.
The series is led by the Emmy Award–winning Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano and features a long list of other talented actors, including Dead to Me star Linda Cardellini in a role unlike anything she’s done before. You can get a peek at Cardellini (along with the rest of the star-studded cast) in the trailer above. Mufasa: The Lion King, the prequel to the 2019 photorealistic remake of The Lion King, arrives in theaters Dec. 20. Here’s what you need to know about the newest Disney film.
As a hard-core Dylan fan, what dazzled me about Johnson’s Dylan impression — which is hands down the best (and funniest) I’ve ever heard — was its specificity. Any hack comedian can do a generic Bob voice. (Blowin’ in the wiiiiiind, I’m Bob Dylan!) But Johnson clearly has done his homework, even to the point of potentially confusing audience members unfamiliar with the particulars of Dylan’s late-sixties country-rock period or his chaotic mid-seventies concert tour. Johnson not only captures Dylan’s myriad vocal tones, but he also replicates Bob’s idiosyncratic phrasing, in which words are sensually elongated or rapidly clipped with the seemingly random abandon of a drunken 1940s film-noir con man.
If selected, you’ll get the opportunity to see those stunts on the big screen in Manhattan on Jan. 9, before Back In Action lands on Netflix. Feldman first imagined Cardellini’s cherry-red wedge-wearing Los Angeleno Margo –– and the rest of the mysterious No Good Deed world –– while working on the final season of Dead to Me. Cardellini had mentioned she wanted to play “the complete opposite” of her sweet protagonist, Judy, in her next project. The Emmy-nominated actor was looking to portray a “badass bitch,” Feldman tells Tudum.
“I thought, ‘That’s really interesting. What would that look like?’ ” the showrunner and executive producer says. “I had already started dreaming up this world of Los Angeles real estate and thinking, ‘Why hasn’t there been a show about the buying and selling of one house and all of the people that revolve around that one location?’ I thought, ‘Who would that badass bitch be in this world?’ ”
Johnson plays Dylan as he stands on the red carpet with Timothée Chalamet (Chloe Fineman), Bruce Springsteen (Andrew Dismukes) and Bono (Paul Mescal) at the premiere of the forthcoming Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. It’s the same Dylan from the Mulaney promo, with some deliciously surreal flourishes. (Enjoy Johnson-as-Bob saying “Lisan al Gaib.”)
The screening begins at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are first come, first served, and entry is not guaranteed. As Lydia and Paul struggle to hide the dark and dangerous secrets that linger inside their longtime home, they begin to realize that the only way they’ll escape the past is to finally face it. Kudrow listened to a lot of piano concertos to tap into the big feelings of musician Lydia. “[They] gave me a lot of emotion because my tendency, maybe in life too, is to sort of keep feelings to yourself, not express too much,” the award-winning actor said on the Netflix podcast Skip Intro. “Lydia is expressing [a lot], especially next to her husband, who’s not expressing a thing.”
Nearly every week, it feels like a new Stephen King adaptation is announced with more on the far horizon. Yet on a more timely note, HBO has been plotting to scare the bejesus out of us with a prequel series to the It movies that launched in 2017 and continued with 2019’s It Chapter Two. Those films, directed by Andy Muschietti, reintroduced the Losers Club (after the miniseries starring Tim Curry) with Bill Skarsgård (whose Nosferatu voice is currently dominating headlines) as the demonic Pennywise the Clown. Now, Alex’s frequently unsettling younger brother will again be lurking in gutters and unleashing that laugh and smile that he has also unloaded on Conan.
As for the film itself, Diaz sees Back in Action as a chance to bring families closer together. “The fun thing about this movie is that we have the humor, we have the action, but it’s really about having the ability for parents to sit down with their kids and have an opportunity to watch something where the parents can say, ‘See, we’re just human beings, too,’ ” she told Netflix. “ ‘We’re capable of more than just embarrassing you at drop-off. I’m a person who has a superpower of some sort — I chose to devote myself to you as a parent and make your world amazing. But I have a very rich inner life, too.’ ”
Previously known only as Welcome To Derry, “It” has now been affixed to the title that will visit the earlier days of King’s fictional Derry, Maine. Let’s get down to spooky business on what to expect from this series (from Andy and Barbara Muschietti) that will fill in the blanks for King’s Constant Readers.
Jenkins shared, “The one thing I will say is, people are like ‘What was on set? What was there?’ The animators were there in suits, moving, doing all the blocking of the lions, and our camera was there in real time. Typically, in 2D animation, you’re drawing with your hand, but in this process, the animators were drawing with their whole bodies.”
