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David Chase Plans LSD-Themed Film Amid Updates from Tarantino, Anderson, Lowery, and Cohen
film1 month ago

David Chase Plans LSD-Themed Film Amid Updates from Tarantino, Anderson, Lowery, and Cohen

David Chase unveiled a new LSD-themed feature, developed alongside an HBO limited series about MKUltra, centering on two families and juxtaposing the agency’s LSD work with the polio vaccine rollout. The piece also covers possible future Tarantino work, Wes Anderson’s Western ambitions, Lowery’s The Fisherman with Alex Ross Perry and Michael Bay producing, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s secret Ali G project (plus a note on Dwayne Johnson’s Free Byrd).

Lowery to Helm The Fisherman Adaptation for Focus, With Bay Producing
entertainment1 month ago

Lowery to Helm The Fisherman Adaptation for Focus, With Bay Producing

Focus has landed The Fisherman, a Bram Stoker Award–winning horror novel by John Langan, with David Lowery set to direct and co-write the adaptation with Alex Ross Perry; Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated will produce, alongside Mia Maniscalco, bringing the two widowers’ eerie fishing trip to the screen.

Anne Hathaway Almost Quit Mother Mary After Seeing Her Performance
entertainment3 months ago

Anne Hathaway Almost Quit Mother Mary After Seeing Her Performance

Anne Hathaway almost quit the A24 musical Mother Mary after seeing footage of herself performing the film’s original songs, doubting she could entice audiences; she decided to stay, noting there would be no shame in being fired but a bigger one in quitting. She then spent months taking dance lessons and a year refining her vocals, even returning to the studio to re-record much of her part with Jack Antonoff. The film, directed by David Lowery, centers a pop star’s comeback and recently premiered.

Behind the Pop-Star Horror: Making of Mother Mary
entertainment4 months ago

Behind the Pop-Star Horror: Making of Mother Mary

David Lowery explains how Mother Mary started from a late-night idea inspired by a haunted hotel, casting Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, training Hathaway for a world-tour–style performance, and collaborating with Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff on the soundtrack; bespoke costumes by Bina Daigeler and Iris van Herpen shape the pop-star visuals, while a practical, fabric-driven Red Woman ghost and stadium shoots fuse fashion, music and personal themes into a distinctive, personal film.

Crafting a New Pop Diva: How Anne Hathaway Becomes Mother Mary
entertainment4 months ago

Crafting a New Pop Diva: How Anne Hathaway Becomes Mother Mary

Variety reveals how director David Lowery and a team of artisans—choreographer Dani Vitale, DP Rina Yang, and costume designer Bina Daigeler—built Anne Hathaway’s fictional pop star Mother Mary, from months of artist development and hours of rehearsal to elaborate on-stage costumes and halo-inspired visuals, drawing inspiration from pop icons like Gaga and Swift while filming a largely practical, arena-like concert experience with minimal visual effects.

Mother Mary: A Hypnotic Dive Into Fame That Stumbles on Its Mood
entertainment4 months ago

Mother Mary: A Hypnotic Dive Into Fame That Stumbles on Its Mood

Tom Breihan’s review sees Mother Mary as a lush but ponderous arthouse piece anchored by a near-supernatural, memorable dance moment from Hathaway; while the visuals and performances shine, the film’s dense ideas about pop stardom feel overwrought and it mostly plays as a moody two-hander that lacks grounding in real-world music culture, making it a stylish but uneven experience that may reward future rewatchings more than initial viewing.

Pop-Seance on a Barn Stage: Hathaway and Coel Recast Comeback Drama
entertainment4 months ago

Pop-Seance on a Barn Stage: Hathaway and Coel Recast Comeback Drama

David Lowery’s Mother Mary is a hypnotic, boundary-blurring pop drama featuring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel. Set largely in a remote barn, it threads a tense reunion between two former collaborators as they stage a comeback dress and new single, using the spectacle of performance to probe memory, friendship, and art’s healing power. The film blends a seance-like metaphor with stylistic shifts—from Bergman-esque introspection to Fosse-inspired bravura—resulting in a singular meditation on how pop stardom can both wound and redeem.

Mixed Reviews for Disney's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Remake
movies3 years ago

Mixed Reviews for Disney's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Remake

David Lowery's version of "Peter Pan & Wendy" is a humanizing interpretation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale that speaks more to the inner child of jaded adults than to actual kids. The film grounds the fundamental wistfulness of the original story with empathetic backstories and takes care to remedy the original's overt racism and latent sexism. Lowery and his co-writer Toby Halbrooks have created a fairytale of the present and for the future, diversifying the mythic leader's ragtag group and developing the indigenous people of Neverland into more realized characters.