HBO’s Industry Premiere: Grade It!

RELATED STORIES Faking college transcripts, pulling continuous all-nighters and slamming your system with uppers? Whatever it takes to make it in the unrelenting world of finance. Welcome to HBO’s latest drama, Industry, where a group of young graduates enter a pressure cooker of a preeminent London investment bank with hopes of proving themselves indispensable. While […]

Jessica Chastain Joins Oscar Isaac in HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage, Replacing Michelle Williams in Recast

RELATED STORIES Oscar Isaac is swapping onscreen wives: Jessica Chastain will now star opposite Isaac in HBO’s adaptation of Scenes From a Marriage, replacing the previously announced Michelle Williams, according to our sister site Deadline. (Williams reportedly had to drop out of the project due to scheduling issues.) Based on the Ingmar Bergman classic, HBO’s […]

We Are Who We Are Premiere: Grade the First Episode of HBO’s Limited Series

RELATED STORIES Adolescence is already an unpleasant tornado of emotions, hormones and confusion about one’s identity. And none of that improves when you add in the unique experience of uprooting your life and moving to a military base in Europe. Those are the circumstances that teenager Fraser Wilson finds himself in during the premiere of […]

HBO’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Premiere: Grade It!

RELATED STORIES In the 1970s and ’80s, a man who would come to be known as the Golden State Killer burglarized, raped and murdered his way through swaths of California yet always evaded capture. And when writer Michelle McNamara became aware of his crimes in the early 2000s, she just couldn’t shake the case. McNamara’s […]

HBO’s Euphoria Premiere: Grade It

RELATED STORIES Euphoria‘s central character, Rue, is a teen who craves the nothingness of oblivion and will ingest just about any substance to chase it. This is no great analysis — the character, played by Zendaya (K.C. Undercover) tells us as much, voiceover-style, throughout the premiere of HBO’s new drama. And as we watch Rue […]

Joss Whedon will return to sci-fi TV with HBO’s The Nevers

Enlarge / Joss Whedon, courtesy of HBO. (credit: HBO) Joss Whedon, the creator of acclaimed TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, has been announced as showrunner for a new HBO series titled The Nevers. The Friday announcement confirms Whedon as “executive producer, showrunner, writer, and director” for his first-ever non-network TV series, following […]

Daily Podcast: What Does HBO’s Exit Mean For Comic-Con? Apple, Rotten Tomatoes, Guardians 3, Captain Marvel, Star Trek Discovery

On the June 15, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest news, including Apple making movies and signing Oprah, Gotti’s rare Rotten Tomatoes rating, how the Infinity War writers would fix the DCEU, Captain Marvel’s […]

‘Sharp Objects’ Trailer: Amy Adams is Dangerous in HBO’s Gillian Flynn Adaptation

Gillian Flynn‘s debut novel gets the HBO treatment with Sharp Objects, a new miniseries adaptation starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson. Watch the unsettling new Sharp Objects trailer below ahead of the July premiere. Sharp Objects Trailer HBO struck gold with the Jean-Marc Vallée-directed Big Little Lies. Now they’re hoping to do it again with the Vallée-helmed Sharp Objects. Like Big Little Lies, Sharp […]

A perfect time for Fahrenheit 451 remakes; HBO’s version falls short

Enlarge / Do you get it? It’s the temperature at which a book burns. (credit: Michael Gibson / HBO) Warning: This post contains minor spoilers for HBO’s Fahrenheit 451. Media and entertainment have been stripped of thought and reduced to quick dopamine hits. Societal norms—whether that means popular thought or preferred means of communication—have been […]

The director of HBO’s Andre the Giant documentary explains how he debunked some major myths and got Vince McMahon to cry

WWE Director Jason Hehir spent over a year doing the ultimate deep-dive into the life of legendary professional wrestler Andre the Giant to separate the man from the myth for his HBO documentary. The journey took Hehir all over the globe and face-to-face with some of the biggest names in wrestling. Business Insider talked to […]