PERSPECTA

News from every angle

Results for "Javier Bardem"

42 stories found

Apple TV+ 'Cape Fear' Series Stars Javier Bardem, Teaser Trailer Released
Cultureder-standardla-vanguardiahollywood-reporter+3deadlineiefimeridascreen-rant7d ago6 sources

Apple TV+ 'Cape Fear' Series Stars Javier Bardem, Teaser Trailer Released

Apple TV+ has unveiled the first teaser trailer for its upcoming limited series 'Cape Fear,' an adaptation of John D. MacDonald's novel, featuring Academy Award winners Javier Bardem and Amy Adams, with Bardem portraying a disturbing character seeking revenge and being hailed as a worthy successor to Robert De Niro.

Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?
CultureThe Guardian1mo ago

Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?

With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea The news this week that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are to return in a new Mummy film for the first time in a quarter of a century feels a bit like Hollywood stumbling out of a very long house party it doesn’t entirely remember attending. The last time the pair appeared together was 2001, when The Mummy Returns (itself an insipid sequel to 1999’s much better The Mummy) hit multiplexes. Since then we’ve had a spin-off (2002’s The Scorpion King, featuring an early turn from Dwayne Johnson) and a second sequel that didn’t feature Weisz, 2008’s forgettable The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. And then, of course, there was the ill-fated “Dark Universe”, forever immortalised by that solemn publicity photograph of Russell Crowe (Dr Jekyll), Javier Bardem (Frankenstein’s Monster), Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp (The Invisible Man) staring into the middle distance like an ageing goth supergroup. The plan was to launch an interconnected saga in which Jekyll would act as a sort of monster-movie Nick Fury, corralling Dracula, Frankenstein and assorted undead assets into a synergised Marvel-style cinematic ecosystem. Fortunately it rapidly fell apart: 2017’s Cruise-led The Mummy landed with all the grace of a cursed sarcophagus dropped down a lift shaft. And that, as far as the Dark Universe was concerned, was that. Universal pivoted to smaller films such as Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, while Bardem’s Monster and Depp’s Invisible Man never materialised at all. Continue reading...