Michelle Pfeiffer Gossip

While writing up that solid Mulan teaser, I cut a whole tangent about Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and its place in the live-action remake canon. But now we have a brand new Maleficent trailer to judge and it is exactly what my tangent-rant was about, so now let’s talk about Maleficent and its place in the live-action remake canon. Full Story

Angelina Jolie has recently rebranded herself as the First Lady of Disney, a path lit up by the live-action remake of Maleficent that came out a few years ago. Full Story

The last time we heard anything from Maleficent 2, it was a tease of Michelle Pfeiffer’s role as “Queen Ingrith”, but yesterday Disney dropped a new poster on Twitter, along with an official title: Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil, and also a new release date - in October. I’m not sure moving up to October is a confidence move, as that is not a strong box office month—it’s better than September, but outside the holiday corridor—but hey, it’s one more movie on the slate to hopefully detract from however bad Aladdin turns out to be (it’s two months out and we still haven’t seen a real trailer for Aladdin, it’s fine, I’m sure). Full Story

Maleficent came out in 2014. That’s so long ago! Now that we live in a nightmare where every year feels like a decade, five years ago is a lifetime. Maleficent 2 comes out in 2020, making six whole ass years between movies. There are children who will go see Maleficent 2 who were not alive when Maleficent came out, and that is real, not a joke. Full Story

Look, no one is going to argue that Ant-Man and/or the Wasp are Marvel’s most beloved, most important, or most well-known characters. No one is going to defend the Ant-Man franchise as one of the jewels of Marvel’s crown. I’m not even going to defend Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, as one of Marvel’s best movies. Full Story

After taking a few years off, Michelle Pfeiffer returned in 2017, appearing in several movies including mother! and Murder on the Orient Express. This year, she returns to comic book movies in Ant-Man and the Wasp—no one is psyched for this movie but the cast is AMAZING, so maybe we should be? I dunno, just a thought—and now she’s in talks to join Angelina Jolie in the Maleficent sequel, which I assume is called Maleficent 2: Evil Fairy Boogaloo. Full Story

Agatha Christie’s most well-known murder mystery, Murder on the Orient Express, is the subject of several adaptations, including Sidney Lumet’s 1974 film in which Albert Finney played famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, surrounded by a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Perkins, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Jacqueline Bisset, Ingrid Bergman, and Lauren Bacall. Full Story

You know that question we always hear on nights like this when someone shows up and you can’t understand how they do it? “Does so-and-so ever age?!” We have to add Allison Janney to that list, right? Allison Janney not only doesn’t age, she keeps getting better and better. Full Story

Whoo boy are we in for a fight over mother!. Firstly because the trailers and marketing are MASSIVELY misleading—it isn’t a horror film or a riff on Rosemary’s Baby. And secondly because it’s the kind of film designed to be upsetting and polarizing, and is open to many interpretations. Full Story

The mother! gala at the Venice Film Festival happened last night. Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence, and Domhnall Gleeson are in London tonight for the premiere. Javier Bardem, as you saw earlier Full Story

Let’s start with how the title of this film is being styled. Some are styling it “Mother!” Others are going with “MOTHER!” The film’s world premiere is happening at the Venice Film Festival tonight before coming to TIFF in a week. TIFF is styling it as “mother!” All official Venice documents also style it “mother!” Lower case “m”, lower case throughout, with an exclamation point at the end. Full Story