Federica C. Battiato

ScreenRant • 18th March 2021

Tiger King: Joe Exotic Documentary In The Works For BBC

Louis Theroux will produce Louis Theroux: The Cult of Joe Exotic, a new documentary feature for BBC Two about the Tiger King. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, was the focus of the recent Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness. The series followed Exotic and documented the legal and social issues surrounding his business, the for-profit Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Exotic was a prolific tiger breeder and a constant source of controver

ScreenRant • 16th March 2021

Emma Stone Becomes Harley Quinn in Cruella Movie DC Comics Mash Up

New fan art shows Emma Stone’s Cruella undergoing a makeover and turning into DC’s Harley Quinn. Disney’s Cruella, helmed by Australian director Craig Gillespie, debuted its trailer in February 2021, giving a glimpse into Stone’s punk interpretation of the One Hundred and One Dalmatians iconic villain. The movie was supposed to come out in December 2020, but it was delayed and rescheduled for a May 28, 2021 theatrical release.

Set in London in the 1970s, Stone will portray Cruella de Vil before

ScreenRant • 15th March 2021

CBS Suspends The Talk While Investigating Sharon Osbourne Racism Claims

CBS has suspended The Talk as they investigate an episode of the show after Sharon Osbourne defended Piers Morgan’s comments about Meghan Markle’s mental health. Morgan recently resigned from the British morning show Good Morning Britain after calling Markle a liar and suggesting that her suicidal thoughts, revealed during her interview with Oprah Winfrey on CBS, weren’t true. His comments provoked over 40,000 viewer complaints in the UK and sparked an international debate over mental health. Be

ScreenRant • 13th March 2021

WandaVision Showrunner Had No Idea Who Mephisto Was Before Doing Press

WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer had no idea who Mephisto was until she started doing press for the show. The Disney+ superhero-sitcom starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany has been an enormous success on the streaming platform due to its uniqueness. The show mixes together the tropes and scenarios of sitcoms throughout from the ‘50s all the way to the present, without leaving behind the details that make Marvel films the blockbusters they are today.

Although a significant part of Wanda

The Indiependent • 15th February 2021

Pedro Pascal and GoT phenomenon Bella Ramsey cast in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’

Pedro Pascal is joining his former Game of Thrones star Bella Ramsey in HBO’s TV series adaptation of the popular video game.

HBO has announced that Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) have been cast in the adaptation of the acclaimed video game The Last of Us. The limited series will be written by Craig Mazin, who created the renowned series Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, writer and creative director of the original game, will be the executive producer.

The Last

The Indiependent • 31st January 2021

John Boyega and Robert De Niro To Star In ‘The Formula’

The Netflix thriller will see rising star John Boyega and acting royalty Robert De Niro together onscreen.

The Formula will follow the story of a Formula One racing prodigy (John Boyega) who finds himself in a threatening situation, becoming a getaway driver in order to save the only family he has left. Robert De Niro’s role in the project has not yet been revealed, but rumor has it he’ll play the leader of a criminal organization.

Gerard McMurray, who debuted with one of Netflix’s first origi

The Indiependent • 16th December 2020

‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Renewed for Four More Seasons

It looks like it’s still going to be sunny in Philadelphia.

The FX series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been renewed for four additional seasons, making it the longest-running live-action comedy of all times. The record-breaking show will now run for 18 seasons, overtaking the 14 season-long ABC show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to take the crown. The renewal comes as no surprise, as the unconventional sitcom attracts millions of fans each episode.

The incredible renewal was ann

The Indiependent • 7th November 2020

Make Satire Great Again: Dave Chappelle to host ‘SNL’ this week

Dave Chappelle is hosting Saturday Night Live this week. This is not a usual Saturday night, though; it’s the first weekend after the 2020 US elections. It feels like a weird flashback to November 2016: the anxiety of not knowing who’s going to win, the long wait, and Dave Chappelle hosting SNL.

Yes, because Chappelle debuted on the comedy show on the first weekend after the 2016 elections, when polls were projecting Hillary Clinton as the winner until the very last minute, the cast were gettin

The Indiependent • 29th October 2020

Trailer Released For ‘The Life Ahead,’ Sophia Loren’s First Netflix film

The great Sophia Loren is finally back after an 11-year-long hiatus.

The legendary Italian actress takes the leading role in The Life Ahead, a film directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by French writer Romain Gary. Loren plays Madame Rosa, an elderly Jewish woman and former prostitute who hosts children to rustle up some money. This is how she’ll meet Momo (Ibrahima Gueye in his debut role), a Sudanese 12-year-old who tries to rob her durin

The Indiependent • 28th October 2020

Star Wars: There’s No Balance in the Force Gender Gap

As the famous line from Obi-Wan Kenobi goes: “You were meant to bring balance to the Force, not destroy it!” If only Disney had listened.

We all live in a (white) man’s world, and things are not so different in a galaxy far, far away…

After speaking out on his experience in Star Wars, John Boyega opened up a can of worms. Rightfully so, he was critical about the way the franchise treated its POC characters. Both he and Kelly Marie Tran were cruelly marketed by Disney. They were displayed to be