The cast of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow just got bigger with two key additions. THR reports David Krumholtz and British actress Emily Beecham have joined the cast of James Gunn’s DCU film, which will follow the release of Superman this summer.
Krumholtz and Beecham will play Zor-El and Alura In-Ze respectively, the parents of Kara Zor-El, the Kryptonian cousin to Superman aka Kal-El. Kara in the film will be played by House of the Dragon breakout Milly Alcock. Others in the cast include Eve Ridley as Ruthye, Matthias Schoenaerts as villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, and Jason Momoa who recently joined as Lobo.
The film will be directed by Craig Gillespie (Cruella) from a script by Ana Nogueira adapted from the comic book series by by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.
Krumholtz is best known for his roles in Freaks & Geeks, NUMB3RS, and most recently in Lousy Carter and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Beecham broke out in 2015 with her role in the hit series Into the Badlands, followed in 2019 with her role in Little Joe that won her Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. She also had a role in Cruella, connecting her with director Craig Gillespie, and Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow opens on June 26th 2026.
2024 was a great year for sports dramas, and one of the best was Unstoppable. William Goldenberg’s film about NCAA Division I champion wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with just one leg, features a tremendous performance by Jharrel Jerome as Robles. The film details Robles’ tough journey to greatness, never letting his disability or challenges at home stand in the way.
Unstoppable is the biggest film role for Jerome yet, and his first chance to really stand in the spotlight. His breakthrough role was in 2016 as part of Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight ensemble. Just three years later, he won an Emmy award for his performance as Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us. More recently, he has starred in Steven Soderbergh’s series Full Circle, Boots Riley’s series I’m a Virgo, and voiced Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Across the Universe.
But Unstoppable posed a unique challenge for Jerome. Beyond the physical demands of amateur wrestling, which I can assure you are significant, he also had to learn to wrestle like Robles who has a style all his own. Fortunately, Jerome had Robles right there to help learn the ways of the mat, and to help instill the winning attitude that has carried him far long after his wrestling days were over.
I had the chance to talk with Jharrel Jerome and Anthony Robles about Unstoppable, and all that they did to prepare for the role’s many challenges. I also spoke with director William Goldenberg about making Robles’ story his directorial debut, how his career as an editor impacted the production, and a lot more. It was a real treat, and I hope you’ll check it out!
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The scariest thing about being in love is, of course, losing that love. I have to imagine that’s why so many love stories have some component of the tragic. Julia Stiles, who’s finally sitting in the director’s chair for Wish You Were Here, helms a story that could easily be called formulaic but personally I call that a lazy bit of labeling. You can’t fault storytellers for going back to situations that are known to illicit emotion. It’s simply not cinematic (or dramatic) enough to have two people enjoy each other’s company for a while before slightly changing and going their separate ways. I mean, hell, what’s the first example people will give you when you ask for the greatest love story? Romeo & Juliet, right? Yeah, didn’t end in roses and butterfly’s that one. Love without the threat of loss is simply not very compelling. Besides, if there’s one thing, I’ve always said it’s that there is nothing wrong with following a formula, as long as the details are your own and worth telling.
Wish You Were Here stars Isabelle Fuhrman as Charlotte, a directionless 20 something who spends most of her time either waiting tables at the cheesy restaurant where she works or with her best friend Helen, having decided (as most of us do at one point or another) that she just wasn’t meant to date. As you would expect, and as we all know is true, love comes calling when you least expect it. For Charlotte this means a chance run-in with Adam (Mena Massoud) , an artist (because of course he is), who takes her on a spur of the moment date lasting through the night. The next morning Charlotte is sure she’s found love and is therefore extra surprised when Adam acts as though she’s overstayed the welcome of a one-night stand and proceeds to disappear, totally ghosting her….as the kids say. For months she struggles to forget that magical night, until a surprise visit from Stacy, Adam’s neighbor (played by director Julia Stiles) stops by with a letter that explains it all. Adam is terminally ill and doesn’t have long, brain cancer. With all of the cards on the table the two rekindle the fire of that night and learn the truth in love being not about the quantity of time but rather the quality of emotion.
I have to say, Stiles really put herself on an uphill climb for her directorial debut. This storyline is so familiar it probably ranks right up there with “Coach inspires inner-city team to win championships and respect”, Stiles was really going to need to hit all the right notes to make herself stand out from the pack. I’ll say that, while this is not The Fault in our Stars, Stiles succeeds and manages to prove herself a viable talent behind the camera. Films like this, it can be hard to see what difference a director makes especially with so much of the films weight falling on the chemistry of its stars (more on that later), but you don’t have to peek too far below the surface to see how Stiles choice of angles, camera movement, and music really launch the emotional impact of the films more emotional scenes.
Stiles certainly elevated her stars but, let’s be honest, Spielberg himself couldn’t make a romance work without chemistry between the leads…and this is where I was most surprised. Isabelle Fuhrman is a known quantity to fans of the horror genre where she’s spent quite a bit of time since her breakout role as the ultra-creepy fake child in Orphan. Mena Massoud, who most would know as Aladdin from the Disney live-action remake of the same name, is a no-brainer. We know he’s handsome, charming, and able to carry a scene….but Fuhrman, who’s made a living out of terrifying us? I’m not going to lie and say it didn’t take a few minutes for me to shake my preconceived image of her but as soon as I settled into the film I was, honestly, shocked at how good she was. Not only did she and Massoud exhibit a natural chemistry that can’t be faked, she also brought a normality to the role which, in hindsight, was critical. If you put Anne Hathaway in this it becomes another piece of emo-romance drivel, but Furhman lets you submerse yourself in the emotion flowing through, you believe these are real people.
While I don’t think this will find itself in the pantheon of great love stories, Wish You Were Here overcomes it’s formulaic origins and delivers a believable story that will break you and make you long for the intensity of new love. Outside of the lovers themselves there isn’t much to cheer for. With names like Kelsey Grammer and Jennifer Grey (yes, that Jennifer Grey) being wasted in template roles that don’t get to be much more then background info intended to deliver a fleshed-out world. I suppose it would have been nice to add more nuance to the world outside Adam and Charlotte but, in the end, I can’t really fault the film as that’s not really the point of this story.
Tickets are now available for preorder to Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World, starring Anthony Mackie in his first solo movie carrying the shield. To celebrate, Marvel Studios has released a brief trailer with a lot of familiar footage, but a few new things to keep fans excited.
First of all, it’s still just very cool to see Mackie’s Sam Wilson in action because he fights so differently than Steve Rogers. He also has a different relationship with the United States government, and we see it as he comes into conflict with Harrison Ford’s Thunderbolt Ross, the new President of the United States. Speaking of which, we get more of Ross after he transforms into the Red Hulk, more of Danny Ramirez as Cap’s sidekick, Falcon, and Giancarlo Esposito as the villainous Sidewinder.
Meanwhile, theater chains have been killing it with their collectible popcorn buckets in recent years. It’s been one of those phenomenons to emerge post-pandemic as theaters look for new ways to attract customers. And now it’s Captain America: Brave New World‘s turn to get into the action, and some of this stuff is pretty cool.
The biggest winner for me is the collapsible shield popcorn tub, which I think has really clever construction. I also dig the Red Hulk and Winged Shield popcorn containers. The Funko Pops are pretty basic and don’t look much different from previous Funkos of those characters. I’m also not into the helmet container because it looks more like Ant-Man than Captain America. Check all of the collectibles out for yourself below.
Captain America: Brave New World hits theaters on February 14th.
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Later this year, Spike Lee will release Highest 2 Lowest, his remake of Akira Kurosawa classic, High & Low. After that, what’s next for the legendary New York filmmaker? It could be the military dramedy Liberty, according to a new report from Deadline.
Lee will reportedly develop, produce, and possibly direct Liberty, a military dramedy said to be in the vein of Hal Ashby’s 1973 classic The Last Detail. The story, penned by writers Rebecca Murga and Jalysa Conway, centers on a group of cadets and one crazy night in NYC during Fleet Week.
This is the second military-themed project Lee has developed with Murga and Conway. The other was an ROTC drama for Amazon Studios in 2022 that has yet to get off the ground.
This would be the third military film directed by Lee after Miracle at St. Anna and Da 5 Bloods. In 2018 he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman.
Liberty has yet to find a distributor but that won’t be a problem if Lee agrees to direct. He’s never been a prolific filmmaker but his projects are always major events, topical, and have the potential to play well during awards season. Stay tuned for more on this one.
As it seems here in the States we might be slipping towards a far-right rule (as are many other countries across the world unfortunately), it’s eerily timely that director Walter Salles returns to his dramatic Brazilian roots and explores the military dictatorship that lasted from 1964-1985 and how it impacted real-life widow Eunice Paiva as she seeks justice for her husband Rubens Paiva’s forced disappearance for dissenting views in I’m Still Here.
Based on the book of the same name by her son Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I’m Still Here turns its attention away from the son and focuses squarely on the mother Eunice as she navigates her husband’s disappearance, her own rendition and interrogation by the military, and then trying to hold her family together while also trying to find her husband and seek answers for what has happened to him.
I’m Still Here begins in 1970 as former Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), his wife Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), and their family return to Rio de Janeiro after self-exile following the military’s coup d’état. While life under the military’s occupation isn’t ideal, the family manages to find a way to be happy. However, all they have to do is turn on the news and know that things aren’t so great as there are kidnappings by the resistance, as well as kidnappings by the military in retaliation. The Paiva’s decide to send their oldest (and politically active) daughter Vera (Valentina Herszage) to London because they don’t want her getting swept up in protests against the military. Following the kidnapping of the Swiss ambassador by left-wing revolutionaries, the military turns up the heat, which puts the Paiva family in their sights.
At first, Rubens is called in for “questioning” by the military, and Eunice and the family think nothing of it. But soon enough, hours turn to days… and days compound the worrying by Eunice. She has to keep a brave face on 24/7 for her children who know nothing about the political landscape and has to say that Rubens is on a “business trip” but she clearly is afraid. Unfortunately, her problems are just starting when the military shows up at her doorstep, and this time, they want her and their other daughter Eliana (Luiza Kosovski) in for questioning. While the military releases Eliana after 24 hours of questioning, they keep Eunice at their black site for days on end (to where she doesn’t even remember how long she was there) questioning and torturing her for information about “terrorists,” who are really just idealists against the military rule.
While Eunice is eventually released from custody, she and the family still have no idea where Rubens is, or if he’s even still alive. Of course, the military says they have no idea where he is. There are no records of him ever being in custody. This radicalizes Eunice to devote her life to trying to find her husband and she begins a campaign to bring awareness to the military’s actions that are happening across the country. She becomes much more politically active than she was as a housewife, and engages any newspaper that will listen. The Brazilian media is fearful of the military, so she goes to international media. With unmarked cars following her (even killing the family dog), Eunice relocates her family out of Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo for what seems like a fresh start. She goes back to school gets her law degree, and then dedicates her life to finding out what happened to her husband as well as many other victims of the military’s disappearance (more than 20,000 people disappeared), until she finally gets justice for her husband in the form of an official death certificate by the government more than 25 years later.
I’m Still Here’s timely release serves as a warning against right-wing fascism, so much so that the far-right of Brazil tried to initiate a boycott against the film, which proved unsuccessful as it has since gone and become one of Brazil’s biggest box-office films in the aftermath of Covid. It helps showcase how terrifying it can be to live under a military dictatorship and should serve as a warning to any democracy that is starting to dip its toes into this ideology. Centering the film on the matriarch of a family having to deal with the military threat at any given moment also keeps the film intimate and completely relatable at the same time. If I’m Still Here wanted to focus on the bigger picture, it might not have been as effective, so kudos to director Walter Salles.
That said, I’m Still Here feels a little incomplete. It opts to focus on Eunice and her own dealings with the military just as she’s becoming politically active. Only the last third of the film focuses on the work that she starts doing in the name of her husband, and it sometimes feels like an afterthought. There’s a moment in the film where she says she’s going back to school to get her law degree, and then time jumps to show the fruits of her labor instead of actually showing what she did to get the result. Eunice also became an activist for the Indigenous people of Brazil, which was a big part of her life, but barely gets a mention in the film. Although I’m Still Here runs almost two and a half hours, there’s still plenty of story to tell for such a remarkable woman that makes the film feel like there are big pieces missing.
That said, it’s almost no surprise that Fernanda Torres recently won the Golden Globe for Best Actress and probably will be an Academy Award frontrunner. She is mesmerizing as Eunice throughout I’m Still Here. Even towards the end of the film which has Eunice dealing with Alzheimer’s disease is a beautiful, yet powerful silent performance. The film lives and dies on her performance, and it’s an exceptional one. It showcases how even one person through sheer will and determination can help change the course of history for the better. Hopefully, folks here in the States are taking notes and we can also have a better future.
Get ready, because Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia film is coming to the biggest theater near you. Netflix will release her C.S. Lewis adaptation in IMAX theaters on Thanksgiving Day 2026 for a two-week exclusive run before hitting the streamer on Christmas Day.
Netflix doesn’t usually make deals like this for its original content, but perhaps Gerwig’s clout post-Barbie has given her negotiation leverage. Gerwig has made it known her desire to see Narnia on the big screen and not just a Netflix streaming exclusive. It’s unclear if they plan to expand the rollout to more non-IMAX theaters. The last time Netflix attempted something like this over Thanksgiving was with Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Sequel. IMAX and Netflix teamed up previously on 2016’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, which I bet you forgot about. I sure did.
Gerwig and Netflix partnered up on two adaptations of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia fantasy books in 2020, after the streamer announced plans for new movies and shows in 2018. The films are a follow-up to Gerwig’s blockbuster smash, Barbie, which earned $1.4B worldwide. She has also earned critical acclaim and a Best Director Oscar nomination for Lady Bird, while also adapting Little Women to strong reviews. [Deadline]
Scream 7 is getting a dose of twin magic, after all. With filming underway, Variety confirms that Jasmin Savoy Brown will reprise her role as Mandy Meeks-Martin, joining Mason Gooding who returns as Mandy’s twin brother, Chad.
Mandy and Chad were introduced in 2022’s Scream revival, and barely survived the events of Scream VI. The duo are the niece and nephews of original Scream character Randy Meeks, played by Jamie Kennedy, and share his love of horror movies and breaking down the rules to survive them.
The return of Mandy and Chad promises there will be a bit more connective tissue between this film and the two previous films. For a while, it looked as if another soft reboot was in order after the exits of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega.
Neve Campbell is set to make her return as Sidney Prescott, with Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers, and Roger L. Jackson again voicing Ghostface.
In a bit of a surprise, Deadline reports Brown’s Yellowjackets co-star Joel McHale has joined the cast as Sidney’s husband, Mark Evans, an entirely new character. When it was learned that Sidney’s kids would be in the film, the obvious speculation was she married Patrick Dempsey’s Detective Mark Kincaid, but that was wrong. Characters referenced a “Mark” in both Scream and Scream VI, but it wasn’t Kincaid they were referring to.
Other New additions to the cast include Celeste O’Connor, McKenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Asa Germann, and Isabel May.
Scream 7 hits theaters on February 27th 2026, directed by Kevin Williamson.
While some might say the recent series Dream Production was Pixar’s first-ever original series, that was an Inside Out spinoff and not wholly original. That title actually goes to the softball series Win or Lose, which takes the mound on February 19th on Disney+.
A new trailer for Win or Lose teases the “intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game—the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire.”
The voice cast includes Will Forte, Rosie Foss, Josh Thomson, Milan Elizabeth Ray, Rosa Salazar, Dorien Watson, Izaac Wang, Chanel Stewart, Lil Rel Howery, Melissa Villaseñor, Jo Firestone, Flula Borg, Kyleigh Curran, Jaylin Fletcher, Erin Keif, Tom Law, Beck Nolan, Orion Tran and Rhea Seehorn.
Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates wrote, directed, and exec-produced the series, drawing inspiration from Hobson’s past experiences on the field.
“I played softball growing up,” Hobson said “Inspired by that experience, we felt fast-pitch softball was the perfect backdrop for the show. There are so many facets to playing sports that I love—it can bring out the best and worst of a person, the calmest person can lose their temper. And when it comes to winning and losing—the consequences are nothing, and yet, they’re everything. We really felt like it was the best arena for the themes we loved.”
“Carrie and I were officemates on ‘Toy Story 4,’” he said. “We were both story artists on the film, and we would talk about a lot of things going on in the film, as well as things going on in the world—current events, news. We would always have different reactions or different interpretations of the same meeting. One of us would say, ‘That went great!’ and the other would say, ‘No! It was terrible, what are you talking about?’ We realized that our own experiences that we bring to the table change our perception of an event. We wanted to tell a story that illustrated all of that.”
We’ll have to see if Win or Lose faces any fan backlash after Disney cut a transgender character from the show. No doubt the shareholders were worried about offending the “concerned” parents out there typing angrily on Truth Social and X.
Mildred Burke isn’t the first name most would think of when discussing the greatest female professional wrestlers ever, but perhaps she should be. A charter member of WWE’s Hall of Fame legacy wing, and a multi-time world champion, Burke is finally getting her moment on the big-screen in Queen of the Ring, a biopic starring Arrow‘s Emily Bett Rickards.
A new trailer for Queen of the Ring has arrived, and it shows the former Felicity Smoak having bulked up for the role of Mildred Burke. Burke’s heyday was from the 1930s to 1950s when she became the first ever million-dollar female athlete and a world champion at a time when wrestling was banned in much of America. The film centers on the Kansas native who took to wrestling quickly under the tutelage of her manager and eventual husband, Billy Wolfe, played by Josh Lucas. In her career, Burke wrestled hundreds of men and rarely lost.
Also in the cast are Francesca Eastwood (as Mae Young), Tyler Posey, Walton Goggins, Marie Avgeropoulos, Adam Devos, Kelli Berglund, Cara Buono, Deborah Ann Woll (as Gladys Wall), Martin Kove (as Al Haft), and Damaris Lewis. WWE superstar Trinity “Naomi” Fatu plays wrestler Ethel Johnson, with AEW superstars Kamille, Toni Storm, and Britt Baker also cast in the film.
This looks like a great role for Rickards, who has been in need of a spotlight feature role like this. It’s also possibly the latest in what has been a trend of great pro wrestling movies. Fingers crossed for this one.
Queen of the Ring is written and directed by Ash Avildsen (American Satan) based on Jeff Leen’s book The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend.
Queen of the Ring hits theaters on March 7th 2025.
