Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
The highlights of Amazon Prime’s streaming offerings in any given month are usually the big-name movie premieres, like last month’s The Florida Project or, uh, Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets from March, but the biggest addition in May is (arguably) a TV show for kids—specifically kids with a fondness for…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
Though the Baywatch movie ended up dead in the water here in the States, that feature-length compilation of hard bodies in slow motion has gained some traction abroad. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Seth Gordon’s film hit the $12 million mark in the U.K., but that number was trounced by the box-office take in…
It was only recently that posters began touting a film’s score on Rotten Tomatoes, the ratings aggregator that assigns movies a numeric score based on its reviews. It was a subtle, effective shift in film marketing, that yellow and red icon conveying more than any number of breathless blog quotes. But just because…
These days, when it comes to American blockbusters, you have to look past America. The real measure of a film’s box-office supremacy is how it does on a global scale, which is why Captain America movies often open in Europe a week before they open in America, why Chinese and Hong Kong actors often nab supporting roles…
Nobody cares about Baywatch. With the exception of David Hasselhoff, Eastern European villages where it still runs in syndication, or Yasmine Bleeth’s lawyer, no one particularly harbors a lingering appreciation for the series that nevertheless lasted 11 seasons, spanning the entirety of the 1990s, yet leaving next to…
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…
You may or may not be surprised to learn that the best-paid Hollywood actor last year was Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, taking in a whopping $64.5 million. Maybe it’s not that hard to understand: After all, he’s now a key component of the Fast And The Furious franchise, which just released its …
Even before the first teaser was released, we all had a pretty good idea what we’d be getting from a Baywatch movie led by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson: The same beautiful people and pulse-pounding action of Baywatch the TV series and Baywatch Nights. The new film certainly appears to be delivering on the adrenaline, as…
Dwayne Johnson has been having a good Super Bowl, at least in the sense that he’s had two trailers premiere tonight with still some more football to go. Maybe he’ll go for the hat-trick and we’ll see a little bit of Jumanji? Anyway, a new Baywatch trailer aired during the Super Bowl, and though not all of it was new,…
Every now and then a GIF comes along that does more than slow down the speed at which a webpage loads—it takes you on a journey. It teaches you something not just about yourself but about the nature of the moving image and its capacity to tell emotionally resonant stories through the presentation and elision of visual…
For those who enjoyed the first Baywatch trailer, but thought it could use more profanity, the international version is here to help—because apparently nothing charms a global audience like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson intoning, “I’m Baywatch, motherfucker.” Aside from the notable uptick in profanity, the trailer also…
The first Baywatch movie promo showed The Rock emerge from the ocean like a smoother Godzilla, even though he was supposed to be a kind of Aquaman. Now the teaser it was promoting has been released, and it introduces us to the rest of the oceanside squadron. Rob Huebel appears to be a bureaucrat who needs The Rock to…
The first full trailer for Baywatch arrives online tomorrow, which means today is that most holy of December holidays: Baywatch Trailer Eve. To celebrate the merry occasion, Paramount has released a teaser for said trailer today, featuring star Dwayne Johnson rising, monolithic, from the majestic ocean waves.
Way back in 2012, producer Toby Jaffe explained that he was developing a Starship Troopers reboot that would be less violent, less satirical, and way more patriotic than Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 original, bringing it closer to the Robert Heinlein book it was based on. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Jaffe and…
Zac Efron fell over in this hilarious and not-at-all staged photo from the set of Baywatch, which he posted to his Instagram like the self-deprecating bro he is. (Seriously, how does one possible trip while running and wind up in a somersault? We’re betting one of the gags in the film is that Efron’s character falls…
The stalwart, well-toned sentinels that stand guard over America’s roiling ocean of ’90s nostalgia can finally rest their weary eyes. Their long vigil is over: Pamela Anderson has returned to Watch over the Bay. That news—as all news about the upcoming Baywatch movie apparently must—comes courtesy of Dwayne Johnson’s…
According to Digital Spy, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has confirmed two predictable developments with the new R-rated Baywatch movie: David Hasselhoff will indeed appear in the forthcoming comedy, and his chest hair will be coming along.
As the new Mitch Buchannon, Dwayne Johnson has assumed some of the responsibility for casting announcements for the Baywatch movie that’s being made in swim-trunked earnest by Paramount. He’s already sounded off via his megaphone, i.e., Instagram account, on the casting of Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach, who…
