It was less than a month ago that we got hold of the seemingly endless list of cinematic productions to which Jordan Peele’s name is attached. Of course, none of those involve him saying the name of a supernatural entity five times in front of a mirror, which brings us to today’s Rumor Time.
Having acquired a healthy stash of Hollywood capital after the smash success of his Oscar-winning horror satire Get Out—and the enthusiastic critical reception to Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, produced by his company Monkeypaw Productions—Jordan Peele has refused to be even remotely shy about spending it. Earlier today, …
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Although he’s continuing to stay tight-lipped about the actual plot of his directorial follow-up to recent Oscar-winner Get Out—outside of noting that his new film, Us, is about relationships, and will be a “social horror thriller” in a familiar vein—Jordan Peele continues to assemble a pretty stellar cast for…
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Deadline reports today that Jordan Peele’s Nazi-hunting show—titled, fittingly, The Hunt—has now found a home at Amazon, with the streaming service issuing a 10-episode series order for the show. Peele—still going strong after his first Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay for Get Out—will executive produce,…
Ever since the surprise success (and excellence) of last year’s Get Out transformed him from “well-liked sketch comedian” into “bold new film-making talent,” we’ve been eagerly waiting to hear what Jordan Peele’s got cooking up for horror-loving moviegoers next. And while he’s dropped a few hints about some projects…
Though it’d be a delight to hear him say it, the clip above is not Barack Obama calling Donald Trump a “total and complete dipshit.” Instead, as the video reveals, it is Oscar-winner Jordan Peele doing an impression of Obama matched with a video-rendering of the former president. It is an example of the so-called “…
Earlier this week, at Tracy Morgan’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame ceremony, Jordan Peele gave a touching speech about the SNL veteran’s natural talent as a performer and tireless work ethic. He also told a pretty weird story about the time he and Tracy Morgan met Larry Flynt. In addition to being hilarious, the seemingly…
If you were alive and at least somewhat cognizant of the news in the ‘90s, you probably remember Lorena Bobbitt as a punchline. “Isn’t that the lady who cut off her husband’s dick?,” you may ask with a giggle, recalling the legion of stand-up bits, late-night monologues, SNL sketches, penis-shaped candies, and joke…
To watch a modern horror movie is often to watch all the most interesting characters get killed while the boring, blank-slate protagonist goes on to save the day. If there’s one curiosity to so much of modern horror, it’s the tendency to try and connect with audiences by subbing out perspective and personality for…
Jordan Peele didn’t win Best Picture or Best Director at the Oscars this weekend, losing out instead to Guillermo Del Toro’s seventh best movie, but the Get Out mastermind was nevertheless one of the unquestionable “winners” of the evening, even if he only took home one statue. That award made him the first black…
It’s hard to imagine anyone happier than Jordan Peele after last night’s Oscars. His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it “wasn’t going to work,” won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor. But, after…
Though he admitted that he didn’t want to risk missing out on winning Jimmy Kimmel’s Jet Ski, Jordan Peele made the most of his acceptance speech time when he won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out at tonight’s Academy Awards. Along with the usual thanks, Peele acknowledged how hard it was for him to get the film…
It’s the day before the Oscars, which means it’s time for Hollywood to take its traditionally smaller, cooler trial run for the big night, in the form of the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. Presented by non-profit Film Independent, and voted on by independent filmmakers, the show was broadcast today on IFC,…
The 90th Academy Awards will air this Sunday, March 4, and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who …
For a lot of us, the Best Picture fuck-up at last year’s Oscars was a momentary and amusing blip, or even an eventual moment of relief: We were free from the tyranny of La La Land, and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight had actually won. It was less reassuring for Jenkins himself, as it turns out, who says the cloud of…
There’s been plenty of popular horror flicks over the years that reaped both critical and commercial acclaim. Rarely, however, do those movies weave themselves into the zeitgeist, affixing themselves into the general discourse that surrounds culture and horror. Even a critical darling like It Follows perseveres mostly…
Though most scripts go through a rigorous rewrite process before they ever leave the confines of the screenwriter’s computer, there are almost always changes—sometimes big, sometimes small—that are made on the fly once everybody is on set together. A new article from The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at some of the…
The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss one of last…
