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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
On the heels of Cobra Kai’s 65-episode run, Karate Kid: Legends director Jonathan Entwistle strived to restore the cinematic identity of the beloved franchise. The British filmmaker — who’s most known for helming idiosyncratic streaming series such as End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay With This — designed his feature directorial debut to unite Karate Kid and Cobra Kai fans from every generation.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
48 hours after wrapping Cobra Kai in Atlanta, Ralph Macchio was right back where he started on the Montreal-based set of Karate Kid: Legends. Macchio stepped foot onto Legends’ version of the Mr. Miyagi house that he and Pat Morita made famous four decades earlier in John G. Avildsen’s The Karate Kid (1984). The original house in Canoga Park was demolished after production concluded on 1986’s The Karate Kid Part II, before being rebuilt at Warner Bros. Ranch for 1989’s Part III.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
Danny and Michael Philippou had no shortage of opportunities coming out of 2023’s Talk to Me. Their feature directorial debut achieved critical and commercial success, grossing nearly $92 million against a $4.25 million budget. The former YouTubers behind RackaRacka not only received compliments from industry heavyweights such as Peter Jackson, Jordan Peele and Ari Aster, but they also booked general meetings all over town, including one with Marvel Studios.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
Kate Mara was unacquainted with Tim Robinson’s brand of comedy when filmmaker Andrew DeYoung offered her the chance to star opposite the maestro of cringe in Friendship. Mara plays Tami Waterman, a loving mother, self-employed florist and cancer survivor who’s dangerously close to becoming Craig Waterman’s (Robinson) walkaway wife.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
There’s a common sentiment in the Mission: Impossible franchise that accomplishing each movie is just as difficult as the mission on the screen. And Hayley Atwell now knows that firsthand after shooting 2023’s Dead Reckoning and this week’s The Final Reckoning in close succession.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
Friendship writer-director Andrew DeYoung is flattered to hear that his feature directorial debut evokes comparisons to What About Bob? and The Banshees of Inisherin. The black comedy chronicles working stiff Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson) as he befriends his local weatherman neighbor, Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd). The unlikely duo become fast friends until Craig takes a casual garage-set boxing match too far, alienating Austin and his other buddies.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
In the summer of 2005, Simon Pegg arrived on the Paramount lot to film a supporting role for J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. Knowing that the director and star-producer were fans of his preceding zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead (2004), Pegg thought his role as IMF technician Benji Dunn was just a way to satisfy their temporary curiosity.
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3 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
[This story contains spoilers for Andor season two.] When Andor creator Tony Gilroy cast Elizabeth Dulau in early 2021, he knew he was getting a talented actor who had just graduated London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). But he soon realized that he actually hired a budding star who was worthy of significantly more screen time in season two. “By the time we finished season one, everyone on our whole show was just in awe [of Elizabeth].
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4 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
Clown in a Cornfield director Eli Craig insists it’s just as difficult to make a horror-comedy in 2025 as it was in 2010. That’s when he made his feature directorial debut with the cult hit Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, a horror-comedy that hilariously chronicles two hillbillies who are wrongfully treated like serial killers by a group of vacationing college kids.
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1 month ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids
[This story contains spoilers through Andor season two’s eighth episode, “Who Are You?”] During season one of Andor, Kyle Soller’s Syril Karn was described by a journalist as a fascist, something series creator Tony Gilroy outright rejected at the time. Fast forward two-and-a-half years, Andor season two’s eighth episode, “Who Are You?” makes it crystal clear why Gilroy took issue with that characterization of the fastidious division chief for Imperial Bureau of Standards.
