Brian Davids

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids

[This story contains spoilers through Andor season two’s eighth episode.] In Andor’s season two premiere, Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero is paid a very specific compliment by Orson Krennic. Ben Mendelsohn’s Imperial Director recognized that the highly determined ISB Supervisor could foresee the future, particularly the pitfalls of his plan to seize the planet Ghorman through a propaganda campaign.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids

[This story contains spoilers for Thunderbolts*.] Thunderbolts* co-writer Eric Pearson has been one of Marvel Studios’ most reliable collaborators the last 15 years. In 2010, the New York City native enrolled in Marvel Studios’ Writers Program, before cutting his teeth on the majority of the Marvel One-Shots series, including Agent Carter (2013), which served as the catalyst for the 2015-16 ABC television series that housed three Pearson-penned episodes.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Brian Davids

Jake Schreier‘s winding path to Thunderbolts* feels oddly preordained considering his two roommates at NYU, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, are also MCU alums. In 2012, the Berkeley native kicked off his feature directorial career with the Ford-written Sundance darling, Robot & Frank, before making the jump to the low-key studio hit, Paper Towns (2015).