M. N. Miller

5 days ago | fandomwire.com | M.N. Miller |Joshua Ryan |M. N. Miller

One great thing about the streaming era is that if one platform drops the ball or decides to cut its losses, another often steps in to pick up where others left off. That’s precisely what happened with the new series Nautilus. Developed initially for Disney+, reportedly at a cost of over $300 million, the platform ultimately scrapped the project. Fortunately, AMC+ acquired U.S. distribution rights, while Prime Video picked it up for release in the United Kingdom.

1 week ago | fandomwire.com | M.N. Miller |Joshua Ryan |M. N. Miller

Inside will fail to remind you of prison films that have become crowd-pleasers over the years. For instance, Cool Hand Luke, The Green Mile, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and my favorite, The Shawshank Redemption. Of course, the fact that these are now classics with mass appeal means they have catharsis rather than anything that resonates with authenticity.

1 week ago | fandomwire.com | M.N. Miller |Sean Boelman |M. N. Miller

The Waterfront is like Dawson’s Creek or The O.C. for millennials and Gen Xers who haven’t let go of their love for Pacey or Ryan but are now craving some soapy goodness centered on people their own age. Add a dash of Southern Gothic crime saga, and you’ve got a new series from Kevin Williamson (Scream) that checks all the boxes for a guilty pleasure. If only Williamson hadn’t saddled The Waterfront’s talented cast with half-baked scripts, cringeworthy dialogue, and head-scratching plot points.

2 weeks ago | fandomwire.com | M.N. Miller |Sean Boelman |M. N. Miller

The Unholy Trinity is yet another example of the growing market for low-budget Westerns in recent years. Whether it’s the result of streaming platforms hungry for content or aging stars chasing one last lead role before riding off into the sunset, the demand clearly exists. We’ve seen the good (The Thicket, Surrounded), the bad (The Old Way), and the ugly (Rust), and The Unholy Trinity lands somewhere in between.

2 weeks ago | fandomwire.com | M.N. Miller |Sean Boelman |M. N. Miller

Studios used to wait an average of thirty to forty years before remaking beloved intellectual properties. Now, with How to Train Your Dragon—an animated film that debuted in 2010—it seems the window has shrunk to fifteen or twenty years, at most. Films barely have time to reach classic status before a remake draft is already greenlit. That said, How to Train Your Dragon is being remade as a live-action adaptation, which TNT would call a “new” animated classic, a strategic move.