Author: Michael

Hot off the Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of his latest film, “The Last Photograph,” Zack Snyder has revealed that there is interest from “some very powerful, very wealthy people” in his long-gestating adaptation of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” Snyder has been talking for around 10 years about adapting Rand’s divisive 1943 novel, which was previously adapted by King Vidor into a 1949 film starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. In 2024, Snyder revealed on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that he had unsuccessfully pitched a limited series adaptation of the book to Netflix. Despite that, the filmmaker said…

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For the cast of Arie and Chuko Esiri’s “Clarissa,” which takes Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway” and moves it from 1920s London to 2020s Lagos, Nigeria, getting to perform in a drama set in modern Africa was a breath of fresh air. Starring Sophie Okonedo as the titular Clarissa, the film reimagines Woolf’s upper-class drama as the story of a middle-aged Lagos socialite preparing to host a party while reflecting on the choices that led her to marry a respectable man rather than her close friend, the poet Peter, played by David Oyelowo. Oyelowo told TheWrap’s Jada Yuan at the…

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Both President Trump and Vice President Vance issued messages to voters this week about the current state of the economy, but the two took very different approaches. “The View” host Sunny Hostin doesn’t think either one will matter or work though; at this point, she thinks it’s “very clear” that the midterms will be a blue wave. To kick off the day’s Hot Topics, the ABC hosts listened to the messages from both Trump and Vance. The president insisted that the current higher prices that Americans are seeing are actually “a very inexpensive price to pay” for what he’s done,…

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