The Boys
Eric Kripke, the series creator and showrunner on Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys,” says the upcoming fifth and final season has nearly completed post-production: “We still have a handful of VFX shots to complete, but we’re pretty much done. It’s been an incredible f—ing journey – best job of my life.” [Source: TheBoysOOCC]
PGA
The Producers Guild Association handed out its top honour of Best Picture to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another”. 13 out of the last 15 films to have nabbed that top PGA award have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar. “KPop Demon Hunters” took Best Animated Feature while Mariska Hargitay’s “My Mom, Jayne” won Best Documentary.
On the TV front, “The Pitt” won episodic drama, “The Studio” episodic comedy, “Adolescence” limited series, “John Candy: I Like Me” telemovie, “Pee-wee as Himself” for non-fiction television, “The Traitors” for competition series, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for talk show, and “Sesame Street” for kids programming. [Source: Indiewire]
The End of Oak Street
David Robert Mitchell’s $85 million dinosaur film “Flowervale Street,” starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway, appears to have been retitled “The End of Oak Street”. The film remains currently slated for an August 14th release.
The actors play parents in a suburban neighborhood who wake up after a violent thunderstorm to find themselves transported back in time to the prehistoric era. The tone is said to be like a classic Spielbergian-Amblin adventure. [Source: World of Reel]
In the Grey
Guy Ritchie’s action-thriller “In the Grey,” starring Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal, looks to have been slightly delayed with Empire City Box-Office indicating it’s moving from its planned April 10th release to sometime in June. The film, about two extraction specialists tasked with devising a route of escape for a high-level female negotiator, was shot way back in Summer 2023.
The Comeback
HBO Max has premiered the trailer for the upcoming third and final season of the Lisa Kudrow-led comedy “The Comeback”. The eight-episode run begins March 22nd and runs through to May 10th.
Kudrow reprising her acclaimed role as Valerie Cherish twenty years after the show concluded its second season. The story follows a B-list sitcom star so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show.