#Paul Feig Responds to Harsh ‘Jackpot!’ Reviews, Says Critics “Took the Biggest Dump on This Movie”

#Paul Feig Responds to Harsh ‘Jackpot!’ Reviews, Says Critics “Took the Biggest Dump on This Movie”

Paul Feig relishes the audience support for his recent action-comedy film Jackpot!, but he still has trouble understanding the unflattering critical response. The acclaimed comedy director was Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘s guest on the Dinner’s on Me podcast episode that was released Tuesday. During the chat, Feig shared that he loved making the Amazon MGM Studios…

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#Glossier to Get the Amazon TV Treatment

#Glossier to Get the Amazon TV Treatment

Glossier is getting the TV treatment. Amazon MGM Studios proved triumphant in what was the industry’s latest IP bidding war, this one for the rights to adapt Glossy, about the millennium beauty brand and its female founder Emily Weiss. The book, from journalist and author Marisa Meltzer, became an instant New York Times bestseller when…

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#‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

#‘Foe’ Review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal Are Too Magnetic to Be Mired in All This Dystopian Murk

After providing the raw fodder for Charlie Kaufman’s characteristically cryptic I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Canadian novelist Iain Reid serves up more brain-bender material in Garth Davis’ Foe. Anchored by emotionally raw performances from Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, with Aaron Pierre as a stranger bringing equal parts seductive charm and understated menace, this brooding…

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