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‘Anora’, del director Sean Baker, encabeza las nominaciones. © Gotham| Universal Pictures | A24

Ya se conocen los nominados a los Gotham, unos galardones que premian lo mejor del cine independiente estadounidense y que dan el pistoletazo de salida oficial (como cada año) a la temporada de premios.

Este año, Anora, de Sean Baker – que, por cierto, acaba de estrenarse en cines españoles –, es la película con más nominaciones, con un total de cuatro. Muy de cerca le siguen Nickel Boys, de RaMell Ross, y I Saw the TV Glow, de Jane Schoenbrun, ambas con tres nominaciones cada una.

La 34 edición de los Premios Gotham se celebrará el 2 de diciembre. A continuación, os dejamos la lista completa de nominados:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Anora

Babygirl

Challengers

A Different Man

Nickel Boys

Mejor PELÍCULA Internacional

All We Imagine As Light

Green Border

Hard Truths

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Vermiglio

Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Principal

Pamela Anderson,...

The first nominations of the season are in as contenders for the 34th Gotham Awards were unveiled on Tuesday, with Anora, Hard Truths, and The Last Showgirl among 39 features and 25 performances in the running for nine awards.

Nominees were announced via X and seesAnora, whichleads the way on four nods,Babygirl, Challengers, A Different Man, and Nickel Boys up for the best feature prize, while Pamela Anderson, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Mikey Madison, and Demi Moore are in the running for best lead performance.

Nickel Boys and I Saw The TV Glow each earned three nominations, while Hard Truths garnered two.

The nominations for the 34th Gothams Awards were unveiled on Tuesday, with Anora, Hard Truths, and The Last Showgirl among 39 features and 25 performances in the running for nine awards.

Nominees were announced via X and seesAnora, whichleads the way on four nods,Babygirl, Challengers, A Different Man, and Nickel Boys up for the best feature prize, while Pamela Anderson, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Mikey Madison, and Demi Moore are in the running for best lead performance.

International feature film nominees are All We Imagine As Light, Green Border, Hard Truths, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, and Vermiglio.

The inaugural best...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the nominations for the 34th edition of The Gothams, including 39 feature films and 25 performances in nine award categories. Leading the Best Feature nominees are Anora, Babygirl, Challengers, A Different Man, and Nickel Boys.

“We are proud to announce the nominees for The Gothams, selected by nominating committees who bring their independent perspective to the selection process. This year’s nominations celebrate voices from across the globe, embodying the growing embrace of international cinema by audiences everywhere. We look forward to celebrating our nominees and our Gotham tributes in a few weeks,” said Sharp.

The 2024 Gothams will be held live and in person at 7 pm on Monday, December 2nd at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Best Feature

Anora

Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (Neon)

Babygirl

Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24)

Challengers

Luca Guadagnino,...

It’s officially awards season, baby. While there are still more than four months to go before we cross the finish line at the Academy Awards, this afternoon the Gotham Awards—honoring independent film—announced their crop of 2024 nominees, officially kickstarting campaign season and offering the first clues about which...

Between modern thrillers, horror comedies, and Universal monster movies, Peacock is a perfect streamer for Spooky Season

With Halloween right around the corner, Peacock’s library this month is fuller than ever, jam-packed with excellent seasonal classics like “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” “Jennifer’s Body,” “Halloween,” and many others. Complete with Peacock Originals and other films from Universal Pictures and Focus Features, there’s no shortage of great movies to spoil you on the streamer at the moment.

If you’re looking to add to your watch list and the best of what Peacock has to offer, here are my picks for the best seven movies currently available to stream!

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No. 7: ‘Death Becomes Her’

No. 6 ‘It Follows’

No. 5: ‘Dìdi’

No. 4 ‘Let the Right One In’

No. 3 ‘A Thousand and One’

No. 2 ‘Get Out’

No. 1 ‘Bride of Frankenstein’

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“I never had the kind of rebellion that Chris the character had in ‘Dìdi,’” shares Joan Chen on how her adolescent years differed significantly from those depicted in the Sean Wang film. Unlike the protagonist, who grows up in 2008 and navigates friends and romantic feelings the digital age, Chen grew up in China during the cultural revolution, and her peers were fearful of “being sent down to remote areas to be reeducated.” Focused on “how to get enough nutrition,” the award-winning actress “never had the luxury” of acting out like her on-screen son, but she was lucky enough to be selected during her “first year in high school to star in a film,” which changed the trajectory of her life. Watch our complete video interview above.

In many ways, Chen’s personal experiences mirrored her character Chungsing’s own. The actress says the role felt like “an opportunity for me to express myself,...

DÌDI (弟弟) is the type of cinematic experience we all crave but rarely receive these days: an authentic coming-of-age story with a great cast.

The story follows Chris, a Taiwanese American teen trying to find himself in the Bay Area in 2008. As he grapples with complex family and social dynamics, I could hear the theater audience laughing, groaning, and yes, crying. DÌDI feels both personal and universal, thanks in large part to its committed performances. While the cast includes many young and first time actors, it also features Joan Chen, whose poignant portrayal of Chris’s mother, Chungsing, is a standout. At one point, when her character receives disappointing news, there was a collective ‘Aw!’ as audience members expressed heartbreak on her behalf.

Writer/director Sean Wang drew from his own adolescent experiences for DÌDI, and a post-film dedication to ‘mom’ showcases how close these characters are to the filmmaker’s heart.

It’s October, officially known as “spooky season,” a term I just realized I’ve seen a lot less this year than in years prior. Maybe it’s a less spooky season than usual? In any case, “spooky season” means the streamers are putting up a lot of original horror movies this week. Max has “‘Salem’s Lot,” the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s vampire classic; Prime Video has “House of Spoils,” a Blumhouse psychological horror thriller starring Ariana DuBose as a Carmy-esque chef who’s either losing her mind or actually haunted; and Hulu has a period horror movie called “Hold Your Breath” starring Sarah Paulson as a mother in Dust Bowl Oklahoma who thinks there are monsters in the dust storms.

But none of those are our top picks this week. That would be “It’s What’s Inside,” a stylish Netflix horror comedy with a “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Babes (Pamela Adlon)

Transitioning the naturalistic comic sensibilities that made Better Things a success, Pamela Adlon’s feature debut Babes manages to co-opt the rhythms of a romantic comedy to explore the relationship between two best friends at opposite points of their lives. – Christian G. (full review)

Where to Stream: Hulu

Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on Aim, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to Remember is one of them. He fakes loving it; “its helllllla good,” he says. Now he has to maintain that––at least for a few scenes. This...

The second season of the Max animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” is titled “Gremlins: The Wild Batch,” and part one of the two-part second season premieres Thursday, October 3, 2024.

Taking place one year after the events of season one, “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery, and Mogwai mayhem. Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.

Simu Liu joins the main voice cast in season two alongside returning cast members Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, Bd Wong, Izaac Wang, Aj LoCascio, Gabrielle Nevaeh and George Takei. Simu Liu will play the role of Chang, a handsome, impossibly charming bootlegger and son to one of...

The second season of the Max animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” is titled “Gremlins: The Wild Batch,” and we’ve got an exclusive clip for you this afternoon.

In this exclusive clip, the Gremlin formerly known as Noggin (voiced by George Takei) arrives in San Francisco with his crew of ravenous Gremlins. He announces to his team, “San Francisco is our species’ chance for a new beginning. To stop living in the shadow like monsters.”

Noggin’s new name? Watch the clip below to find out.

The Max original animated prequel series “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” will premiere part one of the two-part second season of the animated series on Thursday, October 3, 2024.

Taking place one year after the events of season one, “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and Mogwai mayhem.

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Peacock is ready with an entertainment-packed October this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some brilliant police procedural shows like The Irrational and Found, and also new original series like Teacup. Just like every month, Peacock is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 new movies and TV shows coming to Peacock in October 2024.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (October 3)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an animated fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel. Based on the Mario video game franchise developed by Nintendo, the 2023 film follows the story of Brooklyn plumber Mario who is transported alongside his brother Luigi into a magical world through a mysterious pipe, but Mario and Luigi become separated and now Mario must find him.

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Max is ready with an entertainment-packed October this year. The upcoming month will see the return of some of HBO’s brilliant original comedy series Somebody Somewhere and also new original movies like Salem’s Lot. Just like every month, Max is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 new movies and TV shows coming to Max in October 2024.

Interview with the Vampire (October 1)

Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror drama film directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by Anne Rice. Based on Rice’s 1976 novel of the same name, the 1994 film follows the story of Louis, a vampire as he tells his life story to an eager biographer and his violent maker Lestat tries to make Louis stay with him. Interview with the Vampire stars Tom Cruise,...

After breaking the box office by unleashing the highest-grossing animated film ever, Inside Out 2, Pixar continues to dominate the animated corner of entertainment with today’s Dream Productions trailer. The spirited preview highlights two brand-new series coming to Disney+. The first title hails from Inside Out, called Dream Productions, a four-episode limited series inside Riley’s mind while she sleeps. The second title, Win or Lose, showcases Pixar’s first-ever original long-form series about a co-ed middle school softball team.

Pixar teased Dream Productions when we visited the studio earlier this year for an in-depth look at Inside Out 2. Directed by Mike Jones and set for a 2025 release, the limited series revolves around the studio inside Riley’s mind where dreams really do come true—every night, on time and on budget, thanks to acclaimed director Paula Persimmon (voice of Paula Pell). Riley’s growing up, her core...

Gremlins is back with a new batch of episodes that promises to take Max’s animated series in unique directions.

The show’s second season, titled Gremlins: The Wild Batch, debuts on the streamer Oct. 3. After the first season focused on how the young Sam Wing (voiced by Dìdi star Izaac Wang) met Gizmo, the new season is set in the American West as the pair join Elle (Gabrielle Nevaeh) in making their first trip from Shanghai to San Francisco.

Executive producer Brendan Hay tells The Hollywood Reporter that the show’s team followed the lead of how filmmaker Joe Dante evolved the story from 1984’s original Gremlins movie to the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Both films were directed by Dante, who serves as consulting producer on the series.

“We were inspired by what Joe did with the movies [and to] go in such a different direction,” Hay says. “We...

The animated prequel series "Gremlins: The Wild Batch" stars Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, Bd Wong, Izaac Wang, Aj LoCascio, and Gabrielle Nevaeh, streaming October 3, 2024 on Max:

“…’Gizmo’, ‘Sam’ and ‘Elle’ travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and ‘Mogwai’ mayhem.

“Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way…”

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"We have to figure out what's going on here - that means running towards scary stuff." They're back for more! Max has unveiled the main official trailer for Gremlins: The Wild Batch, the next season of this animated adventure series featuring the lovable/crazy Mogwai creatures. This new animated series bringing back the beloved Gremlins little monsters franchise kicked off initially in 2022 with Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai streaming on Max. It ran for 10 episodes and now the sequel / second season is about to launch in October this fall. Gizmo, Sam, and Elle embark on an adventure from Shanghai to San Francisco, coming across mischievous Mogwai and supernatural beings while navigating the American West's mysteries. "New adventure. New mystery. New danger." This new title Gremlins: The Wild Batch is an obvious reference to the 1990 movie sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch (which is just as good as the original movie...

Max has revealed the official trailer and key art for Gremlins: The Wild Batch, which serves as the second season of Gremlins: Secrets of the Mowai.

The new round of havoc-wreaking Mogwai headed to San Francisco and the American West will be revealed when the Max original animated prequel series returns with part one of the two-part second season on Thursday, October 3.

Taking place one year after the events of season one, Gremlins: The Wild Batch follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery, and Mogwai mayhem.

Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.

Simu Liu joins the main voice cast in season two alongside returning cast members Ming-Na Wen,...

Last year, after more than thirty years, we finally got a new entry in the Gremlins franchise – and this was an unexpected addition, coming in the form of the animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, which serves as a prequel to the 1984 classic Gremlins (watch it Here). The show was released through the Max streaming service, and now Max is preparing to bring us the second season of the series, titled Gremlins: The Wild Batch, starting next month! Part one of the two-part second season will be available to watch as of Thursday, October 3rd, and with that date right around the corner, a trailer for the season has arrived online, along with a poster. The trailer can be viewed in the embed above and the poster can be found at the bottom of this article.

Made by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation, Gremlins: The Wild...

The second season of the Max animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” is titled “Gremlins: The Wild Batch,” and the official trailer has arrived this morning.

The Max original animated prequel series “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” will premiere part one of the two-part second season of the animated series on Thursday, October 3, 2024.

Watch the trailer below for a sneak peek at the new season’s furry frights, which previews a new round of havoc-wreaking Mogwai headed to San Francisco and the American West.

Taking place one year after the events of season one, “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and Mogwai mayhem. Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)

Cinema at its most boundlessly imaginative, The Boy and the Heron is a journey of thrilling, pure dream logic chock full of images that feel conjured from the deepest corners of Miyazaki’s mind. Considering the painstaking, hand-drawn labor it takes to pull off an animation this encumbered by standard narrative conventions, the feat of Miyazaki being able to corral such a vision feels miraculous. For the sake of the medium, here’s hoping the 82-year-old legend has one more in him.

Where to Stream: Max

Coup! (Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman)

Let’s talk about the pandemic for a moment. No, not the Covid-19 Pandemic. The pandemic that, 100 years ago, killed millions and shuttered...

Although Dìdi may initially start to play out as a coming-of-age type story focusing on a young man overcoming cultural barriers, it becomes obvious quite quickly that the heart of the film lies in the boy’s relationship with his mother and how exactly that shapes and directs his life.

Set during the summer of 2008, the film follows the exploits of a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy who is coming to terms with his adolescence as well as an often confrontational relationship with his mother.

Director Sean Wang makes his narrative feature directorial debut – he previously helmed numerous shorts and a pair of feature-length documentaries with A Marble Travelogue (2021) and Lady of the Harbour (2017) – with this film. Given the emotional impact the film carries and the depth with which the story is handled, it portends more quality work from Wang as he continues to hone and define his narrative voice. Working from his own script,...

I love a great surprise. And this year, a handful of terrific films inspired and thrilled us. The latest flick to bring all the feels is the fantastic Didi. The movie tells the story of a young and rambunctious 13-year-old living in 2008. Izaac Wang, as the lad, is remarkable in a challenging performance that makes the film near perfect. Joan Chen also shines as a mother who has to carry a heavy burden. It’s an incredible feature directed by Sean Wang, and if you didn’t get to check it out during its initial release, I’d highly recommend it as it moves into an expanded release on Friday, August 16.

Recently, we sat down for interviews with the film’s writer/director, Sean Wang, as well as Joan Chen and Izaac Wang. After complimenting my backdrop, we immediately jumped into the conversation. Sean opened up about telling this personal story.

Cuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon’s Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.

R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves her American home after her mother dies to live with her father and his new family just as they move to a resort in the beautiful German Alps. Owner Herr König takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister, while Gretchen herself is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret

Longlegs by Osgood Perkins is no. 10 in week 5 with an estimated $2 million on 1,310 screens for a hefty $71 million gross. It’s sticking around amid a steadier stream of studio wide releases and tentpoles.

Holdovers: Didi from Focus Features...

"Sometimes you have to earn your respect! Tonight is our moment for redemption." Pixar has revealed the first look teaser trailer for their new streaming series called Win or Lose, which has been in development for years. This entirely original animation creation from Pixar Animation Studios finally begins streaming on Disney+ this December. The series follows the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game. Their team is known as the Pickles.

Motion City Soundtrack jumps back in time to usher in their new era. The Minnesota pop-punk rockers shared their first taste of music in 10 years with the thrashing track “Stop Talking.” Not only could the song fit perfectly on 2007’s Even If It Kills Me, but the music video’s aesthetic is also plucked from the same era.

Written and directed by Sean Wang, the brain behind the new coming-of-age film Dìdi, the “Stop Talking” visual extends the universe of the movie, which is set in 2008, with a haphazardly-edited YouTube...

Written and directed by Sean Wang, Didi is a touching and beautifully crafted coming-of-age tale that delves deep into the heart of adolescent struggles. Set in the late 2000s, the movie follows Chris (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy, as he navigates the challenges of growing up in a diverse multicultural community.

In the summer of 2008, as he stands on the cusp of high school, Chris (Wang) embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Living in California, Chris feels the weight of cultural expectations from his immigrant family and the pressures of fitting in with his peers. Through the last month of summer, he is plagued by familial guilt and suffocating anxiety about what awaits him in the future.

Isaac Wang delivers an outstanding performance as Chris, bringing authenticity and emotional depth to this deeply fragile character. His portrayal of a young boy caught between trying to appease his own family...

Sean Wang’s Sundance sensation Dìdi is a gorgeously told tale of growing up in the late noughties. Here’s our review.

Sean Wang’s Dìdi does something rather miraculous. It manages to capture a sense of a very specific time with its details while also telling a universal coming-of-age story from a unique point of view. If you grew up in the 2000s, listened to Paramore and spent your afternoons watching Youtube videos, this is a film for you.

Chris Wang (Izaac Wang) is a teenager growing up in California in 2008. He spends his free time skateboarding and causing mayhem with his friends while harbouring a crush on schoolmate Madi and worrying about how to kiss girls. Coming from a Taiwanese-American family, Chris is constantly pulled in different directions by the two cultures and identities.

In many ways, Dìdi feels almost like a prequel to Bo Burnham’s excellent Eight Grade.

The online hyper-specificity of Sean Wang’s portrait of a Taiwanese-American teen in 2008 makes it a triumphant coming-of-age tale

Dìdi, the feature debut from writer-director Sean Wang and one of the best new films of the year, risks cliche from the jump by zooming in on a literal calendar on the wall. The movie begins almost exactly 16 years ago, on 29 July 2008, and ends a few weeks later. Fourteen-year-old Chris Wang (Izaac Wang) – “Dìdi” to his Taiwanese-American family, “Wang Wang” to his childhood friends in suburban Fremont, California, “bigwang510” to his handful of YouTube viewers – is frittering away the summer between eighth and ninth grade the way most kids did then: part online, part hanging out, and everywhere a minefield of hot and sticky feelings.

Wang knows this period well, and the semi-autobiographical film is chock-full of specifically 2008 references – Livestrong bracelets, Motorola Krzr phones, Paramore Riot posters. Chris’s headstrong older...

While trying to chat up classmate Madi (Mahaela Park) on Aim, Chris (Izaac Wang) skims her MySpace for an “in”. Then, beneath all the Paramore pictures and low-res GIFs is a list of her favorite movies. Oh, A Walk to Remember is one of them. He fakes loving it; “its helllllla good,” he says. Now he has to maintain that––at least for a few scenes. This sort of thing happens throughout Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut. The character moments flow on a moment-to-moment basis and the period detail is quite good beneath it. Ultimately, Dìdi (弟弟) works despite its untapped potential.

Summer 2008 is coming to an end. The youngest of his Taiwanese-American family, Chris gets ready for high school while his sister Vivian (Shirley Chen) prepares to go to college. Their mother, a painter named Chungsing (Joan Chen), exists in the script’s peripheries for stretches, while grandmother...

All coming-of-age movies essentially hit the same beats: the getting of wisdom, the loss of innocence, the passage from childhood to some hard-won form of adulthood. Only the names, regions, eras and cultures change. Trace a through line from The 400 Blows to Lady Bird, however, and you’ll notice the best of these stories don’t just look back — in anger, in sorrow, in a misty cloud of nostalgia — but spark recognition of the good, bad and very ugly of your own formative years. You can add Sean Wang...

Sean Wang’s coming-of-age film Dìdi follows a Taiwanese American boy named Chris as he experiences the tumult of his early teen years. Set in 2008 in California, it explores the insecurities and cultural clashes that shape adolescence. Director Wang drew from his own experiences growing up to craft a remarkably authentic portrait.

The film’s protagonist is 13-year-old Chris Wang, called “Dìdi” by his family. He finds himself caught between worlds as a Taiwanese child navigating American culture. Chris struggles with his identity among different social circles. At home, his heritage is celebrated, but he downplays it elsewhere, wanting acceptance. This summer, before high school, brings new questions about who he wants to be.

Wang captures it all with keen empathy. The period details from technology to fashion ring true, putting viewers back in the late 2000s. More than nostalgia, though, the film understands the messy dynamics of family, friendship,...

At today’s Gremlins: The Wild Batch panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, Max unleashed a flurry of exciting casting announcements for the second season of the hit animated prequel series. This included news that Simu Liu will join the main cast and John Glover—star of the Gremlins film sequel—will return to the franchise as a guest voice. The new season will premiere on Max on Thursday, October 3.

Taking place one year after the events of season one, Gremlins: The Wild Batch follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery, and Mogwai mayhem. Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.

Simu Liu will play the role of Chang,...

The second season of the Max animated series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” is officially titled “Gremlins: The Wild Batch,” and Max let loose a flurry of exciting Gremlins cast news and an official premiere date for the new season today at San Diego Comic-Con.

“Gremlins: The Wild Batch” will premiere Thursday, October 3, on Max.

The two biggest additions to the cast this season? Simu Liu joins the main cast list. Even more exciting? Gremlins 2 star John Glover returns to the franchise to voice a role.

Glover is best known in Gremlins lore for playing the role of eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp in the film sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch. While few details were shared about the actor’s guest appearance in season two, executive producers Tze Chun and Brendan Hay hinted on the panel that audiences may get a peek into the Clamp family ancestry this season.

Simu...

The “Gremlins” are back.

During the “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, Max announced that Simu Liu will be joining the main cast of the animated series and that John Glover, a member of the “Gremlins” family, will return as a guest voice. The return date for the series was also confirmed, as “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” will premiere on Thursday, Oct, 3 — just in time for spooky season!

The next installment of the show, previously titled “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai,” takes place a year after the events of Season 1. According to the official synopsis, it “follows Gizmo, Sam and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and Mogwai mayhem. Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures...

Sean Wang’s “Dìdi” hits where it hurts for any millennial who came of age in middle school in 2008 — on MySpace and AOL Instant Messenger and in the throes of puberty. But it’s especially hard-hitting for Taiwanese-Americans raised in the California Bay Area at the time, as Fremont-hailing writer/director Wang’s big Sundance winner (including an Audience Award) is based on his own youth — one where he was often recalcitrant toward his single mom.

In this frank and affecting dramedy, young actor Izaac Wang plays Chris, a 13-year-old spending the summer before his freshman year of high school surfing the web and making YouTube videos with his pals. Until he falls in with an older crowd he seeks to impress. In the seemingly endless summer between eighth and ninth grade, there’s a crush, too, he’s trying to woo — with embarrassingly dismal results. Back at home, the...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Deadpool & Wolverine, San Diego Comic-Con and Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Harold and the Purple Crayon special screening

Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Lil Rel Howery and Benjamin Bottani joined director Carlos Saldanha at a special Los Angeles screening for their Columbia Pictures film on Sunday.

Carlos Saldanha, Lil Rel Howery, Zooey Deschanel, Benjamin Bottani and Zachary Levi Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel and Tony Vinciquerra, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Deadpool & Wolverine premiere

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, Aaron Stanford, Brianna Hildebrand, Lewis Tan and Tyler Mane joined director Shawn Levy and producer Kevin Feige at the Marvel film’s New York premiere on Monday, with support from Blake Lively and Gigi Hadid.

Hugh Jackman, Emma...

Imax Live is out today with the Openings Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Bleecker Street debuts star-studded The Fabulous Four, Sundance winner Didi opens in limited release and Kit Harrington is a werewolf dad in The Beast Within. Again this weekend, another massive wide release, Deadpool & Wolverine, dominates the box office. Tentpoles are good for the box office but the indie market is still waiting to ascertain if big movies can boost small ones.

Imax wins for most topical. In its ongoing experimentation with live events, the big screen exhibitor is at this very moment showing the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympic in Paris at 100 locations nationwide.

Presales had been a bit slow but that was expected – it’s a four-hour-plus chunk in the middle of the day, even earlier on the West Coast – but Deadline hears showings are actually at or approaching sellout in a number of markets...

For a certain subset of very online younger millennials, a film like writer-director Sean Wang’s Dìdi ought to carry a trigger warning. The level of detail is so hyper-specific that the film feels unearthed from a time capsule. Be it through a bookmarked link to Addicting Games or an oversharing Facebook wall post, Wang’s film instantly conjures vivid imagery of being a teenager in the precise time frame of summer 2008.

Wang has glanced back at late-aughts culture nostalgically in his documentary projects like the 2021 short H.A.G.S. (Have a Good Summer), an inventive flip-through of his middle school yearbook. But his feature-length fictional debut, which arrives hot on the heels of his Oscar-nominated short “Nai Nai & Wài Pó,” has much more on its mind.

This coming-of-age story, set in Wang’s suburban northern California hometown of Fremont, follows Chris (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old aggravated by the...

The director explains how a desire to transcend race and immigrant identity led to his semi-autobiographical tale of an angst-ridden Taiwanese American teenage skater and an Oscar-nominated short about his grandmothers

Sean Wang is jet-lagged. He has been up since 4am after arriving in London late the night before. When he couldn’t get back to sleep, the film-maker headed to the Southbank Centre. Surrounded by the deserted streets of the city, it was just him and his skateboard as he tried out tricks. He has been obsessed with skateboarding since his early teens. “Everything that I love now, whether it’s the music I listen to or the way I dress, it all traces back to skating.”

Wang, 30, has channelled this passion into his debut feature film, Dìdi (弟弟), which means “little brother” in Chinese. The semi-autobiographical tale of Chris (Izaac Wang), an awkward and angst-ridden 13-year-old Taiwanese American...

Sometimes I think the best “coming of age” stories are the ones that open old wounds. The older we get, the harder it is to remember exactly what it was like to be young and inexperienced, stepping out into the world for the very first time. But an expertly crafted tale of adolescence reminds us just how painful life was when we knew nothing about it. We thought we were making it all up as we went along, that nobody ever felt the way we felt before and that nobody ever would again. Films like Sean Wang’s “Dìdi” remind us — to our relief and, often, embarrassment — that everyone else pretty much felt the same way.

“Dìdi” is Wang’s feature film debut, after his 2023 Oscar-nominated documentary short “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó,” about the day-to-day life of his two grandmothers. Do yourself a favor and watch “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó,...

In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a semi-autobiographical story of life as a 13-year-old Taiwanese American growing up there in 2008.

For Wang, part of this meant capturing the huge role the late-aughts internet played in his early teenage years, from the early social media experiences of Myspace to texting with Aim (AOL Instant Messenger) and putting his skateboard videos up on an old-school YouTube page. While on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Wang talked about how he’d never seen this done well in movies.

“When I think about the movies that were made in the late 2000s, they never depicted the internet right, because I think as filmmakers we just didn’t know how to do that,” said Wang.

For “Dìdi,” Wang assembled a team of four animators and graphic artists, working off screenshots, to recreate the now-defunct 2008 internet from scratch.

Back in 2008, MySpace was cool, flip phones were popular and it kinda sucked to be a 13-year-old boy. Technology has changed a lot since then, but as “Dìdi” — a touching, frequently hilarious coming-of-age story that unfolds in the early aughts — reminds us, the agony and indignity of being a teenager is timeless.

“Boyhood is messy,” says Sean Wang, the film’s 29-year-old writer and director, looking barely out of boyhood himself as he chats on Zoom from his living room. “And the experience of adolescence is pretty consistent across the generations. It’s why I can watch ‘400 Blows’ — a movie made before I was even born — and see myself in it.”

When “Dìdi” premiered at Sundance in January, where it earned some of the festival’s strongest reviews, lots of people saw themselves in Chris Wang, an awkward Taiwanese American kid growing up in the Bay Area. As he struggles to fit in,...

A gutshot coming-of-age story aimed directly at those former teenagers who weathered the great transition from MySpace to Facebook, writer/director Sean Wang's Dìdi is—like so many backwards-looking films about youth—almost more painful than poignant. It's not upsetting, nor is it overly invested in tricking tears out of us.

With his 2008-set Dìdi, Sean Wang captures the intermingling of adolescent friendship and early social media through the lens of the Asian American diaspora, and with welcome specificity. The importance that a MySpace Top 8 and profile song carries in the world of Chris (Izaac Wang), a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy, cannot be overstated, nor can the significance of AOL Instant Messenger in sustaining and expanding his friend circle, nor his YouTube channel in allowing him to express his sense of humor.

When it homes in on the disparities and contradictions between Chris’s online and real-life interactions, emotions, and behavior, Dìdi feels nothing short of truthful. Chris is a typically insecure teen, but to such an extreme that he’s almost preternaturally self-sabotaging. And Wang admirably doesn’t shy away from depicting Chris at his most awkward or abhorrent and the myriad ways his behavior alienates him from family and friends,...

Focus Features has released the official poster for writer/director Sean Wang’s Didi. You can check the poster out below. The film itself will be in theaters on July 26, 2024!

Synopsis: In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

About The Film

Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Raul Dial, Aaron Chang, Mahaela Park, Chiron Cilia Denk, Montay Boseman, Sunil Mukherjee Maurillo, Alaysia Simmons, Alysha Syed, Georgie August and Joan Chen Director: Sean Wang Screenplay: Sean Wang Producer: Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, Sean Wang

Dìdi (弟弟) is in theaters on Friday, July 26, 2024!

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The animated prequel series "Gremlins: The Wild Batch" stars Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, Bd Wong, Izaac Wang, Aj LoCascio, and Gabrielle Nevaeh, streaming Fall 2024 on Max:

“…’Gizmo’, ‘Sam’ and ‘Elle’ travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and ‘Mogwai’ mayhem.

“Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way…”

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Photograph by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Animation/Max Max just dropped some exciting news: the second season of the beloved animated prequel, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, is officially titled Gremlins: The Wild Batch and will be unleashed this fall! The adventure picks up with Gizmo, Sam, and Elle leaving Shanghai for a thrilling journey to San Francisco. But their travels won’t be all smooth sailing. They’ll face a new batch of mischievous Mogwai causing chaos, encounter mysterious supernatural creatures, and meet intriguing new characters along the way. Get ready for even more magic, mystery, and Mogwai mayhem! Your favorite voices are back! Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, Bd Wong, Izaac Wang, Aj LoCascio, and Gabrielle Nevaeh return, along with an all-star guest cast to be announced soon.

Mark your calendars for fall and stay tuned for more updates on Gremlins: The Wild Batch! Max is promising the furriest,...

Get ready for more hijinks with Gizmo and his human friends Sam and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco in the second season of the Max prequel series Gremlins, subtitled The Wild Batch.

Season 1 voice actors Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, Bd Wong, Izaac Wang, Aj LoCascio, and Gabrielle Nevaeh will return, along with several exciting guest stars to be announced at a later date.

Max shared a fun announcement video revealing the title, Gremlins: The Wild Batch, a follow-up to the 2023 series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.

The news comes just one day ahead of the 40th anniversary of the original film from Joe Dante. Gremlins first premiered in theaters on June 8, 1984.

The animated series, produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation, features Steven Spielberg as an executive producer.

Expect more Mogwai mayhem and magic in season 2 as we follow Gizmo,...