"House of Cards," the Netflix original political drama from David Fincher, Kevin Spacey and Beau Willimon that launched exclusively on the site on February 1st, has been an fascinating experiment both in terms of storytelling and as a business venture. It's a show that, in accordance w...
Read More »Fans of David Fincher received a much-anticipated Valentine's Day treat this morning when the video for Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z's "Suit & Tie" dropped. It may be a surprise to some that the retro, black-and-white video was directed by the stylish auteur behind "Zodiac," "Se7en," "Fight Club," "T...
Read More »So what does David Fincher do after directing and executive producing a thirteen-hour political drama? He puts on a "Suit & Tie" of course. As we reported not too long ago, Fincher reteamed with his "The Social Network" star Justin Timberlake to helm the video for the fi...
Read More »Ten days ago, Beau Willimon, David Fincher, Kevin Spacey and Netflix hoped to change the future of television with "House of Cards," the first high-profile series to be produced by, and air exclusively on, the streaming platform. A remake of the late 1980s BBC miniseries (itself based on the book by...
Read More »Peter Russo (Corey Stoll), the South Philly congressman who gets caught up in the political machinations of David Fincher's Netflix series "House of Cards," is in many ways the opposite of Kevin Spacey's Francis Underwood. Russo is hot-tempered where Underwood is cool and restrained; he's at the mer...
Read More »As far as big-budget extravaganzas go, there are a few that keenly attract our attention, and one of them is the proposed adaptation of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" that Disney is potentially mounting with director David Fincher and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. A large-...
Read More »Newsweek's profile of actress Rooney Mara looks at the Girl with the Cool-As-Ice Demeanor, and what makes her so alluring to some of Hollywood's biggest directors. After being nominated for an Oscar in 2011 for David Fincher's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"...
Read More »Netflix launched its David Fincher original series "House of Cards" today -- read our review here -- in its 13-episode first season entirety. For those without a subscription, the company has made the first episode, which Fincher directed in what is his first TV venture, available for free...
Read More »“Nobody’s a boy scout. Not even boy scouts,” drawls Kevin Spacey’s Francis “Frank” Underwood. As the mastermind congressman suggests, all players in Netflix’s “House of Cards” have sharp teeth and like the taste of blood. The new series, which is based on the original BBC production, is executive pr...
Read More »When Netflix announced that they would get into the scripted programming game, with three high profile projects all lined up for the first half of 2013 (including the Eli Roth literary-based Gothic horror project "Hemlock Grove" and the hopefully rapturous return of oddball comedy classic "Arrested ...
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