Christopher Miller: Last News

Regardless of the movie industry’s ongoing turmoil amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, one fact remains unalterable: Hollywood loves a franchise.

The best elements of Apple TV’s “The Afterparty” exist in a space between murder mystery and flat-out genre parody. The concept is wonderfully clever: Every episode uses a different genre to dig deeper into a murder investigation that largely takes place in a single setting.

Nowadays, writers often bemoan the decline of the studio comedy. The cause has been variously attributed to the rise of streamers, shifting cultural attitudes, and Hollywood’s abandonment of mid-budget films.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments and surprises throughout “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” now playing in theaters. For months, the directors of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” had been working exhaustively on a critical sequence that launches the movie’s second act. For the first time in his life, the animated film’s hero — Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a.k.a. the Spider-Man of Earth-1610 — enters a different dimension: Earth-50101, a.k.a. Mumbattan, a dazzling amalgamation of New York City and Mumbai. Within minutes, Miles and his BFF from 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), encounter that world’s Spider-Man, Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni), an Indian teenager who received his powers not via spider bite, but through magic. The sequence launches them all through the vertiginously vertical metropolis, as they frantically try to stop the film’s villain, the Spot (Jason Schwartzman), from using Mumbattan’s supercollider to increase his dimension-hopping abilities.

Back in 2002, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller teamed up with Bill Lawrence to release a new animated series, “Clone High.” The series ran for one season, was cancelled, and then largely forgotten after. But then a funny thing happened.

Sony Pictures Animation has delivered the first trailer for their upcoming release Connected, which comes to cinemas later on in the year. The feature animation is produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and will be released in September.