La collaboration entre les créateurs de For All Mankind et Apple TV+ ne va pas s'arrêter en si bon chemin.

Satisfaits de leur partenariat, Apple et Legendary comptent étendre l'univers de Godzilla et compagnie sur la plateforme de streaming.

Apple TV+ s’apprête à nous en mettre encore plein les mirettes avec sa nouvelle série de science-fiction : Dark Matter . Basée sur le roman éponyme de Blake Crouch , cette petite pépite promet de nous faire voyager dans les tréfonds du multivers . Et si j’en crois la bande annonce, ça va décoiffer !

Au cœur de l’intrigue, on retrouve Jason Dessen, un brillant physicien interprété par le talentueux Joel Edgerton , qui un soir, alors qu’il rentre tranquillement chez lui, se fait kidnapper et se retrouve projeté dans une réalité alternative complètement dingue. Le voilà plongé dans un labyrinthe de vies parallèles qu’il aurait pu mener, sauf que pour retrouver son existence d’origine et sa famille, il va devoir affronter le pire ennemi qui soit : lui-même !

Aux côtés de Joel Edgerton, on retrouve une brochette d’acteurs de haute volée comme Jennifer Connelly , oscarisée pour sa performance dans Un homme d’exception qui incarne un personnage clé dans la quête de Dessen. Le reste du casting n’est pas en reste avec Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi et le jeune prodige Oakes Fegley. Bref, du beau monde pour nous en mettre plein la vue.

Mais ce n’est pas qu’une simple série de SF avec des multivers comme on a en déjà vu plein. C’est surtout une réflexion profonde sur les choix qu’on fait dans la vie et les chemins qu’on ne prend pas. J’espère que vous méditerez là dessus, hein ^^.

Bref, rendez-vous le 8 mai 2024 sur Apple TV+ pour un double épisode qui s’annonce déjà épique . La série comptera 9 épisodes au total, diffusés chaque mercredi, de quoi nous tenir en haleine jusqu’au dénouement final le 26 juin.

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Depuis le 29 mars, Apple propose aux propriétaires de Vision Pro un mini-documentaire de cinq minutes dans des stades de foot, sur les playoffs de la MLS (le championnat américain). Une vidéo que Numerama a regardée et qui redéfinit complètement la manière de suivre un match.

Girls State tracks the high-schoolers taking part in a mock government simulation just as a devastating supreme court ruling is about to change everything

Nearly seven years ago, the film-makers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine went to Texas to see government in action, albeit one run by teenagers . The country was well into the Trump administration – Muslim bans and kids in cages dominated the headlines – when the two began filming an annual American Legion convention known as Boys State, a weeklong mock government simulation for 1,000 high school boys, in the summer of 2018. The duo tried to film a similar state program for girls, but were rebuffed; they ended up with Boys State , an incisive Apple TV+ documentary that captured the chaos, promise and peril of young masculinity in the US and went on to win the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

But what if the girls were present? How well can a government simulation work without women? “There was unfinished business at Boys State,” McBaine told the Guardian, “which is that every time a cluster of boys or the legislature or even candidates at Boys State brought up the topic of abortion, it got very awkward very quickly. Because to their credit, many of the boys felt like it was not okay to talk about that issue without girls in the room.” The two wanted a Girls State, where such issues would be top of mind. “What we didn’t know, timing-wise, was how top of mind it was going to be,” said McBaine.

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Abraham Lincoln’s killer flees justice in a ponderous drama; four mothers fight back in a chilling sex crime hoax doc. Plus, the welcome return of Irish comedy drama The Dry, and degrees get the third degree

Manhunt Apple TV+
Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax (Channel 4) | channel4.com
The Dry ITVX
Is University Really Worth It? (BBC Two) | iPlayer

I’m always ready to be educated by television, but should it feel like actual homework? Monica Beletsky’s new seven-part Apple TV+ drama, Manhunt , sounded compelling. Based on James L Swanson’s book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer , it opens with the 1865 assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln. At Ford’s theatre in Washington, actor John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle) shot Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) in the head, jumped on to the stage (breaking his leg), then escaped with help from Confederate sympathisers.

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La fin des contenus sans publicités va peut-être sonner, lorsqu'Apple TV+ aura son abonnement dédié.

Apple a investi 700 millions de dollars pour produire trois films à destination du grand écran. L'entrée de la marque à la pomme dans le monde très fermé du cinéma est-elle un échec ?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star on playing an astronaut, the significance of her surname and the time Orlando Bloom broke her nose

Born Noomi Norén, the 44-year-old Swedish actor Noomi Rapace left home aged 15 to study acting in Stockholm. She broke through globally in 2009 when she starred in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo . She has since appeared in films including Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus and the Icelandic folk horror Lamb . Rapace can currently be seen in Constellation , an eight-part Apple TV+ thriller in which she plays an astronaut, Jo Ericsson, who returns to Earth after a disaster in space to find parts of her life and her family subtly upturned. Rapace lives between London and Lisbon and has a 21-year-old son.

In Constellation , you’re often not sure, as a viewer, whether what you’re watching is real or not. How would you describe the show?
It’s all real… some sort of real. And that’s what Jo is trying to figure out: has she lost her mind? Is she psychotic? Is it a huge conspiracy? That’s what is so brilliant about Peter Harness’s writing: he doesn’t feed us easy solutions or truths. It feels like looking into a broken mirror. And I like watching films and shows that have that complexity, because it doesn’t treat me like I’m stupid.

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