September 18, 2025

FIRE UP THE FERRARI: Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice Movie Lands August 2027 Release Date, Casting Underway.

Director Joseph Kosinski‘s Miami Vice movie is a go.

The Universal Pictures event pic will hit theaters on Aug. 6, 2027, the studio announced Wednesday. Casting is currently underway, with shooting set to begin next year.

Kosinski, who is coming off directing back-to back blockbusters — F1: The Movie and Top Gun: Maverick — will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami in a new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.

Kosinski will film the movie for Imax, much as he did with F1 and Top Gun, in order to enhance the sights and sounds of the iconic series.

Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two undercover Miami police officers known for their love of pastel suits. (“The ambition of the show was to break the form of everything that had come before,” series executive producer Michael Mann told The Hollywood Reporter last year of the series, which ran from 1984-90 on NBC.) Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell starred in a 2006 feature of the same name that Mann directed, which earned $163.7 million globally.

The film is produced by Dylan Clark (The Batman) and Kosinski and written by Dan Gilroy and Eric Singer, based on characters created by Yerkovich. Kosinski has been kicking the tires on the project since last year, working with longtime collaborator Singer to develop the project.

Related: Miami Vice at 40: An Oral History.

Yes, it’s yet another example that Hollywood is completely devoid of new ideas, but I’ll be curious to read the reviews for the next big screen reincarnation of Vice. However, we must also accept that there is absolutely no way it will measure to this upcoming ’80s-era reboot, which was announced last month: Netflix Collars William Shatner Cop Series T.J. Hooker For Action Comedy Movie.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IS THE LONGEVITY INDUSTRY OVERHYPED? Yes. That said, if you wait until stuff is solidly established, you’ll already be old.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LATE-NIGHT TV IS TRULY DEAD — and you can only blame egotistical, politically obsessed Kimmel and Colbert themselves.

On Wednesday night, Kimmel was put on ice by ABC. Local affiliates had said they wouldn’t air “Jimmy Kimmel! Live” because of his vile monologue suggesting Charlie Kirk’s killer was a MAGA true believer.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel had said on-air Monday.

But it was his grotesque commentary that was hitting a new low.

His pronouncement was well out of step with what we already knew to be true about the shooter’s affiliation. Yet Kimmel chose to dive into a conspiracy theory to exploit a horrific political assassination.

If the ideologies were reversed, virtuous lefties would have been red in the face, screaming: “That’s disinformation!”

The reality is, this moment of reckoning was self-inflicted — and inevitable. For the last decade, Kimmel and Colbert have decided that viewers don’t need chuckles and interviews with the celeb du jour.

We don’t even need jokes.

Nope, we need to be lectured on politics and told that one side of the country, those who voted Republican, is inherently evil and destructive.

To be fair, that model may have bought their shows an extra decade of life, but in an era of streaming and YouTube, late night chat shows are being retired one by one by the legacy television networks, and will likely be replaced by a product far cheaper and easier to produce, such as this stopgap(?) replacement: ABC Airs Celebrity Family Feud After Pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! Amid Charlie Kirk Backlash.

Posted at 6:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROGER SIMON: Soul Corruption: Tucker, Candace and Steve.

I didn’t want to write about this. Oh, how I didn’t want to write about this. I was hoping it would just go away, like the worst of bad dreams.

But it kept recurring. And growing worse, almost to the point of metastasizing into an incurable tumor, a pancreatic cancer of the soul.

Would they soon be accusing us of murdering gentile children to obtain blood for our matzoh as they did in Norwich, England, 1144? Or would they burn the Talmud as was done in Paris when all books were hand written by scribes, 1242?

After all, we were now being accused of being behind the murder of Charlie Kirk with no more evidence than that deranged blood libel from the Middle Ages.

And, yes, I know the Democrats are a hundred times worse. The execrable Jimmy Kimmel was just pulled off the air by ABC for telling the most obvious lie about the Charlie Kirk assassination and he’s far from the worst of them, not even close to the Mamdani “globalize the intifada” crew.

Even so I didn’t want to write about it. I had promised myself, following the advice of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and others, that the best, most effective road forward was always to stay positive.

Speaking of which, it was that half-Jewish, half-gentile songwriting team of Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer who wrote “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,” based on a sermon by a black man, Charles Manuel “Sweet Daddy” Grace , that became a big hit for Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters in the middle of World War II (1944).

So positivity can come from all quarters in the worst of times. You just have to pay attention to life and the right path.

Nevertheless—and sorry it took so long to get here—sometimes you’ve just gotta say ya basta, enough already.

So roll back with me roughly three years ago this coming winter. My wife and I were sitting in a small bistro on a posh island on the Gulf side of Florida with Tucker Carlson. I had texted Tucker, who spent the cold months on the island, that we were going to be there and hoped to have lunch.

We had a nearly three-hour meal together, gabbing and having a fine time, in agreement about everything under the sun. Tucker was great fun and I thought we were becoming better friends. In fact, we texted every week or so thereafter and he quite graciously gave me a stellar blurb for my then new book, American Refugees, that became the name of this Substack. Because of his fame, the publisher put that blurb on the front cover of the book, rather than the back where they usually appear. It remains there to this day, faute de mieux.

And then the roof fell in.

Read the whole thing.

 

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

LIFE AFTER TELEVISION: TV expert reveals the next late-night host to get the boot after Kimmel suspension and who will be the last man standing.

Seth Meyers is the next late-night talk host to face the axe after Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension, a TV expert has predicted.

Professor Robert Thompson, who founded the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, shared his gloomy forecast with the Daily Mail a day after Kimmel’s show was pulled over comments he made about Charlie Kirk.

‘There is a theme going on here,’ Thompson said, discussing Kimmel’s ‘indefinite’ suspension and the looming cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

He pointed to the clear shift away from the politically charged jokes of late-night hosts like Colbert, Kimmel and Meyers.

‘It could very well be that [Jimmy] Fallon is the last guy standing,’ Thompson said.

‘Meyers is the one guy doing this type of comedy who hasn’t been fired yet. These last stories indicate that era is over.

‘I can see a period in the very near future where Fallon is the last franchise left – the oldest franchise, at that.’

Thompson went on to compare Fallon’s ‘apolitical’ approach to that of late-night legends Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

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If Kimmel doesn’t return to ABC, ‘NBC will be the only broadcast network with comedy people doing this type of format’ after Colbert departs CBS next year., Thompson said.

He added that linear television had already been deteriorating before the pandemic, and that for ‘all of the next generation who grew up watching Colbert and Kimmel, broadcast television isn’t the place for them.’

‘Substack and YouTube is where the action is and where the audiences are. Every decision made by legacy companies is indicating that.

Iowahawk issues a timely note as to what viewers are still using television to consume:

As always, be careful if you run into anyone who actually still gets their news from TV:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN ANALOGIES:

So Charlie Kirk is Hitler, Trump is Hitler, and every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge is Hitler. And concurrently, exercise, low crime, secure borders, and Sydney Sweeney’s ta-tas are all fascism. In February, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan absurdly claimed to Marco Rubio that JD Vance “was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Mark Steyn responded, “I did not think it was possible to despise the ‘mainstream’ media more than I already did. In a society thoroughly moronized by Brain-Dead Brennan and her ilk, Hitler is the sole remaining historical figure anybody’s heard of. And they can’t even get that right.”

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW IT STARTED: CNN Clown to Obama: ‘Go Gangsta Against Your Foes.’

—JammieWearingFool, February 11th, 2010.

How it’s going: CNN: ‘Wannabe Mob Boss’ Trump Brings Us ‘Dangerously Close to State-Run Media.’

In the context of a discussion of the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show and related matters, today’s CNN This Morning aired a clip of Rep. Daniel Goldman [D-ActBlue Jeans] calling President Trump a “wannabe mob boss.”

Meghan Hays, a former Biden aide and a CNN analyst, agreed with Goldman, then proceeded to claim:

“We are running dangerously close to state-run media . . . We are losing our democracy. They’re dismantling democracy by doing this.”

I need more context here. In CNN-land, where the network made their bones fluffing Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong Il, is this suddenly a bad thing now? The Mote in CNN’s Mini-Cam.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SASHA STONE: Robert Redford Takes the Best of Hollywood With Him.

The ending of Quiz Show is memorable too, but not in the same way as Ordinary People or A River Runs Through It. It is not cathartic but ominous. It marked the era where everything began to change, where the Left planted the seeds that would ultimately lead to the Obama presidency and the utopia we built in his image.

The conclusion here about quiz shows is applied to politics, too. That was all of us waking up in the 1990s amid the therapy era, which Ordinary People helped launch. This depicts the cynicism of this age, or what they call in the Fourth Turning, the “unraveling.” It is cynical and hopeless, which helps explain why the Obama era became almost a religion, or at the very least, took the place of religion.

What I always loved about these three movies was how Redford worked out his own duality of being two people. He was the movie star, the golden boy, but he was also someone who saw himself fading into the background, the watcher, the introvert.

Read the whole thing. Exit quote: “Hollywood no longer makes movies like these. The best of what they ever did will die with Robert Redford. What they make now are endless apologies and virtue signals at best, and agonizing lectures at worst.”

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:

QED:

Frum isn’t the only center-left person with a serious case of amnesia:

Meanwhile, as with Colbert jawboning against Trump, having the FCC to blame allows ABC/Disney to simultaneously terminate a financial sinkhole and play the martyr while they clean house: Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings were plummeting before ABC suspended him for Charlie Kirk comments.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

JOHN NOLTE: Unity Achieved: MAGA Supports Democrat Boycott of Disney/ABC over Jimmy Kimmel Cancellation.

Democrats want unity, and I think a work stoppage at Disney/ABC is something that can finally bring us together.

“Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated,” Marvel director Wajahat Ali wrote on X. “Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott.”

He added: “Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing.”

Jimmy Kimmel — a uniter, not a divider! “Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.”

No, really, take as much time as you need. Make the Hollywood strike of 2023 seem like an extended holiday weekend, and get the viewers and the moviegoers involved, too:

Exit quote from Nolte: “Kimmel committed an ethical breach of conduct and a blood libel. So, now the left-wing blacklisters are cornered. The reaping phase has begun. And all they can do — tee hee — is target one of their own (Disney/ABC) for annihilation as they move over to our side of the aisle raging against cancel culture. This is glorious.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOUSING TO NOWHERE EARMARK: Buried in that lengthy list of nearly 14,000 earmarks sought by senators is one for Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski for $2 million in housing project funding. Nothing unusual about that, so far.

Then we learn that the South Naknek housing project is for a village with 67 residents. The place is so remote that the few kids living there must use an airplane to get to and from school! Chuck Schumer has an earmark that will make the New York Met Opera sing, and Hawaii’s two Democrat senators, Hirono and Schattz, want nearly $7 million for a bike path. Details here in The Washington Stand.  

Posted at 3:56 pm by Mark Tapscott

HOW WE GOT HERE:

Obama was also prepared to aim much lower if it suited him:

And then there was Obama’s third term, or at the very least, the Obama-era retreads in “Biden’s” administration:

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Like Golfballs Through A Garden Hose…This is the streaming suck of our lives.

Director Spike Lee and Denzel Washington represent one of the most iconic director/movie star pairings in modern Hollywood history. There was a time not so long ago when a Spike Lee/Denzel Washington movie would have been a massive cultural event. And yet here I was in a room with a group of very smart movie people who had no idea that “Highest 2 Lowest”, this duo’s fifth collaboration and their first in almost 20 years, had just been released in theaters.

Why?

The answer, in a word, is “streaming.”

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Apple and A24 were trying to convince you to hold two contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time…

  1. “Highest 2 Lowest” is a great movie worthy of Oscar consideration, but also…
  2. “Highest 2 Lowest” isn’t good enough to be worth a night out… don’t bother paying a babysitter, making dinner reservations and going out to see it in a theater… better to just wait for it to be available on your TV where you can watch with the lights on while scrolling X, yelling at the kids to be quiet in the next room, and finally resorting to watching the movie with the subtitles on because the neighbors’ house party is going off next door.

Thanks to the ubiquity of “streaming suck,” “Washington” describes the movie industry being in the Glenn Close Fatal Attraction “I won’t be ignored!!!!” moment of its existence. Her (spoiler alert) shock return at the climax of the movie is akin to what Rob Long describes in the new issue of Commentary as the stereotypical “third act boo” scene in slasher movies: In Show Business, No One Can Hear You Scream.

We’re all looking for signs that this terrible slasher movie is over and we can go back to making romantic comedies and adult dramas. But the third-act boos keep coming.

So when the final installment of Tom Cruise’s mega-smash Mission: Impossible series opened with a strong weekend box office and generally positive audience response, it must have felt like everything was going to be okay to Paramount Studios—itself exhausted and bleeding from a yearlong takeover wrangle. The movie made nearly $600 million worldwide, which sounds awfully good until you remember it cost about $400 million to make. Even the bankable moviemaking genius of Tom Cruise couldn’t escape the third-act boo.

And when the re-envisioned Marvel superhero movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps opened this summer to one of the strongest weekend box office takes in recent memory, it wasn’t just the employees of Marvel Studios and its parent company Disney that celebrated. All of show business set aside its usual bitter jealousies and rejoiced: The Summer Blockbuster is back! The next weekend, though, the movie tanked. Attendance dropped 66 percent. Boo!

About the only unalloyed bright spot is the performance of the latest installment of the DC franchise, Superman, which hit the $500 million mark early in its run, despite some headwinds in the international market. Superman is like the teenage girl in the third-tightest T-shirt: safe, for now. But that just makes the entertainment business more jittery and anxious for signs. The foundational economic rule of Hollywood is Find something that works and run it into the ground. Hard to do when nothing is working with any consistency. Hard to do when the layoffs are continuing, when streaming services are being sold or shut down, when no one in the business knows exactly what success looks like.

Washington concludes, “The only way out is with event movies, the old-fashioned hype machine and exclusive theatrical windows that are long enough that audiences won’t wait to see the movies they are excited about… which is the one thing the streamers can’t, and won’t deliver. It’s a shame we had to blow up the whole theatrical movie model to discover how well it worked.”

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE: Mazie Hirono Is Suddenly Concerned About the Differences Between Men and Women. Guess Why.

The most interesting part of this exchange, however, is Hirono’s accidental admission that men and women have physiological differences. After years of Democrats telling us there’s no difference between men and women, and their rabid support of letting men play in women’s sports.

In fact, Mazie Hirono herself blocked “anti-trans” legislation that would have prohibited men from competing in women’s sports back in 2022. During her remarks, Hirono said Republicans were “hurl[ing] insulting lies about transgender girls dominating sports” before calling the bans “deeply harmful” to “transgender girls.”

So we have to ask Senator Hirono, which is it — are women at a physiological disadvantage compared to men, or is it a lie that men dominate women’s sports?

It’s too bad Patel didn’t ask Hirono, “What is a women?” Her response would have added to all of the other leftist sputtering that Patel left in his wake today.

Meanwhile, “In an unexpected pivot, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) seized on Hirono’s remarks to make a broader argument about gender-based standards — and to advocate preserving sex-based distinctions in areas such as women’s sports:”

“Before I begin, I want to thank Sen. Hirono for what she said, acknowledging that there are physical differences between men and women,” Britt said. “I think she was making a case that there should be different standards … and that’s why we continue to say we should have biological men in men’s sports and biological women in women’s sports.”

Heh, indeed.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll