The film The Current War shows how the modern world became powered with electricity, but parts of the movie's story are more accurate than others.

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This could have been a real bright idea.

A little over two years ago, I saw The Current War at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. I did not care for the film and found that despite the impressiveness of the craft, the story felt unfocused as it tried to weave in too many themes without really finding a cohesive narrative to build upon. When the film’s distributor, The Weinstein Company, collapsed due to the sexual assault allegations against its co-founder Harvey Weinstein, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was able to recut his movie. Although I don’t perfectly remember a movie I saw over two years …

The Current War: Director's Cut avoids the negative score given to the previous version of the film after its premiere at TIFF in 2017.

We interview The Current War stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, and Tuppence Middleton about the process of making the film.

We interview The Current War director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon about his process making the film and working with cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung.

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We've got a biopic, a cop thriller, and a campy horror film.

Newly formed 101 Studios has released the official trailer for their debut title The Current War, and it's a beauty. Based on the epic story of Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), three brilliant visionaries in a cutthroat competition to literally light up the world, the film follows their race to claim the elusive prize. Center stage is Edison, whose plans of bringing electricity to Manhattan are upended when Westinghouse and Tesla announce they have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America, sparking one of the first and greatest corporate …

It's been quite the wait for this one.

The Current War, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s film about the battle over electric current between Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 where it was poorly received and then its release was plunged further in doubt when its distributor, The Weinstein Company, imploded. The film has been stuck in limbo since then, but then it was picked up by newly formed 101 Studios, which gave Gomez-Rejon permission to create a new cut of the movie. 101 Studios has now announced that the new cut will hit theaters in …