Amazon Reveals First Image From “The Lord of the Rings” Series
In case you missed it, Amazon has, at long last, revealed the first image from The Lord of the Rings series that we’ve all been patiently waiting for. What’s more, we now know the release date. You can expect to head back to Middle-earth on September 2, 2022, with each new episode dropping weekly.
Filming for the long-awaited series just wrapped on August 2 in New Zealand, and the first image,
Let “The Green Knight” Director David Lowery Take You Through A Haunting Scene
Writer/director David Lowery is here to walk you through a scene in his ravishing, critically acclaimed The Green Knight thanks to a new “Anatomy of Scene” video from the New York Times. If you’re a reader of The Credits, then you know we’ve been tracking Lowery’s film since we first heard about it last year (it was, like so many other releases, delayed due to the pandemic).
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” Unleashes Official Trailer
The official trailer for Sony Pictures’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage reveals a serious symbiote vs symbiote brawl for the ages. While the last time we saw Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), he had thrown down with another symbiote, Riot, who was being hosted by the body of Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), it’s safe to say Eddie and his symbiote life partner Venom have an even tougher challenge ahead. They’ll be facing—and fighting—the titular king of the alien symbiote carnivores Carnage,
Marlee Matlin on Her New Film “CODA” & Its Refreshing Focus on a Deaf Family
Marlee Matlin is unquestionably the best-known and most successful deaf actor working in American film and television. She exploded on the scene with her Oscar-winning performance as Sarah in the 1986 movie Children of a Lesser God and has worked steadily ever since. From her Emmy-nominated performances in Law and Order, The Practice, Seinfield, and Picket Fences to the memorable characters she created for The L Word,
“Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings” Will Connect Directly to First “Iron Man”
“We’re going back to the very beginning of the MCU,” Kevin Feige says in a new Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings featurette. The Marvel Studios president confirms that the MCU’s first Asian superhero’s story will connect directly to the film that started it all, Jon Favreau’s 2008 Iron Man. “We have a keystone event, and that event is Tony Stark becoming Iron Man. He’s forced to build these weapons for an organization,
Feel the Power in New “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Teaser
A fresh Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings teaser has the kind of umph that’ll get your morning going, from the fight sequences to the soundtrack. The minute-long look is pure adrenalin, focusing on the core of the film’s by giving us a relentlessly paced montage of action sequences set around an epic intra-family faceoff. This is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian superhero, and with director Destin Daniel Cretton at the helm and Simu Liu starring as the titular Shang-Chi,
Sound Editor Trevor Gates on Keeping “Fear Street” Real, Upbeat, & Horrifying
Based on master of teen horror genre fiction R.L. Stine’s novels, Netflix released writer-director Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy over the past three successive Fridays. Opening with a neon-lit shopping mall murder spree, Part One – 1994 introduces the seemingly cursed teenaged residents of Shadyside and their luckier next-door neighbors in Sunnyvale. In Part Two – 1978, intrepid Deena (Kiana Madeira) and her nerdy younger brother,
“The Suicide Squad” Review Round-Up: James Gunn Crafts a Bloody Good Time
Writer/director James Gunn seems to have hit a home run in his first outing for the DC Extended Universe. With the review embargo lifted for The Suicide Squad, the reviews are starting to roll in, and they expand on the rapturous early buzz. Gunn’s film borrows a few characters from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad and then goes its own way, and the result is a bonkers, bloody,
“Jungle Cruise” Review Roundup: A Fun Family Adventure Led By Two Charismatic Leads
The reviews are in for Jungle Cruise, director starring Jaume Collet-Serra’s (The Shallows, Orphan) family-friendly adventure starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson. Spoiler alert—Blunt and Johnson are charismatic and have chemistry to spare, and Collet-Serra, a nimble director with a great sense for action, has done a good job of goosing the film with plenty of adventure.
Johnson stars as riverboat captain Frank Wolff,
A Special Look at Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story”
20th Century Studios has revealed a new special look at Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, his long-awaited adaptation of the legendary musical. This fresh glimpse gives us a nearly wordless teaser set to Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s song “Somewhere” from the original 1957 Broadway show. We see our two star-crossed lovers, Rachel Zegler as Maria and Ansel Elgort as Tony, caught between two warring gangs in mid-century New York,
“The Card Counter” Trailer Sees Oscar Isaac Going All In
There are filmmaker’s filmmakers, the kinds of writer/directors admired by their peers, filmmakers who aren’t household names but who quietly, patiently create a body of work that are esteemed by their colleagues and movie lovers alike. Writer/director Paul Schrader is one of those filmmakers, and the trailer for his latest work, The Card Counter, lays out why his new work is one of the most anticipated entrants to this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Winston Duke to Voice Batman in Podcast From “The Dark Knight” Screenwriter
Winston Duke has fared well in Wakanda and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so why not enter the DC universe and head to Gotham? The talented actor, who played M’Baku in Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame (and is expected to return for director Ryan Coogler’s sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and co-starred in Jordan Peele’s fantastic sophomore horror film Us with Lupita Nyong’o will now be voicing Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight screenwriter David S.
Stirring New “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” Trailer Brings The Ghouls & The Feels
If you grew up in the 1980s, the release of Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters in 1984 was likely a major, major moment in your childhood. Now, this Thanksgiving, the late, great Ivan Reitman’s son Jason Reitman is delivering a new installment in the franchise from his own original script. A brand new trailer from Sony Pictures ties the legacy of his father’s films to his own and manages to portion out nostalgia and fresh wonders.
“The Suicide Squad” Featurette Highlights Unique Approach to Superhero Storytelling
Writer/director James Gunn has promised that there will be real stakes for his misfits in The Suicide Squad, and in a new featurette released by Warner Bros., this case is made plain. “Amanda Waller is willing to sacrifice all of these lives for the betterment of mankind,” Gunn says at the opening. Amanda Waller is the operative played by Viola Davis, one of the few returning characters from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad.
“Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania” Begins Filming
It begins, as director Peyton Reed informs us via Twitter. He’s talking about filming for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third installment in his Ant-Man trilogy, which officially begins production today. Reed’s film is a crucial part of Marvel Studios’ Phase 4, which was launched with director Cate Shortland’s Black Widow.
The image Reed included in his tweet is a callback to the film that started Scott Lang’s journey,
Watch The Mysterious First Teaser For Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers”
The first teaser for writer/director Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers is here, which will open the Venice Film Festival on September 1 before being released into theaters this December. Almodóvar is once again working with his muse, Penélope Cruz, as well as a talented ensemble cast. Cruz plays Janis, a woman who meets Ana (Milena Smit) in the hospital as they’re both about to give birth. The wordless teaser manages to evoke the joy of bringing a baby into the world,
“Dune” Highlights Venice Film Festival’s Lineup
The 78th Venice Film Festival‘s official lineup has been announced, and it includes some of the most eagerly-anticipated blockbusters and some of the smaller but no less intriguing indies preparing for release. Venice follows Cannes, that other dazzling European film festival, and it’s nice to see that the competition between the two is back after the pandemic forced Cannes to cancel last year (Venice, meanwhile, managed to be the only top-tier festival to manage a physical event in 2020.)
Arguably the biggest film in Venice’s lineup is Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune,
Bond Is Back in New “No Time to Die” Teaser
In the pantheon of iconic movie lines, few have the potency of the three words that make up “Bond, James Bond.” It’s this classic introduction that animates a brand new No Time To Die teaser, the last mission for Daniel Craig as the deathless British superspy in one of the films we’ve been waiting for—and waiting for—since last year.
The teaser gives us a brief, punchy look at co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s long-awaited film,
New Clip From “The Green Knight” Reveals Dev Patel’s Headstrong Gawain
We’ve been very bullish on how excited we are for David Lowery’s The Green Knight since last year. Lowery’s immense skill has been evident in his previous films, like the haunting, quietly devasting A Ghost Story, so we were enthused when we heard he was taking on an Arthurian legend and that he cast Dev Patel as his leading man. Now, in a new clip from A24, we see Patel’s would-be knight,
“Free Guy” Early Reactions Call Ryan Reynolds Action-Comedy Surprise of the Summer
It shouldn’t come as that big a surprise that director Shawn Levy’s action-comedy Free Guy starring reliably hilarious leading man Ryan Reynolds is getting some very positive early reactions. Still, it’s not like the film was on most people’s radars as the potential surprise comedy hit of the summer, but that’s precisely how Levy and Reynolds’ film is being described. With a talented supporting cast and a go-for-broke style,
