“King Richard” Editor Pamela Martin on Finding The Film’s Rousing Rhythm
What if your life was planned out even before you were born? And if you followed it with hard work and a little perseverance, not only would you be successful, but you’d be considered one of the greatest at what you do. Would you sign up for it?
Director Reinaldo Marcus Green explores that very journey in King Richard (in theaters and on HBO Max now), a story, written by Zach Baylin, which shines an unwavering light on how Venus and Serena Williams became the tennis stars and cultural icons as we know them today...
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” Composer Rob Simonsen on Expanding the Supernatural Sonic Palette
The Ghostbusters are back, but they’ve gotten a lot younger. In Jason Reitman’s follow-up, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (in theaters now), to his father Ivan’s generation-defining classic, Egon Spengler’s (the late Harold Ramis) grandkids, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (McKenna Grace) get into the family trade after moving to the dirt farm, a dilapidated Oklahoma property where we learn that Spengler rode out his final years alone, warding off an unusually problematic ghost based in a nearby abandoned mine...
New “Hawkeye” Clip Shows Clint Barton Meeting the Parents
Yesterday, Marvel revealed a behind-the-scenes video focused on the comedic chemistry between Hawkeye stars Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld. Now, we’ve got an actual clip from the upcoming Disney+ series that shows us what happens when Kate Bishop (Steinfeld) brings home Clint Barton (Renner) to meet her parents. Well, technically, it seems they only showed up to use the bathroom, but the scene becomes an awkward mess either way for all involved.
The source of that awkwardness?...
“King Richard” Casting Director Rich Delia on Finding Venus & Serena
The new film King Richard (Warner Bros.) halted shooting in March 2020 during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Although his work was done, Rich Delia, one of the project’s casting directors, was “sitting at home freaking out” over one thing:
“What if one of the girls goes through a growth spurt?”
The girls are, of course, Venus and Serena Williams. King Richard tells the astonishing story of how Richard Williams struggled and then succeeded in transforming his daughters into two of the greatest tennis players of all time...
“Nightmare Alley” Trailer Reveals Guillermo del Toro’s Star-Studded Horror
Christmas is going to come a little early this year. The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has arrived, priming us for the maestro’s latest. The film boasts an insanely talented cast, headlined by Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett as a pair of mischievous souls who seem destined to create a nightmare for themselves and others. Cooper plays Stan Carlisle, a gifted carny who can manipulate people with nothing more than a few perfectly chosen words...
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Stunt Coordinator Andy Cheng on That Epic Bus Fight
Along with the rise of visual effects, old-school practical effects, the actual exploits of human beings creating incredible spectacles in real-time and real space, have also become near to magic. From Bruce Lee to Simu Liu, star of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and every Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise, and Daniel Craig in between, fight sequences, car chases, and action scenes of truly epic proportions have become high art...
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Official Trailer Reveals Even More Villains
“Ever since I got bitten by that spider, I’ve only had one week when my life felt normal—and that’s when you found out.” This is what Peter Parker (Tom Holland) says to MJ (Zendaya) at the start of the official trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Things are as bad as they’ve ever been for Peter when No Way Home begins. His mentor Tony Park has been gone for a while now, and now the whole world knows who he is thanks to Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) outing him—and framing him for murder—at the end of Far From Home. ...
How Composer Alexandre Desplat Put a “Dada-istic” Spin on “The French Dispatch”
Wes Anderson’s dollhouse-perfect motion pictures radiate an unmistakable sensibility brought to life by a remarkably consistent team of below-the-line talent. His last four movies featured contributions from the same production designer (Adam Stockhausen), the same cinematographer (Robert Yeoman), the same music supervisor (Randall Poster), the same costume designer (Milena Canonero ), and, crucially, the same composer: Alexandre Desplat. An eleven-time Oscar nominee and winner of two Academy Awards, Desplat teamed with Anderson on Fantastic Mr...
“Red Notice” Writer/Director Rawson Marshall Thurber on Re-Teaming With The Rock
In Red Notice, now streaming on Netflix in tandem with its theatrical run, a top FBI profiler (Dwayne Johnson) and a career criminal (Ryan Reynolds) find themselves unlikely partners to thwart a high-stakes heist and the alluring art thief (Gal Godot) at the center of it all. Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodge Ball, The Millers) wrote and directed the action-comedy, which reunites him with Johnson after the two worked together previously on Central Intelligence and Skyscraper...
First “Elvis” Teaser Gives Us a Glimpse of Austin Butler as the King
It’s been a minute since writer/director Baz Luhrmann has made a film. Now, he’s revealed a teaser for his upcoming movie Elvis, his first film since 2013’s The Great Gatsby, revealing just a few choice shots of Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as the King himself. The images play over a slightly sinister version of “Suspicious Minds” plays.
Elvis comes from a script from Luhrmann,...
Halle Berry’s Film “Bruised” Boasts First All-Female Hip-Hop Soundtrack
When Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised, hits theaters on November 17, it will boast the first-ever all-female hip-hop soundtrack. Berry, who also stars in the film as a disgraced former MMA fighter, Jackie Justice, seeking redemption in and outside the ring, sought the musical talents of some of hip-hop’s most exciting female stars, including Cardi B, HER, Rapsody, Baby Tate, Cardi, Saweetie, and Flo Milli. The full Bruised soundtrack is made up of 13 songs, six of which are originals written specifically for the movie,...
“Last Night in Soho” Costume Designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux’s Sinisterly Swinging Style
At the beginning of Edgar Wright’s thriller Last Night in Soho, budding fashion student Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) is living with her grandmother (Rita Tushingham) in Cornwall, wearing clothes she made herself and experiencing visions of her dead mother (Aimee Cassettari), a situation she and her grandmother seem to agree is just a part of who she is. But an acceptance to the London College of Fashion pulls her away to city life,...
“Belfast” Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle on Cutting Kenneth Branagh’s Deeply Personal Film
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, the Dublin-based editor for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which Focus Features released November 12, had just attended the film’s premiere in the Northern Ireland capital the day before speaking with The Credits.
“In London, people laughed more. The Belfast audience laughed too, but it wasn’t as loud,” she says. “After the screening, I spoke with a man who said he enjoyed it but it was very emotional because he was also crying.”
Ní Dhonghaíle understood the feeling...
“Predator” Prequel Reveals Title & Release Window
As the Disney+ Day celebrations continue (the streaming service launched on this day, November 12, in 2019), one big reveal the studio has made has to do with the new Predator movie coming our way. Without further ado, we give you the prequel’s title—Prey—and its release date sometime in the summer of 2022 on Hulu. The film, which up until today had been called Skulls, will do something none of the Predator sequels and spinoffs have done—take us back to a time before the 1987 original...
Jam With The Beatles In the First “The Beatles: Get Back” Clip
What better way to start your Friday than a little Beatles with your coffee. In the first clip from Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Beatles: Get Back, you’ll see the fab four playing “I’ve Got a Feeling,” in footage that was first captured 50 years ago. “I’ve Got A Feeling” eventually ended up on the Beatles’ seminal—and final—album “Let It Be.” So, why are we just seeing it now? That footage, along with 150 hours of audio, was locked in a vault for half a century...
“Belfast” Writer/Director Kenneth Branagh’s Riveting Return to his Childhood
Writer/director Kenneth Branagh has mined his childhood experiences in Belfast to create a riveting, sumptuous film. Belfast (opening November 12), which is shot in black and white, captures a time in the summer of 1969 directly following the first riots in the northern part of the city often cited as the beginning of the Troubles. Branagh and his family were in the thick of it, and the film is shot from his perspective through the 9-year-old character Buddy,...
Director Eva Husson on Capturing Grief & Trauma in “Mothering Sunday”
Loss and grief permeate Mothering Sunday, a class-crossed romance set in 1924 England as it reels from the collective trauma of the Great War. Director Eva Husson says the movie’s somber mood matched that of the cast and crew since the film was shot in 2020 between pandemic lockdowns.
“I think all of us felt deeply connected to the emotions of the story. It had an effect on us. We were going through the pandemic so it was surreal how close it mirrored the sense of grief in our lives,...
DP Edu Grau on Using Light & Shadow to Play With Skin Tone in “Passing”
Set in 1920s Harlem and based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel of the same name, Passing, actress Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut tracks the relationship of two light-skinned Black women, Irene and Clare, who’ve taken opposite paths toward safety and recognition. Former childhood acquaintances, a chance run-in reveals the women’s abiding interest in one another, and as they reinsert themselves into each other’s lives, the differences between Irene and Clare take their toll on the stability each woman had achieved...
“Being the Ricardos” Official Trailer Reveals Aaron Sorkin’s Lucy & Desi Drama
The official trailer for writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos is here, giving us a longer glimpse at Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as the legendary Hollywood power couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Sorkin’s film will follow Lucy and Desi during a particularly tumultuous week of production on their groundbreaking, massively popular show I Love Lucy. Lucy finds herself at the center of a political smear campaign and the couple’s romantic and professional life comes under unbearable scrutiny—all while they need to put on a show...
“Jagged” Trailer Reveals HBO’s Alanis Morissette Doc
“People would say, ‘wow, you’re so braved, you’re so empowered,'” Alanis Morissette says at the top of the official trailer for HBO’s Jagged, a documentary that tracks her rise to stardom, “I can’t write all these songs without obviously being disempowered,” she adds. For those of us who came of age in the 90s, Alanis Morissette really did seem like a force of nature, and her album “Jagged Little Pill” seemed to come out of nowhere in 1995 and change,...
