“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Trailer Unveils Anime Trip to Middle-earth

Fans got their first look at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past June, when none other than Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, was on hand to reveal 20 minutes of the film. But now, Warner Bros. has unveiled the official trailer to the rest of the world, and it’s a beaut.

Helmed by visionary director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex),

By The Credits  |  August 23, 2024
How Marvel got Robert Downey Jr. Back as Dr. Doom

When it was revealed during this past July’s Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU as the iconic villain Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, it was legitimately one of the most shocking pieces of news made at a Con ever. This is because Downey, the face of the MCU for a decade as Tony Stark/Iron Man (alongside Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers/Captain America), had his swan song in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame,

By The Credits  |  August 21, 2024
“The Room Next Door” Trailer Unveils Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s Latest

It’s a trio made in film lover heaven—Spanish writer/director extraordinaire Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton teamed up for the auteur’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. Sony Pictures Classics has shared the first peek from Almodóvar’s latest ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 2.

The Room Next Door is centered on former close friends and colleagues Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore),

By The Credits  |  August 20, 2024

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“It Ends With Us” Production Designer Russell Barnes on Crafting Visual Contrasts of Love & Control

Director Justin Baldoni’s film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel, It Ends With Us, in which Baldoni also stars as vicious neurosurgeon Ryle, is a surprise hit of the summer. The movie is a romance suffused with darkness, following Lily (Blake Lively as an adult, Isabela Ferrer as an adolescent) as she grows up and falls into a violent relationship that mirrors her parents (Amy Morton and Kevin McKidd).

As an adolescent in Maine looking to escape,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  August 20, 2024
Benetone Films Co-Founder Kulthep Narula on Taking Thailand’s Film Industry to the Next Level

From Hollywood to Bollywood, Benetone Films has provided production services for over 100 feature films, TV series, and 1,000 TV commercials in over two decades. The Bangkok-based company is also a key provider for foreign productions filmed on location in Thailand. Ten projects have been approved through Thailand’s incentive scheme, including 2020’s The Forgotten Army for Amazon Studios and 2022’s Blood & Treasure season 2 for CBS Studios.

In recent years,

By Silvia Wong  |  August 19, 2024

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“Deadpool & Wolverine” Costume Designer Graham Churchyard on Bringing Back Logan’s Yellow Suit

Deadpool & Wolverine is more than a comic book movie—it’s like 20 comic book movies slashed and smashed into one, pulling characters from the past, present, and future of Marvel and 20th Century Fox’s film history. Audiences witnessed these characters all coming together again in the void, some even making history in the process.

The void is a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) cross paths with familiar faces and new superheroes with stark new powers.

By The Credits  |  August 19, 2024
“Alien: Romulus” Images Reveal Last Look at the Legendary Xenomorph, Cinema’s Gnarliest Monster

The wait is over—director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus is here, and with its arrival comes the return of one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.

While the film stars Cailee Spaeny (coming in for rave reviews), alongside a cast of young stars like Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, and Aileen Wu, Alien: Romulus brings back the xenomorph, which for our money might be the most viscerally terrifying creature from any sci-fi film,

By The Credits  |  August 16, 2024
James Cameron Reveals a Secret “Terminator” Project & “Avatar” Sequel Updates

James Cameron is famously a very busy, very driven man. He’s currently working on Avatar 3, recently revealed as Avatar: Fire and Ash at Disney’s D23 Expo. The film is due in theaters on December 19, 2025, and will feature a more militant and hostile race of the Na’vi called the Ash People. This blockbuster will be followed by Avatar 4 and 5, 

By The Credits  |  August 14, 2024
New “Kraven the Hunter” Trailer Finds Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Marvel Villain Off the Leash

“My son, we are hunters, the greatest the world has ever known,” says Russell Crowe’s character at the top of the new trailer for director J.C Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. We find the son he’s speaking to, Sergei Kravinoff, aka Kraven the Hunter, in prison, but not for long. “The Hunter is a myth,” a fellow inmate tells Kraven—a costly mistake. Kraven proves that the myth of the Hunter has an ounce of truth and makes a bold,

By The Credits  |  August 14, 2024
Everything You Need to Know About “Alien” & “Aliens” Before You See “Alien: Romulus”

With the first reactions to Alien: Romulus calling it a genuinely terrifying sci-fi experience, we thought it was a good idea to give you some grounding in precisely where the film is situated before you brave the theater to see it. Romulus is the rare interquel, connecting what happened in the 57 years between the fateful Nostromo mission of 1979’s Alien and sole survivor Ellen Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) next mission,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  August 13, 2024
First “Alien: Romulus” Reactions Call it a Genuinely Terrifying Sci-Fi Horror Experience

The first reactions to director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus are here after 20th Century Studios unleashed the film on audiences at the world premiere in Los Angeles. Romulus is the eighth installment in the iconic sci-fi franchise, which began in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien and is set between that film and James Cameron’s thrilling 1986 sequel Aliens. 

To ensure he had his mythology right,

By The Credits  |  August 13, 2024

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“Deadpool & Wolverine” Screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick on Resurrecting Logan

Moviegoers apparently love an underdog, at least when it takes the form of Ryan Reynolds’ Avengers wannabe Wade “Deadpool” Wilson. Deadpool & Wolverine, the biggest R-rated movie of all time, with more than a billion at the global box office, co-stars Hugh Jackman and comes fully loaded with a slew of superheroes newly arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now that Disney owns the studio that once controlled the rights to X-Men and other comic book characters.

By Hugh Hart  |  August 12, 2024
Disney’s “Snow White” Trailer Reveals Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen in Live-Action Remake

We’ve finally got our first look at Disney’s Snow White.

Disney revealed the first look at its new take on the iconic classic at its D23 event this past Friday. Rachel Zegler stars in the title role, with Gal Gadot playing the Evil Queen. The film is directed by Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, and Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul add their musical chops to the film’s tunes.

By The Credits  |  August 12, 2024

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“Deadpool & Wolverine” Co-Writer Zeb Wells on Scripting Marvel’s Raunchiest, Wildest Film Ever

Even if Deadpool & Wolverine hadn’t become the year’s top-grossing movie, self-described comics nerd-turned-screenwriter Zeb Wells would have been thrilled just for the opportunity to furnish Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool character with snarky wise-cracks. Joining Reynolds, director Shawn Levy, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Wells, who previously penned “Venom: Dark Origin” and “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic books, says, “I was a huge fan of the first two Deadpool movies,

By Hugh Hart  |  August 9, 2024
Apple Original Films Planning Sequel to Brad Pitt & George Clooney Caper “Wolfs”

In writer/director Jon Watts’s upcoming original film Wolfs, which will make its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are finally sharing the screen together again for the first time in 16 years. Now, Apple Original Films has made a fresh deal with Watts to write, direct, and produce a sequel for Pitt and Clooney.

Wolfs is also slated to have a limited theatrical run,

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
The Epic Nicolas Cage “Deadpool & Wolverine” Cameo That Might Have Been

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet, move along to another part of the multiverse timeline.

As Deadpool & Wolverine slashes past one box office milestone after another, we’ve talked a lot about the stars who made surprise cameos in the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman epic. Some were from Fox’s Marvel era, like Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, who first appeared in 2003’s Daredevil and then again in 2005’s stand-alone Elektra.

By The Credits  |  August 7, 2024
From Ripley to Rain: New “Alien: Romulus” Teaser Connects Cailee Spaeny & Sigourney Weaver’s Heroines

“What was so great about what Sigourney did, it was incredible; it holds such an iconic space in cinematic history,” Cailee Spaeny says at the top of a new look at director Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien: Romulus. Spaeny stars as Rain Carradine, a young woman who makes a really, really bad decision when she tries to change up her life by joining a crew of space colonizers who go to scavenge a decommissioned space station to find the technology they need to finally leave their doomed planet.

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
New “Paddington in Peru” Trailer Finds the Beloved Bear Preparing to Head to South America

The critically acclaimed and beloved Paddington trilogy is set to conclude with the beloved British bear’s biggest adventure yet.  

Sony Pictures has just dropped an adorable teaser for the final film in the trilogy, the first new Paddington installment in 7 years since Paddington 2. The teaser finds Paddington attempting to get his passport photo taken, but it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. It’s brief,

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
Jennifer Garner on Returning to the Fight in “Deadpool & Wolverine”

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet, move along to another part of the multiverse timeline.

As Deadpool & Wolverine continues to conquer the global box office, many of the folks who made surprise cameos in the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman two-hander have spoken up about their involvement in the film. Channing Tatum, who finally got a chance to play Gambit,

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
“Deadpool & Wolverine”: Wesley Snipes Makes History While Chris Evans Goes Off

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool and Wolverine yet, move on to another story in the multiverse. 

Deadpool & Wolverine is a bonafide smash hit, slashing and F-bombing its way toward a billion-dollar haul while delighting audiences across the globe. The Shawn Levy-directed scorcher is being fueled, of course, by the long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, resurrected (in a way) from his noble death in James Mangold’s 2017 film Logan with a little help from the multiverse.

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024