The Big Star Wars Questions the D23 Expo Could Answer
The Walt Disney Company is hosting their biannual D23 Expo this upcoming weekend in Anaheim. Like Comic-Con in San Diego, the D23 Expo is the place for big reveals, only these are projects solely from Disney, Pixar and Marvel. Those three studios produce more than enough, of course, to fuel a weekend full of happy surprises. We got a ton of Marvel news at Comic-Con this past July, and while there’s likely to be fresh information coming from D23 from Marvel and Pixar,...
Brad Pitt His Deep Space in Ad Astra‘s Gorgeous IMAX Trailer
If you’re not excited for James Gray’s sci-fi epic Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt, we suggest you board this particular shuttle. A new trailer for the film gives you plenty of reasons to be pumped up and suggests that you should probably see it in IMAX if you can. Gray, Pitt and the rest of the cast and crew have gone all-in on their space epic. It comes from an original script by Gray and writer Ethan Gross and follows Pitt’s Major Roy McBride,...
It: Chapter Two Early Reactions Praise Gruesomely Ambitious Sequel & Standout Bill Hader
It: Chapter Two has now screened, which means all those early reactions are flooding online. Twitter, of course, is the central hive of first impressions, and we’ve compiled a bunch for you here. One of the things we’ve seen over and over is that Bill Hader is just really good in this film. This is…not at all surprising. The reactions are mostly positive and speak to the hugely ambitious scope of Andy Muschietti’s two-part It adaptation...
The Matrix 4 is a Reality! Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss & Lana Wachowski Returning
Time to take the red pill. While we’ve long thought that Warner Bros. would be rebooting The Matrix for a new generation, meaning, it would restart the seminal sci-fi franchise rather than carry on with the storyline that began with Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s game-changing 1999 film, we’re happy that that’s not the case. Variety reports that The Matrix 4 is the film Warner Bros. will be releasing, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss returning as Neo and Trinity respectively,...
The Official Title for the Next James Bond Film Revealed
Bond 25 has its official title. The name for the 25th installment of the venerable franchise is No Time to Die, calling back to previous Bond films that have referenced the grimmest of fates, Die Another Day, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Live and Let Die.
The announcement came via Twitter and YouTube. Bond himself, Daniel Craig, cuts across the frame looking dapper in his tux...
The Trailer for Scott Cooper & Guillermo del Toro’s Antlers Looks Legitimately Terrifying
A creepy premise, a ton of talent on screen and behind the camera, and a ripping first trailer—yup, we’re excited about Antlers. Director Scott Cooper (Hostiles) and the great Guillermo del Toro (here as a producer and guiding spirit) have combined their talents to adapt Nick Antosca (Channel Zero)’s short story “The Quiet Boy.” The results, as far as what you’ll see in the trailer,...
Spider-Man: Far From Home Returning to Theaters With Extra Action Scene
Spider-Man is swinging back into theaters. Spider-Man: Far From Home, which became Sony’s top-grossing film of all time after topping Sam Mendes’ and Daniel Craig’s excellent Bond caper Skyfall (2012), is headed back to theaters over Labor Day weekend. Like Avengers: Endgame before it, Far From Home will come back boasting new footage. In this case, it’ll include a brand new action scene. What that scene is, of course, is being kept under wraps...
How Ready or Not’s Editor Amped up the Emotional Stakes
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or Not has been getting rave reviews. They’ve taken a simple childhood game and turned it on its head, to devilishly delightful results.
Samara Weaving plays Grace, a young woman enjoying her wedding day. She joins her husband Alex (Mark O’Brien), whose wealthy family built their empire on board games. Grace must take part in a tradition for newcomers: playing a family game. Drawing from a deck of cards,...
Sylvester Stallone Shares new Rambo: Last Blood Image Ahead of new Teaser
We are slowly but surely nearing Rambo: Last Blood‘s release, which will give us Sly Stallone’s final turn as the tortured, battle-weary John Rambo. In a new image Stallone shared on Instagram, we see Rambo on horseback—covered in blood. Stallone has promised a fresh teaser sometime today. Here’s to hoping his horse makes it through whatever’s to come.
We’ve been following Stallone’s emotionally scarred Vietnam journey for a long, long time...
Watch Kristen Stewart in First Trailer for new Thriller Underwater
Kristen Stewart has so successfully navigated her post-Twilight career that any film she’s in warrants interest. She has starred in a bevy of excellent films, including working with the great Olivier Assayas on two recent films; Personal Shopper (2016) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014). Stewart will be an Angel later this year—she’s one of the leads in Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming Charlie’s Angels reboot due in theaters on November 15,...
How Stunt Man Gary Kent Inspired Brad Pitt’s Character in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
Gary Kent broke all his ribs when he got run over by a cavalcade of motorcycles in The Vengeful Seven and cut his arm on a shattered shot glass a year earlier in 1967 during a Hell’s Angels on Wheels bar fight. “I wrapped my arm in a towel and on the way to the hospital we stopped for a couple of scotch and waters, so I was in a pretty good mood when they gave me 36 stitches,”...
Black Widow Casts 7’2″ Bodybuilder The Dutch Giant
If you’re anything like us, you’ve re-watched Avengers: Endgame recently and found yourself once again very sad (super belated spoiler alert) at the death of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. Then again, if you’re like us, you’re gladdened by the fact that Johansson’s super-assassin will be back soon—next May 1, 2020, to be exact—in her stand-alone film Black Widow. Now we’ve learned that bodybuilder Olivier Richters, better known as The Dutch Giant, has been cast in the film...
See how They Made the Cap vs. Cap Fight in Avengers: Endgame
It was one of the greatest fights in Marvel Cinematic Universe history. There, we said it. Think about how many fights there have been in the MCU, and then think about how many you enjoyed more than watching Captain America fight Captain America in Avengers: Endgame? Not that many, right? Now we have a fantastic behind-the-scenes video from Marvel showing us exactly how they pulled off this iconic brawl.
The fight is yet more proof that not only was a tremendous amount of visual effects work required to pull off the Russo Brothers’...
New Joker Images + Joaquin Phoenix on his Inspiration for the Laugh
We’re getting very close to finding out a whole lot more about Todd Phillips‘ Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the most iconic villain of them all. Joker will be making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in two weeks, which means we’ll be getting critics’ reactions by the end of the month. The little we do know—like the fact that the film isn’t based on any existing comic book storylines—is intriguing...
Voice Over Artist Roy Samuelson on Bringing Films like Us & Spider-Man: Far From Home to the Blind
Voice over artist Roy Samuelson has been heard by millions of blind and low vision audiences in some of this year’s biggest films. Samuelson’s job is to narrate a special audio track in which he voices the visuals that are relevant to the plot. There are currently 26 million adults in America who are blind or low vision, so the work folks like Samuelson is doing is crucial. Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu currently include audio description,...
Emma Nelson on Nabbing her First Film Role Opposite Cate Blanchett in Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
It takes a special kind of confidence and poise to star opposite Cate Blanchett in your very first film. But that’s what teenager Emma Nelson does in the comedy Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Nelson goes toe to toe with the two- time Oscar winner in the plum role of Bernadette’s feisty 15-year-old daughter, Bee.
“It was intimidating for sure,” says Nelson over the phone during a recent press junket for the film which opens August 16...
Here’s Why Thanos was Able to Destroy Cap’s Shield in Avengers: Endgame
When Captain America wielded Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and started beating the holy hell out of Thanos at the end of Avengers: Endgame, things were looking pretty good for the Avengers. Then Thanos does the unthinkable; he uses his massive sword and starts slicing huge chunks out of Cap’s supposedly invincible Vibranium shield. Say what?
It turned out that Vibranium could be bested, apparently, by whatever the heck Thanos’ sword was made from. Now we have it on good authority—director Joe Russo and screenwriters Stephen McFeely—that this is because there are even stronger metals out there in the great big universe...
An Impossible-to-Spot Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg Revealed
With Avengers: Endgame available for digital download and Blu-Ray, we’ve been sorting through all the juicy reveals the bonus materials have provided us. We’ve gone through the commentary track from directors Joe and Anthony Russo and screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, which gave us some awesome bits of trivia. We’ve parsed the comic book callbacks, the bloopers, and the creation of Smart Hulk. Now, thanks to Cinesite,...
Brad Pitt & Director James Gray on Their Space Epic Ad Astra
Mysterious abound in director James Gray‘s sci-fi epic Ad Astra, which stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut whose mission might reconnect him with his father, long thought dead, deep in outer space. There are plenty of reasons to be intrigued by Ad Astra. James Gray makes very, very good films. His Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013) and The Lost City of Z (2016) were all wildly different,...
See a Delightfully Funny Emilia Clarke in First Trailer for Last Christmas
Emilia Clarke didn’t have many chances to flex her comedy muscles during her long run on Game of Thrones. As Daenerys Targaryen, Clarke was asked to be aggressively serious for 8 seasons as Dany plotted her epic, tortuous journey to the Iron Throne. That’s not the case in Paul Feig‘s comedy Last Christmas, in which Clarke stars as Kate, a young woman described as a “bundle of bad decisions”...
