New Ready or Not Clip Teases Highly Praised Horror-Comedy
With a star turn from its lead actress and delivering a deliciously dark satire on greed’s ghoulish manifestations, Ready or Not just might be a late summer sleeper hit.
The premise is as simple as it is devilish: Ready or Not follows a young bride Grace (Samara Weaving, earning raves) as she joins her new husband Alex (Mark O’Brien)’s rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell) for a little family tradition that involves putting newcomers through a nasty game that’s like hide or seek with life or death consequences...
A Few New Details on James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Script
Writer/director James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad will begin filming soon. There has been very little plot information, of course, but we’ve learned about some of the stars, both returning and new, who will be in the film. Now we also have it on good authority that Gunn’s script is “really good.” This comes from—wait for it—Gunn’s brother and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Sean Gunn. Yes, you’re likely going to say that your brother’s script is great,...
First Trailer for Little Women Reveals Greta Gerwig’s Vision for the Classic Tale
You know you’ve made a major splash with your directorial debut when people are breathlessly awaiting the trailer for your next film. Such is the case with Lady Bird writer/director Greta Gerwig, and her new film, Little Women. Gerwig has taken on the oft-adapted Louisa May Alcott classic and folks have been anxiously awaiting our first glimpse at her take. After properly teasing us yesterday, Sony has delivered the full trailer...
Good Boys Script Supervisor Patti Henderson on the Joys & Challenges of Comedy
Co-writer and director Gene Stupnitsky’s Good Boys is a new comedy that focuses on that age-old conundrum; what to do when the drone you’ve “borrowed” from your dad to spy on a couple of kissing teenagers gets destroyed, and your attempts to replace it lead to a series of cascading catastrophes? 12-year-old Max (Room‘s Jacob Tremblay) and his buddies are due to attend their first “kissing party,” but they’ve got no idea how to kiss...
Eddie Murphy Returns in First Trailer for Star-Studded Dolemite is My Name
There are a lot of talented people involved in director Craig Brew (Hustle & Flow)’s new Netflix film Dolemite is My Name. Netflix released the first trailer yesterday, with the story following down-on-his-luck comedian Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) striking upon a career-changing idea: the comic persona Dolemite. Moore’s genius idea was to recreate himself—with the help of some friends—into a brand new kind of film star. Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People vs...
The Juiciest Reveals From Avengers: Endgame Commentary Track
Now that Avengers: Endgame is available for digital download and Blu-ray, all the goodies that Marvel packed into their record-breaking epic have been revealed. We’ve recently shared the comic book callbacks, the bloopers, “Bro” Thor and Robert Downey Jr.’s screentest to nab the role of Tony Stark. The extras on the Blu-ray include six deleted scenes, seven featurettes, and more. For Marvel-heads looking for the juiciest stuff, however, the best place to go on the Blu-ray is the commentary track...
Little Women Teasers Arrive, Trailer Tomorrow
One teaser is just 14-seconds long and contains no dialogue. The second is a mere 17-seconds long and shows some happy attempts at flying a kite. Even though they’re bite-sized, these teeny tiny glimpses at Little Women give us plenty of reasons to be excited.
Writer/director Greta Gerwig, fresh off her triumphant directorial debut Lady Bird, adapts Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novel. She’s got an exceptional ensemble cast here,...
The Art of Racing in the Rain‘s Makeup Department Head on Working With Dogs, Kids, & More
Director Simon Curtis’s The Art of Racing in the Rain is based on Garth Stein’s beloved novel. Curtis (Goodbye Christopher Robin) and screenwriter Mark Bomback (War of the Planet of the Apes) have adapted the film, about a race car driver, his philosophical dog (yes, you read that correctly), and the growing family they both love. The film stars Milo Ventimiglia as Formula One race car driver Denny Swift,...
Watch the Creation of the Exquisitely Creepy Corpse in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark
André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is based on the beloved collection of horror stories by Alvin Schwartz. These stories became iconic thanks to not only the storytelling but the ingenuity of the art by illustrator Stephen Gammell. His creations are subtly unsettling, daring precocious children to turn the page. A new video shows how one of Gammell’s creations, The Corpse, was built by hand in the film. When one of your co-writers and producers is Guillermo del Toro,...
Artist Steve Chorney on Crafting Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood‘s Poster & More
Movie poster artist Steve Chorney has been creating images for Hollywood films for decades, but he has rarely had his designs used as the key art. Also, traditionally illustrated movie posters are almost never commissioned anymore. For those reasons, Chorney was surprised and delighted to discover his hand-painted image has been used as the key art for Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood. He spoke to The Credits about his career, and the many images he created for the new film,...
Production Designer Brent Thomas on Building the Emotional The Art of Racing in the Rain
With a career spanning 25 years in film and television, Brent Thomas can trace his love for the movies to the first time he saw plays as a kid. From that young age, he became captivated by live theatre, particularly the production design involved. In short, he was hooked.
“I went to school for theatre design at the University of Alberta, that’s where I started until movies called out. I think the reason I went into theatre design;...
Casey Affleck & Anna Pniowsky on Finding Truth in Light of My Life
Set amid the natural splendor of British Columbia, Light of My Life (opening August 9 in theaters, digital and On Demand) follows writer-director-star Casey Affleck as a father shepherding his daughter through the wilderness. Shot by cinematographer Adam Arkapaw (True Detective), the gorgeous backdrop belies an ugly collective psychosis that has taken hold of a near-future society beset by a mysterious “female plague.” Eleven-year-old “Rag,” played by Anna Pniowsky, disguises herself as a boy to avoid being exterminated by misogynists while Affleck’s “Dad”...
Michelle Williams Reprising Role as Anne Weying/She-Venom in Venom 2
One of the best moments from Ruben Fleischer’s 2018’s hit Venom was when the alien symbiote that had, up until then, possessed Anne Weying (Michelle Williams)’s ex-husband Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) glommed onto her. This was right before the film’s big third act fight. Had Anne not become into She-Venom, Eddie Brock would have bit the dust. The results, while brief, were thrilling—She-Venom dispatched a bad guy and helped Eddie get to the bigger fight against Carnage (Woody Harrelson)...
Tom Hardy is Helping Craft the Venom 2 Story
The news that Andy Serkis would be directing Venom 2 was met with a lot of excitement. The super talented actor, director, and motion-capture expert is the perfect choice to take Tom Hardy’s antihero alien symbiote to the next level, narratively and visually. Now /Film has some juicy tidbits (via Tuesday’s TCA 2019 event) about where Serkis might take the franchise, and it turns out that Tom Hardy himself will be helping craft the story...
Unpacking the Surprisingly Confusing Fast & Furious Timeline
You might not think that tracking the narrative chronology of the Fast & Furious franchise would be complicated, but it turns out, it is. In fact, in an almost sci-fi twist worthy of Hobbs & Shaw, the narrative chronology of the movies doesn’t match up to the names of the films or when they were released. The third film in the series, Tokyo Drift, would actually be the 6th film in the series narratively—or the 8th film if you were counted the two shorts created for the DVDs in an effort to explain some of these narrative gaps (more on these in a second)...
Creating the Look for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
It’s Quentin Tarantino’s dream vision of 1969 Hollywood. So it is only appropriate that working on Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was a dream come true for makeup department head Heba Thorisdottir.
“Every day of this movie was epic,” says Thorisdottir. “This was everything that I love about LA. When the actors were driving down Hollywood Boulevard, I remembered the first time that I came to Hollywood...
Andy Serkis Will Direct Venom 2
The great Andy Serkis is your director for Venom 2. This will be Serkis’ third feature after his 2017 drama Breathe and last year’s jaw-droppingly beautiful Mowgli, his photo-realistic take on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.” Serkis has proven himself an able director after years of wowing audiences with his performances in front of the camera—whether he was playing Supreme Leader Snoke in the past Star Wars films,...
James Wan Returning to Horror With Original Film
James Wan‘s fans are going to love this. In fact, horror fans, in general, will love this—the super talented auteur will make an original, practical-effects heavy horror film before he leaps back into the ocean for Aquaman 2. Wan revealed this news on Facebook (and Bloody Disgusting revealed the news to the rest of us) that his next project will be smaller in scale, but also ambitious and based on an original idea...
The Comic Book Easter Eggs in Avengers: Endgame Revealed
Now that Avengers: Endgame is available for digital download, there’s been a bunch of fresh material thanks to the bonus features. Bloopers? Check. A glimpse at Robert Downey Jr.’s screentest to nab the role of Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man? Yes. How the Endgame team created Chunky Thor? Yup. And now Marvel has released a brand new video revealing some of the comic book Easter eggs that were sprinkled throughout Endgame‘s 3-hour runtime...
Director AJ Eaton on his Lyrical new Doc David Crosby: Remember My Name
This past weekend, a new documentary played into theaters spotlighting musician David Crosby, called David Crosby: Remember My Name. He is most famous for his role in The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and most infamous for his troubles with drugs and the law. In this film, however, audiences get a raw, brutally honest look at the man from his own perspective. Crosby’s challenges, his solo work, and his insights as someone with multiple health issues and a desire to leave a legacy of love and kindness behind,...
