Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Drops a new TV Spot
We’re just about a month away from the release of Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino’s ninth film bowed at the Cannes Film Festival to some very enthusiastic reactions, with top critics like Manohla Dargis of the New York Times hailing it as “a moving film, at once a love letter — and a dream — of the Hollywood that was.” Yes, we’re excited. Now Sony has dropped a new TV spot with some fresh footage of Tarantino’s latest...
Spider Man: Far From Home Review Round-Up
If Spider-Man: Far From Home director Jon Watts had any nerves about following Avengers: Endgame, he’s gotta be feeling pretty good right now. The early reactions were all very enthusiastic, and now that the proper reviews are rolling in, we’ve got an even better sense of how Watts and his team followed up the biggest film in Marvel Cinematic History—with aplomb.
Far From Home sees Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his friends heading to Europe for a summer vacation...
The First Trailer for Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels is Here
We can think of few actors/writers/directors/producers better suited to bring Charlie’s Angels into the modern era than Elizabeth Banks. And now we’ve got our first look at the multitalented Banks’ take on the franchise, starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska in the lead roles. Banks’ Angels are headed overseas, plying their private eye trade in global locales. The first trailer reveals that the writer/director (and co-star) and her leads seem to have had a blast retrofitting the story of Charles Townsend’s team of super-detectives for our current era...
How a Global VFX Effort Animated the Lovable, Lunatic Aliens in Men in Black: International
From Sony Pictures Imageworks headquarters in Culver City, California, visual effects supervisor Dan Kramer helped coordinate a worldwide array of CGI artists to produce some 2000 VFX shots for the aptly named Men In Black: International. Kramer, who previously animated Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Hotel Transylvania before switching to live action on Tom Cruise thriller Edge of Tomorrow, joined forces with visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen to manage the massive CGI pipeline feeding MIB: International...
How Yesterday’s Producer Made the Beatles-Themed Film Come Together
The nobody-knows-who-the-Beatles-are high concept driving Yesterday (opening Friday) may not have originated with producer Tim Bevan, but the Working Title co-chairman responsible for five Oscar-nominated movies knew exactly how to take the idea and run with it. American humorist Jack Barth created the fantastical scenario about a busker who wakes up from a bike crash and discovers that he’s the only one in the world who remembers the music created by John, Paul, George, and Ringo...
Stars of The Lion King Announce “Protect the Pride” Initiative
Who says mass popular entertainment can’t also be a force for good? In a new video stars from the upcoming The Lion King, it’s Scar himself (actually, it’s the man who voices him, Chiwetel Ejiofor) who alerts us to a sobering fact: since the release of the original animated film 25-years ago, the number of lions in the world has declined…by half. Many of the cast members of Jon Favreau‘s new The Lion King are here to deliver the startling news...
New Avengers: Endgame Trailer Includes Blu-Ray & Digital Release Dates
The Avengers are once again headed back to theaters this weekend to battle Thanos—and reveal an unfinished deleted scene to boot. For those of you who can wait just a little bit longer, you’ll be able to bring Avengers: Endgame into your living room. A new trailer for Marvel’s mega-hit reveals that the film will be available for digital download on July 30 and on Blu-ray on August 13. As is always the case, it’ll come with a bunch of bonus features,...
Marwan Kenzari on Becoming Jafar in Aladdin
There’s a lot more to Dutch actor Marwan Kenzari’s than even his highest profile role to date, the villain Jafar in Disney’s live-action musical Aladdin, might indicate.
A classically trained stage actor in his native the Netherlands, Kenzari auditioned for the role of sinister Jafar by singing; the character’s song never made it into the movie.
“I was talking to Alan Menken, the amazing writer of [the film’s] songs, and he mentioned that [he] really wanted to get a song for Jafar in there,” but the pace and the film’s length necessitated cutting the tune,...
Vin Diesel Shares Video From 1st Day of Filming on Fast & Furious 9
As savvy as Vin Diesel has been in his career, even he couldn’t have known that he’d still be filming Fast & Furious installments 19-years after the original film was released. Yet here we are, with Fast & Furious alum Justin Lin back directing Diesel and his co-stars in Fast & Furious 9. This franchise has been so successful that two of Diesel’s co-stars, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, have their Hobbs &...
Avengers: Endgame Re-Release Includes new Poster & Deleted Scene
When we learned that Avengers: Endgame would be returning to theaters with some bonus footage, we were enthused. ComicBook.com‘s Brandon Davis spoke with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige at the Spider-Man: Far From Home press junket in London, and was surprised to learn Marvel’s biggest film ever was returning for an encore run with some extra footage:
“We are doing that,” Feige told Davis about the return of an even bigger Endgame to theaters...
Check out This Sizzling Bond 25 Behind-the-Scenes Video
With director Cary Joji Fukunaga behind the lens for Bond 25, one thing we can be relatively sure about is that the venerable franchise will not be resting on its laurels for its’ 25th installment. Fukunaga is one of the best directors in the business at creating visually arresting, unbearably intense action (as he’s done on True Detective and Beasts of No Nation). Now our first solid look at what’s happening on the set of Bond 25 reveals that the cast and crew are making the most of their Caribbean location...
Check Out All of Spidey’s New Suits in Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is a man of many suits. This has been largely thanks to his connection to his mentor (and benefactor) Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). What we know about Spider-Man: Far From Home (aside from folks loving it) is that (spoiler alert) Peter is dealing with living in a post-Tony world. This means he’s going to have to step up. What it doesn’t mean, it turns out, is that Peter Parker won’t have a bunch of cool new suits just because of Tony’s sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame. ...
The First Queen & Slim Trailer Reveals Lena Waithe & Melina Matsoukas’s Hotly-Anticipated Collaboration
There’s a lot to be excited about here, folks. We’ve got our first look at Queen & Slim, the hotly-anticipated collaboration between Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and visionary director Melina Matsoukas. Scripted by Waithe, the first black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None, Queen & Slim features Get Out and Widows star Daniel Kaluuya and newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith in a story that sets them on the run from the police...
How Mood & Lighting Established Tone in The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Last Black Man in San Francisco marks the feature debut for director Joe Talbot, an allegory that puts a spotlight on the childhood dream and the effects of gentrification.
Inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, Fails, with the help of his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors), go on a journey to take back the family home his grandfather built but lost ownership of when he was a young child...
Black Widow Adds the Excellent Ray Winstone to the Cast
While Marvel Studios has yet to officially confirm that they’re making a Black Widow prequel, all the pieces are falling into a place for their Black Widow prequel. Collider reports that the great Ray Winstone, best known to American audiences for playing Mr. French Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, has joined the cast. Winstone is the type of actor that a director loves, infinitely moldable into a variety of roles. Scorsese then cast him again in his animated masterpiece Hugo...
Behold the Teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson & Thom Yorke’s Netflix Musical Anima
Yeah, this is a dream team.
Paul Thomas Anderson has teamed up—again—with a member of Radiohead. Anderson has deployed Radiohead’s polymathic musical genius Jonny Greenwood as his composer since his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood, all the way up to his most recent film, 2017’s Phantom Thread. Now he and Radiohead’s genius frontman, Thom Yorke, have collaborated on a new short film for Netflix...
Jaws Created the Summer Blockbuster 44 Years Ago Today
It was on this day, 44-years ago, that Steven Spielberg created the summer movie season. Before Jaws, summer was a time for sunbathing, not heading out to the multiplex. Then on June 20, 1975, a 28-year old Spielberg delivered a film that changed the calculus of how films are distributed. His game-changing thriller about a rogue Great White with a taste for human flesh marks the moment the film industry changed. Once Jaws dominated the box office and the imaginations of moviegoers,...
What Secrets Might a Black Widow Movie Reveal?
Now that we know Marvel is returning to Comic-Con’s Hall H this July, we can start to speculate what they’re going to reveal in the grandest venue in San Diego. With Marvel’s Phase 3 about to officially come to a close with the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home, there’s a lot of change afoot at Disney’s super studio. They wouldn’t be taking over Hall H if they weren’t ready to share their vision of what’s to come...
Early Reactions to Spider-Man: Far From Home Praise Post Endgame Adventure
As the concussive power of Avengers: Endgame finally starts to lift, Marvel is just about to release Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far From Home, the final film in Phase 3. In the past, every Avengers film has been the shot and the follow-up film was the chaser. We went from the first Avengers to lighter Iron Man 3. Avengers: Age of Ultron was followed by the first,...
Early Reactions to Midsommar Hype Horror Masterpiece
Jordan Peele loved it, and now it seems others who have gotten an early look at Ari Aster‘s Midsommar agree—this film is a wicked, wild horror masterpiece. It’s also funny! Early reactions to Aster’s follow-up to his smashing, terrifying 2018 debut Hereditary are starting to surface online. The reactions are essentially raves. Aster seems to have pulled off the very tricky feat of nailing his second film. This is what Peele himself just accomplished...
