Jordan Peele Hails Ari Aster’s new Horror Film Midsommar
If you’re getting to get praise from a fellow writer/director, Ari Aster truly couldn’t have done better than Get Out and Us mastermind Jordan Peele. Aster shocked the filmgoing world last year with his directorial debut Hereditary, and now he’s back with Midsommar. The former was a terrifying hellscape of shadows, miniatures, and the misery of cruel heritage, while the latter looks like a sunlight nightmare...
Is a Halloween Sequel in the Works?
Is the indomitable Laurie Strode coming back? David Gordon Green’s critical and commercial smash Halloween reminded fans of the original franchise why they fell in love with Strode in the first place. Played by the great Jamie Lee Curtis, Strode once again faced down the lunatic masked killer Michael Myers in one of 2018’s great horror films (and there were quite a few.) Super producer Jason Blum, the head of Blumhouse Productions,...
Longtime X-Men Scribe Simon Kinberg on Directing Dark Phoenix
He wrote Sherlock Holmes, produced The Martian and guided six X-Men movies to fruition from his vantage point as a writer and producer. But Simon Kinberg never actually directed anything until he took the reins of Dark Phoenix. Opening Friday, June 7, the movie reunites X-Men fixtures Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender along Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones), playing Jean Grey,...
Godzilla: King of the Monsters Director Reveals Film’s Easter Eggs & More
Spoiler alert for Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
If you’ve seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters, then you’ve witnessed one of the biggest Godzilla spectacle films ever made. Godzilla fights two very ferocious titans, in King Ghidorah and Rodan, and he fights them a few times. We talked to production designer Scott Chambliss about creating these epic brawls, and he gave us great insight into how and why each monster was given its own specific origin point...
Diana Gets Gold Armor in new Wonder Woman 1984 Poster
Folks were fairly bummed out yesterday when they learned that Warner Bros. would be skipping the Hall H panels at San Diego Comic-Con this year. But then director Patty Jenkins stepped into the breach, so to speak, to offer up a new glimpse at our favorite Amazonian warrior princess. Behold the first poster for Wonder Woman 1984. It’s a thing of golden beauty.
By now you’ve heard: WB isn’t going to Hall H this year. We’re so sad to miss you there!...
New Dark Phoenix Clip Suggests Changing the Team’s Name to X-Women
In a brand new clip from Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence’s Raven (really better known as Mystique) gives Professor X (James McAvoy) a piece of her mind. The moment takes place directly after the space rescue mission that the Professor sends the X-Men on to save some stranded astronauts. A strange cosmic accident occurs during the mission, and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) comes into contact with a stellar force that imbues her with massive new powers...
Getting a Mutant Makeover With Dark Phoenix‘s Makeup Department Head
Dark Phoenix is the last film in the nearly two-decade-old X-Men franchise. Yet by dropping X-Men from the title, co-writer/director Simon Kinberg, one of the franchise’s most tenured creatives, put the focus squarely on Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). The film is centered on a space rescue mission gone horribly awry, and the resultant transformation of Jean Grey from an already potent member of the X-men into the titular cosmic force with nearly unimaginable powers...
How Rocketman Soundtrack Mixer Evoked Elton John’s State of Mind
What does a nervous breakdown sound like? To be more specific, how can audio be manipulated to approximate Elton John’s headspace when he overdoses midway through the fantastical bio-pic Rocketman? That’s the kind of question re-recording mixer Mike Prestwood Smith faced on a daily basis while shaping the sonic highs and lows embodied by Taron Egerton‘s portrayal of the iconic piano man. Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher also helped make the Queen bio-pic Bohemian Rhapsody but takes a distinctly different approach to the subject of rock stardom this time around...
Brad Pitt Heads to Deep Space in First Ad Astra Trailer
You always want to pay attention when James Gray releases a new film. The director of the vastly underrated The Lost City of Z (2016) and the equally vastly underrated The Immigrant (2013) has been working on his sci-fi film Ad Astra for years. The story follows astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) who voyages to the far reaches of the solar system to track down his missing father,...
The Batman Won’t be an Origin Story
Now that The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves has confirmed that Robert Pattinson is indeed his Bruce Wayne, the next logical question is just what kind of Batman he’ll be. We’d heard that Reeves had fashioned a script that was more of a noir detective story than your traditional superhero flick. Earlier this year, he had this to say to The Hollywood Reporter about his film:
“It’s very much a point of view-driven,...
New Avengers: Endgame Promo Photo Teased Pepper Pot’s Epic Moment
*Spoilers lurk for Avengers: Endgame below. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here but have not yet seen the film!
The massive scope of Avengers: Endgame meant that some storylines, and even whole characters, never made it to the final cut. The Russo Brothers built a mega-narrative that tied up the previous 21 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They managed to make time for a huge amount of characters (while time-traveling,...
Watch Beyonce Speak as Nala in new The Lion King Spot
As we approach the premiere of Jon Favreau’s The Lion King reboot, Disney has been slowly revealing the film’s shockingly gorgeous look. This retelling of the beloved 1994 animated classic has been made to look as close to photorealistic as you could reasonably hope for, rendering Simba, Mufasa and the rest of the animal kingdom of the African Serengeti with stunning realism. Yet what we haven’t seen or heard, until now, is Beyonce’s lioness Nala actually speak...
Matt Reeves Confirms Robert Pattinson as Batman
First, it was semi-official. Then it was almost fully official. And now it’s—sorta definitely official? While Warner Bros. has yet to publicly confirm that Robert Pattinson is your next Batman, the director of the upcoming The Batman has gone ahead and done it himself. Matt Reeves Tweeted an image of Pattinson from Good Time with a few bat emojis. Case closed. Battinson is real.
Reeves and Warner Bros...
Building Beasts With Godzilla: King of the Monsters‘ Production Designer
There hasn’t been a film that has lived up to its title quite as thoroughly as Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In director Michael Dougherty’s Kaiju cage match, Godzilla goes clawed toe to clawed toe with some of the biggest beasts on the planet, including King Ghidorah, a three-headed dragon whose provenance is one of the film’s many twists. Every time these monsters clash—and the film doesn’t skimp on these colossal skirmishes—they do so in increasingly inspired locations...
The One Tech Platform Used in Game of Thrones, Avengers: Endgame & (Much) More
From a remote outpost in Adelaide, Australia, a handful of techies in 2005 brought together far-flung filmmakers so they could critique VFX shots—not in the same room, but on the same screen. Today, cineSync software plays a behind the scenes role in nearly every spectacle-driven popcorn movie including this summer’s Men In Black, Spider-Man, X-Men and Godzilla sequels as well as recent hits like Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones...
The First Ford v. Ferrari Trailer Will Rev Your Engines
The pieces are all in place for Ford v. Ferrari. You’ve got the excellent director James Mangold (Logan), you’ve got two great leads in Christian Bale and Matt Damon, and you’ve got a story that was meant for the big screen. Ford v. Ferrari, true to its title, is centered on the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France in 1966. American car designer Carroll Shelby (Damon) has about 90 days to build a racecar for Ford that will beat a Ferrari,...
It’s Official—Robert Pattinson is Your Next Batman
Robert Pattinson is officially your next Batman, edging out Nicholaus Hoult for the lead role in Matt Reeves’ upcoming stand-alone The Batman. The news first circulated on May 17 that Pattinson was a leading contender for the role, and now Deadline has confirmed that Pattinson has it after a screen test yesterday. He’s an intriguing choice—and we’ll argue excellent one—to take on the role of the caped crusader. After becoming a global star playing the teenage heartthrob vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight series,...
The Lion King‘s new Images & Posters Tease Film’s Gorgeous Photo-Realism
There’s one thing we know for certain about Jon Favreau‘s live-action remake of The Lion King—it looks stunning. Now a fresh batch of posters and images reinforce just how precise filmmaking technology has become, allowing Favreau to take the beloved 1994 original and turn it into this lush, photo-realistic take on one of Disney’s most iconic stories. The posters reveal close-ups of our main characters, while the new images give us our first great look at Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Scar,...
Pixar’s New Original Film Onward Revealed in Delightful new Trailer
It’s always big news when Disney-Pixar releases a new film. Onward marks the first non-sequel release in a while—three years to be exact, since the gorgeous Coco—and focuses on a pair of teenage elf brothers going off on a journey in search of magic. Monsters University director Dan Scanlon conceived of the project, writing and directing the film. Your stars are Tom Holland and Chris Pratt,...
Sly Stallone is Back for one Last Fight in Rambo: Last Blood Trailer
John Rambo is back.
Sylvester Stallone reprises one of his most iconic characters in what we think might be his final turn as John Rambo. If we’re to believe the title, Rambo: Last Blood could mark the conclusion to the emotionally scarred Vietnam vet’s long journey from 1982’s First Blood all the way through 2008’s Rambo. Last Blood is the fifth film in the franchise and sees our titular hero back in America after many deadly years overseas...
