It’s a Wrap: New Photo Celebrates End of Birds of Prey Principal Photography
We’ve got a fresh photo from the set of director Cathy Han and star Margot Robbie’s Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Producer and star Robbie is reprising her role as everyone’s favorite psychopath, Harley Quinn. It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with Birds of Prey. The new photo posted on Instagram by Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment celebrates the film wrapping principal photography.
A quick refresher on Birds of Prey‘s focus...
A Visit to Theaterkunst, Germany’s Oldest and Biggest Costume Design House
What do Metropolis, Ben-Hur, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay all have in common? Their actors were outfitted, in full or in part, by a costume house in Berlin. And not just any costume house, but one that survived two world wars and Germany’s partitioning. It is now the country’s largest collection of historic and contemporary garments and accessories. With 10 million items (a single item can be a loincloth,...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Title & Teaser Revealed
And there it is, folks. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the official title for the 9th and final film in the Skywalker Saga. What’s more—we’ve got our first look at J.J. Abrams’ Skywalker capper with a compelling, crackerjack teaser. The title and teaser were revealed during the Episode IX panel at the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago. The Rise of Skywalker is, needless to say, a very interesting title considering this is supposed to be the end of the Skywalker saga...
Watch the Star Wars: Episode IX Panel Live
Stephen Colbert just burst onto the stage at the Star Wars celebration, folks. He’s excited. We’re excited. Are you excited? If you’re reading this then we bet you are!
There’s been a lot of Disney-related news lately. There was the historic acquisition of Fox, and yesterday’s in-depth reveal of their upcoming streaming service, Disney + news yesterday (read our breakdown of the Mouse House’s new streaming service here). The Star Wars Celebration promises to deliver even more news—with the two things everyone is curious about;...
What you Need to Know About Disney +
The featured image is from the set of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, the upcoming live-action Star Wars series that’s coming to Disney +. Now we finally know when. The Mouse House revealed the details about their upcoming streaming service, and there’s a lot to parse. We’ve put together this brief fact sheet to help you wrap your head around what Disney + is offering, how much it costs, and when it’s coming.
When does it launch?...
Rocket Suits up in new Avengers: Endgame Spot
Have you heard about this little movie coming out on April 26? It includes a feisty, weaponry-loving space raccoon and a bunch of superheroes banding together to fight a sociopathic purple alien and resurrect their dead friends and a few billion other people. Not ringing any bells? Well, it’s called Avengers: Endgame and comes from a scrappy little studio named Marvel. Scarlett Johansson’s in it. So is Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans. Still nothing?...
The Dirt‘s Production Designer on Recreating Mötley Crüe’s Wild Ride
Netflix‘s The Dirt focuses on the wild, often sordid and ultimately stratospheric rise of the seminal heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Directed by Jeff Tremaine, The Dirt is based on the band’s 2001 New York Times best-selling autobiography, which detailed how they managed to go from sharing a truly disgusting apartment and booking gigs on the Sunset Strip to selling out stadiums and becoming one of the most infamous acts in the world...
Robert Pattinson on High Life & Working With Claire Denis
The career arc that took actor Robert Pattinson from teen heartthrob vampire Edward Cullen in five Twilight movies to one of independent cinema’s most adventurous actors has few parallels — except perhaps for his Twilight costar Kristen Stewart.
Like Stewart, Pattinson has reinvented himself since the blockbuster Twilight franchise as a go-to actor for ambitious indie projects, ranging from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (2012) to the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time (2017)...
New Avengers: Endgame International Teaser Brings us Back to the Snap
It would be a lie to say it feels like yesterday when Thanos (Josh Brolin) shocked the world by beating the Avengers and destroying half of life in the universe. The Thanos snap, of course, was the somber ending to in the Russo Brother’s Avengers: Infinity War. Time has not exactly flown since then, yet the effects of that snap still feel fresh. It’s been almost a year since that game-changing conclusion, and soon enough we’ll see both the fallout from the snap and what comes next...
J.J. Abrams on his Initial Fears & Current Excitement About Star Wars: Episode IX
When it was announced that J.J. Abrams was returning to co-write and direct Star Wars: Episode IX, little did we know how initially apprehensive he was. Abrams had already successfully relaunched a new era of Star Wars with 2015’s A Force Awakens. The pressure and stress of taking on the most iconic film franchise in history was significant, to say the least. Abrams helped usher in a new era of stars and continued a saga begun by George Lucas in 1977...
The Official Lion King Trailer is a Stunner
The first official trailer for Jon Favreau‘s The Lion King is stunning. Favreau is now a veteran of transforming Disney classics with the best available computer animation technology in the business. His first crack at it was his critically acclaimed reboot of The Jungle Book, but as beloved as the 1967 animated film version was, The Lion King is a whole other kettle of fish. The original debuted in 1994 and became one of the most adored animated films of all time...
How Color Created Character in Brie Larson’s Unicorn Store
Captain Marvel aside, Brie Larson makes her feature-length directorial debut with Unicorn Store, now on Netflix. First screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September, the fantastical allegory written by Samantha McIntyre follows Kit (also played by Larson), a colorful art student who receives mysterious invitations to visit The Store where she’s granted owning the unicorn of her childhood dreams.
The use of color was fundamental to the story as it painted a metaphor for Kit finding her identity...
First Avengers: Endgame Clip Deals With Captain Marvel’s Whereabouts
And here it is—our first clip from Avengers: Endgame. Good Morning America had the cast on their show today and revealed the clip towards the end of the segment. The scene features some heated banter regarding Captain Marvel (Brie Larson)’s long absence from Earth, and even delves into some plot specifics about how the gang is planning on going after Thanos.
Marvel has been keeping Endgame‘s story details mostly under wraps, making this clip fairly unique...
Avengers: Endgame Directors Tease Epic Conclusion
Robert Downey Jr. said that he guarantees nobody will be able to guess the outcome of Avengers: Endgame. There are already plenty of theories out there on how the surviving Avengers are going to resurrect their friends and defeat Thanos. Endgame represents the culmination of a 22-film arc and will be the biggest, grandest film in MCU history. Beginning with 2008’s Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been an unprecedented experiment in filmmaking...
Robert Downey Jr. Says You’ll Never Guess What’s Coming in Avengers: Endgame Featurette
Did Robert Downey Jr. just challenge the Internet? Okay, that’s taking his quote in this brand new Avengers: Endgame featurette a bit out of context, but we already know that a lot of people are theorizing on what’s going to happen in the Russo Brothers’ upcoming epic. Here’s what Downey says towards the end of the video: “I guarantee you there is no way anyone could guess what’s going to happen.” Thousands upon thousands of fans beg to differ...
Pet Sematary‘s Makeup Designer on Creating Death From Life
It’s always risky adapting a beloved novel for the big screen. It’s even riskier when that novel has already been adapted in a beloved film. Yet this is precisely what directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer took on with their Pet Sematary reboot. Director Mary Lambert’s iconic 1989 film version of one of Stephen King‘s most wrenchingly unsettling novels gave the world some of the most disturbing sequences of any film that decade...
Fear & Grieving With Pet Sematary Breakout Star Amy Seimetz
Pet Sematary star Amy Seimetz remembers reading Stephen King’s novel when she was just eight years old.
“I was too young but my parents were great—being a parent was different in the ‘80s,” she says. “They were happy that I was a voracious reader and they were present to answer questions. I went from [children’s authors] R. L. Stine to Christopher Pike to Stephen King. I read Cujo, Pet Sematary, Christine, It. ...
All the Easter Eggs Hidden in the Joker Trailer
The Joker trailer sent a chill and a thrill through the movie-loving world this week. Director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix‘s upcoming take on the origins of Gotham’s most iconic villain looks mesmerizing. Joker looks like no other film based on a comic book character that we’ve ever seen.
In fact, Joker looks more like a very intriguing character study of a man with mental illness (just as Marc Maron said it was) than a film based on a character ripped from the DC Comics universe...
Review Round-up: Shazam Sizzles
We already knew that the early reactions to Shazam were electric. With the film is coming out tomorrow, full-length reviews are out and they sizzle with enthusiasm. The critics have some very good things to say about David F. Sandberg’s film about a kid who becomes a superhero. One of the recurring themes in the reviews is how Shazam! manages to be a blast and a great family film...
Sarah Connor is Back in new Terminator: Dark Fate Images
Linda Hamilton’s iconic character from James Cameron’s game-changing Terminator and T2: Judgement Day is back. Sarah Connor rejoins Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in director Tim Miller‘s Terminator: Dark Fate. Paramount has released six new images from the film, which appeared alongside an exclusive interview IGN conducted with Miller.
Miller’s Dark Fate will handle the various Terminator films much in the same way David Gordon Green’s Halloween handled the previous films in that franchise;...
