A Secret “Predator” Movie is Coming Out Next Year
We already knew that a new Predator film was headed our way—Predator: Badlands—the sequel to 2022’s Dan Trachtenberg’s hit Prey. But now, thanks to a conversation between 20th Century Studio Boss Steve Asbell and The Hollywood Reporter‘s Borys Kit, we now know there’s a secret, additional Predator film lurking on the 2025 release schedule.
Ralph Fiennes Says That Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” Was Shot Partly On an iPhone
Director Danny Boyle’s nervy 2002 thriller 28 Days Later reinvigorated the zombie genre, introducing a version of the undead that was just as pitiless as previous iterations but quicker, more decisive, and more terrifying. Working off a script written by Alex Garland (who would go on to become an incredible director in his own right in films like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War) and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (who would later win an Oscar for his work on Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire),
From Mumbai to Batam: The Unexpected Journey of Dev Patel’s “Monkey Man”
Actor-turned-director Dev Patel, best known for his breakthrough role in Slumdog Millionaire, received a well-earned standing ovation for his directorial feature debut, Monkey Man, at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin Texas this past March. His thrilling, kinetic debut went on to win the Headliners Audience Award.
The fight-filled action epic produced by Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele was inspired by the story of the half-monkey,
Swing Time: Tom Holland Says “Spider-Man 4” to Start Filming Next Summer
Tom Holland came on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ready to unleash a major web of movie news.
“Next summer, we start shooting,” Holland told Fallon. “Everything’s good to go. We’re nearly there. Super exciting. I can’t wait!”
Holland was talking about Spider-Man 4, of course, which will be the first Spidey film since the trilogy capping instant classic Spider-Man: No Way Home bowed in 2021 and revealed Holland’s Peter Parker teaming up with Parkers past—Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Men—to vanquish a trio of classic villains.
Lights, Camera, Recreation: “Saturday Night” Production Designer Jess Gonchor on Bringing “SNL”‘s Studio to Life
Production designer Jess Gonchor felt right at home on director Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, a pulsing recreation of the moments leading up to the first-ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975. Similar to Reitman, who fulfilled a dream of being a guest writer on SNL for a week on Season 35, Gonchor also worked in sketch comedy, so he knew “the inner workings of what this is and what it needed to be.” What that meant for the two-time Oscar-nominated production designer was that everything had to be interconnected.
“Venom: The Last Dance” First-Reactions Devour the Internet at Trilogy Capper Premieres
Director Kelly Marcel and star Tom Hardy finally unleashed Venom: The Last Dance on Monday night, with Sony Pictures premiering the film in New York. This means that now that Hardy’s Eddie Brock and best alien symbiote buddy Venom have finally waltzed in front of a crowd, the first reactions have flooded social media.
The Last Dance is, as its title suggests, Hardy’s final turn as the investigative reporter turned body-snatched antihero,
James Gunn Reveals Updates for “Superman,” “Supergirl,” and “Lanterns”
At this past weekend’s New York Comic Con, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn had a lot to say. He, his fellow Creature Commands executive producer Dean Lorey, and cast members from DC’s upcoming animated series revealed the wild first trailer, and while he was there, Gunn dished on some of the studios’ most marquee upcoming projects.
Those projects include his big-time reboot, Superman,
James Gunn Reveals the Wild First Trailer for “Creature Commands”
James Gunn had a lot to share New York Comic Con, and arguably the biggest news also included a fun first trailer. That would be for Gunn’s new-look DC Studios’ animated series Creature Commandos, a seven-episode Max original written and executive produced by Gunn, which tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for the world’s most dangerous missions. These Creature Commandos are “your last, worst option,” according to the series logline.
Taking the stage at the Con on Saturday,
Tom Holland Reveals He’s Read a “Spider-Man 4” Script With Zendaya
Tom Holland revealed some major Spidey news when he said that he and his Spider-Man co-star Zendaya (also his real-life girlfriend) have read the Spider-Man 4 script a few weeks ago.
Speaking on the Rich Roll Podcast, Holland admitted that the script “needs work, but the writers are doing a great job.”
Spider-Man 4 will have big webs to fill—the last installment,
Could Christopher Nolan’s Next Movie Be a Spy Thriller?
Most of the time, all you can do with a Christopher Nolan project is speculate. For every Dark Knight film, based on one of the most popular characters of all time, or Oppenheimer, based on Kai Bird’s book “American Prometheus,” there’s been an Inception or Interstellar or Tenet, films whose intricate plotting and heady ambition were kept more or less secret from the general public until their first trailers arrived.
Will Spider-Man Swing Through “Venom: The Last Dance”?
Will Spider-Man appear in Venom: The Last Dance? This is the question on the mind of Spidey fans as we approach the October 25 premiere date of Tom Hardy’s last turn as Eddie Brock, the investigative reporter turned alien symbiote antihero. For two bloody, funny films, Eddie and Venom have been biting the heads off bad guys (mostly) and battling some of the universe’s most vicious beings, including Carnage (Woody Harrelson), an alien symbiote even bigger and better than Venom.
Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman Face Off in First “Carry-On” Teaser
The tense first teaser for Netflix’s Carry-On has arrived, revealing the new thriller from director Jaume Collet-Serra starring Taron Egerton as Ethan, a TSA agent who’s dropped into a dangerous game by a mysterious passenger who turns out to be a terrorist. That passenger is played by Jason Bateman, a man who knows a thing or two about tense thrillers after delivering four seasons of his nervy Netflix series Ozark. While Bateman wasn’t exactly a good guy in Ozark (by the end of the series,
“The Wild Robot” Head of Story Heidi Jo Gilbert on Motherhood’s Many Meanings
No one is more delighted that The Wild Robot has surpassed all expectations at the box office and with critics than director Chris Sanders. Receiving almost perfect reviews upon its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film is headed towards record-breaking box office numbers for DreamWorks. Buzz has begun for The Wild Robot as a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. Only days ago, DreamWorks gave the green light for a sequel,
“Saturday Night” Star Lamorne Morris on Lighting Up the Screen as “SNL” Legend Garrett Morris
The camera follows Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) as he walks backstage through a line of camera crews, flickering lights, shouting cast members, costume racks, and one very random llama.
Ninety minutes until air time. Ninety minutes until the first-ever Saturday Night Live.
This is the opening sequence for Jason Reitman’s latest film, Saturday Night, about the creation of a legendary form of comedic television, but more specifically,
Denis Villeneuve Reveals “Dune: Part Two” Sandworm-Riding Scenes Were Insanely Labor-Intensive
It’s no secret that co-writer/director Denis Villeneuve’s vision for his two Dune films was exacting and inspired. Arguably, the most technically challenging part of a very challenging film was the climactic early-ish moment when Paul Atreides (Timtohée Chalamet) finally rides one of Arrakis’s colossal sandworms. Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival this past Saturday, Villeneuve revealed just how hard capturing this moment truly was.
Speaking with Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein,
“Joker: Folie À Deux” Production Sound Mixer Steven Morrow Dissects 3 Essential Scenesew
“We tried to do everything we could to make the best sounding movie,” says production sound mixer Steven Morrow about director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie À Deux. “Larry’s cinematography is beautiful, and with the amount of effort and time he puts into it, we wanted to put that kind of energy and emotion into our work for the audience and for Todd.”
For the much-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning film Joker,
“Joker: Folie À Deux” Cinematographer Lawrence Sher Dissects 3 Essential Scenes
“The movie is an extension and a further exploration of this idea of our shadow selves as human beings,” Joker: Folie À Deux cinematographer Lawrence Sher tells The Credits. “We all have sides of ourselves that we hide from people. There are also sides we show to people that aren’t really authentic, and that’s what this movie explores.”
Sher, who was nominated with an Academy Award for Todd Phillips’ Joker,
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Deleted Scene Finds Peter Falling in Love
While it wouldn’t be quite accurate to call Peter an unsung hero in Deadpool & Wolverine, considering he literally shows up to save the day (as Peterpool, of course), Rob Delaney and his dad bod were currently one of the biggest surprises in this summer’s juggernaut success, doing the absolute utmost with his screentime and providing Ryan Ryenolds’ Wade Wilson with the type of buddy he could count on. Now, in a recently released deleted scene,
“Conclave” Trailer Reveals Edward Berger’s Star-Studded Vatican-Set Thriller
The official trailer for the critically acclaimed Conclave has arrived, revealing director Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’s book. The film is centered on one of the most covert operations in the world, the selection of a new Pope, a highly secretive, ancient event that draws the world’s attention. The sensational cast includes Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence, the man who must preside over the conclave after the sudden death of the Pope.
Birmingham Goes Big Time: “Peaky Blinders” Movie Adds Stephen Graham to the Starry Cast
The Peaky Blinders movie just added another charismatic performer who knows his way around post-World War I Birmingham. Stephen Graham, who played Hayden Stagg in the sixth and final season of the smashing BBC series, revealed to Deadline that he’s returning for series creator Steven Knight‘s big-screen continuation, which Knight penned and Tom Harper will direct.
Graham joins newly minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, the series and now film’s lead,