Look out for an Avengers: Endgame Super Bowl TV Spot
Prepare for Thanos to snap his way into your Super Bowl viewing party. It seems as certain as the resurrection of Peter Parker that the Russo Brothers’ conclusion to their two-part epic will release a new spot during Sunday night’s game. This is what happened during last year’s game when the Avengers: Infinity War Super Bowl spot was the most buzzed about ad during the whole night. (Editors note: that game was something of an inverse of what happened in the film;...
Toy Story 4‘s Bo Peep & Synopsis Revealed
Toy Story 4 has introduced us to a whole new Bo. Pixar revealed a new poster for not-so-little Bo Peep, as well as a new synopsis for the film. You’ll notice that Bo has ditched the bonnet and the hoop dress in favor of a pair of sensible pants, a cape, and her trusty staff. Also, a pink bow, because one wants a little color.
Toy Story 4 reunites us with Woody and the gang,...
How Aquaman‘s Colorist Battled Mera’s Red Hair—and Won
Aquaman made history over the weekend, becoming the highest-grossing film in DC Comics history. Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa)’s journey from high-seas crusader to King of Atlantis surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in his Batman trilogy.
FotoKem colorist Mark Griffith was one of the many, many people who had a huge-but-invisible role in Aquaman’s success. The colorist’s job is to tweak, massage, amplify, dilute,...
Spider-Man: Far From Home Will Feature the MCU’s First Trans Actor
Our world may not look much like the MCU, but the MCU is about to look a little bit more like our world. The franchise has yet to represent LGBTQ themes on screen, but Variety reported that actor Zach Barack is set to appear in Spider-Man: Far from Home. When Barack makes his MCU debut, he will make history as the first out trans actor to appear in a major superhero film.
Barack has already popped up in the first trailer for the film that shows Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) summer trip to Europe interrupted by Nick Fury (Samuel L...
Birds of Prey Teaser Reveals Harley Quinn’s new Friends
Get a sneak peek at Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie)’s newest friends in this Birds of Prey teaser, which is short but sweet. The new teaser follows this photo that Robbie dropped, showing off her trademark heart tattoo and red lip as everyone’s favorite antihero. Does the photo hint at a more restrained Quinn—at least in terms of her eye shadow? It’s one theory, but we’re guessing by the time Birds of Prey drops, ...
The Black Panther Cast Talk About the Sequel
Black Panther‘s cast came up big at last night’s SAG Awards. The ensemble took home the top prize for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and after the show, they had plenty to say about their writer/director Ryan Coogler and the upcoming sequel.
“Sequels, I think, are one of the hardest films to make,” Michael B. Jordan said (no stranger to sequels himself, with Creed 2 dropping late last year). ...
Margot Robbie Drops First Photo From Set of Birds of Prey
There has been some really exciting news coming out of Margot Robbie’s female-driven DCEU project, Birds of Prey. There are some supremely talented women who will be driving this production from director Cathy Yan and screenwriter Christina Hodson to a cast that includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and Rosie Perez. We love what we’ve been hearing, but finally, we get to see something from the film too...
Aquaman Tops The Dark Knight Rises and Makes History
It’s official—James Wan’s Aquaman has surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises as the highest-grossing DC Comics film in history. Wan’s hugely ambitious epic was made that much more difficult for being largely set underwater, yet his team (like cinematographer Don Burgess) rose to the challenge. The result was a swashbuckling epic that swept over audiences both here and abroad, amassing a box office haul that would be any pirates’ dream...
Who Will Matt Smith Play in Morbius?
Morbius, the villain with vampire tendencies, is soon to be lonely no more. Seven months after Jared Leto inked a deal to fill the role, Variety is reporting a new actor soon to join the film. The eleventh Doctor Who and The Crown star, Matt Smith, is expected to sign on to the MCU spinoff.
Debuting in 1971, Morbius has one of the most tragic descents into the dark side...
New Hobbs And Shaw Image Shows Dwayne Johnson in Beast Mode
Okay, it’s not like Dwayne Johnson hasn’t been ripped for forever, but does this new image from director David Leitch’s upcoming Hobbs and Shaw reveals Johnson at his most jacked? The Fast & Furious spinoff from Universal Pictures, which is currently titled Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, offers you a bunch of reasons to get excited. The first and most obvious are that Johnson and Jason Statham stole every scene they were in together in the previous Fast and Furious installments,...
How A Dog’s Way Home‘s Director Found his Path
Remember Terry the Toad, the adorable nerdy high school kid who had a wild night in American Graffiti? And the government researcher out in the remote, bonding with the wolves out in the Arctic in Never Cry Wolf? Both were played by Charles Martin Smith, now a director who has specialized in films about kids and animals including the two Dolphin Tale movies and the current release, A Dog’s Way Home,...
Serenity Writer/Director Steven Knight on Creating a Twist no one Will See Coming
Writer-director Steven Knight is no stranger to making unconventional films. In the 2013 thriller Locke starring Tom Hardy, the entire plot takes place inside a car. For Serenity, underneath the allegory about a fisherman obsessed over catching an elusive bluefin tuna, lie deeper existential themes.
Knight admits directing can be daunting in a phone call having wrapped Peaky Blinders Season 5. “Every time I do, I promise myself I’ll never do it again...
Jeff Bridges Reappears as His Big Lebowski Character
SPOTTED: 20 years after he bowled his way into our heart, recent footage of The Dude has surfaced. Everyone’s favorite stoner mistaken for a millionaire shuffled onto Twitter today looking like he never changed a hair. Could this be his triumphant return?
Jeff Bridges shared the 15-second clip in which he appears as his famous lead role from The Big Lebowski. In his signature pajama pants, cardigan and jellies, The Dude gives a smirk and chuckle like he knows how much we’ve missed him...
Billy Batson Won’t Get Any Special Treatment from His Enemies in Shazam!
As kids, we all dreamed of growing up and being big enough to take down all of our problems and conquer all of our fears. In reality, it turns out that life is just a constant barrage of frustrations, disappointments, and humiliations that none of us are equipped to combat. Which is why we need fun movies! Shazam! (Zachary Levi) is primed to be the most cheerful comic book movie of modern times,...
How The Favourite‘s Oscar-Nominated Co-Writer Tony McNamara Twisted History
With 10 Oscar-nominations, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was matched only by Alfonso Cuaron’s elegiac masterpiece Roma for the largest haul of the year. The films couldn’t be much more different, but then again, every film Lanthimos makes couldn’t be much more different from his peers. The Favourite is nothing like anything the Oscar-nominated Lanthimos has made in the past, either, concerning itself with two rivals, Lady Sarah (Oscar-nominated Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Oscar-nominated Emma Stone) for the affection and patronage of Queen Anne (Oscar-nominated Olivia Colman) in 18th century England...
Aquaman‘s DP on the Challenge of People Talking & Fighting Underwater
Of all the superheroes (and there are a lot of superheroes if you haven’t noticed), cinematographer Don Burgess was challenged to lens the one with the most problematic superpowers and origin story. Unlike Batman’s gritty Gotham, Superman’s soaring Metropolis or even Black Panther’s glorious Wakanda, there is no superhero who presents a tougher challenge to a filmmaker than Aquaman and his underwater kingdom of Atlantis.
“When When I met Sam Raimi to interview for Spider-Man,...
Life’s a Party for Matthew McConaughey in The Beach Bum Trailer
Surf’s up, dude! Or…down? All of life’s pertinent questions will hopefully be answered in The Beach Bum, a sun-kissed, drug-filled comedy from the writer and director of Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine. In The Beach Bum, McConaughey plays Moondog, “a rebellious rogue who always lives life by his own rules.” Not convinced yet? Check out the trailer below:
Alright, alright, alright! Another Oscar nomination for McConaughey, anyone? The Beach Bum comes seven years after Korine’s Spring Breakers was released to the world,...
Katherine Langford Teases Her Fiery Avengers: Endgame Role
13 Reasons Why Star Katherine Langford has us all seeing red for her upcoming role in the Russo Brothers epic Avengers: Endgame. On Monday, the brunette star debuted her new copper color to her more than 13 million fans on Instagram, with the apt caption “She (red)y”.
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How Glass‘s Stunt Coordinator Channeled James McAvoy’s Inner Beast
M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable came out in 2000, and to get the movie made, the director deliberately billed it as a film about anything other than superheroes. Nineteen years on, a slew of superhero films have erupted from Hollywood, and they are by and large nothing like Shyamalan’s trilogy, which also includes 2016’s Split, and now, Glass. Is this final chapter even a superhero movie? The main characters themselves are unsure—as the film opens,...
Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins discusses Chris Pine’s Return in Upcoming Sequel
After the box office success that was 2017’s Wonder Woman, fans of the film have been searching far and wide for clues to its upcoming sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. The second installment in the franchise takes the action from World War I… all the way into the 1980s.
Among the many questions left unanswered: why is Chris Pine’s character Steve Trevor making a return? SPOILER ALERT: If you remember,...
