Final “Wicked: For Good” Trailer Brings Dorothy to Oz
When we spoke with Wicked and Wicked: For Good co-writer Dana Fox, they were just at the very end of the years-long process of bringing the colossal Broadway smash hit to its cinematic conclusion. Fox told us that she’d recently watched both the films, which were shot back-to-back, back-to-back herself, and had this to say, “By the end of the day, I was like a shell of a person who had to be swept off the floor – makeup all over,
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” Rises: Christian Bale is Frankenstein’s Monster & Jessie Buckley is his Resurrected Companion
The first trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! has officially risen.
“Was I just the same before the accident?” asks Jessie Buckley’s The Bride in the opening seconds of the trailer for writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! The response comes from none other than Frankenstein’s Monster, played by Christian Bale. “There wasn’t any accident,” he says. “Everything we did, we did it on purpose.”
We see Buckley’s Bride murder,
Caged Dynamics: How DP Ula Pontikos Frames Willem Dafoe & Corey Hawkins in “The Man in My Basement”
The Man in My Basement marks Nadia Latif’s feature directing debut, and it’s a doozy. Latif adapted author Walter Mosely’s acclaimed 2004 novel of the same name, from a script she co-wrote with Mosely. The film is set in the quiet village of Sag Harbor, New York, where Charles Blakely (Corey Hawkins) is a man adrift until he gets a strange offer from an even stranger businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe), to rent out his basement.
New “Mandalorian and Grogu” Images Reveal AT-ATs, Alien Creatures & Sigourney Weaver
We just got a look at the first trailer for director Jon Favreau’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and now it’s time to parse a slew of new images from Favreau’s film. What we know about what Favreau, his co-writer Dave Filoni, and the rest of the stellar cast and crew have cooked up is scant, but the trailer is nonetheless revealing. There are creatures aplenty—mainly of the classic Star Wars type,
Baby Yoda Speaks in the First “The Mandalorian and Grogu” Trailer
The first trailer for director Jon Favreau’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu opens on Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) spaceship the Razor Crest curising over a coastline. The next thing we see is one of those images that has made the Disney+ series The Mandalorian such a hit—we’ve got Mando and Baby Yoda doing some recon in a desert landscape, with the little guy sporting a little single-lens pair of binoculars to aid him.
How Director Justin Tipping Mixed Art, Nike Ads & Multiple Genres in His Singular Sports Horror Film “Him”
Supernatural sports horror film Him not only blends two hugely popular film genres but also draws inspiration from the art of Jeff Koons and Edward Hopper, as well as Nike ads from the 1990s—a blend of disparate influences that cohere into a singular cinematic experience.
Produced by visionary filmmaker Jordan Peele, a man who had made his own sui generis horror films, from Get Out to Us to Nope,
“One Battle After Another” Review Round Up: Paul Thomas Anderson Delivers a Stone-Cold Masterpiece
A recent re-watch of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood reminded me—reconfirmed, really—that my experience in the theater watching his masterpiece, with an absolutely mesmerizing performance from Daniel Day-Lewis as the soused, ruthless oilman Daniel Plainview, had been exactly as transforming as I’d always remembered. It was and remains my favorite cinematic experience, and I’d waited years (decades, actually) to rewatch it. While finally sitting down and absorbing Anderson’s tale of carnivorous greed in America of the late 19th and early 20th Century on my couch wasn’t quite as transporting as being plastered to my seat in a New York City theater,
“Star Wars: Starfighter”: New Look at Ryan Gosling & Flynn Gray in Cryptic Photo
Ryan Gosling and co-star Flynn Gray are ready to make waves in their upcoming film Star Wars: Starfighter.
Director Shawn Levy posted a photo on Instagram of Gosling and Gray “somewhere in the Mediterranean,” according to Levy’s caption, although the geotag indicates “Sardinia, Italy.” It’s the second glimpse we’ve gotten of Gosling and the newcomer Gray since production began, after that first cryptic shot of Gosling and Gray sitting and leaning on a cruiser of some sort.
Paul Rudd and Jack Black Are Snake Bit in First “Anaconda” Trailer
Co-writer and director Tom Gormican has enlisted Paul Rudd and Jack Black for his bonkers reimagining of the 1997 horror film Anaconda in his new comedy (helpfully called Anaconda), and the first trailer is appropriately bananas.
Rudd and Black played best buddies Griff and Doug, respectively, friends since childhood who have sustained one lifelong dream: to remake their favorite film of all time, the cinematic masterpiece Anaconda.
From “Barbie” to “Bridgerton”: Entertainment Partners is the Secret Sauce Behind Many of the Films & Shows You Love
For nearly five decades, Entertainment Partners (EP) has been the secret sauce behind the scenes of your favorite films, TV shows, and commercials, from Barbie to Bridgerton. Headquartered in Burbank, California, the company has revolutionized the way the entertainment industry manages payroll, accounting, and production finance, with a world-class team of experts specializing in a wide range of areas, including global tax incentives, labor compliance, residuals, and healthcare.
Their industry-standard digital platform featuring Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling,
Robert Redford, Hollywood Star and Sundance Visionary, Dies at 89
If it is possible to be both larger than life and understated, Robert Redford would be the person who managed the feat. The big screen idol of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men became a legendary, Oscar-winning director, helming classics like Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, and Quiz Show. His work in front, behind, and well away from the camera equaled a singular life in the arts.
Novelist & Screenwriter Charlie Huston on Preserving the Raw Truth of “Caught Stealing” With Darren Aronofsky
In 2008, author Charlie Huston and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky had breakfast. The filmmaker was interested in adapting the author’s debut novel, “Caught Stealing,” the first entry in the Hank Thompson trilogy. The collaboration didn’t come to pass.
In 2022, Huston revisited the script they wrote for Caught Stealing, which tells the story of Hank (Austin Butler), a former baseball star and now an alcoholic bartender, caught in the crossfire of criminals chasing a bag of dirty money.
Director Oliver Hermanus and Actor Chris Cooper Wax Lyrical on “The History of Sound”
Director Oliver Hermanus calls his latest film, The History of Sound, “a love letter to the films of the ‘90s.”
The period drama stars Paul Mescal as Kentucky singer Lionel and Josh O’Connor as Boston composer David White, who have a brief but life-changing romance in 1920 while hiking through rural Maine to record local folk music on wax cylinders.
Hermanus grew up in South Africa,
Sydney Sweeney Transforms Into Boxing Legend Christy Martin in First “Christy” Trailer
Sydney Sweeney steps into the ring in the first trailer for Christy, where she stars as the International Boxing Hall of Fame legend Christy Martin. Sweeney and Christy earned rave reviews after the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Sweeney revealed she’d packed on 30 pounds in order to play Martin, as well as weight training and, of course, boxing lessons.
Speaking to Variety at TIFF,
James Gunn Reveals Superman and Lex Luthor Will Team Up in “Superman: Man of Tomorrow”
James Gunn has made it clear he has no plans to make fans wait very long between his hit DC Studios feature debut, Superman, and the sequel. Gunn recently revealed that the second part of what he’s calling the Superman Saga is titled Superman: Man of Tomorrow, and now, Gunn has teased a very crucial detail about the upcoming sequel.
Gunn appeared on The Howard Stern Show and delivered a tasty morsel about Superman: Man of Tomorrow,
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Make a Cash Grab in Trailer for Their True Crime Thriller “The Rip”
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are back at it again, this time in a distinctly different kind of film from their last collaboration, Affleck’s delightful look at Nike’s formation of what would become an iconic partnership with Michael Jordan in Air. In their new film, The Rip, Affleck and Damon play two Miami police officers who are leading a squad that works “the dope game,” which means they deal with drugs and guns,
600 Languages, One Vision: How Producer Reza Servia Bridges Indonesia’s Diversity for Netflix’s Global Audience
Born into a family steeped in Indonesian filmmaking, Reza Servia was perhaps destined to find his way into the business one way or another. Along the way, his journey took him through the suburbs of Chicago and Atlanta, via New Zealand and software engineering, with a side quest into competitive e-sports.
When Servia was five, his mother took him and his two siblings to the US after she separated from his father, accomplished producer and Indonesian film industry stalwart Chand Parwez Servia.
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” Preparing for an Electric Fall
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is one of the most highly anticipated fall releases. The visionary director reteamed with some of his most trusted collaborators to bring to life the movie he had been dreaming of making for over two decades, including production designer Tamara Deverell, cinematographer Dan Laustsen, and composer Alexandre Desplat. Frankenstein has already electrified audiences, first at the Venice Film Festival,
Holy Murder Mystery: Daniel Craig is Back on the Case in “Wake Up Dead Man” Trailer
The official teaser for Rian Johnson‘s third Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, has arrived. Daniel Craig returns as the dandy detective Benoit Blanc to solve what the teaser promises will be his most dangerous case, which involves the seemingly impossible crime of a priest’s murder.
“To understand this case, you need to look at the myth that’s being constructed,” Craig’s Blanc says during the teaser.
“Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” Screenwriter Dana Fox on Her Magical Musical Theater Homecoming
Screenwriter Dana Fox made a pact with director Jon M. Chu. After working with Chu on her Apple TV+ series, Home Before Dark, she told him she would sign up for a project with him, no matter what, with no questions asked. She was as serious as a witch, if you’ll pardon the pun.
“I told him at the end of that previous job that I will drop anything,
