Beautiful Boy‘s Production Designer Builds a World of Heartbreak & Hope
A desire for anonymity may be rare in the movie business, but production designer Ethan Tobman, whose credits include Room and most recently Beautiful Boy, doesn’t want audiences to notice his work.
“Whenever you’re designing contemporary drama, especially anything that’s inspired by real events, you want to support and create a unique world with an instant sense of intellectual and emotional empathy. And you want to do it subtly,” he says...
The Favourite‘s DP on Creating one of the Year’s Most Ravishing (and Funny) Films
Before The Favourite came his way, Robbie Ryan had never worked with Yorgos Lanthimos, but he did admire the Greek director’s offbeat art house films Dogtooth and Killing of a Sacred Deer. So when Lanthimos invited Ryan to shoot his 18th-century black comedy about Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and rival courtiers (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone), the Irish cinematographer, fresh off indie film triumph American Honey,...
First Trailer for Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s Kidnapping Thriller Everybody Knows
Real-life spouses and occasional on-screen co-stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are back together for the kidnapping thriller Everybody Knows, from Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman). This is the first time the pair have shared the screen since Ridley Scott’s brutal 2013 The Counselor, and it seems that, once again, Cruz and Bardem have put their considerable talent to use for a tough tale...
Rosamund Pike & Director Matthew Heineman on Their Riveting Biopic A Private War
A Private War is the story of the intrepid journalist Marie Colvin, who endured terrible trauma including the loss of an eye and post-traumatic stress disorder before being killed in Syria during the siege of Homs. Rosamund Pike, who plays Colvin, and director Matthew Heineman talked to The Credits about blending documentary and narrative and about Colvin’s contradictions and convictions.
Tell me about how you created the physicality Marie Colvin,...
Birds of Prey Adds a Future Batgirl Character
New casting news out of the world of the DCEU may shed a little light on an upcoming project. Variety reports that young actress Ella Jay Basco is joining the cast of Birds of Prey. Basco will play the role of Cassandra Cain.
This news tells us a few things about the direction Birds of Prey is headed. First, Cain is one of the characters in the DC comics that eventually fill the role of Batgirl...
Elijah Finds the Equal He’s Been Searching for in New Glass Teaser
Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) brazenly challenges Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), the Beast (James McAvoy), and David Dunn (Bruce Willis) to prove to her that humans with powers exist. They’re probably not the best test subjects if you value your life in any way. A new teaser for Glass shows the diabolic duo of Glass and Beast unleashing on the world.
The climax of Split was uncovering the existence of the Beast within Kevin Crumb’s many personalities...
The Principal Cast of the Avatar Sequels Has Finished Filming
It has been nearly a decade since Jake Sully ventured to Pandora, but Avatar is ready for a resurgence. Director James Cameron revealed yesterday this week that not only Avatar 2 wrapped principal filming, but perhaps also Avatar 3, 4, and 5.
Cameron took to Twitter to reveal the scheduling status of the Avatar films while promoting upcoming release Alita: Battle Angel. “Today we’re capturing some stunt scenes,...
The Magical Official Trailer for Tim Burton’s Dumbo
When we got our look at the first teaser for Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo back in June, we naturally wanted more. It’s taken about five months, but Disney has finally obliged. Here then is the first official trailer for Burton’s take on the animated Disney classic, which is centered on a circus owner named Max Medici (Danny DeVito) who leans on former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his kids to take care of a newborn elephant named Dumbo with comically huge ears...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Production Designer on How the West Was Built
Joel and Ethan Coen‘s new anthology western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs offers six darkly comic 19th-century vignettes designed by the brothers’ longtime collaborator Jess Gonchor. Oscar-nominated for his contributions to the Coens’ True Grit and Hail, Caesar!, Gonchor initially thought the movie, which launches Friday on Netflix, would be a snap. “When the guys gave me the script and I read it top to bottom, it seemed easy on the surface: ‘We’ll get a couple of covered wagons.’...
The Avengers‘ Only Hope of Defeating Thanos
What hope does anyone have against someone who controls time, space, and reality? With the laws of physics at your literal fingertips, are there really any consequences? Avengers: Infinity War was by far the most disheartening venture in the MCU. Every sacrifice the heroes made was thwarted. Their difficult decisions were derailed and denigrated like Star-Lord shooting Gamora or Scarlet Witch destroying the Mind Stone. If Thanos can undo any harm against him, will he ever be defeated?...
A Round-Up of Some of the Wonderful Stan Lee Tributes
The world mourns the passing of the great Stan Lee. It would be hard to overstate the impact this gentle giant has had on pop culture. Since he first put pen to paper, alongside ace collaborators at Marvel like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Lee created many of the superheroes that now dominate the film world. The Avengers, Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, the X-Men, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Daredevil and Ant-Man (to name a few of the most iconic)...
Instant Family Writer/Director Sean Anders Plumbs his Personal Life for Foster Care Film
All films scripts have some degree of personal connection to the writer. But for Sean Anders, the writer-director best known for comedies like Sex Drive (2008), That’s My Boy (2012) and Daddy’s Home (2015), his latest, Instant Family, mixes heartfelt drama with laughs as it mirrors Anders’s own experiences adopting three kids through the foster care system seven years ago.
Instant Family is about a couple,...
Aquaman Behind-the-Scenes Video Reveals James Wan’s Underwater Epic
Warner Bros. has just dropped our best look yet at the epic undertaking that James Wan, his cast and crew took on with Aquaman. In a three minute behind-the-scenes video, Wan and his cast talk about bringing the world of Aquaman to the big screen, which included a massive amount of underwater shots, underwater stunt work, and the huge task of bringing an underwater world to life.
“The most important thing is the story that I’m telling,...
Details Emerge About Godzilla vs. Kong As Filming Gets Underway
What will happen when two exceedingly destructive creatures collide? We are getting closer to finding out as Godzilla vs. Kong entered production. The ultimate showdown will come after Godzilla: King of Monsters is unleashed next year.
Both titans of the silver screen have had storied histories as villains and victors. They have incredible potential for devastation, but they have also been cast in a more redemptive light in this recent series. In Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla,...
Honoring the Mastermind of the MCU, Stan Lee
Stan Lee, the man with an entire universe in his mind, has died at 95.
Lee revolutionized the comics industry by giving his superheroes flawed characteristics where they had previously been invincible and unflappable. Starting with the Fantastic Four, he developed an entire interconnected series of characters that developed into the wildly successful MCU. Working with the legendary Jack Kirby, Lee created the original Avengers Hulk, Thor and Iron Man as well as the X-Men and Black Panther...
New Game of Thrones Teaser Reveals Premiere Month
We’ve finally got some actual, concrete information regarding Game of Thrones premiere date thanks to a new teaser released by HBO. There might not be any new footage to parse over here, but it does give us a nifty half minute of all the blood, sweat, tears and wine that’s been poured since Ned Stark lost his head in season one. With winter finally here and all the pieces—and surviving characters—more or less set, Game of Thrones fans can expect the shortened 8th and final season to bring the epic series to its rightful,...
Key & Peele are in Back in Hilarious Toy Story 4 Teaser Reaction Video
One of the most joyous Key & Peele sketches was when Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key played a pair of pop culture obsessed valets who had a particular fondness for action films and mispronouncing their favorite performer’s names (a favorite was how they pluralized Liam Neeson’s name into Liam Neesons.) In a mashup we never saw coming, Key and Peele are rebooting this classic skit, only in the form of stuffed animals named Ducky (Key) and Bunny (Peele) in Toy Story 4. ...
The Gang is Back in First Toy Story 4 Teaser Trailer
Disney has released the first Toy Story 4 teaser trailer, supplying you with a reminder of why this was the franchise that changed the game for animation. The film picks up after the events of Toy Story 3, which gave Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the gang a new life when Andy gave his beloved toys to his little sister Bonnie. In Toy Story 4, Woody and his friends are off on another adventure (this time in Bonnie’s room),...
Disney Reveals the Exact Year We Will Meet Captain Marvel
The Marvel films have definitely not been released in chronological order. You would need a handy guide like this one to truly watch them as they actually occurred. Even then, there are few spots that are hazy. What’s finally clear is exactly when Captain Marvel will take place. Sure, it’s the 1990s, but which year of that decade?
Ok, it’s clear if you can read Japanese. I cannot, but I am trusting Google translation...
A Rogue One Character Lands a Series on Disney Streaming Service
That “Disney streaming service” we have been musing about so frequently finally has a name. The home of all things Marvel, Star Wars, and live-action versions of animated classics will now be called Disney+. Pronounced “Disney Plus,” the future of the House of Mouse will also feature Disney, Pixar, and National Geographic. The moniker matches that of Disney’s sports property ESPN+.
While the Disney Channel has always been steered toward kid and teen programming,...
