Composer Dustin O’Halloran Finds Music to Express The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give premiered at TIFF one day after the first airing of the Colin Kaepernick Nike ad. That the add went viral and became such a controversy only added to the fame and buzz around the composer of the music used in the ad, Dustin O’Halloran, who also provided the score for The Hate U Give. The films follows 16-year old Starr (an outstanding Amandla Stenberg) as she goes back and forth between her working-class Garden Heights neighborhood and the predominantly white Williamson Prep School across town—until a tragedy collapses the siloed world Starr had created...
Chris Hemsworth Shares Men in Black Set Photos as He Wraps on Filming
Hello, goodbye. It seems like we were just getting our first look at Chris Hemsworth on the set of Men in Black, and now it’s already come to an end. That’s probably because he shared that first photo just under a month ago. Today, the actor dished out a whole set of snapshots with a message about his last day on set.
“…cheers for the fun times, big laughs and solid memories. Can’t wait to show what we’ve put together...
How the VFX Team Changed Characters’ Sizes and Ages in Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man and the Wasp had some crazy visual effects elements. People were changing sizes, changing ages, and floating through walls. Oh yeah, there were also giant worker ants. Scott and Hope inhabit the most fun little corner of the MCU. The VFX team can go wild on the more experimental features and Marvel Studios’ VP of Visual Effects, Danielle Costa, breaks it all down for WIRED.
The real coup here is that much talked about de-aging of Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas...
How The Hate U Give’s Cinematographer Captured an American Tragedy
Fresh out of film school, Romanian cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. jumped into the deep end when Francis Ford Coppola arrived in Bucharest eleven years ago to film his coming of age drama Youth Without Youth. “Francis shot ten days with ten different DP’s because he wanted to see who worked well with him,” Malaimare recalls. “Three of my teachers also auditioned for the job so I figured I didn’t have a chance. I decided to just enjoy my eight hours with Francis.”...
Seth Rogen Shares an Awesome Lion King Cast Photo from the Studio
This cast photo from The Lion King will give you those ‘Hakuna Matata’ vibes all day long. Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, Billy Eichner, and director Jon Favreau had no worries as they posed in the recording studio together.
Rogen shared the photo on social media yesterday of the live action voice actors. Glover will star as Simba, the young heir to pride rock. Eichner and Rogen will play the lion’s jovial friends he meets in exile,...
First Man‘s VFX Supervisor on Archival Footage, In-Camera Effects & the Biggest LED Screen Ever
Watching Damien Chazelle’s First Man offers the earthbound viewer the chance to finally realize they don’t have the right stuff. For folks of a certain age, becoming an astronaut used to be one of the coolest possible professions, the kind of thing you said you wanted to be when you were little and didn’t know what engineering was. Or math. Or physics. And, most crucially, you didn’t realize how insanely dangerous it is. There have been many great films about space,...
A New Fantastic Beasts Featurette is one for the Fans
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has not even been released yet, and already it is one for the fans. An early trailer revealed the famed Nicolas Flamel that Harry Potter fans have been waiting to meet. Jude Law turned back the clock on a character he’s always loved himself. Most surprising was the reveal that a seemingly new player was actually a familiar face. Claudia Kim will play the shapeshifting snake Nagini...
How the Halloween Makeup Designers Perfectly Recreated Michael’s Mask
As we busy ourselves preparing our costumes for Halloween this year, there is one mask that embodies the holiday unlike any other. Michael Myers’ haunting gaze is timeless and can strike chilling fear in all who see it. That empty white stare was immediately iconic with the release of John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece. There is so much about the new Halloween that gets this story right, but that mask is perhaps the most satisfying...
First Destroyer Trailer Reveals Nicole Kidman Like You’ve Never Seen her Before
There are three very good reasons to be excited about Destroyer. It’s from The Invitation filmmaker Karyn Kusama, it stars Nicole Kidman as an LAPD detective haunted by her past, and it’s from regular hit-factory Annapurna Pictures. Kidman stars as Erin Bell, a messy, messed up cop whose terrifying undercover work is dredged up afresh in the form of a gang leader who is back on the scene. Bell now has no choice but to right the wrongs from that disastrous previous operation,...
Tom Holland Shares new Black & Red Spidey Suit in Spider-Man: Far From Home Image
Filming has officially wrapped on Spider-Man: Far From Home, and to honor the occasion star Tom Holland has shared an image of Spidey’s new black and red suit. Holland took to Instagram to mark the end of Far From Home‘s production, posting an image of himself in the new suit next to co-star Zendaya, who plays Michelle ‘MJ’ Jones. The new black and red suit is not only eye-catching, it begs several questions. Considering that Far From Home takes place after Infinity War, ...
Very Dumb Person Shoves Arthur Curry in new Aquaman TV Spot
It’s a classic moment we’ve seen countless times before, yet one that never gets old. A bunch of “tough guys” crowd the unusual newcomer and start mocking him. We saw it when Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s T-800 arrived (again) in Los Angeles in T2: Judgement Day, naked, and walked into a biker bar. We’ve seen it when a couple of goons were sent to rouse Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) from bed and rough him up in X-Men: First Class. ...
J.K. Rowling Reveals Why Everyone Goes to Paris in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a journey, both literally and figuratively. The action is moving from New York City to Paris, as promised. J.K. Rowling explains in a new featurette that it will also be a real evolution for many of the characters. In fact, don’t believe everything you see. Even after this film ends, there are more surprises to come.
The nefarious Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured and unmasked near the end of the previous film,...
Chris Evans Distances His Avengers 4 Tweet from Captain America’s Fate
There’s nothing harder to say than, “Goodbye.” Little goodbyes, big goodbyes, they’re all tough. At least, according to Avengers star Chris Evans. The Captain America actor sent the MCU into the most shock and confusion since Thanos’ big snap two weeks ago when he tweeted out an open-ended farewell to Avengers 4. It seemed to indicate a little more than just the last day of filming, however.
“Officially wrapped on Avengers 4,” Evans tweeted...
Don Cheadle Drops the Latest Hint about the Avengers 4 Title
There is no one who knows better to keep a lid on Marvel secrets than Don Cheadle. The actor unsuccessfully tried to save his co-star, Mark Ruffalo, from spoiling the ending to Infinity War. Luckily, Thanos must have wiped our memories, because it wasn’t until after the film was released that anyone realized the flub was authentic. Now, the biggest mystery in the MCU is what Avengers 4 will actually be titled...
Michael Sends a Terrifying Message in New Halloween Clip
Halloween is still 16 days away, but Halloween is a mere four. Michael Myers is back in all his gory glory, and Universal has shared one of the most grimacing scenes from the film ahead of the theatrical release. EW exclusively shared the terrifying moment between the maniac murderer and one of his many victims.
Rhian Rees plays Dana, a journalist pursuing the true story of what happened between Michael (James Jude Courtney) and Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) four decades ago...
Bad Times at the El Royale’s Production Designer’s Brilliant Build
When Laramie, a vacuum cleaner salesman with an off-sounding drawl (Jon Hamm), steps behind the bar to make a pot of a coffee in the lobby of the El Royale, no attendant to be seen, it’s clear this fancy yet faded, empty hotel isn’t your average roadside motel, no matter how welcoming the vintage neon sign outside. For a traveling salesman, Laramie seems to know an awful lot about the history of his abode for the evening,...
Oscar Isaac Says the Cast of Star Wars: Episode IX is Going Off Script
Star Wars has been thrilling fans for more than 40 years. Episode IX will be the third film featuring Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren, and Poe. Now that we know these characters, there’s a little more room for experimentation. They can break from the rigidity of establishing the major players and move into feeling out just what these roles can offer the story. Oscar Isaac, who plays ace X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, is excited to take a step away from the script and just see what happens...
Russo Brothers Share Mysterious Image as Avengers 4 Officially Wraps
Okay internet sleuths, do your best. The Russo Brothers have shared the below image of a glowing white…something. Much like the last image they shared, this one is meant to bring out the inner Sherlock Holmes in us all, while also, just maybe, having a little fun at our expense. The last image they shared may have held hidden clues to what Avengers 4 title will be, while this new image,...
Dwayne Johnson Shares First Look at Hobbs and Shaw Co-Star Idris Elba
The Fast and the Furious series is virtually invincible. Each of the eight films keeps upping the ante and with Dwayne Johnson’s star power skyrocketing, the franchise shows no signs of putting on the brakes. Even if you thought there was a chase that the series would slow down around the curve, here is proof that things are accelerating. Spinoff Hobbs and Shaw has added superstar Idris Elba to the cast and Johnson shared the first look...
Bad Times at the El Royale’s Art Director on Building the Lunatic Lodge
In Bad Night at the El Royale, location is everything. The titular lodge sets the mood and structures the interlocking plot twists suffered by seven shady characters who cross paths there on a stormy night in 1969. Director Drew Goddard wrote the story and production designer Martin Whist defined the vision. It was up to supervising art director Michael Diner to make sure all the physical pieces of the environment came together on time and on budget...
