Brett Cullen Steps into the Role of Batman’s Dad in Joker
Following Alec Baldwin’s departure from Joker due to a scheduling conflict, the role of Batman’s dad, Thomas Wayne, has been a big question mark. We finally have an answer to the riddle as ComicBook.com reports Brett Cullen will play the elder Wayne. Cullen is no stranger to Gotham as he played a Congressman in The Dark Knight Rises.
Cullen has several impressive credits to his name having appeared in Ghost Rider,...
Halloween Abandoned a Plan to Re-Shoot the Original Ending
We have already been raving about the impressively executed new Halloween, but the more we learn about it, the more amazing this project becomes. The David Gordon Green sequel to the 1978 original nails an incredible balancing act. This is the reboot that all reboots aspire to be. It manages to recall favorite moments from the original without being a remake, there’s a juicy new storyline here, and it will almost certainly find new fans who weren’t already introduced to the franchise...
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt Give ‘Hats Off’ to the Jungle Cruise Crew
This concludes filming of the Jungle Cruise. Please gather all of your belongings, watch your step, and thank your crew. Filming wrapped on Disney’s next theme park ride inspired adventure, and actors Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt took a moment on Twitter to thank the team that helped their canoe sail smoothly. All of the behind the scenes folks got applause and a literal ‘hats off’ from the stars.
“Truly there is an X-factor involved with making this incredible movie,...
This New Mary Poppins Returns Trailer is What the World Needs Right Now
We could all use a little Mary Poppins in our lives right now. This is precisely what we’re getting in a new trailer from Walt Disney Studios, in which the wondrous Emily Blunt stars as the titular magical Mary, who in Mary Poppins Returns arrives with the equally wondrous Lin-Manuel Miranda as the lamplighter Jack. The two megawatt stars front Rob Marshall’s follow-up to the 1964 classic, with Mary returning to help out a new generation of the Banks family after they’ve suffered a terrible loss...
Watch Claire Foy’s Mesmerizing Transformation in the Second The Girl in the Spider’s Web Trailer
We already know Claire Foy is a hugely talented actress. While making herself nearly a household name by playing Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s brilliant The Crown, Foy has proven again and again she can disappear into a role. (Wait until you see her scene-stealing performance as Janet Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s brilliant space drama First Man.) With that said, it’s still a delicious jolt to see her Lisbeth Salander,...
Todd Phillips Shares First Image of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker
With a single word—”Arthur”—Todd Phillips has delivered our first look at Joaquin Phoenix‘s Joker. You’ll notice no face paint, no green hair, and no massive scars giving him his iconic clown’s grin. Before you start to complain that this does not look like the Joker you’ve come to expect, remember that Phillips’ film is both an origin story and a character study. While most modern audiences have a strong, strong preference for Heath Ledger’s iconic performance in The Dark Knight,...
TIFF 2018: The Tender Fragility of the Boy Erased Score
Boy Erased is a shattering portrayal of a family fractured by a challenge to their stringent religious beliefs. Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, Lucas Hedges plays Jared, a young man from a religious family who begins to realize he is gay. Jared’s parents send him to a church-sanctioned conversion therapy camp where he struggles to find acceptance even within. Hedges’ performance is fragile and vulnerable, which makes many of the story’s events difficult to watch. Composers Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi chart the evolution of Jared’s self-awareness and the strain of his relationships as he navigates the confusing period...
TIFF 2018: The Front Runner Composer Rob Simonsen on Scoring a Political Upheaval
Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner centers on Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman)’s doomed 1988 presidential campaign, undone by the candidate’s extramarital affairs and a media landscape shifting beneath his feet. The film plunges you into the fevered weeks when Hart’s campaign unravels, seemingly hour by hour, as the talented senator refuses to face the reality of his actions and his staff is left scrambling to play defense.
You’ll likely be too caught up in the drama (and marveling at a time when a politicians’ infidelities were career-enders) to notice just what composer Rob Simonsen‘s score is doing,...
TIFF 2018: The Time-Altering Superpower of the Widows Editor
Oscar-nominated editor Joe Walker has spent a lot of time thinking about time. Our perception of time may change over the course of our lives, but in truth, it’s always experienced forwards. One thing happens after another and there is no way (yet) to go back. In Walker’s movies, however, time is a tool he can use to manipulate a story. When does a character know something? Is there a secret in the past that explains the present? Does time exist as we know it at all?...
Solo: A Star Wars Story Deleted Scene Features a Callback to 1977 Original
The best thing about a big movie like Solo coming out on digital download and Blu-ray are the extras. Yes, seeing the film again is the main point, but it’s all the behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, director commentary and gag reels that give the movie lover the most bang for their buck. With Solo: A Star Wars Story coming home this month, you can expect a whole lot of juicy extras to enjoy...
TIFF 2018: The Sister Brothers Director & Co-Writer on Their Funny, Soulful Western
When Patrick DeWitt’s novel “The Sisters Brothers” was published in 2011, something new was afoot in its pages. A bloody western set during the gold rush, it had everything you’d expect; gunfights, whiskey, brothels, and ne’er-do-wells of all stripes lusting after the riches buried in the rivers and mountains of California. These genre tropes, expertly handled by DeWitt, were the grimy, gritty package in which he delivered the story’s real gold— the titular Sister brothers and their endless,...
Bradley Cooper Gets Personal in A Star is Born
Writer/director/star Bradley Cooper’s first stop on a nationwide series of A Star is Born screenings was in Washington D.C., where he answered questions from American Film Institute founder George Stevens, Jr., and the audience. Since then, the film has made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to wowed critics and enthused fans. “The most nourishing aspect of promoting a movie is just going to the various cities around the country and talk to people who are willing to sit through this movie and talk to me...
TIFF 2018: The Hate U Give Has the Potential to Empower a Generation
A teenage girl and boy who didn’t know each other were making friends in line for the 2nd screening of The Hate U Give at TIFF. “So, you already saw it?” he asked her. “Yeah, at the premiere with the cast and everything. They came out after to talk about it,” she said excitedly. This would be his first festival film. “I didn’t even know until recently you could come to this. I thought it was some snobbish thing,” he said...
The Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast On What It’s Like to Jump into Hyperspace
In the fall of 2019, Star Wars fans will have the opportunity to climb into the Millenium Falcon cockpit and try their hand at flying like Han in Disney World. Until then, we’ll have to take the cast of Solo’s word for it that it’s incredibly awesome. The special effects team actually built the Star Wars ride of our dreams for the infamous Kessel Run scene. i09 has an exclusive featurette from the Solo: A Star Wars Story home video release where the cast recalls filming on board the ship...
Henry Cavill is Hanging up the Cape as Superman
Henry Cavill is hanging up the cape after playing Superman in three films. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Cavill and Warner Bros. have parted ways (neither side has confirmed this as of yet) after three films, beginning with 2013’s Man of Steel, then 2016’s Batman v Superman and last year’s Justice League. Cavill’s arc as Superman saw him in a bruising three-part story that began with his arrival on Earth,...
TIFF 2018: First Man Actor Skyler Bible on Working on Damien Chazelle’s Revelatory Space Drama
First Man represents the first time we’re getting a full-blown biopic about the legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong. Academy-award winning director Damien Chazelle‘s film, scripted by Spotlight and The Post‘s Academy-award winning scribe Josh Singer (based on the book by James R. Hansen) tells the story behind the first manned mission to the moon, with the focus squarely on Armstrong (Ryan Gosling). The Apollo 11 mission that ultimately leads to Armstrong’s iconic first steps on the moon took a decade to prepare,...
TIFF 2018: Hans Zimmer on The Dark Knight, Wonder Woman 1984 & More
Hans Zimmer is no stranger to working with directors who have a ferocious passion. Yesterday, we published our interview with the Oscar-winning composer about his score for Steve McQueen’s thrilling crime drama Widows. Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score blended perfectly with McQueen’s film about three women navigating the criminal underworld in Chicago to pull off a nearly impossible bank heist. They’re attempting to pay off their dead husband’s deaths and forge their own paths,...
TIFF 2018: Legendary Composer Hans Zimmer on Scoring Steve McQueen’s Sensational Widows
Hans Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score for Widows gets under your skin. The legendary composer creates a sonic environment that feels as pressurized and cloistered as the predicament of our four heroines. When you see Steve McQueen’s brilliant crime drama, you’ll notice a persistent humming throughout. As the stakes rise for the three women at the center of the story (the widows of three dead criminals who now must pull off a monumentally dangerous heist to pay off their debts and forge a path of their own),...
TIFF 2018: Compassion Transcends a Harrowing True Story in Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai is searing. It is a full two hours of terror that seems nearly unbearable at times. Just recalling it, I find myself shifting in my seat, made anxious by the memory. It is the type of film that needs no 3D or virtual reality technology to immerse you fully. There is no way to transfer trauma, but this film is the closest I could imagine you can get to understanding the pain of these victims.
Hotel Mumbai recounts the events of the horrifying attacks on Mumbai in 2008...
Jordan Peele in Talks to Bring Back the Candyman
Hellraiser might be the film that comes to mind most quickly when you hear the name Clive Barker, but Candyman is an even juicier slice of Barker’s works. The horror legend began both ideas as short stories with Candyman being adapted into a 1992 film starring Tony Todd. If you’re unfamiliar with the 90s trilogy, the story is gruesomely scary. It also has a socio-political narrative that begs to be explored and Jordan Peele may just be the man to do it...
