Diana Prince is Back in Uniform for Wonder Woman 1984
The hair is a little bigger, the colors are a little brighter, but that is the same Wonder Woman we fell in love with a year ago. Last week, Patty Jenkins and Gat Gadot revealed that Wonder Woman was heading into 1984 (along with Steve Trevor!) and now Gadot shared the first look at the updated super suit. We got a look at Diana in street clothing last week, but this is our first glimpse at her suited up for the sequel...
James Wan Announces Aquaman Trailer Will Debut at Comic-Con
For a moment of serenity to start your week, indulge in this peaceful new Aquaman logo. Director James Wan tweeted out the shimmering aqua blue symbol with a special announcement. The first trailer for Aquaman will debut next month at Comic-Con.
Comic-Con will be insane!! This is the new glyph/logo. Freshly smuggled out of Atlantis! (stolen off King Orm’s belt buckle) pic.twitter.com/NLmIXUaXEM
— James Wan (@creepypuppet) June 15, 2018
Wan joked that the new logo was,...
Incredibles 2‘s Shading Art Director Reveals the Film’s Insane Level of Detail
Like production designer Ralph Eggleston, with whom we spoke about putting together the look of Incredibles 2, shading art director Bryn Imagire is a longtime Pixar collaborator. Since working as a computer graphics painter on 1998’s A Bug’s Life, Imagire has been a member of the visual effects or art departments of Coco, Ratatouille, UP, the first Incredibles,...
Star Wars Actor Reveals at Least Nine More Films are in Development
Star Wars fans, rejoice! It looks like there won’t be another movieless black hole after the current trilogy concludes. As a veteran voice actor for the saga has confirmed, there could be nine or more future releases as Disney continues to push the universe in new directions.
The news comes from Tom Kane, the man who provides a voice for the character Yoda in the Clone Wars television show and multiple video game series...
Production Designer Ralph Eggleston on Creating the World of Incredibles 2 – Part 2
After a fourteen year interlude, director Brad Bird’s second installment starrring Pixar’s beloved animated superhero family, Incredibles 2, came out this week. As Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), and their children Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dashiell (Huck Milner), and baby Jack-Jack attempt to navigate a comeback, a first love, math, and a wild array of newfound superpowers (respectively), the audience is treated to a seamless retro-futuristic setting for the endeavors. Earlier, we spoke with production designer Ralph Eggleston about the research and design behind the sets;...
Production Designer Ralph Eggleston on Creating the World of Incredibles 2 – Part I
Fourteen years after Pixar’s The Incredibles anticipated Hollywood’s wave of superhero titles with the charming, animated, crime-fighting Parr family, director Brad Bird revisits the Parrs right where he left them — undercover, in a 1950s-era strip motel. At the beginning of Incredibles 2, Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), Mom and Dad Parr, have messily and unsuccessfully taken on a bank villain, and their superhero program is getting the axe. Luckily, perhaps,...
Pinar Toprak Becomes First Woman to Score Marvel Film With Captain Marvel
Pinar Toprak will compose the score of Marvel’s Captain Marvel film, becoming the first female composer to work on a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Toprak is most well-known for scoring Krypton, a TV show on SyFy, and the breakout video game of this past year, Fortnite, and while those two are well known properties, her selection was extremely outside the box. Most of her film credits to date have been lower key thrillers and horror movies...
Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr. Glass is Back in M. Night Shyamalan’s Upcoming Glass
Samuel L. Jackson has had about every kind of role known to man, but he plays a great villain. His performance in Django Unchained as the cunning head house slave, Stephen, gave us all chills. Even in films like Pulp Fiction, where he plays more of an anti-hero, no one can forget his menacing delivery of Ezekiel 25:17. Now, his Mr. Glass character’s name graces the title of the third movie in the Unbreakable franchise...
Atlantis Glows in the First Images from Aquaman
Looking to plan a summer getaway somewhere with sand and surf? How about Atlantis? Atlantis looks cool. Highlights you’re sure to see include cool old maps, casual shipwrecks with gold doubloons, and full body scale bathing suits. EW got the first look at production stills from Aquaman and they are sure to inspire dreams of undersea adventures.
These are early shots for sure and we are still waiting on a trailer, but what we can see puts Aquaman in the running for the most majestic superhero film across the DC comics...
How Superflys’ Costume Designer Curated the Sensational Look
Costume designer Antoinette Messam got hired on December 18 to costume the suave hustlers of Superfly and on January 19, cameras rolled in Atlanta. “It was like the fastest production ever!,” says the Jamaican-born designer. Getting up to speed in a hurry, Messam went “power-shopping” over the holidays in Toronto, where she loaded up on Fresh Company clothing. She then scoured stores in New York, explored off-the-grid spots in Atlanta and scoured the web for online purchases. By the time filming began in Atlanta,...
Writer/Director Brad Bird and Holly Hunter Talk Incredibles 2
It’s been a long time coming, but fourteen years after creating The Incredibles, writer-director Brad Bird has re-united his nuclear family of superheroes for new animated adventures. The twist: housewife Helen Parr, AKA Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), springs into action while her husband Bob/Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) begrudgingly assumes Mr. Mom duties for his super-powered kids Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack. Last week in a West Hollywood hotel, Bird gathered with his stars to discuss their seat-of-the-pants creative process in the face of a release date that got pushed up by a year...
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch is Going High-Tech to Steal Christmas
If Mariah Carey can gear up for Christmas in June, so can the Grinch. Illumination just released the second trailer for the new spin on the green grouch. The story might have aged, but the new animation is popping. The Grinch’s character design is incredible. We’re able to see each individual hair, giving the character the fuzzy, textured look he had in the book. Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Grinch with the perfect blend of disgust and superiority that makes the character so maddening...
Star Wars Creator George Lucas Goes Deep on the Science Behind the Force
In 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered there are smaller particles than the atom, namely electrons. Now, in 2018 we finally know what is smaller than the Force. According to George Lucas, the answer is Whills. The microscopic creatures were once intended to be the stars of Star Wars Episodes 7-9 and we would have never known the names Rey, Finn or Poe. Lucas relinquished creative control in 2012 after selling Lucasfilm to Disney, but the director finally touched upon his intended storyline...
How To Train Your Dragon Writer and Director Prepares for the Trilogy’s End
Recently, Dean DeBlois, the mind behind the How to Train Your Dragon films, sat down with Collider to discuss The Hidden World and closing the trilogy. It has been emotional for all of us to realize that this series is coming to an end. We have seen these characters grow old, change, come and go. We have witnessed the evolution of a society that once fought off dragons to one that will go to war to protect them...
Ocean’s 8 Production Designer on the Art of the Con Artist
Alex DiGerlando made his reputation as a production designer when he conjured the gritty swamp vibe for 2012’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. DiGerlando followed that stunning achievement with his spooky evocation of rural Louisiana subcultures in the first season of True Detective. Heist movie Ocean’s 8 represents a radical shift in milieu for the NYU-educated production designer. Working with director Gary Ross, he presents a high-fashion vision of Manhattan centered on the Met Gala as backdrop to the theft of a $150 million diamond necklace orchestrated by Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) and her crew...
Stop-Motion Master Travis Knight Brings Bumblebee to Life in New Featurette
Travis Knight is one of the most highly-regarded animators working today. The acclaimed Kubo and the Two Strings director is also the President and CEO of Laika Studios. The stop-motion giant turned out instant classics like Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and ParaNorman. Above all else, Knight is an artist. He’s adept at transforming something inanimate — like the materials he builds his Laika figurines from — into something human. Paramount just released a glimpse into the magical way that Knight is transforming his animation skills to bring Bumblebee to life as the film’s director...
The Origin of a Demon that Haunted The Warrens is Revealed in The Nun Teaser
The Conjuring has had its fair share of terrifying spirits, but Valak of The Conjuring 2 may haunt us the most. Released during a seance seeking answers to the Amityville House killings, the demonic nun crept into Lorraine’s mind and frightened her with a vision of her husband dying. The first teaser for The Nun reveals that Valak has been terrorizing people for decades and she doesn’t fear anything holy.
In The Conjuring 2,...
Zoe Saldana has Wrapped Filming on Both Avatar 2 & 3
After almost 10 long years, James Cameron‘s Avatar sequels are really and truly happening. Word is that our beloved Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) has done what she needed to do—Saldana has wrapped filming on both of the sequels, Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, which are scheduled release is in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Last night at 20th Century Fox’s presentation at CineEurope, director James Cameron announced in a video clip that he is on day 130 of production on the Avatar sequels...
Wonder Woman‘s Steve Trevor Is Alive and Well and Living in 1984?
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot just casually gave us all reason to rejoice. May we introduce you to my new background image on every device I own from now until the end of time – Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) alive, well, and living in 1984. Wonder Woman 2 has begun filming and Jenkins tweeted out this incredible image of Trevor soaking in the sites of a 1980s mall. She even wrote a little bit of context that is giving us some heavy clues...
The First Teaser Trailer for Tim Burton’s Dumbo Lifts the Spirits
If you’re looking ahead to 2019, there are few films as intriguing as Tim Burton’s Dumbo. Now we’ve got our first glimpse at Burton’s live-action retelling of the Disney classic, and it should put to rest any fears Dumbo purists had about retelling the story on the big screen. At at mere minute and twenty seconds, the teaser for Dumbo manages to make you fall immediately in love with the titular baby elephant, who we first glimpse staring longingly at a flock of birds flying into the night’s sky from his cage...
