Jordan Peele’s Get Out Continues to Make History
Jordan Peele’s Get Out has received extraordinary amounts of acclaim since its public release in February. It has smashed quite a few records, which is astounding when considering its $4.5 million budget. It has been a success in the box office, making Jordan Peele the first African-American writer-director to earn $100-million on a debut film, which has led to fresh offers for the man who, along with Keegan Michael-Key, has already put his stamp on the small screen with Key &...
Alien Day Approaches on 4-26-17
Earlier today we shared these three new TV spots for Alien: Covenant. Now, 20th Century Fox has revealed their all-new Alien Universe Hub, which will keeps fans busy until the official Alien Day, on April 26, 2017. The new site has missions for fans to take, including creating and submitting your own original Xenomorph-themed Alien artwork by April 19. For inspiration, check out our piece on the man who helped Ridley Scott turn the very first ...
The Final, Ferocious King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword Trailer
Director Guy Ritchie has married his singular, kinetic filmmaking chops to one of the most iconic tales in the Western canon for Warner Bros. Pictures King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The final trailer begins with arguably the most iconic moment in the story, when a young Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) pulls the titular sword, Excalibur, from the stone, and sets into motion an epic adventure. It’s easily the most compelling of all the King Arthur promos we’ve seen (using Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”...
The Dead Have Risen in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales TV Spot
The dead have taken command of the sea, and they’re looking for a girl (Kaya Scodelario’s Carina Smyth) and, wait for it, a Sparrow (Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack, of course). Walt Disney Pictures has been giving us a closer look at Dead Men Tell No Tales the last few weeks, sharing a behind-the-scenes featurette, a preview, and a trailer. In this new TV spot, we get a glimpse of one of the Pirates original cast’s big return—Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner is back...
Tom Cruise Meets his Match in new The Mummy Trailer
You know if Tom Cruise is headlining your action pic, you’re going to have a lot of super insane stunts. Universal has already shared with us the zero gravity scene in Cruise’s upcoming The Mummy, in which he and co-star Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) are tossed around the inside of a cargo plane as it crashes to earth. The scene is largely all practical effects, with Cruise and Wallis performing the stunt in zero gravity on a plane that was designed specifically for the purpose...
Run, Hide or Pray in new Alien: Covenant TV Spots
20th Century Fox's promo team would have you believe that there are three ways of dealing with a xenomorph—you can run, you can pray, and you can hide. These are the titles for the three latest TV spots for Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien: Covenant, and like the trailers, teasers, featurettes and art that 20th Century Fox has shared thus far, they're a glimpse of what looks like a return to Alien form for the man who gave us one of the greatest monsters of all time...
The Dazzling Design of Ghost in the Shell
Freakish cyborgs look right at home in Scarlett Johansson's Ghost in the Shell sci-fi epic thanks in part to three years of ingenious design work from New Zealand-based Weta Workshop. Inspired by Masamune Shirow's visionary Manga series and 1995 anime film, co-art director Ben Hawker, who previously channeled Middle Earth critters for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, worked with director Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) to fashion a wild array of futuristic semi-android city dwellers...
War for the Planet of the Apes Drops New Trailer
Men have known to become less than human in times of great intensity. According to the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), this is precisely the moment mankind has come to in War for the Planet of the Apes . In the new trailer, the Colonel makes his case, and it’s a disturbing one:
"There are times when it's necessary to abandon our humanity to save humanity,"
In previous teasers,...
The Trailer for Colin Trevorrow’s Thriller The Book of Henry is a Trip
The last time we watched a Colin Trevorrow film, it was his 2015 smash shit Jurassic World, which returned moviegoers to Isla Nubar, the island that Steven Spielberg set his iconic 1993 original, Jurassic Park. Since then, Trevorrow was tapped to direct a little film called Star Wars: Episode IX, the final film in the new Skywalker trilogy that began with The Force Awakens and continues with The Last Jedi this December...
Director Oz Perkins Takes It Slow in The Blackcoat’s Daughter Shocker
Oz Perkins wrote and directed The Blackcoat's Daughter (opening in theaters and On Demand March 31) determined to create a slow-burn horror film in the classic mold. The story: two teenagers (Kiernan Shipka of Mad Men and British actress Lucy Boynton) go mad when they're abandoned at their devil-infested prep school over winter break. Separately, a depressed young woman (Emma Roberts) treks through the night on a mysterious mission her own. Perkins says,...
Pixar Unveils Dante’s Lunch Short About Dog Featured in Upcoming Coco
Pixar has unveiled this adorable short, Dante’s Lunch, to tease their upcoming feature Coco, and we’re guessing you’re going to love it. Dante is the mischievous best friend of Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), the star of Coco. In the short, Dante’s hungry and looking for a little lunch when he finds what every dog knows to be a great appetizer, a bone. The only issue is this bone has a mind of it’s own,...
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Official Trailer Shifts Into Overdrive
When we saw Baby Driver down in Austin at the South by Southwest Film Festival, we were well aware we’d just seen a certifiable hit. Edgar Wright’s loving spin on the heist movie proved that nobody deconstructs and reconstitutes genre better than he does. As we wrote then, “[Wright] has made zombies fresh again in Shaun of the Dead, buddy cop stories hilarious again in Hot Fuzz,...
Pennywise the Clown Terrifies in new It Trailer
Remember yesterday when we shared photos and the new teaser for director Andy Muschietti’s It, an adaptation Stephen King’s iconic novel? And we warned those of you who are too young to remember the pretty solidly terrifying It TV series in the 90s, let alone King’s source material, that once you allowed Pennywise the Clown into your life, there was no turning back? Well, the official teaser trailer for the Warner Bros...
Joe Swanberg Gambles on Jake Johnson’s Poker Hand in Win It All
Director Joe Swanberg never played a game of cards in his life, but he totally relates to the poker player at the heart of his new movie Win It All (opening April 7 on Netflix). "As an independent filmmaker I feel like a gambler all the time," he says. "Especially as someone who puts my own money into my own movies, I really know that feeling of taking a big risk and not knowing what's going to happen."...
Watch the Wild Trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne star in director Luc Besson’s hallucinatory sci-fi Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which The Fifth Element director has been hankering to make for years. The new trailer shows Besson is once again right at home in the colorful, kaleidoscope world of Alpha, a city far out in space where DeHaan and Delevingne’s special agents are sent to try and uncover the dark forces gathered in the intergalactic megatropolis and what they’re up to...
Why Does Dom Betray the Family in The Fate of the Furious?
How could he? This is the question fans of the Fast & the Furious fans are asking as they learn more about The Fate of the Furious. The film sees Dom (Vin Diesel) turning his back on his crew and teaming up with a sinister seductress named Cipher (Charlize Theron).
In this new featurette, the cast of Fate and Diesel himself reflect on the massive fan base the franchise has generated in now two decades of films,...
Go Behind-the-Scenes With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales due in theaters in about two months, Walt Disney Pictures has begun teasing the latest Jack Sparrow adventure. Just this week we got more background on why Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) has such a massive beef with Jack (Johnny Depp, as if you didn’t know). It turns out, the now dead Salazar was once a jaunty captain who was cursed by Sparrow and has been hunting him in his ghostly state ever since...
Get Out‘s Cinematographer Reveals the Methods Behind Jordan Peele’s Brilliant Madness
From the moment the first trailer for Get Out dropped, we knew this was going to be something special. We were beyond excited to see comedy genius Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) take on a horror movie and the final product exceeded all our hopes. Get Out travels from poking fun at the insecurities of race relations in America to dramatizing the terror of racism in a way that has critics becoming philosophers as they try to unpack Peele's genius for tackling sensitive subjects with humor,...
Casey Affleck Goes Beneath the Sheets in A Ghost Story‘s First Trailer
A24 has quickly built a reputation for working with auteurs and producing high quality, conformity busting genre films. Recall the great Ex Machina, which took a common sci-fi conceit (sentient robot, A.I., feckless humans) and gave it a stylish, updated twist. It looks like the studio is once again teaming up with serious talents to reimagine genre—this time the ghost story—in, wait for it, David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon), who A Ghost Story...
Han Solo Casting Update, Character Names Revealed
Even though it doesn’t yet have a name, Woody Harrelson already boasted recently that the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo spinoff will be the best in the franchise (while Woody's character has gotten a name—Beckett). With even more details emerging from what already sounded like an incredible film, he very well could be right.
Harrelson appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last Wednesday, where he revealed information about his character for the first time...
