Olivia Wilde & Margot Robbie Will Adapt Comic “Avengelyne” From “Deadpool” Creator

Talk about a dynamic duo.

Olivia Wilde and Margot Robbie are coming together, alongside X-Men producer Simon Kinberg, to adapt the comic “Avengelyne” into a feature film. The comic comes from “Deadpool” co-creator Rob Liefeld.

Wilde, director of Book Smart and Don’t Worry Darling, will helm the adaptation, with Robbie’s production company LuckyChap, including her partners Tom Ackerley and Josie McNamara, producing alongside Kinberg. LuckyChap produced a little film from 2023 you might have heard of, 

Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four” Casts Julia Garner as Silver Surfer

Julia Garner’s set to blast off in a totally new direction with Marvel Studios.

The talented Ozark alum has been cast in director Matt Shakman’s highly-anticipated reboot of The Fantastic Four, as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. Garner will be joining a stellar cast in Shakman’s take on Marvel’s original super family, with Pedro Pascal playing Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby taking on Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman,

“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” Cinematographer Ben Seresin Unleashes Cinema’s Most Iconic Titans

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a vision as large and in charge as its two titular characters. In this MonsterVerse sequel, director Adam Wingard and cinematographer Ben Seresin (Pain & Gain) not only doubled down but quadrupled down on the robust vibrancy of Godzilla v Kong. It’s a pure crowd-pleasing aesthetic, which, for Seresin, is about far more than presenting the cleanest or prettiest sights or the most bombastic Titan takedown.

“Supergirl” Movie Finds Its Director in Craig Gillespie

Milly Alcock’s Supergirl is going to take flight with the man behind I, Tonya and Cruella. 

Craig Gillespie has been tapped to direct Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which will star Alcock as Kara Zor-El, a Kryptonian with immense powers and a family connection to Superman. Gillespie will direct from a script by Ana Nogueira in a story that will be at least partially based on the comic series by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.

What Kind of Music to Expect in “Joker: Folie á Deux”

Yesterday, Warner Bros. revealed the poster for director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie á Deux, which finds Joaquin Phoenix’s clown prince of chaos dipping his main squeeze, Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn. The film’s official Twitter page not only revealed the poster but also the date of the first trailer—April 9:

The world is a stage. Trailer April 9. #JokerMovie pic.twitter.com/FG6PkzJkvi

— Joker Movie (@jokermovie) April 2,

Critics Go Bananas for Dev Patel’s Revenge Epic “Monkey Man”

The critics are going ape wild for Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man. Patel leads his own tour-de-force action film as Kid, an anonymous young man who’s been suppressing his rage for years after his mother was murdered by the ruthless, heartless leaders who prey on the poor and powerless in Mumbai. All that’s about to change.

Kid is ultimately inspired to act by the legend of Hanuman,

Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga Take Center Stage in New “Joker: Folie á Deux” Poster

The most iconic villainous romance in all of comics is coming to the big screen, and a new poster teases just how suitable these two are for each other. Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, better known as the Joker, and Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn are locked in a romantic embrace in the poster for director Todd Phillips’s upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux. The tagline reads “The world is a stage.”

This is the first fresh look we’ve gotten at Phoenix and Gaga in the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Joker since Valentine’s Day when Phillips shared a few new photos of the most twisted romantic partners in the game.

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch Will Face Off in “War of the Roses” Remake

Two of the finest performers of their generation have signed up to go through a comically brutal divorce.

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch have signed on to Searchlight’s upcoming The War of the Roses remake, with Recount and Bombshell director Jay Roach on board to helm. The original Roses came out in 1989 and starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a pair of squabbling spouses who try every nasty trick in the book to drive each other out of their palatial estate during their divorce.

Desert Power: The Lasting Success of “Dune: Part Two” & Future Adaptations

While the fact that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two has achieved critical and commercial success isn’t all that surprising given the talent involved, it’s still a remarkable story given the wild ride Villeneuve and his collaborators have been on since they first set to work to adapt Frank Herbert’s legendary novel. Herbert’s first 1965 novel (he’d go on to write six novels set in the Dune universe) is a work of genuine sci-fi genius that was also legendarily hard to bring to the big screen.

A Ferocious Fight is Brewing in New “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” IMAX Trailer

20th Century Studios has just released a big, brawny new IMAX trailer for director Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which boasts perhaps the franchise’s most photo-realistic warring apes yet. The new installment promises a ton of action, as the story is set hundreds of years after the events in Matt Reeves’ 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes. and finds apes reigning supreme, with humanity reduced to a feral existence on the margins.

How “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” Cinematographer Eric Steelberg Brought Slimer & the Firehouse Back to Life

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has a visual style reminiscent of the iconic 1984 film, a palette cinematographer Eric Steelberg (Ahsoka, Hawkeye) intentionally crafted for this story that sees characters new and old strap on a proton pack to bust a chilling demon terrorizing their city. “We wanted to capture the texture, color, and grit of the original movie so nothing seemed too new,” Steelberg tells The Credits about creating the look that artfully blends rich hues and deep blacks for a heightened,

Francis Ford Coppola’s Long-Awaited New Film “Megalopolis” Screens for First Time

One of the greatest directors of all time has finally revealed his decades-long passion project.

Francis Ford Coppola screened Megalopolis at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater in Los Angeles for a host of potential buyers and distributors, as well as a starry crowd of fellow filmmakers that included Andy Garcia, Al Pacino, Colleen Camp, Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage, Angelica Huston, Spike Jonze, Jon Favreau, Darren Aronofsky, Cailee Spaeny, and Roger Corman.

Florence Pugh Plays By Her Own Rules in Set Video From Marvel’s “Thunderbolts”

Florence Pugh was very much in character as the Black Widow Yelena Belova when she broke the rules (lightly, and with panache) to show us a bit of the set for Marvel Studios’ upcoming antihero team-up movie Thunderbolts.

Pugh is reprising the role that she first took on in the MCU’s standalone Black Widow, playing Scarlett Johansson’s estranged sister, and then later in Marvel’s Disney+ series Hawkeye. Pugh was in wardrobe as Yelena during the impromptu set tour,

Steven Spielberg Anoints “Dune: Part Two” a Masterpiece

“One of the most brilliant sci-fi films I’ve ever seen,” said Steven Spielberg about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. This is just about the highest possible praise from one of the best who ever did it.

Spielberg and Villeneuve appeared together on the DGA’s Director’s Cut podcast, where the man who brought us Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds gave all the extraterrestrial flowers to the Arrival and Dune helmer.

“Poor Things” Dynamic Duo Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos Reteam in First “Kinds of Kindness” Trailer

One of the most enjoyable recent examples of a director and a star getting the best out of each other is that of Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone. The dynamic duo is on quite a run, which began with Lanthimos’s sensational 2019 The Favourite, continued with last year’s outstanding Poor Things (which netted Stone her second Oscar), and will carry us into this summer’s Kinds of Kindness, 

From Kitchen Chaos to Rock Legend: Jeremy Allen White Circling Bruce Springsteen Role

Jeremy Allen White’s career is really cooking now. Scorching after recently winning a Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award for his portrayal of Carmy Berzatto in FX’s tasty kitchen dramedy The Bear, Allen might be handing in his apron and chef’s knife for a pair of scuffed jeans and a guitar.

White is currently in talks to play none other than the Boss in a movie about Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album “Nebraska,”

“Dune: Part Two” Cinematographer Greig Fraser on Finding Clarity in Chaos

In part one of our interview with Dune: Part Two cinematographer Greig Fraser, the Oscar-winner took us on a trip to the planet of Giedi Prime, home to the vampiric Harkonnen clan, to reveal how he captured that bloodless light during Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler)’s gladiator scene, those inky blacks during Feyd’s fateful meeting with Lady Margot, and how the surprising inspiration for those “anti-fireworks” after Feyd’s victory.

Now we turn to Fraser’s method for filming action sequences,

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” Trailer Calls Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Back Into Action

The first trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die has arrived, reuniting Will Smith’s Mike Lowery and Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett for another heady dose of action. Smith and Lawrence re-team with their Bad Boys For Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah for the fourth film in the franchise.

It’s been a while and a whole different world since we last saw Smith and Lawrence’s onscreen chemistry in full gear—Bad Boys For Life arrived before the pandemic and was a major hit in 2020.

Scarlett Johansson May Be Headlining New “Jurassic World” Movie

Scarlett Johansson is looking to be the likely candidate to lead Universal Pictures’ new dinosaur epic. Johansson is in talks to star in the new Jurassic World movie by The Creator director Gareth Edwards.

Universal is moving with the speed of a velociraptor to put the pieces together, which already includes a script from original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.

This would mark Johansson’s return to the movie franchise business of which she was a part for so long and knows so well.

“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” First Reactions Tease a Ferocious Kaiju Battle Royale

The first reactions are in for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Adam Wingard’s follow-up to Godzilla vs. Kong, which promises more Kaiju action and a pair of new villains that make even Mecha-Godzilla look tame. 

The new villains coming to give Godzilla and Kong a run for their apex predator money are Scar King and Shimu, but you’ll need to see Wingard’s latest to get a better sense of who these new beasts are.