“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Scares Up Standing Ovation & Rapturous Reception at Venice Film Festival
Talk about a riveting return from the grave.
Twenty-six years after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton delivered their roguishly charming 1988 horror comedy, the dynamic duo, along with other original Beetlejuice stars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, were on hand in Venice to unveil their long-awaited sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The wait was worth it.
Burton and his cast were welcomed to Venice with a boisterous standing ovation in Venice before their film’s world premiere on Wednesday night.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Second Unit Director & Stunt Coordinator George Cottle on Capturing Those Cameos
In the last installment of our conversation with Deadpool & Wolverine’s second unit director and stunt coordinator George Cottle, we covered the hysterical dance/action opening sequence and what it took to shoot the bone-crunching brawl inside a real Honda Odyssey minivan. Smashing box office records on every level—the first R-rated movie to open domestically over $200 million, the sixth biggest domestic opening of all time—the film joined the billion-dollar club just 23 days after opening in theaters,
Gambit Lives: “Deadpool & Wolverine” Deleted Scene Confirms Channing Tatum’s Remy LeBeau Survived
The Ragin’ Cajun lives on.
Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, has confirmed that Channing Tatum’s card-slinging superhero Gambit survived the climactic clash at the end of Deadpool & Wolverine. Reynolds shared a deleted scene on social media, proving that Gambit made it through the battle at the film’s end that included a host of other long-ago discarded superheroes, including Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, Wesley Snipes’ Blade,
“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” Trailer Shines a Light on Keanu Reeves’ Shadow
Keanu Reeves has entered the fastest movie franchise not named Fast & Furious.
The official trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has sped online, unleashing the superstar as the character Shadow. Reeves is trading in his signature black suit from John Wick for the black fur of the speedy hedgehog who was first introduced in 2001’s Sonic Adventure 2 as a character who’s just as fast as Sonic,
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Stunt Coordinator & Second Unit Director George Cottle on the Comically Ultra-Violent Style
“Suck it Fox, I’m going to Disney World!” So declares our favorite fourth-wall-breaking antihero, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), in Shawn Levy’s hilariously meta threequel, Deadpool & Wolverine, which is back in the #1 spot domestically for the fourth weekend. With Deadpool’s signature brand of acerbic sarcasm and self-deprecating humor, the raunchy action comedy often references the aftermath of the 2019 Disney-Fox mega-merger, which led to the titular duo landing under the Disney banner.
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Trailer Unveils Anime Trip to Middle-earth
Fans got their first look at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past June, when none other than Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, was on hand to reveal 20 minutes of the film. But now, Warner Bros. has unveiled the official trailer to the rest of the world, and it’s a beaut.
Helmed by visionary director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex),
How Marvel got Robert Downey Jr. Back as Dr. Doom
When it was revealed during this past July’s Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU as the iconic villain Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, it was legitimately one of the most shocking pieces of news made at a Con ever. This is because Downey, the face of the MCU for a decade as Tony Stark/Iron Man (alongside Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers/Captain America), had his swan song in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame,
“The Room Next Door” Trailer Unveils Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s Latest
It’s a trio made in film lover heaven—Spanish writer/director extraordinaire Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton teamed up for the auteur’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. Sony Pictures Classics has shared the first peek from Almodóvar’s latest ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 2.
The Room Next Door is centered on former close friends and colleagues Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore),
“It Ends With Us” Production Designer Russell Barnes on Crafting Visual Contrasts of Love & Control
Director Justin Baldoni’s film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel, It Ends With Us, in which Baldoni also stars as vicious neurosurgeon Ryle, is a surprise hit of the summer. The movie is a romance suffused with darkness, following Lily (Blake Lively as an adult, Isabela Ferrer as an adolescent) as she grows up and falls into a violent relationship that mirrors her parents (Amy Morton and Kevin McKidd).
As an adolescent in Maine looking to escape,
Benetone Films Co-Founder Kulthep Narula on Taking Thailand’s Film Industry to the Next Level
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Benetone Films has provided production services for over 100 feature films, TV series, and 1,000 TV commercials in over two decades. The Bangkok-based company is also a key provider for foreign productions filmed on location in Thailand. Ten projects have been approved through Thailand’s incentive scheme, including 2020’s The Forgotten Army for Amazon Studios and 2022’s Blood & Treasure season 2 for CBS Studios.
In recent years,
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Costume Designer Graham Churchyard on Bringing Back Logan’s Yellow Suit
Deadpool & Wolverine is more than a comic book movie—it’s like 20 comic book movies slashed and smashed into one, pulling characters from the past, present, and future of Marvel and 20th Century Fox’s film history. Audiences witnessed these characters all coming together again in the void, some even making history in the process.
The void is a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) cross paths with familiar faces and new superheroes with stark new powers.
“Alien: Romulus” Images Reveal Last Look at the Legendary Xenomorph, Cinema’s Gnarliest Monster
The wait is over—director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus is here, and with its arrival comes the return of one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.
While the film stars Cailee Spaeny (coming in for rave reviews), alongside a cast of young stars like Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, and Aileen Wu, Alien: Romulus brings back the xenomorph, which for our money might be the most viscerally terrifying creature from any sci-fi film,
James Cameron Reveals a Secret “Terminator” Project & “Avatar” Sequel Updates
James Cameron is famously a very busy, very driven man. He’s currently working on Avatar 3, recently revealed as Avatar: Fire and Ash at Disney’s D23 Expo. The film is due in theaters on December 19, 2025, and will feature a more militant and hostile race of the Na’vi called the Ash People. This blockbuster will be followed by Avatar 4 and 5,
New “Kraven the Hunter” Trailer Finds Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Marvel Villain Off the Leash
“My son, we are hunters, the greatest the world has ever known,” says Russell Crowe’s character at the top of the new trailer for director J.C Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. We find the son he’s speaking to, Sergei Kravinoff, aka Kraven the Hunter, in prison, but not for long. “The Hunter is a myth,” a fellow inmate tells Kraven—a costly mistake. Kraven proves that the myth of the Hunter has an ounce of truth and makes a bold,
Everything You Need to Know About “Alien” & “Aliens” Before You See “Alien: Romulus”
With the first reactions to Alien: Romulus calling it a genuinely terrifying sci-fi experience, we thought it was a good idea to give you some grounding in precisely where the film is situated before you brave the theater to see it. Romulus is the rare interquel, connecting what happened in the 57 years between the fateful Nostromo mission of 1979’s Alien and sole survivor Ellen Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) next mission,
First “Alien: Romulus” Reactions Call it a Genuinely Terrifying Sci-Fi Horror Experience
The first reactions to director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus are here after 20th Century Studios unleashed the film on audiences at the world premiere in Los Angeles. Romulus is the eighth installment in the iconic sci-fi franchise, which began in Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien and is set between that film and James Cameron’s thrilling 1986 sequel Aliens.
To ensure he had his mythology right,
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick on Resurrecting Logan
Moviegoers apparently love an underdog, at least when it takes the form of Ryan Reynolds’ Avengers wannabe Wade “Deadpool” Wilson. Deadpool & Wolverine, the biggest R-rated movie of all time, with more than a billion at the global box office, co-stars Hugh Jackman and comes fully loaded with a slew of superheroes newly arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now that Disney owns the studio that once controlled the rights to X-Men and other comic book characters.
Disney’s “Snow White” Trailer Reveals Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen in Live-Action Remake
We’ve finally got our first look at Disney’s Snow White.
Disney revealed the first look at its new take on the iconic classic at its D23 event this past Friday. Rachel Zegler stars in the title role, with Gal Gadot playing the Evil Queen. The film is directed by Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, and Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul add their musical chops to the film’s tunes.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Co-Writer Zeb Wells on Scripting Marvel’s Raunchiest, Wildest Film Ever
Even if Deadpool & Wolverine hadn’t become the year’s top-grossing movie, self-described comics nerd-turned-screenwriter Zeb Wells would have been thrilled just for the opportunity to furnish Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool character with snarky wise-cracks. Joining Reynolds, director Shawn Levy, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, Wells, who previously penned “Venom: Dark Origin” and “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic books, says, “I was a huge fan of the first two Deadpool movies,
Apple Original Films Planning Sequel to Brad Pitt & George Clooney Caper “Wolfs”
In writer/director Jon Watts’s upcoming original film Wolfs, which will make its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are finally sharing the screen together again for the first time in 16 years. Now, Apple Original Films has made a fresh deal with Watts to write, direct, and produce a sequel for Pitt and Clooney.
Wolfs is also slated to have a limited theatrical run,
