Brad Pitt Nearing Role in Quentin Tarantino’s Next Film “The Movie Critic”

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino last worked together on Tarantino’s masterful Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, and now the duo might be re-teaming for QT’s next film, The Movie Critic.

Deadline reports that it’s all but a done deal that Pitt and Tarantino are re-teaming for the third time, with Pitt possibly taking on the title role. The director and star clearly have chemistry,

By The Credits  |  February 2, 2024

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Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire On Finding Their Voices in “Fitting In”

Being a teenage girl is hard. Being a teenage girl with a rare reproductive disorder is a nightmare. 

Fitting In (originally titled Bloody Hell) is a semi-autobiographical account of writer/director Molly McGlynn’s own Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) diagnosis. MRKH Syndrome is a rare congenital disorder that is characterized by an underdeveloped vagina and uterus, making it difficult to perform vaginally penetrative sex and impossible to become pregnant or carry a child. 

By Andria Moore  |  February 2, 2024
Netflix Reveals First “Squid Game” Season 2 Footage

Netflix has revealed the first footage from Squid Game season two, along with a slew of fresh looks at their upcoming slate for 2024. The streamer’s big year ahead includes the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender (February 22), Cameron Diaz’s return to acting alongside Jamie Foxx in the spy comedy Back in Action (appropriately titled!), and part two of Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon: Part 2 –

By The Credits  |  February 1, 2024
Guillermo del Toro Shares Icily Beautiful Image From his Upcoming “Frankenstein”

It’s hard to imagine a more perfect marriage of filmmaker and subject matter than Guillermo del Toro and Frankenstein. The illustrious, industrious filmmaker behind some of the very best creature features of the century, including his Oscar-winning masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth and his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, was born to bring Frankenstein’s monster back to the big screen. Now, Del Toro has shared an image from a scouting mission for his upcoming film,

By The Credits  |  February 1, 2024
Danny Boyle’s Iconic Zombie Franchise to Return With “28 Years Later” Sequel Landing at Sony

One of the most iconic, disturbing zombie films of the 21st century was Danny Boyle‘s breathless 28 Days Later, which featured a script by Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland and a breakout performance by a then little-known Cillian Murphy. Now, The Hollywood Reporter scoops that 22 years after that 2002 classic, Boyle, Garland, and Murphy are bringing out 28 Years Later, 

By The Credits  |  February 1, 2024
New “Madame Web” Teaser Introduces Villain Ezekiel Sims

In Sony Pictures’ upcoming Madame Web, Dakota Johnson stars Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan with some unusual abilities and a deep connection to others like her. Like Cassandra in Greek myth, Cassandra Webb is blessed (or cursed, as the original myth makes clear) with clairvoyance, and these abilities, combined with her complicated past, thrust her into a dangerous game.

The film is directed by the talented S.J.

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2024
New Supergirl Milly Alcock Had James Gunn’s Attention Long Before She Auditioned

Arguably the biggest news in the film world yesterday was the announcement that Milly Alcock had landed the highly-coveted role of Supergirl for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new-look DC Studios. Alcock and Meg Donnelly were the final two people vying for the role and had both done screen tests last week. Supergirl has a very bright future ahead of her, as Gunn and Safran plan to deploy her in at least one upcoming film or series (possibly Gunn’s Superman: Legacy,

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2024
Christopher Nolan on What Draws Him to Crafting Large-Scale Movies

Christopher Nolan is well aware that he’s in an extremely fortunate position as a filmmaker. Granted, this is a fortune he’s earned through a career of crafting huge and hugely entertaining blockbusters across a variety of genres, but he’s certainly not taking it for granted.

Speaking with Time magazine, Nolan was quick to point out the smaller films he’s recently seen and loved, including Celine Song’s Past Lives and Charlotte Wells’ 

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2024
Henry Cavill Takes on the Nazis in First Trailer for Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare”

Henry Cavill taking on the Nazis in an action flick from Guy Ritchie based on a true story? That’s a mission we’ll accept. Lionsgate has revealed the first trailer for Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which centers Cavill as a recruit in the British Military’s desperate attempt to turn the tides of World War II.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is based on recently declassified files of the British War Department,

By The Credits  |  January 30, 2024
“House of the Dragon” Star Milly Alcock Lands Supergirl Role

Milly Alcock is making the move from Westeros to Krypton.

Alcock won the highly coveted role of Supergirl after screen testing for DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran last week, edging out Meg Donnelly. Alcock is expected to appear in possibly two DC Studios projects before starring in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which will be the character’s full-throated entrance into the new-look, unified DC Universe.

One of the first questions is whether Alcock will appear in Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy, 

By The Credits  |  January 30, 2024

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Poster Designer

The Fittingly Frankenstein Creations of “Poor Things” Poster Designer Vasilis Marmatakis

“The movie’s poster is usually the first thing you see, so it should create an anticipation to see the film,” said Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind the alluring poster art for Poor Things, a feminist riff on the Frankenstein legend that is up for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. “It’s an entry point.”

In the age of social media and star contracts, which specify their face appear front and center on promotional materials,

By Craigh Barboza  |  January 30, 2024
“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” Drops Official Trailer

We all know who to call when there’s something strange in the neighborhood—but what happens if that strange thing is a deep-winter cold front in the middle of July? That’s the question posed by Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer, which finds the latest addition to the franchise blowing in on a blast of arctic air.

The official trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has arrived, with the new film following the events in director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

By The Credits  |  January 29, 2024
First “Despicable Me 4” Trailer Reveals Addition of Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, and More

Despicable Me 4 is adding a slew of superstars to voice brand new characters to bring the franchise back to the big screen in a major way.

Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Stephen Colbert, Chloe Fineman, and Joey King are all joining the voice cast in Universal and Illumination’s latest addition to their ongoing animated adventures with Gru and company. Ferrell plays one Gru’s (Steve Carrell) new nemesis, Maxime Le Mal, while Vergara plays his girlfriend,

By The Credits  |  January 29, 2024
Two New “Dune: Part Two” Teasers Arrive as Tickets Go on Sale

Tickets are now on sale for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, easily one of the biggest releases of the year. Warner Bros. has dropped two new teasers, titled “Heart” and “Rise,” to tease your opportunity to scoop up seats, and each gives us a very brief refresher on where we left off in the original and braces us for the war to come. And that war, and all the breathless action it will entail,

By The Credits  |  January 29, 2024
Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” Eyeing “Top Gun: Maverick” Star Lewis Pullman for Big Role

From the cockpit of Top Gun: Maverick and the laboratories in Lessons in Chemistry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe—Lewis Pullman is having quite the ride.

The rising star is now Marvel Studios’ top choice to replace Steven Yeun in the role of the antihero Sentry in their upcoming antihero film Thunderbolts. Pullman would be joining a starry cast that includes Florence Pugh, reprising her role as the Black Widow Yelena Belova,

By The Credits  |  January 26, 2024

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Director, Screenwriter

“The Peasants” Co-Director/Writer Hugh Welchman on Hand Painting Real Life Hardships Into Animated Magic

Creating any animated feature film is an awesome commitment of time, talent, and resources. But the animated films of the Poland-based husband-and-wife directing team of Hugh Welchman (who is British) and D.K. Welchman (who is Polish) go well beyond the common description of “labor of love.”  For their groundbreaking debut in 2017, the Oscar-nominated animated feature Loving Vincent, the team used a hand-painted animation technique to bring the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life.

By Loren King  |  January 26, 2024
“Road House” Trailer Reveals Jake Gyllenhaal vs Conor McGregor in Ferocious Remake

Road House is now open for business, but fair warning—don’t mess with the bouncer.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Amazon MGM Studios’ remake of the 1989 classic that starred Patrick Swayze as the bouncer Dalton, an impossibly tough fella—imbued with Swayze’s singular charm and grace—who was hired as a bouncer at a rough Florida bar to tame the unruly. Things got a lot more complicated than your average bar brawl, however, and that’s precisely what will happen in director Doug Liman’s new take.

By The Credits  |  January 25, 2024
Supergirl Casting Narrows as James Gunn Looks to Land DC Studios’ New Superheroine

The casting process for DC Studio’s next Supergirl is heating up and narrowing down as the search for the Kryptonian reaches its final phases.

Supergirl will play a huge part in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new-look DC Studios, appearing in Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy and then starring in her own standalone Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

The latest scoop from The Hollywood Reporter is that Milly Alcock and Meg Donnelly have recently taken screen tests in Atlanta for the role and stand as the two finalists.

By The Credits  |  January 25, 2024

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Producer

Producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc on Fighting Piracy, Championing Filmmakers, and Vietnam’s Huge Potential

Tran Thi Bich Ngoc is an established Vietnamese film producer with a long track record of success and an eye for great stories. Among her latest projects are Bui Thac Chuyen’s Glorious Ashes, Vietnam’s submission to the 2024 Academy Awards for the best international feature film category.

In 2022, the rural drama received its world premiere as the first Vietnamese film selected for the main competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

By Silvia Wong  |  January 25, 2024
“Deadpool 3” Wraps Filming

The Merc with the Mouth and the be-clawed Canadian mutant have done the deed.

That is, Deadpool 3, after a robust delay caused by SAG-AFTRA strike, has wrapped filming. Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, announced the news on Instagram on Wednesday, thanking the cast, crew, and director Shawn Levy. He also took up some space in his caption, as you know he’s wont to do, to have a little fun with co-star Hugh Jackman,

By The Credits  |  January 24, 2024