Which Movie Trailers Might You See During the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is this coming Sunday, which means football fans (especially fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers) will be enjoying three hours of heaven, but there’s another subset of fans that enjoy the big game—those who tune in for the highly produced ads often boasting major stars. And while you can already watch some of these spots, including Booking.com’s ad featuring Tina Fey using a body double to test-run travel experiences (her double is fellow 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski),
From “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” to “Bullet Train,” Producer Georgina Pope Has Her Eyes on Japan
Georgina Pope has been the go-to producer for overseas projects shooting in Japan for decades. She’s navigated the country’s cultural, logistical, and technical landscape and film industry to help bring a panoply of projects to fruition. As head of production at Twenty First City in Tokyo, her list of credits includes Earthquake Bird, Bullet Train, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter,
Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler Tease Ferocious “Dune: Part Two” Fight
That rumbling you hear is the sandworm-sized excitement building over Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, which premieres in less than a month, with tickets already on sale. This means that final trailers, final images, and some fresh insights from the filmmakers and stars are coming your way. In that vein, Warner Bros. has revealed a slew of new images, while stars Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler recently sat down with Collider and revealed a bit about the epic clash to come between Chalamet’s Paul Atreides and Butler’s Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
Director David Leitch Circling New “Jurassic World” Movie
The relentlessly action-packed world of dinosaurs might be getting one of the best directors of action in the business.
The Hollywood Reporter scoops that David Leitch, a master of mayhem in films including Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, and his long involvement in the John Wick franchise, is in talks to take on Universal’s upcoming new installment in their Jurassic World franchise.
Peacock Unveils First Look at Stormy Daniels Doc “Stormy”
Peacock has revealed the first look at documentarian Sarah Gibson’s (Orgasm inc: The Story of OneTaste) new film Stormy, centered on the life and times of Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, with Daniels sharing her story about becoming one of the most unlikely centers of political gravity in recent memory. Stormy is executive produced by Erin Lee Carr (Britney vs Spears),
“Barbie” and Billie Eilish Have a Big Night at the Grammys
While the Grammy’s is music’s big night, the film world can still have a rather large part to play in the proceedings, and that was certainly true for last night’s 2024 awards ceremony. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie came into the Grammys with a whopping 11 nominations and took home three.
Two of those wins belonged to Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, whose beautiful Barbie tune “What Was I Made For?”
“Rebel Moon” Sound Editors on Creating Different Sonic Worlds for Zack Snyder
Part one of director Zach Snyder’s Netflix space epic, Rebel Moon — A Child of Fire, opens on a quaint farming community on a peaceful moon called Veldt. Hard at work in the fields, Kora (Sofia Boutella) is clearly not of this community of self-styled Luddites, and the evil Imperium she’s escaping soon catches up with her. A massive ship alights above Veldt’s rolling fields, dropping Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) and a band of soldiers onto the moon to commandeer the farmers’ grain stores and disturb their bucolic way of life forever.
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,
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.
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 –
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,
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,
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.
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,
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’
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,
“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,
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,
“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.
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,
