Many of the Best Stunts in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” Are Practical

The Indiana Jones franchise has always been a joyous ode to old-school filmmaking, where practical effects and stunts give viewers the kind of swashbuckling, cave-spelunking, snake-avoiding, boulder-barreling, whip-cracking adventure they now expect from an Indy film. Considering the previous four films in the franchise were all directed by Steven Spielberg, it’s no surprise they were endlessly creative in the way they kept devising the most devilishly dangerous situations for Indy (Harrison Ford, obviously) to puzzle his way out of,

By The Credits  |  June 27, 2023
James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” Deep Into Casting Clark Kent, Lois Lane & More

One of Superman’s many abilities is super-hearing, and this is sort of what many of the outlets that cover Hollywood are attempting to deploy as they track the casting process on James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy. 

The names that seem confirmed as the finalists for the two lead roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane are Nicholas Hoult, David Corenswet, and Tom Brittney all vying for the role of Clark Kent/Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan,

By The Credits  |  June 27, 2023
“Stephen Curry: Underrated” Trailer Shows how an NBA Legend Was Made

Stephen Curry is one of those rare athletes that usher in a new era in their chosen sport through the brilliance of their play. Curry isn’t just a phenomenal basketball player, he’s a transformational one, credited with extending not only where it was plausible for a shooter of his skills to launch a three but forcing the rest of the league to adapt to a dynamic, free-flowing, total-court style of play. With out-of-this-world ballhandling skills and one of the sweetest shots in the game’s history,

By The Credits  |  June 26, 2023
New “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Images Include Closer Look at Tom Cruise’s Craziest Stunt

We now know why Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One team filmed his insane motorcycle-into-BASE jump stunt on day one. The short answer—the stunt was so complex and difficult that, if something had gone wrong, at least it would have happened before they’d spent millions of dollars and many days and nights filming other parts of the film. Once successfully completed, the cast and crew could focus their full attention on the rest of the film without the highly difficult sequence looming in their near future.

By The Credits  |  June 26, 2023
New “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” Teaser & Photos Hype Harrison Ford’s Final Indy Adventure

We are only a few days away from the release of director James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and now we’ve got our final look at a fresh teaser and a new batch of photos from Indy’s last adventure. Mangold becomes the first man not named Steven Spielberg to lead Harrison Ford through an Indy film, and not only that, he’s got the added pressure of making sure this final adventure is worthy of one of the most iconic franchises in film history.

By The Credits  |  June 26, 2023
Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls” Trailer Finds Margaret Qualley & Geraldine Viswanathan Hitting the Road

Film lovers rejoice anytime the Coen Brothers release a new feature, and the same is now true anytime one of the brothers unveils their own feature film. We were rightly enthused when Joel Coen’s Macbeth came out, a sizzling adaptation of the deathless Shakespeare tale starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, no less, and we’re equally thrilled about Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, an altogether different kind of film from one of the greatest American filmmakers working today.

By The Credits  |  June 23, 2023
Get Spooked in New “Haunted Mansion” Behind-the-Scenes Set Visit

Director Justin Simien knows a thing or two about how to tease terror and delight out of a single story. In Haunted Mansion, the Bad Hair filmmaker teams up with another seasoned talent at combining chills with giggles, Ghostbusters screenwriter Kate Dipoold (she also wrote on Parks and Recreation and penned The Heat), to turn the iconic theme park ride into a proper feature.

By The Credits  |  June 23, 2023
The First “Dumb Money” Trailer Reveals the GameStop Stock Movie We Need Right Now

Even for those of us who find the stock market a nebulous web that ensnares as much as it baffles and bores, the GameStop lunacy of 2022 caught nearly everybody’s attention. The nearly moribund mall video game store was the unlikely nexus of a brief but potent stock inferno when, for a miraculous moment in time, it seemed as if regular Joe and Jane investors were finally taking it to the billionaire hedge fund class and beating them at their own game.

By The Credits  |  June 22, 2023
“Priscilla” Trailer Finds Priscilla Presley Taking Center Stage in Sofia Coppola’s Biopic

A24 has given us our first peek at Sofia Coppola’s upcoming Priscilla, which, while under a minute long, lures you in with the promise of seeing an oft-told story—the rise of one of the 20th century’s most transformative artists—from the perspective of a person with the most intimate vantage possible.

Coppola’s film is based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” and will offer viewers a much different viewpoint into Elvis’s rise by shifting the focus to the most important woman in his life.

By The Credits  |  June 21, 2023

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Composer

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Composer Jongnic Bontemps Lets the Emotion Ride

Paramount’s Transformers franchise was conceived by Michael Bay as a maximalist epic of crunching, crashing, morphing metal beasts and the humans caught in the metallic whirlwind of their drama. With director Steven Caple Jr. in the director’s chair for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the series now strives to balance the character and the spectacle in a fashion similar to director Travis Knight’s spinoff film Bumblebee,

By Jack Giroux  |  June 21, 2023
Why Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Motorcycle Stunt Was Filmed Day One

Death, taxes, the physical laws of the universe, and Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible team topping whatever the craziest stunt in their previous film was with one even more death-defying—these are a few of the certain things in life. This is why, while it’s not surprising to hear that the most technically challenging and dangerous stunt Cruise and his team have attempted thus far is one they set up for Dead Reckoning Part One,

By The Credits  |  June 21, 2023

Interview

Director

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Director Steven Caple Jr. on Getting Gritty With It

Director Steven Caple Jr. steps into a large, alien robot-strewn sandbox with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts for his biggest feature yet. For decades, the Autobots and Decepticons have captured fans’ imaginations in Michael Bay’s franchise. To keep the series alive and well, Caple Jr. wanted to ground the famous robot characters, including Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, in the particulars of a specific, still quite human world in the 1990s. Rise of the Beasts is one of the earliest-set films in the franchise,

By Jack Giroux  |  June 20, 2023
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Early Reactions Marvel at Jaw-Dropping Action Epic

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt for the seventh film in the deathless Mission: Impossible franchise, and the early reactions hail yet another peerless action epic. After its star-studded world premiere in Rome on Monday evening at the Auditorium della Conciliazione—held up for 90 minutes due to a meeting between Cruise and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Palazzo Chigi, no less—the show finally went on as Cruise, director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie,

By The Credits  |  June 20, 2023
“Kraven the Hunter” Trailer Reveals Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Wild Spider-Man Villain on a Rampage

“My son, never show mercy,” says Russell Crowe’s character at the top of the first trailer for director J.C Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. He’s perched with his boy over the body of a dead gazelle while they’re on safari. “They are prey,” he continues, smearing some of the gazelle’s blood on his son’s forehead. “We are predators.”

The son he’s speaking to will take this lesson to heart. Crowe’s growling father figure proves to be the key figure in the life of young Sergei Kravinoff,

By The Credits  |  June 20, 2023
Ridley Scott Reveals Creation of Massive “Gladiator 2” Battle Scene in Behind-the-Scenes Video

Morocco’s Minister of Culture, Mohammed Mehdi Bensaid, got one heck of a scoop. Bensaid got to visit the set of Gladiator 2, which legendary director Ridley Scott is currently filming in Morocco. In a post on Instagram, Bensaid shared the footage from the set, where a massive siege battle sequence is being staged. The speculation now is that Gladiator 2 might focus, at least in part, on the Roman Empire’s expansion into North Africa.

By The Credits  |  June 16, 2023
“The Flash” Director Andy Muschietti to Direct New Batman Movie “The Brave and the Bold”

Director Andy Muschietti’s work on The Flash so impressed new DC Studios co-chief James Gunn that he called it one of the best superhero movies he’d ever seen. Then, he went a step further and tapped Muschietti to direct DC’s upcoming, brand new Batman film The Brave and the Bold, which will introduce not only a new Bruce Wayne but also his son, a very troubled Damian Wayne.

By The Credits  |  June 16, 2023
“Extraction 2” Review Round-Up: Chris Hemsworth-led Action Film Punches Even Harder in Sequel

If you’re looking to extract someone from an impossibly dangerous situation against seemingly insurmountable odds, then Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is your man. The name says it all. Rake will sweep all obstacles out of his way, including his own demise—the end of the first Extraction toyed with the idea he was dead, but savvy viewers knew better—to pluck whoever you need from harm’s way. So now that Rake is back in Extraction 2 with a new mission to rescue the beleaguered family of a brutal Georgian gangster from a prison,

By The Credits  |  June 15, 2023
Meet Ayra and Soha, the Sisters Who Won the Childnet International Film Competition

The Childnet International competition is in its third year. This year’s theme, “Time to Talk,” focused on how people can support each other online. (You can learn more about the competition here.)

Childnet International is a registered UK charity that was founded in 1995 with the goal of making the internet a safe place for children and young people. The film competition began in 2010 and focused on schools and youth groups based in the United Kingdom.

By The Credits  |  June 15, 2023

Interview

Screenwriter

“Flamin’ Hot” Screenwriter Linda Yvette Chávez Serves Up a Story Straight From the Heart

Linda Yvette Chávez tells the story of Flamin’ Hot with faith, passion, and romance. The co-creator of the Netflix series Gentefied saw herself in the true story of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), the Frito Lay janitor who dreamed of a snack that connected with his Mexican American community. With his great coach and partner in life, his wife Judy (Annie Gonzalez), Richard fulfilled his dream with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

Chávez doesn’t focus on a single person with a singular vision.

By Jack Giroux  |  June 15, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Look of Picture Supervisor Bret St. Clair on Spider-Punk, Mumbattan & More

Not bad for a sequel. Following on its 2018 Oscar-winning predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ranks as the best-reviewed wide-release movie of the year, boasting a 96 percent approved rating on Rotten Tomatoes while grossing $390 million worldwide since its release earlier this month (at the time of publication). Critics have hailed the film’s ability to stitch together a dizzying array of looks informed by comic books, action painting, Brutalist architecture, and more.

By Hugh Hart  |  June 14, 2023