Hugh Jackman Reveals his Meal Plan for Bulking Up to Play Wolverine in “Deadpool 3”

What does it take to become Wolverine? Hugh Jackman revealed the menu he’s working with in order to bulk up to become the adamantium-clawed mutant for Deadpool 3. The photo Jackman shared of his meal plan (which he credits to Chef Mario) is, of course, only part of his process of recapturing the fully jacked physique of arguably the toughest member of the X-Men. You can’t just eat your way to a six-pack and jacked biceps,

By The Credits  |  March 7, 2023
Seth Rogen’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” Delivers a Delightful First Trailer

When Seth Rogen revealed the star-studded cast helping bring the heroes in a half shell back to the big screen, even those not intimately connected to the 1980s cartoon (or the previous film adaptations thereafter, or the new, more recent animated series) had to pause. Rogen revealed that along with the central cast, all appropriately voiced by teens, the supporting stars included Rose Byrne, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, John Cena, Paul Rudd,

By The Credits  |  March 7, 2023

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Production Designer

“The Fabelmans” Oscar-Nominated Production Designer Rick Carter Gets Personal With Steven Spielberg

Veteran production designer Rick Carter art-directed the first Avatar, won an Oscar for his work on Forrest Gump, designed two Star Wars films, and collaborated with Steven Spielberg on ten movies ranging from Jurassic Park to Lincoln. Last month, Carter earned his fifth Oscar nomination for designing Spielberg’s autobiographically inspired The Fabelmans.

In contrast with much of his previous work,

By Hugh Hart  |  March 7, 2023
Chris Evans & Ana de Armas Take Love on the Run in First “Ghosted” Trailer

You can’t ask for a better pairing for an action rom-com than Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, and that’s precisely what Apple TV’s Ghosted is offering. The twist is that Captain America himself isn’t the one doing the wooing and the rescuing; in fact, Evans plays a likable if “average” (despite still looking like, you know, Chris Evans) guy named Cole who falls in love with Sadie (de Armas) who seems equally enthused about the relationship until,

By The Credits  |  March 6, 2023

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Hair/Makeup

Oscar-Nominated Makeup & Hair Designer Heike Merker Paints With Mud & Blood in “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Director Edward Berger’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a painfully absorbing epic. Berger’s take on Erich Maria Remarque’s iconic 1929 novel, captured with astonishing vividness by cinematographer James Friend, teases out the themes in the seminal work about the horrors of World War I with bloody precision. The film wastes no time in depicting the dehumanizing industry of the first mechanized war, in which a dead soldier is stripped of his uniform so that it can be stitched up,

By Bryan Abrams  |  March 6, 2023
Michael B. Jordan’s “Creed III” Delivers Box Office Knockout With Franchise Best Debut

Michael B. Jordan’s critically acclaimed directorial debut can now add a record-making opening weekend to its list of accolades. Jordan’s Creed III delivered a knockout debut, bringing in $58.7 million, a franchise record, knocking Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania off its perch as the weekend’s top-grossing film. At the global box office, Creed III became the first sports movie in film history to pass $100 million in its opening weekend.

By The Credits  |  March 6, 2023
Seth Rogen Reveals “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Star-Studded Cast

Get ready for a fresh take on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a stellar cast. Seth Rogen revealed that his animated feature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, centering on everybody’s favorite amphibious teenage heroes, will include Rose Byrne, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, John Cena, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, Hannibal Buress, and more.

Rogen revealed the cast at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards while on stage and was joined by the young stars playing the new turtles—Micah Abbey (Donatello),

By The Credits  |  March 6, 2023
Jonathan Majors Shines & Michael B. Jordan Delivers a Knockout In “Creed III” Directorial Debut

Michael B. Jordan has taken his talents to the next level with Creed III, making his directorial debut in a film he also stars in and produced. The critics are calling his effort championship belt worthy.

Jordan brought back some of the stars from the Creed franchise (most notably Tessa Thompson as Bianca Creed and Phylicia Rashad as his mother, Mary-Anne Creed), said goodbye to Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone,

By The Credits  |  March 3, 2023
Tom Cruise Filming Part of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” On U.S. Aircraft Carrier off Italian Coast

It’s old news by now that Tom Cruise is a man who likes to do his own stunts, which includes a lot of the flying he has done in movies like Top Gun: Maverick and his many installments in the Mission: Impossible franchise. For Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Cruise famously piloted a helicopter in the climatic final scene in his chopper-to-chopper battle against Henry Cavill’s August Walker.

By The Credits  |  March 3, 2023
Hugh Jackman Teases “Double Role” for Wolverine in “Deadpool 3”

Before we try to unpack an intriguing clue that Hugh Jackman revealed to the French newspaper Le Parisien about his upcoming return as Wolverine in Deadpool 3, let’s quickly assess what we do know about the film.

Jackman returns as Wolverine in Deadpool 3 despite dying a hero’s death in James Mangold’s terrific Logan via some narrative trickery. Or really, it doesn’t even have to be all that tricky considering Logan is set in 2029 and Deadpool 3 is presumably set before then.

By The Credits  |  March 2, 2023

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Sound Designer

Oscar-Nominated Sound Designer Frank Kruse Makes Some Noise on “All Quiet on the Western Front”

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel that lays bare the harsh brutality of war through the eyes of a naive youth fighting in the German trenches during WWI, is considered a literary classic. So Frank Kruse admits some hesitation when director Edward Berger told him he was doing a modern retelling. That disappeared after Kruse read the script. Though the challenge would be daunting, he wanted to be the film’s sound designer and supervising sound editor.

By Chris Koseluk  |  March 2, 2023

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Filmmaker Sara Dosa Captures a Couple’s Burning Passion in Her Oscar-Nominated Doc “Fire of Love”

When Sara Dosa won Best Film Documentary Director from the Directors Guild on February 18 for Fire of Love, it was no doubt an acknowledgment of the daunting task Dosa faced in shaping nearly 200 hours of 16 mm archival footage shot by her subjects, without sound, into her mesmerizing film. Fire of Love is also nominated for this year’s Best Documentary Oscar.

Fire of Love, a National Geographic film on Disney+,

By Loren King  |  March 1, 2023

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Actor

Oscar-Nominee Brendan Fraser on his Deep Dive into “The Whale”

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky often pursues the road less taken in movies like The Wrestler, Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. He’s done it again in The Whale, which stars Oscar-nominated Brendan Fraser as Charlie, a 600-pound English teacher who conducts classes over Zoom with his screen image hidden so students can’t see his true size. The entire film (now available on demand on Prime Video,

By Hugh Hart  |  March 1, 2023

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“The Whale” Oscar-Nominated Prosthetics Artist Adrien Morot Breaks the Mold

When it comes to makeup effects, Adrien Morot ranks among the very best. From fierce alligators (Crawl), to mutant superheroes (X Men films X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix), to this year’s favorite film doll (M3GAN), Morot has proven time and again he’s a prosthetic wizard. But even he wondered if he had met his match when director Darren Aronofsky offered him The Whale.

By Chris Koseluk  |  March 1, 2023

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Special/Visual Effects

“Cocaine Bear” VFX Supervisor Robin Hollander on Creating an Ursine Junkie

Cocaine Bear began snorting up viral eyeballs last fall, boosted by a madcap trailer that racked up 18 million views. Now boasting a $28 million opening weekend, second only to M3GAN as 2023’s biggest non-franchise hit, it’s based on the true story of a black bear who discovered a duffel bag of cocaine in the Georgia woods. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear features human stars Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich and Isiah Whitlock Jr.,

By Hugh Hart  |  February 28, 2023
Go Deep “Inside” With Willem Dafoe in Curated Look at his New Art Thief Thriller

Willem Dafoe is a national treasure, which makes his latest film Inside such a perfect vehicle for him. Dafoe plays an art thief poetically named Nemo who takes on a job filching treasures from a high-tech New York penthouse that goes disastrously wrong. In a new featurette released by Focus Features, art curator Leonardo Bigazzi walks us through the exquisite art collection depicted in the film, and explains how each work of art speaks directly to Nemo’s increasingly dire circumstances.

By The Credits  |  February 28, 2023

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Composer

“Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania” Composer Christophe Beck on Kang, the Langs, & Depeche Mode

Christophe Beck is one of the most prominent composers in the Marvel sandbox. He not only scored all three Ant-Man films but co-composed Hawkeye and, to great acclaim, WandaVision. After eight years of collaborating with the Marvel team, Beck is well-versed in the MCU’s sonic landscape.

The composer’s first collaboration with director Peyton Reed was years before he composed themes for Ant-Man’s miniaturized adventures.

By Jack Giroux  |  February 28, 2023

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Actor

“Sharper” Star Briana Middleton on Finding Her Edge in Apple TV’s New Thriller

Filled with plot twists, double-crosses and characters who never seem to be who they are, Sharper is designed to keep you guessing right to the end. But one thing is for certain; with a razor-sharp cast that includes Julianne Moore, Briana Middleton, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith and John Lithgow, the Apple TV+ original film delivers its many satisfactions with a cast more than equal to the job.

“It’s so fun,” says Middleton during a recent interview.

By Chris Koseluk  |  February 27, 2023
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Makes History at 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Everything Everywhere All At Once lived up to its title last night, grabbing just about everything in sight at the SAG Awards and all at once. In a record-setting night at the SAG Awards, the indie juggernaut took home all of the movie category awards (save for the non-televised stunt ensemble). Not for nothing, on Saturday night, Everything Everywhere All At Once grabbed the Best Picture Award at the Producers Guild,

By The Credits  |  February 27, 2023

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Producer

Harpo Films Director of Development & Production Lauren Tuck Wants Her Creators to Flourish

Harpo Films and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has been leading the pack in Hollywood in terms of diversity and inclusion for years. From the very beginning of OWN’s drama series Queen Sugar, creator Ava DuVernay envisioned using all female directors for the series, and both OWN and Harpo Films were 100% behind that. DuVernay’s show proved a hit, and her commitment to hiring diverse female directors resulted in greater success for the 42 helmers that took part.

By Leslie Combemale  |  February 27, 2023