Believe in Barbenheimer: “Barbie” & “Oppenheimer” Aren’t in Competition, They’re in Concert
Barbenheimer is finally upon us.
For many film enthusiasts, July 21 has been on their calendar since it was revealed both Barbie and Oppenheimer would arrive in theaters on the same day, each with a story to tell about the search for meaning in a messy world. The simultaneous release of the two potential blockbusters by two disparate but brilliant filmmakers, Barbie’s Gerta Gerwig and Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan,...
First Look at Paramount+’s “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” Reveals Return Trip to Ludlow, Maine
A fresh film from the world of Stephen King is coming to Paramount+, and it’s a prequel to a story he’s called the scariest he ever wrote.
Paramount+ has revealed the first glimpse of their upcoming film, the directorial debut of screenwriter Lindsey Beer. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is a prequel to King’s iconic “Pet Sematary” and is based on an untold chapter the prolific, oft-adapted writer wrote.
Bloodlines is centered on a young Jud Crandall (Jackson White,...
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Streaming Date Revealed
The Guardians are coming home.
The third and final film in James Gunn’s trilogy will arrive on Disney+ on August 2. Gunn’s emotional capper gave the cosmic misfits that made him and the actors who played household names a proper sendoff. That included the character that first unlocked the door for Gunn to become a Marvel Studios director in the first place, Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), who Gunn said was the initial reason he wanted to tell the Guardians story in the first place...
The Official “The Creator” Trailer Reveals Gareth Edwards’ AI-Centered Sci-Fi Epic
The official trailer for co-writer and director Gareth Edwards’ The Creator has arrived. It’s our longest look yet at Edwards’ exceedingly topical film, which features a war between humanity and artificial intelligence, a classic sci-fi trope that has been given fresh relevance thanks to the recent release of the AI-backed ChatGPT and the growing concern across governments all over the world about the rise of AI. You’ve maybe read about it in major newspapers, magazines,...
“The Flash” Races Into Your Home This Week (Alongside These Other Films)
A slew of new films are racing to stream this week. Some, like Andy Muschietti’s The Flash, you’ve no doubt heard of and perhaps seen in the theater. Others are a little less well-known but warrant your attention. If you’re trying to beat the heat and stay cool indoors this week and weekend, here are a few films to help you do that.
The Deepest Breath
Streaming date: July 18
Platform: Netflix
This gorgeously shot film looks at the story of a champion free diver and expert safety diver whose lives converge in one of the most dangerous pursuits there is...
How “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” DP Fraser Taggart Pulled Off That Insane Train Sequence
Editors’ Note: This story contains mild spoilers.
The action in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One rolls out like a conveyor belt of delicious candy, leaving you wanting more. And director Christopher McQuarrie delivers those highs again and again. The global affair treks from Abu Dhabi for a swirling desert shootout and on to Rome for a goosebumps-inducing car chase, in, of course, an adorable yellow FIAT. It then lands in Norway for that epic,...
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Production Designer Gary Freeman Creates an Artificially Intelligent Palace
The bespoke work of production designer Gary Freeman on Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One might be overlooked by most moviegoers. A few of the reasons might be because of a then 60-year-old Tom Cruise out stunting himself yet again or the scene-stealing performances by Hayley Atwell as a wily thief and Pom Klementieff as a deliciously evil mercenary. Yet Freeman’s work insinuates itself in the action, his designs are intrinsic to the chaos as well as to the lusciousness of the foreign locations...
“Mission: Impossible 7” Director Christopher McQuarrie Reveals He Considered De-Aging Tom Cruise for a Scene
While you might consider Tom Cruise essentially ageless, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie admits he considered de-aging the ageless superstar for a scene.
McQuarrie was talking to Total Film about the seventh installment in the venerable franchise and revealed that he had a certain sequence in mind that would have required a younger version of Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.
“Originally, there had been a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989,”...
“Lakota Nation vs. United States” Director Jesse Short Bull & Editor Laura Tomaselli Bring a Profound Injustice to Life
Director Jesse Short Bull knew he’d found the right collaborator in editor Laura Tomaselli when he watched her early cut of Lakota Nation vs. United States, their documentary about the Lakota’s ongoing quest to reclaim the Black Hills of South Dakota, sacred land that was stolen by the government in violation of the Black Hills treaty of 1868.
“Laura cut an amazing scene with a ‘50s western where a man and woman are in a wagon signing about the Black Hills and why ‘the Indians fight so hard for their land,’” recalled Short Bull...
James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” Cast Shaping Up With Nathan Fillion Joining in a Key Role
Nathan Fillion, welcome to Metropolis.
Fillion has now joined the cast of James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy as Guy Gardner, a member of the Green Lantern Corps in the comics. Fillion and Gunn have collaborated a bunch, including in Gunn’s final Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3. We haven’t seen any members of the Green Lantern Corps since the Ryan Reynolds-led Green Lantern, which came out in 2011 and didn’t live up to expectations...
Timothée Chalamet is “Wonka” in First Trailer About the Legendary Chocolatier’s Younger Years
The first trailer for Wonka arrived on a chocolate tide, carried on peppermint winds, and boasts the first good look at Timothée Chalamet as the iconic chocolatier in the years before he opened up his magical chocolate factory. Wonka promises to reveal how the restless inventor of all things wondrous and sweet became the Willy Wonka that mesmerized millions of children, first through the pages of Roald Dahl’s iconic work and then in the 1971 adaptation Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, ...
“Oppenheimer” First Reactions: Christopher Nolan’s Historical Epic is Genuinely Mind-Blowing
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer had its world premiere in Paris last night, which means the first reactions to the film are exploding all over the internet. Many are calling it Nolan’s most assured, mature work yet and one of the best films he’s ever made.
New York Magazine‘s Bilge Ebiri says, “The word that keeps coming to mind is fearsome,” the Telegraph‘s Robbie Collin calls it “a total knockout,” Total Film‘s Matt Maytum says Oppenheimer “left me stunned: a character study on the grandest scale,”...
Jennifer Garner Joining “Deadpool 3” Cast as Elektra Adds Yet More Star Power
If you’ve been keeping up on your Deadpool 3 news, you’re already well aware that the biggest casting announcement was Hugh Jackman reprising his role as Wolverine. The excitement over Jackman joining forces with longtime buddy/social media sparring partner Ryan Reynolds is such that it qualifies as a major scoop when we find out Wolverine will be donning his classic yellow super-suit, or, say, what Jackman’s meal plan was in order to bulk up to Wolverine’s fighting weight...
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Wears Iconic Yellow Suit in “Deadpool 3” Photo
It might have taken two decades to happen, but our national nightmare is over—Hugh Jackman will be wearing the iconic yellow Wolverine costume in director Shawn Levy’s upcoming Deadpool 3. The first look at Jackman in the beloved, bold super-suit was revealed by the Deadpool Twitter account, showing Jackman in the costume that Wolverine wore in the comics, which became cemented as a piece of pop culture couture history in the animated series from the ’90s...
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Reviews: Cruise & Co. Have Done It Again
Once the review embargo for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was been lifted, the mission was clear for fans of the franchise—could they read the reviews about Dead Reckoning Part One without spoiling the film’s biggest thrills and without having their hopes for another action masterpiece deflated? We’ve done the review reading for you, and like Ethan Hunt driving his motorcycle off a cliff only to deploy a parachute and turn certain death into a BASE jump,...
Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” Trailer Reveals Joaquin Phoenix as the French Conquerer
At last, the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s highly-anticipated historical epic Napoleon has just charged into view. Scott’s sweeping look at the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix), one of the most iconic, singular conquerors and emperors the world has ever known, comes bearing the legendary director’s skills at old-school, large-scale filmmaking. As he did in Gladiator (2000), which featured Russell Crowe’s valiant general-turned-slave-turned-gladiator Maxiums seeking revenge against the cruel and petty tyrant-turned-emperor Commodus (played by none other than Joaquin Phoenix),...
“Joy Ride” Screenwriters Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao Embrace the Raunch
Adele Lim’s feature directorial debut Joy Ride cruised into theaters this past weekend, boasting critical raves. The laughs come early and often in Lim’s ensemble film, thanks in large part to screenwriters and producers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao. The talented duo began writing the script for Joy Ride on spec, and that sense of freedom and play is on full display.
The screenwriters both met in the writer’s room in Seth MacFarlane’s joke-a-second animated raunch-fest Family Guy and in Joy Ride,...
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” VFX Artists on De-Aging Indy
Brad Pitt did it. Robert DeNiro did it. Samuel Jackson, Jeff Bridges, and Will Smith did it, too. Now, 80-year-old Harrison Ford has embraced digital de-aging in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (in theaters now) so he can fight Nazis looking like a 37-year-old version of his iconic action hero. Ford’s cinematic rejuvenation owes a considerable debt to ILM’s VFX artist lead Robert Weaver (Star Trek Into Darkness, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Andrew Whitehurst (Skyfall,...
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” DP Phedon Papamichael on Capturing That Iconic Indy Look
Days before the theatrical release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its director James Mangold and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael watched the final version of the film with original franchise helmer Steven Spielberg and his long-time cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who lensed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Afterward, there was nothing but praise. “Hearing how great it was from them and them being generous about it was a really good feeling,” says Papamichael during a phone call with The Credits. ...
Mission: Must Watchable – 10 of the Biggest Remaining Summer Films
Now that June has given way to July, it is clear that summer is finally upon us. The sun is shining, bright, hot, and heavy. Birds are singing. Bees are buzzing. Dads around the country are grilling hot dogs for late-evening barbecues. And last but not least, the slate of this season’s upcoming films has given viewers much to look forward to.
For movie lovers wishing to avoid the summer heat — either by hiding away in a theater for a few hours or by simply streaming at home — be sure to tune in to the films listed below...
