“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Producer Jonathan Wang on Making an Oscar Juggernaut
It might seem as if Everything Everywhere All at Once came out of nowhere to dominate this year’s Oscar voting with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and two Best Supporting Actress nods for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, and Jamie Lee Curtis respectively. But in fact, producer Jonathan Wang has been working with writer-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert since 2011. The trio started off making music videos and broke into features with their 2016 black comedy Swiss Army Man...
Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” Gets Boost With Addition of “The Bear” Star Ayo Edebiri
Marvel Studios just added an ace actor to their ever-expanding universe. Ayo Edebiri, who broke out with her fantastic performance in Hulu’s critically acclaimed The Bear, is now entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe in one of the biggest and most mysterious of their upcoming films.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Edebiri will join Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and more in Thunderbolts, which is centered on a team of antiheroes and otherwise less-than-noble Marvel characters as they’re tasked with facing down a grave threat...
“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” Second Trailer Reveals Greek Goddesses Gone Berserk
The second trailer for Shazam! Fury of the Gods is steeped in Greek mythology and the potency of some seriously charismatic new foes. Within the first few seconds, we’re introduced to Lucy Lui’s Kalypso and Helen Mirren’s Hespera, two heavyweight goddesses from the Greek pantheon who have arrived to hunt down Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his superhero alter ego Shazam (Zachary Levi) and their super-powered friends.
“Children stole the power of the gods,” Hespera seethes,...
“Alice, Darling” Director Mary Nighy on Her Chilling, Emotionally Resonant Feature Debut
Alice, Darling, Mary Nighy’s feature film directorial debut explores an insidious form of emotional and psychological abuse: coercive control. In its stirring portrait of Alice, a young woman in denial about her partner’s manipulative and oppressive behavior — played with dazzling depth by Anna Kendrick — the film takes an honest look at the unsettling impact of such abuse. When Alice spends a few days away with her two best friends, she is forced to face her reality and make a life-altering choice...
New “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” Video is a Trip to The Quantum Realm
We’re now just a few weeks away from the official start of Marvel Studio’s Phase 5 with the premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamnia. To that end, Marvel has released this behind-the-scenes look at director Peyton Reed’s upcoming film, which finds Scott Land (Paul Rudd), his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) venturing into the Quantum Realm. It’s there they’ll find an Avengers-level threat in Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors),...
Trailer for Netflix’s “Bill Russell: Legend” Reveals First Look at the Icon’s Life & Legacy
Netflix has revealed the first trailer for Bill Russell: Legend, filmmaker Sam Pollard‘s doc about the life and legacy of the most dominant NBA player of all time, and, a major force for good off the court. Pollard is the perfect person to lead this effort (past films include Black Art: In the Absence of Light, MLK/FBI, Atlanta Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children), turning his keen eye on Russell’s life,...
Sundance 2023: Netflix Nabs Buzzy Psychological Thriller “Fair Play”
Netflix has made its play.
The streamer has bought one of the buzziest films at this year’s Sundance, writer/director Chloe Domont’s psychological thriller Fair Play, for $20 million, Deadline reports. The film is already getting great reviews after its Sundance premiere, with Dumont’s debut film depicting the brutally cutthroat world of a New York investment firm. Netflix ultimately won the film’s rights after a bidding war with a few other competitors.
The film stars Bridgerton breakout star Phoebe Dynevor as Emily and Solo star Alden Ehrenreich as Luke,...
Sundance 2023: A24 Grabs Australian Horror Film “Talk to Me”
A24 has nabbed the buzzy Australian horror film Talk to Me after the film’s debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Variety had the scoop and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the studio, always so deft at delivering chilling, interesting horror films, bought the film after its screening in the Midnight Selections lineup in a deal reported to be in the high seven figures.
Talk to Me stars Sophia Wilde as a grieving teenager named Mia,...
What a Marvel: Angela Bassett Makes MCU History With “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Oscar Nom
All hail the Queen.
Angela Bassett has made history as the first actor to nab an Oscar nomination for their performance in a Marvel film. Bassett is nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her moving work as Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
This is Bassett’s second Oscar nomination, which makes her only the fourth Black Woman in history to earn multiple Oscar nominations (her first nomination, for Best Actress in a Leading Role,...
Your 2023 Oscars Nominations Are Here
Your 2023 Oscar nominations are in.
The Best Picture category includes war epics historical (All Quiet on the Western Front), imagined (Top Gun: Maverick), alien (Avatar: The Way of Water), and one between friends (The Banshees of Inisherin). The category also includes one Spielberg (The Fablemans), a couple of directing Daniels (Everything Everywhere All At Once),...
A New “Knock at the Cabin” Video Takes You Inside M. Night Shyamalan’s Latest Thriller
When you’re watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie, even the most common sounds are terrifying. And nothing, it turns out, is scarier than the sound of a knock at the door, especially when you’re renting a cabin in the woods for a weekend and not expecting any company. What’s even worse is when the person doing the knocking is Dave Bautista’s Leonard.
In a new behind-the-scenes look at Shyamalan’s latest released by Universal Pictures, Bautista sets up the film’s conceit;...
New “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” Trailer Delights in Derring-do
We’ve got a fresh look at Paramount’s long-awaited Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the vibes are groovy. The star-studded epic from directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (the pair behind Game Night) is led by Chris Pine as Edgin, a rakish sort who teams up with Regé-Jean Page’s Xenx, Justice Smith’s Simon, and Michelle Rodriguez’s Holga on an adventure that’ll pack in plenty of action, hijinx, and danger.
Our merry band of thieves has joined forces to retrieve a lost relic that they let slip into the wrong hands,...
Sundance 2023: Jonathan Majors’ Astonishing Transformation for “Magazine Dreams”
Jonathan Majors is turning heads and earning major buzz for his astonishing transformation in Magazine Dreams. Granted, Majors’ star has been rising for a while now, and the man was already in extremely good shape, but what he did to prepare for the role of amateur bodybuilder Killian Maddox is astonishing.
Majors revealed at the Variety Studio at the Sundance Film Festival that his training regimen to transform his already ripped physique into a bodybuilder’s hulking frame included eating more than 6,000 calories a day and working out three times daily...
Writer/Director Elegance Bratton on His Breakout Film “The Inspection”
Writer/director Elegance Bratton’s autobiographical The Inspection is one of the year’s breakout films. Bratton stuck with the project for years because it most reflected who he is: a gay Black man who was homeless as a teenager, a Marine Corps veteran, and a Columbia University and NYU-educated filmmaker.
Bratton’s struggles began practically at birth with that unusual, magnificent name. “My mother named me Elegance but had a problem with me being gay,” Bratton said over the phone from his home in Baltimore...
Jason Momoa’s Future in the DC Universe Sounds Very Bright
For those of you wondering— and worrying—about Jason Momoa’s future with DC in light of all the recent news and shakeups, the man himself is here to put you at ease.
As you’re no doubt aware by now, the new co-chairs of DC Studios are Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran. They took over the studio with the goal of getting all of the stories that DC tells across film,...
“Tron 3” in the Works With Jared Leto
The Tron train might be finally leaving the station.
After years of potential sequels going nowhere, Tron 3 is moving forward at Disney, with Jared Leto set to star. Leto has been championing the project for half a decade and will now lead the feature, with director Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) potentially helming the film. The script comes from Jesse Wigutow and will follow the events in 2010’s Tron: Legacy. ...
First Teaser for Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon” Gives a Glimpse of His Sci-Fi Epic
When Netflix revealed their full slate of films for 2023, one of the biggest has got to be Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. We learned last April that Snyder had begun filming his sci-fi epic for Netflix. Then, Netflix revealed its release date, December 22. And now, Snyder and one of his stars, Cary Elwes, have shared a few more looks at the upcoming film, including an 8-second teaser and an image of star Sofia Boutella...
“Scream VI” Trailer Finds Hayden Panettiere Back Fighting Ghostface in NYC
New Yorkers are legendarily tough, so it’ll be interesting to see how they handle Ghostface, that notorious killer (and his many copycats) who usually do their slashing in Woodsboro, California. Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Scream VI, which plucks Ghostface from the Cali burbs to the Big Apple, and brings back a familiar face in Hayden Panettiere, who returns as Kirby Reed from Scream 4.
The trailer opens in the most New York of settings,...
“Emancipation” Hair Department Head Andrea Bowman on Her Oscar-Shortlisted Work
Andrea Mona Bowman knew that Emancipation was going to be special.
Based on a true story, Emancipation stars Will Smith as Peter, a Southern slave who breaks free from his Confederate captors and escapes into the Louisiana swaps. Chased for days, Peter makes his way to Baton Rouge, where he joins the Union army to fight for his freedom. There, he is introduced to new technology — photography. Peter agrees to have his bare back — covered from waist to neck with deep scars from repeated whippings — captured on film...
Horror Hit “M3GAN” Sequel Coming in 2025 With Key Stars Returning
Don’t worry, M3GAN fans, the murder-doll with a keen sense of fashion and a keener sense of vengeance is returning, along with some key players.
Spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen the original—M3GAN 2.0 is now officially in the works, with Universal not only announcing a speedy January 17, 2025 release date but also the return of stars Allison Williams and Violet McGraw. The script will come from M3GAN scribe Akela Cooper,...
