First “Elvis” Teaser Gives Us a Glimpse of Austin Butler as the King
It’s been a minute since writer/director Baz Luhrmann has made a film. Now, he’s revealed a teaser for his upcoming movie Elvis, his first film since 2013’s The Great Gatsby, revealing just a few choice shots of Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as the King himself. The images play over a slightly sinister version of “Suspicious Minds” plays.
Elvis comes from a script from Luhrmann,
Halle Berry’s Film “Bruised” Boasts First All-Female Hip-Hop Soundtrack
When Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised, hits theaters on November 17, it will boast the first-ever all-female hip-hop soundtrack. Berry, who also stars in the film as a disgraced former MMA fighter, Jackie Justice, seeking redemption in and outside the ring, sought the musical talents of some of hip-hop’s most exciting female stars, including Cardi B, HER, Rapsody, Baby Tate, Cardi, Saweetie, and Flo Milli. The full Bruised soundtrack is made up of 13 songs,
“Last Night in Soho” Costume Designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux’s Sinisterly Swinging Style
At the beginning of Edgar Wright’s thriller Last Night in Soho, budding fashion student Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) is living with her grandmother (Rita Tushingham) in Cornwall, wearing clothes she made herself and experiencing visions of her dead mother (Aimee Cassettari), a situation she and her grandmother seem to agree is just a part of who she is. But an acceptance to the London College of Fashion pulls her away to city life,
“Belfast” Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle on Cutting Kenneth Branagh’s Deeply Personal Film
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, the Dublin-based editor for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which Focus Features released November 12, had just attended the film’s premiere in the Northern Ireland capital the day before speaking with The Credits.
“In London, people laughed more. The Belfast audience laughed too, but it wasn’t as loud,” she says. “After the screening, I spoke with a man who said he enjoyed it but it was very emotional because he was also crying.”
Ní Dhonghaíle understood the feeling.
“Predator” Prequel Reveals Title & Release Window
As the Disney+ Day celebrations continue (the streaming service launched on this day, November 12, in 2019), one big reveal the studio has made has to do with the new Predator movie coming our way. Without further ado, we give you the prequel’s title—Prey—and its release date sometime in the summer of 2022 on Hulu. The film, which up until today had been called Skulls, will do something none of the Predator sequels and spinoffs have done—take us back to a time before the 1987 original.
Jam With The Beatles In the First “The Beatles: Get Back” Clip
What better way to start your Friday than a little Beatles with your coffee. In the first clip from Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Beatles: Get Back, you’ll see the fab four playing “I’ve Got a Feeling,” in footage that was first captured 50 years ago. “I’ve Got A Feeling” eventually ended up on the Beatles’ seminal—and final—album “Let It Be.” So, why are we just seeing it now? That footage, along with 150 hours of audio,
“Belfast” Writer/Director Kenneth Branagh’s Riveting Return to his Childhood
Writer/director Kenneth Branagh has mined his childhood experiences in Belfast to create a riveting, sumptuous film. Belfast (opening November 12), which is shot in black and white, captures a time in the summer of 1969 directly following the first riots in the northern part of the city often cited as the beginning of the Troubles. Branagh and his family were in the thick of it, and the film is shot from his perspective through the 9-year-old character Buddy,
Director Eva Husson on Capturing Grief & Trauma in “Mothering Sunday”
Loss and grief permeate Mothering Sunday, a class-crossed romance set in 1924 England as it reels from the collective trauma of the Great War. Director Eva Husson says the movie’s somber mood matched that of the cast and crew since the film was shot in 2020 between pandemic lockdowns.
“I think all of us felt deeply connected to the emotions of the story. It had an effect on us. We were going through the pandemic so it was surreal how close it mirrored the sense of grief in our lives,
DP Edu Grau on Using Light & Shadow to Play With Skin Tone in “Passing”
Set in 1920s Harlem and based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel of the same name, Passing, actress Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut tracks the relationship of two light-skinned Black women, Irene and Clare, who’ve taken opposite paths toward safety and recognition. Former childhood acquaintances, a chance run-in reveals the women’s abiding interest in one another, and as they reinsert themselves into each other’s lives, the differences between Irene and Clare take their toll on the stability each woman had achieved.
“Being the Ricardos” Official Trailer Reveals Aaron Sorkin’s Lucy & Desi Drama
The official trailer for writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos is here, giving us a longer glimpse at Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as the legendary Hollywood power couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Sorkin’s film will follow Lucy and Desi during a particularly tumultuous week of production on their groundbreaking, massively popular show I Love Lucy. Lucy finds herself at the center of a political smear campaign and the couple’s romantic and professional life comes under unbearable scrutiny—all while they need to put on a show.
“Jagged” Trailer Reveals HBO’s Alanis Morissette Doc
“People would say, ‘wow, you’re so braved, you’re so empowered,'” Alanis Morissette says at the top of the official trailer for HBO’s Jagged, a documentary that tracks her rise to stardom, “I can’t write all these songs without obviously being disempowered,” she adds. For those of us who came of age in the 90s, Alanis Morissette really did seem like a force of nature, and her album “Jagged Little Pill” seemed to come out of nowhere in 1995 and change,
“The Matrix: Resurrections” Star Jessica Henwick on Leveling Up to Spar With Neo
We are just a month and change away from swallowing the red pill and seeing Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix: Resurrections. As we near the premiere date, some of the film’s stars are starting to talk about their experiences making the movie. Granted, no one is spilling any beans (or blue and red pills, as it were), but for newcomers to the franchise like Jessica Henwick, getting to take part in Wachowski’s iconic sci-fi series was an intense experience.
“C’mon C’mon” Trailer Reveals Joaquin Phoenix in Mike Mills’ Tender Drama
Writer/director Mike Mills has quietly made some of the most humane, affecting films of the past decade. Two standouts were 2010’s Beginners, which focused on the reverberations after a young man (played by Ewan McGregor) learns that his father (Christopher Plummer) has terminal cancer—and a young male lover. The film was, as the New York Times Denis Lim wrote at the time, “frankly autobiographical.” It was also one of that year’s most surprising,
Leonardo DiCaprio in Final Talks to Play Cult Leader Jim Jones in MGM Film
Leonardo DiCaprio gravitates towards difficult roles, so it’s hardly surprising he’s in final talks to play the infamous religious cult leader Jim Jones in MGM’s upcoming film. Deadline reports that DiCaprio is close to finalizing the deal for the feature written by Scott Rosenberg that’s centered on Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group and the driving force behind the November 1978 mass suicide—of more than 900 people— at his Jonestown settlement in 1978.
“Spencer” Director Pablo Larraín on the Horror & Humanity in His Princess Diana Movie
Director Pablo Larraín did not set out to make a horror movie with Spencer. But his unconventional portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales (Kristen Stewart), set over Christmas weekend in the early 1990s as her marriage to Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) is unraveling along with her psychological state, offers an eerie interpretation of the British royal’s turbulent inner world.
“It’s not that I wanted to make a horror movie. I wanted to make a movie from her perspective and the difficulties she was facing,” says Larraín in a Zoom interview the day before Neon released Spencer in theaters.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Has Begun Filming & Adam Warlock Has Arrived
Remember last month when Chris Pratt revealed he was on set for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but it turned out that filming hadn’t yet begun? Well, filming has officially begun. Writer/director James Gunn shared an image from set on Twitter, so now we know that the galactic gang really is back at it.
The photo includes the usual suspects from the Guardians franchise—Sean Gunn (Kraglin),
New “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Poster Reveals the Green Goblin
Sometimes it’s the smallest detail that makes the biggest difference. This is the case in the new poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which features everyone’s favorite web-slinger (Tom Holland) facing off against the supervillain Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), whose mechanical tentacles dominate the majority of the image. But, in the background, another legendary supervillain is visible—yup, that’s Green Goblin.
This is technically the first bit of concrete proof that the Green Goblin,
“Black Adam” Producer Says Early Cut of Film Has Him “Very Confident”
Sure, if you were producing a major film with a ton of expectations, you’d likely strike a positive note to journalists after seeing the first cut of said film. Yet, Black Adam producer Hiram Garcia really and truly seems hyped about the film, and his enthusiasm feels plenty warranted. Black Adam is going to introduce Dwayne Johnson to the DCEU as the titular antihero with some immense powers. There’s a reason that the current logline for the film is “The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change.”
“Spencer” Screenwriter on Getting Inside Princess Diana’s Headspace
Spencer (opened on Friday, November 5) casts Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, rumored to be “cracking up” when she reluctantly joins the royal family in an enormous countryside manor for a tense Christmas holiday. The movie, directed by Pablo Larrain, describes itself as a “Fable from a true tragedy.” To that end, screenwriter Steven Knight used facts gleaned from the 1991 gathering to devise a fervid psychodrama that takes place largely inside Diana’s head.
“Eternals” Has Arrived & The MCU Will Never Be The Same Again
How many milestones does Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals contain? Many. Zhao’s millennia-spanning epic centered on the titular band of immortal beings protecting the planet against their evil siblings (of sorts) the Deviants features characters and situations never before seen in a Marvel movie. These include the first deaf superhero, Makkari (played by deaf actress Lauren Ridloff), the first gay kiss, between superhero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and his husband, Ben (Haaz Sleiman),
