Gal Gadot to Play Evil Queen in Disney’s Live-Action “Snow White”
Gal Gadot is ready to get her evil on. Deadline scooped and Variety confirmed that Wonder Woman herself is in final negotiations to play the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Snow White, starring opposite Rachel Zegler, the star of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming West Side Story, who was cast as the princess June. Considering Gadot became a superstar playing the thoroughly good,
“Last Night in Soho” Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns on Writing a Terrifying Time-Travel Tale
It was producer-director-writer Sam Mendes who introduced writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns to director-writer-producer Edgar Wright. “He thought we’d be very good friends. We’ve got a quite similar sense of humor and a passion for filmmaking,” says Wilson-Cairns, who knew Mendes from working on the Showtime series Penny Dreadful and went on to co-write with him the Oscar- and Writers Guild of America-nominated original screenplay for the WWI drama 1917.
Worse Than Thanos? New “Eternals” Video Delves Into the Deviants
And you thought Thanos was bad.
In Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s upcoming Eternals, the villains looking to demolish humanity are even older and more broadly destructive than the Mad Titan. As a new video from Marvel explains, our heroic (if scattered) Eternals are gathering to defend the planet from the Deviants. Who are the Deviants? Well, they’re an “ancient race of monstrous predators that wipe out the intelligent lifeforms on each planet they inhabit.”
“The Harder They Fall” Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. on Reimagining the Wild West
In The Harder They Fall, now streaming on Netflix, director Jeymes Samuel (who also co-wrote and scored the film) revisits the deserts, saloons, and lonely train cars of the Old West. Taking names if not the exact stories of real people from the region’s history, the film follows Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) as he searches for Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), a villain’s villain who opens the film by murdering Nat’s parents and carving a cross into the young Nat’s (Anthony Naylor Jr.) forehead.
“Morbius” Trailer Reveals Jared Leto’s Marvel Bloodsucker
Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is alive and biting, made evident by the official trailer for Morbius, starring Jared Leto as a doctor with a severe case of bloodlust. Morbius will soon join Venom in Sony’s expanding Spider-Man Universe (once called Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters), offering audiences a potential web of interconnecting stories starring Spidey and the gang of antiheroes. In fact, Morbius makes a great Venom joke at the very end of the trailer.
Mixing History & Modernity in the Costumes of “The Harder They Fall”
The Harder They Fall, Netflix’s addition to the world of Westerns from director-writer Jeymes Samuel, is not a monochromatic throwback set on the dusty frontier. Honoring the names of historical characters like Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) and Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz) while leaving most of their actual histories behind, the film is centered around a complicated, fictional rivalry between two outlaw gangs seeking revenge and vying for control of a frontier town called Redwood.
“Morbius” Teaser Reveals Jared Leto’s Vampire Superhero
A new Morbius teaser from Sony Pictures asks us “Who is Morbius?” It’s a question quite a few folks might have, considering Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), and his thirsty alter ego Morbius, is not the most well-known Marvel character. The new teaser lets Leto himself describe what drew him to the character, and reveals how Morbius, like Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his alien symbiote Venom, is a superhero not totally in control of his powers.
“Venom 2” & “No Time To Die” Help Power October to Biggest Box Office Month of 2021
Thanks to an alien symbiote and his human host and one of cinema’s most enduring franchises, October has become the high-grossing month of the year for the first time in modern history. Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Daniel Craig’s final turn as James Bond in No Time To Die helped super-boost the month in the opening weeks, while Halloween Kills and Dune came in huge in the middle and towards the end of the month.
“Dune” Dominates Box Office as Desert Power Proves Real
With Dune 2 now official, desert power continues exerting itself over our cinematic landscape. Dune gobbled up another strong week and weekend at the box office, adding $15.5 million domestically, and another $21 million overseas, bringing its global total to a sturdy $292.1 million.
Writer/director Denis Villeneuve’s emphatic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi doorstopper has been a big hit for Warner Bros. in this pandemic-stricken era,
Halloween Treat: How Cinematographers James Kniest & Toby Oliver Capture Horror
It’s that time of year where people gather around screens to watch stories that convey the vivid glow of the season, and the unforgettable gatherings they bring.
Yuletide lights? Hanukkah latke feeds? A Secret Santa party? No, think more along the lines of glinting blood, the glow from a flaming church with vampires huddled inside, or a town’s lynch mob futilely pursuing a supernaturally charged serial killer.
Welcome to the sights and sounds of Halloween.
Ana de Armas May Play Lead in “John Wick” Spinoff “Ballerina”
If you saw No Time To Die, you saw just how phenomenal Ana de Armas was as the young CIA agent Paloma. In arguably the film’s most boisterous, giddy sequence, Armas’s Paloma, so nervous about her first mission she downs her entire martini in a single gulp, ends up being such a stellar agent even James Bond’s impressed. Paloma takes down a dozen (two dozen?) bad guys all on her own, in a thrilling action sequence that she seemed to delight in.
How Movie Superfan Cory Everett Created “Cinephile: A Card Game”
Batman and the death of his parents …
Wonder Woman and the pilot who crash lands on her island …
T’Challa and the legacy of Wakanda …
Who doesn’t love an origin story?
Now, move things a peg or three, from the King of Wakanda to Planet Superfan, where one fanboy, the subject of our story, grows up with such a deep and transcendental love of movies,
Bill Murray Reveals He’s in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”
If Bill Murray gets to play a wacky villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, all will be right in the world. Okay, not all, but you have to love this revelation. While speaking to the German language Faz about Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Bill Murray casually revealed he’s in Peyton Reed’s upcoming Marvel film. This is the type of news we can use.
Everything You Need To Know About “Eternals” in 60 Seconds
With the reviews in and only a week and change to go to before the premiere of Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, there’s little left to do but wait. Well, there is one bit of business you could attend to—getting background on the MCU’s newest crop of superheroes and what Eternals is all about. In a new video released from Marvel, all ten of the Eternals are on hand to explain who they are and where they come from.
“Dune 2” is Officially Greenlit
Writer/director Denis Villeneuve will get to finish the entirety of his vision for Dune. Legendary Entertainment announced the good news via tweet on Tuesday, booking our ticket back to the desert planet of Arrakis so we can see how Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya) navigate the coming war with both House Harkonnen and the mysterious Emperor. After Villeneuve scored the best opening of his career last weekend and Dune proved to be Warner Bros.
How Director Chloé Zhao Got a Superman Reference Into “Eternals”
Although this moment is referenced in a trailer and does not shape the plot, please consider this a spoiler warning all the same.
There’s a brief moment in a recent Eternals featurette where a little boy named Jack (Esai Daniel Cross) excitedly tells his father, an Eternal named Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) that fellow Eternal Ikaris (Richard Madden) is Superman. Jack’s not silly for thinking such a thing, Ikaris and Superman have some things in common,
Christopher Nolan Calls Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” a “Gift To Film Fans Everywhere”
Writer/director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was one of the most eagerly-anticipated films of the year and for good reason. Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary 1965 sci-fi novel was always going to be a big swing from one of our most ambitious filmmakers, and arguably one of the greatest living directors of sci-fi. Villeneuve had proven with Blade Runner: 2049 and Arrival that he had the chops to take on Herbert’s notoriously dense,
“Dune” is Denis Villeneuve’s Best Opening & Best IMAX Opening of Pandemic Era
Dune delivered in more ways than one. Co-writer and director Denis Villeneuve enjoyed the best opening weekend of his career as Dune finally hit theaters—and HBO Max—this past weekend. Dune pulled in $40 million at the box office and had the best three-day opening for a Warner Bros. film that was also playing on the same day on HBO Max. Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi novel also hauled in a pandemic-era best $9 million on IMAX.
New “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Images Reveal Doc Ock
By now you know that in Jon Watts’ upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will be taking a trip down memory lane. Only they aren’t really his memories, but those of Spider-men from across the multiverse, which is why our current Spidey will be facing off against villains from the past. Those include Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin from Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock from Raimi’s Spider-Man 2,
How “Dune” Editor Joe Walker Utilized Artificial Intelligence, Hans Zimmer, & Human Vulnerability to Shape Film
For Joe Walker, editing Dune was finding a resonating balance between the epic nature of the story and the intimacy of the characters’ journey.
In director Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of the iconic science-fiction novel by Frank Herbert, viewers are taken on a coming of age story set thousands of years in the future where a natural resource called “Spice” is currency and those who oversee its production own the keys to space travel and commerce.
