Keanu Reeves to Star in “Devil in the White City” Series for Hulu

Talk about an incredible combination of talent. Keanu Reeves is set to take on his first major TV role in a series produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. Reeves will star in Hulu’s Devil in the White City, an adaptation of Erik Larson’s best-selling book of the same name. It’s a project that both DiCaprio and Scorsese have been nudging along for years.

DiCaprio first optioned the book back in 2010,

By The Credits  |  August 4, 2022
“Joker 2” With Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga Gets a 2024 Release Date

Joker: Folie á Deux is going to be laughing its way into theaters in 2024.

The sequel to Todd Phillips’ smash hit will feature Joaquin Phoenix, of course, in the title role, joined this time by none other than Lady Gaga. Joker: Folie á Deux is now set for an October 4, 2024 release date, which means it’ll bow on the five-year anniversary of the original film.

The specifics surrounding Joker: Folie á Deux are wild.

By The Credits  |  August 4, 2022
New “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Images + Synopsis Reveal Villain Namor

A fresh batch of photos and a synopsis for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Yes, thank you.

Marvel Studios has released a slew of new photos for Ryan Coogler’s upcoming sequel, revealing looks at the cast as they venture into an uncertain future without their leader and king, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman). Boseman’s tragic passing in August of 2020 meant that Coogler and the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever team had to shift their approach completely,

By The Credits  |  August 4, 2022
A Sweeping Look Behind-the-Scenes of “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”

A new behind-the-scenes look at Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power gives us a sense of why this is the most ambitious series the studio has ever produced and, arguably, one of the most ambitious series of all time.

“The second age is the great unfilmed story in Tolkien’s entire legendarium, with the forging of the rings and the last alliance, and we felt that that was the story that deserved to be told,”

By The Credits  |  August 3, 2022

Interview

How The “Westworld” Makeup Effects Team Built Body Doubles & More in Season 4

Every season of Westworld is an ambitious undertaking, requiring hundreds of talented artists to create HBO’s gorgeously wrought sci-fi puzzle box. Season 4 has been especially complex, owing to the fact that the line between “real” and synthetic, between host and human, has been blurred to the vanishing point. Season one’s western-themed rebellion story, in which the synthetic hosts of the titular park eventually rebelled against their human abusers, is now a distant memory as some of those hosts wield enormous power and control over their human subjects in the real world.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 3, 2022

Interview

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

“The Sea Beast” Writer/Director/Producer Chris Williams on His High Seas Animated Adventure

Chris Williams began working on The Sea Beast around four years ago, but telling an action-adventure story in animation is something he has wanted to do for a very long time. “It’s almost no exaggeration to say most of my life,” says the Academy Award-winning filmmaker (Moana, Big Hero 6, Bolt) about his latest movie, now streaming on Netflix.

Directed, co-produced, and co-written by Williams — he collaborated on the screenplay with Nell Benjamin,

By Julie Jacobs  |  August 3, 2022
“Atlanta” Final Season Trailer Reveals the Swan Song of one of TV’s Most Fearless Shows

We’re nearing the beginning of the end of Donald Glover’s Atlanta, one of TV’s most consistently ambitious, relentlessly unique series of the past six years. FX has revealed the trailer for the fourth and final season, which will find the series returning to its namesake city after season three’s European sojourn.

The crew is back in their hometown—Ern (Donald Glover), Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), and Van (Zazie Beetz)—after a surreal journey in Europe during Paper Boi’s international tour.

By The Credits  |  August 2, 2022
How Skylight Studios Transforms Inaccessible Spaces into Inspiring Locations

What people love, fear and crave are constantly defined by their location. From first noticing the otherworldly star band the Milky Way presents in a clear night sky to reading about CERN potentially ending the world while strapped to an airline seat 10,000 feet above the earth – the location of every moment serves as a lens through which we all see the world. And all those moments stay with us.

For storytellers,

By The Credits  |  August 2, 2022
New “Prey” Video Connects Latest Film to Original “Predator”

“There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man.” These are the first words we hear spoken in this new Prey featurette, but they’re not from director Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming film. These lines were spoken during director John McTiernan’s original Predator (1987), when a team of commandos led by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch first tangled with the extra-terrestrial hunter in a Central American jungle. Now, Trachtenberg’s Prey takes us back well before the events in Predator to the Comanche Nation some 300 years ago,

By The Credits  |  August 2, 2022
New “Bullet Train” Clip & First Reactions Hype Hilarious, Hardcore Action-Comedy Led by Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt has proven, time and time again, that his leading man looks belie an astonishing ability at playing goofy, weird, wild, and wasted. From his scene-stealing turn as the pothead Floyd in a brief sequence in True Romance to his paranoid asylum patient playing opposite Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys to his lunatic bare-knuckled boxer in Snatch—and dozens of films between and after—Pitt has proven again and again he’s very comfortable providing off-kilter energy and some killer comedic timing.

By The Credits  |  August 2, 2022
First “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” Clip Reveals a Lesson in the Hulk Lifestyle

In the first official clip from Marvel Studios She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, we learn some pretty intriguing new information on what life is like as a Hulk. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) is schooling his cousin Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) on the finer points of living life as a superhumanly strong person. It’s mostly negative. Here’s what Bruce has to say when he feels his cousin isn’t taking him seriously: “Jen, when you have powers like this,

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2022
How Camera Specialist Otto Nemenz Helped Make “The Gray Man” & Trains Tomorrow’s Camera Wizards

Did you hold your breath during the heart-stopping, crystal-clear action scenes in the Netflix thriller The Gray Man? You can thank Otto Nemenz and his cameras for that. 

For over 40 years, Otto Nemenz International, Inc. in Culver City (and previously Hollywood) has provided digital cinema cameras, lenses, and accessories to motion picture productions across the country. But it’s more than just the top-notch equipment ONI provides that makes this 40+ person operation exceptional.

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2022
First “House of the Dragon” Reactions Hail “Game of Thrones” Prequel as Worthy Successor

When Game of Thrones ended its game-changing 8-season run on HBO—with a highly controversial final season, no less—HBO was left with a dragon-sized hole to fill. Game of Thrones became one of the most popular shows of all time, thrilling (and occasionally infuriating) viewers for almost a decade. And now, the first GoT related series to make it to air is nigh, with critics getting a glimpse at the House of the Dragon pilot.

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2022
Official “Andor” Trailer Reveals how the Rebellion Began

The official Andor trailer is here, and it reveals Disney+’s hugely ambitious new Star Wars series with a thrilling two-minute-long look. Whereas our first look at Andor gave us a glimpse at the drum beat of rebellion spreading across the galaxy, the official trailer gets deeper into the heart of the story, which is set before the events depicted in Rogue One when Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) was part of a team of rebels who successfully lifted the Death Star plans off the empire—and paid the ultimate price for their efforts.

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2022
From “Westworld” to “Perry Mason” – Quixote is a Studio Service Company in Shining Armor

If you spot Star Trailers on the streets of Los Angeles, you may not be surprised to see the Quixote brand on the side. After all, Quixote Studios is the entertainment industry’s premier studio and equipment rental company in Los Angeles. But I bet you didn’t know those trailers are actually suits of shining armor on wheels.

Founded by Mikel Elliott and Jordan Kitaen, Quixote Studios has 24 soundstages throughout the Los Angeles area that are highly sought after by production companies and studios around the country.

By The Credits  |  July 29, 2022
How Mammal Studios Builds Magical Landscapes & Trains Technical Wizards

Creating spectacular superhero action scenes, constructing fantastical locations, visually evoking an era, or creating trippy illustrations are forms of visual effects. And they are all a key part of visual storytelling. Many viewers don’t know how these elements are created or who produces them. 

The artists at Mammal Studios are a fantastic example, having woven their visual effects magic on many of the biggest blockbusters from the last decade—Black Panther,

By The Credits  |  July 29, 2022
Ben Affleck Returning as Batman for “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”

My man! You can almost hear Jason Momoa, as Arthur Curry, say these words as Bruce Wayne pulls up in one of his outrageously expensive cars to help his buddy Aquaman with a new problem.

That’s right, Bruce Wayne is re-teaming with Arthur Curry in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Momoa has revealed that Ben Affleck is returning as Bruce Wayne/Batman for the Aquaman sequel, revealing the big news after some fans on a Warner Bros.

By The Credits  |  July 29, 2022

Interview

Actor

Juliette Binoche on Driving a Tough Road in “Paradise Highway”

For writer/director Anna Gutto’s feature debut Paradise Highway, a trucker named Sally will do whatever it takes to keep her brother Dennis (played by Frank Grillo) alive long enough so that he can get out of prison and restart his life. This means she’ll take on jobs that are hardly legal, but she believes victimless, in order to make a little extra money and placate the powers that be that hold his life,

By Bryan Abrams  |  July 29, 2022

Interview

Production Designer

How “Nope” Production Designer Ruth De Jong Built & Bloodied the Haywood Ranch

There was a moment when writer/director Jordan Peele and production designer Ruth De Jong realized they were going to shoot Nope practically. Tucked in the Agua Dulce area of California’s Santa Clarita Valley is the Firestone Ranch, which would become the setting for the Haywood home where OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) discover an unexpected visitor living in the sky above them.

“The property is this huge basin surrounded by these hills,

By Daron James  |  July 28, 2022

Interview

Editor

“Nope” Editor Nicholas Monsour Dives Into the Macabre of Jordan Peele’s Sci-Fi epic

Putting together the irresistibly gripping story of writer-director Jordan Peele’s third film Nope was picture editor Nicholas Monsour, who has a shorthand with the auteur, having collaborated on Us (2019) and a number of episodes of Key and Peele.

Set in the outskirts of Hollywood, OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) find themselves up against a mysterious entity living in the sky above their home.

By Daron James  |  July 28, 2022