Jordan Peele’s “Nope” Reveals Longest, Most Thrilling Look Yet
Earlier this week we got our first look at the alien menace haunting Jordan Peele’s third film, Nope. Now, Universal Pictures has given us our most robust peek at Peele’s film, which serves to only heighten our deep thirst for this movie.
“As ambitious a cinematic event as I’ve planned in my career,” Peele says at the top of this new video. “I tried to write a script that I didn’t know how to pull off,
First “Black Adam” Trailer Reveals Dwayne Johnson’s Epic Arrival In DCEU
That tremor you feel is the shakeup coming to the DCEU. Warner Bros. has just dropped the first trailer for Black Adam, the long-awaited entrance of Dwayne Johnson to the DCEU as the titular antihero, and it’s going to Rock your world.
“I was a slave until I died,” Johnson’s Black Adam says at the top of the trailer. “Then, I was reborn a God.” The trailer unpacks, at least a little bit,
“Ozark” Star Julia Garner Has Been Offered Madonna Role in Biopic
Variety has a big scoop—Ozark and Inventing Anna star Julia Garner has been offered the role of Madonna in the upcoming biopic about the icon, which Madonna herself is directing. Garner was against some very stiff competition, auditioning for the role along with over a dozen other candidates. Some of the actors who were in contention for the role included Florence Pugh, Odessa Young, and Euphoria star Alexa Demie,
“Joker” Sequel Official: Working Title & Pics of Joaquin Phoenix Reading Scripts Revealed
The Clown Prince of Chaos is back.
Director Todd Phillips has made it official that a Joker sequel is happening. Phillips took to Instagram to reveal that a follow-up to his 2019 hit film is in the works, revealing the cover of the script that he co-wrote with original Joker collaborator Scott Silver. The working title? Joker: Folie á Deux. More on this title in a minute.
Official “Bullet Train” Trailer Takes Brad Pitt on a Wild Ride
All aboard the Nippon Speedline, the titular mode of transportation that will be carrying director David Leitch’s Bullet Train on a deliriously action-packed track. A new trailer for Leitch’s A-list thriller reveals that this journey is looking very intense for a tired assassin known as Ladybug (Brad Pitt). Ladybug—a new name he’s just been given–is tired of all his bad luck. His handler (played by Sandra Bullock) has a new job for him,
“Prey” Trailer Reveals Hulu’s Ambitious Predator Prequel
When Naru (Ambert Midthunder) sees something streaking across the sky, she takes it as a sign she’s ready to join the hunt. In the official trailer for Prey, we know a few things Naru doesn’t, namely that what she saw in the sky isn’t a sign, but a warning. In a terrific sequence glimpsed in this longer look at director Dan Trachtenberg’s (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Boys) Predator sequel,
“Stranger Things” Cinematographer Caleb Heymann on Season 4’s Monstrous Mayhem
*Spoilers below for the first seven episodes of season 4!
The first seven episodes — the last two are expected in July — of Stranger Things Season 4 go big. Hopper (David Harbour) is alive but in a Soviet prison. The kids are split up, with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Will (Noah Schnapp) living the opposite of a teenage dream out in California. The rest of the gang are still in Hawkins,
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” Teaser Reveals Prequel
The countdown for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has officially begun. Now that we know that West Side Story‘s breakout star Rachel Zegler will lead director Francis Lawrence’s return to the franchise, Lionsgate has done us one better and released a teaser for the film. The teaser invites us back to the games with a twisting shot of a frozen tree, then reveals that two creatures—a songbird and a snake—are slowly coming to life,
“Stranger Things” Casting Director Carmen Cuba on Finding Season 4’s New Faces
*There are spoilers for season 4 below, so proceed with caution if you’re not caught up!
With every new season of Stranger Things comes a new crop of teens to replace those ill-fated in prior seasons to the predations of the Upside Down that lurks under Hawkins. In addition, in Season 4, the show’s beloved original members are scattered across the globe, leaving room for new cast members to take on feature roles in Hawkins’ latest rescue.
“Deadpool 3” Writers Promise Deadpool is Gonna Keep Deadpool’ing
Don’t worry, Deadpool fans, screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese promise that the third film in the franchise will be as irreverent and Deadpool-y as ever. The reason the fellas who wrote the first two films are saying this is because the Merc with the Mouth has officially joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thanks to Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, which was completed back in 2019. This means that Deadpool 3 will be the first film in the franchise to officially fall under the MCU/Disney banner,
“Top Gun: Maverick” Makes History — Again
Top Gun: Maverick has achieved Mach 10. In fact, if you’ve seen the film, you know that Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise, of course) does achieve the previously unthinkable when he hits Mach 10 in the opening sequence of the film, working as a test pilot for the Navy. The scene is thrilling and ends with Maverick, once again, getting screamed at by a Navy official (played by Jon Hamm, no less),
“Nope” Teaser Finally Reveals the Alien Ship Haunting Jordan Peele’s Latest
Yeah, nah. No. Hell no. How many ways can the characters in Jordan Peele’s Nope express their absolute refusal to accept the unacceptable menace hovering in the sky? In a new teaser for Peele’s latest, we finally get a glimpse at what his stellar cast is responding to, with a brief but thrilling glimpse at the alien ship menacing the good people of Nope. The craft is sleek, small-ish,
“The Boys” Season 3 Arrives on Amazon With Hype to Spare
In one narrative thread of season two of Amazon’s gleefully unhinged superhero sendup The Boys, Homelander (Antony Starr) pursued a very messy relationship with Stormfront (Aya Cash). Their budding romance became problematic when Stormfront was revealed to be a full-blown Nazi, a public relations nightmare for the slightly more subtly sadistic Homelander, and it ended, as many relationships do in this show, in an abundance of gore.
Season three has now arrived,
Decoding The Brilliance of Michael Giacchino’s “The Batman” Theme in Eight Bars
In his score for The Batman, the brooding emotional tone of composer Michael Giacchino’s character theme is established from bar one in the track of the same name. No soaring violins. No muscular brass orchestra. No superhero triumphalism. In their stead, a muted piano taps its rhythm low and slow, establishing the key of B flat before quickly descending. The tonal interval—moving from the tonic down two whole tones to the minor sixth degree—is inherently menacing,
“The Staircase” Writer/Director Antonio Campos’s Dazzling Twist on True Crime
Writer/director Antonio Campos (The Devil All The Time) first began thinking about adapting the iconic docu-series The Staircase back in 2008. As a young, up-and-coming filmmaker, Campos imagined adapting the French series, centered on the sensational trial of American novelist Michael Peterson, accused of killing his wife Kathleen, in 2001, into a feature film. In fact, the French doc itself was meant to be a feature, but after director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and producer Denis Poncet embedded with the Peterson family,
“Severance” Production Designer Jeremy Hindle’s Dystopian Office Space
“Large room, four desks.” That’s the only description production designer Jeremy Hindle had to work with when he came up with this TV season’s most spookily immaculate office, as seen in Apple TV + series Severance. The high-concept sci-fi thriller, partially directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller from a script by first-timer Dan Ericson, centers on the tyrannical Lumon Industries corporation whose employees (played by Adam Scott, John Turturro, Britt Lower,
Chris Hemsworth Reveals “Furiosa” Prequel Has Begun Filming
Mad Max: Fury Road fans, start your engines. Chris Hemsworth has revealed on Twitter that the Furiosa prequel has finally begun filming. Like so many other movies, Furiosa was delayed due to the pandemic, and the original release date of June 2023 got pushed to May 2024. But now, the stars have literally aligned as the cast has finally assembled and filming is underway on George Miller’s highly-anticipated prequel,
Ewan McGregor, “Star Wars” & “Star Trek” Family Defend “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Star Moses Ingram
You might recall back in 2017 when Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiered and some Star Wars “fans” began bullying Kelly Marie Train, one of the film’s stars, often using horrific language. “I won’t be marginalized by online harassment,” Tran wrote shortly thereafter, in an essay for The New York Times. “It wasn’t their words, it’s that I started to believe them.
Bill Hader on Bringing Up “Barry”
For eight seasons, Bill Hader gained a legion of fans with the hilarious characters he brought to life on Saturday Night Live. Since then, his popularity has only grown with his Emmy-winning portrayal of the manic hitman/aspiring actor in the HBO series Barry. But to hear Hader tell it, performing wasn’t his initial goal. For as long as he can remember, he wanted to direct.
“Since I was fairly young…I would say 10 or 11 was when I first started to notice the ‘directed-by’ name,” Hader says during a recent Zoom interview.
“Stranger Things” Season 4 Smashes Netflix Record With 287 Million Hours Viewed
Sorry, Bridgerton season 2, but Stranger Things just turned Netflix’s record books upside down. The fourth season of the Duffer Brothers’ beloved series has smashed the record for the best premiere for an English-language series, with viewers notching 286.79 million hours of viewing time from May 25 to 27. Bridgerton was the previous record-holder for an English-language series with a healthy 193 million hours over its premiere weekend this past March.
