Interview

Composer

Composer René G. Boscio on Scoring Teenage Turmoil in “Emergency”

Carey Williams’s new film Emergency (premiering in theaters on May 20 and Amazon Prime Video on May 27) is billed as a comedy-thriller. But when college students Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and Sean (RJ Cyler), who are Black, and their buddy Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), who is Latino, find a drunk white girl they’ve never seen before passed out on the floor of their campus housing, it feels like Emergency is about to transform into straight horror.

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  May 20, 2022
“The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 Trailer Reveals a Brand New Battle

The official trailer for The Umbrella Academy season 3 is here, revealing that the Academy’s adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) created another superhero team, the Sparrows. Although to be fair, Sir Reginald didn’t do that to spite the superhero family we’ve come to know and love, the Hargreeves, he did it because on the current timeline the Hargreeves find themselves in, he never adopted them in the first place.

By The Credits  |  May 19, 2022
Watch a Full Episode of “Love, Death + Robots” Before Premiere

Love, Death + Robots has made the first episode of season 3 available on YouTube before the series returns to Netflix. The episode, titled “3 Robots: Exit Strategies,” is the first direct sequel in the brilliant animated series’ history, hailing from the mind of sci-fi novelist John Scalzi. The three robots in question are on an educational tour, so to speak, studying the failed human survival strategies that were deployed before mankind finally fell.

By The Credits  |  May 19, 2022
“Stranger Things” Season 4 Will Have Two Feature-Length Episodes

At long last, Stranger Things is set to return to Netflix when season 4 drops on May 27. As you likely know by now, season 4 will arrive in two parts, with the second volume arriving on July 1. Things have changed for our heroes after the epic Battle at Starcourt Mall that capped season 3, with our teenage protagonists growing up and, in the case of the Byers family, moving on, while Sheriff Jim Hopper is on another continent altogether.

By The Credits  |  May 19, 2022
“Top Gun: Maverick” Gets Five-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes

Before the crowd at the Cannes was even strapped in for a second of Top Gun: Maverick, they were cheering. This was because Tom Cruise received a surprise Palme d’Or, which he accepted with what appeared to be genuine surprise. Cruise and his co-stars, including Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Miles Teller, had already enjoyed an epic entrance when eight fighter jets leaving red, white, and blue contrails streaked overhead as they stood on the red carpet.

By The Credits  |  May 19, 2022
The Official “Bros” Trailer is Decidedly NSFW & Totally Hilarious

The official trailer for director Nicholas Stoller’s (Neighbors, Forgetting Sarah MarshallBros is here, and it’s the comedy we’ve all been waiting for. Bros is also making history as the first rom-com about two gay men to come from a major studio (Universal), and boasts a cast made up entirely of LGBTQ+ actors. The trailer, decidedly NSFW, shows why Bros made such a splash at this year’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

By The Credits  |  May 18, 2022
Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige Teases “She-Hulk,” “Secret Invasion,” “Loki” Season 2 & More

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige brought the goods to New York City. Speaking at Disney’s upfront presentation in the Big Apple, Feige teased a bunch of Marvel’s most eagerly-anticipated upcoming projects, including She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which just unveiled its first trailer.

Feige also revealed that Loki season 2 will be going into production in the coming weeks. What’s more, the entire cast from season one returns,

By The Credits  |  May 18, 2022
First “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Trailer Reveals Two Hulks for The Price of One

Meet Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), attorney at law. Jennifer’s got great friends, a demanding job—she’s now the face of the superhuman law division at her practice—and an interesting family life.  Her cousin, you’ll see in the first trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is a chill gentleman by the name of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). Yup, Ruffalo’s back as the Hulk, only now he’s using his big brain to try and help his cousin harness her own latent power.

By The Credits  |  May 18, 2022
“Spider-Man” Director Jon Watts Will Direct New “Star Wars” Series for Disney+

Director Jon Watts is taking a galactic leap. Watts, who directed all three of the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man films, is leading a brand new Star Wars series for Disney+. Vanity Fair broke the news in their big Star Wars cover story where they tracked all the upcoming projects the franchise is seeding on the small screen. One of those projects, code name Grammar Rodeo (which is a reference to a classic Simpsons episode where Bart and his pals steal a car and run away),

By The Credits  |  May 17, 2022
“Spiderhead” Trailer Reveals Chris Hemsworth in Adaptation of a Gloriously Insane George Saunders Story

There are so many reasons to be excited about Spiderhead. Let’s start with the fact that the film is an adaption of a George Saunders’ short story, “Escape From Spiderhead,” from his must-read collection “Tenth of December.” Then let’s add the fact it was directed by Top Gun: Maverick helmer Joseph Kosinski, from a script by the Deadpool screenwriting duo of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Excited yet? Oh yeah,

By The Credits  |  May 17, 2022
Pixar Unveils First Look & Release Date of New Feature “Elemental”

We’ve got a while to wait until Pixar’s 27th feature film, Elemental, hits theaters, but it’s never too early to get a sneak peek at what the vaunted animation studio is up to next. As you might have guessed, Elemental will focus on the four elements, only in Pixar’s hands, they’ll be living together in a city. The first image, a piece of very gorgeous concept art, depicts fire (named Ember) and water (named Wade) walking down the street of a city itself inspired by the elements.

By The Credits  |  May 17, 2022

Interview

Composer

“Moon Knight” Composer Hesham Nazih on Capturing the Sounds of Ancient Egypt, Modern Cairo, & Marvel Magic

Marvel’s Moon Knight recently concluded its first six-episode run (a second season is possible). Marvel’s latest Disney+ series centers on a mild-mannered British gift shop employee named Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac). Steven learns in the very first episode that he shares a body with an American mercenary named Marc Spector, who works as the human avatar for the ancient Egyptian god Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham). With the help of Steven and Marc’s mutual love interest Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy),

By Leslie Combemale  |  May 17, 2022
“The Boys” Season 3 Trailer Reveals Billy Butcher’s Super Status & Newcomer Soldier Boy

The official trailer for The Boys season three opens with Homelander (Antony Starr) on an apology tour. “I feel in love with the wrong woman,” Homelander tells one interviewer after another, referring to his partner-in-fascism and love interest from season 2, Stormfront (Aya Cash). That relationship got…messy, especially after it was revealed that Stormfront was a full-blown Nazi. So, Homelander is out there trying to tell anyone who will listen that it was all just a mistake and that he,

By The Credits  |  May 16, 2022
“Black Mirror” Season 6 Officially Happening

One of the most common jokes of the last, oh, five or so years has been that real life has become an episode of Black Mirror. The peerless series, created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, depicts a future world in which technology has run amok, the worst people on the planet seem to amass the most power, and the very things we rely on to escape our relentless and terrifying reality end up swallowing us whole.

By The Credits  |  May 16, 2022
“Prey” Trailer Reveals “Predator” Prequel Coming to Hulu

The Predator franchise is getting a very compelling prequel.

The first trailer for director Dan Trachtenberg’s (10 Cloverfield Lane, The Boys) Predator sequel Prey is here, revealing a glimpse at how the cosmos’ most relentless Alpha Predator has been hunting on our planet for a long, long time. Prey is set in the Comanche Nation some 300 years ago and is centered on Naru (Amber Midthunder),

By The Credits  |  May 16, 2022
New “Thor: Love and Thunder” Images Reveal Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor

We’ve got a fresh look at Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor.

Natalie Portman’s return to the Thor fold in Taika Waititi’s upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder as Jane Foster would have been exciting enough, but we’ve known since Comic-Con 2019 that Portman’s Foster would also be Mighty Thor. Here’s how Waititi revealed that bit of news way back when:

Now, Marvel has revealed a new image of Portman as Mighty Thor,

By The Credits  |  May 16, 2022
Charlize Theron Shares Video of her “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Character

*Big fat spoiler alert for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.*

Have you seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? Good, that means you can follow us through this portal into a universe where we can discuss the film’s epic mid-credits reveal. But first, a word about director Sam Raimi, who has returned to superhero moviemaking after his game-changing, early aughts Spider-Man trilogy with a bang here,

By The Credits  |  May 16, 2022

Interview

Costume Designer

“Moon Knight” Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on Minting a New Marvel Superhero

Moon Knight was a particularly intriguing challenge for costume designer Meghan Kasperlik. Coming off an incredible piece of work with her designs for the gritty crime series Mare of Easttown on HBO, where Kasperlik was key to helping Kate Winslet fully embody a detective in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (as a DelCo native, I remain amazed by this series on every level), Kasperlik plunged into the realm of superheroes,

By Bryan Abrams  |  May 13, 2022
Christopher Walken Will Play the Emperor in “Dune 2”

The shadowy figure who sent House Atreides to their doom in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune? Yeah, it was Christopher Walken.

The legendary Walken is joining Denis Villeneuve’s eagerly-anticipated sequel, making him the third big name to round out the cast alongside Florence Pugh and Austin Butler. Walken’s not just joining the cast, he’s playing the major role of Emperor Shaddum IV, the prime mover in the Galactic power struggle at the heart of Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 classic.

By The Credits  |  May 13, 2022
Netflix’s Live-Action “Resident Evil” Trailer Welcomes You to Raccoon City

Netflix is taking you to Raccoon City, possibly the worst city in the world, via a trailer for their new live-action series based on the mega-popular video game series.

Resident Evil will follow the travails of Jade Wesker (Tamara Smart), and you Resident Evil fans will recognize that last name, as Jade is the daughter of the villain Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick). The series is set between the years 2022 and 2036,

By The Credits  |  May 12, 2022