“1883” Costume Designer Janie Bryant on Elsa’s Epic Journey
The farther west her family’s pioneer caravan travels, the heavier a burden customs become, narrates Elsa (Isabel May), the heroine of 1883 on Paramount+. Observant and headstrong, she is the missing link from the series Yellowstone, a presence felt but not seen. Over the course of this ten-episode prequel, we follow her family’s journey leading to their stewardship of Montana’s biggest ranch and to Elsa’s ignominious fate.
The Dutton’s arduous move from Tennessee begins thanks to Elsa’s father,
From “Pachinko” to “Severance,” Costume Designers Discuss Their Apple TV Series
Last Year, Apple TV+ won seven Creative Arts Emmys and landed four Primetime Emmy Awards. They have kicked off this year’s Emmy FYC season with a number of events that will take place at The Grove in Los Angeles.
Last Thursday evening (5/19) a panel of costume designers took the stage to pull back the creative curtain of their series. The artisans making the journey were Jane Petrie from The Essex Serpent,
New “Thor: Love and Thunder” Trailer Reveals Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher
In an electrifying new trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder, we get to see the precise moment when Thor (Chris Hemsworth) thinks he’s about to be reunited with his magical hammer Mjolnir, only to find it belongs to somebody else now. You know who that new somebody is—her old name was Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), but in Love and Thunder, she’s Mighty Thor, and she’s worthy of wielding Mjolnir and a whole lot more.
Tom Cruise Returns as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Trailer
It’s Tom Cruise month, folks. While Cruise is still flying high from the stellar reviews for Top Gun: Maverick (which zooms into theaters on May 27), Paramount has just dropped the first trailer for Cruise’s other massive franchise, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Cruise returns as super spy Ethan Hunt, and he’s joined by the modern Mission: Impossible mainstays, with writer/director Christopher McQuarrie at the helm and Cruise’s longtime co-stars returning.
“Moonage Daydream” Trailer Reveals Riveting New Footage of David Bowie
“Questions have arisen such as is who he is, what is he, where did he come from, is he a creature of a foreign power, is he a creep, is he dangerous, smart, dumb, nice to his parents, real, a put-on, crazy, sane, man, woman, robot—what is this?”
These are the words that open the chills-inducing first trailer for Moonage Daydream, the first-ever feature-length film about David Bowie and sanctioned by his estate.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Star Letitia Wright Says Sequel Honors Chadwick Boseman
One of the most bittersweet intrigues in 2022’s film slate is how Black Panther: Wakanda Forever co-writer/director Ryan Coogler and his talented cast and crew handled the passing of Chadwick Boseman, the franchise’s star, in crafting the sequel without him. One person who certainly knows the answer to this question is Letitia Wright, Boseman’s co-star in the first Black Panther and one of the major returning figures in the sequel. Now,
“Russian Doll” Costume Designer Jennifer Rogien Travels Through Time in Style in Season 2
During Russian Doll’s first season, hapless downtown New Yorker Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) can’t escape her own birthday party. In Season 2, she finds herself trapped by missing laws of space and time yet again, except now she’s a full-on time traveler. Stepping onto the 6 train, she gets off in her own neighborhood in 1982, where, she is understandably disconcerted to learn that she is her mother, Nora (Chloe Sevigny). Just as she gets used to firsthand insight into Nora’s crappy relationships and pregnancy with her own self,
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
“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.
The Official “Bros” Trailer is Decidedly NSFW & Totally Hilarious
The official trailer for director Nicholas Stoller’s (Neighbors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) Bros 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.
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,
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.
“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),
“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,
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.
“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),
“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,