Dwayne Johnson Reveals a “Black Adam” Close-Up of His Supervillain
Dwayne Johnson wants to send you into your weekend with some fresh Black Adam hype. Johnson tweeted an image of his titular character, a supervillain who promises to shake up the power hierarchy in the DCEU the moment he arrives, looking downright possessed. The image of Johnson as Black Adam is going to be the cover of an upcoming issue of Total Film, his firey eyes matching the magazine’s title design.
“Peacemaker” Official Trailer Reveals One Beefy Brute’s Rude Awakening
James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad spinoff series Peacemaker‘s release is nigh, and now HBO Max has released the official trailer. When we last saw John Cena’s titular character in The Suicide Squad, he’d miraculously survived a duel with Bloodsport (Idris Elba) after becoming the film’s villain. Peacemaker is a character at war with himself (and, unfortunately, everybody else) because he’s a man who will pursue peace, no matter who he hurts in the process,
“Nightmare Alley” Early Reactions: Guillermo del Toro’s Luminously Dark Noir Shines
The buzz is building for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, the visionary director’s plunge into a world that seems tailor-made for his particular skill set. Set in a mid-20th-century second-rate carnival filled with schemers, dreamers, hustlers, weirdos, and femme Fatales, Del Toro gets to play carnival barker (that role in the movie actually belongs to Willem Dafoe), taking us on a tour of the lost souls plying their various trades in this shadowy world.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Snags Record Advance Ticket Sales
The first Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy (there will be a second) is about to come to an end with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and unsurprisingly, people are very excited to see it in the theater. The demand for advanced tickets, which went on sale on November 29, has been such that the rush of would-be buyers crashed a few of the online sites selling tickets.
New “The Matrix Resurrections” Teaser Explores Dangerous Déjà Vu
In the Matrix franchise, déjà vu isn’t just a curious but ultimately harmless experience of something you’re experiencing for the first time feeling like a memory. It is, rather, a glitch in the Matrix itself, and one of the early lessons that Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) taught Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the original film. In a new teaser for The Matrix Resurrections, we get to revisit the importance of déjà vu in the franchise,
Expect Insanity in “Thor: Love and Thunder” Says MCU Artist Andy Park
While MCU fans have had already their hands full in 2021 with new films (Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals) and new series on Disney+ (WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and now Hawkeye), there’s still a big premiere left—Spider-Man: No Way Home. That’s a lot of Marvel madness for a single year,
“The Power of the Dog” Cinematographer Ari Wegner on Finding the Light in Jane Campion’s Mythic Western
Auteur writer/director Jane Campion is known for being one of the few female filmmakers to garner a Best Director Oscar nomination, for 1993’s The Piano, which won her an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Fans have been anxiously awaiting her first feature film release since 2009’s Bright Star, and she’ll do them proud with The Power of the Dog, an intense period drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as bullying 1920s rancher Phil Burbank.
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Breakout Star Meng’er Zhang on her Knockout Debut
From the second she enters the frame, Xialing radiates a younger sibling’s mixture of hurt and defiance at the brother who abandoned her. Yet Xialing is no longer a little girl, and as the daughter of the crime boss and formidable, superpowered martial arts master Wenwu, she’s become everything her older brother—Shang-Chi—was meant to be. Only unlike her brother, she wasn’t handpicked as Wenwu’s successor, and her training to become an unparalleled martial arts expert and assassin was done on the sly.
“Passing” Writer/Director Rebecca Hall On Navigating the Complicated History of Racial Identity
The complexity of bringing a thematically laced film like Passing to the screen isn’t a simple one. For Rebecca Hall, who makes her directorial debut, it was also a personal journey, “an extended catharsis” that allowed her “to get to the bottom of a lot of mysteries” in her family.
The story, which is adapted by Hall from the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, follows two Black women, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga),
How Vietnamese Filmmaker Bui Kim Quy Faced Death, Real & Imagined, in Her Film “Memoryland”
When her second film Memoryland held its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents competition last month, Vietnamese director Bui Kim Quy had to give it a miss due to her health conditions.
“I was diagnosed with lung cancer after the shoot wrapped in late 2018. Since then I have been undergoing treatment (which also explains why we had a drawn-out post-production). This pre-existing medical condition prevented me from getting the vaccines.
“West Side Story” Early Reactions: Steven Spielberg’s First Musical is a Vivid, Vivacious Smash
You might have heard that a young, upstart director named Steven Spielberg was attempting to adapt one of Broadway’s most iconic musicals of all time, West Side Story. Well, now the first reactions to Spielberg’s take on the late, great Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s original 1957 Broadway show are pouring in, and they’re effusive enough to make you want to break into song. Spielberg’s version, based on a screenplay by his Lincoln collaborator and legendary playwright himself,
A New Spider-Man Trilogy Starring Tom Holland is Happening
New images for Spider-Man: No Way Home have arrived just in time to…start thinking about a brand new Spidey trilogy starring Tom Holland? Well, it’s the Holiday season, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at this overabundance of gifts.
With tickets for Spider-Man: No Way Home now available (and selling like hotcakes) it probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Sony Pictures is interested in keeping star Tom Holland in their Spider-Man Universe.
Villains Reign Supreme in New “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Images
A slew of new images from director Jon Watt’s upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home have arrived, putting Spidey’s troubles front-and-center. And those troubles have names—Doc Ock, Electro, the Green Goblin are just a few of the sinister souls Peter Parker will be squaring off against.
By now you’ve likely heard the main synopsis for No Way Home, the third film in Watts and Tom Holland’s Spidey-trilogy. After the cataclysmic events in Spider-Man: Far From Home,
How “The Harder They Fall” Hair Department Head Araxi Lindsey Put History to Work
There are plenty of recognizable names in The Harder They Fall. For his Western epic, director-writer Jeymes Samuel references historical figures like mail carrier Mary Fields, cowboy Nat Love, outlaw Rufus Buck, sharpshooter Bill Pickett, and lawman Bass Reeves. In Samuel’s modern update, however, the film’s characters align with their historical reference points’ careers (with the exception of Mary, now a saloon owner), but otherwise, the story is all new.
Upon learning that Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being transported from prison,
New “The Book of Boba Fett” Teaser Reveals Trouble Ahead for The Iconic Bounty Hunter
On November 1, we got the first trailer for The Book of Boba Fett, revealing the upcoming Disney+ series centered on the iconic bounty hunter’s return to his old hunting grounds. Then, we got a glimpse at some still images from the series, which gave us a look at a maskless Boba (Temura Morrison), Boba’s ally Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), and some of the colorful characters Boba will be up against as he returns to Tatooine and the underworld once ruled with a blubbery fist by Jabba the Hutt.
“Encanto” Writer/Director Charise Castro Smith On Breaking Boundaries
With the release of Disney’s Encanto, Charise Castro Smith (The Haunting of Hill House, Devious Maids) has broken through not one but two ceilings: as the first Latina to receive a directing credit on a Disney animated feature, and only the second woman ever to do so.
“I am glad this milestone has been reached. I wish it had been reached earlier and I wish this weren’t such a small club,” said Castro Smith,
“Hawkeye” Director & Executive Producer Rhys Thomas Hits His Mark
Let’s say you’re a director, and you’ve been called in for a “general meeting” at Marvel Studios. A general meeting is a chance for studio executives to get to know a particular filmmaker, see what they’re like and what they’re interested in, but they’re not pegged to a specific project. Not yet. Obviously, a general meeting with Marvel is a big deal, and the number of Marvel projects percolating at any given moment is massive,
Cinematographer Alice Brooks Makes “tick, tick…BOOM!” Sing With Personal Memories
tick, tick…Boom! may not have the name recognition of Jonathan Larson’s most famous production, Rent, but it is a theater kid’s dream for Broadway royalty to bring this story to the screen. The film interpretation of his unfinished work captures the heart and hustle of 1990s New York through Larson’s eyes. Although Larson passed away in 1996, the project was lovingly researched and reconstructed by director Lin-Manuel Miranda and screenwriter Steven Levenson.
“House of Gucci” Screenwriter Roberto Bentivegna on Centering Lady Gaga’s Obsessive Patrizia Reggiani
Sometimes you just have to say, “F*** it all, I’ll give it a shot.”
That’s what Roberto Bentivegna did when he got his shot to write the screenplay for the new MGM Studios feature House of Gucci, opening November 24.
At the time, Bentivegna had only a handful of short-film credits and award wins from way back in film school at Columbia. But he also had something else: a great idea.
“King Richard” Editor Pamela Martin on Finding The Film’s Rousing Rhythm
What if your life was planned out even before you were born? And if you followed it with hard work and a little perseverance, not only would you be successful, but you’d be considered one of the greatest at what you do. Would you sign up for it?
Director Reinaldo Marcus Green explores that very journey in King Richard (in theaters and on HBO Max now), a story, written by Zach Baylin,
