“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Swings To Record Opening Weekend

Update: Spider-Man: No Way Home soared to a massive $260 million U.S. opening this weekend, and a stunning $587.2 million globally. Director Jon Watts and star Tom Holland’s third film together is now the second-biggest domestic debut of all time (it was third when we first published this piece), behind only Avengers: Endgame ($357 million) and having just nudged past Avengers: Infinity War ($257.6m). These are numbers that are in line with pre-pandemic moviegoing,

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Co-Writers Talk Villains, Peter Parker & Changing the Script

Reviewers raved, Twitter went berserk with anticipation and spoilers went (mostly) unleaked as Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters this past weekend, making box office history in the process. Third in the trilogy of Tom Holland-headlining Marvel films directed by Jon Watts, No Way Home picks up where Far From Home left off 18 months earlier, with Peter Parker trying to cope with the consequences of vengeful Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) revealing his secret superhero identity to the world.

“Nightmare Alley” Cinematographer & VFX Supervisor on Creating Guillermo del Toro’s Carnival Noir

Most of the films coming out now – whether award contenders, tent poles, or any combination thereof – share similar stories apart from whatever genre the movie itself belongs to: namely, the story of the Covid delay, and how it affected production.

So it was for Guillermo del Toro’s version of Nightmare Alley, another rendering of the novel by the ill-fated William Lindsay Graham, whose work originally inspired Tyrone Power’s memorable,

“The Matrix Resurrections” Early Reactions: A Bold, Irreverent, Vividly Personal Head Trip

The first reactions for Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections are hitting our very own Matrix and multiplying rapidly online. While there are quibbles here and there, the consensus that’s building is that Wachowski has created something vividly personal in Resurrections that has surpassed the previous two films in the installment, Reloaded and Revolutions, by every conceivable margin. Many early reactions cite the joyous irreverence of this film,

“The Lost City of D” Trailer Reveals the Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum Adventure You’ve Been Waiting For

If you had Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum as your stars of a fun adventure flick, you’d be set, right? Of course you would. Bullock and Tatum star in The Lost City of D, which follows the adventure of romance novelist Loretta Sage (Bullock) and her cover model (Tatum) who get entangled in an actual exotic adventure in the jungle. With these two stars, would you need any more big names? You would not,

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” & The Character Sharing Deal That Lets Spidey Swing From Sony to Marvel

With the reviews out for Spider-Man: No Way Home and the resultant excitement and buzz from all the good news they’ve generated, a helpful bit of explanation was offered by Sony Pictures chairman and CEO Tom Rothman about both Tom Holland’s future as Peter Parker and the Sony/Marvel Studios crossover situation. For those of you who haven’t been keeping tabs on the confusing corporate legalities that make it feel as if Spider-Man’s place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is always hanging by a thread (apologies),

“Nightmare Alley” Production Designer Tamara Deverell on Creating a Carnival of Creepy Delights

Director Guillermo del Toro pulls back the curtain of a 1930s traveling carnival in a love story that gets downright creepy in Nightmare Alley.

Bradley Cooper is Stanton Carlisle, a quiet drifter who finds himself working for a carnival to make ends meet. After falling for a fellow carny, Molly (Rooney Mara), who quite literally electrifies the crowd, he transforms himself into one of the greatest mind-readers,

“Red Rocket” Writer/Director Sean Baker & His Cast On Their Charmingly Offbeat Comedy

Sean Baker, indie writer/director of award winners Tangerine and The Florida Project, has been very successful in creating narratives that feel authentic. Determined to always film on location, never on a soundstage, and a champion of hiring locals and newcomers in featured roles, he has employed guerrilla filmmaking and made more than one career for his performers. You can never see a Sean Baker movie coming,

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Review Round-Up: Most Thrilling Marvel Film Since “Avengers: Endgame”

If you’re curious how the experience of seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home in the theater has been for many folks, this tweet from the editor of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heatvision blog sums it up nicely. For a film that has broken records for advance ticket sales, it makes sense that the experience in the theater has been likened to the film that set that record to begin with. Multiple critics have compared the emotional experience of watching No Way Home in the theater to watching Avengers: Endgame back in 2019.

“Being The Ricardos” Hair Department Head Teressa Hill on Wigs Done Right

Being the Ricardos (in theaters now) faced a Russian Doll challenge when writer-director Aaron Sorkin decided to make a movie about the off-stage drama surrounding I Love Lucy. The fifties-era sitcom drew 60 million viewers every week and made Lucille Ball the most famous redhead in America. Portrayed by Nicole Kidman, Ball starred as daffy housewife Lucy Ricardo. She’s married in the show to bandleader Ricky Ricardo, played by her real-life husband Desi Arnaz,

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Trailer Reveals Mads Mikkelsen as Grindewald

Warner Bros. has revealed the first official trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. The Secrets of Dumbledore comes from veteran Harry Potter director David Yates—he directed six films in the Potter franchise, including the final four—and further follows the adventures of Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander. As the title suggests, The Secrets of Dumbledore will lean heavily into the dealings of the younger Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law),

Red Pill Time: “The Matrix Resurrections” Reveals Tons of New Images

A huge cache of new images from Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections gives us a glimpse at most of the major characters in her upcoming sci-fi epic. These include, of course, our returning champions Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) from the original trilogy. We’ve also got looks at newcomers like Bugs (Jessica Henwick), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s new Morpheus, Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Sati, Jonathan Groff’s clearly evil substantiation of the Matrix,

“The Batman” Drops the Mask in Terrific New Japanese Trailer

A juicy new Japanese trailer for writer/director Matt Reeves’ The Batman gives us some new footage and a great final moment. This new trailer is much more tightly focused on the central battle within the film between Batman (Robert Pattinson) and his sociopathic nemesis the Riddler (Paul Dano), whose killing spree through Gotham seems designed to unmask Batman once and for all. This deeply personal tet-a-tet between the emotionally wounded, physically overextended Bruce Wayne and the gleefully sadistic Edward Nashton (the Riddler’s given name) is reminiscent of the greatest superhero power struggle of all,

Aaron Sorkin on Having a Ball Making “Being the Ricardos”

You might think the opportunity to write a film about the legendary Lucille Ball would have been irresistible for Aaron Sorkin, but he wasn’t immediately convinced. “It took me about 18 months to say yes, to commit to it,” Sorkin says of the project that would eventually become Being the Ricardos, his propulsive new film that takes us through a week of production on the set of I Love Lucy, 

A New “The Matrix Resurrections” Clip Reveals Trip Down Memory Lane

Warner Bros. has released a brand new clip from The Matrix Resurrections that takes us on a little trip down memory lane. The memory belongs to Neo (Keanu Reeves), who is once again being recruited to help fight the malicious A.I. that controls the Matrix. In the clip, Neo is led by a new face in the Matrix-verse, Bugs (Jessica Henwick), who takes him, in pure Matrix fashion, through a rooftop door and directly into a train in Tokyo.

“Winning Time” Trailer Reveals Adam McKay’s Lakers Series for HBO Max

The dominant Chicago Bulls of the Michael Jordan era got a proper deep-dive docu-series, The Last Dance, on Netflix that was, for many of us, a salve during those dark, early days of the pandemic. It seems only fitting that the Los Angeles Lakers of the Magic Johnson era now have their own series, and it seems extra fitting that the team whose era of dominance was called Showtime would get a splashy,

“West Side Story” Music Producer David Newman on Arranging Steven Spielberg’s Musical Masterpiece

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is finally landing in theaters on December 10. His film is a new take on the original 1957 Broadway musical and the 1961 classic film, which both feature music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The story is a musical version of Romeo and Juliet, but with the Montagues and the Capulets represented by two gangs, the Italian-American Jets and the Latinx Sharks,

New “Star Wars” Disney+ Series “The Acolyte” Eyeing Amandla Stenberg For Lead

Amandla Stenberg is nearing a flight for a galaxy far, far away. The rising star is in talks to join the upcoming Disney+ live-action Star Wars series The Acolyte from director Leslye Headland (Russian Doll), Variety reports. Headland will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner on the series, which aims to begin production in the middle of 2022.

While little is known about the role Stenberg would be playing,

A New “The Book of Boba Fett” Teaser Reveals the Millennium Falcon & More

Disney+ has just dropped a new The Book of Boba Fett teaser that goes big on mood, action, and one brief but compelling glimpse at the most famous spaceship in Star Wars history. This minute-long, nearly wordless glimpse has a bunch of fresh footage, and the arrival of the Millennium Falcon is but one cool new moment. Titled “The Return,” the new teaser gives us the gist of the upcoming series without needing to resort to dialogue—the iconic bounty hunter (played by Temura Morrison) has miraculously survived being tossed into the Sarlacc Pit in The Return of the Jedi and is ready to stake his claim in Tatooine’s underworld.

How “The Killing of Two Lovers” Sound Team Created an Agonizingly Tense Soundscape

The Killing of Two Lovers, written, directed, and edited by Robert Machoian, is a tale of a marriage coming undone that’s as taut and tense as a guitar string. The film opens in the moment before we believe it will earn its title. Two lovers are asleep on a bed, Niki (Sepideh Moafi) and Derek (Chris Coy) dream in the cold morning light while, looming above them and brandishing a pistol, is Niki’s husband,