Surprise! A Mysterious New David Lynch Project May Premiere at Cannes
Variety hits us with a big, thrilling scoop. According to two of their sources, there’s going to be a new David Lynch film—or something—coming to the Croisette this year, one that he shot without somehow alerting anyone in the media, and, starring Laura Dern (the size of her role is unknown) along with a few more Lynch regulars. This is a massive bit of film news—if Lightyear is indeed a feature film—as Lynch hasn’t debuted a new feature since Inland Empire way back in 2006,...
“Stranger Things” Season 4 Trailer is a Dark, Thrilling Rollercoaster Ride
The Stranger Things season 4 trailer is here, and it’s an absolute smash. Revealing a much darker tone and tenor, raised stakes, and a terrifying new threat, the Duffer Brothers’ promise that would be the biggest, scariest season yet looks utterly confirmed. It seems the years worth of trauma is really taking its toll on our assorted heroes. What’s more, season 4 will find these friends scattered, and all of it speaks to why the Duffer Brothers couldn’t fit the entirety of season 4 into a traditional single-volume release schedule...
Epic New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Video Unleashes Marvel’s Phase 4
When director Sam Raimi boarded the Doctor Strange sequel In The Multiverse of Madness, excitement spread across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The director of the first Spider-Man trilogy from the early aughts is a master at blending delirious action set pieces and a touch of darkness, delivering the kind of superhero cinematic experience that elevated the entire genre. A new featurette reveals just how much Raimi got to sink his teeth into In The Multiverse of Madness as Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is set to face not only his own demons (quite literally),...
Dueling Wizards Highlight Final “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Trailer
We’re just a few days away from the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbeldore, and a new trailer highlights the stakes. It’s going to take a team of wizards (and a Muggle) to take down the rising threat of Grindewald (Mads Mikkelsen) and his growing army of Muggle-hating wizards. The Secrets of Dumbledore boasts almost an Ocean’s Eleven vibe in that Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), acting as a magical Danny Ocean, assembles a team he hopes can stop Grindewald from starting an all-out war with the non-magical Muggle population...
“Morbius” Scoring Mixer Jason LaRocca on Sinking His Teeth Into Marvel’s Vampire Antihero
After suffering throughout his childhood from a rare blood disorder, Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) heads into the Costa Rican jungle and cuts his hand open, thereby trapping a swarm of vampire bats. The bats are the final key to the brilliant doctor’s cure, which, as we can guess by the fact that these particular bats are highly attracted to blood, means that anyone who takes said cure will themselves also come to be highly attracted to blood. Thus begins director Daniel Espinosa’s tale of Morbius,...
“Squid Game” Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk Reveals Which Characters Are Returning For Season 2
Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed that two of the big stars from his global phenomenon series will be returning for another round of devilish games in season two.
Deadline reveals that two characters you will be seeing again are SAG Award-winning actor Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun, season one’s main protagonist and the survivor of the deadly games, and Front Man, played by Korean superstar Lee Byung-hun, who spent almost all of the first season beneath a black mask...
“Jurassic World: Dominion” Writer/Director Colin Trevorrow Teases Diabolical New Dinosaur
You could probably never guess where Jurassic World: Dominion writer/director Colin Trevorrow drew inspiration from for his the biggest, meanest new dinosaur. Trevorrow has revealed to Empire Magazine that there’s a new alpha predator on the prowl in Dominion and its name is the Giganotosaurus. In keeping with the Jurassic tradition of incorporating new dinos into each installment, Trevorrow has gone one better and drawn on some unusual inspiration for the Giganotosaurus,...
“Winning Time” Scores a Second Season With HBO
When we spoke with Winning Time co-creator, writer, and executive producer Jim Hecht, he said he and his fellow writers were already at work on season two. Well, it seems like Hecht and the Winning Time team got out on a fast break a few steps ahead. HBO has officially renewed Winning Time for a season second, which will pick up where season one left off, with Magic (Quincy Isaiah) having joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Solomon Hughes) and the Lakers as Jerry Buss (John C...
“Russian Doll” Season 2 Trailer Reveals Natasha Lyonne’s Even Stranger Trip
“The universe finally found something worse than death,” Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) says at the top of the first trailer for Russian Doll, season two. “I broke time.” And a nation rejoices at the sound of Lyonne’s inimitable voice as she reprises the role she was born to play. Created by Lyonne, Lesley Headland, and Amy Poehler, Russian Doll appeared on Netflix in 2019, right before the real world became a time-subverting nightmare, and was centered on an ingenious plot contrivance—a cynical young New Yorker (Lyonne) keeps dying,...
“The Dropout” Composer Anne Nikitin Takes a Synthetic Approach to Elizabeth Holmes’s Treachery
Hulu’s limited biographical series The Dropout, which stars Amanda Seyfried as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has been getting rave reviews for both Seyfried’s performance and for its sharp take on the shocking real-life story of corporate and personal hubris. The show follows Holmes from her beginnings as an ambitious college student with Steve Jobs as her role model, through her attempts to develop healthcare technology, and then to her astonishingly fast rise to fame and fortune as CEO of a billion-dollar company...
“Winning Time” Co-Creator Jim Hecht on His Love Letter to the Lakers
Jim Hecht‘s road to co-creating Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers began in 2014. Hecht was, by his own admission, at a low point, and he was looking for a project that really spoke to him. During his daily meditation, which he admitted with the qualifier “this sounds very LA,” he had a thought: “You gotta stop writing sh*t that you think other people would want to see and start writing the show that you would want to watch.”...
A New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Teaser Reveals Evil Doctor Strange’s Third Eye
A new Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teaser, titled “Dreams,” hints at the mind-bending nightmare that director Sam Raimi has cooked up for MCU fans. The teaser, utilizing a cover of Roy Orbison’s deathless “In Dreams,” gives us a glimpse of the nightmare that Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) finds himself in, and highlights how much Raimi has infused the film with his special brand of horror-inflected madness. At the 47-second mark, you’ll see the Evil Doctor Strange (unleashed from the multiverse) and his third eye (or Eye of Agamotto to you Marvel-heads) opening on his forehead...
Behind-the-Scenes With Five Female Singaporean Creators
“The last three years were an eye-opener because of the pandemic,” said Michelle Chang, managing partner at Singapore-based Mochai Chai Laboratories. “We are the post-production house at the tail end. If the producers stop producing, we are dead. The good thing was my business partner Chai Yee Wei has the foresight of not putting all our eggs in one basket. He has built a digital restoration lab. As luck would have it, a lot of distributors came to us because streaming platforms were buying catalog content and they need to up-convert into a compatible format for the streamers...
“The Northman” Early Reviews Rave About Robert Eggers’ Ferociously Visceral Viking Epic
In a must-read profile of writer/director Robert Eggers by Sam Knight in The New Yorker, the visionary director of The Witch and The Lighthouse is very honest about the toll his latest, and by far biggest, film took on him. The Northman, which is being called the most realistic Viking movie ever made, is loosely based on “Hamlet,” which Shakespeare himself based on a Viking tale...
“The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” DP Shawn Peters on Lensing Samuel L. Jackson’s Rare TV Performance
Based on Walter Mosley’s eponymous novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey portrays 91-year-old Ptolemy (Samuel L. Jackson), a lonely widower suffering from Alzheimer’s, as he undergoes a transformation thanks to Robyn (Dominique Fishback), the teenage daughter of a family member’s friend, and an experimental new drug, offered at a beyond questionable clinic.
Jackson, who rarely takes on television projects, is sublime as the limited series’ Papa Grey: by turns helpless, vulnerable, determined, and all-knowing. The Alzheimer’s drug proffered by the unsettling Dr...
“The Lost City” Editor Craig Alpert on Finding Big Laughs With Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum
The laugh-out-loud adventure comedy The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, found its way atop the box office. Directed by the Nee brothers Aaron and Adam, the punchy comedy delightfully entertains as Bullock plays a successful romance writer who has been kidnapped by an obsessed treasure hunter played by Daniel Radcliffe, who believes the world in her latest novel is real and wants her to help find it. It’s up to Tatum, the novel’s leading character and cover boy,...
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Sets World-Record While Still Filming
Writer/director James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 isn’t even done filming, yet that hasn’t stopped it from breaking a world record. Gunn himself reported that the makeup effects studio Legacy Effects, which is hard at work helping Gunn populate his intergalactic menagerie, have confirmed that Vol. 3 has broken the world record for the most makeup appliances ever created for a single production. Legacy Effects knows their stuff—they’ve won Emmys and Oscars and worked on epic blockbusters,...
New “Top Gun: Maverick” Teaser Highlights Intense Aerial Action
How intense is the aerial action in Top Gun: Maverick? The Tom Cruise-led action-epic, which sees Cruise return to the role that made him an international superstar in 1986, deployed real Navy aviators and jets to capture the thrilling flying sequences. In a new teaser released by Paramount Pictures, some of that aerial insanity is on full display.
“Much like the first film, these are going to be real jets and real U.S. Naval aviators flying in these scenes,” Naval Air Forces spokesman Commander Ronald Flanders told The Credits back in 2018...
New “Ms. Marvel” TV Spot Teases Marvel’s First Muslim Superhero
Marvel Studios’ youngest superhero is set to make her big debut. Ms. Marvel arrives on Disney+ in two short months and a new TV spot reveals a bit more about Iman Vellani’s teenage superhero Kamala Khan. What makes Ms. Marvel so exciting is that not only does it offer a totally different kind of Marvel series, but the first-ever Muslim superhero to lead a Marvel Studios show or film.
Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager living in Jersey City,...
“NITRAM” Director/Producer Justin Kurzel Casts a Lens on a Shocking Tragedy
In 1996, Australia was rocked by a mass shooting in the small, peaceful community of Port Arthur, Tasmania. The horrific incident took the lives of 35 innocent people and injured 23, and remains among the country’s greatest national tragedies.
Director-producer Justin Kurzel (True History of the Kelly Gang, The Snowtown Murders) reunites with screenwriter Shaun Grant to explore the events that led to the mass shooting in the IFC Films release,...
