Michael Keaton Says The Batsuit Still Fits 30 Years Later
You might have heard that Michael Keaton is reprising his role as Batman in director Andy Muschietti’s upcoming The Flash. Now, you might expect that Keaton would require a new Batsuit from the one he wore in Tim Burton’s iconic Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), but you’d be wrong. During an interview on last night’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Colbert asked Keaton if he had to still try on the old Batsuit,
New “Eternals” Footage Hypes “Greatest Warriors the World Has Ever Known”
In a new TV spot for Marvel’s upcoming Eternals, one of their members claims they’re “the greatest warriors the world has ever known.” That would be Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), talking to a cameraman and doing a pretty serious bit of self-promotion. The claim seems a little hyperbolic considering the Eternals were a no-show while the Avengers were fighting Thanos and his intergalactic hordes. The Eternals didn’t just sit one fight out, they sat out three catastrophic brawls with Thanos when you add up Avengers,
How “The Guilty” Sound Designers Cranked the Tension in Antoine Fuqua & Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller
In The Guilty, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a cop demoted to answering 911 calls while he awaits trial for an unspecified crime he committed eight months prior. He never leaves the call center, yet finds himself snared in an ongoing abduction when the call comes in over the transom. Joe is already in a bad state, upset about his strained home life and an LA Times reporter who won’t stop calling, but his distress skyrockets when he gets a call from Emily (Riley Keough),
New “No Time To Die” Images Reveal Sweeping Scope of Daniel Craig’s Final Mission
No Time To Die is nigh. The hotly-anticipated final film for Daniel Craig as James Bond arrives in theaters in the U.S. on October 8 after a stellar international opening. The 25th film in the venerable franchise finds Craig’s Bond pulled out of retirement for one last mission, this time against an opponent, Safin (Rami Malek) whose sociopathic designs are both global in implication and personal in their application. He wants Bond to suffer (with the rest of humanity along for the miserable ride),
Cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau on Plunging a Young Tony Soprano Into a Vintage World
Where did Tony Soprano come from? In The Many Saints of Newark, director Alan Taylor’s prequel to the HBO series, the show’s creator, David Chase, revisits a bygone Newark to give us Tony’s formative years via mid-century period piece. “Tony starts out as a six-year-old, and by the second time period, he’s a teenager,” says Kramer Morgenthau, the film’s cinematographer. As such, “there was the 1960s and then it goes into the 70s,
New “Eternals” Images Tease Marvel’s Most Expansive Film Ever
Yesterday we got a fresh look at director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals in a new TV spot that revealed some of the titular superheroes’ abilities. Now, we take a look at a bunch of new photos, including some compelling images of alien spacecraft, in one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the year.
Zhao’s millennia-spanning epic focuses on the titular Eternals, a race of immortal beings who have been embedded quietly on Earth,
First “Peacemaker” Clip Unveils James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” Spinoff for HBO Max
If you were curious about the tone in James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad spinoff Peacemaker, this clip from the upcoming HBO Max series will set you straight. John Cena reprises his role from the film as the titular Peacemaker, the peace-obsessed superhero who will stop at literally nothing to achieve it, including hurting everybody in sight. The clip shows us Peacemaker meeting his new colleagues for dinner, but the beefcake shows up in full “cos-play”
“Game of Thrones” Prequel “House of the Dragon” Reveals First Teaser
“Gods, kings, fire, and blood.” These are the first words we hear spoken in the House of the Dragon teaser, the long-awaited prequel to Game of Thrones that focuses on House Targaryen. Set 200-years before the flagship series, when Dany, Jon Snow, and the rest of the Westeros battled for that spiky throne, House of the Dragon will track the Targaryen clan and reveal how these dragon-lords ended up conquering Westeros.
“The Many Saints of Newark” Director Alan Taylor Pictures a Young Tony Soprano
When writer David Chase created HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999, he ushered in the age of what is now fondly known as Peak TV. Often staged by director Alan Taylor, Chase’s contemporary crime drama, led by the late James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano, picked up 111 Emmy nominations including 21 wins by infusing a crew of New Jersey Mafiosi with gritty eloquence, Shakespearean-level betrayal, homicidal rage, family dysfunction and loads of psychological nuance.
“No Time To Die” Has Record-Breaking International Opening
Daniel Craig’s final mission as 007 is breaking records. No Time To Die, the 25th installment in the deathless spy franchise, cruised to a $119.1 million opening weekend overseas from 54 markets. This is a very healthy number in our pandemic-stricken era, and further fuels hope that Bond’s big business abroad and the record-breaking opening of Venom: Let There Be Carnage in the U.S. points to a public finally ready to return to theaters.
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” Has Biggest Opening Weekend in More Than A Year
Sony Pictures’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage took a massive bite out of the box office this weekend. The second installment in Sony’s Venom-verse, if you will, feasted on a pandemic-era record $90.1 million debut. This is good news for theater owners and a potential sign that things are, at long last, beginning to turn around. Overseas, No Time To Die has had a very impressive opening, too, racing to $119 million in its foreign market debut.
New Marvel’s “Eternals” Footage Reveals Super Group’s Abilities
It might only be half a minute long, but this new look at Chloé Zhao’s Eternals packs a punch. Marvel Studios revealed this fresh footage on Sunday, giving us a glimpse of Zhao’s millennia-spanning epic. We get to see some of the abilities of the titular Eternals, the extremely powerful ancient beings who have been quietly embedded with us mere mortals on Earth, here to protect us should the malevolent creatures known as the Deviants show up.
“The Batman” Star Zoë Kravitz on How She Won the Catwoman Role
It’s not an understatement to say The Batman will be one of 2022’s most eagerly anticipated films, and that nabbing a role in writer/director Matt Reeves’ upcoming franchise reboot was a very big deal. While the early headlines were understandably centered on Robert Pattinson’s casting as Bruce Wayne, which was an exciting choice and met with enthusiasm by most Batman fans, there was a palpable thrill when the news broke that Zoë Kravitz would be playing Catwoman.
“No Time To Die” Gets the Widest U.K. Theatrical Release Ever
Daniel Craig is getting a proper sendoff in his final mission as James Bond. No Time To Die is getting the widest theatrical release in history in the U.K., with the MGM/Universal release playing in 772 cinemas, besting the previous record-holder, 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, by 25 screens. This also marks Universal’s widest release ever in the U.K. The film officially opened on September 30 and pulling in $6.8 million,
“Maid” Showrunner Molly Smith Metzler on Creating Compelling Gut-Punch TV
How do you dramatize poverty, abuse, systemic misogyny in a TV show without creating a series of lectures, or a documentary? This was one of the challenges facing Maid showrunner Molly Smith Metzler when she set out to adapt author Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.” Through ten episodes, Metzler’s show, starring a phenomenal Margaret Qualley as Alex, manages to deliver a riveting portrait of a young mother fleeing an abusive relationship with her young daughter and trying to make ends meet in Washington as a maid.
Brad Pitt & George Clooney Reuniting in Upcoming Thriller for Apple
Apple has won a bidding war for one of the hottest projects out there—Spider-Man writer/director Jon Watts’ thriller starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney as two lone wolf fixers who get assigned to the same job. Pitt and Clooney are also on board as producers through their respective labels, Plan B Entertainment and Smokehouse Pictures, respectively.
Watts, who has helmed the new Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy for Sony,
“The Book of Boba Fett” Coming to Disney+ This December
The Book of Boba Fett will arrive via jet pack right before the end of the year. Disney+ has confirmed that The Mandalorian spinoff will premiere on December 29. The series features Temuera Morrison reprising his role as the titular bounty hunter, returning to Tatooine to take over the territory once ruled by the late, lecherous Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. Disney+ also shared the admittedly excellent poster for the upcoming series,
“No Time To Die” Review Roundup: A Thrilling, Emotional Conclusion to the Daniel Craig Era
The reviews are in for No Time To Die, the long-awaited 25th Bond film that also doubles as Daniel Craig’s final turn as 007. No Time To Die has been delayed repeatedly during the pandemic, and while that was frustrating for fans and the cast and crew alike, it was both necessary and wise. And now, with the film making its start-studded world premiere at last night’s Royal Albert Hall in London and the reviews pouring in,
“No Time To Die” Makes its Star-Studded World Premiere in London
The early reactions to No Time To Die are in, and it sounds like Daniel Craig’s final turn as James Bond is as thrillingly satisfying as we could have hoped. Before we get to those, though, we wanted to share some of the images from the world premiere last night, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. All the film’s stars were there, as were many of the filmmakers responsible for making the movie happen,
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” Early Reactions Delight in Film’s Insanity
The first reactions from critics who have seen Venom: Let There Be Carnage are spreading like an alien symbiote across the internet. The good news for fans of the 2018 original? Let There Be Carnage is even more bonkers. Director Andy Serkis has picked up where the original left off and leaned into the lunacy, and the early takes are that the film, and Tom Hardy especially, are reveling in the madness.
