“The Green Knight” Early Buzz Calls it Brilliant, Haunting, & Worth the Wait

We’ve been eagerly tracking director David Lowery’s The Green Knight since we first heard about the film’s existence. A director of Lowery’s immense skill taking on an Arthurian legend and casting Dev Patel as a headstrong knight was more than enough to pique our interest. The film was, like so many others, delayed because of the pandemic. (And Lowery told Vanity Fair that he used the time to totally recut it.) Now,

Final “Snake Eyes” Trailer Teases Intense Ninja Action

And here’s the last look we’ll get of director Robert Schwentke’s Snake Eyes before the film’s premiere, and it looks pretty darn epic. The film stars Henry Golding as the titular martial arts expert and soldier who will ultimately go on to become one of the original members of the G.I. Joe military unit. If there was ever going to be another attempt at a G.I. Joe movie, then Snake Eyes was definitely the right choice as the character to focus on.

Meet The Misfits in Revealing “The Suicide Squad” Featurette

“We’re going to introduce more DC characters than any film has ever done,” writer/director James Gunn says at the top of this new The Suicide Squad featurette. By now you’re likely well aware that Gunn is about to deliver The Suicide Squad to theaters and HBO Max very soon (August 6 to be exact). And while he has resurrected a few characters from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad—Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn,

“Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” Headed to Paramount+

Some excellent news for us Grease fans out there—Paramount+ has officially ordered the Grease prequel series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, for a 10-episode series. This comes after the series, originally titled Grease: Rydell High, moved from HBO Max to Paramount+. (One would be remiss for not mentioning that Rydell High, featured in the original 1978 film, was inspired by my high school, Radnor High, in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia.)

The Hollywood Reporter delivered the scoop that Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies found its new home and takes place four years before the events in the original film. 

Documentarian Morgan Neville on “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”

Charismatic author, chef, and world traveler Anthony Bourdain went from relative obscurity working in a New York restaurant to international success at the age of 43 when his memoir Kitchen Confidential was released. It started a meteoric rise to fame and led to Anthony Bourdain becoming a household name. When he killed himself at 61, his suicide shocked fans all over the world. Now Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville has created a fascinating, poignant portrait of the complicated man in Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain.

HBO Max Developing Two More Animated “Game of Thrones” Projects

The universe of Game of Thrones continues to expand on HBO. In early May we got our first glimpse at the live-action series House of the Dragon, which will focus on House Targaryen in events that take place some 300 years before Game of Thrones and is set for a 2022 release. Now The Hollywood Reporter scoops that two additional Game of Thrones spinoffs are in the works,

Veteran Voice Actor Jeff Bergman on Voicing the Looney Tunes Gang in “Space Jam: A New Legacy”

In Space Jam’s contemporary follow-up, Space Jam: A New Legacy, from director Malcolm D. Lee, the movie’s apex basketball game comes about thanks to star LeBron James’s youngest son, Dom (Cedric Joe), who doesn’t want to play the sport at all. Dom would rather design and program his own video games, an interest which inadvertently leads him and his father into the bowels of the Warner 3000 ServerVerse,

New “Mission: Impossible 7” Set Photo Reveals Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust

Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust might be switching sides—again. A new set photo from Mission: Impossible 7, courtesy writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, shows the former MI6 agent looking quite mysterious. Ferguson’s double agent has been one of the best additions to the last few films, giving Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) a colleague who’s on his level in a way he hasn’t really seen before. Faust is tough, fearless, brilliant, and just as clever at playing every side to get the job done.

Early “The Suicide Squad” Buzz Hails A Hilarious, Insane & Surprisingly Heartfelt Epic

James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad hits theaters and HBO Max on August 6, which means that critics have already gotten to screen the film and offer their initial reactions. We won’t get full reviews for a bit—those are usually embargoed until right before the premiere—but these spoiler-free first takes give us a good idea of how they view the film. Spoiler alert: it sounds like Gunn’s hit a homerun here.

Before we get to those initial reactions,

“WandaVision” Director Matt Shakman Will Helm Next “Star Trek” Film

When we spoke to WandaVision director Matt Shakman way back in late May, Shakman explained how the Disney+ show was essentially his dream job. Now, a mere day after his efforts earned him an Emmy for Best Directing for a Limited Series—with WandaVision itself nabbing 23—Deadline breaks the story that Shakman will be directing the next Star Trek film.

“The Mandalorian” and “The Crown” Lead All Emmy Contenders

The Emmy nominations came in yesterday and it was a proper showdown between Netflix and HBO/HBO Max for who could snag the most nominations overall. The winner, by a single nomination, was HBO/HBO Max, which garnered 130 Emmy noms in total, just edging out Netflix’s 129.

The two most lauded shows, however, were Netflix’s The Crown and Disney+’s The Mandalorian, which tied with 24 apiece. For HBO,

Deadpool Makes His Pitch to Enter the MCU in Hilarious “Free Guy” Reaction Video

Well, Deadpool’s back, and he’s brought a friend in a 4-minute plus reaction video to the Free Guy trailer. Watching Reynolds parody the trailer reaction videos in which someone watches a trailer or a music video and emotes, grandly, for the enjoyment of their viewers is funny enough. Only here, Reynolds is doing that for a movie he’s in, via his most famous character from another movie,

“The Suicide Squad” Gets an Epic RED Camera Video Boasting New Footage

“The way this movie is shot is the way I’ve wanted to shoot every movie in my brain.” This is how director James Gunn begins a new The Suicide Squad video, a featurette courtesy of the team at RED camera. Gunn, cinematographer Henry Braham, executive producer Nikolas Korda, and the crew discuss how RED’s latest camera innovations helped Gunn get those images to go from his brain to the big screen. While sure,

James Gunn Reveals His “The Suicide Squad” Spinoff “Peacemaker” has Wrapped

In a month, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad will burst into theaters, introducing us to Gunn’s vision of that motley crew of lunatics, antiheroes, and a talking shark taking on a mission that many won’t survive. One of the members of Gunn’s upcoming squad (he’d fall into the lunatic category) is John Cena’s Peacemaker, but we’ll be seeing a lot of him in the future. Gunn’s spinoff series Peacemaker has just wrapped filming,

Watch The Trailer For Oscar-Winner Domee Shi’s Debut Pixar Feature “Turning Red”

Our first look at Bao director Domee Shi’s Pixar feature debut is here, and all the talent that Shi displayed in her 2018 Oscar-winning short is on display here. Charm, humor, heart, and an almost impossibly cute central character. The film is centered on Mei Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), a regular 13-year-old…until the moment she gets excited, at which point she turns into a huge red panda in an explosion of pink smoke.

Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” Wows Cannes Crowd

The latest from the Cannes Film Festival feels like a dispatch from the pre-pandemic era. This dispatch comes courtesy of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, his long-awaited, long-delayed new film that, as is always the case in an Anderson film, boasts an ensemble of top-notch performers. The number of stars on hand for the premiere of Anderson’s film harkened back to the Cannes Film Festival before the pandemic upended the world.

“The Witcher” Season 2 Trailer Reveals Geralt & Ciri’s Quest

If you’re a fan of Netflix’s The Witcher, the last few days have been filled with some exciting news. First, there was the scoop that the prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin had cast the great Michelle Yeoh. Then there was the nearly three-hour WitcherCon event celebrating the show, with cast members dishing on their characters and more. Finally, on Friday, the flagship series dropped a teaser trailer for season two.

New “Free Guy” Teaser Sees Ryan Reynolds Ready to Take Control

Director Shawn Levy knows his way around comedy and action. On the action side of the equation, Levy’s helmed episodes of Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers Spielbergian Netflix series about a group of kids discovering a parallel world and the monsters that live within it in their small Indiana town. For more broad, feel-good family films, Levy’s helmed Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. 

“Black Widow” Smashes Pandemic-Era Box Office Records

It turns out, people really are eager to get back into the theater. Director Cate Shortland’s Black Widow had a pandemic-era best $80 million opening weekend at the domestic box office, netting the biggest premiere since the pre-pandemic release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker way back in December of 2019. If there were any lingering questions about whether people yearned to see big movies on the big screen again,

“Black Widow” Stunt Coordinator Rob Inch on the Art of Adrenaline

In her swan song as Russian assassin-turned-Avenger Natasha Romanoff, Scarlett Johansson fights her way through Black Widow (opening Friday) on a mission to destroy evil mastermind Dreykov (Ray Winstone) and his network of brainwashed female killers. But first, Natasha has to confront her equally ferocious kid sister Yelena, portrayed by Florence Pugh. (Some light spoilers ahead). Abandoned as children by their spy parents (David Harbour and Rachel Weisz),