“Candyman” Director Nia DaCosta Will Helm “Captain Marvel 2”
Director Nia DaCosta is going from Chicago’s Cabrini Green to the cosmos. Deadline broke the story and Variety has confirmed that DaCosta, the director behind the hotly anticipated reimagining of Candyman, will helm Captain Marvel 2 for Marvel, replacing Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. DaCosta will be directing off a script from WandaVision story editor Megan McDonnell.
James Gunn Reveals “The Suicide Squad” Logo Ahead of FanDome Event
Warner Bros and DC are going to unleash more movie news in a single day at their upcoming FanDome event on August 22 than we’ve had in a long, long while. Getting in on that action a little earlier, writer/director James Gunn and the cast of his upcoming reboot/reimagining/semi-sequel The Suicide Squad took to Twitter to share some good vibes and great graphic design work.
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New “Avatar 2” Images Tease Submersible Called The Crabsuit
James Cameron’s Avatar 2 resumed filming in New Zealand in late May. Since then, producer Jon Landau has been a one-man Avatar update machine, revealing photos from set that have kept us apprised of what’s happening with Cameron’s long-gestating follow-up. The latest is a look at the brand new submersible the “Crabsuit.”
It’s well known that Cameron is a real-life ocean adventurer, having piloted a minisubmarine of his own design to the bottom of the planet’s deepest recess some seven miles beneath the western Pacific Ocean in 2012.
“Mulan” Heading to Disney+ This September
We were really, really excited for director Niki Caro’s upcoming live-action remake of Mulan to hit theaters. This was, of course, before COVID-19 raged across the planet. Due to the pandemic, Caro’s epic, originally scheduled for a March 27 release, now becomes the first big-budget potential blockbuster to forgo a major theatrical run. Instead, Mulan will head to Disney+ and select theaters simultaneously on September 4.
This warrior’s tale told with the kind of sweeping,
Emmy-Nominated Production Designer Ruth Ammon on “The Alienist”
For Emmy-nominated production designer Ruth Ammon, life as a production designer started when she was waiting tables at the Jersey Shore—and a small, independent film blew into town.
“I’d studied art and art history and I was a painter, and then this little after school special, Mystery at Fire Island, came to the island and I got on the crew, in the art department,” Ammon says. “I knew instantly that’s what I wanted to do.
Sam Neill Reveals Set Photo From “Jurassic World: Dominion”
We were living in a completely different world when it was revealed that Jurassic Park‘s original trio was returning for Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park: Dominion. Not only did we learn that Laura Dern’s Dr. Ellie Sattler, Sam Neill’s Dr. Alan Grant, and Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm were all set to return, but that their roles would be sizable. This marked the first time the trio has been together since they starred in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original Jurassic Park.
See President Obama Through a Brilliant Lens in “The Way I See It”
Director Dawn Porter seems to be on a personal mission to capture American giants. The director/producer’s last film was the heartbreakingly timely, must-watch documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, about the late, great Georgia congressman, Civil Rights activist, and American legend. Her upcoming film is based on the work of renowned photographer Pete Souza, chronicling his time in the White House working for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.”
“I know what happens in the Oval Office,”
“An American Pickle” Director Brandon Trost Tackles Two Seth Rogens
In many ways, An American Pickle is unlike any comedy Seth Rogen has done before. And that’s one reason Brandon Trost, a cinematographer who has worked extensively with Rogen, including on such films as This is the End, Neighbors, The Interview and The Disaster Artist, chose it for his directorial debut.
For starters, the HBO Max original (premiering on August 6) offers one of the year’s more unusual plotlines.
Every Piece of Armor Thor Has Worn in the MCU
It’s Monday morning. It’s Monday morning in a pandemic, no less. This means you need something to get your mind off the pending week and so, so much more. To that end, how about a video showing every piece of armor Thor (Chris Hemsworth, obviously) has worn throughout his long career in the MCU? Very well then!
This new video revealed by Marvel Entertainment takes us all the way back to director Kenneth Branagh’s 2011 Thor,
How Justin Simien Schools Viewers in “Dear White People”
On one hand, Dear White People creator Justin Simien was thrilled to see a 600 percent increase in viewership for his Netflix series in the wake of George Floyd’s death. On the other hand, he says, “It’s also a little bit annoying because like, ‘Where were y’all when we started this conversation with this franchise six years ago when this [racism] was just as relevant then as it is now?'”
In tracking the trials and tribulations of wise-cracking Black students at an Ivy League-level fictional school called Winchester University,
Beyoncé’s “Black is King” Has Arrived
On Sunday, June 28th, the BET Awards celebrated its 20th anniversary and 40th network anniversary. Shortly after the show wrapped, I skimmed Twitter for some reviews. That’s when my phone began to ping. And ping. And ping. It was a little after 1 a.m. My phone never goes off past 11 PM— my family and friends know I’m in bed by then. I got a little worried, wondering what was going on.
But then I saw it—Beyoncé.
Join Our Latest Virtual Film School Friday Chat on The Future of Awards
This year’s awards season will be unlike any other. This is hardly surprising considering 2020 is a year unlike any other, and the entertainment industry has had to reshuffle, rethink, and restructure itself on the fly like so many other sectors of our society. Just recently, the Emmy’s announced they’d be producing the show remotely due to COVID-19, with host Jimmy Kimmel and all of the nominees coming together virtually to deliver the show.
Showtime Reveals “The Comey Rule” Trailer
And there you have it, our first look at Brendan Gleeson channeling Donald Trump in Showtime‘s The Comey Rule. The miniseries is based on former FBI Director James Comey‘s best-selling book “A Higher Loyalty,” adapted and directed by Billy Ray. The new trailer not only reveals our first good look at Ray’s new series but also that, per his request, it will be premiering before election day, over two days on September 27 and 28.
“Palm Springs” Costume Designer Colin Wilkes Gets Existential
Palm Springs costume designer Colin Wilkes had her work cut out for her when she came aboard director Max Barbakow’s new comedy. The film—now a record-breaker for Hulu—posits a nightmare scenario for the wedding averse; nuptials set in the sun-baked California desert town that you can never leave. At least that’s the case for Nyles (Andy Samberg) and Sarah (Cristin Milioti), who find themselves reliving the wedding day over and over again.
Watch The Entire Opening Scene to Season 2 of “The Umbrella Academy”
What you need to handle the mid-week doldrums is a shot of The Umbrella Academy straight into your veins. The opening scene to the delightfully bizarre, beautifully constructed Netflix series is available to do just that, and it starts off with a bang.
The opening scene begins with Aidan Gallagher’s Number Five touching down in Dallas. He’s looking for his lost siblings, but the first thing he finds is that the Cold War has gone suddenly hot;
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Snags Merawi Gerima’s Drama “Residue”
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY is putting its money where its mouth is—again. Duvernay’s ARRAY Releasing has snagged filmmaker Merawi Gerima’s poignant drama Residue, and they’ve revealed the trailer to this timely film to boot. Gerima wrote, directed, and produced Residue, which is centered on aspiring filmmaker Jay (Obinna Nwachukwu) who, upon returning to his old neighborhood in Washington, DC, finds the place hardly recognizable. It’s become one of the many communities in the country to be gentrified near completely,
“Watchmen” Tops List of 2020 Emmy Nominations
Your 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The full list is available here. The Emmys are currently scheduled to air on ABC on September 20 with Jimmy Kimmel hosting. What form the ceremony will take is, like just about everything this year, subject to change. What we do know is that Kimmel and the Emmy producers are putting on some kind of show, and they’ll be celebrating a truly remarkable year on the small screen (all hail the most nominated show of the year,
Showtime Developing Series About Mafia’s First Family
If you were going to put together a new series based on the history of organized crime in America, we feel confident you really couldn’t do a better job than Showtime is currently doing. Granted, it’s still early days here, but the network is in the early stages of developing a series from Goodfellas and Casino co-writer Nicholas Pileggi, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter (he also wrote and executive produced a little show called The Sopranos),
How DP Nancy Schreiber Sidesteps Voyeurism for a Naturalistic Look in “P-Valley”
If you think you’re in for a sexy, easygoing watch with P-Valley, Starz’s new series on the life and times of the employees of a Mississippi Delta strip club, expect an emotional awakening. The show’s creator, Laurence Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall, first brought P-Valley to life as a critically well-received play, “Pussy Valley.” Hall’s television adaptation may be less explicitly titled, but it retains the nuance of a work fit for the stage,
“We Are Who We Are” Trailer Reveals Luca Guadagnino’s Lush New HBO Series
Well, this looks like a series we need about now. Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria filmmaker Luca Guadagnino makes his TV debut with a brand new series for HBO. The premium cable giant has revealed the first trailer for We Are Who We Are, an eight-episode series set on a U.S. military base in Italy. The show stars Jack Dylan Grazer as a quiet,
