James Gunn Reveals Sylvester Stallone Has a Mysterious Role in “The Suicide Squad”
We already knew that James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad had an insane cast, but now the writer/director has revealed another big star is on board. Gunn took to Twitter to share a photo of himself and old pal Sylvester Stallone—the two collaborated on Gunn’s The Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2—to let us know Stallone’s a part of The Suicide Squad cast. He joins A-listers like Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, and Idris Elba,...
Supervising Sound Editor on Capturing the Sound of “Ted Lasso” Remotely
Ted Lasso began life nearly a decade ago, in what must now seem like a more innocent time, as a character in a series of promos for NBC as they embarked on coverage of Britain’s Premier League. That character, created and portrayed by SNL alum Jason Sudeikis, is an American football coach, hot off a miracle season with a perpetually struggling college, who is hired by England’s mythical AFC Richmond squad to coach, well, football.
In the expanded series that has become one of the first breakout hits for Apple TV+,...
“Let Them All Talk” Trailer Reveals Meryl Streep & Steven Soderbergh’s Latest Collab
There is so much pleasure to be derived from this look at Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming Let Them All Talk. First and foremost, it’s watching this sensational cast, led by Meryl Streep as a well-known author embarking on a girls’ trip with her former best friends (played by Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen) with her nephew, played by Lucas Hedges, along for the ride. The ladies plus nephew board the Queen Mary II to take a leisurely cruise and reconnect...
Will Smith Reveals “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” Reunion Trailer
The Fresh Prince himself has revealed the trailer for HBO Max’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special, and it’s precisely what you need—what we all need—on a Friday. Will Smith is back with series regulars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid, and Alfonso Ribeiro. The reunion wouldn’t be complete without recurring co-star and longtime Smith collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff, who’s also on hand. The whole gang is back at the Banks household,...
Editor Marco Capalbo on Cutting Werner Herzog’s Cosmic New Doc “Fireball”
Editor Marco Capalbo has been working with the inimitable German director Werner Herzog for the past eight years, most recently on Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, which premieres on Apple TV+ on November 13. We chat with Marco, who specializes in editing documentaries, about tackling the vast subject matter of meteors, comets and their influence on ancient religions, and how he looks for those “Herzogian moments” that make Herzog’s documentaries unique.
The way that you’ve found that balance between the scientific,...
New Photos & Official Release Date for “WandaVision” Revealed
It was only two days ago we were discussing how exciting the pending premiere of Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ series WandaVision was. The show sounds absolutely bizarre in the best possible way, and the heaps of talented people involved, both in front of and behind the camera, and their collective excitement to share their work, had us and every other Marvel fan counting down the days until the premiere. Now it’s been revealed that we’re going to have to wait a little bit longer to see Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda and Paul Bettany’s Vision populating a bizarro world set in the golden era of TV sitcoms—the show will air on January 15,...
“Inside Pixar” Premieres Tomorrow on Disney+
While a lot of the oxygen around Disney+ series understandably gets suctioned into the engines of the Falcon Crest (we’re making a joke about The Mandalorian‘s massive popularity, gang), the streaming channel has had some really excellent documentary series, too. From Into the Unknown: Making of Frozen 2 to Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney+ has offered viewers fascinating inside looks at some of these beloved franchises. You can add to that list the upcoming Inside Pixar, ...
Producer Brad Feinstein Moves Audiences With Dramas “Jungleland” and “Dreamland”
Although only a few years old, Romulus Entertainment already boasts an admirable slate of what founder and CEO Brad Feinstein describes as “socially conscious prestige dramas and action thrillers” — City of Lies, Driven, and American Woman, to name just a few. The roster is also a lengthy one: At the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, Feinstein noted in an interview that the company had produced 12 films in just 24 months. The goal moving forward,...
Danai Gurira to Play Shirley Chisholm in New Film
The timing for this feels perfect. Black Panther and The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira is set to star in The Fighting Shirley Chisholm from director Cherien Dabis. The film will track Chisholm’s groundbreaking run for president in the 1972 election. Chisholm was also the first Black woman ever elected to Congress, in 1968, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Chisholm’s campaign strategy centered on the energy and engagement of younger voters,...
Writer/Director Francis Lee on His Hard Scrabble Love Story “Ammonite”
Writer-director Francis Lee’s acclaimed 2017 debut feature God’s Own Country and his follow-up, Ammonite (Neon), unabashedly center on queer, working-class characters. So it may come as a bit of a surprise that Lee cites 1980s studio movies as among his all-time favorite films.
“In my head, when I’m making my films, I’m making my version of An Officer and a Gentleman or Pretty Woman or Working Girl;...
Prepare Yourself for Something Very Different With Marvel’s “WandaVision” on Disney+
Ever since WandaVision‘s title was released, there’s been a growing sense of fun and weirdness around Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series. And, owing to the pandemic and the production delays it caused, WandaVision will now be Marvel’s first Disney+ series to premiere, having leapfrogged over The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The buzz only grew as we saw initial images and that Super Bowl spot, revealing that the series would be set in some alternate reality where not only was Vision (Paul Bettany) somehow alive (he was killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War after all),...
Jordan Peele’s Next Horror Movie Set for 2022 Release
You know you’ve reached a career pinnacle when just the announcement of the date of your next film excites film lovers and film writers in equal measure. (Yes, the Venn diagram for film lover and film industry writer would just be a single circle encompassing both.) Such is the career point at which Jordan Peele finds himself. While Peele is a producing and co-writing dervish on hotly anticipated films like Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman (he produced and co-wrote the script),...
Amazon Releases Trailer for Steve McQueen’s Five-Film Anthology “Small Axe”
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen‘s upcoming five-film anthology Small Axe is one of the most hotly anticipated titles coming out for the remainder of the year. A new trailer from Amazon reveals McQueen’s passion project, which he’s been working on for the past few years. The 12 Years a Slave and Widows director’s anthology was commissioned by the BBC and will premiere on BBC One and then Prime Video, beginning in weekly installments on November 20...
“Mosul” Trailer Reveals Russo Brothers-Produced Action-Thriller
If you’ve been hankering for a Russo Brothers’ film, we’ve still got a ways to go until their upcoming bank robber heist pic Cherry is released in 2021. Yet director Matthew Michael Carnahan’s Mosul, which hits Netflix on November 26, was produced by the Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame directors, and a new trailer reveals just how action-packed this film is. The craziest part is Mosul is based on a true story...
“Riding With Sugar” Trailer Reveals Sunu Gonera’s Netflix’s Refugee Drama
Netflix has revealed the first trailer for award-winning Zimbabwean director Sunu Gonera’s Riding With Sugar, an intriguing drama that Gonera first brought to life 15-years ago, as a short film. Adapting his own short into a feature-length film, Riding With Sugar is centered on a young refugee, Joshua (Charles Mnene), who dreams of becoming a BMX biking superstar. Joshua’s dream, however, will require not only great determination but personal sacrifice—and not merely of the broken bone variety...
“Jurassic World: Dominion” Wraps Filming
And that’s a wrap, folks.
Nope, we’re not talking about the 2020 presidential election, although that too is a wrap (!!). We’re talking about filming on Jurassic World: Dominion. Co-writer and director Colin Trevorrow and one of his stars—and Jurassic Park legend—Sam Neill took to Twitter to share the news. While we might not know much about the plot point specifics on Dominion yet, we now know the film’s in the can...
Review Roundup: Vince Vaughn Slays in Body-Swap Movie “Freaky”
One of the prime joys of the body-swap comedy premise is just how simple it is. Two people suddenly finding themselves—well, their conscious “selves”—inside the other’s body. In 1988’s Big, it was a young boy making a wish to be “big” and ending up in the body of an adult (Tom Hanks, no less). In 2003’s Freaky Friday, based on a novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, a mother and daughter switch bodies after a magical Chinese fortune cookie does the work...
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” Coming Home in December
Even if you managed to make it to a theater to catch Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, having Tenet in your home seems like a no brainer. The reason, aside from the pleasure of plunging into Nolan’s complex, confounding spy thriller again, is being able to pause it, rewind it, puzzle it out on your time. The film is a trip, and the more time you get to stroll its switchbacks and MC Escher-like corridors, the better...
“The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special” Official Trailer Promises Much-Needed Cuteness
For a certain type of Star Wars fan, the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special holds a special place in their heart. It came just a year after George Lucas’s 1977 game-changing first film, Star Wars IV – A New Hope, and was the first official Star Wars spinoff, set between the events in A New Hope and 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back. It was…not well received, and has never been re-broadcast or available on home video...
Dave Chappelle Returning to “SNL” Four Years Later
You might recall the last time Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live. Perhaps you watched the show in a daze of bewilderment and dread. The date was November 12, 2016. Chappelle was the first SNL host of the Trump era, taking to studio 8H just a couple of days after Trump bested Hillary Clinton in the presidential election on November 8. The country was still in collective shock, yet one of the most memorable aspects of the show was Chappelle’s calm...
