Director Doug Liman Will Film Tom Cruise in Outer Space
Back in early May word got out that Tom Cruise—of course it would be Tom Cruise—was going to be the first person ever to shoot a feature film in outer space. Now we know who will be going on this mission with Cruise, his longtime collaborator Doug Liman, who directed him in Edge of Tomorrow and American Made. Cruise and Liman will be teaming up with Elon Musk’s Space X and NASA to pull this off.
Avatar 2 Resumes Production in New Zealand
Avatar 2 has returned to production in New Zealand after shutting down—along with every other film and TV production, more or less—due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Producer Jon Landau, a longtime collaborator with director James Cameron, shared some details with RNZ about re-starting production:
“We feel very comfortable because of the actions of your government and also the responsibility the people took to really curb the virus there.
Why Christopher Nolan Used a Real Plane For an Epic Stunt in Tenet
When Warner Bros. dropped the new trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s Tenet last Friday, we were, to put it mildly, enthused. Nolan’s latest is a sci-fi epic on the scale of his brilliant, beguiling 2010 dreams-within-dreams caper Inception. In fact, according to star John David Washington, Tenet is even bigger. In an interview on Twitch TV on the gaming platform Fortnite, Washington said Tenet was far ahead of even Nolan’s past features: “We’re familiar with [Nolan’s] films,
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Makes TV History With Season 15 Renewal
There is some good news to savor on this otherwise bleak post-holiday Tuesday; FX has renewed It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for its 15th season, breaking The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet‘s record as the longest-running live-action comedy ever. Of course the gang made TV history!
FX’s gleefully insane, inane, and yet oh-so-brilliantly written and performed stalwart has somehow, miraculously, remained funny and charming for all of these years.
Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho Gets New Release Date
We’ve got a new official release date for co-writer and director Edgar Wright’s time-traveling psychological thriller Last Night in Soho. Focus Features will now release Wright’s latest, which he co-wrote with Oscar-nominated scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917), on April 23, 2021. Last Night in Soho was originally due in theaters on September 25, 2020, until, well, you know.
Here’s Wright’s tweet relaying the news:
Haunted by someone else’s past,
The Future of Indiana Jones 5 Looks Bright
If you’re going to replace Steven Spielberg—and let’s be honest, nobody could ever replace him—you could hardly do better than director James Mangold. Spielberg stepped aside from directing Indiana Jones 5 so that the Logan and Ford v Ferrari auteur could take a crack. This makes Mangold the first person to direct an Indy movie not named Steven Spielberg.
Tickets for Drive-In Movie Theater Near Yankee Stadium on Sale This Sunday
We don’t know when, or even if, the 2020 major league baseball season will happen this year, threatening to leave the beloved Yankee Stadium eerily quiet this summer. Luckily for Bronx residents, MASC Hospitality Group decided to tap into their enterprising New York spirit and bring the borough the block party of a lifetime.
The food-focused event company specializes in food and beverage gatherings like the Bronx Night Market and Bronx Beer Festival.
Living With Michael Jordan (And More) In These Strange Times
Listen, we got the memo about social distancing. Really. But the houseguests are really starting to proliferate, and I’ve run out of courtesy masks.
Let me tell you who’s over right now. Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, that’s who. Man are they yuge. And you know who was also recently over? Doron Kavillio, the most dynamic counter-terrorist agent I’ve ever met.
The New Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is Here
If you want a one-word reason for why there simply is no substitute for seeing a film in a movie theater, we give you Tenet, Christopher Nolan‘s latest. Nolan is one of those filmmakers who relishes the opportunities the biggest screens and the most pristine sound systems can deliver. This is why, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe and productions and movie theaters worldwide were closing,
Charlize Theron Thrills in First Trailer for Netflix’s New Actioner The Old Guard
Ever since Charlize Theron pulled off one of the great lead performances in an action movie in Mad Max: Fury Road (in our humble estimation, the action movie of the century) playing the literal road warrior Furiosa, we’ve thrilled at seeing her in roles that utilize her action chops. She was dynamite in David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde and was the villain to beat all villains as Cipher in The Fate of the Furious that same year.
The Zack Snyder Cut of Justice League is Coming to HBO Max
In a truly shocking announcement yesterday, HBO Max revealed that they were releasing Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut in 2021. The brand new streaming service—launching on May 27—will be showing Snyder’s version of the film in what The Hollywood Reporter says could be a four-hour director’s cut, or, possibly, in six different TV-style chapters. Snyder is reuniting with his original postproduction crew to work on new visual effects,
The Righteous Gemstones Composer Joseph Stephens on Creating Earworm Tune “Misbehavin”
Joseph Stephens is the composer behind Danny McBride’s HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, and he helped craft one of the show’s funniest moments—the song “Misbehavin”—which he co-wrote with McBride and co-star Edi Patterson. In the show, “Misbehavin” is performed by the sibling musical duo of Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) and Aimee-Leigh (Jennifer Nettles). Watching it now feels like a musical blast from an alternate dimension when laughs were easy to come by and the sight of seeing musicians perform shoulder-to-shoulder was commonplace.
Who is Timothy Olyphant Playing in The Mandalorian Season Two?
The news broke last week that Timothy Olyphant would be joining season two The Mandalorian, Disney+’s wildly popular live-action Star Wars series. Then, /Film shared the scoop that Olyphant’s mysterious character will be wearing—wait for it—Boba Fett’s iconic armor. But hold on, it doesn’t appear that Olyphant is playing the legendary bounty hunter who first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, as that role seems to have already been filled.
How Critic Youn Sung-eun Found New Ways to Promote Korean film
What does a freelance film critic do when there are no films to release? For South Korea’s Youn Sung-eun, the situation forced her hand to dive into a new business venture earlier than she anticipated – only this time she’ll be the one creating the content.
“I’m not naturally an optimistic person, so I don’t think people will return to the cinema as they used to. I had been planning a new business for a while,
Mahershala Ali Shares an Illustration of Himself as Blade
Remember four and a half million years ago, last July, when Marvel revealed that Mahershala Ali would playing Blade in a new film about their half-vampire superhero? It was another lifetime and a very different world, but that doesn’t mean that Ali isn’t still hyped to play the character whenever we’re finally able to get back to making movies and enjoying a semblance of regular life. Ali shared an illustration of himself as the daywalking vampire-hunting superhero,
Director & Executive Producer Lesli Linka Glatter on Filming Homeland’s Series Finale
Lesli Linka Glatter has spent the last several years being alarmed by what she’s heard in intelligence briefings. This doesn’t just set her apart from many of the current apparatchiks in Washington, but also from many of her fellow directors. Not because her colleagues lack the capacity to be alarmed, but because her work as a director and an executive producer on Showtime’s Homeland would bring her, on an annual basis, to something that series creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa would call “Spy Camp,” in the D.C.
New Wonder Woman 1984 Images & Posters Reveal a Summer Blockbuster Waiting in the Wings
New images and a new poster remind us that there is a world in which director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot reveal Wonder Woman 1984 to us in a theater. Whether or not that world exists in 2020, well, that’s yet to be determined. The current release date for Jenkins and Gadot’s highly anticipated sequel is August 14, 2020, after the original release date of June 5 began untenable due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Composer Brandon Campbell on Scoring Netflix’s The Letter for the King, Hans Zimmer, & COVID-19
Composer Brandon Campbell remains busy despite the worldwide shutdown of just about every film and TV production due to COVID-19. “I’m doing alright, all things considered, ” he says. Although he can’t give us the names of his current projects, he’s got two he’s still scoring and a third that might follow. Campbell’s relatively full plate makes him one of the lucky ones in the film and TV world at the moment, but it’s still a precarious position.
Netflix Reveals the Trailer for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
The first glimpse at Spike Lee’s new feature Da 5 Bloods is here, and it immediately claims our attention as every Spike Lee joint does. Da 5 Bloods sees the tirelessly inventive, always curious Lee delivering a Vietnam war movie, a caper, and a story of brotherhood all in one. Lee directed from a script he co-wrote with Paul De Meo, Danny Bilson, and Kevin Wilmott. Wilmott recently shared an Oscar with Lee fro co-writing their excellent BlacKkKlansman with fellow scribes Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz.
Devs Production Designer Embellishes Big Tech Aesthetic in Alex Garland’s Gorgeous, Beguiling Series
What if a Silicon Valley behemoth ran a top-secret project that threatened the well-being of unwitting civilians? That’s the not entirely outlandish premise underlying Devs, now streaming on FX on Hulu. Created by Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, the sci-fi limited series largely takes place at a sleek big tech “campus” surrounded by woods.
The exteriors evoke Google, Apple,
