Join Creatives from Watchmen, Game of Thrones, & More for Our Film School Friday Virtual Event
Today we’re hosting our first-ever virtual event, called Film School Friday, in what we hope will become an ongoing series. For film and TV lovers who enjoy knowing how their favorite movies and shows are made, Film School Friday will function a bit like The Credits does. We’ll be interviewing the folks who make the movies we watch and the series we binge, only we’ll be doing so via video conference and online panel,
Disney+ Reveals the Trailer for New Docuseries Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian
Disney+ has revealed the first glimpse at their 8-part docuseries Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, and it looks pretty fantastic. “So much of this process is about problem-solving and making breakthroughs,” says Bryce Dallas Howard, one of The Mandalorian‘s many talented directors. As the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian had a lot of expectations, and astonishingly, the show met them. It helped that creator Jon Favreau tapped Howard and a slew of other super talented folks to help helm the episodes,
Composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir on HBO’s Fabulous New Unscripted Series We’re Here
There’s a new unscripted show in town, and it wants you to know We’re Here. That’s both the name and the aesthetic of co-creators Johnny Ingram and Stephen Warren’s fabulous, fierce, and fun show featuring renowned drag queens Eureka O’Hara, Shangela Laquifa Wadley, and Bob the Drag Queen. On the series, the Queens drive into towns across America, and recruit local residents representing a wide swath of humanity as ‘drag daughters,’ to participate in a one-night-only drag show.
A New Female-Centered Star Wars Series Coming to Disney+ From Russian Doll Co-Creator
Well we can’t say we saw this one coming. Leslye Headland, the co-creator of Netflix’s Russian Doll, (a brilliant sci-fi comedy on Netflix that we highly recommend if you haven’t already seen it), has successfully pitched a new Star Wars series for Disney+, which she’ll be writing and showrunning. The story was initially broken by Variety, which reports that Headland’s new series, which is already staffing,
HBO Renews Westworld for Season 4
However this wacky, gorgeously shot third season of Westworld concludes, we now know that the story will continue. HBO has officially confirmed that the sentient hosts and morally vacuous humans they alternately fight and befriend will be back for a fourth season. The news came via Tweet and press release—rejoice, Westworld fans!
This is now.#Westworld has been renewed for Season 4. pic.twitter.com/GTnF4YVB6e
— Westworld (@WestworldHBO) April 22,
Why The Batman’s New October 2021 Release Date Might Be Perfect
When Matt Reeves’ The Batman began filming this past January 28 in London, we were living in a different world. Reeves’ reboot, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, was slated for a June 25, 2021 release date. The timing was in keeping with all three of Christopher Nolan’s films in his Dark Knight trilogy, which took advantage of the summer blockbuster season to great effect. Batman Begins bowed on June 15,
The Last Dance Soars as ESPN’s Most Watched Documentary Ever
Have you been watching ESPN’s The Last Dance? If so, you’re one of the millions of people who have devoured the first two episodes of their new documentary, which focuses on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls and their run for a sixth championship in the 1997/98 season. ESPN has revealed that the first two episodes of the 10-part series averaged 6.1 million viewers. The premiere episodes “rank as the two most-viewed original content broadcasts on ESPN Networks since 2004,
Behold the Teaser & Official Title For Venom 2
Sony Pictures has revealed both the official title and a new teaser for Venom 2. Both are delicious if you ask us. The upcoming sequel boasts the formidable, multi-talented Andy Serkis behind the camera, with Tom Hardy, of course, reprising his titular role as the alien symbiote antihero. Also returning for the sequel is Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady, better known as Carnage, an even bigger, badder alien symbiote than Hardy’s Venom.
HBO Max Reveals Release Date & New Trailers
It’s official—HBO Max will begin streaming on May 27, 2020. The new platform from Warner Media has revealed its release date and a slew of its upcoming Max Originals, which will all be available on the very first day. These new titles include the intriguing unground ballroom dance competition series Legendary, which includes celebrity judges like Megan Thee Stallion (and looks absolutely terrific.) There’s scripted comedy on the docket in the form of Love Life,
VFX Producer Andrea Knoll on Creating the Futuristic Yet Natural World in Tales from the Loop
Tales from the Loop, Amazon’s latest sci-fi offering which stars Rebecca Hall and Jonathan Pryce, resists easy definition. Set in Ohio but based on paintings of Sweden, the residents of the small town at the center of the series are all loosely bound by a machine known as the Loop, a technology intended to unlock the universe’s mysteries and the town’s main employer. Thanks to decades in business and the abandonment of various detritus—robots and body-switching contraptions left in the woods,
No Time To Die Writer/Director Cary Fukunaga Pitched an Insane Original Premise
Before No Time To Die co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga had settled on which direction he was taking Daniel Craig in his last turn as James Bond, he had pitched a truly wild idea. Fukunaga revealed this to fellow filmmaker Miranda July in Interview Magazine long before No Time To Die was pushed back from its original April 2020 release date to this November, due to the spread of COVID-19.
Here’s the Trailer For Ryan Murphy’s Ambitious New Netflix Series Hollywood
Ryan Murphy taking on Hollywood in the glamorous (and often odious) period after World War II? Yeah, that sounds like a series we could get into. Netflix has revealed the first trailer for Murphy’s glam, grand, intriguing new series, which takes on Hollywood’s Golden Age by following a slew of up-and-coming actors and filmmakers as they attempt to succeed in a town that crushes dreams as quickly as it makes them.
What makes Murphy’s Hollywood fascinating is that it’s not just a glitzy look at what Hollywood was like when the dinosaurs of the industry were in total,
Cinematographer Priyanka Singh on COVID-19, Her New Documentary & More
Cinematographer Priyanka Singh jumped on the phone from Mumbai more or less exactly at the moment that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was locking down the country—and its’ 1.3 billion residents—on March 24. “Right at this very minute, our Prime Minister is addressing the nation and saying, ‘It’ll go on for three weeks,'” Singh said. “There’s a country-wide lockdown for the next three weeks. This means a curfew, a state of emergency. We just have to figure out what to do in the next three weeks.
Unorthodox Director Maria Schrader on Creating Netflix’s Surprising Hit Series
Maria Schrader is best known for her award-winning acting roles — she starred in the acclaimed wartime romance Aimee and Jaguar (1999) and plays Stasi agent Lenora Rauch in the spy thriller Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86 now on Hulu — but she’s also an esteemed director. In both her exquisite biopic about the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016) and, now, as director of all four episodes of the hit Netflix series Unorthodox,
Selah and the Spades Star Celeste O’Connor on the Power of Tayarisha Poe’s Film
Amazon Studios has premiered writer/director Tayarisha Poe’s new indie Selah and the Spades to near-universal acclaim. It’s the story that takes place in an elite boarding school, where seventeen-year-old senior, Selah Summers (Lovie Simone), runs the Spades, a powerful clique that supplies illegal drugs to the student body. That’s just one of the vices these cliques, or ‘factions,’ offer, which also includes gambling and illegal parties. When her right-hand-man Maxxie (Jharrel Jerome) gets distracted,
Under Lockdown, Tech & Film Meet in New Ways to Un-Stall an Industry on Hold
The first feature film made entirely over Zoom may still be a blessed long way off, but in accordance with COVID-19 social distancing procedures, formerly eschewed technologies are finding a current warm welcome among the film and television industry. Whether it’s a newfound acceptance of older, familiar names like Skype, or industry-specific digital tools being put to creative off-label uses, it’s thanks to technology that film crews can,
Tom Hardy is Capone in Surprise New Trailer
The title may have changed, but director Josh Trank and star Tom Hardy are still delivering their long-awaited Al Capone film. Formerly called Fonzo, Trank took to Twitter to reveal the trailer for his newly titled film Capone, with distributor Vertical Entertainment releasing this look into the gangster’s later years on digital on May 12. Trank revealed the trailer yesterday, on Tax Day, a fitting date considering the crime that eventually took Capone down was tax evasion.
How Motherland: Fort Salem Cinematographer Jon Joffin Casts a Spell
It may not be an infinite playlist, at least not yet, but if quarantine lasts much longer, who knows? In any case, cinematographer Jon Joffin, ASC, was waxing virtually about some of the shows he’s been watching in lockup:
Among them were Amazon’s ZeroZeroZero, the Gabriel Byrne-starring series which follows a shipment of cocaine from Mexico to its cartel purchasers in Italy, which Joffin describes as shot “in a beautiful,
The Mandalorian Gets a Documentary Series on Disney+
For all you Star Wars fans out there mourning the end of the Skywalker Saga and the gaping, galactic hole between now and any fresh films or TV series, Disney+ has some good news for you. You will now be getting an eight-episode docuseries that will reveal how their first-ever live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, was made.
Assuming you’ve already watched The Mandalorian (and The Clone Wars),
Let’s Take a Closer Look at Those Dune Images
On Monday Vanity Fair gave us a glimpse of Timothée Chalamet in director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Then yesterday, they revealed their deep dive into the film with a full spread of photos. Now Warner Bros. has made the entire cache available.
One of the juicy details from the VF piece includes the fact that Villeneuve decided that Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel was simply too epic to try and fit into a single film.
