Artemis Fowl Trailer Reveals Disney’s Fantasy Sci-Fi Adaptation

Disney has released the official trailer for Artemis Fowl, which is based on the surprisingly edgy fantasy sci-fi books by Eoin Colfer. In Colfer’s series, your titular Artemis is a boy genius who is also, contra the usual conceit of such books, a villain. What’s more, he’s a fairy-napper (our term) who kidnaps fairies and holds them for ransom. Granted, it turns out that he’s not really a villain,

By The Credits  |  March 2, 2020

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The Cast of Gentefied on Netflix’s Glorious New Series

Season 1 of Gentefied is now streaming on Netflix, which is cause for all fans of great content to celebrate. The show, which has been in the new “top ten in the US today” category on the site since its launch date on February 21st, focuses on an extended Latinx family in LA’s Boyle Heights. It follows them as they confront the gentrification of their neighborhood, and what it means to them as individuals,

By Leslie Combemale  |  March 2, 2020
Mulan Featurette Explores the Film’s Sensational Stunts

Director Niki Caro’s upcoming Mulan looks quite simply ravishing. Now a new featurette focusing on the live-action remake‘s epic stunts highlights why so many folks are excited about Caro’s film.

You had to know that Mulan would be an action-packed movie. The story is centered on a young woman (Yifei Liu) who disguises herself in order to take her father’s place in the upcoming war with China.

By The Credits  |  February 28, 2020
Here’s the Trailer For The Batman Director’s new Sci-Fi Series Tales of the Loop

The new trailer for Amazon Studios Tales From the Loop is a gem. It’s surprisingly low on dark visions of some future apocalypse or robots run amok. Instead, this understated but visually arresting 97-second glimpse gives us a taste of a show the streaming service is hailing as a “groundbreaking drama series.” Tales From The Loop comes from Matt Reeves, director of the upcoming The Batmanand is inspired by the art of Simon Stålenhag.

By The Credits  |  February 28, 2020
Netflix Reveals the First Teaser for Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy

We know by now that writer/director Damien Chazelle is one of our most music-obsessed filmmakers. His breakout film Whiplash and his follow-up La La Land proved Chazelle is deeply passionate about music. While he went on to make the thrilling space epic First ManChazelle is back with a music-centered limited series for Netflix, The Eddy. Chazelle created the series (and directs a few episodes) in which we follow a jazz pianist and Paris club owner named Elliot Udo (André Holland).

By The Credits  |  February 27, 2020
Behold the Buzz-Worthy Trailer for Jordan Peele’s Candyman

Now this is how you generate buzz.

Apologies for the pun (not really), but the official trailer for Candyman, co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, is here, and bees play a fairly significant part. Peele’s “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 original, directed by rising star Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), looks straight-up fantastic.

We now know that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, 

By The Credits  |  February 27, 2020
No Time To Die Will be The Longest James Bond Movie Ever

It looks like Daniel Craig’s last mission as her Majesty’s most lethal 007 will be the longest in history. CNET reports that No Time To Die is a 2 hour, 43-minute affair, topping Sam Mendes 2015 Spectre by 15 minutes. That is quite a lot of time to die, as just about everyone is now joking.

Everything we’ve seen and heard about No Time To Die has us excited,

By The Credits  |  February 27, 2020
Monster Wrestlers Reign Supreme in First Rumble Trailer

Will Arnett’s track record with voicing non-human animated characters is, to put it mildly, excellent. He just wrapped up voicing the title character in Netflix’s consistently excellent Bojack Horsemanand now Arnett’s vocal talents are being deployed in Paramount Picture’s new animated feature Rumble, which is centered around the genuinely fantastic conceit of monster wrestling. Rumble invites us into a world where monster wrestling is a global phenomenon,

By The Credits  |  February 26, 2020
Director Colin Trevorrow Reveals Jurassic World 3′s Title

And now we’ve got the official title of Jurassic World 3. After months of exciting casting news, a fun Jurassic Park short by director Colin Trevorrow, and hints from the rebooted franchise’s stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, production has officially begun and a proper title has been revealed. Trevorrow shared the news, and an image from the set, via Twitter:

Day One#JurassicWorld pic.twitter.com/UnQIUFwJ3t

— Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) February 25,

By The Credits  |  February 26, 2020
Hope for a New Era of Sustainable Filmmaking at Film Goes Green at the Berlinale

On Friday during the run of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, a diverse audience gathered at the law offices of Morrison Foerster for a panel on green filmmaking, hosted by the entertainment firm and the Motion Picture Association. “Our studios recognize that sustainability is business, and business is sustainability,” remarked MPA chairman and CEO Charles H. Rivkin, who opened the evening’s event. The panelists represented professions across the film industry as well as niche areas like electric car racing and futuristic city development,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  February 26, 2020
Here’s Your First Look at Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta’s Candyman

Reasons to be excited for director Nia DaCosta’s upcoming Candyman reboot, in no particular order. DaCosta herself, a rising star directing her biggest feature yet. Your screenwriters are Jordan Peele (!!) and Win Rosenfeld (executive producer of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman), based on the characters first created by horror legend Clive Barker and writer/director Bernard Rose. Then there’s the cast—Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, Watchmen),

By The Credits  |  February 25, 2020
Review Roundup: Elisabeth Moss Shines in Timely The Invisible Man Reboot

This Friday, writer/director Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man hits theaters, a reboot of Universal Pictures’ classic 1933 monster movie, starring Elisabeth Moss as, Cecilia Kass, a woman being stalked by a man nobody can see. Cecilia flees an abusive relationship with the brutal scientist Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in the middle of the night. Far from escaping Adrian’s sociopathy, Cecilia now finds herself in an increasingly terrifying situation. Shortly after she leaves him,

By The Credits  |  February 25, 2020
No Time to Die Director Cary Joji Fukunaga on Bond’s Most Dangerous Mission

If you weren’t already hyped up about the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die, you might need one final shot of adrenalin. To aid you in that effort is writer/director Cary Joji Fukunaga, who narrates a brand new No Time to Die video.

Fukunaga works from a script he wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns, and Emmy-winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge,

By The Credits  |  February 25, 2020

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Simon Frederick on the History of Black Cinema in his Doc They’ve Gotta Have Us

In They’ve Gotta Have Us now streaming on Netflix, British photographer-turned filmmaker Simon Frederick chronicles the history of Black Cinema by sitting down with some of the people who made that history. Produced by BBC Two and Ava DuVernay‘s ARRAY company, the three-part documentary series blends archival footage with dozens of interviews to survey eight decades of American filmmaking.

“I wanted to hear about the struggles and the successes,

By Hugh Hart  |  February 25, 2020
Venom 2 Set Photos Reveal Tom Hardy’s Return as Eddie Brock

We’ve got some official set photos from Venom 2, and they show Tom Hardy’s head-devouring alien symbiote having a laugh with his nemesis, the other head-devouring alien symbiote Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson. Okay, these new images, from photographer Greg Williams, give us a glimpse of what appears to be a very fun set, rather than stills from the film itself. Hardy returns as Eddie Brock, the reporter-turned-antihero Venom, and the sequel is being helmed by the multitalented Andy Serkis.

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2020
Netflix Reveals Trailer for Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy

Netflix and Hasbro, Inc. have given us our first look at their new animated series Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy. This trailer represents the first trailer for a three-part new series that will dive into the world of Transformers. The first chapter, titled “Siege,” will bring us to Cybertron in the closing moments of the brutal civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons. War for Cybertron was created with Rooster Teeth Animation.

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2020
This Hidden Westworld Season 3 Trailer Reveals Totally Different Footage

Remember how last Thursday, HBO dropped this sensational new Westworld trailer? It turns out, there’s an entirely different trailer for season three that reveals entirely different footage. This “secret” trailer was revealed by a Reddit user who did a deep dive on the Westworld viral website Incite, Inc. and found out that if you visit the page with a VPN and clean browser history, the secret trailer will reveal itself.

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2020
It’s Monster Mayhem in A Quiet Place: Part II “Fight” Teaser

What we’ve seen so far from John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place: Part II has been very promising. Krasinski’s follow-up to his 2018 smash hit expands the world of monsters vs humans we got only a glimpse of in the original. The first film was squarely focused on the Abbott family, led by Lee (Krasinski) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt), who were doing their level best to keep their children Marcus and Regan (Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds,

By The Credits  |  February 24, 2020
Your Definitive Star Wars Timeline is Here

With Star Wars: The Clone Wars returning for its final season on Disney+, now’s a good time to get a definitive timeline on exactly when each of our major Star Wars sagas took place. Sure, you can always Google to find out where each new Star Wars installment fits, but getting something official obviates that need. To that end, we can thank Disney+ for tweeting out an official timeline that situates all the feature films,

By The Credits  |  February 21, 2020
Here’s Everything New on HBO This March

March is going to be a big month for HBO. Not that the premium cable channel doesn’t try to make every month big; it hasn’t slowed down—at all—since Game of Thrones bowed. Ever since the flagship series ended its run, HBO launched the epic fantasy His Dark Materialsand Damon Lindelof’s spectacular Watchmenjust to name two major new series. This March will see some of the most eagerly anticipated series bowing or returning to HBO.

By The Credits  |  February 21, 2020