Westworld’s Season Three Trailer is Thrilling
HBO has just released Westworld‘s season three trailer, and we are enthused. One of TV’s most ambitious sci-fi series returns, and it appears to be bigger and bolder than ever.
“I was born into this world,” Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores says at the opening of the trailer. “And my first memories of it are pain. For my kind, there was one place we were never allowed to go,
See How a Novel Technology Helped Create The Mandalorian’s Hyper-Realistic Worlds
Disney+’s The Mandalorian looked so ravishingly good it was easy to forget it wasn’t a Star Wars feature film sliced and diced into a series. The feature film-level look was achieved primarily through a new technology called StageCraft. What StageCraft does is create a hyper-realistic, reactive environment that moves with the camera. In a new behind-the-scenes video from Industrial Light & Magic, you’ll see how The Mandalorian used this tech to create the many worlds our titular bounty hunter plied his trade on.
Future Man’s Cinematographer Sylvaine Dufaux on Hulu’s Hilarious Time Tripper
In Hulu‘s Future Man, a gent by the unimprovable name of Josh Futturman (The Hunger Games‘ Josh Hutcherson) finds himself in a fairly extreme circumstance. Josh is a janitor by day and a bigtime gamer by night, and his life is reasonable and normal until it’s suddenly very unreasonable and abnormal. He’s recruited by a pair of time travelers (played by Derek Wilson and Eliza Coupe) and tasked with traveling through time himself to save humanity.
HBO’s Beforeigners Trailer Imagines Vikings in Modern-Day Oslo
Any new HBO series is worthy of notice, especially when that series has a grand, ambitious conceit that sounds a little crazy on first blush. That’s the case for the premium channel’s new show Beforeigners, which imagines Vikings (and folks from the Stone Age, as well as the 1800s) appearing all over the world.
Beforeigners is mainly set in modern-day Oslo, with drama centered around a police investigation.
Watch Billie Eilish Sing No Time to Die at the BRIT Awards
Billie Eilish‘s gorgeous, haunting theme song for No Time to Die is the type of slow-burn beauty we’ve come to expect from the young superstar. Eilish performed the song at the BRIT Awards in London, and we’ve embedded the performance for your viewing pleasure. Eilish joins a long, prestigious list of musical superstars to write and perform a theme song for a Bond film. She follows luminaries such as Adele (Skyfall),
No Time to Die: How Cary Fukunaga & Phoebe Waller-Bridge Crafted a Role for Ana de Armas
There are so many reasons to be excited about No Time to Die. It’s the last time we’ll get to see Daniel Craig as her Majesty’s most lethal super-spy, James Bond. The cast and crew surrounding Craig are phenomenally talented. Co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga works from a script he wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns, and Emmy-winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
That writing team brought back some of Bond’s old allies,
Writer/Director Rashaad Ernesto Green on his Bracing Love Story Premature
When Rashaad Ernesto Green and Zora Howard sat down to write a feature that Howard would star in and Green would direct, the pair already knew it would be a love story. No, Howard and Green are not a couple; they worked together on Green’s debut feature Gun Hill Road (2011) and on his 2008 short Premature. The two artists simply wanted to create “what we felt was missing in the current cinematic climate especially with relation to black stories,” says Green.
New Clip of Disney+’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars Reveals “The Bad Batch”
For Star Wars fans, Disney+’s upcoming airing of the conclusion to Star Wars: The Clone Wars series is seriously great news. The Clone Wars is one of the most well-executed sagas in the Star Wars canon, and now 12 brand-new episodes will air on Disney+ beginning this Friday, February 21. We’ve got a glimpse of the first of the final episodes, “The Bad Batch,” which looks fantastic,
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Writer/Director Celine Sciamma on her Masterpiece
French writer-director Céline Sciamma, whose first three features, Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011) and Girlhood (2014), established her unique voice with visually compelling depictions of coming of age, gender identity and the intimacy of girls’ relationships, has created a masterpiece with her fourth film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. A sumptuous lesbian romance set in France in 1760, Portrait of a Lady on Fire won the best screenplay award and the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and a host of year-end critics’ accolades.
Here’s the First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories
Children in danger. Children becoming heroes and facing danger. Families in peril, and families coming together. Inexplicable supernatural and alien events. This and more is in store for viewers in one of the most intriguing new TV series to launch this year. We’re talking about Steven Spielberg‘s Amazing Stories. Apple TV+ has revealed the first trailer for Spielberg’s reboot of the classic sci-fi/fantasy anthology series, which is executive produced by the master himself.
Writer/Director Brenda Chapman on her Beguiling new Feature Come Away
Oscar-winning animation artist, writer, and director Brenda Chapman had never considered doing live-action before she read the script for Come Away, which came from first-time screenwriter Marissa Kate Goodhill. She was taken by the story, which is a “what if” tale, suggesting the origins for both Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland come from Victorian brother and sister Peter and Alice (Jordan Nash and Keira Chansa) who use their imaginations,
A new Stranger Things Season 4 Teaser Reveals That Hopper’s Alive
At the end of Stranger Things‘ epic third season, it appeared that Hawkins Sheriff Jim Hopper (David Harbour) had paid the ultimate price in order to save his beloved Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) and the rest of Hawkins from a nefarious Russian plot. Granted, Harbour’s one of the series most beloved characters and a mid-credits scene seemed to imply the courageous grump might still be alive. Yet we couldn’t be certain—until now.
The Batman Test Footage Reveals First Look at Robert Pattinson as Caped Crusader
We’ve got the very first look at Robert Pattinson as Batman, folks. Writer/director Matt Reeves has revealed this glimpse of Pattinson in the full cape and cowl. What’s more, included in the moody peek is a snippet of Michael Giacchino’s score. The video might be brief, but we’re guessing the internet is going to be fairly (read; intensely) vocal about this new-look Batman. Hard to argue that Pattison and his lantern jaw don’t fit the Batman cowl perfectly.
Paul Feig Reveals his Universal Monster Movie
Paul Feig loves taking genre films and making them his own. His most recent film, Last Christmas, was, as the title suggests, a Christmas comedy with a touch of magic. He’s obviously a veteran in the comedy genre in general (Bridesmaids was an instant classic), as well as the comedy-action world (Spy was a delight), the sci-fi comedy (the Ghostbusters reboot) and more.
The Green Knight Trailer Reveals Dev Patel in David Lowrey’s Medieval Fantasy
Take director David Lowery (A Ghost Story) and add star Dev Patel as Sir Gawain in a Medieval fantasy, and add powerhouse production studio A24 and you’ve got the makings for something potentially great. Thus we’ve got The Green Knight, in which Lowery takes on the story of King Arthur’s dangerously headstrong nephew who sets off on an epic quest to confront the titular Green Knight, a colossal green-skinned menace.
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch Trailer is Here
Yesterday we got the poster, today, the trailer. Our first glimpse at Wes Anderson’s upcoming film The French Dispatch is here, with newly minted Searchlight (formerly Fox Searchlight) releasing the first trailer for Anderson’s latest. The last Anderson film was 2018’s delightful animated caper Isle of Dogs, and it’s been a whopping six years since we last got a live-action feature from the famously meticulous auteur—2014’s excellent The Grand Budapest Hotel.
What Should the Knives Out Sequel be Called?
After the critical and commercial success of Rian Johnson‘s charming, scheming, delightful whodunit Knives Out, Johnson is already at work on a sequel. Yet here’s the thing; Johnson and Lionsgate Studio are in need of a title, and they’re looking to you—yes you, reader—to help them come up with one.
Alright we need title suggestions for the sequel! Drop em! ?
— Knives Out (@KnivesOut) February 11,
The Photograph Writer/Director Stella Meghie on Making Movies About Black Love
Director Stella Meghie has been on an accelerated rise in just these past few years. After an impressive feature debut with her 2016 indie comedy-drama Jean of the Joneses, the filmmaker followed up the next year with a studio picture, the YA adaptation Everything, Everything. After a return to indie filmmaking with 2018’s The Weekend, Meghie is once again working in the studio sphere—The Photograph is a Universal release (it premieres on February 14,
The Poster for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is Here, Trailer Tomorrow
When it comes to a Wes Anderson movie, you can be pretty much certain about a few key aspects before you know the plot, or heck, even the title of the film. There will be a sensational, large cast of big-name actors. The look of the film, animated or not, will be painstakingly detailed. Whether Anderson and his team are creating a fake Rennaissance masterpiece or miniaturized Japanese beer cans,
Little America’s Production Designer Amy Williams on Apple TV+’s Beautiful New Series
Apple TV+‘s Little America is the rare show that you could argue really and truly needs to be seen right now. The anthology series from executive producers Alan Yang (Parks and Recreation, Master of None) and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Silicon Valley) focuses on the lives of largely working-class immigrants in America. Each episode focuses on the experience of a different character,
