Interview

Director

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
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,

By Bryan Abrams  |  February 20, 2020
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.

By The Credits  |  February 20, 2020

Interview

Cinematographer

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.

By Bryan Abrams  |  February 20, 2020
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.

By The Credits  |  February 20, 2020
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),

By The Credits  |  February 19, 2020
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 DieIt’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,

By The Credits  |  February 19, 2020

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

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.

By Loren King  |  February 19, 2020
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,

By The Credits  |  February 18, 2020

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

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.

By Loren King  |  February 18, 2020
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.

By The Credits  |  February 18, 2020

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

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,

By Leslie Combemale  |  February 18, 2020
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.

By The Credits  |  February 14, 2020
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.

By The Credits  |  February 14, 2020