The High Note Director Nisha Ganatra on the Importance of a Diverse Cast & Crew
As a worthy follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2019 comedy Late Night, director Nisha Ganatra brings us The High Note, which was released this past May 29 for digital download. The film stars Dakota Johnson as aspiring producer Maggie Sherwoode, who works as personal assistant to iconic performer Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross). It’s a dramedy about women supporting each other as they reach for their highest goals and dreams. Ganatra spoke to The Credits about her new movie,...
Join us For Our Second Film School Friday Event Featuring Creators From Insecure, Batwoman & More
Join us today for our second Film School Friday event at 2 pm ET, which will feature leading Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) creators and continues our coverage of AAPI Heritage Month. Today’s virtual panel features creators from HBO’s Insecure, Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, The CW’s Batwoman, and more. Your host is John Gibson, the Motion Picture Association’s Vice President for External and Multicultural Affairs. It’s that rare feel-good event in 2020,...
New Tenet TV Spot Highlights Christopher Nolan’s Pledge to Go “Somewhere New”
When discussing the spy genre, within which Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet is situated, the writer/director told Total Film (via IndieWire) that it’s “totally in my bones.” Therefore, while making Tenet, Nolan broke his own tradition; he didn’t have his cast screen the films that inspired the one they were working on. “And the reason was, I think we all have the spy genre so in our bones and in our fingertips,”...
Watch The Trailer for the Timely Bruce Lee Documentary Be Water
Will Be Water be the next ESPN documentary sensation? It sure has the perfect protagonist. Riding high off the massive success of The Last Dance, which featured as its central protagonist the somehow still mysterious NBA legend Michael Jordan, ESPN’s vaunted 30 For 30 team have released the trailer for Be Water, which centers on the legendary martial arts expert and film star Bruce Lee. The doc,...
Henry Cavill in Talks to Return as Superman
While productions are more or less still on hold across much of the globe (save for Avatar 2, which has resumed filming in New Zealand), there is a lot of big film news lately. Some of that has been made by HBO Max, which officially launched yesterday, and last week announced the 2021 release of the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League. In that news,...
Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon Headed to Apple
It looks like one of the biggest film projects in Hollywood has finally found a home. After a lot of behind-the-scenes negotiating, Deadline reports that Martin Scorsese‘s Killer of the Flower Moon has landed at Apple, with Paramount distributing the film theatrically worldwide. Scorsese’s project is based on the 2017 book by journalist David Grann, the full title of which is “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.”...
Zack Snyder Shares Image of Darkseid For His HBO Max Justice League Cut
With the launch of HBO Max today, it’s fair to say the new streaming service has entered a very crowded market with some seriously strong momentum. That’s due not only to the huge trove of films, series, and more HBO Max will be offering, but because of what’s coming next year. Yup, we’re talking about the Justice League Snyder Cut, that years-in-the-tweeting dream of seeing director Zack Snyder’s fully-realized vision for the film he had to leave in the middle of production...
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. Indiana Jones is currently slated for 2022 release for Disney,...
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. When the spread of COVID-19 began closing the country in mid-March,...
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. He’s a stubbled tough guy who smokes so many cigarettes it was hard for us to see the living room sometimes...
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, Nolan penned this tribute to movie theaters and the folks who work at them for the Washington Post. ...
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...
