Jared Leto is Morbius in First Trailer for the Blood-Sucking Superhero Film
While Marvel is beginning its’ Phase 4 and DC has a slew of upcoming projects, from Birds of Prey to The Batman, Sony has just released the first teaser trailer Morbius, which finds Jared Leto in the title role as Dr. Michael Morbius, one of Marvel’s more complicated antiheroes. Directed by Daniel Espinoza, Morbius tells the story of its titular doctor Michael Morbius attempting to save other people suffering from the same fatal blood disease he has.
Matt Reeves The Batman to Turn Glasgow Into Gotham
Nearly all of the news we’ve been hearing about Matt Reeves upcoming The Batman has revolved around the superb cast. We’ve known for a long time that the new caped crusader would be played by Robert Pattinson, and since, then, an excellent supporting cast has been growing around him. Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as the Riddler, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot (better known as the Penguin),
Westworld Season 3 Date Announced in Cryptic New Video
Westworld‘s beguiling third season just got a very cryptic date announcement video. How cryptic? We’re given not only the date when HBO’s expansive, ambitious sci-fi series returns but also a series of crucial dates within the show’s universe that seem to reveal more about the world outside the titular theme park then we’ve ever known about before. The dates include 6/12/19, the date of the first of a series of “Divergences,”
Joker Nabs 11 Oscar Nominations as 2020 Oscar Nominees are Revealed
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 2020 Academy Awards nominees. There are some surprises, some snubs, and some predictable nominees. The Best Picture category includes 9 films this year. Todd Phillips’ Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations, while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is close behind with 10.
This year’s host-less telecast, the 92nds Academy Awards, will air live on ABC on February 9th,
Devs Trailer Reveals Annihilation & Ex Machina Director’s Intriguing new Series
So you were a fan of Alex Garland‘s Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018)? Yeah, us too. Garland has made a name for himself as one of the most compelling writer/directors of sci-fi in the business. Ex Machina took the artificial intelligence run amok narrative and made something wholly new (with an incredible trio of cast members in Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Domhnall Gleeson).
Virgin River Editor Nicole Ratcliffe on Cutting to Where it Counts
Editor Nicole Ratcliffe has an unusual story to tell—she began editing right out of film school. Why this is unusual is it usually takes some time before you’re properly cutting scenes in the editing room, but for Ratcliffe, who grew up in Vancouver and works there, she began editing more or less immediately. Not only that, she worked on so many visual effects-heavy projects that she became a visual effects editor.
“I went to Vancouver film school,
The New Birds of Prey Trailer is a Total Scream
Now that’s a trailer, folks. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is one of 2020’s most anticipated films, and this new trailer will only increase the excitement. Birds of Prey airlifts Suicide Squad‘s main attraction—Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn—and plops her down in Gotham with a bunch of new friends and a proper enemy to take on. Harley no longer has her sociopathic sidekick to steal screen time (Jared Leto’s Joker),
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Drops Delightful Music Video Ahead of Season 3
Just because her boyfriend’s been sent to hell doesn’t mean Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) is giving up on him. Not even close. In a very charming, let’s go ahead and callig it a “chilling” new music video just released by Netflix, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is teasing season 3 with a devilish beat and a nasty hook. The song is called “Straight to Hell” by Sabrina Spellman & Lovecraft. The vocals are in fact supplied by Kiernan Shipka herself,
Dolemite Is My Name’s Oscar-Shortlisted Makeup & Hairstyling Team on Capturing an Era
“There was a lot of collaboration among us,” says Vera Steimberg, who was the co-department makeup head on the collaboration between Eddie Murphy and Netflix on Dolemite Is My Name. The film itself recounts the historical collaboration of self-produced blaxploitation movie icon Rudy Ray Moore, who produced the original Dolemite, then “four-walled” it—exhibiting it himself—until it was eventually picked up by a distributor for expansion into both more movie screens, eventual video,
New Underwater Clip Reveals Kristen Stewart in Deep Sea Danger
The first three months of the year were once a bit of a wasteland for film releases, but that was then. In just the past four years, Tim Miller’s Deadpool, Jordan Peele’s first two features, Get Out and Us, and James Mangold’s Logan have all been released early in the year’s schedule. Which brings us to William Eubank’s Underwater, starring Kristen Stewart as Norah,
Oscar Watch: The Lion King’s VFX Supervisor’s Groundbreaking New Techniques
Earlier this year, Disney’s live-action remake of The Lion King landed as both a critical and box office hit. Pride Rock looked stunning. The animals appeared real. No creatures were harmed in the making of the film, and Beyoncé herself played Nala, protagonist Simba’s level-headed love interest and future queen. Alongside a star-studded cast, The Lion King also broke new ground in visual effects,
In Fact-Based Just Mercy, Editor Nat Sanders Cuts to the Truth
Before editor Nat Sanders earned an Oscar nomination for cutting Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, he forged a tight bond with filmmaker Destin Cretton. Their latest collaboration, Just Mercy (opening wide Friday, Jan. 10), casts Michael B. Jordan as real-life lawyer Bryan Stevenson who goes to bat for Death Row inmate Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) by proving he’s been framed by Alabama law enforcement authorities.
Sanders broke into feature films when he edited Florida State University classmate Barry Jenkins’
Servant Costume Designer Caroline Duncan on Dressing M. Night Shyamalan’s Thriller
M. Night Shyamalan and Tony Basgallop’s Servant is one of Apple TV+‘s weirdest, wildest new shows. As always with a Shyamalan production, there are creepy twists aplenty on offer here, but there’s more to Servant than narrative surprises—there’s bracing oddness to it, amplified by terrific performances from a great cast and technical mastery from Shyamalan and Basgallop’s talented crew.
Servant is set in Philadelphia (Shyamalan’s preferred location,
Explore Pandora in New Avatar Concept Art for the Upcoming Sequels
James Cameron’s 2009 smash hit Avatar introduced audiences to the alien planet of Pandora. Now, with Cameron having filmed two sequels (both Avatar 2 and 3), he was ready to share some concept art at the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, the annual, large-scale tech show. Cameron is a master at pushing filmmaking technology to its limits—and beyond—and you can be sure that as immersive as Pandora was in the first film,
Director Kate Woods on Faith and Belief in her Netflix Drama Messiah
Early on in the new Netflix drama Messiah, CIA agent Eva (Michelle Monaghan), paradigmatically dogged in her duties, informs a failed prospective job candidate, “the truth may look gray, but I assure you, it is not.” It’s easy to guess that Eva’s next assignment will have her rethinking the office hiring policy. After she becomes aware of a long-locked, proselytizing enigma first spotted preaching mid-sandstorm to a band of followers in Damascus,
Christian Bale Might be Joining Thor: Love and Thunder
Batman in the Marvel Universe? Well, sort of, and possibly. Collider reports that Christian Bale, the Oscar-winning actor and the star of Christopher Nolan’s excellent Dark Knight trilogy, is currently in talks to join Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Love and Thunder is Waititi’s follow-up to his universally beloved Thor: Ragnarok, which came out in 2017 and substantially changed Chris Hemsworth’s titular Asgardian God of Thunder into one of Marvel’s funniest superheroes.
The First Trailer for The New Mutants is Finally Here
Folks have been waiting a long, long time for a look at Josh Boone’s X-Men spinoff The New Mutants, and we’ve finally got it. Written by Boone and Knate Lee, The New Mutants centers on a team of young mutants who are being treated, so to speak, at a secret facility where they’re trying to understand and control their incredible abilities.
The New Mutants was shot in 2017,
How Editor Lee Smith & Sound Editor Oliver Tarney Crafted the Immersive Story of 1917
If you caught last night’s Golden Globes, you saw Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 take home both Best Film (Drama) and Best Director for Mendes himself. 1917 bested some very steep competition, including Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman, Todd Phillips Joker, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Mendes’ film is practically flawless.
Now imagine you’re a picture editing working on a project where the story is utterly personal to the director,
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Leads 2020 Golden Globe Winners
Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s glorious Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood were two of the night’s big winners at your 2020 Golden Globes. With Oscar voting already underway, this year’s Globes are even more relevant than ever.
Tarantino’s love letter to a bygone era of Hollywood scooped up three awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Screenplay for Tarantino himself,
Hidden Life’s Production Designer on Working in Terrence Malick’s World
Production designer Sebastian T. Krawinkel recalls his first meeting about potentially working on Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, which he describes as “almost a conspiracy meeting.” He art directed both V for Vendetta and Speed Racer some years back, and two of Hidden Life’s producers, Henning Molfenter and Charlie Woebcken, had co-produced those.
Krawinkel was handed “a rough outline,
