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 Horseman, and 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, and the monsters who get into the ring are major superstars...
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,...
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,...
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), Colman Domingo (Lincoln,...
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, she’s told that Oliver committed suicide...
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, and in this new video he’s gives us the lay of the land,...
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, but I also wanted to hear the human stories in between,”...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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 Materials, and Damon Lindelof’s spectacular Watchmen, just to name two major new series. This March will see some of the most eagerly anticipated series bowing or returning to HBO...
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, one place we were never allowed to see—your world.”...
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. One of the Vikings who suddenly appears in the present—Alfhildr Enginsdottir (Krista Kosonen)—joins the Oslo Police Force...
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...
