Alicia Vikander is a Haunted Ex-Pat in First Earthquake Bird Trailer
Well here’s a delicious-looking new thriller. Netflix has just released the first look at writer/director Wash Westmoreland’s Earthquake Bird (produced by Ridley Scott, no less). The film is based on Susanna Jones’ novel and stars Alicia Vikander as Lucy Fly, an ex-pat living in Tokyo in 1989 who gets involved with a photographer named Teji (Naoki Kobayashi). At first blush, Lucy and Teji’s relationship seems to be that off two very intense oddballs who have found each other and eagerly embark on one of those edgy,
Apple Lands A Christmas Carol Starring Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell
You can expect more stories like this now that Apple is in the original content game. The newest players in the streaming content world have just landed the rights to a live-action musical based on Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The new film will be directed by Daddy’s Home duo Sean Anders and John Morris. Apple managed to best Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros.
Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals First Look at Laurie Strode in Halloween Kills
There are few horror film characters more indomitable than Laurie Strode. As embodied by Jamie Lee Curtis, Strode has seen a shocking amount of carnage and horror thanks to that lumbering super-killer Michael Myers. Over the years, she’s become Michael’s main obsession and pluckiest adversary. Now we’ve got our first look at Curtis as Strode in this new image from Halloween Kills. Curtis shared this shot of herself on the set of the sequel to last year’s smash hit Halloween reboot.
The Female-Led John Wick Spinoff has Found a Director
While John Wick 4 is coming to theaters in May of 2021, Lionsgate is teasing out a female-led spinoff that will further expand the world of the titular super-assassin. Deadline reports that director Len Wiseman has been tapped to lead the upcoming film, titled Ballerina, which will focus on a young female assassin seeking revenge against the monsters who murdered her family. There’s already a script,
Daybreak Trailer Reveals Netflix’s new Post-Apocalyptic Series
Netflix‘s upcoming teen apocalypse series has a little something for everyone. Fans of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Alexander Payne’s Election, iconic 1980s flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and pop music, in general, are going to find something they like in Daybreak. Netflix has gotten good—very good—at creating series based on teenagers en extremis. The Society, 13 Reasons Why and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before are well well-crafted and wildly different.
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Getting Historic Broadway Screening
If any director was going to see his film be the first-ever to play at the historic Belsaco Theater on Broadway in New York, it would have to be Martin Scorsese. The legendary auteur’s upcoming (and highly touted) The Irishman will be the first film to play in the Belasco’s 112-year history. Netflix is providing the theater with state-of-the-art equipment for the screenings, which are set to run for a month,
Edward Norton on Redefining Heroism in Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton brought Motherless Brooklyn, his long-gestating passion project, to the Motion Picture Association’s brand new theater last night for a special screening and Q&A moderated by professor Yanick Lamb, Director of Media Studies at Howard University. Norton’s film, which explores institutional racism built into the very foundations of New York City, was inspired as much by Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of “master builder” Robert Moses, “The Power Broker,”
Let’s Talk About Joker‘s Wild Batman Connection
*Obviously, major Joker spoilers below.
So you’ve seen Joker. Good, then this story is for you. Writer/director Todd Phillips (he co-wrote the script with Scott Silver) and Joaquin Phoenix delivered on their promise that Joker wouldn’t be like any previous superhero film. True enough. In nearly every conceivable way, Joker defied the conventions of the comic book movie and set itself apart narratively, stylistically, and emotionally.
Klaus Trailer Reveals Netflix’s First Animated Feature Film
Ho ho ho, Santa’s getting his own origin story.
Klaus is the first animated feature film from Netflix, and it’s going to give the cheeriest resident of the North Pole a fullsome backstory. Netflix has released the first trailer, which gives us the tale of a postal worker in need of a career boost, one very unhappy town, and a reclusive carpenter whose cabin is filled with his wonderful creations.
Raising Dion Showrunner Carol Barbee on Netflix’s Singular Superhero Show
On film or television, there has never been a superhero origin story with a focus on the superhero’s mom. That changes with the new Netflix show Raising Dion, which is based on a 2015 comic book of the same name by Dennis Liu. The show features Alisha Wainwright as Nicole Reese, a young widow raising 8-year-old Dion (Ja’Siah Young), who begins to exhibit superhuman abilities. Michael B. Jordan plays her late husband Mark,
Joker Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on Creating a “Wordless Dialogue”
A female composer being hired for a studio film is a rarity, with 94 percent of the 250 films released in the US in 2018 scored by men. It is to his credit that director Todd Philips hired Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir to create the score for Joker. It offers a welcome challenge to the statistics, and also has proven to be a brilliant move on his part. Guðnadóttir just won an Emmy for Chernobyl,
How Joker Costume Designer Mark Bridges dressed The Clown Prince of Crime
The wait is over. Todd Phillips’ Joker dominated the box office with a record-breaking $93.5 million opening weekend.
The fresh origin story is set circa 1980s Gotham where Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) lives a mundane life working as a clown to scrounge up enough cash to take care of his ailing mother Penny (Frances Conroy). It’s only after a few avoidable mistakes that turn Arthur into who he truly feels he’s meant to be – Joker.
Joker’s Makeup Designer on Creating the Clown Prince of Chaos
It’s hard to think of a more iconic look from the world of comic books than the Joker — Batman’s most nefarious adversary. Nicki Ledermann was all too aware of this when she was approached to design the makeup for Joker, director Todd Phillips’ new feature that offers up the origin as to how Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian, came to be this ominous creature.
“To be honest,
The Official Trailer for Sam Mendes’ 1917 Reveals Astonishing Visuals
Universal Pictures recently revealed that director Sam Mendes and his legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins have done something extremely difficult with their World War I epic 1917. They devised, along with their crack cast and crew, a way to shoot the film as if it were a continuous, unbroken single shot. Now Universal has released the film’s first full-length trailer, and you can see for yourself the fruits of their labor.
The Official Oscar Campaign For Avengers: Endgame has Begun
Disney has officially launched its Oscar campaign for Avengers: Endgame, zeroing in on a slew of categories for their massive, globe-dominating mega-hit. Disney’s official For Your Consideration website details the categories they’re (currently) focused on. Superhero movies can and should be nominated for Best Picture if they’re good enough, as we learned last year when Ryan Coogler’s excellent Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture (as well as 6 other categories) and notched wins for Costume Design (the incomparable Ruth E.
The First Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is Here
Richard Jewell was working as a security guard at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1996 Summer Olympics when his life took a drastic turn. Jewell discovered a duffel bag filled with explosives, and his quick-thinking helped clear most people out of the area before the bomb went off, killing one person and injuring 111. Were it not for Jewell’s action, the death toll would have likely been much, much higher. He was,
Renée Zellweger on Becoming Judy
Despite numerous screen classics over decades, Judy Garland famously never won an Oscar. She was favored to win for her major career comeback in 1954 for A Star is Born but lost to fresh-faced Grace Kelly. So it would be a fitting, full-circle tribute if Renée Zellweger, in her own major comeback role as Judy Garland, took home the Oscar for Judy, as many expect she will after the film’s recent triumphant festival reception including a standing ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival that brought Zellweger to tears.
Check out This Glorious New Alien From Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
His name is Frik. Babu Frik. He’s a handy dandy Anzellan droidsmith and he’s as talented as he is cute. He’s a new Star Wars alien and he’s here to help. He’ll be appearing in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and by the itty-bitty description we’ve got of him, we have a notion on how, exactly, he might be of service.
The introduction of a new Star Wars alien is now a 36-year long event of feverish debate,
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Screenwriter Chris Terrio on the Mysterious Rey
In Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we learned quite a bit about Rey (Daisy Ridley). One was that her powers with the Force are significant. So much so that her abilities seem as potent, if not more so, than her mentor Luke Skywalker’s were at the same age. (And Rey has gotten more powerful without the training Luke received from Yoda, although she did get some schooling once she tracked Luke down on Ahch-To.) Yet as much as we learned about Rey’s power and passion in Johnson’s film,
The First Trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Reveals a Star-Studded Crime Caper
Guy Ritchie made his name with whip-smart, kinetically filmed crime capers that all but leapt off the screen. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch were the two movies that American audiences fell in love with. They were hilarious and thrilling, reveling in a British underworld filled with captivating characters and occasionally impossible-to-decipher dialogue (we’re looking at you, Brad Pitt in Snatch). Ritchie went on to make ever bigger films,
