New Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer Reveals Closer Look at Star-Studded Film
In Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate, there’s a new focus of homicidal obsession for a time-traveling Terminator—Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes). She’s the person the new Terminator (Gabriel Luna) is after, yet we still don’t know the reasons why. What we do know is Dani will need help if she’s going to survive, and she’s got that in spades. Her protectors the return of Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s original T-800.
Harley Quinn Ditches the Joker in First Birds of Prey Trailer
“You know what a harlequin is? A harlequin’s role is to serve. It’s nothing without a master.” These are the lines that open the first trailer for Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey, spoken by star/producer Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, the former sociopathic sidekick to the Joker who is lighting out here on her own. The first trailer reveals that Harley and her former main squeeze, the Joker, have broken up.
Harley Quinn’s Got a Pet Hyena in New Birds of Prey Poster
You have to hand it to Harley Quinn—nobody seems to have more fun breaking bad than she does. Back in mid-September, we were enjoying the release of the first theatrical poster for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). The film is the result of star and producer Margot Robbie’s gangbusters turn as Quinn in David Ayer’s 2016 antihero ensemble film Suicide Squad. Robbie was the best thing in the film,
Roger Deakins Shot 1917 to Look Like a Single Continuous Shot
Director Sam Mendes upcoming World War I epic 1917 enjoyed one considerable advantage during filming: he had the legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins at his disposal. Mendes and Deakins collaborated on one of the best Bond films of all time—2012’s Skyfall. Now they’re back with 1917, and what they’ve pulled off sounds astonishing. The ever-ambitious Mendes went for something really special on 1917; he had Deakins and his nimble camera team create the illusion that the entire film is one long continuous shot.
Critics & Fellow Filmmakers Hail Scorsese’s The Irishman as a Masterpiece
Martin Scorsese’s return to the world of crime is being hailed as a masterpiece. The legendary director’s The Irishman, which recently had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, has been screened now by festival-goers, critics and some of Scorsese’s contemporaries. The reactions thus far are ecstatic.
Scorsese’s film is centered on Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) and spans much of Sheeran’s life as he looks back on his career as a driver and hitman for the mob.
Netflix Announces Stranger Things Season 4
It’s official—Stranger Things 4 is happening. Netflix made has released this brand new teaser affirming that the Duffer Brothers smash hit is returning for a fourth season. Fresh statements from Netflix and the Duffers also confirm a new multi-year deal. It appears that Stranger Things 4 will be moving beyond Hawkins, Indiana, thanks to the Byers family moving out of town at the end of season three.
Listen to the First Song From Frozen II & Prepare to Sing it Millions of Times
Not only did Disney’s global smash hit Frozen turn the sisters Elsa and Anna into household names in 2013, but it also unleashed Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s world-beating song “Let It Go” upon the world, winning an Oscar and becoming utterly and inescapably ubiquitous. “Let It Go” was the song of 2013, and there was hardly a kid in the world who hadn’t heard it, sung it, lived it. Now Disney has released a new teaser for Frozen II,
The Mandalorian Director on the First-Ever Live-Action Star Wars Series
In a little over a month, The Mandalorian will become the first-ever live-action Star Wars series when it debuts on Disney+ on November 12. Set five years after the events in Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi, the new series will focus on Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter. We’ll see, among other galaxy-shaping events, the rise of the First Order,
The King’s Man Trailer Reveals Origin of Super Spy Agency
Director Matthew Vaughn returns to his irreverent world of super spies and gleeful gore with The King’s Man, the third film in his breakneck trilogy that dives into the origins of the titular Kingsman spy agency. Vaughn’s first film in the series, 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, was a breathless sprint of a movie, giving us a deadly Colin Firth, an over-the-top Samuel L. Jackson, and a young,
The Knights of Ren Revealed in New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Image
Two new, intriguing images from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have been revealed thanks to an upcoming special issue of Empire Magazine. One of the photos gives us a shot of Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in a battle for a lightsaber. The second gives us a glimpse of the Knights of Ren, that mysterious group of soldiers who do the bidding of their corrupt,
Writer/Director Jill Culton on her Animated Feature Abominable
At the beginning of the new animated feature Abominable, tomboy Yi (Chloe Bennett) is grieving for her dad, who has passed away. When she finds a wounded Yeti hiding on the roof of her apartment building, she names him Everest, after where he’s from, and determines he needs help getting back to the famed mountain. She and her friends Peng (Albert Tsai) and Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), travel all the way across China to get him back home.
Breaking Down Three Key Scenes With Ad Astra’s Editors
On Tuesday we published the first part of our conversation with Ad Astra editors John Axelrad and Lee Haugen. Director James Gray’s film (which he co-wrote with Ethan Gross) is the rare intimate epic. It involves some of the most breathtaking sequences in any film this year, as well as a very personal father/son story in which our hero, Brad Pitt’s astronaut Roy McBride, travels all the way to Neptune to face dear old dad Cliff (Tommy Lee Jones).
The Walking Dead Season 10 Video Teases the Nightmare to Come
Ten years ago, The Walking Dead began as an ambitious but singularly focused series about a cop, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his attempt to navigate a zombie-infested world after waking from a coma. He wanted to find his family and make some sense of the world he’d awoken to. His travels introduced him to new friends, many of whom he’d stick with over the seasons, as well as adversaries, from the zombies themselves to his former partner and best friend,
First Trailer for John Turturro’s The Big Lebowski Spinoff Jesus Rolls is Here—in Italian
The Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski is a film that has had an extraordinary afterlife since it was first released in 1998. Not initially successful in the theaters, the Coens’ scruffy, slyly brilliant bowling noir (the one and only!) placing the blissed-out stoner and all-around lovable schlub Jeff Lebowski, better known as the Dude (a completely in-the-zone Jeff Bridges) at the center of a Byzantine plot involving a missing young woman (Tara Reid),
The Official Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Reveals Star-Studded Mob Epic
Martin Scorsese waited a long time to return to the world of crime he had all but made his own, but when he did, he did so with a meaty epic that’ll make its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this week. We’re talking about The Irishman, of course, Scorsese’s decades-spanning saga about World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), better known as “The Irishman,” who (allegedly) is the man who took out the legendary leader of the Teamsters,
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige to Produce a new Star Wars Film
Chalk this one up as interesting but not quite surprising. Marvel Studios president and Marvel Cinematic Universe super-producer Kevin Feige will be producing a new Star Wars movie. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy tapped Feige to help her expand the Star Wars universe.
“[Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy] is pursuing a new era in Star Wars storytelling,
A Quiet Place 2 Wraps Filming
This past July 15 we wrote a quick post about how writer/director John Krasinski had started filming A Quiet Place 2, the sequel to his extremely satisfying 2018 thriller. Now two months later, Krasinski and his cast and crew have wrapped production. Krasinski took to Twitter to reveal the news:
Well… that’s a wrap on #PartII See you on March 20th! pic.twitter.com/9u4xcFjm5n
— John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) September 25,
Cruella Casts Killing Eve Star Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s signed onto Disney’s live-action take on Cruella, which will give 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil an origin story, with the queen of mean to be played by Emma Stone. We’re not sure who Howell-Baptiste will be playing yet, but the Killing Eve star is in according to Variety. Let’s hope the talented Howell-Baptiste gets to spar with Stone’s Cruella,
Original Trio of Laura Dern, Sam Neill & Jeff Goldblum Will Return for Jurassic World 3
Last Monday we were delighting over this surprise Jurassic World short by director Colin Trevorrow. It posited a world in which human beings and dinosaurs live side-by-side, not in a theme park visitor/theme park resident way, but in an actual, out-in-the-open way. It was wild. It also turned out to reveal the world a year after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Now we learn that Trevorrow had another surprise up his sleeve;
Jesse Pinkman’s on a Rough Road in First El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Trailer
We’ve got the official El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie trailer. We’ve got the official streaming date (October 11, 2019). And now we’ve got a better sense of what life after Walter White (Bryan Cranston) looks like for Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Spoiler alert: the dude has scars. Lots of scars, both mentally and physically. And he’s still got a lot of trouble on the horizon.
