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, and 70’s-era lore. An icon was born...
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, using unconventional tools like a gaming engine and virtual reality,...
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, at Eva’s insistence,...
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, and Best Supporting Actor for Brad Pitt...
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, and asked if I was interested.” The film is about the true-life story of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter,...
Freya Allan & Anya Chalotra on Playing The Witcher’s Powerful Women
For millions of excited fans around the world, the first season of Netflix’s long-anticipated fantasy series The Witcher has not disappointed. The show is based on the best-selling novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and the subsequent video games based on the stories, which have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. The Witcher follows three powerful individuals with colliding destinies living on a continent full of magic and monsters, where it’s hard to tell the heroes from the villains...
1917′s Production Designer on Building a World at War
How good is director Sam Mendes’ World War I epic 1917? Let’s begin with a brief anecdote about one of his collaborators—the legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, who originally wasn’t sure it was even possible to pull off what Mendes was after. That was to film 1917 as if it was all a single, continuous shot. But once Deakins read Mendes and screenwriter Krsty Wilson-Cairns script, he knew the director’s ambition for 1917 was rooted in story...
How Color and Cut Transformed the Characters of Little Women
In the opening scene of writer-director Greta Gerwig’s adaption of Little Women, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) walks into the New York offices of the Weekly Volcano and offers a novella to its publisher Mr. Dashwood (Tracy Letts), who chuckles at its jokes, editing as he reads. Jo sits across, hiding her ink covered hands and wearing a Marengo-colored jacket that drapes a comfy, black sweater. A white collar peeks out from her neck...
Oscar Watch: How Parasite’s Editor Helped Shape Thrilling Shifts in Tone
Palme d’Or winner and Best Picture Oscar contender Parasite shocked audiences this autumn on the strength of writer-director editor of Bong Joon-ho‘s meticulously constructed blend of comedy, melodrama and thriller elements. The story follows the poor but well-educated grifters in the Park family, who insinuate themselves into the lives of the wealthy Kim household by posing as an earnest tutor, housekeeper, and chauffeur. When the Park teenagers and their parents conspire to wrest domestic control from the Kims’...
Monsters—People Included—Haunt A Quiet Place: Part II’s Official Trailer
The official trailer for John Krasinski‘s A Quiet Place: Part II is here, folks. After his thrilling, out-of-nowhere creature feature in 2018, Krasinski is back with a follow-up that centers around the surviving members of the Abbott family as they fight to stay alive in a monster-haunted world, now facing new threats—other people.
The new trailer gives us a glimpse of what life was like the day the sound-hunting aliens first appeared in a thrilling minute-plus of action...
J.J. Abrams on Why He Made Rey’s Parents [SPOILER ALERT] in The Rise of Skywalker
There are big spoilers ahead folks. If you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker yet, stop reading. If that’s the case, you can read this primer on what you need to remember about the major plot points in Star Wars before seeing Rise.
So arguably one of the biggest questions that has been around since J.J. Abrams kicked off the new trilogy with The Force Awakens in 2015 is who Rey (Daisy Ridley)’s parents are...
Sam Mendes & Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns on Their Epic WWI Drama 1917
1917 is the story of an urgent message and the two WWI soldiers who have to deliver it to prevent hundreds of their fellow British troops from walking into a trap. We accompany them on an arduous, dangerous journey in what appears to be one long, breathtaking shot. In an interview with The Credits, director Sam Mendes and his co-screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns talked about the research they did for the film and how they crafted this meticulously constructed,...
