How Ready or Not’s Editor Amped up the Emotional Stakes
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or Not has been getting rave reviews. They’ve taken a simple childhood game and turned it on its head, to devilishly delightful results.
Samara Weaving plays Grace, a young woman enjoying her wedding day. She joins her husband Alex (Mark O’Brien), whose wealthy family built their empire on board games. Grace must take part in a tradition for newcomers: playing a family game.
Sylvester Stallone Shares new Rambo: Last Blood Image Ahead of new Teaser
We are slowly but surely nearing Rambo: Last Blood‘s release, which will give us Sly Stallone’s final turn as the tortured, battle-weary John Rambo. In a new image Stallone shared on Instagram, we see Rambo on horseback—covered in blood. Stallone has promised a fresh teaser sometime today. Here’s to hoping his horse makes it through whatever’s to come.
We’ve been following Stallone’s emotionally scarred Vietnam journey for a long,
Apple TV+ Reveals First Trailer for Star-Studded The Morning Show
We’ve finally got our first look at Apple TV’s star-studded upcoming series The Morning Show, and we’re eager to see more. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carrell (how’s that for a lineup?), The Morning Show gives us an inside look at the brutally cutthroat world of morning TV, and what happens when a co-anchor on a popular morning show (Carrell’s Mitch Kessler) is fired in the wake of a scandal.
How the Emmy-Nominated Casting Director of When They See Us Found Her Talent
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us was an instant Netflix hit, which even the normally secretive streaming site revealed to viewers in a tweet. Unsurprisingly, the show is also among the Emmy’s leading contenders, nominated in the best limited-run series category and garnering nods for DuVernay’s writing and directing and Bradford Young’s cinematography, among others. The show’s many noms also include eight actors, with Jharrel Jerome (the only person in the series to take on his role,
Watch Kristen Stewart in First Trailer for new Thriller Underwater
Kristen Stewart has so successfully navigated her post-Twilight career that any film she’s in warrants interest. She has starred in a bevy of excellent films, including working with the great Olivier Assayas on two recent films; Personal Shopper (2016) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014). Stewart will be an Angel later this year—she’s one of the leads in Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming Charlie’s Angels reboot due in theaters on November 15,
How Stunt Man Gary Kent Inspired Brad Pitt’s Character in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
Gary Kent broke all his ribs when he got run over by a cavalcade of motorcycles in The Vengeful Seven and cut his arm on a shattered shot glass a year earlier in 1967 during a Hell’s Angels on Wheels bar fight. “I wrapped my arm in a towel and on the way to the hospital we stopped for a couple of scotch and waters, so I was in a pretty good mood when they gave me 36 stitches,”
Black Widow Casts 7’2″ Bodybuilder The Dutch Giant
If you’re anything like us, you’ve re-watched Avengers: Endgame recently and found yourself once again very sad (super belated spoiler alert) at the death of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. Then again, if you’re like us, you’re gladdened by the fact that Johansson’s super-assassin will be back soon—next May 1, 2020, to be exact—in her stand-alone film Black Widow. Now we’ve learned that bodybuilder Olivier Richters, better known as The Dutch Giant,
See how They Made the Cap vs. Cap Fight in Avengers: Endgame
It was one of the greatest fights in Marvel Cinematic Universe history. There, we said it. Think about how many fights there have been in the MCU, and then think about how many you enjoyed more than watching Captain America fight Captain America in Avengers: Endgame? Not that many, right? Now we have a fantastic behind-the-scenes video from Marvel showing us exactly how they pulled off this iconic brawl.
The fight is yet more proof that not only was a tremendous amount of visual effects work required to pull off the Russo Brothers’
New Joker Images + Joaquin Phoenix on his Inspiration for the Laugh
We’re getting very close to finding out a whole lot more about Todd Phillips‘ Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the most iconic villain of them all. Joker will be making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in two weeks, which means we’ll be getting critics’ reactions by the end of the month. The little we do know—like the fact that the film isn’t based on any existing comic book storylines—is intriguing.
Ewan McGregor May Raise Lightsaber Again in Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi Series
It’s important to start with the fact that this has yet to be confirmed—but—Deadline is reporting that Ewan McGregor is in talks to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi for a Diseny+ series.
“The 48-year-old Scottish actor is in talks about reprising his role as the heartfelt but headstrong Jedi master known as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a yet-to-be-titled Disney+ series, Deadline has confirmed,” Dino-Ray Ramos and Geoff Boucher report.
Voice Over Artist Roy Samuelson on Bringing Films like Us & Spider-Man: Far From Home to the Blind
Voice over artist Roy Samuelson has been heard by millions of blind and low vision audiences in some of this year’s biggest films. Samuelson’s job is to narrate a special audio track in which he voices the visuals that are relevant to the plot. There are currently 26 million adults in America who are blind or low vision, so the work folks like Samuelson is doing is crucial. Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu currently include audio description,
Emma Nelson on Nabbing her First Film Role Opposite Cate Blanchett in Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
It takes a special kind of confidence and poise to star opposite Cate Blanchett in your very first film. But that’s what teenager Emma Nelson does in the comedy Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Nelson goes toe to toe with the two- time Oscar winner in the plum role of Bernadette’s feisty 15-year-old daughter, Bee.
“It was intimidating for sure,” says Nelson over the phone during a recent press junket for the film which opens August 16.
Here’s Why Thanos was Able to Destroy Cap’s Shield in Avengers: Endgame
When Captain America wielded Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and started beating the holy hell out of Thanos at the end of Avengers: Endgame, things were looking pretty good for the Avengers. Then Thanos does the unthinkable; he uses his massive sword and starts slicing huge chunks out of Cap’s supposedly invincible Vibranium shield. Say what?
It turned out that Vibranium could be bested, apparently, by whatever the heck Thanos’
An Impossible-to-Spot Avengers: Endgame Easter Egg Revealed
With Avengers: Endgame available for digital download and Blu-Ray, we’ve been sorting through all the juicy reveals the bonus materials have provided us. We’ve gone through the commentary track from directors Joe and Anthony Russo and screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, which gave us some awesome bits of trivia. We’ve parsed the comic book callbacks, the bloopers, and the creation of Smart Hulk.
Brad Pitt & Director James Gray on Their Space Epic Ad Astra
Mysterious abound in director James Gray‘s sci-fi epic Ad Astra, which stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut whose mission might reconnect him with his father, long thought dead, deep in outer space. There are plenty of reasons to be intrigued by Ad Astra. James Gray makes very, very good films. His Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013) and The Lost City of Z (2016) were all wildly different,
See a Delightfully Funny Emilia Clarke in First Trailer for Last Christmas
Emilia Clarke didn’t have many chances to flex her comedy muscles during her long run on Game of Thrones. As Daenerys Targaryen, Clarke was asked to be aggressively serious for 8 seasons as Dany plotted her epic, tortuous journey to the Iron Throne. That’s not the case in Paul Feig‘s comedy Last Christmas, in which Clarke stars as Kate, a young woman described as a “bundle of bad decisions”
New Ready or Not Clip Teases Highly Praised Horror-Comedy
With a star turn from its lead actress and delivering a deliciously dark satire on greed’s ghoulish manifestations, Ready or Not just might be a late summer sleeper hit.
The premise is as simple as it is devilish: Ready or Not follows a young bride Grace (Samara Weaving, earning raves) as she joins her new husband Alex (Mark O’Brien)’s rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody,
A Few New Details on James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Script
Writer/director James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad will begin filming soon. There has been very little plot information, of course, but we’ve learned about some of the stars, both returning and new, who will be in the film. Now we also have it on good authority that Gunn’s script is “really good.” This comes from—wait for it—Gunn’s brother and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Sean Gunn. Yes, you’re likely going to say that your brother’s script is great,
First Trailer for Little Women Reveals Greta Gerwig’s Vision for the Classic Tale
You know you’ve made a major splash with your directorial debut when people are breathlessly awaiting the trailer for your next film. Such is the case with Lady Bird writer/director Greta Gerwig, and her new film, Little Women. Gerwig has taken on the oft-adapted Louisa May Alcott classic and folks have been anxiously awaiting our first glimpse at her take. After properly teasing us yesterday,
Netflix Reveals Final Trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The last look we got at Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was during Comic-Con, when the upcoming 10-episode series was one of the buzziest titles in San Diego. Now Netflix has released a new trailer for us to feast our eyes on, and we’re no less excited about this return to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s world of gorgeous puppetry and richly realized worlds, only now benefited by fresh technologies and an incredible new cast.
