The Final Joker Trailer Puts on a Happy Face

We get a touch of his humanity. We get the laugh. And most of all, we get a sense of just how different Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s take on the most iconic villain in DC comics history is before half a minute is up in the final Joker trailer. We now have a clearer picture of what’s in store, and this final look speaks to a comic book film quite unlike any that have come before it.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 28, 2019
See Sacha Baron Cohen as You’ve Never Seen Him Before in The Spy

“If your country needed you to lie to your friends, your family, your wife, would you do it? If your country asked you to risk your life, would you do it?” This is the question posed to Mossad agent Eli Cohen (Sacha Baron Cohen) in Gideon Raff’s new Netflix series The Spy. Netflix has released the first trailer for the drama, which is based on the incredible true story of Cohen going undercover in Syria in the early 1960s to ferret out their secret initiatives aimed at Israel.

By The Credits  |  August 28, 2019
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Adding Nathan Fillion & Possibly Taika Waititi

The cast for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad keeps getting better and better. Deadline reports that Nathan Fillion is joining Gunn’s star-studded cast in an unknown role. The two have worked together a bunch, with Fillion doing voice work for Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (he played an inmate at the prison the Guardians are in), played the Holy Avenger in Gunn’s 2010 Super and Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror/comedy Slither. 

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 28, 2019
Netflix’s Marianne Looks Deliciously Creepy

There is something sublime happening with Netflix’s new French horror series Marianne, as the first trailer attests. The premise is wonderful; a famous novelist is battling a soul-stealing witch by writing books. The thing is, the writer is having trouble figuring out how the protagonist of her novel, Lizzie, is going to vanquish the witch. Unless she can come up with that ending, the actual witch is going to make life a living hell for her.

By The Credits  |  August 28, 2019
Timothée Chalamet is The King in First Trailer for Netflix’s Star-Studded Film

All hail director David Michôd‘s The King, which deploys a star-studded cast in this adaptation of a trio of Shakespeare’s plays—Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V—from a script from Michôd and Joel Edgerton.

The King centers on Timothée Chalamet’s Prince Hal, a young man not at all interested in royal trappings until his father dies and he finds himself on the English Throne as King Henry V.

By The Credits  |  August 27, 2019
See the Creation of Avengers: Endgame‘s Final Battle With Thanos

With Avengers: Endgame available on Blu-ray and digital download, we can now finally see just how the Russo Brothers and their huge cast and crew managed to pull off the biggest film in history. Marvel has just released a new video that details how they created the climactic final battle with Thanos, which completely changed the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just the number of characters required for that scene alone is insane,

By The Credits  |  August 27, 2019
Woody Harrelson & Cinematographer Robert Richardson Confirmed for Venom 2

Everything about Venom 2 keeps getting better and better. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson has joined director Andy Serkis’s sequel. Richardson joining Serkis and stars Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams raises all sorts of interesting questions about what Venom 2‘s look might be, and how different it might feel from director Ruben Fleischer’s original. Richardson has not only shot six films with Tarantino,

By The Credits  |  August 27, 2019
Breaking Down the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Footage

So we’ve all watched the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser a few dozen times. Excellent. Now it’s time to break down the new footage. While everyone is justifiably talking about that wild last shot of Dark Rey in the Sith-like robes brandishing the double-bladed red lightsaber, there’s more to parse than just Rey potentially breaking bad.

The new teaser was revealed at Disney’s D23 Expo this past weekend.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 27, 2019
The Poster for Marvel’s WandaVision Series is Delightfully Weird

The goodies that Disney’s D23 Expo delivered this past weekend are, in a word, delicious. Let us count the ways—a new teaser for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? Check. A new Rise of Skywalker poster? Check. The first trailer for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian? Check. A fresh batch of photos from The Mandalorian?

By The Credits  |  August 26, 2019
Six new Joker Clips Reveal Gritty Origin Story

This Wednesday, August 28, we’ll get a new trailer for Joker. Warner Bros. doesn’t want you to twiddle your thumbs until then, so they’ve taken to Instagram and released six fresh clips from the film. These include some bits we’ve seen before, but also some intriguing new material. These brief clips also help establish the grittier tone that co-writer/director Todd Phillips has gone for here. We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the inspiration behind Joaquin Phoenix’s take on the most iconic villain of all time,

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2019
Rey Wields Double Lightsaber in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser

This weekend Disney gave revealed a lot at their D23 Expo. The first trailer and a bunch of images from the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. We also got a look at the new poster for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We weren’t sure if we were going to get any new footage from the film,

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2019
New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Poster Reveals Rey v Kylo-Ren Duel

This past weekend’s Disney’s D23 Expo revealed a bounty hunter’s haul of fresh Star Wars information. We got The Mandalorian‘s first trailer and a batch of photos. Now we’ve got our first look at a brand new poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerwhich gives us Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo-Ren (Adam Driver) engaged in a lightsaber duel.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2019
New Images From The Mandalorian Tease Galaxy of Outlaws, Outcasts & Misfits

So you’ve watched the first trailer for The Mandalorian several dozen times? Yeah, us too. Now you can feast your eyes on a batch of images from the live-action Star Wars series coming to Disney+, which stars Pedro Pascal as the titular bounty hunter plying his dangerous trade in a galaxy after the events of The Return of the Jedi and the fall of the Empire.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2019
Bounty Hunting is a Complicated Profession in First Trailer for The Mandalorian

Just as Disney promised, the first trailer for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series is here. Disney’s D23 Expo delivered the goods, and now we’ve got a sense of what Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian Disney+ series will be like. The first reaction we had to watching the trailer was yes. There is but a single line of dialogue in the 93-seconds, and it comes courtesy of the great Werner Herzog: “Bounty hunting is a complicated profession,”

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2019
Disney Reveals The Mandalorian Poster at D23

Yesterday we wrote about some of the Star Wars reveals we were hoping to see at Disney’s D23 Expo that begins today. Even though the event hasn’t even kicked off yet (it begins in earnest this afternoon), the Mouse House has already given us some of the goods. We’ve now got our first look at the poster for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 23, 2019

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Angel Has Fallen‘s Director & a Former Assistant Director of the Secret Service Talk Riveting Realism

The latest in Gerard Butler’s Fallen series about secret service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is out in theaters today. This time, in Angel has Fallen, it’s Banning himself who is in trouble when he’s framed in an assassination attempt on President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman). On the run, he hides out with the father who abandoned him, Clay, played by Nick Nolte. The Credits spoke to director Ric Roman Waugh and technical advisor Mickey Nelson,

By Nell Minow  |  August 23, 2019
Edward Norton is a Detective With Tourette’s in First Motherless Brooklyn Trailer

As Heinz Ketchup told us in their ubiquitous ad campaigns of yesteryear, good things come to those who wait. Behold, the first trailer for Edward Norton’s two-decades-in-the-making Motherless Brooklyn, which he adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel. Norton is not only the writer/director but also stars as Lionel Essrog, a private detective in 1950s New York with Tourette’s syndrome. Essrog is thrust into a major case when his mentor and only friend,

By The Credits  |  August 22, 2019
The First Trailer for Amazon’s The Report is Riveting

Well, this looks downright terrific. Amazon Studios has released the first trailer for The Report, a political thriller starring Adam Driver (and a huge, awesome ensemble cast), written and directed by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion). This trailer zips right along and manages to be both immensely satisfying and deeply sad, simultaneously. That’s because the titular report refers to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture,

By The Credits  |  August 22, 2019
Joaquin Phoenix Explains What Made him Want to do Joker

Most people know by now that Joaquin Phoenix was, at one point, circling the character of Doctor Strange. While it’s hard to imagine Phoenix in that role now (Benedict Cumberbatch has been an excellent Sorcerer Supreme), Phoenix has the acting chops to play just about anyone he wants. So when the news broke that he was going to take on the most iconic villain role of all time, people were both enthused and a little shocked.

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 22, 2019
The Big Star Wars Questions the D23 Expo Could Answer

The Walt Disney Company is hosting their biannual D23 Expo this upcoming weekend in Anaheim. Like Comic-Con in San Diego, the D23 Expo is the place for big reveals, only these are projects solely from Disney, Pixar and Marvel. Those three studios produce more than enough, of course, to fuel a weekend full of happy surprises. We got a ton of Marvel news at Comic-Con this past July, and while there’s likely to be fresh information coming from D23 from Marvel and Pixar,

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 22, 2019