New Terminator: Dark Fate Clips Highlights What Makes Latest Installment Rock
The critics have been hailing Terminator: Dark Fate as the best installment in the iconic franchise since James Cameron’s T2: Judgement day, and a new clip from Paramount highlights one main reason people are loving director Tim Miller’s film. Epic battles beautifully crafted, the glorious return of Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, and the introduction of Mackenzie Davis as Grace, a “machine fighter” who is as tough as any Terminator character,...
Super Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff on Pulling Off The Irishman and Joker
As a producer, Emma Tillinger Koskoff is eminently searchable, or IMDB-able, with her name affixed on projects ranging from The Departed (as an associate producer) to Hugo, to executive producer on HBO’s Vinyl, and upcoming projects like Roosevelt.
A glance reveals a particularly impressive autumn-into-winter, as she has producer credits on two of the season’s most anticipated films: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman,...
How Jojo Rabbit’s VFX Supervisor Helped Taika Waititi Create the Year’s Wildest Comedy
The most startling visuals in Jojo Rabbit (which opened last Friday) takes the shape of writer-director Taika Waititi dressed up as Adolph Hitler, the imaginary best friend conjured by a German boy (Roman Griffin Davis) during the waning days of World War II. But while “Hitler” commands the foreground, VFX supervisor Jason Chen worked a more subtle brand of filmmaking magic by using digital tools to seamlessly build out Jojo’s world. Chen says, “The shots were filmed on actual ruins in the Czech Republic left over from World War II,...
Rey & Kylo Duel, Fight Side-by-Side in New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Images
You’ve watched the final trailer, now it’s time to get a closer look at a batch of new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker images. These fresh stills help us just sit back and admire all the wild stuff the final trailer threw at us last night, including teasing the potent, consistently confusing relationship between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Rey could have killed Kylo at the end of J.J...
How Harriet Costume Designer Paul Tazewell Helped Portray an American Icon
For the last two decades, costume designer Paul Tazewell has been conquering Broadway. His eclectic range of work spans from revivals of such classics as A Streetcar Named Desire, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Raisin in the Sun and Guys and Dolls to newer hits like The Color Purple, In the Heights, Memphis and Ain’t Too Proud. He’s been honored with seven Tony nominations,...
Rey & Kylo Clash (and Maybe Team Up?) in Final Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Trailer
The final Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer dropped, as promised, during Monday Night Football. We open with Rey (Daisy Ridley) on the run through a dense forest. A voiceover says: “It’s an instinct, a feeling…the Force brought us together.”
“People keep telling me they know me. No one does,” says Rey almost a minute into the trailer. The reply to this statement comes from, of course, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver); “But I do.”...
Terminator: Dark Fate Buzz: Best Film in the Franchise Since T2: Judgement Day
Today has been all about good early buzz. First came the news about how much journalists who saw some footage for The Mandalorian are loving Disney +’s upcoming new series, the first-ever live-action Star Wars show. Now, the initial reactions surrounding Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate have surfaced, and they, too, are really positive.
There are a few themes you’ll notice in the reactions. One is that Linda Hamilton’s return to the franchise is absolutely key to the success and joy of Dark Fate. ...
First Reactions to The Mandalorian Rave About Disney +’s Star Wars Series
Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, doesn’t premiere until November 12th, but we’ve already got some of our first reactions to the series hitting the internet. For Star Wars fans and those simply curious about what a live-action Star Wars series might be like, it’s time to start getting excited about this show.
Roughly 27-minutes of footage were screened for a few lucky journalists during Disney +’s press day. ...
The Last Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Trailer is Nearly Here
You know a movie’s a very big deal when the announcement of the date for the final trailer is news. Considering Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the 9th and final film in the Skywalker Saga, this certainly qualifies. The official Star Wars Twitter page revealed the news this past weekend. You’ll even get a split-second shot of Chewie (Joonas Suotamo) and Rey behind the wheel (so to speak) of the Millenium Falcon,...
The Gnarly First Trailer for Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot is Here
Folks, this might be a bit of a gruesome way to start your Monday, but the first official Bloodshot trailer is here, and it’s frankly excellent.
Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier who is killed in action while serving his country. Only Ray comes back—thanks with a little help from a company called RST—better than ever. When he wakes up—with a scientist played by the reliably sinister Guy Pearce there to greet him—Ray finds out he’s been brought back from the dead with a few,...
The Lighthouse Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke on Capturing Madness
When I caught Robert Eggers The Lighthouse at the Toronto International Film Festival, I was, to put it mildly, enthused. Relentlessly original, hypnotic, and gleefully insane, it was the work of an artist and a long list of collaborators going full tilt. The performances from the two leads, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, the score from Mark Korven, the production design from Craig Lathrop—everyone listed in the credits helped turn Eggers and his brother Max’s script into the fever dream depicted on screen...
3 Reasons to be Excited About Paul Dano as The Riddler in The Batman
The news broke yesterday that The Batman director Matt Reeves had cast Paul Dano as The Riddler. Earlier reports had it that Jonah Hill might get the role, but Hill exited from consideration as both The Riddler and the Penguin, and the story broke that Dano would be playing Edward Nashton, the man who becomes one of Batman’s most curious, cerebral enemies. Dano joins Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon,...
Daisy Ridley Says Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Deals with “Reylo”
You have to admit, it’s a pretty catchy portmanteau. Star-crossed from the start, Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) have been frenemies since Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams’ 2015 film that introduced the world to the newest (and possibly most potent) Force users in the galaxy. They clashed dramatically at the end of Force Awakens, with Rey getting the best of Kylo in a big way. Things got more…complicated, in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi. ...
Jojo Rabbit‘s Production Designer Ra Vincent on Building Taika Waititi’s Anti-Hate Satire
One of the most buzzed about films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival was Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit. The film earned an enthusiastic ovation from the large audience at its premiere and is currently sitting at an 80% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes. Some compared Waititi’s “anti-hate satire” to Roberto Benigni’s Holocaust drama Life is Beautiful as a high wire act of humor and pathos set during one of the darkest periods in history...
Warner Bros. Archivist Lisa Janney on the Batmobile & More
What’s it like to be in charge of Warner Bros. Pictures’ vast archive collection? We’re talking Batmobiles (lots of them), superhero costumes (Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, etc.), props, sets, and literal tons more. This is the question we put to Lisa Janney, Warner Bros. Pictures vice president of corporate archives. One of the most iconic assets in all of Warner Bros. archives is currently parked outside of the Motion Picture Association’s newly refurbished headquarters in Washington D.C.—the Batmobile. The beauty parked on 16th street outside of MPA headquarters is the Batmobile Val Kilmer drove from Batman Forever (1995),...
New Image & Details About Keri Russell’s Mysterious Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Character
If you don’t want to know anything extra about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker that you haven’t gotten from the trailer and D23 footage, you should stop reading right now. Entertainment Weekly has a new image of Zorri Bliss, the mysterious new character played by Keri Russell. In the new image we see a fully helmeted Bliss apparently handing over some kind of coin or data storage unit to Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac)...
Watch Original “Watchmen” Artist Dave Gibbons Draw Regina King’s Character From HBO’s new Series
This is cool. One of the two original co-creators of “Watchmen,” artist Dave Gibbons, appears in a new video from HBO. Gibbons draws Regina King’s character from the premium cable channel’s hotly-anticipated upcoming adaptation—of sorts—of his and Alan Moore’s seminal 1986 graphic novel. (Not only is Watchmen hotly-anticipated, but it’s already earning rave reviews from critics.) Gibbons and Moore’s creation is one of the most beloved, hallowed graphic novels of all time. Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers,...
Zombieland: Double Tap Reviews: A Bloody Good Time
The early reactions to Zombieland: Double Tap were positive, but now we’ve got some proper reviews coming in. Director Ruben Fleischer’s sequel brings back your returning champions from the 2009 original—that’s Emma Stone as Wichita, Abigail Breslin as Little Rock, Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee, and Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus—and adds a slew of fresh faces to the mix. The results have netted largely strong reviews, which have more or less all hailed not only the comedic chops of the original cast but the newcomers,...
Neil Patrick Harris Joins Cast of The Matrix 4
Now this is a piece of unexpected but delicious casting news. Variety reports that Neil Patrick Harris has joined the cast of The Matrix 4, making him the fourth big name to jump aboard Lana Wachowski’s hotly-anticipated return to the world of The Matrix she created with her sister Lily. Harris’s role is unknown, as is the latest addition to the cast, Aquaman‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,...
Rogue One Writer Tony Gilroy Joining Cassian Andor Star Wars Prequel Series
Rogue One‘s co-writer Tony Gilroy will be writing the pilot for a prequel series centered on one of that film’s characters, Diego Luna’s heroic Cassian Andor. Not only that, but Gilroy will be directing multiple episodes of the series, which he’ll be working on with showrunner Stephen Schiff.
Variety broke the story that Gilroy will be working on the still-untitled show that will focus on Luna’s Rebel agent in the years leading up to the events in Rogue One,...
