Tom Hardy is Helping Craft the Venom 2 Story
The news that Andy Serkis would be directing Venom 2 was met with a lot of excitement. The super talented actor, director, and motion-capture expert is the perfect choice to take Tom Hardy’s antihero alien symbiote to the next level, narratively and visually. Now /Film has some juicy tidbits (via Tuesday’s TCA 2019 event) about where Serkis might take the franchise, and it turns out that Tom Hardy himself will be helping craft the story...
Unpacking the Surprisingly Confusing Fast & Furious Timeline
You might not think that tracking the narrative chronology of the Fast & Furious franchise would be complicated, but it turns out, it is. In fact, in an almost sci-fi twist worthy of Hobbs & Shaw, the narrative chronology of the movies doesn’t match up to the names of the films or when they were released. The third film in the series, Tokyo Drift, would actually be the 6th film in the series narratively—or the 8th film if you were counted the two shorts created for the DVDs in an effort to explain some of these narrative gaps (more on these in a second)...
HBO Reveals Brand New Recommendation Algorithm—Human Beings!
Now here’s a novel concept; imagine getting recommendations for new shows and films by, wait for it…actual human beings? That’s the idea behind HBO’s new program “Recommended by Humans,” which comes with this fairly awesome new website. Regular people (just like you!) offer you their takes on what to watch on HBO, helping you navigate their huge trove of shows, films, miniseries, docs, sports, and specials. Thinking about diving into season one of Succession? These folks can help!...
Beanie Feldstein to Play Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story
Yesterday we found out FX had picked up Donald Glover’s brilliant Atlanta for an additional fourth season. Now, we find out the great Beanie Feldstein (last seen in Olivia Wilde’s excellent Booksmart) will be playing Monica Lewinsky in FX’s brilliant anthology series American Crime Story. Titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, this installment will focus on Bill Clinton’s presidential sex scandal and impeachment.
We know by now that American Crime Story has a way of shedding new light on the famous—or infamous—people we long thought we understood...
Some Good News: FX Has Renewed Donald Glover’s Atlanta for a 4th Season
Atlanta fans everywhere are feeling very good right about now. FX has renewed Donald Glover’s brilliant, offbeat comedy for a 4th season, which is somewhat surprising considering filming hasn’t even begun on season three. FX’s announcement came at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. We already knew that FX had secured a third season for the singular series way back in June of 2018, but now they’ve added a fourth season before production for season three has begun...
Horror Anthology Series Are you Afraid of the Dark Reveals First Teaser
Nickelodeon’s beloved anthology horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark is back, and we’ve got our first sneak peek. The series was a mainstay for lots of folks who grew up in the 90s, and now it’s been rebooted for a brand new generation. The series centers on the Midnight Society, a group of kids who loved nothing more than to gather around the campfire and scare each other silly with horror stories. Each kid would begin their story with these words: “Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society…” and then begin whatever ghoulish tale they had. ...
Creating the Look for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
It’s Quentin Tarantino’s dream vision of 1969 Hollywood. So it is only appropriate that working on Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was a dream come true for makeup department head Heba Thorisdottir.
“Every day of this movie was epic,” says Thorisdottir. “This was everything that I love about LA. When the actors were driving down Hollywood Boulevard, I remembered the first time that I came to Hollywood...
Andy Serkis Will Direct Venom 2
The great Andy Serkis is your director for Venom 2. This will be Serkis’ third feature after his 2017 drama Breathe and last year’s jaw-droppingly beautiful Mowgli, his photo-realistic take on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.” Serkis has proven himself an able director after years of wowing audiences with his performances in front of the camera—whether he was playing Supreme Leader Snoke in the past Star Wars films,...
James Wan Returning to Horror With Original Film
James Wan‘s fans are going to love this. In fact, horror fans, in general, will love this—the super talented auteur will make an original, practical-effects heavy horror film before he leaps back into the ocean for Aquaman 2. Wan revealed this news on Facebook (and Bloody Disgusting revealed the news to the rest of us) that his next project will be smaller in scale, but also ambitious and based on an original idea...
The Comic Book Easter Eggs in Avengers: Endgame Revealed
Now that Avengers: Endgame is available for digital download, there’s been a bunch of fresh material thanks to the bonus features. Bloopers? Check. A glimpse at Robert Downey Jr.’s screentest to nab the role of Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man? Yes. How the Endgame team created Chunky Thor? Yup. And now Marvel has released a brand new video revealing some of the comic book Easter eggs that were sprinkled throughout Endgame‘s 3-hour runtime...
Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Crafting a Nearly Flawless Second Season
There’s no such thing as flawless art. Flaws are baked right into anything a human being creates, and often they are hard to disassociate from the strengths that make any art worthwhile. Yet I’ve heard several people call Fleabag‘s second season flawless, and I’ve been hard-pressed to argue the point. Few shows on television are as personal, raw, and fearless as what Phoebe Waller-Bridge has created here, which is full of its creators’...
Director AJ Eaton on his Lyrical new Doc David Crosby: Remember My Name
This past weekend, a new documentary played into theaters spotlighting musician David Crosby, called David Crosby: Remember My Name. He is most famous for his role in The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and most infamous for his troubles with drugs and the law. In this film, however, audiences get a raw, brutally honest look at the man from his own perspective. Crosby’s challenges, his solo work, and his insights as someone with multiple health issues and a desire to leave a legacy of love and kindness behind,...
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet Secretly Debuts Trailer Before Hobbs & Shaw
There are few filmmakers working today who revel in mystery as much as Christopher Nolan. He’s got company, for sure. The Russo Brothers go out of their way to toy with Marvel-heads before their big releases like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. J.J. Abrams is a big fan of the misdirection and the fakeout, and of course, he’ll be keeping Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker a state secret for as long as necessary...
A New It: Chapter Two Behind-the-Scenes Featurette Reveals Ambitious, Emotional Sequel
“Swear, if it isn’t dead, if it ever comes back, we’ll come back to.”
This was the promise the Losers Club made in Andy Muschietti’s brilliant adaptation of Stephen King’s It, after they thought they’d vanquished the shape-shifting, child-murdering Pennywise the Clown. Now in a new featurette titled “Come Home,” King himself describes the moment at the end of that film when it was revealed to audiences that what they had just witnessed was merely the end of “Chapter One.”...
Watch the First Trailer for Sam Mendes’ World War I Epic 1917
Director Sam Mendes is going to take us to hell. Hell, in this instance, is the battlefields of World War I. Universal has released the first trailer his upcoming WWI epic 1917, starring George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) as two young British soldiers trying to deliver a message that could save the lives of 1,600 soldiers. 1917 unfolds over a single day,...
Meet the Caricaturist who Created Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood‘s Classic MAD Magazine Cover
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on other shows. One indication of his former success is the magazine covers he appeared on, including that ultimate accolade,...
Quentin Tarantino & Leonardo DiCaprio Reveal his Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood Character is Bi-Polar
Now that Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood has bowed, we’ve had a chance to speak to Tarantino’s longtime cinematographer Robert Richardson and do our level best to break down that wild ending. The film follows a few days in the life of several people—Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading western TV and film star Rick Dalton, his good buddy and stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and, most ominously, rising star and future murder victim of the Manson Family,...
Orange Is the New Black‘s Production Designer Malchus Janocko’s Favorite Sets
Production designer Malchus Janocko set out to be a painter and glassblower before he discovered show business as a livelihood. Janocko art-directed the glossy Gossip Girl, then channeled small-town Americana for the first season of The Leftovers before taking a deep dive into the muted world of incarceration dramatized in Orange Is the New Black. When he started designing the Netflix production’s fourth season, the fictional Litchfield prison was mainly filmed at a former children’s psychiatric facility in Rockland County New York...
Bringing the Beautiful Beasts of Crawl to Life
It didn’t take much to convince Adrien Morot to sign on for the new feature Crawl. The producers had him at “alligator.”
When the makeup effects artist heard that the thriller involved a family of deadly reptiles terrorizing a small Florida town flooded by a hurricane, he immediately wanted in.
“I was like, ‘Holy crap, Yes,’” says Morot. “I was five years old when Jaws came out...
The Iconic Gotham Location That Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie was Going to Explore
Ben Affleck’s stand-alone Batman film will be one of those “what ifs” we’ll get to wonder about as the DCEU expands in a different direction. Affleck was, of course, Batman in two films—Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman and the Zack Snyder/Joss Whedon (who stepped in during production) crossover film Justice League. For a long while, the idea was that Affleck would write and direct his own Batman film, and he’d gotten fairly far along in the process when he ultimately decided to step away from the project...
