New Captain Marvel Images Tease the MCU’s Most Potent Superhero
Have you checked out the new Captain Marvel special look? If not, give it a quick watch as it pertains to these new images, which tease not only just how powerful Captain Marvel is, but how cosmic her issues are going to be in her big introduction into the MCU. The new video shows us how Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is being pulled in multiple directions at once. She’s part Kree, therefore feels responsible to learn under the tough guidance of Mar-Vell (Jude Law)...
New Captain Marvel Trailer Teases Alien Invasion
Okay, technically this is being called a “special look,” but considering it boasts a good amount of new footage and even a bit more plot information, this new video released by Marvel functions as a trailer just as well. The first half of the video concerns Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) explaining to Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) that Earth is in the midst of an alien invasion by a nasty race of shapeshifters called Skrulls. We see one Skrull on the beach merely look at a young female surfer and begin to transform into her,...
The Title of Avengers: Endgame Was Planned Before Infinity War Was Released
The endgame has arrived for the Avengers and the fate of the universe is nearing. Following a nearly insurmountable defeat in Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel President Kevin Feige is one of the few people who know how it will all play out. MTV News stopped the exec on the Golden Globes red carpet last night to ask about the recently released title of the next film.
“It was in place before we started developing the movie...
Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams Sizzle in First Fosse/Verdon Trailer
FX saw big wins at the Golden Globes last night with The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story and The Americans. ACS is an anthology series making Versace a one-time season and The Americans aired its final season in 2018. So, what is the next big thing for the groundbreaking channel? Hopefully, Fosse/Verdon because my inner theater nerd is shaken by the new trailer.
Premiering last night during the awards,...
Green Book Leads Highly Competitive 2019 Golden Globes
The Golden Globes nominations were so packed with incredible storytelling this year that it was difficult to make predictions going into the big night. If you were torn among several categories on your ballot, that’s with the good reason. The awards show proved that on screens both large and small, it was anyone’s game. Award shows can get a little repetitive when a single title is making a sweep, but that was not the case this year.
Among nominated movies,...
HBO Reveals First Footage From Game of Thrones Final Season
What better time for HBO to drop the first official footage from Game of Thrones 8th and final season than during the Golden Globes? With a TV and film-loving audience planted on their couches as a captive audience, it’s a great opportunity for studios and networks to tease their upcoming projects (as Marvel did for Captain Marvel). Not only was HBO teasing the GoT, but we also got a peek at the first footage from Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series...
How Ruth Ginsberg’s Nephew Wrote On the Basis of Sex
Before he experienced the memorial service epiphany that led to On the Basis of Sex, writer Daniel Stiepleman had knocked around for a few years, working in the Peace Corps, teaching high school English and producing TV commercials in Wisconsin. Then, he attended the 2010 funeral of his uncle Martin, the late husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “Martin’s friend gave a eulogy and mentioned in passing that discrimination on the basis of sex was the only case Ruth and Marty ever argued together,”...
Stan & Ollie Director Revisits a Great Doubles Act
When he was a kid growing up in Scotland, filmmaker Jon. S. Baird loved Laurel and Hardy movies so much that he impersonated Stan Laurel at his school’s “fancy dress” day alongside a classmate dressed in an Oliver Hardy outfit. Three decades later, Baird pays homage to the great song-and-dance comedy team as director of Stan & Ollie. In the movie, opening wide January 11, Steve Coogan plays the duo’s rake-thin mastermind with Golden Globe-nominated John C...
Oscar Watch: Black Panther‘s Co-Editor on the Key Scene She Influenced
A rich African inspired heritage and fierce women warriors proved this year that fresh perspectives are long overdue on screen. Black Panther came out swinging and took a major swipe at barriers to cinematic representation. The immensely talented team dreamed up a world that was not only thrilling and gorgeous but also put new faces at the forefront of the superhero genre. Not only were there more black actors on screen than any other Marvel film,...
Ruby Rose’s Batwoman Role Will Be Expanded in Spinoff Pilot Episode
Kate Kane was one of the most buzzed about TV characters of last year, even though she only had a few minutes of screen time and appeared on a series other than her own. Ruby Rose was announced in the role to much fanfare back in August, but the news was just that she would appear in the Arrow-verse crossover event “Elseworlds.” Unsurprisingly, Rose made a magnificent debut as Kane and Batwoman has officially snagged a standalone series...
Oscar Watch: Cold War‘s DP Lukasz Zal on Crafting Pawel Pawlikowski’s Latest Masterpiece
Cinematographer Lukasz Zal won the prestigious Silver Frog Award at Camerimage for his work on Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, a ravishing look at a romance over the course of 30-years and several thousand miles through Europe. Zal had worked with Pawlikowski on Ida, the director’s previous masterpiece, as a cameraman (he ultimately earned himself a co-cinematographer credit). For Cold War, Zal was in command of the camera team, and the result is breathtaking...
Oscar Watch: Barry Jenkins on his Lyrical Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk has been getting awards buzz and accolades for months, and with the Golden Globes set to arrive this Sunday, Barry Jenkins second masterpiece (in a row, no less) will be one of the night’s big winners. Still hot from his 3 Oscar wins for Moonlight, Jenkins is reaffirming he’s a major force in film, with Beale Street already winning or nominated for dozens of awards, including being named Movie of the Year by the AFI...
How the Solo: A Star Wars Story VFX Team Designed an Early Millennium Falcon
Han and Chewie are both great, but they share the screen with another serious Star Wars icon. Solo: A Star Wars Story rolled back the clocked to reveal some iconic moments from the franchise’s legacy. Chief among them was the unveiling of a retro Millennium Falcon. Industrial Light and Magic were charged with creating the new design and have now released a behind the scenes glimpse at how and why the changes were made.
Before Solo was even released,...
Oscar Watch: BlacKkKlansman Hair and Makeup Designers on the Impact of Appearances
BlacKkKlansman was one of the most stirring films of the year with a chilling portrayal of hatred. In typical Spike Lee fashion, it was also funky, cool, and completely enthralling. The true story of dangerous prejudices and brave efforts to fight back was rooted in appearance. Some of the most monstrous of the characters masqueraded in a façade of normalcy.
“As far as the Klansmen, I wanted some of them to look like normal people and clean-cut,” makeup department head Martha Melendez said...
Oscar Watch: Mary Queen of Scots‘ Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne
Mary Queen of Scots is a gorgeous film to behold, with the dueling Queens looking period-perfect from head to toe. As the film’s hair and makeup artist Jenny Shircore told us, “You’ve got two queens, two powerful women, two women who have never met, who are yet influenced by each other’s beauty and power. They are jealous of each other, afraid of each other, all the way through this is the story we’re telling. When Mary Queen of Scots arrives,...
Oscar Watch: If Beale Street Could Talk’s KiKi Layne on Love, Stillness, & Working With Barry Jenkins
KiKi Layne stars as Tish Rivers in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of the novel by James Baldwin. A beautiful love story layered in social commentary, as relevant now as it was when the novel was originally released in 1974, Layne draws the viewer in with one of the best performances of the year, making you feel her hope, her fear, her potent love and, ultimately, her resolve. A relative newcomer to feature films, the rising star talks with The Credits about the power of stillness,...
Cinematographer René Richter on Creating the Sumptuous Head Full of Honey
When director Til Schweiger and his team shot Honig im Kopf, about a family dealing with a grandparent’s onset of Alzheimer’s, his team primarily worked where the film was set: continental European countryside, plus a bit of London. Minor interior replacements subbed Germany in for Venice. When Schweiger and his crew reconvened to film an English-language remake, Head Full of Honey, the settings changed, though the locations often didn’t. Husband and wife Nick and Sarah (Matt Dillon and Emily Mortimer) and their precocious ten-year-old daughter,...
The Justice League Comes to the Rescue in The LEGO Movie 2 Trailer
The first trailer for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part was kind of bleak and despairing. Bricksburg was destroyed and there were super cheery alien invaders wreaking havoc. Fear not, though. All hope is not yet lost. There are still superheroes in Bricksburg, even if they don’t seem particularly super.
Our LEGO pals are not going to just stand by and let their friends be kidnapped by shapeshifting extraterrestrials. When Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) and others go missing,...
Stranger Things 3 Announces a Summer Release
These poor kids. Haven’t they been through enough already? The Upside down, the Mind Flayer, the Demogorgons. That should be enough for any preteen years. Can the next season be called Awkward School Dances or Boring Summer Job? No? It’s still called Stranger Things? Fine, but please pick on someone other than Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) this time.
Your favorite supernatural teenage torture show dropped in on the New Year to announce its return...
Oscar Watch: The Favourite‘s Editor on Cutting the Year’s Most Deliciously Devilish Film
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite is a delicious piece of filmmaking. Gorgeous to look at, actors having the times of their lives, and that special brand of merry malice that Lanthimos is uniquely capable of is all on the menu here. Set in the 18th-century, The Favourite revolves around Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and rival courtiers Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Emma Stone) who vie for her attention, love, and patronage...
