Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Nets a Major Opening Weekend at the Box Office
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse caught a crazy amount of moviegoers in its web this weekend. The animated sensation pulled down $35.4 million in its opening weekend, which is a superhuman feat for a December release. There’s always a crowded market that targets the holiday family crowd. We got a clue from the critics that this was going to be something extra special, but it wasn’t confirmed until now whether fans would agree.
The sheer visual feat that Into the Spider-Verse pulls off is marvelous...
Costume Designer Sandy Powell’s Magic Touch on Mary Poppins Returns
Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell came to the production of Mary Poppins Returns with fond memories of the 1964 original, which was the first film she ever saw as a child. She was excited to be a part of creating the look of this new incarnation of the beloved nanny, especially the iconic arrival costume. She spoke to The Credits about the challenges and joys of working on one of the most anticipated films of the year...
The Downton Abbey Staff is Preparing the Estate Once More
The sheets are being freshened and the furniture situated as we speak. Next year, Downtown Abbey will be ready to receive guests once more. The stately estate glistens in the first teaser for the upcoming motion picture event.
We know every corner and nook of the home from the saloon to the servants’ quarters and everything appears to be in its proper place. The staff seems prepared for arrivals at any moment in their trademark style...
Singing Camels & Talking Ceramics: Inside Mary Poppins Returns‘ Sound Design
There is a special type of person who could tell you what it sounds like to dance inside of a ceramic bowl. They could also describe what a singing camel sounds like under a big top circus tent. These people would just as readily know the kind of musical rhythm attributed to a bicyclist dashing through the streets of London. Those who are endowed with this ability are the master sound artists crafting the musical fantasy event of the year...
Filmmakers Bring Personal Stakes to Movies About Teen Addicts
Heroin kills and meth destroys, now more than ever. Hollywood has long dramatized the perils of adult drug addiction in films like Frank Sinatra’s The Man With the Golden Arm, Al Pacino’s breakout The Panic in Needle Park, Gus VanSant’s bleak Drug Store Cowboy, and the gonzo Trainspotting. But in the face of a 10 percent uptick in drug-related suicides in America last year according to a recent study,...
Rodan, Mothra & King Ghidorah Revealed in new Godzilla: King of the Monsters Posters
Godzilla is going to have his claws full in the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The most iconic beast in cinematic history not named King Kong, Godzilla has been making waves in the movies since the 1950s, and as digital technology has improved (and improved, and improved), so too has the realism and capability of the king of the monsters and his adversaries. A recent trailer revealed Godzilla’s most lethal challenge yet,...
Here’s the Poster for Jordan Peele’s Next Horror Film Us
Of all the films that you’re excited to see in 2019, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that Jordan Peele’s Us should be at or near the top of the list. The Oscar-winning writer/director of Get Out is back with his new social horror film, and Universal has just released the poster. While little is known about Us, the fact that it’s written and directed by Peele is really the only thing you should need to know to make this one of your must-see films in 2019...
Cats Production Begins as Full Cast is Revealed
The adaptation of one of Broadway’s most iconic shows, Cats, is officially becoming a movie. The Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper, is helming the film, with a stellar cast providing him ample star power. It’s Hooper’s first film since 2015’s The Danish Girl.
The adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show, which is the 4th longest-running in Broadway history, is intriguing for many reasons. The cast includes Jennifer Hudson and Taylor Swift,...
Watch ILM’s Jaw-Dropping VFX Work on Black Panther & Avengers: Infinity War
One of the most astonishing feats of visual effects this year was the creation of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther introduced us to the high-tech, unconquered and secretive country that T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is sworn to protect. The look and feel of Wakanda was the work of a huge team of people, including Coogler, production designer Hannah Beachler and costume designer Ruth E. Carter. Their vision was then married to the visual effects work done by Industrial Light &...
Carl Weathers & Werner Herzog Join The Mandalorian Cast
Apollo Creed himself is heading to space. Deadline reports that Carl Weathers, the iconic Rocky actor (to say nothing of his work in Predator and Action Jackson) has joined the cast of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, alongside legendary documentarian (and occasional ace actor) Werner Herzog. The cast list also includes the great Breaking Bad heavy Giancarlo Esposito, Supernatural‘s Emily Swallow, and American Gods‘...
New Black Panther Video Showcases the Film’s Oscar Bonafides
Simply put, there has never been another superhero movie like Black Panther. The cast, the crew, and the world co-writer/director Ryan Coogler helped bring together and build conquered the box office, but more importantly, created a vision of a more inclusive Hollywood that touched tens of millions of people worldwide. To pull off the technical marvel that is the fictional African nation of Wakanda, Coogler relied on his ace team (like costume designer Ruth E. Carter and production designer Hannah Beachler),...
Someone Has to Supervise Mark Hamill While He Reads the Star Wars: Episode IX Script
It isn’t easy being popular. Just ask Mark Hamill. He’s the OG of Star Wars and has seen a lot of changes over the years. Particularly when it comes to guarding secrets. Luke Skywalker himself is granted no special accommodations regarding the security of Star Wars IX. He has to learn his line from headache-inducing print just like everybody else.
Entertainment Weekly recently spoke with the star about how being an international phenomenon has changed the franchise...
Another Sadistic Batman Villain set for Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has picked up another Batman villain. Deadline reports that Sharp Objects and The Mindy Project‘s Chris Messina has joined the cast one of Warner Bros.’ hottest properties. Messina will be playing Victor Zsasz, a sadist and serial killer who is known for carving a notch into his own flesh for every fresh victim. He’s joining star Margot Robbie in director Cathy Yan’s film,...
Benedict’s Back: Doctor Strange 2 Officially Happening
Despite the fact he’s currently not among the living, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is returning alongside director Scott Derrickson for Doctor Strange 2. This is good news for Strange fans, Cumberbatch fans, and fans of the good doctor’s origin story, which debuted in 2016 and ushered in a trippy new era for the MCU. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Derrickson, who directed and co-wrote the first Doctor Strange, has finalized his deal to bring Master of the Mystical Arts back for a sequel. ...
The World Doubts Superheroes Exist in New Glass Trailer
The costume design on superhero films can be truly remarkable. They are often customized pieces of protection and equipment, plus they look incredibly cool. However, if people possessing superhuman strength, intelligence, or invincibility actually existed in our world, they probably wouldn’t spring for all the fashion accessories. So how could you spot them? In the latest trailer for Glass, Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) doubts that any of her patients have sprung from the pages of a comic book...
Did a Thanos Victim Appear in the Avengers: Endgame Trailer?
The Avengers are a broken people. They have suffered great loss and great defeat. The record-breaking trailer for Avengers: Endgame shows the survivors of Thanos’ snap in various stages of grief and peril. It is a desperate and despairing state for the heroes. With all that was taken from them, is there any hope of putting the pieces back together? At first glance, it doesn’t appear so, but a fan may have spotted a disintegrated friend...
Venom is all of us in This Deleted Scene
Sony’s Venom might have been one of the year’s surprise hits (a surprise only in how well it’s done overseas, with folks in China absolutely devouring the film), but there are plenty of fairly obvious reasons why people flocked to the theater to catch Spider-Man’s sometime nemesis, sometime collaborator on the big screen. One is you’ve got one of Marvel’s most disgustingly intriguing anti-heroes in Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy)’s reporter-turned-alien-symbiote,...
New Bumblebee Photos Reveal Decepticons Sent to Hunt our Hero
You may have heard that Travis Knight’s Bumblebee is getting some pretty fantastic first reactions from critics. /Film’s Peter Sciretta was awestruck to find he liked Bumblebee even better than Michael Bay’s first Transformers. “Better than TF1, and I really liked the first Bay film a lot,” Sciretta tweeted. Bumblebee sets the action in the 80s, redesigns the beloved titular Autobot (who will be doing something in this film he’s never done),...
The new Godzilla: King of the Monsters Trailer Ends With Epic Clash
This is the trailer you need to get you through Monday. The king of the monsters himself has a fight on his hands that’s going to make the events depicted in 2014’s Godzilla reboot look like a walk in (Jurassic) park. Warner Bros. has just dropped the second trailer, and it reveals a film, directed by Michael Doughtery (Krampus) and starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and The Conjuring‘s Vera Farmiga,...
First Reactions to Bumblebee Largely Agree It’s the Best Transformers Yet
Bumblebee has critics buzzing and may boost the Transformers franchise in a satisfying new direction. The robot adventures have always been fun and larger than life, but sometimes their heart is more steel than human. The 1980s prequel appears to be reintroducing that much needed emotional hook.
The Transformers series has been largely popcorn fare, so critics were surprised to find how engrossing the character-driven installment actually is. Travis Knight took over directing duties from Michael Bay and it apparently shows...
