The Russo Brothers Say Captain America & Black Widow Will Have Harder Edge in Avengers 4
You had to figure that anyone who made it out of Avengers: Infinity War alive would be scarred. (This should go without saying, but, spoiler alert.) Now that the Russo Brothers MCU-shattering epic is out on Blu-ray and digital download, we’ve had a chance to re-watch the film and get reacquainted with just how brutal the Thanos snap really was. The experience of watching so many characters turn to dust in the theater was shocking and overwhelming.
Slappy the Dummy Plots a Halloween Takeover in New Goosebumps 2 Trailer
Is it bad that I’m rooting for Slappy in Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween? Look, I get it. He’s a bit of a cynical narcissist who would be a drag at parties. Fine, he also wants to unleash an entire arsenal of monsters from your childhood library on the world. But you guys, he wants Halloween to last forever! I am fully in favor.
The second trailer for the film fleshes out where we are in relation to the first Goosebumps and drops a few clues as to why every human character is new.
Watch a Clip From Terrence Nance’s Brilliant new HBO Series Random Acts of Flyness
Random Acts of Flyness is true to the premiere cable network’s longstanding motto that what you see through their programming isn’t TV, it’s HBO. This new late-night series from multitalented artist Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) began its six-episode season on Friday, August 3 (midnight-12:30 a.m. ET/PT), with each episode appearing at the same time each week. It’s not like anything else you’ll see on TV. It’s a late night variety show that threads together music,
A Brief History of Godzilla’s Rise
On the last day of July, we shared these new images from Godzilla: The King of the Monsters that included the featured image of Godzilla in all his nuclear glory.
In Warner Bros.’ third Godzilla entry, the studio is pitting the iconic monster against some of his greatest foes; Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. The first trailer gave us a few brief snippets of the monsters in action but left their brawling for a later glimpse (or for the film’s release itself).
The First Roma Trailer is Simultaneously Soothing and Invigorating
The first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s new film, Roma, is a transcendent celebration of life and strength through suffering. There’s absolutely no dialogue, but every beautiful image defies language. We all know how every one of the intimate family moments feels and that holds the promise of something truly special.
Love, courage, hope, change, and home are all words used to describe the story and all things I felt while watching it.
How Atlanta‘s Emmy-Nominated Sound Designer Crafted Horror Ep “Teddy Perkins”
Atlanta has been one of TV’s most reliably original shows for the past two years. Donald Glover’s trippy, brilliant exploration of the story of Earnest Marks (Glover) and his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry)’s attempts to make a name for themselves in Atlanta’s thriving hip-hop scene has created some of the most indelible sequences and moments in TV since the show burst onto the scene in 2016.
See how They Created Iron Man’s Nanotech Suit for Avengers: Infinity War
Yesterday we shared this look at how Weta Digital created the epic third act battle sequence on Titan in Avengers: Infinity War. In that brutal scrum with Thanos, Tony Stark threw everything he had at the purple colossus thanks to his new nanotech suit. Granted, Thanos was also fighting Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy (minus Groot and Rocket), but the sequence ended with a vicious brawl between him and Iron Man.
The Better Call Saul Production Designer on Jimmy’s Changing Landscape
The inevitable transition from the affable Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) to the hardnosed Saul Goodman is becoming one of the most emotional evolutions on TV. As a whole, Better Call Saul is entering a season of transformation. Production designer Judy Rhee was charged with guiding Jimmy’s world through great personal and professional changes in season 4.
“In the timeline of the prequel, we’re getting closer to Breaking Bad,” Rhee explained.
Important: There Will Be Pets in The Predator
Predators, they’re just like us. They put on their fish net stockings one leg at a time and dogs are a Predator’s best friend. Yup, that’s right. The Predators will feature all new Preda-dogs that are canine versions of the heat seeking killers. Will they hunt, provide protection, or just be there to cuddle the Predators at the end of a long day? Yah, probably mostly the hunting, but their nature has yet to be revealed.
Does This new Video From Spider-Man: Far From Home Tease Villain Hydro-Man?
We don’t know much about Spider-Man: Far From Home. The Sony-produced Marvel story is, like Marvel Studios productions themselves, being kept tightly under wraps. We know the film will find Peter Parker abroad (hence the title), likely in London. We know that the cast includes Spider-Man: Homecoming standouts Zendaya, as Peter’s love interest Michelle Jones, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May, and Michael Keaton as Vulture. Newcomers include J.B.
Everyone in The Romanoffs Has a Serious Royalty Obsession
The first trailer for Matthew Weiner’s upcoming series The Romanoffs doesn’t really tell us more than we knew before. But it is outrageous and decadent and basically a big one-minute name drop. Meet a whole slew of people who think they are related to the slain royal Romanov family – and all of the people who don’t believe them.
Brief refresh from history class. During the Bolshevik revolution,
New Widows Trailer Revels in the Best Cast of the Year
If you’re looking for a nearly unbeatable combination of talent, you’ll be hard-pressed to top the team that came together for Widows. Writer/director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) co-wrote the script with Gone Girl and Sharp Objects scribe Gillian Flynn, and they’ve assembled an outrageous cast: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry,
Watch the Most Heartbreaking Moment in Avengers: Infinity War in Mind-Blowing VFX Reel
We’ve seen a lot of VFX reels in our day, but this might be the most epic of them all. iO9 got this gorgeous look at how visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken and his team at Weta Digital created some of the most mind-blowing moments in Avengers: Infinity War. If you’ve somehow still not seen the film, there are major spoilers below. If you have seen the film,
How BlacKkKlansman‘s Production Designer Used the Power Dynamics of Race
BlacKkKlansman is a story of high stakes pushed to the absolute limit. Based on a remarkable true story, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) was the first African American officer on the Colorado Springs police force. A tense undertaking in itself, Stallworth was not content with breaking barriers. He capitalized on the opportunity and initiated a dangerous undercover operation to infiltrate the KKK, stunning even his colleagues. Production designer Curt Beech tackled these complex dynamics in incredibly imaginative ways that layer meaning throughout the design in subtle,
Viggo Mortensen & Mahershala Ali Star First Green Book Trailer
It’s not quite at the level of Gary Oldman’s transformation in The Darkest Hour, but this makeover is impressive nonetheless. The Lord of the Rings’ and Captain Fantastic’s Viggo Mortensen looks like a completely different man in the first trailer for Green Book.
The actor has been a king of men, a philosophic father, and a wanderer in the apocalypse,
An Insider Look at Uniting the Incredible Cast of Stranger Things
There is a simple answer to the question of how Stranger Things achieves such perfect chemistry between its actors. They just love working together.
Streaming movies and TV shows through services like Netflix is wonderful, but with the content being so easily accessible we do miss one thing: bonus features. Fortunately for people who don’t want have thrown out their DVD player and have stopped collecting discs, Netflix provides content like this casting video on their YouTube channel.
Behold: A Comprehensive Timeline of the MCU
Ever wanted to sort through all twenty films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and figure out exactly the order of every occurrence? Business Insider just did and they conveniently organized everything you need to know.
The task is certainly not as easy as some might think. It’s not just a matter of copying and pasting the events of the films in the order they appear. Some of the stories occur before or even during those in other movies that were already released,
The Nun Teaser Will Make you Incredibly Claustrophobic
When James Wan’s 2013 The Conjuring was released, a filmmaker and a new horror franchise were officially on the map. The story of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) and their work trying to help a family terrorized by a malevolent force in their farmhouse was a masterpiece of taut, unbearably tense filmmaking. Wan, Wilson, and Farmiga teamed up again in 2016’s The Conjuring 2,
Watch this Self-Taught Artist Recreate Tom Holland’s Iron Spider
Ever given up on a project—whether it was a painting, a story, or school work—after a few minutes because of the sheer size of the undertaking? Me too. And we could both learn a little bit from this guy.
Wajid Ali spends seemingly most of his time making photorealistic portraits of pop culture’s biggest and baddest characters. In July, he worked on a recreation of the Iron Spider suit—the one teased in Spider-Man: Homecoming and unleashed in Avengers: Infinity War.
New Jack Ryan Featurette Reveals a Series Committed to Authenticity
If you’re going to try and recreate some of the technical specificity and knowledge that the late Tom Clancy used to pour into his books, you might as well do it with his most famous character. In Amazon’s new series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, creators Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) and Graham Roland (Fringe) wanted the show to be as authentic as it is riveting.