The Meg VFX Breakdown Reveals Creation of the Summer’s Biggest Predator

The Meg was one of this summer’s more joyous films, giving us Jason Statham, a massive shark, and breakout star Kelly the dog (an actual dog). The movie was fun, silly, and again, had a 75-foot long prehistoric shark (the Megalodon, hence the film’s title) going tooth-to-toe with Statham’s deep-sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor. Now, we’ve got a look at how effects shop Scanline VFX helped create some of The Meg‘s wildest visuals,

Hear the First Hypnotic Bars of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria Score

We go to the ballet to watch incredible athletes in action, but the ballet company is Suspiria is looking right back. Everyone is watching you from a disturbing new poster for the film.

Splattered across the page are six bloody pairs of eyes. Only Dakota Johnson’s seem alert. They’re larger, but also more defined and looking a different direction than anyone else. Will she be able to survive the madnees looming around her?

Fantastic Beasts Cast and Crew Reflect on the Joy of Returning to Hogwarts

Jude Law lived the ultimate fan experience on the set of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The most magical place in the wizarding world is undoubtedly Hogwarts. In the Harry Potter series, we got to experience it for the first time along with Harry and his fellow first years. Pictures talked, rooms took shape as needed, plants screamed. There were surprises and mysteries around every corner. Now on the set of The Crimes of Grindelwald,

The Final Predator Trailer Goes Full Throttle

Let it never be said that The Predator held anything back. If the final 2-minute trailer is any indication, Shane Black goes all in. The plot is outrageous and certainly doesn’t attempt to carry the psychological weight of a film like Alien. This is a gory action-palooza that is completely self-aware of its own over the top nature. And holy hell are there some wild moments.

Behold the long promised Preda-dogs.

Review Roundup: Critics Hail the Breathtaking Beauty of Roma

Roma made a predictably elegant debut at the Venice Film Festival last night, dazzling critics. Phrases like “achingly beautiful” and “engrossing” were used to describe the semi-autobiographical work.

The audience in Venice obviously got to experience Cuarón’s work on a theater screen, which is how the director intends the film to be viewed. However, Roma’s theatrical run will coincide with its release on Netflix. That gives audiences the potential to view the piece on their 4-inch phone screen,

The Trailer for Orson Welles’ Unfinished Film The Other Side of the Wind Was Just Released

Streaming sites have made some really interesting things possible. The primary example is binge watching, but also reviving canceled series and now, resurrecting lost work. Ironically, Orson Welles’ unfinished work, The Other Side of the Wind, was a satire piece reflecting the evolution of Hollywood in the 1970s. Ironically, the film will now screen on Netflix more than 40 years after filming was completed.

Welles was a prodigious director who first made a splash on radio with a colorful reading of H.G.

Mysteries Abound in Riverdale Season 3 Trailer

Is it ever spring in Riverdale? The doom, gloom, and teenage angst seems to hang over the town in an autumn wintry haze. But let’s be honest. We are here for the drama and drama there shall be. Season 3 even seems to be slipping into the occult, perhaps a small nod to showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Afterlife with Archie zombie series. Aguirre-Sacasa also created the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the definitely looks like it will have ritualistic elements.

Hugh Jackman Caught in a Political Sex Scandal in the First The Front Runner Trailer

One of the films we’re most excited about seeing at the Toronto International Film Festival is Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner. Sony Pictures has just dropped the film’s first trailer, giving you a peek at why we’re looking forward to it. Co-written by Reitman (Juno and Up in the Air) and House of Cards scribe Jay Carson and based on the book Matt Bai,

A Quiet Place 2 is Coming in 2020

When awards season rolls around we’re betting that John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will get some serious love. While Krasinski’s surprise horror hit was almost nothing like Jordan Peele’s 2016 masterpiece Get Out, it shares two salient points; it was released early in the year and was a fully realized, deliciously scary passion project. Starring Krasinski, his real-life wife Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe as a family forced to live in total silence,

Early Reviews Hail First Man as a Revelatory Space Drama

There are few sure things in film, as in life, but sometimes the combination of talent and subject matter can get you very close to one. When we heard that Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle was re-teaming with Ryan Gosling to star as Neil Armstrong in a biopic of the legendary astronaut’s historic journey to the moon, we were as sure as you can be about these things that the film would be good.

This new First Man Trailer Passes the Goosebump Test

Right about now seems like an excellent time for Damien Chazelle’s First Man. The story of Neil Armstrong’s world-changing trip to the moon is the kind of momentous, moving big-picture tale we could use, about a mission that while steeped in the politics of its time, was ultimately one that would touch all of mankind. Starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong, the second trailer for First Man passes the goosebump test and gives us (shockingly) the first proper biopic about the legendary Armstrong’s very personal,

Watch Black Panther‘s Fight Coordinator Bring the Pain to Iron Fist

Think stunt coordinator Clayton Barber knows a thing or two about staging a good fight? First, take the fact that the man is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and was known as The Matador when he competed. Second, have a look at some of his film credits since he began using his skills to help make on-screen action look more realistic: he was a stunt performer in John Wick: Chapter 2 and The Fate of the Furious and a fight coordinator in Ryan Coogler’s last two films, 

Quentin Tarantino has Finally Cast His Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

It was only yesterday we were writing about how Quentin Tarantino had cast Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha to play Roman Polanski in his upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We’d been wondering whether or not Tarantino would have Polanski in his movie, but he settled that with the casting news. Polanski was the husband of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), the most famous of the victims of the horrific Manson Murders,

Hulu’s The First Trailer Sees 5 Astronauts Braving a Journey to Mars

“They all say the same thing; I’ll believe it when I see it. But that’s backward. Belief comes first. Only then can you see it.” These are the words of aerospace magnate Laz Ingram (Natascha McElhone) to the man she wants to lead a mission to Mars in Hulu’s The First. That man is Tom Hagerty (Sean Penn), who is being asked to leave his daughter and take on a potentially suicidal mission to the Red Planet,

Star Wars: Episode IX Adds The Crown‘s Matt Smith

It’s always fascinating when a well-known actor’s added to film during production. That’s precisely the case with what Variety is reporting; The Crown star Matt Smith is joining J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: Episode IX (or Star Wars: A New Order if you believe that particular fan theory). Who will Smith be playing? We have no idea! So by all means,

Bad Times at the El Royale Drops a Twisted new Trailer

Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale looks like it might be a juicy October treat, something delicious and dark to snack on before Halloween and the release of a slew of horror films. Goddard first made his name when he directed the wickedly surprising The Cabin in the Woods, and now he’s back writing and directing El Royale for 20th Century Fox. This new trailer gives us a glimpse at one of Goddard’s many skills;

Quentin Tarantino has Cast his Roman Polanski in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Actors flock to a Quentin Tarantino film for obvious reasons. The dialogue. The juicy roles. The excitement of working with a large ensemble of their peers. Tarantino’s got a track record for making big, bold, brash films that give performers a lot of room to do their thing. His way with actors was evident in Pulp Fiction, again in Jackie Brown, and has been true ever since, from Inglourious Basterds to Django Unchained to The Hateful Eight.

Jessica Jones‘ Emmy-Nominated Composer on the Twisted Intimacy of Season 2

Composer Sean Callery may be an Emmy veteran, but the four-time winner and 17-time nominee never takes any of this for granted. His latest nom is for his work on season 2 of Neflix’s Jessica Jones, the same show he won an Emmy for last year, for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

“It never gets old,” Callery says of his near-perpetual Emmy recognition. “You might think it does,

Alec Baldwin to Play Batman’s Dad Thomas Wayne in Joker Movie

How good is the cast for Todd Phillips’ stand-alone Joker film for Warner Bros.? Let’s have a quick glance at the call sheet: Joaquin Phoenix as the clown prince of crime himself, Zazie Beetz as his potential love interest, France Conroy, Marc Maron, Robert De Niro (!!), and now Alec Baldwin. The Hollywood Reporter has it that Baldwin will be playing Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas,

Game of Thrones‘ Emmy-Nominated Sound Designer on Bringing the Heat

Emmy-nominated supervising sound editor Tim Kimmel oversaw one of Game of Thrones’ most explosive episodes, ever. Kimmel received his Emmy-nom for his work on last season’s epic fourth episode, “The Spoils of War,” written by co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Matt Shakman.

Kimmel, who is the Formosa Group‘s supervising sound editor, oversees the sound editorial crew, and his team have a vast sonic mandate;