Rami Malek Captures the Cosmic Energy of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody
If the average music biopic positions a microscope on a single character, Bohemian Rhapsody calls for a telescope. ‘Queen’ frontman Freddie Mercury is deserving of his chosen moniker. He’s a celestial body that looms large in the lives of every character on screen with an irrefutable gravitational pull. He’s bold, daring, brilliant, poised, and within moments you forget he isn’t Freddie Mercury at all. Mercury was notoriously inimitable until Rami Malek pulled it off. The Mr...
NYCC: Dark Phoenix Comic Con Footage Sends the X-Men Into Space
At a Saturday New York Comic Con appearance for Dark Phoenix, Sophie Turner teased the X-Men’s first big-screen scene in space. The film will see Jean Grey succumb to unstable powers from within. The catastrophic forces will be unleashed by the cosmos. “It’s something we’ve never done. It pushes the bounds for all the X-Men. It’s fun to take it someplace different. This time it was really exciting and made the stakes even higher. The scene where they go into space is very tense.”
20th Century Fox screened that 13-minute scene at NYCC and Turner’s assessment is right...
Watch Venom‘s Director Break Down a Fight Scene
Venom director Ruben Fleischer joined Vanity Fair to break down one of the film’s gooey, gruesome fight sequences. In this particular scene, we see Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), now sharing his body and mind with the symbiote Venom, take on a team of Life Foundation soldiers, the henchmen of the film’s villain Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed). Fleischer gives us some intriguing insight into how this propulsive scene was created,...
The First Hellboy Teaser Slays the Crowd at New York Comic Con
The first glimpse of David Harbour as Hellboy brought out the happy demons in a packed crowd at New York Comic Con. We got our very first glimpse of the new iteration of the big red guy during a panel with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, star David Harbour, co-stars Sasha Lane and Daniel Dae Kim, and a video appearance from Milla Jovovich. The two-minute sizzle reel absolutely slew the crowd,...
Maniac Casting Director Avy Kaufman on Matching Parts and Players
Avy Kaufman segued from casting print ads to film and television 30 years ago, and based on the success and scope of her work since then; casting director is the role she was born to play. Her 256 credits, according to imdb.com, include a range of genres produced by big studios and indie filmmakers alike. Among her most notable movie projects are The Sixth Sense, Brokeback Mountain and Syriana. For television, Kaufman has assembled casts for The Alienist,...
A Star is Born’s Sound Mixer on Capturing Brilliance Up-Close
Warner Bros.’ A Star is Born, the fourth version of the film and Bradley Cooper’s first time directing, has earned a hero’s welcome as the best iteration yet of the tale of love, talent, and the price of fame. Lady Gaga stars as Ally, a struggling musician with powerhouse pipes, and Cooper as Jackson Maine, the alcoholic rocker on the waning side of stardom who brings her into the spotlight. While the fixation on the female ingenue’s nose might be consistent from 1976’s Kris Kristofferson-Barbra Streisand-helmed remake,...
NYCC: Extended Aquaman Trailer Reveals Arthur’s Traditional Costume
In the midst of New York Comic Con, a new hero is rising. An epic five-minute trailer released today reveals much more about Arthur Curry’s (Jason Momoa) ascension to Aquaman than we’ve ever seen. To rise to his promised place on the throne, he must first descend beneath the waves.
A single drop of sweat, or uh other bodily fluid, can unlock the secrets to a watery alternate realm. With the help of Mera (Amber Heard),...
NYCC: Zachary Levi Demystifies the Shazam! Costume Design
The electrifying energy of lightning wielding teenage superhero Shazam! seems to have overcome actor Zachary Levi. The newest DC superhero dropped by New York Comic Con to pump up the crowd of fans.
“Anybody excited for Shazam?” Levi asked to deafening screams. “That’s the appropriate response!”
Levi started with some background and explained what makes the character so unique. That includes differentiating from another upcoming superhero movie that shares a sometimes moniker with Shazam...
Behold First Image From the Star Wars TV Series The Mandalorian
Yesterday we shared the news that production is not only officially underway for Jon Favreau’s new Star Wars TV series, but that it’s called The Mandalorian and follows a “lone gunfighter” in the era between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Now Disney has released the first image from set, and it’s been revealed that none other than Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi and Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard will be directing an episode a piece...
Enjoy This Aquaman Poster as you Wait for new Trailer
While we all prepare for a new Aquaman trailer today, we can all enjoy this tasty new poster from Warner Bros. depicting the Atlantian hero’s arm clutching his trusty trident as he rises out of the sea. From what we’ve seen thus far, in these pretty fantastic images and that pretty fantastic trailer, James Wan’s big stand-alone epic is shaping up to be a winner.
Have a look at the new poster,...
VFX Artists Explain How They Made Venom Marvel’s Freakiest Character
For a superhero movie, Venom boasts an unusually strong cast of heavy hitters including Tom Hardy in the title role along with Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed. But in this Marvel Comics-based story, it’s the visual effects that drive the spectacle by transforming Hardy’s ordinary human reporter Eddie Brock into a tentacle-sprouting “symbiote” freak. To learn more about CGI-powered monster mutations, The Credits checked in with the VFX company DNEG in London,...
Chris Evans Says Goodbye to Captain America as he Wraps Avengers 4
You can’t say he didn’t warn us. Chris Evans, who has played Steve Rogers since 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, has officially laid down his shield on Twitter. The actor announced that he’s wrapped his work on Avengers 4 and gave us what sounds like not only a heartfelt goodbye, but perhaps a nod to his iconic character’s fate.
While Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 (it’ll get an official title eventually) were shot back-to-back,...
NYCC: Watchmen Co-Creator Dave Gibbons on the New HBO Series
Comic artist Dave Gibbons is intimately acquainted with the outlaw superheroes of the Watchmen, having inked the characters penned by Alan Moore more than 30 years ago. However, there are still parts of the story that can amaze even him. HBO will be debuting a TV series of the cult classic next year starring Jeremy Irons (Justice League), Regina King (The Leftovers),...
How the Crazy Rich Asians Editor Helps Us Navigate the World of Singapore’s Elite
Crazy Rich Asians hinges on dynamics. The complicated web of relationships will either catch true love or tangle the unsuspecting couple. Rachel (Constance Wu) gets off to a rocky start with her boyfriend’s mother (Michelle Yeoh), but there are even more delicate power struggles within the family. In the elite Singapore circles of Crazy Rich Asians, a look, a gesture, or even a flower can be a symbol of judgment. What someone says isn’t always what they mean...
Dwayne Johnson Reveals First Image From Hobbs and Shaw
Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are bringing their shiny domes and their hardest stares to this new photo from the set of Hobbs and Shaw. Johnson shared the image on his always reliably revealing Instagram feed, where the two Fate of the Furious stars are locked into the world’s most aggressive stare contest in their spinoff adventure. Just in the past year we’ve seen Johnson hold the screen with a giant ape and a flying wolf,...
The Star Wars TV Series Title & Synopsis Have Been Revealed
The Star Wars TV series has its title and a synopsis. Iron Man and The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau (as well as Solo: A Star Wars Story actor), your producer and writer on the new Star Wars TV series, has revealed our first major details on Instagram. The series will be titled The Mandalorian, it takes place between the fall of the Empire after The Return of the Jedi and the rise of the First Order in The Force Awakens,...
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Drops Witchy New Trailer
Turning sixteen has long been a threshold for teenagers, the moment when you start to exert more independence (and, if you play your cards right, your driver’s license) and become your own person. For Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka), the titular star of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, turning sixteen means deciding between the mortal world and the witch world, and the consequences of this decision are a little more severe than anything your average sixteen-year-old has to face...
What Dropping X-Men From the Title Reveals About Dark Phoenix
Right up until we saw the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, the title of the film wasn’t officially announced. There was speculation as to whether it would include the prefix ‘X-Men’ as its predecessors had. Previous stories from the universe include X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Dark Phoenix will fall in that arc with several of the cast returning. Screenwriter and director Simon Kinberg explained why the team name was dropped in a recent interview with Collider...
CBS Reveals the First Look at the Set of The Twilight Zone
Sixty years after The Twilight Zone first made contact with our world, the portal is opening once again. This time, it may be opening for you. The classic anthology series about a normal day that slips into the supernatural is returning to CBS. If you own every episode on DVD as I do, you’ll remember the pauses for ‘station identification’ followed by the CBS logo. You can now revisit all of the classics on CBS All Access and the station announced yesterday that production has begun on the Jordan Peele reboot...
Christian Bale is Unrecognizable as Dick Cheney in First Vice Trailer
The first trailer for Adam McKay (The Big Short)’s Vice has just dropped, starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in the history of the United States. You can say that sort of thing without it coming off as hyperbole when it comes to Cheney, and in McKay’s hands, re-teaming with his Big Short star Bale, you can now count Vice as one of this year’s most intriguing projects...
