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.
In Atlanta’s two-season run (recently picked up by FX for a third season),...
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. “Just by that fact alone,...
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.
The intel comes from BMD who spotted the Preda-pooches (my preferred made up term) among a line of Funko POP toys...
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. Smoove, Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D...
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, the last Emperor of Russia,...
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, Daniel Kaluuya, Garret Dillahunt,...
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, but an Italian-American driver for a classical pianist?...
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. Starring John Krasinski as the titular CIA agent,...
Avengers: Infinity War Bonus Material Reveals What Makes Thanos the MCU’s Greatest Villain
What makes Thanos the greatest villain in the MCU? You could argue it’s his power. Thanos was already formidable before he tracked down the six Infinity Stones—once he had them all, however, he appears to be virtually unstoppable. You could argue it’s not just his power, but his connection to nearly everything that has befallen the Avengers since they assembled in 2012’s game-changing first film. From Loki’s attack on New York in the first Avengers to Gamora’s attempted capture of Peter Quill in the first Guardians of the Galaxy,...
Liu Yifei Prepares for Battle in the First Look at Mulan
Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me? That would be Liu Yifei as Mulan staring down her foes in the first look at the Disney live-action adaptation. Walt Disney studios tweeted out the news that cameras are rolling on Mulan and included a badass shot of Yifei in action.
Production has begun on Disney’s live-action #Mulan!
The film will open in U.S. theaters on March 27, 2020...
You Are Not Ready for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwalds’ Baby Nifflers
However your Monday is going, it’s about to get much better.
The spellbinding 2016 introduction to the world of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series came with a slew of creatures of all shapes and sizes. The Thunderbird Frank saved the wizarding world from discovery by No-Majs, and the capture of the Erumpent was truly a spectacle, but it was the platypus-like Niffler that stole the show.
Attracted to all things shiny and expensive, Nifflers are pesky little furballs that would make both great pets and secure jewelry boxes,...
First Images From Netflix’s new Series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Netflix‘s upcoming Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a far cry from Melissa Joan Hart’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which aired on ABC for seven seasons beginning in 1996. The reboot, starring Mad Men‘s Kiernan Shipka, adapts the Archie horror comic for our current age of Peak TV, which eschews feel-good messages for a much darker, rawer look at the source material. Two brand new images speak to the new Sabrina,...
Chris Hemsworth Tries to Spoil Avengers 4 at the Teen Choice Awards
Tom Holland is still considered the spoiler king of the MCU, but Chris Hemsworth is making a run at the crown. Hemsworth nabbed the Teen Choice Award for Sci-Fi Movie Actor for his title role in Thor: Ragnarok, but he couldn’t make it to the awards thanks to filming the big Men in Black relaunch with fellow Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson. In an effort to give the fans at the Teen Choice Awards some sort of consolation prize for his not being there,...
