Introducing the Brilliant Young Characters of The Darkest Minds
They’re young, angry, and can control your thoughts or use telekinesis to throw a car at you. No wonder their government is afraid of them.
The Darkest Minds began as a young adult novel by Alexandra Bracken. It quickly became a hit, and in less than three years, Bracken released two more novels to complete the trilogy. Last week, Arrival and Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy brought the narrative to the big screen with Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3 director Jennifer Yuh Nelson at the helm...
Gal Gadot in Talks to Star as Real Life Wonder Woman Hedy Lamarr
Gal Gadot knows a thing or two about playing a Wonder Woman, and now the star of DC’s most popular (and critically acclaimed) superhero franchise may be heading to the small screen to play a real life wonder woman. Gadot is in talks to star in and executive produce a limited series for Showtime about actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. The series is being led by Sarah Treem, co-creator and executive producer of The Affair,...
Sadistic Batman Foe Black Mask Will be the Villain in Margot Robbie’s Birds of Prey
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Birds of Prey is picking up steam. The all-female superhero film, starring and executive produced by Margot Robbie, has recently revealed which characters will be joining Robbie’s Harley Quinn as they take to the streets of Gotham. They are Black Canary, Huntress, Cassandra Cain and Renee Montoya, who will all fighting alongside Daddy’s Lil’ Monster. Now, thanks to The Wrap, we know who they’ll be fighting against—Black Mask,...
Vin Diesel Announces First day of Production on Bloodshot
When brainstorming superhero characters today, it’s hard not to jump to your favorite Marvel or DC character without a second thought. With the film adaptations and shared universes in the market today, we don’t blame you. But there have almost always been more heroes out there from different publications, and some of them are finding their way to the big screen.
In recent memory, we’ve seen Hellboy and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles find success in the film and TV industries...
The Deuce is Back with a New Trailer and a Time Jump
“It’s changed,” Emily Meade says in the new trailer for HBO’s The Deuce. “It’s not like how it was when we started. It’s like a free world.”
We all hope for something fresh when a TV series enters a new season, and The Deuce promises that from the start of its teaser for Season 2. While the show’s debut run took place during the ascent of the pornography industry in New York in the early 1970s,...
Legion Season 3 is in the Works, and it’s Only Getting Darker
The season finale of FX and Marvel’s Series Legion saw its protagonist, David, hit low points that only someone like Walter White would understand. And his downward spiral won’t be turning upward soon.
Dan Stevens’ David Haller, a mutant with psychic powers from the X-Men universe, has always been an antihero. He acts immorally because his grip on reality is shaky at best, and the Marvel comics more explicitly identify the multiple personalities—a legion of them—in his head...
Your First Look at Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
We’ve already gotten our first look at the fellas (Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio), and now it’s Margot’s turn. The I, Tonya star has shared the first photo of herself as Sharon Tate on set of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, looking strikingly similar to the late actress who was tragically, infamously one of the victims in the Manson murders.
The First Trailer for Netflix’s Highly Anticipated new Series Maniac is Wild
The first trailer for Netflix’s Maniac, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is here, and it’s easy to see why folks have been so excited for the new series. The limited series comes from writer/director Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Beasts of No Nation), and marries his singular talent to a corkscrewing sci-fi concept with a sensational cast. Maniac concerns Stone’s Annie Landsberg and Hill’s Owen Milgrim,...
Final Smallfoot Trailer Puts a Comic Twist on a Classic Myth
Channing Tatum is back for his first role in 2018, and he’s… hairier.
Of course, it’s not really Tatum who appears onscreen in the upcoming Smallfoot. In his place is a hulking, horned, fifteen-foot-tall Yeti who resembles the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and has the voice of the Magic Mike star. Smallfoot, along with 2016’s Storks, is part of a new collection of animated movies from Warner Bros...
Watch Heath Ledger Become the Joker
Now is the perfect time to once again celebrate Heath Ledger‘s iconic turn as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. With Nolan’s masterpiece heading back to the big screen to celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary, CineFix caught up with the film’s Oscar-nominated makeup artist John Caglione Jr. in a fantastic video that explains Ledger’s transformation.
Caglione Jr. had previously been nominated for an Oscar for his work for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy in 1990,...
Sir Patrick Stewart is Returning to Star Trek for a New Series About Captain Picard
The Star Fleet just got arguably its most legendary captain back (with all due respect to Captain Kirk). The rumor we’ve all been hoping is true has been confirmed—Sir Patrick Stewart is returning to reprise his role as Captain Jean Luc-Picard in a new series for CBS All Access. Stewart shared the news on Twitter, as well as in a surprise appearance at a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas:
It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him...
Matt Reeves Blows Up a Theory about Upcoming Project The Batman
Matt Reeves is really harkening back to Batman’s origins with his new project based on the Caped Crusader. The Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 where he grew to become the greatest detective in the world. We often think of Bruce Wayne as a crime fighter, but he’s a man of many skills. In a panel with the Television Critics Association today, Reeves elaborated on his vision for The Batman.
In the midst of promoting The Passage,...
Hillary Clinton Will Executive Produce TV Adaptation of Suffrage Story The Woman’s Hour
Hillary Clinton is doubling down on her foray into Hollywood. The former Senator and Secretary of State was recently on the set of Madam Secretary. Clinton will play herself in the October 7 episode in which she’ll counsel (fictional) Secretary Elizabeth McCord. Now, THR reports that Clinton will be pulling the strings behind the scene after teaming up with Steven Spielberg on a television adaptation of The Woman’s Hour.
The book by Elaine Weiss chronicles the suffrage movement for women to earn the right to vote...
Things Are Heating Up as The Predator Goes on the Hunt
31 years after Shane Black played Rick Hawkins, the Predator’s first victim, he’s revisiting the franchise as director and writer of the fourth film in the series. With it comes all of the wonderful nostalgia of everything we love about the films. 20th Century Fox just released a new poster for The Predator, which features the Predator in thermal vision.
The poster of the first film, Predator, featured the same thermal look in the background,...
Chloë Sevigny Sheds a New Light on Famous Axe Murderer, Lizzie
Reduced to a caricature in a gory nursery rhyme, Chloë Sevigny is taking a closer look at Lizzie Borden’s motive for murder. Often perceived to be a cold-blooded killer, Lizzie take a big picture look at the events leading up to the crime. Sevigny’s passion project premiered earlier this year at Sundance, and the first trailer finally gives us a look at the gripping drama.
Lizzie strikes me as a similar approach to Sofia Coppola’s feminist retelling of The Beguiled last year...
Christopher Robin Producer Bringham Taylor on Bringing Adults Back to Pooh
Brigham Taylor was at Disney 15 years ago when he first heard the idea for a movie about a grown-up Christopher Robin reconnecting with his beloved toys. That movie has finally been made, with Taylor as its producer, and it was worth the wait, a lovely, touching, and utterly endearing film for the whole family. In an interview with The Credits, he talked about why soft, cuddly toys still matter even in an age of technology, and how the people who worked on the film made sure they kept its most important lessons in mind...
Makeup Designer Donald Mowat on The Darkest Minds‘ Subtle Sorcery
With a three-decade career in the film industry, you’d think makeup designer Donald Mowat has seen it all. The Emmy winner has worked on projects from The Fighter to Planet of the Apes, and we’ve already had the chance to discuss his masterful work on Blade Runner 2049 and Stronger. However, there are genres that have eluded Mowat for decades, and now he is making an effort to turn over every stone–and is having a great time doing it...
Rebecca Ferguson Jumps from Mission: Impossible to Men in Black and Doctor Sleep
Rebecca Ferguson rocketed to stardom with her fierce turn as Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible franchise. In Rogue Nation and Fallout (which she shot while pregnant), Ferguson was a standout as an MI6 agent who went deep undercover in the Syndicate. Now, Ferguson is parlaying that success into more on-screen roles.
Per Deadline, the Swedish actress will appear in Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus) and based on Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining,...
Andy Serkis Has Secured Animal Farm as His Next Performance-Capture Project
Andy Serkis’ reign as the executor of non-human character driven stories continues. Deadline reports that the performance-capture king has struck a deal to direct an adaptation of George Orwell’s satirical novel Animal Farm. Yes, the text of middle school required reading fame.
Netflix acquired the rights to the project meaning that two literary inspired adaptations from Serkis will find a home on the streaming site. Mowgli, based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book,...
J.J. Abrams Reveals First Photo From the Set of Star Wars: Episode IX
J.J. Abrams sent his first ever Tweet out into the world, and it was a doozy. With Star Wars: Episode IX production officially underway, Abrams sent out his inaugural Tweet from set, praising his cast and crew, The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson, Star Wars creator George Lucas, and the late, great Carrie Fisher:
Bittersweet starting this next chapter without Carrie, but thanks to an extraordinary cast and crew, we are ready to go...
