Actress-Turned-Composer Amelia Warner Helps Re-Imagine Frankenstein Origin Story in Mary Shelley
It was a dark and stormy night two centuries ago when 18-year old Mary Shelley, staying at Lord Byron’s estate in Geneva, Switzerland, responded to her host’s scary story contest by writing “Frankenstein.” Then came the hard part: persuading someone in London’s male-dominated book industry to publish the story under her own name. Starring Elle Fanning, Mary Shelley, which recently opened wide, tracks the heroine’s love affair with poet Percy Shelley and the crushing disappointments leading up to her creation of the now-classic horror tale.
Review Roundup: Ocean’s 8 Pulls Off the Daring Heist
The early feedback for Gary Ross’s Ocean’s 8 has been released, and it is easy to say that the critics are thrilled with the audacious and comical all-female cast. The replacement of the all-male crew was a bold way to spin-off the infamous Ocean’s 11 trilogy, starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean. The trilogy enthralls its audiences as Danny Ocean and his crew embark on several journeys around the world stealing from casinos and wealthy companies.
The Melodic First Trailer for Bradley Cooper’s Directorial Debut A Star is Born
If you are going to direct your first movie about music, you might as well cast Lady Gaga in the lead. Bradley Cooper shows us all how it is done in the first trailer for A Star is Born. Cooper stars opposite Lady Gaga as a famous musician helping spark her budding career. Gaga’s character is struggling to break into the scene, but you can’t hide those pipes for long.
Cooper shows off a lot of new talents in the largely impressive trailer.
Check out the Suitably Creepy Halloween Trailer Teaser
While little is known about David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot, we know enough to be excited. Now a new teaser trailer from Blumhouse and Universal (the same folks who brought you Jordan Peele’s game changing Get Out) gives us our first taste. The limited that we do know about Halloween is that Green co-wrote the script with Danny McBride, and that they’re going to ignore most of the sequels and include only parts one and two in their new Halloween universe.
Chris Hemsworth Says The Surprises in Avengers 4 Could Top Infinity War
We are still reeling nearly a month after the release of Avengers: Infinity War. It will take time and hours of self-reflection to heal from what we have witnessed. Watch out, SPOILERS: We lost more than a few good Avengers in the battle against Thanos. We have been scraping and scrounging to find hope that Avengers 4 will lighten our load, but hope has yet to appear. In fact, one of the surviving characters implied that it could get worse from here.
A Grown Up Peter Parker Mentors Miles in New Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer
When we first heard about Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s take on Spider-Man, we were undeniably giddy. After all, these are the guys who directed the 21 Jump Street movies and The Lego Movie. Lord and Miller both have comedic chops and experience working with animation. The first trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a burst of energy and color that left our jaws on the floor.
How the VFX Team of The Looming Tower Recreated Pre-9/11 New York
Nearly every American over the age of 25 remembers the horrific day of the September 11 attacks. Images of that day are tragically familiar. The events were so meaningful and are so well known that VFX artists on Hulu’s The Looming Tower took deliberate care to vigilantly recreate pre-9/11 New York. The series, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, and Wrenn Schmidt, explores the tense relationship between the FBI and CIA that obstructed vital intelligence about the impending attacks.
Early Incredibles 2 Reactions Tout a Pixar Sequel for the Ages
The Incredibles writer/director Brad Bird made Incredibles 2 writer/director Brad Bird’s job a tough one. How was Bird going to live up to what Bird (and his topnotch Pixar team) had accomplished way back in 2004. Well, the early reactions to Incredibles 2 are in, and they’re mostly glowing. Despite a 14 year gap between the two films, Incredibles 2 picks up right where the original left off.
Jared Leto’s Joker is Getting a Standalone Movie
While his main squeeze Harley Quinn will be starring in her own movie, it looks like Jared Leto’s Joker is getting his own standalone film. Variety reports that Leto will be both starring and executive producing the untitled film for Warner Bros. We first laid eyes on Leto’s iteration of the clown prince of chaos is David Ayer’s Suicide Squad back in 2016. That was also the film that Margot Robbie made her indelible impression as Harley Quinn,
BBC America’s President Sarah Barnett On How Killing Eve Slayed In Its Debut Season
After viewing the pilot of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s bleakly comedic series Fleabag a few years ago, both Sarah Barnett, president and general manager of BBC America, and Nena Rodrigue, the network’s executive vice president of original programming, acquisitions and production, were “fan-girling over Phoebe,” as Barnett puts it, drawn to her distinct point of view and wit. “We totally fell in love with Phoebe’s voice.”
They wanted to work with her, and soon enough,
Brian Tyree Henry on Hotel Artemis & Working With his Best Friend (Sterling K. Brown)
If you’ve been sleeping on Brian Tyree Henry, you better wake up immediately. The triple threat is ready to dominate the TV, film and stage this year and he’s only just getting started. First up on his plate is the delightful summer action flick, Hotel Artemis, from writer/director Drew Pearce. Henry plays Honolulu, one of a pair of bank robbing brothers (alongside IRL bestie Sterling K. Brown) who after a botched robbery end up at the Hotel Artemis—an underground hospital in Los Angeles for criminals ran by The Nurse (Jodie Foster).
First The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Trailer Goes Intergalactic
Everything is awesome, especially when the Beastie Boys and outer space are involved. If you need proof, just go watch Star Trek Beyond.
At the end of 2014’s The LEGO Movie (spoilers ahead, kind of), invaders from the planet DUPLO arrived and threatened to wreak havoc. Five years later—in the LEGO universe and in real time—we have our sequel, and it looks like the aliens succeeded.
New Wreck-It Ralph 2 Trailer Shows Us the Real Disney Princesses
Cinderella smashing her glass slipper and thrusting its jagged edge at the camera? Yes, please.
The newest trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 delivers a refreshing dose of Hollywood feminism. In the sequel to the 2012 Disney hit Wreck-It Ralph, the titular hero (voiced by John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (voiced by Sarah Silverman) make the upgrade from old-school arcade to the 21st-century, clickbait-cluttered Internet.
Behold The First Trailer for the Peter Jackson Co-Written & Produced Mortal Engines
If you’re going to adapt Philip Reeve’s wild sci-fi quartet of novels, you’d want director and super producer Peter Jackson involved. Universal has just dropped the first trailer to Mortal Engines, based on Reeve’s books, and set in a future civilization in which colossal “traction cities” stomp across a post-apocalyptic landscape, scavenging for supplies, often taking them from other mobile cities. Jackson not only produced, but also co-wrote the script along with his Lord of the Rings partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
Oscar Isaac Hunts Hitler’s Lieutenant in First Operation Finale Trailer
The first Operation Finale trailer is here, featuring Oscar Isaac as legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin. Directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Operation Finale is based on a riveting true story. Set 15 years after World War II, the film focuses on a team of secret agents brought together to track down Nazi Lieutenant Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley). Kingsley knows a thing or two about playing war criminals—he recently starred as notorious “Butcher of Bosnia”
David Fincher Shot 75 Takes of a Single Mindhunter Scene
The brilliant mind of director David Fincher is probably full of every tip and trick available to the contemporary filmmaker, but nothing beats good-old-fashioned perfectionism. Which, for the man behind Netflix’s crime series Mindhunter, means shooting a nine-and-a-half minute scene several times. Well, more than several times. Seventy-five times. In a single day.
That’s about twelve hours, not including the single break the crew took for lunch and the time Fincher took to share with his actors the laborious notes he scribbled during each take.
First Bumblebee Trailer Reveals a Very Different Transformers Film
The most lovable of the Transformers is, fittingly, the first to get his own spinoff. Behold the first Bumblebee trailer, which peels away the mechanized ensemble and puts the focus squarely on the yellow shoulders of the sentient Volkswagen Beetle. This Paramount Pictures release features the very talented director Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) making his live-action directing debut with Bumblebee.
First-Time Showrunner Breaks Down his Dark hit Series The Sinner
Derek Simonds had been toiling on the periphery of show business since 2001, when his indie film Seven and a Match toured the festival circuit, but progress proved fitful. He developed Call Me By Your Name, penned some TV pilots and worked as a story editor on ABC drama The Astronaut Wives Club, but, Simonds says, “I was still banging on doors to be heard.”
Terrifying Suspiria Trailer a Masterclass in Horror
If you’re a die-hard horror fan, or often peruse other movie geeks’ “Top 20” online lists, you’ve probably heard of Suspiria. The 1977 Italian film, which many consider a cult classic, cut deep into the psyche of audiences when it made its rounds in Italy and the United States, and it is now the subject of a brutal new reboot.
Helming the project is Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino,
Ant-Man and The Wasp Show Off What the Suits Can Really Do in New Spot
The Marvel Universe is currently a dark, bleak, and despairing place. Hope is a dying ember and evil has prevailed. It’s going to take something really, really big – or really tiny – to lighten our spirits. Cue another fabulously fun Ant-Man and The Wasp TV Spot.
Summer is for kicking back, letting loose, and kicking some bad guy butt. After the devastating blow of Avengers: Infinity War,
