1,000 Minutes of New Looney Tunes Are On the Way

Here a tune, there a tune, everywhere a Looney Tune. Warner Bros. is going to start dropping new and creative Looney Tunes content all over the place, and it could be really interesting. Our favorite iconic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote will soon be starring in a series of short films. Once upon a time, the characters starred regularly on the big and small screen,

By Ashley Perlmutter  |  June 12, 2018
Harlem’s Queen Arrives in Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer

Marvel has dropped the second full-length trailer for Season 2 of Luke Cage, and Alfre Woodard’s Mariah Dillard is front and center.

“Black women have always had superpowers, turning pain into progress,” Dillard says in voiceover. In this season, it looks like she will be doing exactly that (Season 1 spoilers to follow). With her cousin Cottonmouth (Mahershala Ali) dead, she is free to run the nightclub Harlem’s Paradise and wield all of the power that comes with it.

By Joseph Gates  |  June 12, 2018
James Wan is Bringing the Eight-Legged Monsters From Arachnophobia Back

As someone who recently put 12 spider traps in a one-bedroom apartment after finding a single eight-legged creature, I can confirm they are scary little beasts. Apparently, James Wan feels the same way. His company, Atomic Monster, is teaming up with Amblin to remake the comedy horror Arachnophobia.

Fear of spiders is one of the most common phobias, which makes it perfect fodder for horror master, James Wan. Arachnophobia was unleashed in 1990 starring John Goodman and Jeff Daniels and hundreds of Avondale spiders.

By Kelle Long  |  June 12, 2018
The Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Bright, Especially for Female Directors

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to look very different after the Infinity War arc concludes with Avengers 4. And in this case, different is good.

Marvel President Kevin Feige has already stated that the studio will produce another round of twenty films once Phase 4 gets up and running. There are plans to release Marvel titles through at least 2028, with three being released each year through 2022.

By Joseph Gates  |  June 12, 2018
Review Roundup: Incredibles 2 is one of Pixar’s Best Sequels

We’ve all been patiently waiting a long 14 years for the return of our favorite family film, The Incredibles, and the time has finally come with the upcoming release of Incredibles 2. Writer-director Brad Bird had a lot to live up to from his first magnificent Pixar film that changed the game and set the bar high for superhero movies. The critics have weighed in—Bird has successfully reached,

By Ashley Perlmutter  |  June 12, 2018

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Costume Designer Jane Petrie on the Royals Step Into Modernity in Season 2 of The Crown

Lushly shot, exquisitely produced, expensive and popular, Netflix’s The Crown is praised not just for its (mostly) accurate rendering of major and minor events in the history of Britain’s royal family, but for its credible portrayal of their homes and haunts and the clothes they wore there. The period costumes, executed in attentive, realistic detail by Michele Clapton and Timothy Everest in the first season, and by Jane Petrie in season two,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  June 12, 2018

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Sound Editors Harness Horses, Wind & Gunshots for Netflix’s Western Godless

When it comes to designing sound for westerns, seven-time Oscar nominee Wylie Stateman keeps his ears attuned to wind, horses, gunshots and what he calls “the ride up and the ride out.” Speaking from his Twenty Four Seven Sound studio in Topanga Canyon near L.A., Stateman says, “You need to capture the sense of the countryside and traveling by horseback because that’s what makes a western what it is. It’s all about the big sky and the ride up and the ride out,

By Hugh Hart  |  June 12, 2018
Gal Gadot Joins Dwayne Johnson’s Red Notice

Skyscraper will not burst into theaters until next month, but Hollywood is already looking toward the next action collaboration between Dwayne Johnson and Rawson Marshall Thurber. Universal won a heated bidding battle to snag their next project, Red Notice. Deadline has now confirmed that Gal Gadot is set to join the cast.

Thurber wrote the original screenplay and will also direct the film. Thurber and Johnson are a proven team,

By Joseph Gates  |  June 11, 2018
The Losers’ Club in It: Chapter 2 is Finally Complete

The club is all here. One of the most fun guessing games in Hollywood was trying to predict who will play the adult version of the Losers’ Club in It: Chapter 2. The young cast of It set such a high bar, raising expectations for their grownup counterparts. The group’s moral center, Mike Hanlon, has now been cast and the club is complete. Isaiah Mustafa will play the adult Mike in Chapter 2.

By Kelle Long  |  June 11, 2018

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Sound Designer

Making the Met Gala in Ocean’s 8 Sound as Cool as it Looks

There are few things more frustrating to a moviegoer than missing a line of dialogue. Scripts have been carefully crafted to tell a story in merely a few hours making nearly every word vital to the plot. If you can’t hear what is said, you could miss something important. Particularly in the dialogue heavy Ocean’s 8 where the heist of the century is discussed in detail by eight sharp, savvy, and hilarious women.

By Kelle Long  |  June 11, 2018
Jeff Goldblum Reveals the Grandmaster Is “Very Much Around” After Avengers: Infinity War

This story contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War.

“It’s a tie,” the Grandmaster says at the end of Thor: Ragnarok, while he is surrounded by revolutionaries planning to kill him. For many, this was surely the end of Jeff Goldblum’s eccentric character, but the actor recently revealed in an interview with Digital Spy that this is not necessarily the case.

By The Credits  |  June 11, 2018
George R.R. Martin has a Title in Mind for HBO’s Game of Thrones Prequel Series

While many fans would love nothing more than for George R.R. Martin to finally finish “The Winds of Winter,” the man still has some ideas about how his epic creation will be captured on television. As Entertainment Weekly reports, Martin has some thoughts about HBO’s upcoming  Game of Thrones prequel pilot.

Martin took to his website to heap praise on prequel showrunner Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class) and assured fans of his books that Goldman is running things on the prequel so Martin can finish “The Winds of Winter.”

By The Credits  |  June 11, 2018
Ryan Gosling Takes Giant Leap for Mankind in First Man Trailer

Are you feeling the Monday blues and think your job is just a little too stressful? At least you aren’t the first person to ever be sealed into a flammable metal box and launched beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Ryan Gosling channels the pressure Neil Armstrong faced in the first flight to the moon in the First Man trailer.

Gosling, fresh off hugely entertaining films La La Land and Blade Runner 2049,

By Joseph Gates  |  June 11, 2018

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Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry has Arrived

As Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles on FX’s critically acclaimed Atlanta which ended its second season in May (and was just picked up for a third season), Brian Tyree Henry can do more with one grimace than many can do with their whole body. He’s instilled Paper Boi with heart, humor and a lovability that makes him one of the best characters on television right now.

But he hasn’t stopped there,

By Kerensa Cadenas  |  June 11, 2018

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Production Designer

Westworld’s Production Designer Breaks Down Season 2

Production designer Howard Cummings’s thirty year career has encompassed an incredible range of varied and stylized work: from the fantastical designs showcased in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, to the grounded realism seen in such films as Francis Coppola’s The Rainmaker, to the expressive realism seen in his 20 year stint working with director Steven Soderbergh on movies like The Underneath,

By Matthew Steigbigel  |  June 11, 2018
HBO Orders Game of Thrones Pilot Featuring White Walker Origin Story

If you are a history buff and Game of Thrones fan, then the upcoming franchise spinoff is for you. HBO is developing a Game of Thrones prequel set millennia before the Mad King went on the bloody rampage that sparked the original series. The cable network has been juggling ideas, and it seems like they have settled on a dark tale featuring the characters that most keep us up at night.

By Kelle Long  |  June 8, 2018
Al Pacino Collaborates with Quentin Tarantino For the First Time in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has become a Who’s Who of Hollywood. Al Pacino will join the impressive ensemble of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family inspired film. The news follows a yesterday’s announcement of a flood of talent who had signed onto the project.

Previous Tarantino collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will lead the cast. DiCaprio will play aging western star Rick Dalton with Pitt as Dalton’s stunt double,

By Kelle Long  |  June 8, 2018
Hope Takes Charge in New Ant-Man and the Wasp TV Spot

Being under house arrest is actually more peaceful than working, it turns out. At least that’s the case when you’re a superhero who has to save the world from a dangerous new supervillain. If Ant-Man and the Wasp are going to stop the Ghost, first they have to get him out of the house in this new spot.

Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) reveals the origin of the newest threat in the Marvel Universe.

By Kelle Long  |  June 8, 2018
Laurie Gets Her Wish to Face Michael Myers Again in Halloween Trailer

Laurie Strode is a grandmother now, but there is one thing missing from her happy ending. Having the pleasure of killing Michael once and for all. Laurie has spent 40 years praying Michael will escape and give her the opportunity to take him out. Of course, she gets her wish. The new Halloween trailer has some delightful treats for those of us who have worshipped the John Carpenter masterpiece all our lives.

If you don’t remember what happened in the original Halloween,

By Kelle Long  |  June 8, 2018
FX Renews Donald Glover’s Atlanta for Third Season

FX has ordered another season of Donald Glover’s award-winning, mind-bending comedy Atlanta. This series has been a hit for FX, both critically and commercially. Atlanta has won Emmys, Golden Globes, an AFI Award and a Peabody, to name a few of the accolades the show’s piled up. For the uninitiated, Atlanta follows Earn (Glover) and his cousin Al (Brian Tyree Henry) as they attempt to make it in Atlanta’s competitive rap world.

By Ashley Perlmutter  |  June 8, 2018