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.
The First Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer Promises a Very Good Time
We’re always interested in what writer/director Drew Goddard is up to. From writing The Martian‘s to co-writing and directing the insane (and great) Cabin the Woods, Goddard makes good stuff. Now we’ve got the first trailer for his thriller Bad Times at the El Royale, and we’re enthused. It’s deliciously bonkers. Goddard’s working with an incredible cast and a great setting—the titular hotel is situated in Lake Tahoe,
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Teases Epic End to the Trilogy
As soon as those notes from John Powell’s magnificent score begin to play, we’re reminded of just how special this movie franchise is. After two excellent How to Train Your Dragon movies, the first trailer for The Hidden World dropped today. It promises to be a special way to close the trilogy.
Our heroes are back. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), Astrid (America Ferrera), and of course, Toothless, living in their dream world.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cast Gets Even More Appropriately Insane
Once upon a time, Quentin Tarantino put together one of the best casts in modern movie history. That time is now. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood already tapped top talent including Leonardo DiCaprio and his Wolf of Wall Street costar, Margot Robbie. DiCaprio will star as Rick Dalton, an actor who used to be a big name in Western television. Brad Pitt plays his stunt double and actress Sharon Tate’s (Robbie) neighbor.
Black Panther‘s VFX Team Reveals how They Built Wakanda
It turns out that Wakanda is real. The nation’s most stunning vistas weren’t taken from another country, or the product of various other environments blended together. Wakanda is real—in a sense—in that it was created almost entirely by the visual effects wizards who brought Ryan Coogler’s vision of the fictional African nation into reality. The most astonishing location in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was nearly entirely created by digital effects.
15 New Ant-Man and the Wasp Images Reveal Hannah John-Kamen’s Villain Ghost
Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost looks like one of the most interesting villains we’ve seen in a Marvel film. For starters, she’s a woman, and as Cate Blanchett proved in Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel’s female villains seem to have more fun. In a set of 15 new images released by Marvel and Walt Disney Studios, John-Kamen’s Ghost is revealed in her all her shape-shifting, hooded glory. There are also great shots of Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in his Giant-Man iteration,
Claire Foy Nearly Unrecognizable as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web Trailer
This is not the Claire Foy you’re used to seeing. The talented actress best known for playing the young Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown is completely transformed in Sony Pictures’ The Girl in the Spider’s Web. From high tea and corsets to torture and leather, Foy plays the iconic computer hacker and avenging angel Lisbeth Salander. The Girl in the Spider’s Web was shot by Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez,
Writer/Director Ari Aster on his Terrifying Debut Hereditary
When critics bend over backwards to keep a movie’s secrets under wraps, presume that the title in question is a step beyond the norm and well worth seeing. That is the case with Hereditary. Writer-director Ari Aster’s feature debut caused festival goers at Sundance and South by Southwest to squirm, shudder and gasp out loud at what transpires onscreen. Starting on June 8, the public will get to witness this grandly operatic yet exceedingly unsettling horror thriller about a grieving family seemingly beset by sinister forces – if they dare.
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.
