Stop-Motion Master Travis Knight Brings Bumblebee to Life in New Featurette
Travis Knight is one of the most highly-regarded animators working today. The acclaimed Kubo and the Two Strings director is also the President and CEO of Laika Studios. The stop-motion giant turned out instant classics like Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and ParaNorman. Above all else, Knight is an artist. He’s adept at transforming something inanimate — like the materials he builds his Laika figurines from — into something human. Paramount just released a glimpse into the magical way that Knight is transforming his animation skills to bring Bumblebee to life as the film’s director...
The Origin of a Demon that Haunted The Warrens is Revealed in The Nun Teaser
The Conjuring has had its fair share of terrifying spirits, but Valak of The Conjuring 2 may haunt us the most. Released during a seance seeking answers to the Amityville House killings, the demonic nun crept into Lorraine’s mind and frightened her with a vision of her husband dying. The first teaser for The Nun reveals that Valak has been terrorizing people for decades and she doesn’t fear anything holy.
In The Conjuring 2,...
Zoe Saldana has Wrapped Filming on Both Avatar 2 & 3
After almost 10 long years, James Cameron‘s Avatar sequels are really and truly happening. Word is that our beloved Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) has done what she needed to do—Saldana has wrapped filming on both of the sequels, Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, which are scheduled release is in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Last night at 20th Century Fox’s presentation at CineEurope, director James Cameron announced in a video clip that he is on day 130 of production on the Avatar sequels...
Wonder Woman‘s Steve Trevor Is Alive and Well and Living in 1984?
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot just casually gave us all reason to rejoice. May we introduce you to my new background image on every device I own from now until the end of time – Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) alive, well, and living in 1984. Wonder Woman 2 has begun filming and Jenkins tweeted out this incredible image of Trevor soaking in the sites of a 1980s mall. She even wrote a little bit of context that is giving us some heavy clues...
The First Teaser Trailer for Tim Burton’s Dumbo Lifts the Spirits
If you’re looking ahead to 2019, there are few films as intriguing as Tim Burton’s Dumbo. Now we’ve got our first glimpse at Burton’s live-action retelling of the Disney classic, and it should put to rest any fears Dumbo purists had about retelling the story on the big screen. At at mere minute and twenty seconds, the teaser for Dumbo manages to make you fall immediately in love with the titular baby elephant, who we first glimpse staring longingly at a flock of birds flying into the night’s sky from his cage...
Get to Know GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
When entertainment journalist and critic John Griffiths founded the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association in 2009, the group, now known as GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, had 20 members. Today, it has a membership of nearly 200 writers, including myself, who cover film and television for print, online and broadcast outlets and honor the best in entertainment every year through the Dorian Awards.
“There are tons of critics groups. I think there’s probably fifty across the country...
Witness the Making of that Deadpool 2 Music Video
What is the one foolproof thing that could make any music video more fun? If you have been paying attention over the past six months, you know where this is headed. You have to include Deadpool, of course. And he has to shake it.
Nearly a month after the Merc with a Mouth returned to theaters, Fox released a behind the scenes look at the making of the ‘Welcome To The Party’...
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, but they haven’t been so active in recent years...
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...
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...
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. While this is old news,...
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, and possibly even surpassed,...
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, faithfully reflect what their real wearers once donned,...
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,...
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, having previously collaborated on the amusing Central Intelligence prior to summer fare,...
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.
Chosen Jacobs portrayed the tender-hearted Mike in It...
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. You won’t want to miss a word of it...
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. Goldblum said:
“Grandmaster is more superheroed than all of [the Avengers] put together...
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.”...
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, takes charge as Neil Armstrong,...
