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. We’re once again following the exceptional Parr family,...
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, BBC America was in business with the British writer and actress—who can currently be seen as the droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story—and London-based Sid Gentle Films,...
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. This new-look LEGO Earth is a post-apocalyptic mess,...
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. And, with the world’s repository of information at its fingertips,...
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. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie Watson,...
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.” Everything changed when Universal Cable Productions asked him to adapt German crime novelist Petra Hammesfahr’s dark thriller “The Sinner”...
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, we need some lighter vibes...
The Official Star Wars Twitter Solves Decades-Old Empire Strikes Back Mystery
What began as a minor, almost forgettable moment of typical C-3PO humor in The Empire Strikes Back has recently become much, much more. A popular fan theory about the scene arose following the release of the legendary franchises’ newest spinoff, Solo: A Star War Story, and the people behind the Star Wars Twitter feed have all but confirmed it. The theory involves some plot spoilers for Solo, so proceed with caution if you haven’t yet witnessed the origin of the world’s favorite space cowboy...
Widows Trailer Reveals Oscar-Winning Director Steve McQueen’s Star-Studded Thriller
Steve McQueen, the auteur behind 12 Years a Slave, is back with Widows, his first film in five years. Viola Davis,Michelle Rodriguez Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Ervio play the titular widows of criminals who need to come together to pull off a major heist in order to pay off their dead husband’s debts.
The rest of the cast is equally excellent. Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Garret Dillahunt, Carrie Coon,...
Watch Tom Cruise Make History Doing a “Halo Jump” From 25,000 Feet in Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ever since we saw the first Mission: Impossible – Fallout trailer we’ve been impatiently waiting to see Tom Cruise back in action as super agent Ethan Hunt. Then came that second, somehow even better trailer, and we were convinced this might be the best Mission: Impossible yet. By now we’ve gotten a good look at what led Cruise to get his helicopter pilot’s license (so that he could actually fly his own chopper during an insane chase through the mountains,...
Writer/Director Veena Sud on her Timely Netflix Drama Seven Seconds
A young detective, frantic because he cannot reach his pregnant wife, is driving through the snow, trying to reach her on his cell. He hears a sickening thud, but does not realize what he has hit – who he has hit – until he gets out of the car and sees the mangled bike under his wheel. A black teenage boy named Brent Butler was riding that bik,e and the cop is white.
When his colleagues arrive, they tell him to leave. ...
Joy Nash on her Breakout Role as Plum Kettle in Dietland
At one point in the two hour premiere of AMC’s latest drama, Dietland, Margaret Atwood’s most famous quote is uttered by main character Plum Kettle: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Other than being a perfect encapsulation of our current times, it’s also a sentiment that can anchor the stickily interesting Dietland, based on the novel by Sarai Walker and brought to AMC by TV veteran Marti Noxon...
Josh Brolin Raises the Stakes in New Sicario: Day of the Soldado Clip
There are no rules here in this ruthless new clip from Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Josh Brolin’s character resorts to armed kidnapping to get what he wants, but everyone might not agree with his methods. Sony just released the short scene and the sequel to the 2015 crime thriller appears to be even bolder than its predecessor.
The intense scene features Matt Graver (Brolin), the staunch CIA operative who continues to carry out illegal false flag operations against Mexican drug cartels...
