Will Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings Series Focus on Young Aragorn?
We’re hearing some exciting rumors from Middle Earth as of late. The One Ring recently tweeted that Amazon’s first season of its Lord of the Rings series will focus on the life of young Aragorn. Though we can’t confirm this report, we can confirm fans’ excitement over the possibility. Aragorn, played by Viggo Mortenson in the films, has a key role in the famous trilogy and his backstory is one for the ages.
Aragorn was heir of Isildur and in line to rule Arnor and Gondor,...
How Avengers: Infinity War‘s “Head of Digital Humans” Created the Purple Face of Doom
Darren Hendler‘s been changing live action humans into digital creatures for nearly two decades. Since moving from South Africa to London and finally to Digital Domain in Los Angeles, the former electrical engineer has helped designed CG effects for such spectacles as I, Robot and Furious 7. With Avengers: Infinity War, he focused on the face. Deploying a new motion capture program called Masquerade, Hendler and his team rendered every pore on Josh Brolin’s skin with unprecedented accuracy...
How Black Panther‘s Visual Effects Team Infused the Panther Suits With Vibranium Technology
Some of the most revealing interviews you can get is with a film’s visual effects supervisor. Its where you find out, for example, how they created the planet of Vormir in Avengers: Infinity War (hint: by melding sand dunes from Brazil and mountains in Iceland). The VFX teams are expert at blending the real with the digital so that your eyes can’t tell what was actually shot and what was built on a computer. It’s deception as art...
Chris Pratt Has Trouble Checking His Luggage While Leaving Jurassic World
We have all had run ins with airport staff telling us our bag is oversized, or over weight, and we cannot possibly board. It’s a frustrating refrain, especially for those traveling with pets. Service animals call for even more proof that you really do need that capuchin monkey in your lap from New York to LA. Jurassic World’s Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) goes straight to the top of the animal kingdom for his travel companion. Fallen Kingdom teamed up with College Humor to imagine what it would be like trying to fly commercial with a prehistoric passenger...
The Baryonyx, Indoraptor & Mosasaurus Star in new Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Spot
Yesterday we shared this new Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom featurette which revealed that director J.A. Bayona’s film has more dinosaurs than every other film in the franchise—combined. Now Universal has released a new TV spot that features three of the film’s marquee prehistoric stars—the genetically modified indoraptor, the baryonyx, and returning champion, the colossal, aquatic mosasaurus. While the Jurassic franchise has two undisputed kings—the T-Rex and the velociraptor—you may recall that in Jurassic World, ...
Letitia Wright Breaks Down All of Shuri’s Best Black Panther Inventions
No one knows Wakandan technology like top inventor, Shuri. Her brilliant usage of vibranium to protect her country, and her brother, is truly inspiring. There are so many cool gadgets in Black Panther that it’s impossible to absorb them all in one sitting. Thankfully, we’ve got Letitia Wright here to help us out and showcase the coolest creations in Shuri’s arsenal in this awesome video from Vanity Fair.
When we are first introduced to Shuri’s lab,...
Review Roundup: Solo: A Star Wars Story Delivers the Goods
The reviews for Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story are out, and the critics are mostly in agreement that this is the most fun, breeziest stand-alone Star Wars film yet released. The reviews pretty much jibe with the first reactions we published last Friday—great performances, some terrific action set pieces, and the scruffy charm you’d want, and expect, in a film about the young Han Solo. For those folks who were worried about Alden Ehrenreich,...
Solo Features the Most Costumes of Any Star Wars Film
With the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story just two days away, Disney has posted a behind the scenes look at the incredible work that went into the film. In many ways, this is the most swashbuckling Star Wars movie yet. Han Solo is one of the greatest characters in the franchise, and certainly its most beloved scoundrel, so it’s comforting to know the filmmakers went above and beyond. In this great new featurette, some of the film’s key crew members discuss how they helped craft the story of the galaxy’s most iconic smuggler...
The New Mission: Impossible – Fallout Trailer is Pure Adrenalin
You will likely not see a more kinetic, viscerally intense trailer this year. Topping the action from the previous installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise is both as sure and seemingly impossible a thing as death itself. After Ghost Protocol, when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, of course) went Spider-Man outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building, and ran across the glass face of the building a mile and a half above ground,...
Costume Designer Phoebe de Gaye Brings Killer Style to Killing Eve
In the role of the international assassin known as Villanelle on Killing Eve, Jodie Comer is literally dressed to kill in a high-end wardrobe full of labels such as Burberry, Miu Miu, Dries Van Noten and Phillip Lim.
The chic attire, which prompted Vogue to hail Killing Eve as the most fashionable show on television, was sourced by a small team led by costume designer Phoebe de Gaye,...
More Transmissions from the Westworld Hosts Appear on Delos Website
Today I am back to my full-time job of clicking on everything that is possibly clickable on the ever-evolving Westworld website. It has become an obsession that is interfering with my daily life, but this maze was meant for me and I will reach the end. Over the summer, the Delos Destinations site seemed to be glitching out, but we still got insight into the total number of parks. Two weeks ago, we noticed the hosts had taken control of the site and were leaving threatening messages...
A Close-Up Photo of You Know What From Avengers: Infinity War‘s Post-Credit Scene
Even though Avengers: Infinity War premiered way back on April 27, we’re still going to make sure you’ve seen the film before we suggest you keep reading…
Still here? Fantastic. Let’s all rejoice at a close-up photo of the one glimmer of hope from Infinity War, the most somber film in Marvel history. Truly, the only moment in the last, oh, 40-minutes of the film that gave us any hope at all occurred during the otherwise hideously depressing post-credits scene...
Nightflyers Promo Sets the Tone for George R.R. Martin’s Spaceship Thriller
Game of Thrones, inspired by George R.R. Martin’s epic series A Song of Ice and Fire, is nearing its final winter. Season 8, airing in the summer of 2019, will be the end of the series. If you can’t imagine your life without Martin’s stories in it, fear not. If you can stomach sci-fi horror, Nightflyers is on the way. SyFy released a behind the scenes feature of the show in March,...
Book Club‘s Creators on How Fifty Shades of Grey Inspired Their Dream Project
Whatever you did to celebrate Mother’s Day probably wasn’t as great as Bill Holderman’s gift to his mom in 2012. The final book in the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy had just been published, and the Book Club director, co-producer, and co-screenwriter sent the entire set to his mother.
“As sons do, right?” Holderman joked.
Book Club co-producer and co-screenwriter Erin Simms worked with Holderman at a production company at the time and heard about the plan...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Features More Dinosaurs Than Every Previous Film—Combined
While Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) wants you to adopt a dinosaur, you’re smarter than that. You know that the humans who have populated the Jurassic franchise have consistently underestimated their own intelligence and ability to “control” life. Dinosaurs cannot be adopted (even symbolically) because they are not ours to have, to own, or to manipulate. You’ve seen this proven time and time again throughout the franchise, and now, a new featurette boasts that J.A...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘s Claire Dearing Wants you to Adopt a Dinosaur
Are you more of a herbivore lover, or do you prefer dinosaurs with fangs and a taste for meat? Do you like a lumbering, gentle giant, or a fleet-footed killer? If you’re the former, perhaps you’ll want to adopt a cute (if a little long in the hoof) 17-year old ankylosaurus, a peaceful herbivore with an impressively spiked, shelled back. The baryonyx, on the other hand, has a serious set of fangs, and prefers eating fish. Plus, she’s only 8 years old!...
Behold Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in First Bohemian Rhapsody Trailer
At long last, our first good look at Bohemian Rhapsody is here. 20th Century Fox has just dropped the first trailer for Dexter Fletcher’s biopic, which follows the rise of the iconic British rock band Queen, starring Rami Malek as the legendary frontman Freddie Mercury. Bohemian Rhapsody tracks Queen’s staggering ascent into the stratosphere of fame and fortune as one of the 1970s biggest acts (in a decade lousy with them), their near catastrophic fall,...
See What all the Buzz is About in the First Trailer for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman made waves at the Cannes Film Festival, where it has a good shot at taking home the Palme d’Or. Critics are hailing the film as both a hilarious and bracing, stylish and unnerving. In short, a Spike Lee joint, from an auteur who seems to be back at the top of his game. The first trailer will give you a peek at what all the buzz is about.
Lee’s film is based on Ron Stallworth’s book,...
Deadpool 2 Review Roundup: More Outrageous & Hilarious Than the Original
Deadpool 2‘s reviews are officially out, and most critics are in agreement that somehow, the franchise has gotten even snarkier, funnier and more irreverent than the original. Coming on the heels of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s somber epic, Deadpool 2 backflips into theaters this Friday with all the weightiness of a cinematic Cirque du Soleil. Led by Ryan Reynolds as the fourth wall smashing antihero Wade Wilson, and now joined by breakout newcomers Zazie Beetz as Domino and Josh Brolin (fresh off his role as the super villain Thanos in Infinity War) as Cable, ...
Westworld Will Finally Take Us Into Shogun World in the Next Episode
Westworld is filled with mysteries, secrets and surprises. One plot point we have long expected, however, is the introduction of other parks. Namely, Shogun World. We were surprised to actually enter the colonial India park, The Raj, before the long-foreshadowed Shogun World. The episode 5 teaser indicates that we may finally get the proper introduction to the snowy Imperial Japanese themed park we’ve long been waiting for.
Last week’s episode saw Maeve, Hector,...
