Netflix Continues Going All Out on Sci-Fi With the Gorgeous Looking Lost in Space
The first full-length trailer for Netflix’s Lost in Space boasts a look as lush and wondrous as any sci-fi series we’ve seen on TV. This is in keeping with the streaming platform’s willingness to go big on their genre films as well as their series—we’ve seen this on both David Ayer’s film Bright and their new sci-fi series Altered Carbon—both the product of big budgets and creative freedom on offer to filmmakers and creators.
Black Panther Has Cracked the Top 10 Highest Domestic Gross of All Time
The Black Panther box office numbers continue to blow us away as record after record is broken. Being king is one thing, but to be Top 10 of all time is something special. The nation of Wakanda has landed at the #9 spot for all time domestic box office. Black Panther sprang past last year’s Beauty and the Beast with $506.4 million in US ticket sales. Did we mention it’s only been in theaters for three weekends?
Brace Yourself, There’s More Black Mirror to Come
There’s more technological terror to come. Netflix has renewed Black Mirror for a fifth season.
In fairness, the sci-fi anthology series from Charlie Booker and Annabel Jones isn’t always scary. There was the adorable ‘Hang the DJ last season that renewed our faith in dating apps, and the lovely Emmy winning San Junipero restored our faith in aging. Sort of. The point is it was lovely and awesome.
Writer/Director Atsuko Hirayanagi on Synchronicity & Inspiration in her Feature Oh Lucy!
Originally, writer/director Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh, Lucy! was written and produced as a short, winning the Jury Prize for International Fiction at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Now she has expanded it into a full-length feature, and Oh, Lucy! has just been released across the country to universally positive reviews.
Shinobu Terajima, an A-list actress in her native Japan, was nominated for a Best Female Lead Independent Spirit Award for her role as Setkuko,
Spider-Man Dons the Iron Suit in Avengers: Infinity War
Being Tony Stark’s protégé has its perks. Sure, it can get you into a lot of danger and mixed up with superhuman powers that are intent on destroying the universe. On the other hand, you’ll have access to really fun technology that you can add to your crime fighting gear. Case in point, Spider-Man’s Iron Spider suit.
Peter Parker will be among the dozens of Marvel characters to appear in Avengers: Infinity War,
It’s a Magical Day to Fly a Kite in New Mary Poppins Returns Trailer
What better day to go and fly a kite up to the highest height than on a blustery gray day in London? A new generation will soon know the joy of kite flying, and much more, in Mary Poppins Returns. The skies are parting for the magical nanny once again as she pays a visit to the Banks family in the first trailer for the film.
Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) are all grown up,
Daughter of Uma Thurman & Ethan Hawke Joins Stranger Things for Season 3
It looks like your favorite band of pre-teen heroes will be running into a few new faces on season 3 of the beloved Netflix original series Stranger Things. Maya Thuman-Hawke, daughter of Hollywood superstars Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke has been confirmed to have joined the cast for the upcoming season. According to Deadline, Hawke will be taking on the character of Robin, “an alternative girl who is equal parts sharp and playful.
Rick Deckard’s Companion in Blade Runner 2049 is Top Dog, Literally
The Oscars may have been what most people were tuned into last night, but another important award ceremony was held just a day before. Palm Dog USA held their annual award ceremony on March 4 in Los Angeles. THR reported that the competition for dogs in show business is typically a staple of the Cannes Film Festival, but the ceremony in L.A. marks the first time the awards were held in the United States.
Phasma Madness, Rey Rage & More: Here are the First Details on Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s Deleted Scenes
The home release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is like manna from heaven for Star Wars fans. It’s when we not only get to own the film so we can watch it, again and again, parsing for the small details we missed in the theater, but also when we get to see those delicious deleted scenes. Delicious because the scenes that didn’t make the final cut can offer a ton of context and a deeper understanding of what writer/director Rian Johnson was going for in his ambitious,
Watch Charles Barkley Slay in This SNL Star Wars Skit That was Cut for Time
One of the more absurd and overlooked aspects of the Star Wars franchise is that somehow everyone in the galaxy is multi-lingual. No matter what planet people travel to and who—or what—they might encounter there, no one in any Star Wars film ever says, “I have no idea what this person/alien/thing is saying.” This includes the beeping language of droids like R2-D2 and BB-8. Everyone understands everyone else, all the time.
The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele & Frances McDormand: Your 2018 Oscar Highlights
The Shape of Water turns out to be that of an Oscar statue, Jordan Peele nabs an Academy Award for his Get Out original script, Frances McDormand wins Best Actress and ignites the industry with two choice words, and legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins has finally won the big award for his stellar work on Blade Runner 2049. And let’s not overlook Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges,
Tony Stark Got Marvel to Release Avengers: Infinity War One Week Earlier
The Avengers have one less week to gear up for battle than they thought. Previously slated for a May 4 release, Avengers: Infinity War will now hit theaters April 27. Summer blockbusters kick off in the first week of May, but when you’re the defenders of the galaxy, rules do not apply.
Robert Downey Jr. had the honors of breaking the news. He is Tony Stark, after all – the man who launched the cinematic MCU.
The Missouri Policeman Who Prepared Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell’s character, Officer Dixon, is by no means a model police officer in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. He’s violent, bigoted, temperamental and aloof. Yet, in order to play a character that gets everything wrong, sometimes you have to know what it looks like to get the job right. To research the role, Rockwell turned to Springfield, Missouri police officer Josh McMullin to learn the ropes.
Three Billboards dialect coach Liz Himelstein first contacted the Springfield Police department to research a Southwest Missouri accent.
How the Hair Design of Mudbound Became the Basis of an Oscar Nominated Performance
The heat and mud of the Mississippi farmland is palpable from the makeup to the clothing to the score in Dee Rees’ Mudbound. As the Jackson and McAllan families struggle through the muck and mire of poverty and racial tensions, they wear the Earth like badges of war. The oppressive climate was no trick of the camera, said hair department head Lawrence Davis.
“It was physically challenging just to be there walking through the mud,” Davis recalled.
Baby Driver’s Oscar-Nominated Supervising Sound Editor Dissects the Movie’s Unique Syncopated Style
As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, while publishing new interviews throughout the week. Baby Driver sound editor Julian Slater is nominated alongside his collaborators Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis. They’re up against Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill & Mac Ruth (Blade Runner 2049), Mark Weingarten, Greg Landaker & Gary A Rizzo (Dunkirk), Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern & Glen Gauthier (The Shape of Water),
I, Tonya‘s Oscar-Nominated Editor Tatiana S. Riegel on What Makes a Scene Work and Why
As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, while publishing new interviews throughout the week. I, Tonya Editor Tatiana S. Riegel is nominated alongside Paul Machliss & Jonathan Amos (Baby Driver), Lee Smith (Dunkirk), Sidney Wolinsky (The Shape of Water) and Jon Gregory (Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri).
One could make a case that the most competitive category in the upcoming Oscars isn’t for best picture or best director,
How The Shape of Water‘s VFX Producer Turned a Monster Into a Romantic Lead
In the final part of this two-part interview, visual effects coordinator and frequent Guillermo del Toro collaborator Luke Groves reveals how he worked with the filmmaker to craft some of The Shape of Water’s most awe-inspiring sequences and reveals how he and the visual effects team at Mr. X walked the line between CG magic and practical effects to create movie magic that looks impressively real.
I want to talk about the opening sequence because I know it was shot wet-to-dry which is absolutely incredible.
The Shape of Water‘s VFX Producer on Creating the Year’s Most Unique Leading Man
For all its ambitious underwater sequences and that stunning central creature, it’s oddly easy to forget the technical majesty at work in Guillermo del Toro’s meticulous, Oscar-nominated The Shape of Water. Not for its lack of quality, in fact, quite the opposite. The work, which makes every inch of del Toro’s beguiling fantasy possible, is so seamless as to give the impression that even the film’s most outlandish design elements are through some mysterious magic,
Love & Other Illusions: How Blade Runner 2049‘s Oscar-Nominated Sound Designer Played With our Heart Strings
As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, as well as publishing new interviews with those vying for Oscar gold this Sunday. Sound editor Theo Green is nominated alongside his Blade Runner 2049 collaborator Mark Mangini. The Sound Editing category includes Julian Slater (Baby Driver), Richard King & Alex Gibson (Dunkirk), Nathan Robitaille & Nelson Ferreira (The Shape of Water),
How Blade Runner 2049’s Oscar-Nominated Sound Designer Pulled no Punches
As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, as well as publishing new interviews with those vying for Oscar gold this Sunday. Sound editor Theo Green is nominated alongside his Blade Runner 2049 collaborator Mark Mangini. The Sound Editing category includes Julian Slater (Baby Driver), Richard King & Alex Gibson (Dunkirk), Nathan Robitaille & Nelson Ferreira (The Shape of Water),
