Gina Rodriguez to Star as Carmen Sandiego in Animated series and Live-Action film
The great Gina Rodriguez is best known for her stellar work on The CW’s Jane the Virgin, yet the last time we saw her taking on a secret assignment, she was playing Anya Thorensen in Alex Garland’s trippy, super intense sci-fi film Annihilation. In that film, Rodriguez shed all remnants of her persona from Jane the Virgin and showed us a raw, vulnerable character who plunged into the mysterious Area X and found some seriously horrifying stuff.
New Footage and More Jokes Highlight Deadpool 2 Green Band Trailer
A new green band trailer and a new international poster? Things are heating up with Deadpool 2‘s marketing push, giving us ever more glimpses at the Merc with the Mouth’s upcoming adventures with his new best friends in the whole world, Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable (Josh Brolin). In this new green band trailer, Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson catches us up on everything that happened in the original film in roughly 30 seconds,
Eli Roth Defies Expectations With The House With a Clock in Its Walls
Eli Roth has directed a…children’s movie?
Well, not quite, but the director of Hostel and Cabin Fever‘s latest film, The House With a Clock in Its Walls, is based on a children’s book by novelist John Bellairs (with wonderful illustrations by Edward Gorey), and was produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, so it’s a far cry from the gory films he made his reputation on.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s Production Designer Recreates 1958-era Manhattan
Production designer Bill Groom doesn’t remember much about 1958. After all, he was just eight years old when the feisty and fictitious Midge Maisel roamed the streets of New York. So when Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Dan Palladino asked him to conjure mid-century Manhattan for their Amazon period piece comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which started streaming on Amazon earlier this month, Groom did what he always does: research. Lots of research.
Groot Sasses and T’Challa Inspires in New Avengers: Infinity War Teaser
The Avengers are our only hope to save the universe. If a heavily armed group of mutants, aliens, superheroes, super minds, and gods can’t stop Thanos (Josh Brolin), who can? And yet, success is not guaranteed. A new Avengers: Infinity War spot threatens that loss is inevitable—we already know for sure one of our favorites won’t be back after Avengers 4. But will the loss come in the battle or the war?
Watch Carrie Fisher Slap Oscar Isaac Silly in Fantastic Star Wars: The Last Jedi Gag Reel
We’ve shared a lot of juicy behind-the-scenes videos from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Like this video about some very good dogs helping them create the crystal foxes), or this one, which includes 11-minutes of footage from the documentary The Director and the Jedi. These morsels of Star Wars goodness began hitting the internet in the lead up to the release of The Last Jedi‘s digital HD became available,
Captain Marvel Brings Three Marvel Characters Back from the Dead
With Disney confirming that Captain Marvel is officially in production, more details are now emerging, and those include the cast list. It looks like three Marvel characters we had said goodbye to are returning, one of whom brings a smile to our face (all three are superb actors, and their involvement is great for the film.)
The first name is a lovable (if a little gruff) character we lost in Josh Whedon’s The Avengers.
Mark Hamill Reveals George Lucas’s Abandoned Ending for Star Wars: Episode IX
When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he was also letting go of control over his vision of how his epic Skywalker saga, beginning with 1977’s Star Wars, would end. Lucas had given Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm’s president, a treatment for the new trilogy once Disney acquired the rights, but ultimately it was J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan’s vision for The Force Awakens which kicked things off and set the new trilogy in motion.
The Russo Brothers Hilariously Acknowledge Hawkeye’s Avengers: Infinity War Absence
Hey, remember last Monday when we shared this awesome Hawkeye-centric Avengers: Infinity War poster created by artist Boss Logic? Well, the Russo Brothers, the gentlemen directing the film, have heard all about the concerns from Team Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner, obviously) about his absence from promotional materials, have seen Boss Logic’s epic poster, and have responded. That’s right, the dynamic duo who filmed Infinity War and Avengers 4 back-to-back changed their Facebook cover image to include Boss Logic’s ode to Clint Barton,
This Disney/Pixar Bracket is Destroying Friendships in the Best Possible Way
Sometimes, every once in a while, a thing on the internet that everyone is doing or obsessed with is actually quite lovely and harmless. This is one of those times. Everyone has a favorite Disney movie and everyone is prepared to argue why their favorite is the best. If you’re a Lion King person and someone, even a loved one, comes at you spouting off about how The Little Mermaid reigns supreme,
New Avengers: Infinity War Posters Assemble Humanity’s Last Hope in Intriguing Pairings
They’re all here. In intriguing groupings that likely speak to alliances within the larger group in Avengers: Infinity War, five new posters gather your heroes, with all their varied skills, histories and heartaches. Let’s have a look, and tease out the potential narrative behind the graphic design.
Consider this your Avengers: New York poster, as all of these superheroes are based there. As the Avenger who kicked off the MCU in 2008 with the original Iron Man,
Ayşe Toprak on her Groundbreaking Documentary Mr. Gay Syria
The devastating Syrian civil war has made an impact on international film audiences largely thanks to two powerful documentaries: the Oscar-winning The White Helmets (2016) and the Oscar nominee Last Men in Aleppo (2017). Although director Ayşe Toprak’s new documentary Mr. Gay Syria tells its story against the backdrop of the civil war that’s killed 300,000 people since it began in 2011 and caused five million to flee and become refugees,
Beirut Screenwriter Tony Gilroy on Writing, Waiting, and Rocky Receptions
Tony Gilroy might have made his screenwriting debut with the 1992 cult ice-rink romance The Cutting Edge, but for much of his long, illustrious run in the business, he has focused on thrills and action. As both as a writer (the first four chapters of the Bourne franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Great Wall) as well as directing (Michael Clayton,
Black Panther Tops The Avengers as Highest-Grossing Superhero Movie of All Time
How many different ways can you write “All hail the King“? Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is now the highest grossing superhero film in the U.S. of all time. It has raked in $631 million to date at the domestic box office, nabbing another $17 million this past weekend, pushing it past Joss Whedon’s The Avengers $623 million total in 2012.
Coogler’s juggernaut benefited from a young filmmaker at the top of his game,
A Fun Theory About the Solo: A Star Wars Story Villain
At the 51-second mark of the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer you may be getting a glimpse of the film’s villain. What you can be sure of is he’s not Han’s new buddy (you don’t prepare to unholster your Blaster when you meet an old friend), and he’s one bad looking dude, sporting a cool looking mask (how come the good guys in Star Wars never get cool masks?) and some serious backup.
Breaking Thor’s Hammer in Thor: Ragnarok Was no Easy Feat
We’ve paid proper due Mjolnir, Thor’s mighty hammer, in this piece that functioned as a video obituary for one of the most iconic weapons in all of the MCU. Made from a chunk of Uru that Thor’s father Odin had lying around (he had defeated a cosmic storm called the God Tempest and trapped said God inside the rocky chunk), Odin ordered the Dwarves of Nidavellir to forge Mojlni from the God-containing chunk.
Budding Relationships May Be The Scariest Thing About Stranger Things Season 3
Details about Stranger Things season 3 have been slowly dripping out of the Upside Down. We already know the total episode count, some new characters on the way (including casting Maya Thuman-Hawke) and more prominent story arcs for returning cast members. But now we are finally getting more details about what our team of heroes may face in the coming season.
THR reported on shows cast and crew Paleyfest Panel appearance,
Director James Wan Counsels Patience for First Aquaman Trailer
Movie fans, especially fans of superhero and franchise films from Marvel, DC and a certain galaxy far, far away can be a an impatient bunch. For example, there was a lot of angst regarding what was taking Lucasfilm and Disney so long to release the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer (and then one dropped during the Super Bowl, and the peopled were most content, and they rested).
Love, Simon Shares Musical Inspiration with Coming of Age Films of the ’80s
Entertainment in the 1980s took kids seriously. Young people faced serious problems in a mature, yet whimsical that honored the anxious, dramatic phase they were in. Look no further than the Brat Pack, who have been summoned into current discussions about teens across the country protesting gun violence, only to find themselves getting detentions for their walkouts. Once forced together again by school authorities who didn’t think it through, these kids were able to protest yet again.
The Big Sick Director Michael Showalter Directing New Christmas Movie Starring Octavia Spencer & Jessica Chastain
This year’s winter holiday season just got more exciting, with the re-pairing of one of our favorite onscreen duos from recent(ish) years. Variety reports that Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) has been confirmed as director for a new Christmas comedy coming out this winter, starring Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain. They’ll be playing “two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas,” which makes us extremely excited for a Planes,
