It’s a Battle of the Greats as Science Fiction’s Biggest Awards Announce Finalists
The Hugo Awards have announced their finalists, and it looks like many of our favorites have made the cut. As science fiction’s most prestigious honor, the Hugo Awards are trademarked by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) who hosts the annual World Science Fiction Convention or “Worldcon.” This year the final list of nominees is packed with excellent films, television series and books. Blade Runner 2049, Get Out and The Shape of Water—all three films that walked away with at least one Oscar—are among the names vying for Best Dramatic Presentation,...
Fighting Thanos Makes Strange Bedfellows in 11 New Avengers: Infinity War Images
Marvel has just released 11 new photos from Avengers: Infinity War that lends further validity to the ancient proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Granted, it would be slightly inaccurate to call some of the assembled Avengers, superheroes and superhero adjacent characters enemies, but the last time most of them together, it was in a film subtitled Civil War for a reason. The biggest threat to humanity yet, Thanos (Josh Brolin) requires everyone,...
Pixar’s Latest Short About a Giggly Chinese Dumpling to Play Before The Incredibles 2
One of the many joys of seeing a Pixar film like The Incredibles 2 in the theater is you get both the fantastic feature film and a Pixar short before it. There have been few sequels in Pixar history not named Toy Story 2 that have been as hotly anticipated as The Incredibles 2, and now fans have one more thing to whet their appetite for the return of the most fantastic family ever—a new Pixar short about a giggly Chinese dumpling called Bao...
Joaquin Phoenix’s Interest in Playing the Joker All About Character, Not Genre
This past February we wrote about a potential dream paring of actor and character: Joaquin Phoenix was potentially eying playing the most iconic villain of all—the Joker. Variety‘s scoop had it that Phoenix was in talks to play the Clown Prince of Chaos for Todd Phillips still untitled Joker origin film, you know, the one being produced by Martin Scorsese. We were excited. This excitement was based not only on Phoenix’s track record for excellence,...
Get Caught up on FX’s Mind-Blowing Legion Before Tonight’s Season 2 Premiere
Noah Hawley’s Legion (FX Network) was one of the most ambitious and deeply weird takes on the superhero genre on TV. Fully investing in its central character’s mental instability, Legion‘s season one was a boldly visualized and brilliantly performed head trip. Starring Dan Stevens as David Haller, a troubled you man who was misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic (more on what he really is in a second), Legion‘s first season was as much Kubrick as it was comic book...
Ready Player One Turns Virtual Adventure into Box Office Victory
Jaws, Raider of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Minority Report. The list goes on for Steven Spielberg blockbusters, and now there’s a certified addition to that elite group. Spielberg dominated the box office again this weekend with Ready Player One. The virtual adventure commanded audiences to the tune of $53.2 million in the US with $128 million more overseas.
Spielberg has a legendary history of displaying a mastery over mega movies. Even Jaws,...
Rocky Balboa & Adonis Johnson Return as Creed II Officially Begins Filming
Didn’t get enough of Sylvester Stallone in his brief appearance in Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.2? Well no worries, because all you Sly fans can look forward to his return to the big screen, and the ring, in Creed II—filming for this next installment of the iconic Rocky franchise has officially started. Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone shared behind the scenes footage on his Instagram.
Stallone’s excitement is palpable as he invites viewers inside his trailer,...
Avengers: Infinity War More than Doubles the Number of Avengers in Age of Ultron
And then there were 20+. When Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye founded the Avengers, they probably couldn’t fathom what a fighting force the alliance would become. However, they probably also didn’t imagine a force of evil as monstrous as Thanos. We know it’s all hands on deck for Avengers: Infinity War. Whichever manner you use to total up the number of official members, this is going to be a mega super team...
Behold The Final Trailer for John Krasinski’s Critically Acclaimed Horror A Quiet Place
You know you’ve got a hot horror film on your hands when the genre loving, horror obsessed SXSW crowd showers your movie with love. This is a festival that really digs its horror films, and John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place opened this year’s SXSW in a big way. Here’s how Rolling Stone‘s David Fear (the perfect byline) reported on how Krasinki’s film was received:
“‘Opening-night film selections should be fun!”...
Zack Snyder Reveals Chilling Reason Superman Was Evil in Batman v Superman ‘Knightmare’ Scene
In one of the most memorable sequences from Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) has a nightmare in which a very evil Superman executes two men on either side of Batman, before ripping off the caped crusader’s cowl and preparing, presumably, to do him in, too. Now referred to as the “Knightmare” scene, it speaks to director Zack Snyder’s very dark vision for what was, at that point, the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) he was spearheading...
Ron Howard Reveals Glimpse of Colossal Space Battle in Solo: A Star Wars Story
With Solo: A Star Wars hitting theaters on May 25, we’re all very “patiently” waiting for more information on the film, whether by trailer, image or plot point. We’ve been so patient, in fact, we jumped on this nugget of information that revealed the events in Solo are some of the earliest in the entire Star Wars timeline, including the films, books and animated series. While Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios have been keeping promotional material for Solo pretty close to their chests (that didn’t stop us from posting this story on the very different Millennium Falcon seen thus far),...
Rey & Finn to Stick Together in Star Wars: Episode IX
When Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) met in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the new era of Star Wars officially began. Finn watched in awe (as did we) when Rey beat up some goons, saved his life (several times in this initial sequence, in fact) and helped them both escape by jumping into an old piece of junk (ahem, the Millennium Falcon) and evade the First Order that was hot on Finn’s tail...
The End is Near in New Avengers: Infinity War TV Spot
We are now officially in the homestretch of Avengers: Infinity War promotional material, with the film due in theaters in only a few weeks (April 27). New TV spots are popping up left and right, giving us morsels of new footage while also giving us a better feel for just how dramatic—and game-changing—the events in Infinity War are going to be. The latest new spot, titled “One Goal,” once again puts the focus on Thanos (Josh Brolin) and his life-long quest to bring the entire universe to heel…while obliterating half of it...
Jurassic World Director Colin Trevorrow Will Return for Part 3
Jurassic World 3 now has a director and we’re in good hands. Colin Trevorrow, who was handpicked by Steven Spielberg to direct the first Jurassic World, will be back too bookend the trilogy.
“Colin Trevorrow is going write and direct the third Jurassic World story,” Spielberg confirmed to EW. The 2015 reboot of Jurassic Park was a success, pulling down $1.67 billion at the box office. Trevorrow handed off directing duties for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to JA Bayona,...
Amazing Fan Art Shows Captain Marvel Rising From the Flames
Fan art alert! Where would the world be without artists and fan art to satisfy us until official promotion are released. First by curing us of Hawkeye withdrawals we were experiencing as there was an archer shaped hole in all our hearts when the official Avengers: Infinity War poster was released minus the S.H.I.E.L.D. archer.
Now, new fan art has popped up of Captain Marvel, to help placate fans who are anticipating the release of Marvel’s upcoming film starring Brie Larson...
Broken Down, Dirtied, and Greased Up: Designing the Costumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Evil has never had a more sumptuous wardrobe than in Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), who fancies himself a great actor, utilizes thinly veiled, yet tremendously detailed costumes to fool the show’s dimwitted adults. Costume designer Cynthia Summers created Olaf’s many aliases, as well as the clothing for the rest of the cast, in season two.
“I think it’s wackier,” Summers said of the new episodes. “Olaf has definitely gotten darker,...
There is Way More to Steven Spielberg’s Thrilling Ready Player One Than ’80s References
Play the trailer for Ready Player One in any public space, and you’ll likely get one of three reactions. The youngest in the crowd will almost instantly know what you’re watching, and will tell you they can’t wait to see it. Older demographics will automatically recognize the opening strains of the Van Halen’s Jump, and pause just the same. Still others will stop to tell you how fantastic the book was. Ready Player One is one of those rare stories that truly has something for everyone...
Inside the Americans Writer’s Room with Screenwriter Justin Weinberger
Over the past five years—a period that has seen more quality TV than all previous years of televisual output combined—The Americans has established itself as one of television’s smartest dramas (even if the Emmy cognoscenti have been slow to realize it). Now in its sixth and final season, the FX series (starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as undercover Soviet spies living in Washington D.C. during the Cold War) is finally, like the chilly era it portrays,...
Narcos Star & Game of Thrones Standout Pedro Pascal Joins Wonder Woman 2
Pedro Pascal has been sensational on Netflix’s Narcos for the past three years, but most folks still know him best as Oberyn Martell on season four of Game of Thrones. It says something about an actor’s charisma when he can burst onto a massive ensemble show like GoT and stand out. As Martell, Pascal embodied an intriguing melange of fearlessness, recklessness, and, in a revealing conversation with Tyrion, grace. He was also a hero when the show was sorely lacking them...
Black Widow vs. the Black Order in New Avengers: Infinity War TV Spot
With Avengers: Infinity War officially less than a month away, we’re going to be seeing a lot of these brief bursts of new footage, like the one we shared yesterday of a sassy teen Groot and an inspirational T’Challa. Now we’ve got another new TV spot for you, with new sequences sprinkled among moments you’ve seen before (but, like us, probably don’t mind seeing again). The part of this new TV spot that crackles the most is Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) giving a much darker pep talk than T’Challa,...
