Michelle Pfeiffer Set to Lead “Yellowstone” Sequel Series

Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Pfeiffer is entering the Yellowstone-verse.

The celebrated actress is set to star in the Yellowstone sequel in creator Taylor Sheridan’s growing narrative empire. Pfeiffer will lead a new series set in the present day, a continuation of Sheridan’s flagship series. It’s not the only spinoff coming—there’s also a prequel series in the works set in 1944.

Pfeiffer will lead and executive produce the sequel series,

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
Daemon Targaryen’s Visions at The Weirwood Tree Change Everything in “House of the Dragon” Season 2 Finale

It was arguably the most crucial—and brutally delayed—alliance forged in the narratively rich if dragon-delayed season two finale of House of the Dragon—Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) finally and truly bent the knee to his queen, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), and delivered her the massed armies of the Riverlands. At long last, Daemon said that Rhaenyra was his brother, King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) chosen successor, a truth he had refused to accept for years.

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
Apple Original Films Planning Sequel to Brad Pitt & George Clooney Caper “Wolfs”

In writer/director Jon Watts’s upcoming original film Wolfs, which will make its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are finally sharing the screen together again for the first time in 16 years. Now, Apple Original Films has made a fresh deal with Watts to write, direct, and produce a sequel for Pitt and Clooney.

Wolfs is also slated to have a limited theatrical run,

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
“Disclaimer” Teaser Reveals Alfonso Cuarón’s Star-Studded Limited Series

Apple TV+ has released the first teaser for Disclaimer, the star-studded limited series written and directed by five-time Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma). Cuarón’s series is based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel and follows the journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (another Osar-winner in Cate Blanchett), a well-respected journo whose career was made uncovering the shadowy deeds of others. What happens when Ravenscroft is sent a novel by a mysterious author who seems to have turned the journalist into the main character?

By The Credits  |  August 7, 2024
The Epic Nicolas Cage “Deadpool & Wolverine” Cameo That Might Have Been

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet, move along to another part of the multiverse timeline.

As Deadpool & Wolverine slashes past one box office milestone after another, we’ve talked a lot about the stars who made surprise cameos in the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman epic. Some were from Fox’s Marvel era, like Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, who first appeared in 2003’s Daredevil and then again in 2005’s stand-alone Elektra.

By The Credits  |  August 7, 2024
From Ripley to Rain: New “Alien: Romulus” Teaser Connects Cailee Spaeny & Sigourney Weaver’s Heroines

“What was so great about what Sigourney did, it was incredible; it holds such an iconic space in cinematic history,” Cailee Spaeny says at the top of a new look at director Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien: Romulus. Spaeny stars as Rain Carradine, a young woman who makes a really, really bad decision when she tries to change up her life by joining a crew of space colonizers who go to scavenge a decommissioned space station to find the technology they need to finally leave their doomed planet.

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
New “Paddington in Peru” Trailer Finds the Beloved Bear Preparing to Head to South America

The critically acclaimed and beloved Paddington trilogy is set to conclude with the beloved British bear’s biggest adventure yet.  

Sony Pictures has just dropped an adorable teaser for the final film in the trilogy, the first new Paddington installment in 7 years since Paddington 2. The teaser finds Paddington attempting to get his passport photo taken, but it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. It’s brief,

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
Jennifer Garner on Returning to the Fight in “Deadpool & Wolverine”

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet, move along to another part of the multiverse timeline.

As Deadpool & Wolverine continues to conquer the global box office, many of the folks who made surprise cameos in the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman two-hander have spoken up about their involvement in the film. Channing Tatum, who finally got a chance to play Gambit,

By The Credits  |  August 6, 2024
“John Wick: Chapter 4” Sequel Series in The Works From Keanu Reeves & Chad Stahelski

The John Wick universe is set to expand.

Lionsgate is developing a new John Wick series with star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski producing and Stahelski directing the pilot episode. John Wick: Under the High Table‘s script comes from The Old Man co-creator Robert Levine and will pick up where John Wick: Chapter 4 left off. 

Deadline scoops that Under the High Table will explore the assort assassins,

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024
“Deadpool & Wolverine”: Wesley Snipes Makes History While Chris Evans Goes Off

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Deadpool and Wolverine yet, move on to another story in the multiverse. 

Deadpool & Wolverine is a bonafide smash hit, slashing and F-bombing its way toward a billion-dollar haul while delighting audiences across the globe. The Shawn Levy-directed scorcher is being fueled, of course, by the long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, resurrected (in a way) from his noble death in James Mangold’s 2017 film Logan with a little help from the multiverse.

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024
HBO Reveals First Look at “The Last of Us,” New “Game of Thrones” Spinoff & More

HBO has dropped a new trailer that gives us our first look at some of their most eagerly awaited upcoming series, both returning and brand new. These include season three of The White Lotusseason two of The Last of Us, and the series premiere of the latest Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an adaptation from George R.

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024
That Perfect “Deadpool & Wolverine” Cameo That Linked to the Best “Mission: Impossible” Fight Ever

Spoiler alert – if you haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine yet and have somehow avoided all cameo-related spoilers, you might want to step away from this article.

There’s been a lot written about all the cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine—heck, we’ve written about them, too—but one of the most interesting cameos of all—with respects to Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Channing Tatum,

By The Credits  |  August 2, 2024
Jeremy Renner’s Surprise Over Robert Downey Jr’s MCU Return & Possible Hawkeye Return

It turns out, it wasn’t just the Comic-Con crowd gathered in Hall H—and subsequently, the rest of the world—that were shocked by the news that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Downey’s fellow Avenger, Jeremy Renner, told US Weekly that he was floored by the announcement that Downey was headed back to the MCU, but not to play Tony Stark, but rather,

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2024
“Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color” Trailer Reveals Juggernaut Kaiju Movie in Black & White

Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color is now streaming on Netflix.

A trailer for one of the highest-ratest Godzilla movies in history (hailed as one of the best ever by many critics) reveals a meticulously decolorized version of writer/director Takashi Yamazaki’s masterpiece. The colorized version of Godzilla Minus One is the first domestic Japanese Godzilla film in seven years and takes us back to post-war Japan as the iconic kaiju surfaces from the ocean depths to unleash holy hell on a populace still reckoning with the ravages of World War II,

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2024
“Squid Game” Season 2 Teaser Reveals Premiere Date, Series to End With Season 3

We know when Squid Game will return to Netflix…and when it will end.

Netflix’s biggest series of all time is finally returning for season two on December 26. This is a boon time for streaming, with people still home for the holidays. Squid Game executive producer, writer, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk also revealed that the series’ third season will premiere in 2025 and will be its last.

“Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae),

By The Credits  |  August 1, 2024
How “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” Team Aimed to Get The Thing’s Look Just Right

The news coming out of Comic-Con this past weekend was of the cinematic universe-shaking variety. Robert Downey Jr. returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not as Tony Stark and, instead, as the supervillain Dr. Doom? Check. The Russo Brothers returning to direct Downey in not one but two Avenger films, Avengers: Doomsday (newly retitled and now centering on Downey’s iconic villain), and Avengers: Secret Wars? Check and check.

By The Credits  |  July 31, 2024
James Gunn’s “Superman” Soars Past the Finish Line

“And that’s a wrap,” Superman writer/director James Gunn wrote in a post shared early Monday evening. “God bless our cast and crew whose commitment, creativity, and hard work have brought this project to life.”

The image Gunn shared reveals the cast’s first week of shooting in Svalbard, Norway when they began the journey of rebooting the most iconic DC character for Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Studios. Superman will be the first major feature from the revamped studio,

By The Credits  |  July 31, 2024
Channing Tatum on His Long-Awaited Marvel Debut in “Deadpool & Wolverine”

Spoiler alert for those of you who haven’t seen Deadpool & Wolverine, which is now playing in theaters.

Channing Tatum spent years trying to get a film made in which he’d star as Gambit, the explosive card-dealing member of the X-Men first created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee and introduced in “The Uncanny X-Men” in 1990. Gambit was a key member of the X-Men the beloved 1990s animated series X-Men: The Animated Series that ran from 1992 to 1997 (a sequel series,

By The Credits  |  July 30, 2024

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All the World’s a Stage: The Team Behind “Sing Sing” on Crafting a Powerful Human Drama

Sing Sing screenwriters Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley are unusual, even in the world of indies. They immerse themselves in the world of the story they want to tell for years, in this case a drama program in a maximum-security prison. They surround professional performers like Colman Domingo in the case of Sing Sing, with real-life inhabitants of that world, with a seamless naturalism that straddles documentary and narrative filmmaking.

By Nell Minow  |  July 30, 2024

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Twin Forces: “The Acolyte” Director Hanelle M. Culpepper on Crafting Amandla Stenberg’s Dual Roles

When she helmed the first episode of Star Trek: Picard in 2020, director Hanelle M. Culpepper made history as the first woman to launch a Star Trek series. She went on to win the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for that project. This, along with her work on shows like Westworld, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Kung Fu,

By Leslie Combemale  |  July 30, 2024