The Dark Tower: Discover ‘The Legacy of the Gunslinger’ in new Featurette

There is a lot of excitement around Nikolaj Arcel's The Dark Tower,adapted fromStephen King's ambitious multi-series novel. First and foremost, there's the thrill of seeing one of King's most mind-blowing creations, Mid-World, a dimension like our own that is starting to unravel into a kind of post-apocalypse expanse of deadbeat settlements and towns, realized on the big screen. Mid-World is a wild place, and the two most crucial characters in it,

Get in the Ring With GLOW‘s Women Wrestlers

You know you’ve hit upon a tantalizing subject for a new series when the creator of the mega popular, critically acclaimed musical Hamilton Tweets this:

GLOW, Netflix’s new series, is loosely based on the real-life low-budget wrestling show “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” and was created by two seriously talented people; Liz Flahive (Homeland, Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch (Nurse Jackie,

Early Buzz: War for the Planet of the Apes is a Summer Blockbuster for the Ages

Earlier today we published our interview with writer/director Edgar Wright about his incredible new film Baby Driver. It is one of the best movies you will see this summer, possibly this year. While Wonder Woman technically premiered before summer, we still consider it a summer film, and one that we, like everyone else, fell in love with. Now we present to you the third excellent film of the summer,

Austin Composers Use Old Synthesizers for New Stranger Things Music

Ever since they bonded over a shared obsession with electronic dance music as Texas fourteen-year olds, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein spent every spare minute listening to techno artists like Aphex Twin and creating tracks on their laptops. But after college, Dixon and Stein shared an epiphany that would eventually lead to a break-through gig as co-composers for '80s-era Netflix hit thriller Stranger Things.  "We didn't even knowing there had been these things called synthesizers in our teens,"

For the First Time Ever, A Star Wars Concert Series Coming to NYC This Fall

If we were to imagine the most incredible way to watch a bunch of Star Wars films, say, the original trilogy and The Force Awakens, we’d have a tough time topping this: the first-ever live performance of Star Wars, scored by the world class New York Philharmonic performing the iconic music of John Williams. Beginning on September 15 and 16 at Geffen Hall in the Lincoln Center, the NY Phil will score Star Wars: A New Hope 

How Transformers: The Last Knight Transformed a Local Economy

Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calls Transformers: The Last Knight “badass,” while the New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes that the film “offers more to see and more to startle than do many films by auteurs of overt artistic ambition and accomplishment.” The film’s centered on a war between humans and the Transformers, and what’s making matters worse is the heroic, noble leader of the Autobots,

Feast your Eyes on Five new Blade Runner 2049 Feaurettes

Yesterday we shared this new Blade Runner 2049 featurette from People Magazine that gave us our best glimpse yet at director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic. Now Warner Bros. has gifted us with five new featurettes (culled from the nearly four minute long featurette) that focus on the characters played by Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Jared Leto, and also includes a look at Ridley Scott's iconic original and director Denis Villeneuve feelings taking on the sequel.

Pixels into Pig: Okja VFX Maestro Explains Digital DNA for Star Creature

Part super-pig, part hippo, part elephant, the CGI creature at the heart of director Boon Joon-Ho's mostly live-action animal rights adventure Okja wowed crowds at Cannes this spring without so much as a single line of dialogue. Starring alongside Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie (available Wednesday June 28 on Netflix), the pixel-built beast known as “Okja” communicated through body language, wistful facial expressions and roly-poly heroics choreographed by visual effects wizard Erik De Boer.

Unpacking the new Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer

Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere, but for the perpetually warring folks of Westeros, winter has finally come. That is made painfully, beautifully real in a brand new trailer for Game of Thrones’ seventh (and penultimate) season, nearly two minutes of fresh footage that speaks to a lot of what we were thinking (and hoping) was going to happen this season, and a lot of what we've been reading. Let’s have a look at the trailer and discuss. Spoiler alert—some of the below is based on speculation that,

Mars Executive Producer Justin Wilkes Talks the Category Defying Miniseries

Last fall, National Geographic premiered a new series that was as ambitious and innovative as its subject: the first manned mission to Mars. Over seven episodes, Mars featured inspiring interviews with some of the greatest minds of our age while visualizing the first human colonization of the red planet. Experts delve into the history of space exploration, the unbelievable technology that’s already been developed, and what it will take to make home on a new planet.

Winter Officially Arrives in Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere

What better day to confirm that Winter has officially arrived in Game of Thrones than on the summer solstice (for us northern hemispherians)? HBO confirmed in a brand new social media campaign that winter will arrive in the first episode of the season on July 16 via some “winterizing” activations across Twitter, Reddit, and Google.

First, they revealed this via a winter-themed promo for Season 7, which showcases how with winter comes the Night King and his army.

Watch a Brand New Blade Runner 2049 Behind-the-Scenes Featurette

Yesterday we shared the story about how Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve has made peace with the monumental task of following up Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic. As if Villeneuve needed any more reminders of the seismic impact the original Blade Runner made, this Sunday marks the film’s 35th anniversary. As we look forward to Villeneuve’s sequel, People Magazine has just published their exclusive look at the film.

The Wizard of Lies Production Designer on Building Bernie Madoff’s World of Deception

Production designer Laurence Bennett was responsible for creating a visual language for a film without sound, and the results earned him an Oscar nomination. We're talking about Bennet's work on Best Picture winner The Artist, which followed the story of a silent movie star’s life turning upside down after he falls for a young dancer only to witness their careers zoom in opposite directions with the arrival of talking pictures.

While Bennett's currently working on David Simon's 

How Weta Digital & Andy Serkis’s Brilliance Elevate War for the Planet of the Apes

We've written about how the performance capture technology that Andy Serkis has helped create and Weta Digital has perfected made the Planet of the Apes reboot one of the most satisfying, compelling franchise remakes of the century. Serkis plays Caesar, the new trilogy's heart and soul—a chimpanzee that has become vastly more intelligent, and verbal, after he's exposed to an experimental drug meant to battle Alzheimer's disease in-utero in 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Lost & The Leftovers‘ Damon Lindelof Developing Watchmen for HBO

Arguably the most iconic comic book series of all time looks like it might be coming to HBO. Variety reports that Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers, is in talks to develop a TV adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ brilliant comic book series "Watchmen." Lindelof is no stranger to this material; in 2015, he tried to bring the story to the small screen. 

"Watchmen" takes place in an alternate history in which superheroes work in league with the government and helped shape the course of the 20th Century.

John Waters Interviews Sofia Coppola at the Provincetown Film Festival

Sofia Coppola is Hollywood royalty, an Oscar winner for Lost in Translation, and she has a highly-anticipated new film, The Beguiled, ready to hit theaters. But the soft-spoken director is known for being reticent in interviews.

So it’s no wonder that the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) paired Coppola with renowned raconteur John Waters for a one-on-one conversation when Coppola was honored recently as the PIFF’s 2017 Filmmaker on the Edge.

Star Wars News: A new The Last Jedi Teaser Coming Soon, Han Solo Spinoff Shakeup

The first look we got at Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi was way back in April, during the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando. Now, Trailer Track has reported that the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has classified a "Trailer B" with a runtime of one minute and 31 seconds.

Now, this could be a shortened version of the original trailer, an edited 90-second version that will accompany 

Check out This Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Clip From Nat Geo’s Genius

Last week we shared with you the story of how the hair and make-up departments working on National Geographic's Genius have transformed stars Johnny Flynn and Geoffrey Rush into the young and not-so-young Albert Einstein at the different stages of his life. Now, we've got an exclusive clip from behind-the-scenes of the show (Nat Geo’s first foray into scripted drama, by the way) that showcases the work of showrunner Ken Biller and cinematographer Mathias Herndl. 

Peter Parker Takes his Driving Test in new Spider-Man: Homecoming Spot

Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has one of the best possible allies in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming; Tony Stark. Not only has Tony provided Peter with a super high-tech new Spidey-suit, he also looks to be lending Peter his ride—a brand new Audi A8. In a new TV spot from Audi, Parker takes his driver’s test in the new car, which is a little more advanced than his instructor (played by the hilarious J.B.

Blade Runner 2049 Director Denis Villeneuve Makes Peace With Enormous Expectations

If there was ever a reason to believe that Arrival and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve was the right man to helm the Blade Runner sequel that didn't depend on his obvious skill, we present you his honesty and humility when asked about the monumental task of creating a sequel to an iconic film from a legendary director. 

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter