“Deadpool & Wolverine” Stunt Coordinator & Second Unit Director George Cottle on the Comically Ultra-Violent Style
“Suck it Fox, I’m going to Disney World!” So declares our favorite fourth-wall-breaking antihero, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), in Shawn Levy’s hilariously meta threequel, Deadpool & Wolverine, which is back in the #1 spot domestically for the fourth weekend. With Deadpool’s signature brand of acerbic sarcasm and self-deprecating humor, the raunchy action comedy often references the aftermath of the 2019 Disney-Fox mega-merger, which led to the titular duo landing under the Disney banner.
A Symphony of Success: Emmy Nominees Talk VFX, Composing, and Editing
We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our first panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. For our second panel, our Emmy nominees came from a wide-ranging group of shows—Lessons in Chemistry‘s ace director Millicent Shelton, nominated for directing episode 6, “Poirot,” Shōgun‘
The Rewards of the Craft: Emmy Nominees on the Joys & Challenges of Television
We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our second panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. Like last year, we sat down with some nominees from some great, disparate, challenging shows. In our first panel, Planet Earth III composers Jacob Shea and Sara Barone (nominated for episode 6,
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Trailer Unveils Anime Trip to Middle-earth
Fans got their first look at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past June, when none other than Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, was on hand to reveal 20 minutes of the film. But now, Warner Bros. has unveiled the official trailer to the rest of the world, and it’s a beaut.
Helmed by visionary director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex),
“Emily in Paris” Star Ashley Park on ‘brat summer’, Her Singing Chops, and Season 4’s Stakes
As the first five episodes of season four of the hit series Emily in Paris dropped on Netflix on August 15, fans were eager to delve back into the world of Emily (Lily Collins) and Mindy (Ashley Park) as they navigate messy relationships, major career changes, and general adulthood woes, in Paris.
At the conclusion of season three, Mindy was dating her former high school crush (and real-life boyfriend) Nicolas (Paul Forman) and also found out she had been accepted to the Eurovision competition with her former boyfriend,
“The Daily Show’s” Emmy-Nominated Director David Paul Meyer on Jon Stewart’s Return
Last year’s Emmy winner for Best Talk Series, The Daily Show’s director David Paul Meyer snagged four nods this year, including directing the much-heralded episode, “Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show,” when Stewart returned to the show this February to cover this especially tumultuous Presidential election season. Starting his stint at the beginning of Trevor Noah’s reign as host in 2015, Meyer’s relationship with him goes back to 2008,
“The Bear” Emmy-Nominated Sound Team on Capturing the Chaos of the Kitchen
The first thing you might notice in Season 2 of Christopher Storer’s hit drama The Bear is how well you can hear chef-owner Carmen (Jeremy Allen White) and his team of kitchen underdogs as they set to work reopening their Chicago restaurant. Restaurant kitchens, especially those still under construction, as the Bear’s is for most of the season, are not quiet places. But no matter how prevalent the sledgehammers and steel cookware may be on screen,
How Marvel got Robert Downey Jr. Back as Dr. Doom
When it was revealed during this past July’s Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU as the iconic villain Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, it was legitimately one of the most shocking pieces of news made at a Con ever. This is because Downey, the face of the MCU for a decade as Tony Stark/Iron Man (alongside Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers/Captain America), had his swan song in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame,
First “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos” Trailer Unveils the Making of a Mob Masterpiece
Bada bing—the first trailer for Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos has arrived.
Gibney, the director behind previous stellar HBO docs Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, sets his sights on one of the most beloved television series of all time, a bonafide cultural phenomenon that ushered in a new era of darker,
“The Room Next Door” Trailer Unveils Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s Latest
It’s a trio made in film lover heaven—Spanish writer/director extraordinaire Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton teamed up for the auteur’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. Sony Pictures Classics has shared the first peek from Almodóvar’s latest ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 2.
The Room Next Door is centered on former close friends and colleagues Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore),
“It Ends With Us” Production Designer Russell Barnes on Crafting Visual Contrasts of Love & Control
Director Justin Baldoni’s film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel, It Ends With Us, in which Baldoni also stars as vicious neurosurgeon Ryle, is a surprise hit of the summer. The movie is a romance suffused with darkness, following Lily (Blake Lively as an adult, Isabela Ferrer as an adolescent) as she grows up and falls into a violent relationship that mirrors her parents (Amy Morton and Kevin McKidd).
As an adolescent in Maine looking to escape,
Michaela Coel Creating Follow-up Series to “I May Destroy You” for HBO & BBC
One of the most talented creators of her generation is returning to HBO with a brand-new series.
I May Destroy You creator and star Michaela Coel has set First Day On Earth at HBO, a ten-episode drama that will follow British novelist Henri (Coel) as she struggles to shake up her life and embarks on a journey to get unstuck.
“Work has dried up, [and] her relationship is going nowhere.
Benetone Films Co-Founder Kulthep Narula on Taking Thailand’s Film Industry to the Next Level
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Benetone Films has provided production services for over 100 feature films, TV series, and 1,000 TV commercials in over two decades. The Bangkok-based company is also a key provider for foreign productions filmed on location in Thailand. Ten projects have been approved through Thailand’s incentive scheme, including 2020’s The Forgotten Army for Amazon Studios and 2022’s Blood & Treasure season 2 for CBS Studios.
In recent years,
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Costume Designer Graham Churchyard on Bringing Back Logan’s Yellow Suit
Deadpool & Wolverine is more than a comic book movie—it’s like 20 comic book movies slashed and smashed into one, pulling characters from the past, present, and future of Marvel and 20th Century Fox’s film history. Audiences witnessed these characters all coming together again in the void, some even making history in the process.
The void is a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) cross paths with familiar faces and new superheroes with stark new powers.
“Alien: Romulus” Images Reveal Last Look at the Legendary Xenomorph, Cinema’s Gnarliest Monster
The wait is over—director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus is here, and with its arrival comes the return of one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.
While the film stars Cailee Spaeny (coming in for rave reviews), alongside a cast of young stars like Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, and Aileen Wu, Alien: Romulus brings back the xenomorph, which for our money might be the most viscerally terrifying creature from any sci-fi film,
“Terminator Zero” Sneak Peek Reveals Netflix’s Anime Expansion of Iconic Sci-Fi Franchise
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its upcoming animated series Terminator Zero, and eight-episode anime series that boasts a stellar voice cast and offers an intriguing expansion to the iconic sci-fi franchise.
Terminator Zero is part of the same universe as the film series but will introduce us to new characters. Partly set in 2022 during a raging war between the few human survivors of the machine apocalypse and partly set in 1997,
“Manhunt”: A Visual Journey Through Time with Graphic Designer Gina Alessi
Manhunt graphic designer Gina Alessi had a significant assignment when she was brought on board Apple TV+’s stellar limited series about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle) in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s (Hamish Linklater) assassination—among other historical recreations, Alessi was tasked with making sure Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed at the Petersen House next to the Ford Theater, down to the pattern on the blanket, was period perfect. It was not an insignificant challenge,
Sauron’s Dark Plans Emerge in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 Trailer
The Dark Lord reigns supreme in the second trailer for season two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Season two finds our Middle-earth heroes facing the most formidable threat imaginable. You know his name, but he’s been disguising it for years; first he was Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), now he’s an elf named Annatar, but the name that Lord of the Rings fans know and all Middle-earth fears is Sauron.
James Cameron Reveals a Secret “Terminator” Project & “Avatar” Sequel Updates
James Cameron is famously a very busy, very driven man. He’s currently working on Avatar 3, recently revealed as Avatar: Fire and Ash at Disney’s D23 Expo. The film is due in theaters on December 19, 2025, and will feature a more militant and hostile race of the Na’vi called the Ash People. This blockbuster will be followed by Avatar 4 and 5,
New “Kraven the Hunter” Trailer Finds Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Marvel Villain Off the Leash
“My son, we are hunters, the greatest the world has ever known,” says Russell Crowe’s character at the top of the new trailer for director J.C Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter. We find the son he’s speaking to, Sergei Kravinoff, aka Kraven the Hunter, in prison, but not for long. “The Hunter is a myth,” a fellow inmate tells Kraven—a costly mistake. Kraven proves that the myth of the Hunter has an ounce of truth and makes a bold,
