Comic-Con 2017: Deadpool 2‘s Stefan Kapaici Says Expect More Colossus
The 6’4″ German-born Serbian actor Stefan Kapicic made a name for himself in last year’s smash-hit Deadpool, playing the surprisingly moral, metal-covered Colossus, a member of the X-men. Colossus was not only hugely helpful to the Merc with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds), he was also the film’s moral center and straight man. It was Colossus and his partner, the Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hilderbrand) who teamed up with Deadpool in an effort to fight Ajax (Ed Skrein) and save Vanessa (Morena Baccarin)...
Daniel Craig to Return as James Bond in 2019
The New York Times Brooks Barnes reports that Daniel Craig will be returning as James Bond in the franchise’s 25th film, due in theaters in November 8, 2019. Barnes writes that Eon Productions, the London-based company that holds the rights to the Bond franchise, said the script will be penned by longtime Bond scribes Robert Wade and Neal Purvis. The two have written every Bond script sicne 1999’s The World is Not Enough.
While the next installment still needs to find a director,...
Comic-Con 2017: Production Designers From Black Panther, Spider-Man: Homecoming & More
“How many of you love the movies because they look so goddamn cool?” Production designer John Muto (Home Alone, River’s Edge) already knew the answer. “The audience doesn’t pay money to sit in the dark and look at drab images.”
Everyone loves movies because they look cool, and that was especially true of the people who came to Muto’s panel on production design. “You know those images that get buried in your lizard brain,” he asked...
Comic-Con 2017: Marvel’s The Defenders Pilot—What we Know
Marvel’s The Defenders producer Jeph Loeb gave the Hall H crowd a gift at Comic-Con; he screened the first episode of Marvel and Netflix’s superhero crossover team-up series The Defenders. Here’s brief run down of some what was gleaned at the screening, including the second trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_6J9BqgonU
What We Know:
Elektra Natchios (Elodie Young) is back. Yes, she was apparently dead at the end of Daredevil season 2, but her character is beloved and she’s going to be an important part of the series,...
Comic-Con 2017: Watch Westworld‘s Intense Season two Trailer
Opening with the world’s most symbolic player piano, the Westworld season two trailer that debuted at Comic-Con this past weekend is a glorious melange of intriguing stand-alone images that upend a lot of what you might have expected. While we’ve previously written about how creators and showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy had hinted at a non-linear timeline for season two, there are shots in this trailer that look like they depict the aftermath of the hosts’...
Comic-Con 2017: Check out the Epic Avengers: Infinity War Poster
Hall H is the holy grail of Comic-Con venues, so it is no surprise that the Avengers: Infinity War panel was featured there. While convention attendees were treated to new footage, the rest of us are not so lucky. But fear not: the Infinity War panel did not leave us empty-handed. Instead, fans everywhere can feast their eyes upon a three-part poster for the film, released and painted by Ryan Meinerding, the Head of Visual Development for Marvel Studios...
Comic-Con 2017: Watch the Four Minute Long Justice League Trailer
With the insanely awesome success of Wonder Woman, both critically and commercially (the film has grossed over $770 million worldwide) it stands to reason that Gal Gadot’s sensational Diana Prince is now the most popular member of the Justice League, that includes the beloved fan favorite Batman. So, when DC delivered a brand new trailer, more than four minutes long, mind you, Wonder Woman is front and center in the action.
This extended look gives fans plenty of reasons to be excited for DC’s biggest superhero film to date...
Comic-Con 2017: Watch the First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been making waves since it was first published to wide-spread attention and acclaim in 2011. That momentum shows no signs of slowing down any time soon, with the first trailer for the film version debuting at Comic-Con over the weekend. Part high-stakes quest, and part ode to bygone decades, Ready Player One already has a loyal following. After the release of this trailer, one can only expect that fan base to grow...
Comic-Con 2017: Seth MacFarlane Debuts his new Show The Orville
Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) is adding to his TV Empire with new show The ORVILLE. The trailer for the new sci-fi comedy made its debut at Comic-Con. The trailer looks like the new show is going to provide the same humor that people have come to expect from MacFarlane.
The new show will star MacFarlane as the Captain of the Orville, Ed Mercer, along with Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) who will play Mercer’s ex-wife...
Comic-Con 2017: Black Panther Footage Wows Hall H
Marvel Studios knows how to harness the power of Comic-Con perhaps better than anyone. The amount of energy and excitement during their Black Panther panel, which included new footage from the film, was a masterclass in making the most of your time in San Diego. It helps when you have a super hot project like Black Panther, with a rising star in writer/director Ryan Coogler and an insanely fantastic cast. While the footage won’t be online for a while,...
Game of Thrones Recap: “Stormborn”
Well, Game of Thrones season seven has their first official villain (not counting Cersei, or the Night’s King, or the ice giant Wun Wun), and it’s Euron Greyjoy. Granted, in Westeros, “bad” is mostly relative, but when someone comes around who really likes killing, your Ramsay Boltons or your Mountains, you can credibly chalk them up in the villain category, and Euron Greyjoy is most certainly a villain. The second episode of the seventh episode, “Stormborn,” ended with Euron Greyjoy bringing fire and blood down upon his niece Yara’s fleet,...
Comic-Con 2017: Behold the new Thor: Ragnarok Trailer
Wilderpeople and What We Do in the Shadows director Taika Waititi looks like he had an absolute blast making Thor: Ragnarok. Marvel released the newest trailer for Waititi’s film (and it’s a beauty), as well as the film’s official synopsis:
“In Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok, Asgard is threatened but Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his hammer and to escape and save his home world he must fight his former ally and fellow Avenger—the Incredible Hulk!” ...
Comic-Con 2017: FX Announces American Horror Story: Cult
The long awaited season 7 American Horror Story title has been announced – American Horror Story: Cult. The announcement comes after a series of crypt clues were posted by showrunner Ryan Murphy (Glee), with more news spilling out last night at Comic-Con.
Prior to the announcement Murphy posted a photo of a woman covered in bees to Instagram. To unveil the announcement, FX launched a fantastically creepy website...
Comic-Con 2017: Netflix’s Death Note Adapts Beloved Manga Series
Welcome to Comic-Con, Netflix.
The juggernaut streaming service made their inaugural presentation at Comic-Con’s most prestigious venue, Hall H, with a panel covering their adaptation of Death Note. The film is based on the original manga and anime series, anddirector Adam Wingard (You’re Next) chatted about the project along side producers Masi Oka and Roy Lee
Your stars of Death Note are Nat Wolff as Light Turner, Margaret Qualley as Mia Sutton, Lakeith Stanfield as L,...
Comic-Con 2017: See John Boyega’s Character in Pacific Rim: Uprising for First Time
We’ll take even the briefest look at John Boyega in Pacific Rim: Uprising when we can get it. And finally, we’ve got it. Boyega plays Jake Pentecost in the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 original, in which massive, human-led Jaegers (mountain-sized robots, more or less) fought off legions of monstrous creatures called Kaiju. In Uprising, the war between humans and Kaiju rages on, and Boyega’s Pentecost will be one of the heroes humanity looks to stop the monsters...
Comic-Con 2017: Watch the Trailer for Will Smith’s Bright
Director David Ayer has already made two excellent cop films; End of Watch and Street Kings. With Bright, Ayer has two actors in their prime, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, as partners in a police department, only this time Ayer has gone way, way further afield than ever before; these cops are fighting crime in a mystical world filled with all sorts of wild creatures, and one of the cops is an Orc...
Kingsman: The Golden Circle Releases Wicked Red-Band Trailer
20th Century Fox has just released two new trailers for the upcoming Kingsman: The Golden Circle – a red-band trailer and a green-band trailer, and this red-band trailer reminds you that this is definitely an R-rated film.
The red-band trailer gives the audience a true look into what they are to expect from the new film. The two minute trailer gives us that kinetic, gleeful mayhem that made such a strong impression on audiences in the first film,...
Felicity Jones to Star in Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is having her fair share of success these days. It was previously reported that Natalie Portman (Black Swan) was attached to the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On The Basis of Sex, but it was just announced that instead Jones would be taking on the role of the Supreme Court Justice, arguably the most popular Justice on the court in generations...
The Beguiled Art Director Sets the Scene for Beauty and Terror
The dilapidated Civil War era girls’ school you see in the intriguing Sofia Coppola remake of The Beguiled is actually a pristinely manicured historic plantation in New Orleans. On seeing the film, you won’t even recognize that the house was also used in Beyonce’s Lemonade. Art Director Jennifer Dehghan and her team are responsible for the transformation that included reverse landscaping to create an overgrown look, covering any signs of modernity,...
New Game of Thrones “Stormborn” Images Hint at Questions of Trust
Game of Thrones‘ season 7 premiere, “Dragonstone,” set the table in a major way. It gave us Arya’s quest towards King’s Landing, stopping off at House Frey to put an end to Walder Frey’s entire lineage. It supplied some major tension within King’s Landing between Cersei and Jaime, as well as some tart repartee between Jon Snow and Sansa in Winterfell over how best to prepare for the coming war. We caught up with the Hound (still grumpy,...
