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,...

Game of Thrones Showrunners’ Next Series at HBO is Confederate

While we prepare for the end of Game of Thrones, we’ve braced ourselves with the comforting news that there are up to four potential Game of Thrones spinoffs/prequels being written. This thought has been like a summer day in High Garden while we face down the dead of winter that is the show’s end.

While GOT may likely live on in some version, what we’ve also known is that series’ showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff are likely going to move on from any day-to-day decision making with whatever GOT-related shows come next...

Check out Kylo Ren’s new Ship—the TIE Silencer

Here’s your spoiler alert—if you don’t want to know a thing about writer/director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, read no further. This post is about a reveal that The Star Wars Show has provided, giving us fresh details on Kylo Ren’s (Adam Driver) new ship, and needless to say, the thing is pretty killer. As we saw in that fantastic sizzle reel from the D23 Expo, The Last Jedi ...

Director Jon Watts Returning for Spider-Man: Homecoming Sequel

You know you’re on to something good when fans are clamoring for updates about a sequel in the first couple weeks following a film’s release. Clearly Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are heeding the wave of praise following Spider-Man: Homecoming’s premiere. The studios have entered into talks with director Jon Watts about sticking around to helm the sequel.

This comes as a smart and not-unexpected move, as Watts – who helped write the Homecoming script – is already very familiar with Peter Parker’s story,...

Details Emerge Suggesting Steven Spielberg Actually Directed Poltergeist

Poltergeist has always been surrounded by an air of mystery, whether due to the alleged curse that targets the series, or the controversy regarding who really directed the original 1982 film. While the former will likely remain in the realm of speculation forever, the latter seems to have received a definitive ruling.

Director John Leonetti, who worked as a camera assistant on the film, recently asserted on a podcast released by Blumhouse.com ...

Here are the First Images From Mission: Impossible 6

What is a recipe for action-adventure movie success? Clearly, collaboration between Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise. The duo has yielded such movie as Valkyrie, Edge of Tomorrow, and Jack Reacher. Fans of the Mission: Impossible franchise should be ecstatic that McQuarrie is returning to direct another film in the series after the success of 2015’s Rogue Nation. If the behind-the-scenes photos that have been emerging are any indication,...

Watch How Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Utilized Practical Effects to Nearly Kill Rocket

When two of your main characters are a walking and talking (sort of) tree and a talking raccoon, you know that CGI has played a huge part. Yet, you might be surprised to find out that a good portion of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was made with practical effects. In a new behind-the-scenes look at the film, James Gunn and his team explain how one scene, involving Rocket jumping from tree to tree while he’s being shot at from baddies on the ground,...

Here’s Your First Look at Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian

Donald Glover seems to be everywhere these days, especially in the wake of the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming. That trend will continue into next year as he takes on the role of Lando Calrissian, the beloved and well-dressed companion of Han Solo and Chewbacca in the upcoming Han Solo spin-off feature, due out in May 2018. Though few clues have been released regarding information about the film, a couple have managed to find their way to fans...

Check out These Glorious new Photos From Black Panther

Happy Wednesday, Black Panther fans. Marvel Studios and Disney have released a slew of high-resolution images from director Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, and once again we’re given ample reason to count down the days until the film’s release. Coogler’s film, which he co-wrote his longtime collaborator Joe Robert Cole, stars Chadwick Boseman as the titular superhero T’Challa (we first met him on Team Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War),...

James Franco Plays Creator of the Greatest Bad Film of all Time in The Disaster Artist Teaser

To some, director/writer/star Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) is the greatest terrible movie of all time. The Room was centered on a melodramatic love triangle between a fun loving banker Johnny (played by Wiseau), his scheming fiance, Lisa (Juliette Davis) and his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). The film includes a bunch of unrelated subplots, and a conceit that includes Lisa and Tommy’s  relationship characterized by “constant, passionate lovemaking,” which results, for some reason, in Lisa trying to seduce Mark,...

Talking to Landline Writer/Director Gillian Robespierre & Producer Elisabeth Holm

The year is 1995. Bill Clinton is president, Natalie Merchant sings about the weather, Mad About You is must-see TV, Lorena Bobbitt jokes are all the rage, floppy discs are a clunky necessity – and cellphones are nowhere to be seen.

Director-writer Gillian Robespierre and producer Elisabeth Holm’s first film together, the 2014 art-house circuit darling Obvious Child, was a moving contemporary comedy that focused on a stand-up comic (Jenny Slate) who deals with an unexpected pregnancy after a one-night stand...

Dissecting the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Behind-the-Scenes Sizzle Reel

This might be the most affecting behind-the-scenes sizzle reel you will see in a very long time. Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled the Star Wars: The Last Jedi BTS sizzle reel at this past weekend’s D23 Expo. It was packed with new details, thrilling shots, a few glimpses of key characters, and a moving coda from the late, great Carrie Fisher.

Have a look, and then let’s break it down:

Canto Bight

As we wrote last month,...

Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere was Shown in a Moscow Subway Station

Russia has a bit of a recent tortured history with Game of Thrones. On the one hand, clearly people love the show over there. How do we know? Some 350 Muscovites showed up at the Mayakovskaya subway station in central Moscow to watch the premiere, the metro press service reported. It’s part of the city’s Night in Moscow’s Metro cultural project, with several events each year. Amediateka, Game of Thrones’ distributor in Russia, helped organize the spceial screening...

Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time: A Rite of Passage Becomes a Major Motion Picture

Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is a timeless tale and incontrovertible rite of passage. Over a decade ago, I myself found the book on my summer reading list. I didn’t have to go far to find a copy, instead pulling my mother’s volume from our basement bookshelf. And in many ways, this generational passing of the baton is apt, for the book is – at its core – a tale wrapped up in themes of family...