Rave Reviews Bode Well for Wonder Woman‘s June 2 Premiere
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot enter the home stretch before the film's June 2 premiere with the knowledge that critics absolutely love what they've done. Sitting at a glorious 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Wonder Woman looks like it's going to be the critical and commercial smash Warner Bros. needed for their relatively young DC Comics cinematic universe. While Man of Steel, Batman V Superman ...
The Stormtrooper who hit his Head Finally Comes Clean, 40 Years Later
Of all the great pieces that were published yesterday to honor the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, we tip our hats to The Hollywood Reporter and writer Ryan Parker for the scoop of the day. One part of Star Wars lore involves a certain Stormtrooper hitting their head on a blast door as he and his comrades move about the Death Star looking for R2-D2 and C-3PO. This is the moment you're looking for:
Ever since then,...
Black Mirror‘s Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones on TV’s Most Twisted Show
British sci-fi series Black Mirror reflects with chilling plausibility myriad ways in which technology brings out the worst in human behavior — one freestanding episode at a time. Creator Charlie Brooker and producer Annabel Jones, in Los Angeles on a break from shooting the fourth season of their Netflix limited series, say they hate repeating themselves and love the anthology format. "It's lunacy but by doing each episode as a one-off 50-minute film, we're able to take an idea and blow it up within that one episode and not have to worry about creating an arc that sustains for multiple seasons,"...
Director Stephen Daldry on The Creation & Execution of Netflix’s Brilliant The Crown
Rumoured to be the most expensive television show ever produced, the first series of Netflix’s lush period drama The Crown delves deep behind the palace doors into the events around Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne. Director Stephen Daldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot), chats to The Credits about how the idea for The Crown came about, diverting from the truth, why season two is ‘so f*cking interesting’...
Sony Taps Beyond the Lights Director to Helm Spider-Man Spinoff
Sony has a hot hand right now when it comes to Spider-Man and Spidey-related projects. On the Spider-Man: Homecoming front, the studio recently released this new trailer, which further teased the large role Tony Stark will play in the film, and, gave us our first glimpse inside the suit he made for Peter Parker. Then there was the universally praised news that Tom Hardy has been cast to play Venom,...
Netflix Teases new Castlevania Animated Series
Nostalgia itself is no reason to create a film or a television series, but as inspiration, or merely a starting point, it can lead to some pretty spectacular creations. The 1980s have been very good to Netflix; their smash hit Stranger Things, which conjured the decade by way of Steven Spielberg, was enlivened by the passion and wit of the Duffer brothers, the show’s creators, to become much more than mere pastiche. Focused on a missing boy,...
Happy Birthday, Star Wars! The Franchise Turns 40 Today
Star Wars is officially 40 years old. Premiering on this day, May 25, in 1977, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (back then it commonly known simply as Star Wars) first introduced the world to Luke (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), a certain Wookie and two droids. While hype is the lingua franca of Hollywood, this is one film you can say truly did change the cinematic landscape forever...
Tony Stark Invites Spider-Man Over for the NBA Finals
Yesterday Sony released the latest trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming, which featured a look inside the new Spidey suit that was created by Tony Stark. Jon Watts' Homecoming is making the most of the father/son (or perhaps more accurately, rich uncle/nephew) relationship between Tony and Peter (Tom Holland), and the new suit Tony provides "the kid," as he calls him, is by far the most high-tech in the history of the Spider-Man franchise...
Dead Men Tell No Tales DP on how They Made the Splashiest Pirates Film of All Time
Ever since Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) first set sail in Curse of the Black Pearl, nothing says summer like a rum soaked Caribbean cruise with a swashbuckling gang of rogue miscreants. Friday will mark the fifth time that Disney has ushered in blockbuster season with a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure. Dead Men Tell No Tales introduces the undead Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) who has a vendetta against Jack...
Game of Thrones Drops Thrilling Official Season 7 Trailer
Game of Thrones has dropped their season 7 trailer, putting into sharp focus just how action-packed things are going to be. The trailer hints at what stars Kit Harington and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau mentioned in a recent interview; season 7 is going to start fast and stay that way. Everything you're excited about—colossal dragons involving themselves in massive battles, the Starks reunited, the Lannisters plotting, Dany in Westeros with her army, and the fate of Westeros on the line—it's all here...
Talking to Writer/Director/Star Demetri Martin About his new Film Dean—Part II
In part I of our interview with the comedian-turned-filmmaker, Demetri Martin explained how he came to make his first semi-autobiographical feature, Dean. The second part begins with Martin’s discussion of the way he incorporated aspects of his own experiences into supporting characters in his script.
"They're not based on anybody, and the story didn't happen to me. My mom sold our house years ago. I was happy about that. I was sad we were losing our house,...
Talking to Writer/Director/Star Demetri Martin About his new Film Dean—Part I
Although best known from TV, beginning with The Daily Show in 2005, actor-comedian Demetri Martin has acted in such movies as Contagion, Taking Woodstock, and In A World…. Now he adds a few more hyphens to his resume as the writer-director-star of Dean, a comedy about a New York-based illustrator who flees to Los Angeles after his mother dies. While Dean is away,...
Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Trailer Looks Fantastic
Luc Besson‘s adaptation of Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières’ comic books Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets looks visually stunning. With a summer movie slate that will give you plenty of well known entities, from The Mummy and Transformers: The Last Knight to Spider-Man: Homecoming and War for the Planet of the Apes, Besson’s fever dream is a welcome jolt of the new...
New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Characters and City Revealed
The Star Wars Show is pretty much the best place to get 100% accurate scoops on any Star Wars related film, considering they're an official part of the galaxy. So you can take the news delievered in this new clip to the bank—these characters and this city from Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi are the real deal. What makes this scoop doubly accurate is they're getting their information this time around from ...
Meet Universal’s Monsters
When you think of a shared cinematic universe these days, you think of Marvel. Their vaunted Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is an interconnected, multi-phase slate of films that began with 2008's Iron Man and has carried on through 13 films, most of them massively successful, with Spider-Man: Homecoming continuing their world-beating run this July 7. Yet is Marvel really the first studio to create a cinematic universe?
Universal Pictures says no...
See Inside Tony Stark’s High-Tech Spidey Suit in new Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer
Sony Pictures is having a great week. First, news surfaced that Tom Hardy had been cast as Venom, one of the most beloved comic book villains of all time. Like Spidey, Venom is another Marvel character that Sony owns the rights too. By securing an actor with as much gravitas and skill as Hardy, they've made sure their Venom stand-alone film will have as good a foundation as possible. But that's 2018, and Sony has something to be excited about right now—Jon Watts' ...
Pretty Much Everyone is Thrilled About Tom Hardy Being Cast as Venom
Eddie Brock, aka the antihero Venom, has always been both a beloved villain and a bit of a hard sell when imagining the character supporting his own stand-alone film. He went from being an outright villain in the Marvel universe to an antihero, but he’s certainly a nasty piece of business and, unlike witty antiheroes like Deadpool, he’s never been particularly funny or relatable. He is, after all, the product of the union between a bitter, vengeful reporter (Brock) and an alien parasite...
Annie Leibovitz Shoots Gorgeous Star Wars: The Last Jedi Spread in Vanity Fair
The 40th anniversary of the original Star Wars is this Thursday, May 25. In anticipation of this, Vanity Fair has released their Star Wars: The Last Jedi cover shoot, shot by iconic photographer Annie Leibovitch, ahead of the issue’s publication tomorrow, May 24. Leibovitch was on set to shoot the cast, and VF has shared the four different covers for their upcoming issues with the world. Leibovitch has famously shot casts from a wide ranging of films and TV shows,...
Supergirl Borrows Some Savage Boots in new Wonder Woman Promo
Warner Bros. is making sure that Wonder Woman is getting as much exposure as possible before the film’s June 2 premiere. With very positive early buzz, fresh clips practically every day, and video interviews with Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot, and her co-star Chris Pine, the Wonder Woman promo team is doing their job.
In the last promo, which aired on the CW during Supergirl’s finale,...
Bill Pullman Channels Independence Day in Awesome Graduation Speech
Bill Pullman is a smart guy. He knows that if he's been asked to give a graduation day speech at a college, whatever he delivers will be compared to the speech he gave, as President Whitmore, in Independence Day. Now the stakes might be slightly different between rallying the world to fight a bunch of invading aliens and inspiring the graduating class at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina, but a good speech is a good speech...
