Harry Potter Villain Jason Isaacs to Play Captain in Star Trek: Discovery
It was heartening news when we heard that The Walking Dead‘s tough-as-nails Sonequa Martin-Green was going to be playing the lieutenant commander of the U.S.S. Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery. The show’s cast just added another fantastic actor, the great Jason Isaacs, who was so convincingly scary in Netflix’s surprise hit The OA, also a veteran of the Harry Potter franchise.
To millions of fans,
How to Make Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 at Home
One of our favorite running video series if CineFix’s “Homemade Movies,” which shows you how to make your favorite film’s costumes, props and sets at home. You would think this would be nearly impossible for a film like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which takes place on various planets and in space, and involves a huge cast of aliens and otherworldly weirdos, but the gang at CineFix is more than up to the challenge.
Strong Reviews Suggest Kong: Skull Island a Smashing Good Time
We’ve been feeling good about Kong: Skull Island ever since the first teasers and trailers started rolling in. A great ensemble cast set on a rococo primordial island with the largest Kong ever committed to screen? Yeah, we were sold. When Warner Bros. hit us with this wild final trailer, we felt very confident that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, his crew and his principal cast of Tom Hiddleston,
Watch the Beauty and the Beast Music Video
We’ve already shared the iconic theme song from Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast that features the voices of Ariana Grande and John Legend. Now have a look at the singers in action in this new music video that features Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and the Beast, with special appearances by a few of your favorite enchanted castle residents.
Grande and Legend are taking a page out of Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion's book,
This Alien: Covenant Red Band Trailer is Incredibly Intense
If the first Alien: Covenant trailer was described as “promising” and “terrifying,” what’s left to say about the second one?
Referred to as the film’s “red band” trailer for the red MPAA ratings graphic at the beginning, the film’s second trailer was approved to be shown only before R and NC-17-rated films. As a result, we’re now able to see a bit more of the intriguing horrors of the Alien franchise that have only improved with the advancement of CGI and special effects.
Hugh Jackman’s Last Turn as Wolverine Lifts Logan to Epic Heights
It’s official—Logan is a hit in every way. We’ve already written about how the film scored big with critics, and this past weekend it enjoyed a massive opening. This is what happens when you have a committed director in James Mangold and star in Hugh Jackman determined to make their last Wolverine film the very best. This is Fox’s third biggest opening of all time,
Get Your First Look at the World of Avatar
Pandora – The World of Avatar is a new addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort. The attraction is inspired by the fantastical universe in James Cameron’s Avatar film series. Although James Cameron’s Avatar 2 film doesn’t yet have a set release date (it's due out this year), audiences can satisfy their excitement by attending the attraction after it opens on May 27.
Belle Meets Lumiere and Cogsworth in New Beauty and the Beast Clip
The new web series The Oh My Disney Show included a nice little gift for you Beauty and the Beast fans—a clip from the new film showing Emma Watson’s Belle meeting Ewan McGregor’s Lumière and Ian McKellen’s Cogsworth.
In director Bill Condon’s lushly realized live-action retelling of the studio’s 1991 classic, Lumière and Cogsworth (as well as the rest of the gang, especially Dan Stevens Beast) come alive in ways we’ve never seen before.
See how They Built the Epic Brawl in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We recently shared with you the incredible before-and-after video of how the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice VFX team built the film’s dark, layered look. While director Zack Snyder’s movie took some hits from critics, nearly all agreed that the film’s visual style was arresting. To help give Gotham and Metropolis this gritty, gorgeous look, the film needed more a lot of help. In this new video,
Check out the new Deadpool 2 Teaser
If you haven’t seen Logan (go see it, it’s great), that you means you’ve missed the Ryan Deadpool 2 teaser that Fox dropped in theaters—so we’ve gone ahead and embedded it below. 20th Century Fox has released the full teaser online, which includes proof of how impossible it would really be to change into your superhero outfit in a phone booth, Superman-style, with our favorite Merc with the Mouth wondering aloud (while laying on a dead man) what a phone booth is doing on a city street these days.
Celebrating Reel Women
This March, we’re celebrating Women’s History Month by highlight in the talented women who helped create some of your favorite movies and television, both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. Whether they're the new voices of horror, Oscar-nominated screenwriters and film editors, Oscar-winning costume designers, up-and-coming directors on the big screen and small, we're going to call attention to their incredible work.
Kubo and the Two Strings Director Helming Bumblebee Spinoff
It's fitting that the very first Transformers spinoff goes to the series most lovable lunk, Bumblebee. Its also fitting considering Bumblebee was, in a sense, the very first Transformer to make contact with humans. It was Bumblebee who Sam Witwicky (Shia Lebeouf) unwittingly bought in the very first film, and ever since then, the black and yellow autobot has been the most loyal protector of the human race, based largely off his love for Sam.
Sci-Fi at its Most Surreal: Watch the new Ghost in the Shell Spots
Yesterday we shared this awesome video of the incredible practical effects work that was done for Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell. In order for Sanders and his team to live up to Mamoru Oshii’s beloved 1996 animated feature, they had to pull out all the stops. One of the aces up their sleeve was Weta Workshop, Peter Jackson’s now legendary effects house. Ghost in the Shell is sci-fi at its most surreal,
Watch the Beauty and the Beast Premiere Live
Well folks, we’re just about there. Tonight is the world premiere of Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. The studio has partnered with Verizon to bring the premiere to fans all across the world, live. You can watch the event as the filmmakers and stars arrive at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, which begins at 2:45 EST.
Jack Sparrow’s Back in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales Trailer
We’ve got our first look at Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in quite some time, and the guy hardly ages (must be all that rum). Behold the first full trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , which includes the first footage we’ve seen of Depp. The teaser and the Super Bowl spot conveniently left off the drunken pirate vamp, but now, we’ve got a boatload of Sparrow (pun intended),
See Behind the Robotic Geisha Mask in Amazing Ghost in the Shell Video
In what we’ve seen thus far from the live-action adaptation of the iconic manga Ghost in the Shell, director Rupert Sanders and his team have gone all out to do the source material justice. While many people might not be familiar with Mamoru Oshii’s 1996 animated feature, those that are remain the toughest test for Sanders, star Scarlett Johansson and the rest of the cast and crew. One of the ways in which the filmmakers have given their all is by letting the wizards at Weta Workshop make the story’s surreal,
The top Five Things to Know About Alien: Covenant
We’ve already seen recent trailers for the upcoming film Alien: Covenant, and even got a sneak preview of the characters in the short prologue 20th Century Fox recently released. Now, get ready for even more information on the latest addition to the Alien franchise.
Slashfilm.com visited the set last year—here are the top five things they learned:
1) Covenant takes place 10 years after Prometheus.
This Doctor Strange VFX Reel is Appropriately Mind-Bending
The visual effects company Framestore spent 11 months creating over 365 shots for Doctor Strange, which went on to be nominated for Best Visual Effects in the 2017 Academy Awards.
Framestore (which has also done VFX work for Beauty and the Beast, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Arrival) touched on a wide range of visual effect and animation work to create a variety of visuals for the film that didn’t exist while filming: everything from larger-scale environments to the fire-y sparks of Doctor Strange’s Eldritch magic to creating the look of the “astral form,”
David Fincher’s Netflix Serial Killer Series Mindhunter Drops 1st Trailer
David Fincher helped Netflix become a television juggernaut in 2013 when helped then launch House of Cards. Fincher not only directed the show’s first two episodes, he helped put the project together, becoming one of the first A-list film directors to pivot back to TV, utilizing the flexibility Netflix gave him and Beau Willimon to create the show.
Fincher returns to Netflix with his new show, Mindhunter, which focuses on two FBI agents who are trying to solve the unsolved cases of imprisoned serial killers.
Owen Moverman’s The Dinner Drops new Trailer
Writer/director Oren Moverman last film, 2014’s Time Out of Mind, was a beautiful, unsettling look at a mentally unstable homeless man (played by Richard Gere) as he moves about New York in search of food, shelter, alcohol, and the daughter he lost somewhere along the way. Moverman has proven himself an expert at tightly coiled dramas, working with Woody Harrelson in two excellent examples—2011’s cop drama Rampart,
