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,

By  |  March 7, 2017
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.

By  |  March 6, 2017
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,

By  |  March 6, 2017
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.

By  |  March 6, 2017
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.

By  |  March 6, 2017

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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,

By  |  March 6, 2017
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.

By  |  March 6, 2017
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.

By  |  March 3, 2017
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.

By  |  March 3, 2017
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 ShellIn 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,

By  |  March 3, 2017
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.

By  |  March 3, 2017
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),

By  |  March 2, 2017

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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,

By  |  March 2, 2017
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.

By  |  March 2, 2017

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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,”

By  |  March 1, 2017
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.

By  |  March 1, 2017
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,

By  |  March 1, 2017
Star-lord Meets his Dad in new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Trailer

The new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, giving us the moment we’ve been waiting for—Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and his dear old dad (Kurt Russell) meeting face-to-face. Granted, the trailer also has a ton of space fighting, quips, nods to family, Nebula-v-Gamora action, and, most importantly…Baby Groot.  

Russell plays one of the weirder characters to grace any Marvel film (or comic,

By  |  March 1, 2017
Meet the Big, Bad Xenomorph in new Alien: Covenant Trailer

What we enjoyed so immensely about the Alien: Covenant teaser we shared last Thursday was the call back to Ridley Scott’s original Alien. Here we met a crew of eclectic characters, mostly made up of couples, all willingly marooned aboard a spaceship, grousing about the minor indignities of space travel without having any idea just how bad things are going to get. For Covenant, this meant talking about leaving Earth for good in order to colonize a new,

By  |  March 1, 2017

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How The Man in the High Castle’s Composer Set the Dystopian Tone

Based on Philip K. Dick’s chilling 1962 alternative history novel, The Man in the High Castle has become Amazon’s most watched original series. Set in a world where Hitler’s Reich and Imperial Japan were victorious in World War II, the action explodes from the opening scene with high stakes tension and a season long mystery. Composer Dominic Lewis wrote the first season’s score with Henry Jackman and took over the reins in season two.

By  |  February 28, 2017