Giovanni Ribisi on Shooting JT Mollner’s Must-See Horror “Strange Darling”
About 15 years ago, I was editing a magazine out of this small audio shop off Cahuenga Blvd. in Los Angeles, and in walked Giovanni Ribisi. At the time, the actor was already ten years removed from one of movie history’s most harrowing death scenes in Saving Private Ryan and was coming off the recent billion-dollar success of Avatar. But Ribisi wasn’t there for anything acting-related. He was looking for an audio cable for a recent camera purchase.
New “Jurassic World” Film Reveals Title, Plot, & First Images of Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali
Universal Pictures has invited you back to the world of dinosaurs living in our midst.
Their latest Jurassic World film now has an official title, a revealed plot, and two brand-new images. Director Gareth Edwards is at the helm of Jurassic World: Rebirth, which stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, all of whom are pictured in the new images.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion.
“Blink Twice” Production Designer Roberto Bonelli on Crafting the Sinister Façade of Zoë Kravitz’s Thriller
For her feature directing debut, actor-turned-director Zoë Kravitz (Big Little Lies, The Batman) has chosen a visually luscious, sinister psychological thriller, which she co-wrote with screenwriter E.T. Feigenbaum. Exploring themes ranging from trauma and misogyny to sexual exploitation and greed, Blink Twice also shines a light on the vast chasm between the haves and have-nots. Cocktail cater-waitresses Frida (Naomi Ackie) and roommate Jess (Alia Shawkat) are struggling to make ends meet when they are lured by the seemingly endearing and handsome tech mogul,
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Scares Up Standing Ovation & Rapturous Reception at Venice Film Festival
Talk about a riveting return from the grave.
Twenty-six years after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton delivered their roguishly charming 1988 horror comedy, the dynamic duo, along with other original Beetlejuice stars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, were on hand in Venice to unveil their long-awaited sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The wait was worth it.
Burton and his cast were welcomed to Venice with a boisterous standing ovation in Venice before their film’s world premiere on Wednesday night.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Second Unit Director & Stunt Coordinator George Cottle on Capturing Those Cameos
In the last installment of our conversation with Deadpool & Wolverine’s second unit director and stunt coordinator George Cottle, we covered the hysterical dance/action opening sequence and what it took to shoot the bone-crunching brawl inside a real Honda Odyssey minivan. Smashing box office records on every level—the first R-rated movie to open domestically over $200 million, the sixth biggest domestic opening of all time—the film joined the billion-dollar club just 23 days after opening in theaters,
Gambit Lives: “Deadpool & Wolverine” Deleted Scene Confirms Channing Tatum’s Remy LeBeau Survived
The Ragin’ Cajun lives on.
Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, has confirmed that Channing Tatum’s card-slinging superhero Gambit survived the climactic clash at the end of Deadpool & Wolverine. Reynolds shared a deleted scene on social media, proving that Gambit made it through the battle at the film’s end that included a host of other long-ago discarded superheroes, including Jennifer Garner’s Elektra, Wesley Snipes’ Blade,
“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” Trailer Shines a Light on Keanu Reeves’ Shadow
Keanu Reeves has entered the fastest movie franchise not named Fast & Furious.
The official trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has sped online, unleashing the superstar as the character Shadow. Reeves is trading in his signature black suit from John Wick for the black fur of the speedy hedgehog who was first introduced in 2001’s Sonic Adventure 2 as a character who’s just as fast as Sonic,
“Terminator Zero” Sneak Peek Unveils High Stakes Action on the Highway
Netflix has released a nearly two-minute sneak peek at a scene from its upcoming animated series Terminator Zero, an eight-episode expansion to the iconic sci-fi franchise.
The sneak peek is a highway standoff in which a soldier sent back from the future to protect scientist Malcolm Lee (voiced by André Holland) rams her truck into what appears to be a worker on the bridge, smashing him and the car behind him over the railing.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” Stunt Coordinator & Second Unit Director George Cottle on the Comically Ultra-Violent Style
“Suck it Fox, I’m going to Disney World!” So declares our favorite fourth-wall-breaking antihero, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), in Shawn Levy’s hilariously meta threequel, Deadpool & Wolverine, which is back in the #1 spot domestically for the fourth weekend. With Deadpool’s signature brand of acerbic sarcasm and self-deprecating humor, the raunchy action comedy often references the aftermath of the 2019 Disney-Fox mega-merger, which led to the titular duo landing under the Disney banner.
A Symphony of Success: Emmy Nominees Talk VFX, Composing, and Editing
We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our first panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. For our second panel, our Emmy nominees came from a wide-ranging group of shows—Lessons in Chemistry‘s ace director Millicent Shelton, nominated for directing episode 6, “Poirot,” Shōgun‘
The Rewards of the Craft: Emmy Nominees on the Joys & Challenges of Television
We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our second panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. Like last year, we sat down with some nominees from some great, disparate, challenging shows. In our first panel, Planet Earth III composers Jacob Shea and Sara Barone (nominated for episode 6,
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Trailer Unveils Anime Trip to Middle-earth
Fans got their first look at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past June, when none other than Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, was on hand to reveal 20 minutes of the film. But now, Warner Bros. has unveiled the official trailer to the rest of the world, and it’s a beaut.
Helmed by visionary director Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex),
“Emily in Paris” Star Ashley Park on ‘brat summer’, Her Singing Chops, and Season 4’s Stakes
As the first five episodes of season four of the hit series Emily in Paris dropped on Netflix on August 15, fans were eager to delve back into the world of Emily (Lily Collins) and Mindy (Ashley Park) as they navigate messy relationships, major career changes, and general adulthood woes, in Paris.
At the conclusion of season three, Mindy was dating her former high school crush (and real-life boyfriend) Nicolas (Paul Forman) and also found out she had been accepted to the Eurovision competition with her former boyfriend,
“The Daily Show’s” Emmy-Nominated Director David Paul Meyer on Jon Stewart’s Return
Last year’s Emmy winner for Best Talk Series, The Daily Show’s director David Paul Meyer snagged four nods this year, including directing the much-heralded episode, “Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show,” when Stewart returned to the show this February to cover this especially tumultuous Presidential election season. Starting his stint at the beginning of Trevor Noah’s reign as host in 2015, Meyer’s relationship with him goes back to 2008,
“The Bear” Emmy-Nominated Sound Team on Capturing the Chaos of the Kitchen
The first thing you might notice in Season 2 of Christopher Storer’s hit drama The Bear is how well you can hear chef-owner Carmen (Jeremy Allen White) and his team of kitchen underdogs as they set to work reopening their Chicago restaurant. Restaurant kitchens, especially those still under construction, as the Bear’s is for most of the season, are not quiet places. But no matter how prevalent the sledgehammers and steel cookware may be on screen,
How Marvel got Robert Downey Jr. Back as Dr. Doom
When it was revealed during this past July’s Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the MCU as the iconic villain Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, it was legitimately one of the most shocking pieces of news made at a Con ever. This is because Downey, the face of the MCU for a decade as Tony Stark/Iron Man (alongside Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers/Captain America), had his swan song in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame,
First “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos” Trailer Unveils the Making of a Mob Masterpiece
Bada bing—the first trailer for Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos has arrived.
Gibney, the director behind previous stellar HBO docs Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, sets his sights on one of the most beloved television series of all time, a bonafide cultural phenomenon that ushered in a new era of darker,
“The Room Next Door” Trailer Unveils Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s Latest
It’s a trio made in film lover heaven—Spanish writer/director extraordinaire Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-winners Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton teamed up for the auteur’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door. Sony Pictures Classics has shared the first peek from Almodóvar’s latest ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 2.
The Room Next Door is centered on former close friends and colleagues Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore),
“It Ends With Us” Production Designer Russell Barnes on Crafting Visual Contrasts of Love & Control
Director Justin Baldoni’s film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel, It Ends With Us, in which Baldoni also stars as vicious neurosurgeon Ryle, is a surprise hit of the summer. The movie is a romance suffused with darkness, following Lily (Blake Lively as an adult, Isabela Ferrer as an adolescent) as she grows up and falls into a violent relationship that mirrors her parents (Amy Morton and Kevin McKidd).
As an adolescent in Maine looking to escape,
Michaela Coel Creating Follow-up Series to “I May Destroy You” for HBO & BBC
One of the most talented creators of her generation is returning to HBO with a brand-new series.
I May Destroy You creator and star Michaela Coel has set First Day On Earth at HBO, a ten-episode drama that will follow British novelist Henri (Coel) as she struggles to shake up her life and embarks on a journey to get unstuck.
“Work has dried up, [and] her relationship is going nowhere.
