Run, Hide or Pray in new Alien: Covenant TV Spots
20th Century Fox's promo team would have you believe that there are three ways of dealing with a xenomorph—you can run, you can pray, and you can hide. These are the titles for the three latest TV spots for Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien: Covenant, and like the trailers, teasers, featurettes and art that 20th Century Fox has shared thus far, they're a glimpse of what looks like a return to Alien form for the man who gave us one of the greatest monsters of all time...
The Dazzling Design of Ghost in the Shell
Freakish cyborgs look right at home in Scarlett Johansson's Ghost in the Shell sci-fi epic thanks in part to three years of ingenious design work from New Zealand-based Weta Workshop. Inspired by Masamune Shirow's visionary Manga series and 1995 anime film, co-art director Ben Hawker, who previously channeled Middle Earth critters for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, worked with director Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) to fashion a wild array of futuristic semi-android city dwellers...
War for the Planet of the Apes Drops New Trailer
Men have known to become less than human in times of great intensity. According to the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), this is precisely the moment mankind has come to in War for the Planet of the Apes . In the new trailer, the Colonel makes his case, and it’s a disturbing one:
"There are times when it's necessary to abandon our humanity to save humanity,"
In previous teasers,...
Fran Drescher on Creating The Nanny and her Mission to Eliminate Cancer
This month, we have been celebrating "reel women" whose drive, talent, and creative vision have shaped the landscape of film and television and inspired generations of artists who follow. We had a chance to sit down with one of the women who paved her own way in Hollywood, created a sitcom classic, and brought to life one of the most iconic television roles of all time. In the tradition of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore, Fran Drescher created a character so memorable that she carried an entire series...
Get Your First Look at Game of Thrones Season 7 in New Promo
Now this is what we call a promo. HBO has just released their new promo for Game of Thrones season 7, entitled "Long Walk." It features the three most powerful players left on the board—Jon Snow (Kit Harington) walking through what might be Winterfell's Great Hall, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) walking through an as-of-yet unidentified setting, and Cersei Lannister (Lena Heady) walking through the Red Keep, all ostenibly moving towards to their "rightful" seat on the Iron Throne...
The Trailer for Colin Trevorrow’s Thriller The Book of Henry is a Trip
The last time we watched a Colin Trevorrow film, it was his 2015 smash shit Jurassic World, which returned moviegoers to Isla Nubar, the island that Steven Spielberg set his iconic 1993 original, Jurassic Park. Since then, Trevorrow was tapped to direct a little film called Star Wars: Episode IX, the final film in the new Skywalker trilogy that began with The Force Awakens and continues with The Last Jedi this December...
Director Oz Perkins Takes It Slow in The Blackcoat’s Daughter Shocker
Oz Perkins wrote and directed The Blackcoat's Daughter (opening in theaters and On Demand March 31) determined to create a slow-burn horror film in the classic mold. The story: two teenagers (Kiernan Shipka of Mad Men and British actress Lucy Boynton) go mad when they're abandoned at their devil-infested prep school over winter break. Separately, a depressed young woman (Emma Roberts) treks through the night on a mysterious mission her own. Perkins says,...
Pixar Unveils Dante’s Lunch Short About Dog Featured in Upcoming Coco
Pixar has unveiled this adorable short, Dante’s Lunch, to tease their upcoming feature Coco, and we’re guessing you’re going to love it. Dante is the mischievous best friend of Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), the star of Coco. In the short, Dante’s hungry and looking for a little lunch when he finds what every dog knows to be a great appetizer, a bone. The only issue is this bone has a mind of it’s own,...
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Official Trailer Shifts Into Overdrive
When we saw Baby Driver down in Austin at the South by Southwest Film Festival, we were well aware we’d just seen a certifiable hit. Edgar Wright’s loving spin on the heist movie proved that nobody deconstructs and reconstitutes genre better than he does. As we wrote then, “[Wright] has made zombies fresh again in Shaun of the Dead, buddy cop stories hilarious again in Hot Fuzz,...
Pennywise the Clown Terrifies in new It Trailer
Remember yesterday when we shared photos and the new teaser for director Andy Muschietti’s It, an adaptation Stephen King’s iconic novel? And we warned those of you who are too young to remember the pretty solidly terrifying It TV series in the 90s, let alone King’s source material, that once you allowed Pennywise the Clown into your life, there was no turning back? Well, the official teaser trailer for the Warner Bros...
Joe Swanberg Gambles on Jake Johnson’s Poker Hand in Win It All
Director Joe Swanberg never played a game of cards in his life, but he totally relates to the poker player at the heart of his new movie Win It All (opening April 7 on Netflix). "As an independent filmmaker I feel like a gambler all the time," he says. "Especially as someone who puts my own money into my own movies, I really know that feeling of taking a big risk and not knowing what's going to happen."...
Watch the Wild Trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne star in director Luc Besson’s hallucinatory sci-fi Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which The Fifth Element director has been hankering to make for years. The new trailer shows Besson is once again right at home in the colorful, kaleidoscope world of Alpha, a city far out in space where DeHaan and Delevingne’s special agents are sent to try and uncover the dark forces gathered in the intergalactic megatropolis and what they’re up to...
Why Does Dom Betray the Family in The Fate of the Furious?
How could he? This is the question fans of the Fast & the Furious fans are asking as they learn more about The Fate of the Furious. The film sees Dom (Vin Diesel) turning his back on his crew and teaming up with a sinister seductress named Cipher (Charlize Theron).
In this new featurette, the cast of Fate and Diesel himself reflect on the massive fan base the franchise has generated in now two decades of films,...
Go Behind-the-Scenes With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
With Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales due in theaters in about two months, Walt Disney Pictures has begun teasing the latest Jack Sparrow adventure. Just this week we got more background on why Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) has such a massive beef with Jack (Johnny Depp, as if you didn’t know). It turns out, the now dead Salazar was once a jaunty captain who was cursed by Sparrow and has been hunting him in his ghostly state ever since...
Get Out‘s Cinematographer Reveals the Methods Behind Jordan Peele’s Brilliant Madness
From the moment the first trailer for Get Out dropped, we knew this was going to be something special. We were beyond excited to see comedy genius Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) take on a horror movie and the final product exceeded all our hopes. Get Out travels from poking fun at the insecurities of race relations in America to dramatizing the terror of racism in a way that has critics becoming philosophers as they try to unpack Peele's genius for tackling sensitive subjects with humor,...
Casey Affleck Goes Beneath the Sheets in A Ghost Story‘s First Trailer
A24 has quickly built a reputation for working with auteurs and producing high quality, conformity busting genre films. Recall the great Ex Machina, which took a common sci-fi conceit (sentient robot, A.I., feckless humans) and gave it a stylish, updated twist. It looks like the studio is once again teaming up with serious talents to reimagine genre—this time the ghost story—in, wait for it, David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon), who A Ghost Story...
Han Solo Casting Update, Character Names Revealed
Even though it doesn’t yet have a name, Woody Harrelson already boasted recently that the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo spinoff will be the best in the franchise (while Woody's character has gotten a name—Beckett). With even more details emerging from what already sounded like an incredible film, he very well could be right.
Harrelson appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last Wednesday, where he revealed information about his character for the first time...
Iron Man & Spidey’s Amazing new Suit Shine in Epic New Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer
As promised, Sony Pictures has just dropped the new Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer, and we’ve got it for you right here. Fans have been very eager to see what director Jon Watts was going to do with his new Spidey, played by the extremely likable Tom Holland, and that fantastic new Spider-man suit. Within seconds, the trailer shows you that with a friend like Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) backing you up, you’ll never have to worry about not looking the part...
Rainn Wilson on Gargamel’s Evil Laugh & More in Smurfs: The Lost Village
The new all-animated Smurfs: The Lost Village is a colorful, imaginative, funny, and sweet story that answers a question Smurfs fans have asked for a long time: where are the female Smurfs?
Rainn Wilson (The Office, Juno) provides the voice for the Smurf’s enemy, the evil wizard Gargamel. In an interview, he talked about the special skill that made him right for the part, the voice actor he admires the most,...
The Boss Baby‘s Director & Producer Talk Baldwin, Childhood, Dr. Seuss
Director Tom McGrath (the Madagascar movies) admits that his very funny and heartwarming new animated film, The Boss Baby is both a tribute and apology to his older brother. It is the story of a seven-year-old named Tim whose blissful life is turned upside down by the arrival of a baby brother. As Tim’s parents dote on the new arrival, they somehow never notice that the baby has a suit and tie, an expensive watch,...