Oscar Watch: Love & Friendship Designer’s Delicious Duds for Jane Austen Comedy

Jane Austen's fictional universe takes a turn toward the comedic with Love & Friendship adapted by Whit Stillman from one of her early works. The movie, released in May, is now earning Oscar buzz for Irish costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh and the splendid 18th century gowns she crafted for Kate Beckinsale as gorgeous widower Lady Susan.

Prepping in Dublin for the ten-week production, Mhaoldomhnaigh and her team of seamstresses outfitted Beckinsale/Lady Susan in tightly corseted silk dresses color-coded to reflect her progressive seduction of upper crust society.

Watch the First, Deliciously Scary Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant Trailer

When Ridley Scott released Prometheus in 2012, there was reason to be excited. The legendary director was returning to the material than had made him a household name, building off the phenomenal Alien franchise he had begun in 1979. While the film wasn't what many had hoped, it still had plenty of intrigue and terror, and it's put Scott on the path to the next film, Alien: Covenant,

Composer Jake Monaco on Building His Instruments, Scoring for Pixar & More

Composer Jake Monaco has worked on everything from big budget comedies like Keeping up with the Joneses, to children’s animations like Amazon’s The Stinky and Dirty Show and the recent Pixar short Piper. Nothing is off limits to Monaco in his search for the perfect sound- he explains how instruments made from everyday objects like vodka bottles, or a $6 wok from Ikea, help him hit the right notes.

How Hacksaw Ridge‘s Production Designer Transformed Australia into Okinawa

Hacksaw Ridge Production designer Barry Robison has worked on films in Australia so often that he acquired dual-citizenship. Being familiar with the area gave him an advantage when working with Australian director, Mel Gibson. The setting, however, was unforgiving for a period piece set in America and Japan. Robison literally reshaped the land to take audiences back 70 years and thousands of miles away. The film garnered three Golden Globes nominations, and his rigorous research and scrupulous attention to detail earned him an Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) award for Best Production Design.

How Star Wars‘ Editor Prepared Passengers for Lift Off

Oscar-nominated editor Maryann Brandon came straight off Star Wars: The Force Awakens to prepare Passengers for lift off. A frequent J.J. Abrams collaborator — she also edited his Star Trek Into Darkness — Brandon has became Hollywood’s go-to editor for big space epics in part because she brings an exacting eye to action sequences. Her mantra: Make sure the audience understands what’s happening.

"I don’t just cut for the sake of spectacle,

Arrival‘s Screenwriter on Crafting one of the Year’s Best Films

For sci-fi fans, there was something doubly wonderful about watching director Denis Villeneuve's Arrival; it proved that the most malleable of genres is still alive and well, and, confirmed that Villeneuve was absolutely the right choice to helm the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, Blade Runner 2049. 

Ridley Scott's 1982 Blade Runner is one of sci-fi's most iconic films (coming just a few years after his equally iconic 

Passengers‘ VFX Supervisor on Creating Zero Gravity Mayhem

A serene, unusual spacecraft drifts through space. The Avalon is on a 120 year course, carrying 5000+ passengers to a new colony, plant-like and twinkling on its exterior, silent and gleaming on the inside. Its well-stocked and highly-designed but empty chambers are reminiscent of another era’s grand hotel, devoid of guests, ready to close for the season, And then a hibernation pod malfunctions, and passenger Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up 90 years early. He will grow old and die before anyone else on the ship awakes,

Molly Shannon on her Heartbreaking Role in Other People

For Molly Shannon fans (and we are legion), it's long been known the former SNL standout had acting chops that stretched beyond her iconic contributions to the show. But what contributions! Shannon became a featured player on SNL in 1995 and inhabited a few of the show's most memorable characters, including (of course) oddball Catholic school girly Mary Katherine Gallagher (Shannon took the character onto the big screen with 1999's Superstar),

David Lynch Eats a Donut in Twin Peaks Revival Teaser

Here's your first Twin Peaks revival mystery—who's holding the coffee cup near show creator David Lynch, seen here in character as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole Gordon Cole? 

Whoever is standing just off camera may remain a mystery, but one thing is certain; fans have been waiting a very long time for Lynch to return to this iconic T series. In this very first glimpse, Showtime gives you Lynch,

Here’s Your First Look at Blade Runner 2049

Director Dennis Villeneuve obliterated any fears about whether he could handle tackling an iconic sci-fi film like the Blade Runner sequel with his deft work on the remarkable Arrival. That film, this year’s best sci-fi film by a wide margin, made it clear that the Sicario director took inspiration from the very best sci-fi directors, most notably Steven Spielberg’s work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

Chopped & Screwed: How Moonlight Composer Morphed Acoustic Music into Rumbling Soundscapes

Composer Nicholas Britell played classical piano as a kid, attended Juilliard School's Pre-College program and studied music at Harvard University. But Britell brought an entirely different skill set to bear when director Barry Jenkins asked him to score coming-of-age Oscar contender Moonlight with "chopped and screwed" southern hip hop in mind.

What, exactly, is 'chopping and screwed'? "Basically, it’s when you slow down tracks so the pitch goes really low and you get these deep-end,

Rogue One Crushes Box Office, Wins Critical Praise

The first anthology film in the Star Wars saga, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit theaters this past weekend to positive reactions from audiences and critics alike, and, as was expected, record breaking box office numbers. As Variety reports, the film's massive weekend "shatters any doubts that the world of Jedi knights, shadowy totalitarian governments, and bug-eyed aliens is much bigger than the saga of the Skywalker clan."

Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn Get Snatched in First Trailer

The first trailer for Snatched is here, and it only took a minute to elicit our first LOL this Friday. It's a red band trailer, folks, so if you're going to watch it at work you'll want to put your earbuds in.

Written by Kate Dippold (Ghostbusters, The Heat, Parks & Rec) and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies, The Night Before) the plot details for 

Check Out These new Beauty and the Beast Photos

By now you've seen the trailer for Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the studio’s animated classic Beauty and the Beast from director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn parts 1and 2),, showing a meticulously gorgeous take on one of the most classic tales ever told. Stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens are your beauty and beast respectively, with an extraordinary ensemble cast surrounding them,

Final Rogue One TV Spot Before Premiere

We've arrived. The very first Star Wars film not centered on the Skywalker family premieres tonight, and Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios have released this final TV spot to celebrate the moment. If you've been scrupulously avoiding all critical responses, know that this spot does include a few, but of course they're gushing and just single lines from a few critics. No spoilers here.

By next week, we'll all be talking about what we thought,

The Ten Most Paused Star Wars Moments of All Time

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story coming out tonight at midnight (the review embargo has been lifted, so if you want to find out what the critics think, you can), it's a good bet there will be many sequences and moments in the film you'll wish you could pause. Heck, there have already been many sequences in the film's teasers and trailers we have paused. 

Writer/Director Garth Jennings Mixes Legendary Music & Animation in Sing

If you have ever watched American Idol or The Voice and wished that the contestants were animals instead of humans, then Sing is definitely playing your tune – or should that be ‘toon?  Writer/director Garth Jennings – the British filmmaker whose quirky vision graced the cult hit Son of Rambow as well as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy –takes his first stab at an animated feature,

Steve Zahn on Being a Bad Ape in War for Planet of the Apes

The third chapter of the Apes franchise is set two years after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, with Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian army are forced into open warfare with humans, lead by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson) who sees no path to peace with the apes. Caesar's side suffers brutal loses, forcing the leader of the apes to confront his dark side and decide how far he's willing to go to save his species.

Rogue One Stars Riz Ahmed & Alan Tudyk Talk Rebellion

Yesterday we shared this video interview with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Donnie Yen and Diego Luna, and learned how these two global stars have a ton of Star Wars fans in their respective home countries of China and Mexico. Yen and Luna play a blind Jedi follower Chirrut Imwe and a rebel Spy Cassian Andor respectively, two important figures fighting alongside Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to steal the Death Star plans. 

See the First Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s War Epic Dunkirk

Director Christopher Nolan has carved out a career for himself that, even at the tender age of 46, reminds one of Steven Spielberg. Nolan's films are simultaneously personal and hugely ambitious (Memento, Inception, Interstellar), which he's paired along side blockbuster popcorn movies (albeit ones with complexity and heft) like his Batman trilogy, with The Dark Knight