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.
 
Beginning March 5th,...

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. Now, the Bumblebee spinoff has snagged director Travis Knight,...

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.

We’ve been building to this moment for a long time,...

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), and, not just in his current form,...

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, and 2009’s heartbreaking film The Messenger,...

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,...

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,...

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. If you feel like the show’s music captures your feelings at the most dramatic moments,...

Check out the Trailer for Netflix’s Docu-Series Five Came Back

Journalist and author Mark Harris’s 2014 book “Five Came Back” chronicled five legendary filmmakers who became much more than that when they decided to use their specific talents to aid the Allied war effort during World War II. “Mr. Harris dollies in on five directors whose ethnic diversity and varied personalities might have been lifted from the Central Casting call sheet for a Warner Bros. combat film,” the New York Times Thomas Doherty wrote. “John Ford,...

Your New Netflix Obsession is Here—Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja

One of South Korea’s most ambitious auteurs has his own Netflix film, and you’re going to want to see it. Bong Joon-ho, the visionary behind Snowpiercer and The Host, is releasing Okja on the streaming service this June 28. Working once again with Tilda Swinton (she was hilarious and menacing in Snowpiercer as a cold-hearted, death-dealing bureaucrat) and an incredible cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Giancarlo Esposito, and Lily Collins,...

Lefou Sings Gaston’s Praises in new Beauty and the Beast Clip

"My, what a guy, that Gaston!" sings poor Lefou (Josh Gad), a sidekick who goes through life singing the praises of a man who surely wouldn’t do the same for him. Gaston (Luke Evans) is Beauty and the Beast’s resident airhead hunk, a devilishly handsome man who wants to win Belle’s (Emma Watson) affections, but who clearly has half the heart of the ghastly Beast (Dan Stevens).

We are quickly approaching the March 17 premiere date for Bill Condon’s live-action take on Disney’s classic story (based on the 1991 animated film),...

Drax Disturbs in new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Trailer Tease

The new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 trailer will arrive tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but if you’re itching for a look ahead of time, we’ve got you covered. Marvel has released a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer tease, while the new trailer will likely play in theaters for anyone going to see Logan, which opens this Thursday, March 2nd.

Chris Pratt (Jurassic World,...

Kurt Russell’s Elusive Role in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2

Despite its release in just a few short months, there is still very little known about Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2. We've published stories about what we've learned thus far, including the film's music, the Super Bowl spot and more. Even more secretive than the film itself is Kurt Russell’s role as Ego the Living Planet. So far, all we know is that Ego is the father of Star-Lord and is a sentient planet capable of taking human form...

How Sidney Hall Composer Created the Film’s Score Using Only a Computer

Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Elle Fanning (Maleficent) star in Sundance selection Sidney Hall about a young novelist struggling with his own fame. Listen closely and it might surprise you that a single artist created the music. Composer Darren Morze wrote the film’s score and recorded it himself using instrument samples and his own audio creations on the computer...

Final Trailer for Kong: Skull Island is Most Bonkers Yet

There is something really weird and wonderful going on with Kong: Skull Island. The trailers and snippets we've seen thus far look like the kind of Kong movie we've been waiting for—big, bold, and best of all, strange. 

We've already written about the Godzilla/Kong connection in Skull Island (they'll be facing off in a Warner Bros. film in a few years). We've shared how the Kong in Jordan Vogt-Roberts'...