“House of the Dragon” Showrunner Ryan Condal on the the Women Vying for Power in Westeros

For those who haven’t watched House of the Dragon since its debut in 2022, the show is based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire and Blood. The story chronicles the early days of the Targaryen dynasty in the time of Aegon the Conqueror, a forefather to the much-beloved Game of Thrones heroine Daenerys. The new series has developed its own enthusiastic fandom, one that was thrilled to see the premiere of new weekly episodes as of June 16th of this year. 

The Wild Final “Deadpool & Wolverine” Trailer Finds Wade & Logan Deep in Their Feelings

Is Wade Wilson getting emo on us? In the final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds’ notoriously childish superhero is feeling the emotions as he looks on at his new partner-in-crime, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and tearfully tells him, “I’ve been waiting a long time for this team-up.” Wade goes on to tell Wolverine that, regardless of what he thinks about himself in his world, in the world Wade comes from,

The Second “Dune: Prophecy” Trailer Teases the Founding of a Secretive, Immensely Powerful Sisterhood

“You wish to serve the great houses and shape the flow of power; you first must exert power over yourself.”

This is how the second teaser for HBO’s Dune: Prophecy begins, with Emily Watson’s Valya Harkonnen explaining the power dynamics of a time 10,000 years before the events depicted in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films before the Great Houses were influenced by the Bene Gesserit, a powerful, secretive sisterhood that factored so hugely in Frank Herbert’s original novel and Villeneuve’s films. 

“Sing Sing” Cinematographer Pat Scola on Capturing a Raw, Moving Portrait of Humanity

“It was really about getting out of your own way and allowing these men’s story to come to the forefront,” cinematographer Pat Scola tells The Credits about the emotionally stirring film Sing Sing from director Greg Kwedar, which shines a delicate light on the arts rehabilitation program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. “Greg was the one who led from the front on this, and we were there to help tell the story without putting our hands all over it,” Scola says.

James Gunn Says “Superman” is Nearly Done Filming While Praising City of Cleveland

James Gunn is close to wrapping principal photography on Superman, the first marquee feature from his new DC Studios, which he heads alongside co-chief Peter Safran.

The writer/director shared the update that Superman is “getting close” on Threads, where he spread some love to Cleveland for being such a great host city for six weeks of the production.

“#Cleveland – today we are leaving you after six amazing weeks of shooting,” Gunn wrote.

New “Deadpool & Wolverine” Trailer & Images Reveal Fresh Look at Lady Deadpool & More

We’re now less than ten days away from Deadpool & Wolverine, the long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth and Hugh Jackman’s mutant berserker. (Re-pairing, if you want to be technical about it—they appeared in character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but it was a very different version of Reynolds’ Wade Wilson). Marvel has understandably been flooding the zone with promotional material (Deadpool &

How “Those About to Die” VFX Supervisor Peter Travers Built Rome in 100 Days

Roland Emmerich knows how to destroy worlds. The multi-hyphenate is behind some of the biggest disaster movies in film history, including Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Moonfall. But instead of depicting a cataclysm for his latest effort, he’s building an empire for the Peacock series Those About to Die (streaming on July 18), which takes place during Rome’s Flavian dynasty just as the Coliseum is receiving its finishing touches.

If You Ignore 1973-1983, Wolverine’s Timeline Isn’t That Confusing

Spoiler first: At the end of director James Mangold’s 2017 Logan, Logan died. Better known as Wolverine and synonymous with the actor who has played him many times, Hugh Jackman, the character returns on July 26th in Marvel/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine. The decision was Jackman’s, and apparently even Marvel boss Kevin Feige was skeptical, but thanks to the multiverse, this Logan supposedly isn’t that Logan,

Following Its Predecessor’s Successful Path, “Twisters” Touches Down in Oklahoma

When the disaster thriller Twister was released in 1996, the film turned out to be one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters and the second-highest-grossing movie of the year (the first was Independence Day). Helen Hunt starred as Jo, a meteorologist who was out to revolutionize tornado alert systems through a small, censor-filled device named Dorothy, conceived by her almost ex-husband, weatherman Bill (Bill Paxton). Almost thirty years later, a sequel is on the way: Twisters,

“Beckham” Editor Michael Harte on Bending A Massive Archive Into a Must-See Doc

Directed by Fisher Stevens, the documentary miniseries Beckham has been a hit for Netflix, charting David Beckham’s rise as a Manchester United star, England team captain, and player for Real Madrid and the LA Galaxy. But football (we’ll call it that here, as Beckham, his family, his mentor Alex Ferguson, and dozens of teammates and fellow celebrities do throughout the miniseries) is only one way into the star’s life, with the relationship between David and his wife of almost 25 years,

“Presumed Innocent” DPs Daniel Voldheim & Doug Emmett on Capturing Jake Gyllenhaal’s Raw Emotions & Moral Ambiguity

An intoxicating amalgam of courtroom thriller, relationship drama, and a whodunit, David E. Kelley’s latest entry into long-form prestige drama arrives with Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent, a cerebral puzzle steeped in betrayal, obsession, love, and ambition. Fresh off his quietly menacing turn in Amazon MGM’s wildly entertaining Road House remake, Jake Gyllenhaal (who also serves as Executive Producer) plays Rusty Sabich, Chicago’s chief deputy prosecutor and devoted family man,

“Fancy Dance” Producer Heather Rae on Putting Together Erica Tremblay’s Moving New Film

For Heather Rae, it’s all about heart. The award-winning producer of Frozen River, Wind Walkers, and Tallulah, and the director/producer of the acclaimed documentary Trudell, believes her place is at the heart of a production. And just as important, Rae is driven to make films with heart.

Fancy Dance, Rae’s latest film, now streaming on Apple TV+,

Cinematographer Sam Levy on the Absurdist Fun That is Julio Torres’ “Fantasmas”

Julio Torres wrote, directed, and stars in his new HBO series, Fantasmas, a delightfully absurdist comic fantasy loosely predicated on a search for a lost earring. Fantasmas, which means “ghosts” in Spanish, questions reality — Torres and his costars, including Emma Stone and Bernardo Velasco, with cameos by actors like Tilda Swinton, exist in a world that seems to be both multi-dimensional and missing dimensions at the same time,

“The Acolyte” Costume Designer Jennifer Bryan on Dressing Jedis, Witches, Wookies & More

Note: this interview contains spoilers for the first three episodes.

In its newest Star Wars franchise, The Acolyte, Disney+ heads back in time to a century prior to the rise of the Galactic Empire. Amandla Stenberg stars as identical twins Osha and Mae, the former an ex-Jedi Padawan and the latter a vengeful warrior on the run. Both can use the Force, although the Jedi Order is neither twin’s birthright — the girls’ early childhood was spent in a coven of witches on Brendok,

MPA Creator Award Recipient Writer/Director JA Bayona’s Epic Journey

J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow, a reimagining of the real-life 1972 Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes Mountains that caught the world’s attention, is a viscerally astonishing feat of empathetic filmmaking. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best International Feature for Spain and Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí, and Montse Ribé), a sweet coda for a filmmaker who returned to his home country of Spain for the majority of the film’s production.

“Space Cadet” Writer/Director Liz Garcia on Crafting Her Cosmic Comedy

It was an article about NASA’s first class of astronaut candidates in which women constituted half the participants that piqued Liz Garcia’s curiosity about the highly competitive candidacy process and ultimately prompted her to write about it. As the writer/director/producer (The Lifeguard, The Sinner) notes in her Director’s Statement, “Once I learned how astonishingly competitive it is to even get to the point that you’re being considered, I knew I wanted to set a movie in that world,

“A Quiet Place: Day One” VFX Supervisor Malcolm Humphreys on Conjuring More Detailed “Death Angels”

A Quiet Place: Day One (now in theaters) personalizes its sci-fi mythology by centering the action around a cancer-stricken poet who’s hell-bent on getting a slice of her favorite pizza, alien invasion be damned. Written and directed by Michael Samoski, maker of indie shocker Pig, the prequel casts Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, 12 Years a Slave) as Samira, who tries to escape the monsters’

Chasing Precision and Perfection with Aerial DPs on “The Blue Angels” – Part 2

In part one of our interview, former Blue Angels pilot LCDR Lance “Bubb” Benson, aerial DP Michael FitzMaurice, and aerial coordinator Kevin LaRosa II shared how the painstaking planning process really paid off and the use of Benson’s “chase” jet to capture unique vantage points. Now, we delve into the camera configurations and what it took to film some of the most popular maneuvers from the air.

The sizeable discrepancy between the airspeeds of the helicopter and the F-18s was crucial in intensifying the visceral rush on-screen.

Chasing Precision and Perfection with Aerial DPs on “The Blue Angels” – Part 1

Every year since the Blue Angels were established in 1946, crowds of all ages have oohed and aahed at airshows from Brunswick, Maine to Huntington Beach, California, as the United States Navy’s precision flight demonstration team performs intoxicatingly vertiginous aerial maneuvers in the skies. With six F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets flying a mere 12-18 inches apart at 400-600mph, the only way to capture every hypersonic swoop and stomach-churning roll on camera up close—and safely—for the Amazon MGM feature documentary was to have a former Blue Angel in the aerial cinematography team.

“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” Director Mark Molloy on Capturing That Eddie Murphy Magic

Mark Molloy is just as much a fan of Beverly Hill Cop as you are. Growing up, the Australian native had an Axel Foley poster pinned to his bedroom wall and turned that into helming the fourth installment of the franchise, which hits Netflix on July 3, nearly 40 years after the original 1984 film.

This time, Foley (Eddie Murphy) finds himself in Beverly Hills protecting the life of his daughter Jane (Taylour Paige) as they uncover a conspiracy connected to the drug cartel.