Costume Designer Madeline Fontaine on Outfitting the Inimitable Jackie Kennedy in Jackie
The sets, the tone, the colors — Jackie, which opens Friday, presents the early 1960’s and the tragic days just after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in precise, crisply re-created detail. With director Pablo Larraín’s at the film’s helm, Natalie Portman smolders and sears as the former First Lady, in an Oscar catnip performance.
She’s outfitted, unsurprisingly, in historically identical fashion to Jackie Kennedy, with a wardrobe that perfectly reflects the clothing the real Jackie made so iconic.
Westworld: The Truth About Bernard
If you haven't seen last week's episode of Westworld, "The Well-Tempered Clavier," stop reading now.
Still here? Fantastic. Let's dig in.
One of this season's biggest reveals was that Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), the menschy, brilliant programmer and number two to Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins), is a robot. The revelation came in the gut-wrenching coda to an episode in which he dispatched his love interest Theresea (Sidse Babett Knudsen) at the behest of Ford,
One DP Visualizes Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and now Iron Fist
He’s the go to cinematographer for Marvel's crop of Netflix shows, focusing on a new breed of super-flawed superheroes. First Manuel Billeter filmed private eye Jessica Jones in muted tones appropriate to her downbeat Hell's Kitchen environs. Then he showcased Harlem as backdrop for the bullet-proof ex-con with a mission in Luke Cage. And now, Billeter's serving as director of photographer for martial arts thriller Iron Fist,
Space Dating in Passengers With Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt
There are worse ways to spend your downtime aboard a spaceship than going on a date with a very attractive person. That’s what is happening in this new clip from Passengers that Sony Pictures has debuted, in which two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) find out that they've woken up aboard the spaceship they're traveling on, the one that they were supposed to spend in cryogenic sleep, 90 years before anyone else. That means they've got a
Enter the Animus in new Assassin’s Creed Clip
If any filmmaker and star are going to pull off adapting a super popular video game into credibly excellent film, director Justin Kurzel and star/producer Michael Fassbender are as good of a bet as you’re going to get. Since pairing on Kurzel’s wild, glorious Macbeth adaptation (and re-teaming Fassbender with his Macbeth co-star Marion Cottilard), the two re-team here for the adaptation to Ubisoft's best-selling game franchise Assassin's Creed.
Check out Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 LEGO Trailer
When we shared the first look at footage from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, fans were excited but, as always, wanted more. For the folks who went to Comic-Con in San Diego, they've seen a a bunch of material from director James Gunn's sequel to his 2014 smash hit, but for 99% of the rest of us, we're still waiting for more. So it's nice that while we wait,
Two new Rogue One Extended Looks + Tickets Available now
Your advance tickets for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story are on sale now! This includes special promotions from select theater chains and ticket sellers that you can find here.
Along with being able to finally buy your tickets, Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm have dropped two new looks at the film. The first reminds that behind behind Ben Mendelsohn’s villain Orson Krennic is the film's real big bad—hint,
Thanksgiving Watch List: 11 Food Mad Films
Every year, millions of Americans gather around a table for Thanksgiving and give thanks. The food—usually rich, heavy, and eventually sleep-inducing—is central to the ritual. Regardless of whether you're traditional or vegan, go in for the turkey or prefer a more Asian fusion meal, the meal is the thing. Food is the one true universal language—there is not a single place on the face of this earth you can visit and not be understood by bringing your hand to your mouth.
Oscar Watch: Academy Award-Winning Composer Lightens Up for Secret Life of Pets
Nominated for eight Academy Awards over the past decade, French composer Alexandre Desplat has a gift for infusing somber period pieces incuding The Imitation Game, Philomena and The King's Speech with majestic scores. But Desplat also has a playful side. For animated hit The Secret Life of Pets, which opened in July, Desplat shifted gears from his Oscar-winning Grand Budapest Hotel music to score the New York City misadventures of runaway dog Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) and rebel pet leader Snowball the Bunny (Kevin Hart).
Big Things Ahead for Fantastic Beasts Franchise
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opened this past weekend to positive reviews and over $200 million in box office revenue worldwide. While more Harry Potter lovers are sure to hit their local theater this holiday season, J.K. Rowling and others involved behind the scenes of the new franchise are discussing its' future—and it's bolder and less rigid than you might expect.
In a series of tweets,
Watch Hidden Figures Lyric Video “I See a Victory”
Yesterday we had the opportunity to interview Hidden Figures (and Moonlight star) Janelle Monáe—we'll be publishing that early next week. What we learned talking to the talented musician, actress and writer is that the sisterhood you see and feel on screen in Hidden Figures is real. The three leads, Monáe, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer, became very close on set. In the film they protray three brilliant African-American women who,
Angela Bassett Joins Black Panther Cast
The pedigree of the first stand alone Black Panther film continues to impress. Marvel and Walt Disney Studios have just announced that Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett has joined the cast. For the legions fo Bassett fans, who currently get to see her on Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story, the news that she'll be playing Ramonda, the mother of T’Challa, aka Black Panther, is huge.
Bassett is joining an extremely talented team.
Composer Joby Talbot on the Many Musical Influences in Sing
With stars like Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, and Scarlett Johansson lending their voices, Sing is sure to be the must see family movie this Christmas (the official release date is December 21). The anthropomorphic animation about following your dreams features music by composer Joby Talbot. In a movie about a singing competition, the music becomes a character all its own. Talbot’s task was to weave together a score amidst a story featuring over 100 songs made popular by artists from Aerosmith to Sir Mix-A-Lot.
From Storyboard to Screen: Behind the Scenes of Disney’s Moana
Disney is in on the joke about “princess movies” in the new animated feature Moana (in theaters Nov. 23). In the film, a road trip by sea in which a young Polynesian woman named Moana leaves her island home to find the demi-god Maui and return a lost object to its right home, there is more than one joke about the title character’s princess credentials.
The Credits recently sat down with Hyrum Osmond,
Can you Find the Guardians of the Galaxy Easter Egg?
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has been saying for a while now that eagle eyed fans have still not found a major easter egg in the first film. How is it possible, in an age of hyper-vigiliant film and TV watching, with the numerous Reddit threads devoted to deciphering every movie and show’s tiniest detail, that this easter egg is still out there, unseen?
Ever since Gunn teased fans,
Check out the new Rogue One Spot
"Reckless and undisciplined," is how your hero Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is described at the start of this new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story TV spot. Her cheeky reply tells you a lot about her character—"This is a rebellion, isn't it?"
It's because of that defiant charm that many Star Wars fans, especially all of us who loved the pluck of Princess Leia, that Rogue One
Sonic Soul: Talking to Manchester by the Sea’s Sound Designer
What does a sound editor on a film do? While most people could reasonably explain the role of editor, costume designer or cinematographer (and think they know what a producer does—often they don't), it's a safe bet that your average movie lover would have a tough job explaining the role of sound editor. "The way a movie sounds, it can be elusive even to the director," says seasoned sound designer and supervising sound editor Jacob Ribicoff. With a ton of great films under his belt,
Production Designer Stuart Craig on Fantastic Beasts and How They Came to Be
In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hogwarts graduate Newt (Eddie Redmayne) crashes his way through New York in 1926, fresh off a steamer ship from London, in hot pursuit of his various ill-trained magical beasts, whom he just can’t seem to keep trapped in a suitcase. After the case gets accidentally swapped with other nondescript brown luggage, Newt’s predicament grows, given that only one of the bags contains an entire fantastic beast-sanctuary.
Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard Sizzle in new Allied Clips
It's 1942 in North Africa, and intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) meets French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. They go under cover as a married couple, charged with taking out a high ranking official. Their cover relationships becomes real, but eventually their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressure of the war when Max's handlers declare that Marianne is a Nazi spy.
Directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis, written by an Oscar-nominated writer (Steven Knight,
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Rogue One in New Featurette
Folks, this new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story featurette is as hot off the presses as you can get. Lucasfilm and Disney just released it, and we wanted to share it with you as quick as can be.
"If I'd known since I was four that I was going to be shooting a Star Wars film, I would have planned it all my life," says director Gareth Edwards as the behind-the-scenes featurette opens.
