“Game of Thrones” Spinoff “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Nabs “Black Mirror” Director
One of the most beloved episodes of Black Mirror is, without question, “San Junipero,” and now its helmer, Owen Harris, has been tapped to board one of HBO’s biggest productions.
Harris is joining HBO’s next Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, only the second spinoff series that will have made it to air—House of the Dragon was the first—and now it has a stellar director in Harris,
“House of the Dragon” Season 2 Timeline Revealed
Leave it to Lord Corlys to clue us in on House of the Dragon‘s season 2 timeline.
Actor Steve Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlys, aka “The Sea Snake,” gave us a major clue regarding the timeline for season 2 of House of the Dragon during a panel at CCXP. Toussaint revealed that season 2 will begin a mere 10 days after the end of season 1. This is intriguing news for a series that ambitiously took a massive time jump in season 1,
“Blade Runner 2099” Adds Michelle Yeoh to Cast in Leading Role
Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 just got a major talent upgrade.
Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast in a lead role, adding a major star to one of TV’s most mysterious, exciting new projects. Yeoh joins a limited series that comes from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and is executive-produced by original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. The Blade Runner 2099 team also includes director Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun),
“Challengers” Production Designer Merissa Lombardo Sets the Stage on Court & Off
Director Luca Guadagnino’s sexy new tennis romance, Challengers, layers a years-long love triangle of three millennial-era players over the highs and lows of their careers. At the center is talented, driven, and stunning Tashi (Zendaya). She first dates Patrick (Josh O’Connor), who plays as well as she does, but doesn’t take his career or their relationship seriously enough for either to work out. After getting knocked out of the circuit with a knee injury,
“Furiosa” First Reactions Hail Another Super-Charged Stunner
Nine years after George Miller’s more or less flawless Mad Max: Fury Road introduced an unbelievable Charlize Theron as Furiosa, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the origin story of how Theron’s one-armed warrior supreme came to be, is racing toward theaters. And with its swiftly approaching premiere date comes the first reactions to Miller’s follow-up, the fifth film in his decades-spanning Mad Max dystopian mega-narrative.
While we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the full reviews,
First Look at “Superman” Revealed: Behold David Corenswet as The Man of Steel
Our first glimpse of David Corenswet as Superman is here.
Writer/director James Gunn, naturally, was the one who shared the image of Corenswet suited up as the Man of Steel, sliding on his red boot. This is the first time we’ve seen Corenswet in Superman’s iconic red and blue suit, and he becomes only the third man to play the superhero, joining Christopher Reeve, who played him from 1978 to 1987, Brandon Routh in 2006,
“The Fall Guy” Stunt Designer Chris O’Hara on Helping Create Ryan Gosling’s Gonzo Performance
Hollywood couldn’t have found a more perfect director for Ryan Gosling’s stuntman rom-com The Fall Guy (in theaters now) than David Leitch. A body double-turned-stunt supervisor on dozens of movies, including John Wick, he understood the stunt world firsthand before moving into the director’s chair for Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train. To oversee stunts on The Fall Guy, co-starring Emily Blunt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
“Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace” has Big Re-Release to Celebrate 25th Anniversary
This past Saturday was May the 4th, the annual Star Wars celebration that began with this apocryphal story: the first reference came on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The story goes that her political party, the Conservatives, took out an ad in the London Evening News that read, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” Yet this advertisement, as far as we can tell,
“Fantastic Four” Cast Adds Paul Walter Hauser
The great Paul Walter Hauser is headed to the MCU to join one of Marvel’s most anticipated films-in-progress.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Hauser is joining the cast of The Fantastic Four, joining Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer.
“The Fall Guy” Sound Designer Mark Stoeckinger on Capturing Ryan Gosling’s Wild Ride
A three-time Oscar nominee, Mark Stoeckinger has worked on five of the six features by stuntman-turned-director David Leitch, starting with 2017’s action thriller Atomic Blonde. No stranger to actioners, the veteran sound editor also led the sound team on all four John Wick films (which Leitch also produced). The Fall Guy is a cinematic love letter to the unsung heroes of the filmmaking business,
Wolverine’s Room is on Airbnb: You Can Now Rent the X-Men Mansion
Ever dreamed of staying in the X-Men Mansion, wandering the halls, and maybe bumping into Cyclops and Wolverine bickering by the fireplace? Well, you can live out part of that dream now in a mansion atop a hill in Westchester County, New York, which is distinguished not so much by how nice it is—there are a lot of nice houses in the area—but by its cinematic pedigree. You’ll notice that the house comes with an unusual lawn ornament: a Sentinel,
Jake Gyllenhaal is Caught in a Deadly Affair in “Presumed Innocent” Trailer
Jake Gyllenhaal is in some serious trouble in the first trailer for Apple TV+’s new limited series Presumed Innocent.
Gyllenhaal stars as Rusty Sabich, a chief deputy prosecutor in Chicago’s Prosecuting Attorney’s office who has all the trappings of a successful, highly well-adjusted life: an important job, a loving wife, Barbara (played by Ruth Negga), and a family. But Sabich finds himself irresistibly drawn to his colleague, Carolyn (Renate Reinsve). The trailer sets the stage for what happens next—once Rusty and Carolyn begin an affair,
Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day Appear at “The Fall Guy” Premiere as Beavis and Butt-Head
When Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day played Beavis and Butt-Head in an SNL sketch this past April 13 during Gosling’s episode, the effect was so sublimely absurd that SNL star Heidi Gardner broke character and lost it. Gardner played a NewsNation anchor hosting a very serious discussion about the perils of AI, but then she notices two audience members who appear to be the flesh-and-blood incarnations of the iconic animated characters from the 1990s.
“Shōgun” Stunt Coordinator Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle on Lady Mariko’s Last Stand
In part one of our conversation with Shōgun’s stunt coordinator and second unit director, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, he shared details about the extensive choreography training for the cast and what made Lord Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) fighting style distinctive. Now, we turn toward Toranaga’s two allies, the “Anjin,” English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), and the woman Toranaga tasks with acting as Blackthorne’s translator, Lady Mariko (Anna Sawai).
When an assassin breaks into Blackthorne’s house to kill him in episode 2,
Carrie Coon Confirms “The White Lotus” Season 3 is About Death
Mike White’s The White Lotus season 3 will once again skewer the clueless rich as the first two seasons did with such gleeful precision, but it’s being built around a single theme just as seasons one and two did. This isn’t just pure speculation; it comes from season 3 cast member Carrie Coon, who will be one of the tourists idling away at the White Lotus in Thailand.
White’s anthology series has depicted both the staff and the guests of the titular White Lotus resort—Hawaii in season 1 and Sicily in season 2—with most of the guests falling somewhere on the Extreme Bozo end of the rich and entitled spectrum.
“Let It Be” Trailer Reveals the Fully Restored 1970 Film After a 50 Year Wait
The first trailer for the fully restored “Let It Be” has arrived.
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about The Beatles has been meticulously restored by Peter Jackson, following Jackson’s deep dive docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, which was released on Disney+ in 2021. Let It Be will arrive on Disney+ on May 8, marking the first time it’s been available in over 50 years.
Let It Be was first released at a tumultuous time,
The Samurai Sword and the Flaming Arrow: Inside the Stunts of “Shōgun” – Part One
It has been a very busy year for stunt coordinator Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle. Not only is he on one of this season’s most-watched scripted series on broadcast—Tracker on CBS—he is also the second unit director on FX’s critically acclaimed hit, Shōgun. Still maintaining its 99% Rotten Tomatoes score after a 10-week run, the historical saga based on James Clavell’s bestselling novel is shaping up to be a frontrunner at the upcoming Emmy Awards.
From Feudal Japan to Tokyo’s Neon Underworld: “Shōgun” & “Tokyo Vice” Director Takeshi Fukunaga Unmasks Japan
Japan is enjoying a moment. Godzilla Minus One landed a Best Visual Effects Oscar and a record U.S. box office for a Japanese live-action film; Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron scored a Golden Globe for best-animated feature, while Shōgun (将軍) and Tokyo Vice have won fans and plaudits around the globe.
As the only local director on both those acclaimed series set in Japan,
First “Mufasa: The Lion King” Trailer Unveils Beyoncé’s Daughter Blue Ivy Carter as Lion Cub Kiara
The first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King has roared to life online.
“This story begins far beyond the mountains and the shadows, on the other side of the light.” So begins our first peek at Mufasa: The Lion King, which, as the title suggests, will tell the origin story of the legendary Mufasa, a lion who was born “without a drop of nobility in his blood.” The legendary lion king was voiced by James Earl Jones in both the iconic 1993 animated original and the photo-realistic 2019 remake,
“Challengers” Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes on Acing his Zendaya-led Tennis Scorcher
Spoiler Alert: The following article contains spoilers for Challengers.
Back in 2018, playwright and author Justin Kuritzkes was obsessively consuming the world of elite tennis. As the first-time screenwriter conveyed to The Credits, it was better than anything in theaters or on the small screen — tennis was really just that good.
During that year’s U.S. Open match between Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams,
