Francis Ford Coppola’s Long-Awaited New Film “Megalopolis” Screens for First Time

One of the greatest directors of all time has finally revealed his decades-long passion project.

Francis Ford Coppola screened Megalopolis at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater in Los Angeles for a host of potential buyers and distributors, as well as a starry crowd of fellow filmmakers that included Andy Garcia, Al Pacino, Colleen Camp, Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage, Angelica Huston, Spike Jonze, Jon Favreau, Darren Aronofsky, Cailee Spaeny, and Roger Corman.

First “The Sympathizer” Trailer Reveals Robert Downey Jr.’s Twisty New HBO Series

HBO has revealed the official trailer for The Sympathizer, one of the most intriguing new series set to launch this year. The seven-episode limited series boasts a sensational cast and phenomenal source material—Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name—and the first trailer offers a taste of the globetrotting and subterfuge to come. It also bears the imprimatur of co-showrunner, executive producer, writer, and director Park Chan-wook, one of the best in the business.

Florence Pugh Plays By Her Own Rules in Set Video From Marvel’s “Thunderbolts”

Florence Pugh was very much in character as the Black Widow Yelena Belova when she broke the rules (lightly, and with panache) to show us a bit of the set for Marvel Studios’ upcoming antihero team-up movie Thunderbolts.

Pugh is reprising the role that she first took on in the MCU’s standalone Black Widow, playing Scarlett Johansson’s estranged sister, and then later in Marvel’s Disney+ series Hawkeye. Pugh was in wardrobe as Yelena during the impromptu set tour,

Steven Spielberg Anoints “Dune: Part Two” a Masterpiece

“One of the most brilliant sci-fi films I’ve ever seen,” said Steven Spielberg about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. This is just about the highest possible praise from one of the best who ever did it.

Spielberg and Villeneuve appeared together on the DGA’s Director’s Cut podcast, where the man who brought us Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds gave all the extraterrestrial flowers to the Arrival and Dune helmer.

“Poor Things” Dynamic Duo Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos Reteam in First “Kinds of Kindness” Trailer

One of the most enjoyable recent examples of a director and a star getting the best out of each other is that of Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos and two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone. The dynamic duo is on quite a run, which began with Lanthimos’s sensational 2019 The Favourite, continued with last year’s outstanding Poor Things (which netted Stone her second Oscar), and will carry us into this summer’s Kinds of Kindness, 

From Kitchen Chaos to Rock Legend: Jeremy Allen White Circling Bruce Springsteen Role

Jeremy Allen White’s career is really cooking now. Scorching after recently winning a Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award for his portrayal of Carmy Berzatto in FX’s tasty kitchen dramedy The Bear, Allen might be handing in his apron and chef’s knife for a pair of scuffed jeans and a guitar.

White is currently in talks to play none other than the Boss in a movie about Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album “Nebraska,”

“Dune: Part Two” Cinematographer Greig Fraser on Finding Clarity in Chaos

In part one of our interview with Dune: Part Two cinematographer Greig Fraser, the Oscar-winner took us on a trip to the planet of Giedi Prime, home to the vampiric Harkonnen clan, to reveal how he captured that bloodless light during Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler)’s gladiator scene, those inky blacks during Feyd’s fateful meeting with Lady Margot, and how the surprising inspiration for those “anti-fireworks” after Feyd’s victory.

Now we turn to Fraser’s method for filming action sequences,

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” Trailer Calls Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Back Into Action

The first trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die has arrived, reuniting Will Smith’s Mike Lowery and Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett for another heady dose of action. Smith and Lawrence re-team with their Bad Boys For Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah for the fourth film in the franchise.

It’s been a while and a whole different world since we last saw Smith and Lawrence’s onscreen chemistry in full gear—Bad Boys For Life arrived before the pandemic and was a major hit in 2020.

Scarlett Johansson May Be Headlining New “Jurassic World” Movie

Scarlett Johansson is looking to be the likely candidate to lead Universal Pictures’ new dinosaur epic. Johansson is in talks to star in the new Jurassic World movie by The Creator director Gareth Edwards.

Universal is moving with the speed of a velociraptor to put the pieces together, which already includes a script from original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.

This would mark Johansson’s return to the movie franchise business of which she was a part for so long and knows so well.

“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” First Reactions Tease a Ferocious Kaiju Battle Royale

The first reactions are in for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Adam Wingard’s follow-up to Godzilla vs. Kong, which promises more Kaiju action and a pair of new villains that make even Mecha-Godzilla look tame. 

The new villains coming to give Godzilla and Kong a run for their apex predator money are Scar King and Shimu, but you’ll need to see Wingard’s latest to get a better sense of who these new beasts are.

“Shōgun” Score: Atticus Ross & Co Meld Ancient Soul to Modern Tech

Composer Atticus Ross teamed with Trent Reznor over the past 15 years to conjure dread-filled tension in David Fincher thrillers The Social Network, Gone Girl, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo before plunging into afterlife limbo with their Oscar-winning score for Soul. But Atticus was on a new journey to the realm of feudal Japan when, in 2021, producer Jamie Wheeler approached him about scoring Shōgun in collaboration with his younger brother Leo Ross and longtime engineer Nick Chuba.

From “SNL” to the Director’s Chair: Julio Torres Lights Up With “Problemista”

There is a cornucopia of comedy happening in Problemista, Julio Torres’ debut feature. In a little over 90 minutes, writer/director Torres pokes fun at cryonics, the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the U.S. immigration system, and the eccentricities of the art world. Along the way, there are jabs at Craigslist, FileMaker Pro, and Bank of America. All of it is wrapped around a virtuoso performance by Tilda Swinton as a madcap,

“The Penguin” Trailer Reveals Colin Farrell’s Crime Lord Scheming for Control of Gotham

“Can you imagine? To be remembered like that?”

These are the musings of Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell), also known by his unbeatable gangster nickname, The Penguin, in the official trailer for the upcoming Max series of the same name. Oswald is talking about a gangster he knew when he was growing up, a guy so respected, even beloved, that they threw a parade in his honor when he died. It’s safe to say the kind of life Oswald has led likely won’t lead to any parades when he waddles his last,

The Juice is Loose in First “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Trailer

Twenty-six years after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton delivered one of the most offbeat, beguilingly charming horror comedies of the 1980s, the Juice is loose again. The first teaser trailer for Burton and Keaton’s long-awaited sequel to their iconic Beetlejuice has arrived, and the reunion is so sweet they had to name it twice.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice finds Keaton returning to the playfully malicious spirit he inhabited, and he’s joined by his Beetlejuice co-stars Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz.

“House of the Dragon” Season 2 Unleashes Two Trailers, Plenty of Dragons, and War

How big is House of the Dragon season 2 going to be? So big they’ve just released two trailers to prepare you for the war to come.

The green trailer focuses on Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and her father, Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), dealing with the aftermath of the death of King Viserys (Paddy Considine). The King’s rule had been peaceful, but his final years, as his health deteriorated and his house was rife with rumor and intrigue,

First “Alien: Romulus” Images Unleash the Xenomorph in Fede Alvarez’s Upcoming Interquel

Yesterday, we got our first glimpse at director Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, the latest installment in the Alien franchise, yet one that is taking a different approach from the more recent films. Alvarez, with the blessing of both Ridley Scott and James Cameron, has made an “interquel,” a film that connects Scott’s groundbreaking 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien and Cameron’s sizzling 1986 follow-up Aliens. 

This means that because he’s set his Romulus in the 57-year span between Ellen Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) battle with a vicious Xenomorph aboard the spaceship the USCSS Nostromo in Alien and Ripley’s rematch with another Xenomorph (an alien queen,

“Dune: Part Two” Cinematographer Greig Fraser on Poisoning the Light of Giedi Prime

If you polled all the people who have now seen Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two in theaters about what was the most visually striking moment, my guess is it would be the Sandworm Express in a runaway. We’re talking, of course, about Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) riding the universe’s most dangerous mode of transport—a colossal sandworm—across the dunes of Arrakis. And while that sequence is staggering in its audacity and surprising in its alchemical verisimilitude (it feels as if that’s precisely what it would be like to try and surf on a skyscraper-sized alien terrestrial annelid),

“House of the Dragon” Season 2 Trailer Coming Tomorrow

With HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon season 2 taking flight this June, now seems like a grand time to whet our appetites with some images from the upcoming season ahead of the trailer release, which arrives tomorrow.

The images include returning figures like Emma D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra Targaryen and Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen, her volatile beau (and uncle, befitting the Westerosi tradition of, well, you get it.) We also get fresh looks at Olivia Cooke’s Queen Alicent Hightower,

First “Alien: Romulus” Trailer Reveals the “Interquel” Connecting Franchise’s Most Iconic Films

The Alien franchise is taking us back to its roots.

Director Fede Alvarez has unveiled the first look at his Alien: Romulus, which has been approved by both Ridley Scott and James Cameron and is connected to their films in the venerable sci-fi horror franchise. Getting Scott and Cameron’s approval is the highest possible praise the director could get, especially for a film that’s being billed as an “interquel,”

Ryan Gosling’s Off the Rails in New “The Fall Guy” Trailer

There are few directors as perfectly suited to make a love letter to the stunt profession than David Leitch. The former stuntman and coordinator turned director of breathless action films like Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, and Atomic Blonde is the man behind The Fall Guy, a loose adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, starring Ryan Gosling as stuntman Cole Seavers, a longtime professional at doing the impossible so a leading man can look like a superhero on screen.