Interview

Director

“Dumb Money” Director Craig Gillespie Dissects the Wall Street GameStop Debacle

Dumb Money director Craig Gillespie already knew all about “Roaring Kitty” when screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo sent him their script detailing Wall Street’s Pandemic-era GameStop fiasco. The David and Goliath showdown pitted YouTube financial guru Keith Gill, AKA “Screaming Kitty,” against hedge fund billionaires who were “short-selling” GameStop stocks so they could drive down the value of the then-obscure video game retail outlet. Gill’s defiant advice to buy GameStop shares attracted some eight million followers.

By Hugh Hart  |  September 21, 2023

Interview

Editor

Framing Big Laughs & Real Emotion With “Only Murders in the Building” Emmy-Nominated Editor Peggy Tachdjian

Emmy-nominated editor Peggy Tachdjian had never really cut comedy before leaping into the Building, as it were, of Hulu’s hit Only Murders in the Building. The series was created by comedy legend Steven Martin and John Hoffman and is led by Martin, fellow comedy icon Martin Short, and a perfectly cast Selena Gomez as three true crime obsessives living in the same New York City building, the Arconia, who quickly find themselves in the middle of a true crime scenario themselves.

By Bryan Abrams  |  September 21, 2023
Second “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” Trailer Reveals a Panem-Shaking Relationship

The second trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is here, inviting you back to Panem to a time before Katniss Everdeen was becoming a living legend and Coriolanus Snow wasn’t a brutal despot but a young striver. Lionsgate has dropped a fresh look at the prequel, which comes from seasoned Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stars Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as the young Coriolanus Snow and follows them and their Panem-shaking relationship.

By The Credits  |  September 20, 2023

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

“A Million Miles Away” Co-Writer/Director Alejandra Márquez Abella on Capturing a Dream Come True

Filmmaker Alejandra Márquez Abella learned of José Hernández 15 years ago when his inspirational story made headlines: Hernández, who toiled in the fields as a child alongside his family, is the first migrant farmworker to become a NASA astronaut and go into space — a lifelong dream he realized after nearly a decade of perseverance and pluck and with the unwavering support of his family and friends. When producers Mark Ciardi and Campbell McInnes approached Abella about bringing Hernández’s story to the screen,

By Julie Jacobs  |  September 20, 2023
Lightning Strikes a Modern Demigod in the First “Percy Jackson and The Olympians” Trailer

The first trailer for Disney+’s Percy Jackson and The Olympians has arrived, revealing Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg’s upcoming series about the titular demigod Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) and his tempestuous connection to the Gods of Mt. Olympus. Those connections include the mighty and mightily peeved Zeus (the late Lance Reddick), who accuses Percy of stealing his master lightning bolt. Yikes.

Being on Zeus’s bad side is not the only thing troubling Percy.

By The Credits  |  September 19, 2023
Nicolas Cage Enters the Collective Subconscious in Compelling “Dream Scenario” Trailer

There are certain roles that seem so tailor-made for a specific performer that you simply couldn’t imagine anyone else in them. This has been true for Nicolas Cage, a singular presence, to say the least, in a number of his films, most notably Moonstruck, Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, and Adaptation. These four films helped establish Cage as one of the most intriguing performers of his generation, and now,

By The Credits  |  September 19, 2023
Keanu Reeves Told the “John Wick: Chapter 4” Team He Wanted Wick to Die at the End

Making a movie is a lot of work. It can be a grueling (if rewarding) experience for everyone, yet it’s safe to say that the level of exhaustion Keanu Reeves feels after filming a John Wick installment is profound. Reeves notoriously pours his heart and soul into filming the action-heavy franchise, which included performing one of the series’ most massively intricate fight scenes in the original 2014 John Wick with a 103-degree temperature (revealed by co-directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in the director’s commentary for the film.) “We were pretty dialed in that it was gonna be Keanu [performing the action],”

By The Credits  |  September 19, 2023
“The Creator” First Reactions: A Stunning, Emotionally Resonant Original Sci-Fi Saga

It sounds as if writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) has pulled it off. Delivering a huge, original sci-fi blockbuster is a hard thing to do in the best of times, and especially hard in a climate that prefers its blockbusters to have built-in IP, yet the first reactions to his latest film, The Creator, suggest he’s done just that. “Masterful,” “soulful,” “visually stunning and emotional,” and “absolutely radical”

By The Credits  |  September 19, 2023
New “Loki” Season 2 Featurette Explores the God of Mischief’s Turn Towards Heroism

“I’m excited to be back at the TVA” says Loki himself, Tom Hiddleston, at the top of this new behind-the-scenes featurette for season two. The TVA is the Time Variance Authority, the bureaucracy that rules the many temporal threads of the multiverse and where Loki ended up after his many crimes. “The stakes are huge,” promises Sophia Di Martino, who plays Sylvie, one of Loki’s alter egos, his romantic interest, and a rising star in the MCU in her own right.

By The Credits  |  September 18, 2023
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is the Highest-Grossing Biopic Ever

The father of the atomic bomb has surpassed Freddie Mercury.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has now overtaken 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody as the highest-grossing biopic ever as it nears the billion-dollar mark at the global box office. Bohemian Rhapsody, which covered the rise of Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) and his supergroup Queen, brought in $910.8 million at the global box office—from an estimated budget of $55 million. Nolan’s biopic about J.

By The Credits  |  September 18, 2023

Interview

Editor

“A Haunting in Venice” Editor Lucy Donaldson on Cutting Hercule Poirot’s Crisis of Confidence

Kenneth Branagh is back as director and star with his latest Agatha Christie film adaptation, A Haunting in Venice, based on Christie’s novel “Hallowe’en Party.” As with his other adaptations, A Haunting in Venice is a who-done-it in which a great cast joins Branagh’s twisted tale, which in the latest installment includes Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, and Kelly Reilly. 

Branagh once again plays famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot,

By Leslie Combemale  |  September 18, 2023
Watch the First Episode of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” For Free

Everybody’s favorite zombie slayer, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), finally has his own show. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premiered on September 11, the second spin-off from the flagship series that concluded its run in late 2022. Daryl Dixon episode one is now available for your viewing pleasure, for free, on YouTube.

Daryl Dixon catches up with the crossbow-wielding survivor after his departure from The Commonwealth. Daryl has washed ashore on a new continent and eventually finds himself in Paris,

By The Credits  |  September 15, 2023
Donald Glover’s “Lando” Series Will be a Movie Instead

We were enthused when we heard Donald Glover would be hopping back in the Millennium Falcon as Lando Calrissian. The news broke in late July that Donald and his brother Stephen Glover were penning a new script based on the former’s turn as the young Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Star Wars spinoff Solo: A Star Wars Story. The notion was that the Glovers were going to create a new series about Lando’s adventures as a young man for Disney+.

By The Credits  |  September 15, 2023
“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” Trailer Unleashes a Bigger, Badder Black Manta

The first trailer for director James Wan’s upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has arrived, unleashing an ocean’s worth of action, an even more jacked Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and a changed Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa). Arthur, who you might remember is also Aquaman, was a self-described “wanderer” before the events in the first filmHe had no home, no real responsibilities, and due to his immense abilities inherited from his mother,

By The Credits  |  September 14, 2023
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” Trailer Reveals Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl Adaptation

Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, the auteur’s adaptation of a Roald Dahl short story that recently had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and is premiering on the streamer at the end of the month. As usual in any of his films, Anderson’s short film has a sensational cast, including his longtime collaborator Ralph Fiennes, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ben Kingsley,

By The Credits  |  September 14, 2023
Brie Larson’s a Cooking Phenom in First “Lessons in Chemistry” Trailer

“I like to cook. It’s just chemistry.”

This is how Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) looks at her skill in the kitchen, not as a chore or a duty or even an art form, but as, well, a lesson in chemistry. Elizabeth is a lab tech, a talented one, who is on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough when she’s summarily fired. The problem for Elizabeth is this is the 1950s, and young women are not the types of people her male bosses want,

By The Credits  |  September 14, 2023
A Battle Through Time With & Against Anakin Skywalker in “Ahsoka” Episode 5

Do not travel with us to a galaxy far, far away if you haven’t watched episode five of Ahsoka.

Okay, now that we got that bit of galactic business over with, let’s take a quick look at the major moments in Ahsoka’s fifth episodeThe conflict between the titular rebel Jedi (Rosario Dawson) and Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson), Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno), and their fellow malcontents was put on the back burner as our hero took a heady trip into the past.

By The Credits  |  September 14, 2023
Final “The Creator” Trailer Finds John David Washington in a Fight for the Fate of Humanity

Writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) is as comfortable with massive stakes as he is with heady sci-fi stories populated with complex characters. With The Creator, he’s tackling both as he turns his attention to our growing unease with the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in a film that puts a human face on the algorithms of doom.

The final trailer for The Creator introduces us to the owner of that face,

By The Credits  |  September 13, 2023
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” Unveils Thrilling New Trailer

“You made a good choice coming back here,” William Hale (Robert De Niro) says to his nephew, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), at the start of the second trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. “The Osage are the finest, wealthiest, and most beautiful people on God’s earth.”

Hale refers to the fact that the Osage Nation in Oklahoma were the lawful landowners of property that contained massive oil reserves discovered during the turn of the 20th Century.

By The Credits  |  September 13, 2023

Interview

Production Designer

How “A Haunting in Venice” Production Designer John Paul Kelly Built a Possessed Venetian Palazzo

There’s a chilling haunt in Kenneth Branagh’s latest Agatha Christie adaptation of famed detective Hercule Poirot that will make the hair on the back of your neck tingle.

Following the success of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, this third whodunit sinks into darker waters and unravels a tale along the canals of Venice where the crime solver is asked by friend and author Ardiane Oliver (Tina Fey) to attend a séance with her to prove that the medium (Michelle Yeoh) performing the spiritual ritual is a fake.

By Daron James  |  September 13, 2023