“The Perfect Find” Director Numa Perrier on Creating Space For Romance With Gabrielle Union
The Perfect Find (now streaming on Netflix) begins with Gabrielle Union’s New York City fashionista Jenna recovering from a bad breakup at her mother’s house. What makes matter most is this is happening in the wake of the humiliating collapse of her high-profile career. But Jenna’s not the type to pout, so she stages a comeback and, along the way, falls for a much younger man, Eric (Keith Powers). As rom-com fate would have it,
“Star Wars”: How Rey’s Upcoming Movie is Linked to the Past & Future of the Franchise
This past May at the Star Wars Celebration, we learned that the future of the franchise now has a clear direction, with three new feature films currently slated for release. The most surprising of those films had to be the announcement that Daisy Ridley was returning as Rey for her own movie, to be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, which will pick up her story 15 years after the events in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
“Superman: Legacy”: David Corenswet & Rachel Brosnahan Cast as Superman & Lois Lane
Earlier today, we told you about the casting process for James Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy—well, we’ve got a rather super-sized update—your next Superman and Lois Lane are David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. Corenswet and Brosnahan nabbed the highly coveted, hotly contested roles after a weekend of screen tests just this past June 17.
The duo was cast after an intense process. In the end, Corenswet and Brosnahan were auditioning against Nicholas Hoult and Tom Brittney for Clark Kent/Superman and Phoebe Dynevor and Emma Mackey for Lois Lane,
The Brilliant “Barbie” Marketing Team Secretly Created an Actual Barbie DreamHouse
One of the most highly anticipated films of the summer season, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, has continued to garner mass attention through a slew of engaging advertising campaigns. Between a consistent social media presence and the renovation of an actual DreamHouse available for stay, the hope is that audiences will flock to theaters on July 21 for the film’s theatrical release.
For those unfamiliar with Barbie’s premise, the film follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) living in her picture-perfect world,
“The Blackening” Cinematographer Todd A. Dos Reis on Lensing a Horror-Comedy Romp
It’s almost hard to believe The Blackening is cinematographer Todd A. Dos Reis’ first feature film. He’s been in the business for decades, having shot a variety of television shows, including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Bosch: Legacy, and Entourage. Before becoming a cinematographer for a long list of hit shows and music videos, he even worked on two Jean-Claude Van Damme classics, Hard Target and Double Impact,
Many of the Best Stunts in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” Are Practical
The Indiana Jones franchise has always been a joyous ode to old-school filmmaking, where practical effects and stunts give viewers the kind of swashbuckling, cave-spelunking, snake-avoiding, boulder-barreling, whip-cracking adventure they now expect from an Indy film. Considering the previous four films in the franchise were all directed by Steven Spielberg, it’s no surprise they were endlessly creative in the way they kept devising the most devilishly dangerous situations for Indy (Harrison Ford, obviously) to puzzle his way out of,
James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” Deep Into Casting Clark Kent, Lois Lane & More
One of Superman’s many abilities is super-hearing, and this is sort of what many of the outlets that cover Hollywood are attempting to deploy as they track the casting process on James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy.
The names that seem confirmed as the finalists for the two lead roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane are Nicholas Hoult, David Corenswet, and Tom Brittney all vying for the role of Clark Kent/Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan,
“Stephen Curry: Underrated” Trailer Shows how an NBA Legend Was Made
Stephen Curry is one of those rare athletes that usher in a new era in their chosen sport through the brilliance of their play. Curry isn’t just a phenomenal basketball player, he’s a transformational one, credited with extending not only where it was plausible for a shooter of his skills to launch a three but forcing the rest of the league to adapt to a dynamic, free-flowing, total-court style of play. With out-of-this-world ballhandling skills and one of the sweetest shots in the game’s history,
New “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Images Include Closer Look at Tom Cruise’s Craziest Stunt
We now know why Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One team filmed his insane motorcycle-into-BASE jump stunt on day one. The short answer—the stunt was so complex and difficult that, if something had gone wrong, at least it would have happened before they’d spent millions of dollars and many days and nights filming other parts of the film. Once successfully completed, the cast and crew could focus their full attention on the rest of the film without the highly difficult sequence looming in their near future.
New “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” Teaser & Photos Hype Harrison Ford’s Final Indy Adventure
We are only a few days away from the release of director James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and now we’ve got our final look at a fresh teaser and a new batch of photos from Indy’s last adventure. Mangold becomes the first man not named Steven Spielberg to lead Harrison Ford through an Indy film, and not only that, he’s got the added pressure of making sure this final adventure is worthy of one of the most iconic franchises in film history.
Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls” Trailer Finds Margaret Qualley & Geraldine Viswanathan Hitting the Road
Film lovers rejoice anytime the Coen Brothers release a new feature, and the same is now true anytime one of the brothers unveils their own feature film. We were rightly enthused when Joel Coen’s Macbeth came out, a sizzling adaptation of the deathless Shakespeare tale starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, no less, and we’re equally thrilled about Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, an altogether different kind of film from one of the greatest American filmmakers working today.
Get Spooked in New “Haunted Mansion” Behind-the-Scenes Set Visit
Director Justin Simien knows a thing or two about how to tease terror and delight out of a single story. In Haunted Mansion, the Bad Hair filmmaker teams up with another seasoned talent at combining chills with giggles, Ghostbusters screenwriter Kate Dipoold (she also wrote on Parks and Recreation and penned The Heat), to turn the iconic theme park ride into a proper feature.
The First “Dumb Money” Trailer Reveals the GameStop Stock Movie We Need Right Now
Even for those of us who find the stock market a nebulous web that ensnares as much as it baffles and bores, the GameStop lunacy of 2022 caught nearly everybody’s attention. The nearly moribund mall video game store was the unlikely nexus of a brief but potent stock inferno when, for a miraculous moment in time, it seemed as if regular Joe and Jane investors were finally taking it to the billionaire hedge fund class and beating them at their own game.
“What We Do in the Shadows” Costume Designer Laura Montgomery on Dressing Vampires in Flux
The undead roommates of What We Do in the Shadows embarked on journeys of rebirth in season 4 – some more literally than others – that included remodeling, reincarnating, and remarrying. All these new endeavors gave Emmy-winning costume designer Laura Montgomery an opportunity to redefine the rules of vampire fashion.
For hundreds of years, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) have been sporting outfits from the eras they’ve loved experiencing the most.
“Atlanta” and “P-Valley” Costume Designer Tiffany Hasbourne’s Singular Style
Costume designer Tiffany Hasbourne began her journey as a stylist to some of the biggest names in music, including Missy Elliott, 50 Cent, French Montana, and Busta Rhymes. She got the attention of gatekeepers in Hollywood by styling the cast of High School Musical, and then rose to prominence by designing costumes for shows like Shooter, Raising Dion, and Ballers. It was her work on Ballers that got her the gig on Atlanta,
“Priscilla” Trailer Finds Priscilla Presley Taking Center Stage in Sofia Coppola’s Biopic
A24 has given us our first peek at Sofia Coppola’s upcoming Priscilla, which, while under a minute long, lures you in with the promise of seeing an oft-told story—the rise of one of the 20th century’s most transformative artists—from the perspective of a person with the most intimate vantage possible.
Coppola’s film is based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me” and will offer viewers a much different viewpoint into Elvis’s rise by shifting the focus to the most important woman in his life.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Composer Jongnic Bontemps Lets the Emotion Ride
Paramount’s Transformers franchise was conceived by Michael Bay as a maximalist epic of crunching, crashing, morphing metal beasts and the humans caught in the metallic whirlwind of their drama. With director Steven Caple Jr. in the director’s chair for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the series now strives to balance the character and the spectacle in a fashion similar to director Travis Knight’s spinoff film Bumblebee,
Why Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Motorcycle Stunt Was Filmed Day One
Death, taxes, the physical laws of the universe, and Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible team topping whatever the craziest stunt in their previous film was with one even more death-defying—these are a few of the certain things in life. This is why, while it’s not surprising to hear that the most technically challenging and dangerous stunt Cruise and his team have attempted thus far is one they set up for Dead Reckoning Part One,
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Director Steven Caple Jr. on Getting Gritty With It
Director Steven Caple Jr. steps into a large, alien robot-strewn sandbox with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts for his biggest feature yet. For decades, the Autobots and Decepticons have captured fans’ imaginations in Michael Bay’s franchise. To keep the series alive and well, Caple Jr. wanted to ground the famous robot characters, including Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, in the particulars of a specific, still quite human world in the 1990s. Rise of the Beasts is one of the earliest-set films in the franchise,
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Early Reactions Marvel at Jaw-Dropping Action Epic
Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt for the seventh film in the deathless Mission: Impossible franchise, and the early reactions hail yet another peerless action epic. After its star-studded world premiere in Rome on Monday evening at the Auditorium della Conciliazione—held up for 90 minutes due to a meeting between Cruise and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Palazzo Chigi, no less—the show finally went on as Cruise, director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie,