“Godzilla Minus One” Trailer Unleashes Cinema’s Most Iconic Monster in New Japanese Film
The first domestic Japanese Godzilla film in seven years is stomping toward theaters in the U.S. The trailer for Godzilla Minus One reveals writer/director Takashi Yamazaki’s vision for a new Godzilla film, as the iconic kaiju surfaces from the depths of the ocean and unleashes his fury on post-war Japan.
Godzilla Minus One is the 37th installment in Toho’s venerable franchise, with Yamazaki crafting a period piece that looks at what happens to Japan as it’s recovering from the horrors of World War II and is suddenly faced with a new adversary,...
First “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Trailer Reveals Brilliant Apes, Feral Humans
The apes talk in the very first trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. We know what you’re thinking—well, sure, they also spoke in the last Planet of the Apes movie, director Matt Reeves’ excellent 2017 trilogy capper War for the Planet of the Apes—but in director Wes Ball’s new film, they speak with a fluency and clarity that surpasses the humans they’ve displaced at the top of the food chain...
“The Last of Us” Season 2 Will Likely Begin Production in Early 2024
HBO chief Casey Bloys gave us some good news at a press conference on Thursday morning—the second season for Craig Mazan and Neil Druckmann’s stellar The Last of Us is expected to enter production in early 2024.
The critically acclaimed adaptation of the video game Druckmann created for Naughty Dog was one of the best series of 2023 (and the best video game adaptation of all time), turning its two leads, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey,...
Dangerous Liaison: New “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” Teaser Centers Coriolanus & Lucy
A new teaser for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes doubles as a listening party. The new look is set to Olivia Rodrigo’s “Can’t Catch Me Now,” a song that speaks to the situation that the film’s central figures will find themselves in.
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before the events in the original Hunger Games and is centered on a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) long before he became the merciless ruler of Panem...
“David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived” Trailer Unveils Touching Look at an Unbreakable Bond
The first trailer for Dan Hartley’s documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived has arrived, revealing the story of the titular young man who was once Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double, starting with the very first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, back in 2001. David Holmes was the perfect person to double Radcliffe—a gifted teenage gymnast from Essex, England—he began working alongside Radcliffe when the young actor was only eleven and just starting out his long run as Harry Potter...
“Deadpool 3” Director Shawn Levy Confirms Crucial Wolverine Backstory
When it was announced that Hugh Jackman was reprising his role as Wolverine for Deadpool 3, the first question was, but how? The Wolverine we all knew and loved definitely died in James Mangold’s masterful 2017 film Logan, in which an aging, sick Wolverine pulled off his last heroic act and sacrificed himself saving the life of the young mutant Laura (Dafne Keen), who had her own adamantium claws and was created using his DNA...
“Gen V” Director Shana Stein on Penultimate Episode’s Tie-In With “The Boys”
Gen V, the quick-footed spinoff to Prime Video’s debauchery-filled superhero satire The Boys, mimics its collegiate environment in its primed-for-combustion filming style. In the inaugural season’s penultimate episode, titled “Sick,” the main characters are confronted with institutional roadblocks and a boiling fervor on campus regarding supe rights.
“What I think the writers have done so beautifully and brilliantly in The Boys and Gen V is they’ve taken current issues and put the superhero spin on them to make social commentary,” Shana Stein,...
“The Persian Version” Writer/Director Maryam Keshavarz on the Joys of Iranian American Culture
The Persian Version won both the Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in the U.S Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year, and for good reason. The film is a feel-good dramedy that combines stories of traditional Iranian culture with those of the Iranian American experience with a decidedly modern touch. The story follows Leila (Layla Mohammadi), a queer Iranian American working to keep her parents and many brothers who love her at a distance while navigating her ever more complicated personal life...
Meg Ryan on Dedicating Her First Movie in Eight Years to Nora Ephron
How can Hollywood — and the world, for that matter — carry on without Meg Ryan? For someone whose fame blazed like a supernova, her absence has been felt. Ryan’s last movie was the bittersweet 2016 coming-of-age drama Ithaca, which she directed, and her last lead roles were 2008’s The Women and 2009’s little-seen comedy Serious Moonlight. Since then, she has mostly disappeared from the public eye. As Ryan tells it,...
“The Marvels” Clip Reveals What Happens When a Superhero and a Superfan Become a Superteam
A superhero and a superfan become a superteam—this would be one way of summing up the vibe in The Marvels. In a brand new clip for co-writer/director Nia DaCosta’s upcoming film, we get to see firsthand what happens when Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, goes from a solo act to a team player. Well, sort of. Carol’s got her hands full as she fights off some Kree revolutionaries who mean her nothing but harm, but this time,...
“Freelance” Writer Jacob Lentz on Going From “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to Penning his Feature Debut
It sounds like the setup to a sketch: a washed-up journalist, a peacocking dictator, and a bored ex-Special Forces guy walk into a coup… That may be the premise of the action-comedy Freelance (in theaters now), the first feature film from long-time Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Jacob Lentz, but the punchline isn’t what you’d expect. Mason Pettits (John Cena) is a frustrated lawyer who gets a call from an old military buddy turned private military contractor,...
Marvel’s “Daredevil: Born Again” Series Get New Showrunner & Directors
Daredevil: Born Again is, apologies for the pun, born again. Marvel Studios has given the upcoming series a creative overhaul, bringing in a showrunner and new directors to retool the series, which was in mid-production in New York when it had to pause due to the writer’s and actor’s strike. The show had been under the direction of Chris Ord and Matt Corman, who were both the head writers.
The new showrunner stepping in is Dario Scardapane,...
Family, Friends, and Fellow Stars Remember Matthew Perry
As you likely heard, Matthew Perry passed away this weekend at 54. Perry, who played numerous roles across his career, became a huge star playing Chandler Bing on NBC’s Friends, utilizing his peerless comedic timing and razor-sharp wit to immortalize a lovable, anxious character who helped make the series one of the biggest hits in TV history. Perry died this past Saturday night in his Los Angeles home, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times. ...
How Disney’s 100 Year Journey Began With Four Pages and Four Signatures
The Walt Disney Company celebrated its 100th anniversary on October 16th. That’s a century’s worth of mythmaking and storytelling, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to their upcoming animated feature Wish (hitting theaters on November 22), with a slew of iconic films, characters, a media empire, and theme parks across the world in between. The breadth of Disney’s reach is hard to overestimate. Take the company’s mascot, Mickey Mouse—Mickey is a global icon, immediately recognizable by people in every corner of the world...
“Pain Hustlers” Director David Yates on Departing From the “Harry Potter” Films in Subversive Style
In Pain Hustlers, the opioid crisis takes on a different tenor than that previously seen in hard-hitting dramas like Hulu’s limited series Dopesick and fellow Netflix’s own Painkiller. While still inspired by actual events, David Yates’ retelling of a “fascinating state of the nation” falls more in line with the big-bang type of storytelling akin to The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short...
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” Reveals Viola Davis as the Head Gamemaker
You can’t ask for an actor with more gravitas to supercharge your movie than Viola Davis. In a new clip for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Davis’s regal presence as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the head gamemaker, commands a literal stage as she addresses a room full of new academy members. “How tantalizing to see all your shining young faces on this auspicious day,” Dr. Gaul says after a laugh so ominous you can practically see the blood freeze in the youngsters’...
“The Marvels” Teaser Tracks the Evolution of Captain Marvel
Renegade. Hero. Avenger.
This is how Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) describes Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, arguably the most potent superhero who ever fought alongside the Avengers (sorry, Thor) in this new The Marvels teaser.
“Captain Marvel is one of the most popular characters in the Marvel universe,” says Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige. “One of the highlights of my career was introducing Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.”
The teaser then lets Captain Marvel herself speak about what it was like stepping into this iconic role...
The Official Trailer for Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” Hits All the Right Notes
The official trailer for Bradley Cooper’s Maestro has arrived, giving us our most in-depth look yet at his look at the life of the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his lifelong relationship with actress and activist Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). This epic love story, Cooper’s first directorial effort since A Star is Born, is based on a script he co-wrote with Josh Singer.
The trailer centers on both the lasting relationship between Leonard and Felicia,...
“The Crown” Season 6, George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” And More Highlight Netflix’s November Titles
A new sizzle reel for Netflix’s November slate has dropped, revealing a slew of high-profile upcoming films and series bowing in the coming month. One of the biggest titles is the return of The Crown season 6 (November 16), which will explore arguably the darkest, most explosive moment in the monarchy’s history as it centers on the growing relationship between Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) before their tragic car journey in Paris that rocked the entire world...
“Fellow Travelers” Director/ Executive Producer Daniel Minahan’s Scorching Trip Through Turbulent Times
Director and executive producer Daniel Minahan wanted to be part of Fellow Travelers as soon as he read the first script by Ron Nyswaner, an Oscar nominee for Philadelphia.
“It was a beautifully devised script. Ron saw parallels between the 1950s persecution of gay people in government and what happens in San Francisco with activism and trying to survive AIDS in the ‘80s,” said Minahan. “Ron and I worked together before [on the series Ray Donovan] and knew each other socially from Provincetown...
