“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Trailer Unveils Tom Cruise’s Deadliest Mission Yet

Tom Cruise’s final mission as Ethan Hunt is upon us. The official trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has arrived, revealing Ethan Hunt’s deadliest mission yet. Sure, they’re all deadly, but this is a franchise that has consistently upped the stakes, both within the confines of the story and on a practical filmmaking level. If the Academy ever gets around to honoring the work of stunt coordinators and performers,

Marvel Reveals Release Dates For “Loki” Season 2 and “Echo”

The God of Mischief and the Native American assassin will be seeing you this fall on Disney+.

Marvel has revealed that the second season of Loki will premiere on October 6, and then a month and change later, the Hawkeye spinoff Echo will premiere on November 29. What’s more, Echo will be the first Marvel Studios show to release all its episodes at once.

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige made the announcements during the Disney Upfront on Tuesday.

“Five Nights At Freddy’s” Teaser Reveals Universal’s Horror Video Game Adaptation

If you weren’t afraid of animatronic bears before, the fine folks at Blumhouse would like to have a word with you.

Universal has unveiled the first look at Five Nights at Freddy’s, their Blumhouse horror flick that adapts a very popular horror survivor game in which players have to survive an attack by homicidal animatronic animals that come to life inside Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant. The video game series was created in 2014 by Scott Cawthorn,

“Extraction 2” Trailer Finds Chris Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake Back From the Dead

There was never really a question of whether Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) was going to survive his seemingly fatal fall at the end of Extraction—the question was, and remains, what his survival would mean for his future. In the official trailer for Extraction 2, this question is posed to Rake as he reappears on the scene in a hail of gunfire, doing his level best to get a family out of the crosshairs of some seriously sinister individuals.

“Barry” Editor Ali Greer on Cutting Her Way Through a Brilliant Final Season

Ali Greer has been so focused on editing the fourth season of Barry that it didn’t truly dawn on her that the hit HBO comedy about the master assassin/would-be actor was coming to a close.

“Tomorrow will be my last day. We have our final sound mix on the series finale… tomorrow… yes,” Greer says during a recent Zoom call. “This is the first time I’ve thought about it. You’re always putting your head down and working.”

Greer,

New “Fast X” Video Reveals Battle Royale Between Letty & Cipher

Fast X races into theaters in just a few days, and to hype the tenth installment in the venerable gearhead-turned-hyper action thriller, Universal has revealed one of the major sequences in the film—a fight between Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Cipher (Charlize Theron). Their hand-to-hand combat comes inside a medical ward in a black site prison at night. We can give you these details because the new video even offers a glimpse at the script page,

How “Poker Face” Production Designer Judy Rhee Built a Winning Hand

Already renewed for a second season, the Rian Johnson-created series Poker Face garnered universally enthusiastic reviews and built a passionate following ever since its first episode dropped in late January. Johnson has said Poker Face was built in the tradition of the great crime series of the 70s and 80s, including Columbo and Quantum Leap. As such, each episode is constructed to stand as its own “How Dunnit” (a twist on the “Whodunnit”),

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Composer John Murphy Channels Rocket’s Emotional Journey

“It felt, to me, that this might be the most important of the Guardians for James [Gunn],” says Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 composer John Murphy after reading the script. “What struck me was how much darker the story was compared to the first two films. When I say darker, I mean emotionally within the characters. It became obvious the story descended upon Rocket [voiced by Bradley Cooper] and it was fascinating to have all this backstory revealed and to find out how Rocket came to be and what shaped the character.”

Exploring Rocket’s emotional roots became the North Star for Murphy in composing the score for Gunn’s third and reported final installment to the space saga.

Inside “Succession” Episode 8: A Grim Election Night for America Goes From Thriller to Horror

For a healthy portion of Succession’s viewing audience last night, the antepenultimate episode, “America Decides,” was not an easy watch. The episode shone a bright, pitiless light on old wounds and deep scars from the 2016 American presidential election when a seemingly improbable, far-right fantasy became an inescapable and very real living nightmare.

The episode centered on Election Night in the United States, playing out across voting districts from Milwaukee to Maricopa County in Arizona,

James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” Will Begin Filming in Early 2024

James Gunn has revealed that his hotly-anticipated Superman: Legacy will begin filming in January 2024. In a conversation with Wired, Gunn answered a slew of questions about the future of DC Studios, which he co-heads along with Peter Safran, and the sweeping changes they’ve made in an effort to create a completely unified DCU. Superman: Legacy will be the first feature released from their new DC Studios,

“Hypnotic” Composer Rebel Rodriguez on Scoring The Robert Rodriguez/Ben Affleck Head-Trip Thriller

Rebel Rodriguez knew about Hypnotic even before the screenplay was written. The composer is one of the sons of its writer-director Robert Rodriguez, the famed helmer behind countless cult classics like From Dusk Till Dawn, the neo-noir stylized Sin City, Planet Terror, and the blood thirst avenge tour Machete. “This idea has been gestating for like 20 years,” says Rebel of Hypnotic,

“It Ain’t Over” Director Sean Mullin on Capturing the Brilliance of Yogi Berra

Even though It Ain’t Over is about Yogi Berra, one of baseball’s preeminent figures during his 18 seasons as catcher with the New York Yankees and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, director Sean Mullin says the “last thing I wanted to do was make a sports movie.” Instead, Mullin took as inspiration the Oscar-winning 1955 film Marty starring Ernest Borgnine as an Italian-American butcher from the Bronx.

“It’s one of my all-time favorite films and a beautiful love story,” says Mullin.

“Poor Things” Teaser Reveals Emma Stone Risen From the Dead

Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos have reunited, and the world is a better place for it. After their delicious collaboration in Lanthimos’s excellent 2018 film The Favourite, Stone and Lanthimos are back with Poor Things, which is centered on Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman given a second shot at life after she’s brought back from the dead by the brilliant Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Lanthimos has made a string of unforgettable films,

NBCUniversal Archivist Natalie Auxier Takes Us From “Jurassic Park” to “Fast X”

Natalie Auxier, the Manager of Collection & Outreach at NBCUniversal Archives & Collections, has something of a photographic memory. Given the rigors of her job, this ability makes sense, as does her passion for the collection she oversees.

“I think all of us archivists have a passion for this field. We love knowledge, and we go into this for the information,” Auxier says. “I would say this is across the board with all archivists—we love to do a deep dive into the collection.

“Freaky Friday” Sequel With Lindsey Lohan & Jamie Lee Curtis in the Works at Disney

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are re-teaming for a fresh crack at the body-swap comedy genre.

Curtis and Lohan are reprising their roles from their hit 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, where they played mother and daughter Tess and Anna Coleman, who wake up one Friday morning and found out that, you guessed it, they’ve swapped bodies. Insanity and hilarity ensued. The original film, directed by Mark Waters from a script by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon and based on a Mary Rodgers novel from 1972,

“What’s Love Got to Do With It?” Creator Jemima Khan on Her Singular Rom-Com

For her foray into romantic comedies, writer/producer Jemima Khan looked, in part, at her own life for inspiration. While living in Pakistan with her ex-husband and his family for many years, she witnessed firsthand the process behind arranged marriage, now termed assisted marriage, and eventually returned to her native U.K. with a unique perspective on this cultural norm (her own union developed organically). Couple this insight with interviews she conducted with people either considering or already in an assisted marriage and an inside track into the dating woes of friends,

“Awkwafina is Nora From Queens” Composer Tangelene Bolton Drops the Needle

“I’ve been playing music since I was two or three, piano specifically, and then I was really into film starting in middle school, and I thought, ooh, maybe I’ll be a director one day,” says composer Tangelene Bolton, whose work can currently be heard on season three of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens. “I started experimenting with making a bunch of short films, and I realized the music heavily influenced how I approached cutting the footage and telling the story.

Director Dawn Porter Details a Complex First Lady in “The Lady Bird Diaries”

In filmmaker Dawn Porter’s newest documentary, The Lady Bird Diaries, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson speaks for herself. Porter’s film is based on 123 hours of audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during the presidency of her husband, Lyndon Baines Johnson. The personal, often poignant diaries reveal the First Lady’s key role as her husband’s advisor and confidante during his tumultuous presidency.

“I knew very little about Lady Bird, though I knew a lot about President Johnson,” says Porter,

Michael Keaton’s Batman Fights General Zod in New “The Flash” Teaser

“You want to get nuts? Let’s get nuts.” This is one of the most iconic lines from Michael Keaton’s time playing Batman, which began way back when with Tim Burton’s iconic 1989 film Batman and continued in Burton’s 1992 sequel Batman Returns. Keaton was on top of the world at the time, so it was surprising when he turned in his cape and cowl and was seemingly done with the role after those two films.

“The Little Mermaid” First Reactions: Halle Bailey IS Ariel in Entirely Enchanting Performance

The first reactions are in for director Rob Marshall’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, and everyone is more or less in agreement that star Halle Bailey is absolutely phenomenal as the young mermaid Ariel. While Bailey is, understandably, getting the ocean’s share of love, her supporting cast is also coming in for plaudits, including Javier Bardem as Ariel’s father, King Triton, Melissa McCarthy as the sea witch Ursula, and Daveed Diggs and Awkwafina as Ariel’s beloved friends Sebastian (a crab) and Scuttle (a seagull),