“The Flash” Director Andy Muschietti to Direct New Batman Movie “The Brave and the Bold”
Director Andy Muschietti’s work on The Flash so impressed new DC Studios co-chief James Gunn that he called it one of the best superhero movies he’d ever seen. Then, he went a step further and tapped Muschietti to direct DC’s upcoming, brand new Batman film The Brave and the Bold, which will introduce not only a new Bruce Wayne but also his son, a very troubled Damian Wayne.
The deal was struck just as The Flash makes its debut in theaters...
“Extraction 2” Review Round-Up: Chris Hemsworth-led Action Film Punches Even Harder in Sequel
If you’re looking to extract someone from an impossibly dangerous situation against seemingly insurmountable odds, then Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is your man. The name says it all. Rake will sweep all obstacles out of his way, including his own demise—the end of the first Extraction toyed with the idea he was dead, but savvy viewers knew better—to pluck whoever you need from harm’s way. So now that Rake is back in Extraction 2 with a new mission to rescue the beleaguered family of a brutal Georgian gangster from a prison,...
Meet Ayra and Soha, the Sisters Who Won the Childnet International Film Competition
The Childnet International competition is in its third year. This year’s theme, “Time to Talk,” focused on how people can support each other online. (You can learn more about the competition here.)
Childnet International is a registered UK charity that was founded in 1995 with the goal of making the internet a safe place for children and young people. The film competition began in 2010 and focused on schools and youth groups based in the United Kingdom...
“Flamin’ Hot” Screenwriter Linda Yvette Chávez Serves Up a Story Straight From the Heart
Linda Yvette Chávez tells the story of Flamin’ Hot with faith, passion, and romance. The co-creator of the Netflix series Gentefied saw herself in the true story of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia), the Frito Lay janitor who dreamed of a snack that connected with his Mexican American community. With his great coach and partner in life, his wife Judy (Annie Gonzalez), Richard fulfilled his dream with Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Chávez doesn’t focus on a single person with a singular vision...
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Look of Picture Supervisor Bret St. Clair on Spider-Punk, Mumbattan & More
Not bad for a sequel. Following on its 2018 Oscar-winning predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ranks as the best-reviewed wide-release movie of the year, boasting a 96 percent approved rating on Rotten Tomatoes while grossing $390 million worldwide since its release earlier this month (at the time of publication). Critics have hailed the film’s ability to stitch together a dizzying array of looks informed by comic books, action painting, Brutalist architecture, and more.
Master-minded by writer-producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller,...
A New “Star Wars” Movie is Part of Disney’s Upcoming, Reshuffled Film Slate
We’ve already written about how Deadpool 3, the eagerly-anticipated pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, will now hit theaters six months earlier than originally scheduled, yet it’s but one move that Disney recently released. As the studio readjusts its upcoming slate due to the writer’s strike, they’ve added a new Star Wars film to the schedule. Let’s take a closer look at some of the key moves.
For Disney’s nautical-themed adventures,...
“Deadpool 3” Release Date Moved Up Six Months
Disney recently announced a whole host of changes to their upcoming film slate, with major releases moving for both live-action Disney remakes and pending Marvel movies. A bit of bright news in this release date musical chairs is that the long-awaited pairing of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine will be coming to theaters earlier than expected.
Deadpool 3 will now arrive on May 4, 2024, a full six months earlier than its previously scheduled premiere of November 8,...
Gina Prince-Bythewood, MPA Creator Award Recipient, Tells Her Story
An elite force of female soldiers, the Agojie, is all that stands between the African Kingdom of Dahomey and the combined forces of the Oyo Empire and Mahi people. The Oyo and Mahi plan to raid Dahomey villages and sell their captives to European slavers. We open on a Mahi village where raiders heat their machetes over a fire at night. Their leader hears something in the tall grass surrounding them and quiets his men, standing to get a better look...
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Ciara Whaley on Recreating That Strong 90s Style
With the latest installment of the Transformers franchise, director Steven Caple Jr. wanted to evoke the experience of growing up a kid in the 90s. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts begins in Brooklyn in 1994, and from the settings to the costumes and the era-defining hip-hop, everything evokes the style and sensibilities of the period.
The story takes place after the happenings of 2018’s Bumblebee, which is set in 1987. Former US Army private Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) and archeological researcher Elena Wallace (Dominique Fishback) are thrown into a struggle of intergalactic proportions when Elena unknowingly triggers a beacon hidden within a statuette,...
How the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Visual Team Created a Mesmerizing Multiverse
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released five years ago, its web of 2D and 3D animation became a box office hit and went on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. Incredibly, the return of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) in Across the Spider-Verse has lived up to the hype, earning over $270 million worldwide in ticket sales (at the time of publication)...
It’s Magic vs. Larry in “Winning Time” Season 2 Teaser
“My friends, the future of sports is purple and gold.”
This is how Lakers owner Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) greets us in the opening seconds of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty‘s season 2 teaser, but there’s another team from the other side of the country that would suggest the future of sports is green and white.
The first season explored Magic Johnson’s (Quincy Isaiah) arrival in Los Angeles as Buss,...
“Arnold” DP Logan Schneider on Shooting Schwarzenegger
What more can be said about Arnold Schwarzenegger that hasn’t already been said? Plenty, as it turns out. Arnold, the three-part documentary (streaming now on Netflix), includes loads of archival footage, plus interviews with famous collaborators like Jamie Lee Curtis and James Cameron, but the core story comes directly from the world-famous bodybuilder-turned-movie star-turned-California governor. Filming intermittently over two years mainly at Schwarzenegger’s Brentwood home, director Lesley Chilcott and cinematographer Logan Schneider also visited the Austrian village where Schwarzenegger grew up...
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Composer Daniel Pemberton Reveals a Few Score Secrets
Daniel Pemberton knows how to create energy. The composer, who’s frequently worked with filmmakers Aaron Sorkin, Danny Boyle, and Guy Ritchie, is a musician with an ear for the eclectic and electric. For proof, look and listen no further than his lush score for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Pemberton scores different universes, Spider-Men and Spider-Women—and everything Spider-Inbetween. The thematic throughline is capturing the journey of Miles Morales’ (voiced by Shameik Moore) as he swings across the multiverse...
A 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Animated a Scene in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
This has to be one of the best stories we’ve come across all week. Dare we say we’ve been ensnared by how lovely it is?
Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been hailed as a masterpiece, a stunning, emotional tour de force of animation, filmmaking, and storytelling. And one of the people who count themselves among the artists to bring this kaleidoscopic fever dream into reality? The 14-year-old artist Preston Mutanga, a young man who earned his way into a spot on the animation team by creating a shot-for-shot version of the trailer with animated Lego characters...
“The Witcher” Season 3 Trailer Finds Geralt at the Center of a Storm
Is Geralt (Henry Cavill) getting soft? Hardly, but the indomitable force at the center of The Witcher is definitely becoming more emotionally attached to Ciri (Freya Allan), the young princess he’s been entrusted to keep safe through the perilous journeys depicted thus far. The official trailer for season 3 finds Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) once again being hunted by all manner of beasts, both supernatural and of the human variety, as they travel to the fortress of Aretuza where,...
“Flamin’ Hot” Editor Kayla Emter Spices Up Eva Longoria’s Tasty Biopic
If you’re craving a feel-good underdog story with a kick, bite into Flamin’ Hot. The spicy Cheetos flavoring that has become a pop culture icon started with the passion of Mexican-American Frito-Lay janitor Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia). Told from his sizzling perspective, Eva Longoria’s directorial debut is technically a biopic but has the DNA of a 90s snack commercial. It’s colorful, bursting with energy, and instantly addictive.
“Something we always kept track of is Richard and his energy and his excitement and his passion,” editor Kayla Emter explained...
“Never Have I Ever” Star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on the Final Season & Devi’s Send Off
“I’m dealing with cramps.”
That’s the first thing 21-year-old Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tells me when she hops on our Zoom. It’s wholly indicative of her character — an actress plucked out of obscurity at 17, grounded, down-to-earth, unapologetically herself no matter the circumstance.
It’s something she says she’s never had to think about — being herself in the public eye.
“When I first got the role and then, like, the Deadline article came out,...
New “Secret Invasion” Teaser Finds Nick Fury in a World of Trouble
“An invasion is here, Rhodey,” says Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), at the top of this new Secret Invasion teaser. “Except we can’t even tell who the invaders are.”
Marvel Studios’ upcoming series is now just two weeks away, and Nick Fury is going to be short on allies and long on enemies. The problem is those enemies will be wearing the faces of allies, even friends. Yet he will have his old buddy,...
New Images From Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon” Reveal Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Charlie Hunnam & More
A slew of new images from Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon have arrived, revealing fresh looks at the film’s stars, the production design (led by Stefan Dechant and Stephen Swain, which included building an actual village in the Santa Clarita canyon outside of Los Angeles), and the wardrobe from costume designer Stephanie Portnoy Porter. The images include looks at Sofia Boutella’s Kora, the mysterious woman whose mission to recruit warriors to save a distant, peaceful colony is the heart of the story...
Zack Snyder’s Sci-Fi Epic “Rebel Moon” Will Release as Two Movies & Have Director’s Cut
Prepare yourself for Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon—which won’t be a single film but possibly the start to a Rebel Moon universe.
Snyder revealed to Vanity Fair that his plans for his long-simmering sci-fi project have been expanding, and the Rebel Moon that premiers on Netflix on December 22 will be but part one of Snyder’s larger narrative.
The universe of Rebel Moon is something Snyder has been thinking about since he was in college...
