“Willow” Reviews Call it Fun, Funny, & a Little Bit Frightening

The reviews for Disney+’s Willow are arriving, and for fans of Ron Howard’s original 1988 film and intrigued newbies who love the fantasy genre, you’ll be pleased. Three decades after Howard’s film, Willow is “back as a series and better than ever,” writes the Los Angeles Times‘s Robert Lloyd. Howard’s film found an aspiring sorcerer and farmer named Willow (Warwick Davis) setting off on an epic quest to deliver a human baby found by his people to the care of the bigger people.

“Wednesday” Breaks “Stranger Things 4” Record For Most Hours Viewed in a Week

Move over kids from Hawkins, Indiana, Wednesday Addams has arrived.

Tim Burton’s Wednesday has had an incredible opening week, with the Jenna Ortega-led series breaking the record for an English-language TV series for most hours viewed in one week with 341.2 million, according to Netflix’s data. Wednesday‘s astonishing opening week began on November 21 and lasted until November 27—the premiere was actually on November 23. That number amounts to more than 50 million households streaming Wednesday since it premiered.

Keke Palmer Was Born to Host “SNL”

The mega-talented Keke Palmer is making her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and we can all but guarantee she is going to crush it. The hilarious, hard-working, multi-talented Palmer broke out this summer in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope, but she’s been on her way for a while now. She’s been acting since she was a kid, from Barbershop 2: Back in Business in 2004 (she was 11) to starring in Akeelah and the Bee in 2006 and portraying the title character in Nickelodeon’s True Jackson,

“1923” Official Trailer Finds Helen Mirren & Harrison Ford Ready to Defend the Dutton Home

Time to saddle up. The Yellowstone prequel 1923 has unveiled its official trailer, and it finds two of cinema’s biggest stars stepping into the Dutton family drama.

Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford are front and center in the new trailer as Cara and Jacob Dutton. We open with Cara Dutton meeting newcomer Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), who introduces himself and reveals that he’s her new neighbor—he’s “acquired” the ranch next door.

“The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” Drops New Featurette Revealing Epic Cameo

It’s officially the holiday season, with Thanksgiving a mere few days away, and Marvel Studios is getting into the holiday spirit. Behold, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, which finds everyone’s favorite galactic goofballs trying to do something sweet for one of their own. The mission? To create an unforgettable Christmas for Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) by taking the once-upon-a-time Earthling back to his home planet to find the perfect gift. That perfect gift turns out to be an amazing cameo,

“The Walking Dead” Showrunner Angela Kang to Lead Marvel’s “Silk: Spider Society” For Amazon & MGM+

Longtime Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang is leaving the land of zombies for the world of Marvel superheroes. Reports are in that Kang has moved her overall AMC deal to Amazon and will now oversee the upcoming Marvel’s Silk: Spider Society. This will be the first Marvel TV series that will be based on the Sony Pictures universe of superheroes (a whopping 900 characters). Those characters include Spider-Man, all of Spider-Man’s villains,

Quentin Tarantino Eyeing TV Project, Reveals Which Comic Book He’d Adapt

At an event in New York to promote his new book, “Cinema Speculation,” Quentin Tarantino had a few interesting nuggets to share. Tarantino told event host and moderator, film critic Elvis Mitchell, that he’s eyeing a TV project that will have him shooting an eight-episode series in 2023. If you’re curious, as we are, which series that will be, Tarantino wasn’t offering more than that. Perhaps the man who brought us Pulp Fiction,

“Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” Production Designer Tamara Deverell’s Twisted World

As the afternoon light waned in Toronto, production designer Tamara Deverell recently found herself sitting on the floor of an abandoned psychiatric hospital on break from the new Sofia Coppola movie she’s working on. With dusk approaching, she joked, “I’m getting scared because it looks like I’m in this spooky Guillermo del Toro room right now!”

If anybody would know about spooky spaces, it’s Deverell. She earned an Oscar nomination earlier this year for designing Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and recently completed work on Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

“Yellowstone” Season 5 Premiere Wrangles Ratings Record

The Kevin Costner-led neo-western Yellowstone rounded up an astonishing 12.1 million viewers on Sunday night.

This haul is the biggest overnight launch for Taylor Sheridan’s juggernaut series, and, according to Samba TV (via The Hollywood Reporter), this makes Yellowstone the top scripted series premiere of 2022.

The numbers for Yellowstone are the kind that TV creators and studio executives dream of.

First “Shaq” Trailer Reveals an Inside Look at the Life of a Legend

Make room for the big man.

The first trailer for the HBO documentary series Shaq is here, and it’s mannan from basketball heaven for all you NBA fans. The doc will give us the first in-depth look at the legendary life and career of one of the greatest to play the game, centered on the story from the man himself and rounded out by interviews with family members, fellow NBA legends,

First “Yellowstone: 1923” Teaser Reveals Harrison Ford & Hellen Mirren as Jacob & Cara Dutton

Yellowstone: 1923 is a prequel, of course, to the massively successful Yellowstone and yet another outpost of creator Taylor Sheridan’s growing western universe. A new teaser from Paramount+ reveals the third series from the ever-busy Sheridan, who has tapped some major film talent to lead his new show. If you’re going to extend your already burgeoning western project, who better to enlist than Harrison Ford and Hellen Mirren, who lead a new generation of Duttons in 1923?

“Shantaram” Production Designer Chris Kennedy on Building the Bustling World of India—in Thailand

“It was a total restart,” production designer Chris Kennedy tells us of the Apple TV series Shantaram, which follows the daring life of an Australian prison escapee named Lin (Charlie Hunnam) as he hopscotches his way to Bombay to avoid being captured. While filming portions of the first two episodes in Bhopal, India, production halted due to pandemic restrictions. Those scenes were eventually scrapped and the entire crew picked up and left for Bangkok,

Binge Worthy Content After Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month ended on October 15th, but that doesn’t mean we stop celebrating the incredible films and series that focus on Hispanic culture. We figured it’s always the perfect time to create a list of binge-worthy content from across the wide spectrum of Hispanic and Latino-focused streaming content. From the lighthearted camaraderie of On My Block to the mouth-watering imagery of The Taco Chronicles to the quiet beauty of Oscar-winner Roma,

“The Sex Lives of College Girls” Star Reneé Rapp on Leighton’s Sexuality, Her Debut EP & More

Reneé Rapp’s eyes light up as she excitedly discusses the November 11 release of her upcoming debut EP, EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE. It’s something she’s wanted for a long time. 

“I always wanted to do music,” she tells me over Zoom. “That was all I ever wanted to do.”

While an incredibly talented actor in her own right, music has been the driving force behind most of the decision making in her budding career.

Carrie-Anne Moss Joins Cast of “Star Wars: The Acolyte”

The cast of Star Wars: The Acolyte keeps getting better and better.

Disney+ has confirmed the cast for the upcoming series, and it includes Carrie-Anne Moss, fresh from reprising her iconic role as Trinity in The Matrix series. Moss joins Dafne Keen (His Dark Materials), Dean-Charles Chapman (1917), and Rebecca Henderson (Inventing Anna). It’s a great ensemble joining an already potent cast.

A Peek Behind the Scenes of an Editor’s Career

Here at The Credits, we talk to film editors all the time. They give us a glimpse at their process of realizing a director’s dreams in terms of the pacing, montages, cuts, and music behind a particular film or series. But what about the nitty-gritty of their own careers? What goes on when the project at hand isn’t a major studio production? After all, anything that winds up on screen has gone through an edit process.

“She-Hulk” VFX Supervisor Josh Galbincea on Creating That Epic Incredible Hulk Callback

Ever since the final episode of season one, fans of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law have been reeling from the last show’s rollercoaster ride and celebrating their love for the season as a whole. Much of the praise has been for the edgy script that consistently centered on female empowerment without sacrificing the expected flamboyant action set-pieces Marvel fans know and love.  

Visual special effects are, of course, an essential contribution to that Marvel flair.

“Friday the 13th” Prequel Series “Crystal Lake” Coming to Peacock

Halloween may be over, but that’s no reason to think about next year’s celebration of things that go bump in the night. To that end, Variety confirmed that Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to a Friday the 13th prequel series titled Crystal Lake. 

Crystal Lake comes from Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller, who will serve as executive producer and showrunner. Fuller’s bringing along some Friday the 13th royalty in screenwriter Victor Miller,

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Set to Star in Marvel Studios Series “Wonder Man”

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II already knows a thing or two about the superhero genre, as he’s set to reprise his role as Black Manta in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Now, Deadline reports that the rising star is in talks to make the jump from DC to Marvel Studios to star in Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, Wonder Man.

The series comes from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community writer/producer Andrew Guest.

“The Penguin” Casts Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone

The versatile, talented Cristin Milioti is heading to Gotham.

Variety reports that Milioti is joining Colin Farrell in HBO Max’s The Penguin as Sofia Falcone, the daughter of Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone. The Penguin will pick up after The Batman ended, which means that Milioti’s Sofia will be living in a Gotham that no longer has to bow down to her father—played by John Turturro in writer/director Matt Reeves’