Emmy-Nominated “Dopesick” Cinematographer Checco Varese on Layering in Subliminal Clues

Cinematographer Checco Varese is no stranger when it comes to photographing pilots, having created alluring visual palettes for over twenty projects, including David Elliot’s Four Brothers, Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain, and HBO’s True Blood. He reconnected with Empire creator Danny Strong to shoot Hulu’s Dopesick, a poignant narrative about the opioid crisis starring Michael Keaton as a doctor in a small mining town affected by the addictive drug.

“House of the Dragon” Torches Previous Records & Becomes HBO’s Biggest Premiere Ever

It should surprise no one that viewers were ready to return to Westeros.

House of the Dragon pulled in 9.986 million viewers across all platforms to become HBO’s biggest premiere ever. It also now stands as the largest launch on HBO Max. And, as these things tend to go, House of the Dragon didn’t just dominate viewers attention on TV—it was also the longest trending topic on Twitter, ranking #1 for 14 straight hours,

“Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Will Screen First Two Episodes in Theaters

Amazon’s epic Middle-earth saga will appear on the big screen before it heads home.

It feels appropriate that the first work set in Middle-earth since Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies will appear on the big screen before it heads to television. Amazon’s hugely ambitious The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will play in theaters in special fan events across the world on August 31,

Inside The Fiery First Episode of “House of the Dragon”

A power struggle over who might ascend to the Iron Throne. A brutal, heartbreaking birth scene. A vicious attack by armed watchmen on the so-called ne’er-do-wells of King’s Landing, led by the king’s impetuous, dangerous brother. These are a few of the intrigues that House of the Dragon delivered in its series premiere, the first Game of Thrones prequel to make it on air and one that looked every bit as polished and paced as its predecessor.

“Bridgerton” Emmy-Nominated Costume & Hairstyling Team on Season Two’s Sumptuous Styles

Netflix’s Regency-era romance Bridgerton became one of its most-streamed series thanks to creator Chris Van Dusen’s modern, Skittles-hued take on historic upper-crust British mores. His ethos going in — that this London Ton would be a “bonnet-free world” — held up for Season 2, in which the eldest Bridgerton heir, Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), finds true love, not with the season’s social diamond, Edwina (Charithra Chandran), but her romance-averse older sister, Kate (Simone Ashley). 

Dragons Reign Supreme in New “House of the Dragon” Teaser

It all begins this Sunday. The first Game of Thrones prequel has arrived, and there’s reason to get excited. The early buzz is very positive, the cast is incredible, and every fresh peek looks better than the last. To that end, this brand new teaser from HBO, rich with dragons and fire, only heightens the excitement. At long last, we’re back in Westeros, and things are as dangerous as always.

“Westworld” Costume Designer Debra Beebe on Living in Charlotte Hale’s World

Westworld season four wrapped this past Sunday after a dizzyingly twisted 8-episode arc, burrowing ever deeper into the rabbit hole of a post-human world. As ever, Westworld remains one of the most ambitious shows on television, and season four has arguably been the series’ most devilishly complex yet. With the line between “real” and synthetic obliterated ever since the hosts slipped the confines of the original theme park and infiltrated the real world,

Bzzzz: “Yellowjackets” Adds Simone Kessell as Adult Lottie Matthews

There’s some major buzz (apologies) happening around Yellowjackets season two right now. Simone Kessell has joined the cast as the adult Lottie Matthews, a juicy role in one of television’s most intriguing series. Kessell is coming off another significant role in a big series, having played Breha Organa, mother to Leia Organa, in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kessell will be trading in the far-off galactic intrigue for a drama a little closer to home,

“Wednesday” Trailer Reveals Tim Burton’s “The Addams Family” Reboot

The wonderfully weird journey of the Addams family continues. And who better to continue telling the tale of this beloved family of oddballs than Tim Burton, one of the world’s most beloved oddball filmmakers. Netflix has just revealed the first teaser trailer for Burton’s Wednesday, Burton’s reimagining of the Addams family with a story focused on daughter Wednesday (You star Jenna Ortega).

The series will track its young heroine as she’s bounced from school after school only to end up in Nevermore Academy finally,

New “House of the Dragon” Images Tease a Westeros Filled With Dragons

Unlike in Game of Thrones, when dragons were a scarce, almost mythical commodity, House of the Dragon will show us a time when dragons were a common if still an awe-inspiring sight. HBO has released a dragon’s lair worth of new images, which includes two shots of the iconic beasts that made such a huge difference in the drama that fueled eight seasons of Game of Thrones. Now, with the new series focused on the dragonlords of House Targaryen and taking place some 200 years before the events in Game of Thrones,

“She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” Early Reactions Call Tatiana Maslany a Super Addition to the MCU

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has cleared the most crucial hurdle of all—you care about its main character. This is one of the common themes of the early reactions to Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ series, introducing Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) to the MCU as a fourth-wall-breaking tour de force. It’s unsurprising that a performer as talented as Maslany has pulled it off, however—she’s been aces in everything she’s in. Still, it’s heartening to hear that She-Hulk is a fun,

Netflix Reveals First Look at Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities”

This is going to be a banner year for all of us Guillermo del Toro fans. And we are legion.

The visionary filmmaker has two big releases coming up, both for Netflix. The first is his long-gestating passion project, Pinocchio, which he’s got coming out on September 8. Del Toro has been aiming to make that movie for as long as he’s been a filmmaker. Then, his mysterious anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities is due in October,

“The Boys” Are Officially Coming Back With Season 4 Currently Filming

The Boys are back in town. That town is Toronto. This is good news.

After concluding a wild, ambitious third season back in July, we’ve been waiting on word for what would happen next for showrunner Eric Kripke’s deeply NSFW superhero send-up. We assumed that season four was a sure thing considering how popular and consistently engaging the series was, but we like our confirmations to be official. Luckily,

Jon Hamm Joins “The Morning Show” For Season 3

The Morning Show has just added a big name to their series regulars for season 3.

Mad Men alum Jon Hamm has joined the cast, which is particularly sweet in light of the very funny commercial Hamm did in which he teased Apple TV for having every A-list star on its roster but him. At one point, Hamm’s watching The Morning Show and says, “Jen and Reese,

Watch “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Star Jameela Jamil Become Supervillain Titania

When Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law premieres on Disney+, we’ll get to see co-star Jameela Jamil in the juicy role of supervillain Titania, the nemesis of Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany). It’s going to be a hoot to see Jamil go from playing the lovable if frustratingly perfect Tahani Al-Jamil on The Good Place to a Marvel baddie, and Jamil herself seems to be having a ball. In a new video she posted on Twitter,

James Gunn Reveals “Peacemaker” Season 2 BTS Image

“Our friend will still be making lots of peace in Season 2,” James Gunn wrote on Twitter, assuring fans that the conflicted, beefy superhero played by John Cena will be returning for more mayhem in Peacemaker.

Gunn shared an image of Cena, his face looking a little battered and bruised—peacemaking is a tough job—to ensure fans of the series that the story will continue:

No need to be worried on behalf of #Peacemaker.

“Better Call Saul” Composer Dave Porter on Playing Jimmy McGill Out

Dave Porter has been creating music for the universe of Breaking Bad since the beginning in 2008, starting with the award-winning, Zeitgeist capturing fan favorite, then continuing with Better Call Saul in 2015, and scoring El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie in 2019. That’s a long time to be living in a world so beloved by ‘Heisenbergers’ from the inside. Now, as Better Call Saul comes to a conclusion with its last show (the penultimate episode airs on August 8,

Keanu Reeves to Star in “Devil in the White City” Series for Hulu

Talk about an incredible combination of talent. Keanu Reeves is set to take on his first major TV role in a series produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. Reeves will star in Hulu’s Devil in the White City, an adaptation of Erik Larson’s best-selling book of the same name. It’s a project that both DiCaprio and Scorsese have been nudging along for years.

DiCaprio first optioned the book back in 2010,

A Sweeping Look Behind-the-Scenes of “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”

A new behind-the-scenes look at Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power gives us a sense of why this is the most ambitious series the studio has ever produced and, arguably, one of the most ambitious series of all time.

“The second age is the great unfilmed story in Tolkien’s entire legendarium, with the forging of the rings and the last alliance, and we felt that that was the story that deserved to be told,”

How The “Westworld” Makeup Effects Team Built Body Doubles & More in Season 4

Every season of Westworld is an ambitious undertaking, requiring hundreds of talented artists to create HBO’s gorgeously wrought sci-fi puzzle box. Season 4 has been especially complex, owing to the fact that the line between “real” and synthetic, between host and human, has been blurred to the vanishing point. Season one’s western-themed rebellion story, in which the synthetic hosts of the titular park eventually rebelled against their human abusers, is now a distant memory as some of those hosts wield enormous power and control over their human subjects in the real world.