“Stranger Things 4” Music Editor Lena Glikson on Cutting Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”

From the get-go, Netflix hit Stranger Things has excelled in the art and craft of needle drops. Encompassing eighties classics from David Bowie’s “Heroes” in Season One to “Everlasting Love” in Season Three, song choices curated by three-time Emmy nominated music supervisor Nora Felder have consistently amplified the characters’ emotions to uncanny effect. 

But nothing in Stranger Things’ previous hit list prepared audiences for this summer’s zeitgeist-smashing anthem “Running Up That Hill.”

“Stranger Things 4” Makes History & Crosses Billion-Hour Viewing Mark

Move over Squid Game, you’ve got company. Stranger Things season 4 has now become the first English-language series, and only the second ever after the South Korean juggernaut, to cross the billion-hour viewing mark, Netflix says. With the final two episodes of season 4 released this past July 1, the show raced past that billion-hour threshold, reaching 1.15 billion hours of viewing time over season 4’s first 28 days of release.

Watch a Sneak Peek of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”

A mysterious ball of light arcs across the sky at the start of a new teaser for Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. While the light itself isn’t explained in this bite-sized glimpse at the streamer’s upcoming fantasy epic, it does light the path towards the real sneak peek now available for Amazon Prime subscribers. There’s every reason to believe that the concern on the faces of the Middle-earth residents as they watch the light burn across the sky is warranted.

“Succession” Season 4 Has Begun Filming in New York City

The bitterly feuding Roy family is coming back for another ten-round brawl. HBO has revealed that Succession season 4 has begun filming a 10-episode fourth season in New York City.

HBO has also done us the solid of giving us the new season’s logline, which gets us up to speed on what we can expect from the billionaire malcontents coming out of a hellacious, ongoing power struggle for the family’s company,

“Moon Knight” Cinematographer Gregory Middleton on Creating Marvel’s Head Trip

Moon Knight cinematographer Gregory Middleton came to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with considerable world-building experience. He helmed six episodes of HBO’s colossal fantasy series Game of Thrones, as well as three episodes of Damon Lindelof’s fantastic adaptation of Watchmen (also for HBO), so it would be unfair to say he was daunted to take on Marvel’s vaunted, ever-expanding cinematic universe.

Yet Middleton had his work cut out for him with Moon Knight, 

“Stranger Things” Season 4 Volume 2 Trailer Teases Feature-Length Final Episodes

Netflix has just revealed the full trailer for Stranger Things season 4, volume 2, which will deliver a two-part season finale to what has been a chilling, thrilling ride.

In the final episode of the first part of season 4, “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab,” it was revealed that Vecna, the new big bad haunting Hawkins, was actually once a patient of Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine), much like Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown),

Marvel Developing “Wonder Man” Series With “Shang-Chi” Director Destin Daniel Cretton

Talk about a great pairing. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community writer Andrew Guest to create a Wonder Man series for Marvel. Guest will be the head writer of the series, while Cretton will executive produce and possibly direct one or more episodes. While Guest is primarily known for his comedy chops (30 Rock and Marry Me are also on his C.V.),

HBO Developing Jon Snow-Centered “Game of Thrones” Sequel

Surprise! Or perhaps it’s not that much of a surprise given the number of Game of Thrones prequels that have been in development, or at least in discussion, at HBO. However, a Game of Thrones sequel focused squarely on the life of Jon Snow? Yeah, that’s big news.

The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that HBO is in the early stages of development on a spin-off series that would focus on Kit Harington’s Jon Snow after the events depicted in Game of Thrones. 

“Westworld” Season 4 Trailer Reveals the Return of HBO’s Ambitious Sci-Fi Epic

Have you questioned the nature of your reality lately? If you haven’t, HBO can nudge you towards the existential end of things with the first trailer for Westworld‘s season 4. The ambitious sci-fi series returns after a two-year hiatus, with the robot hosts of the titular theme park now on the loose in the real world—and doing their level best to reorder the hierarchy between themselves and humans. Westworld has been consistently one of the best-looking productions on TV,

How the “Stranger Things” Sound Team Creeps You Out

When Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven experiences a flashback a couple of hours into Stranger Things‘ fourth season, sound effects tell the mutant teenager’s nightmarish origins story in a nutshell: thunder, whooshing, whistles, choral voices, more thunder, pistol shots, birds screeching, rumbling, slithering sounds, squishes and thumps flood her head with 50 seconds worth of precision-orchestrated mayhem. In Matt and Ross Duffer’s supernatural thriller, sound effects, melded with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein‘s throbbing synthesizer music,

“Maid” & “Under the Banner of Heaven” Production Designer Renee Read on Building Trust

Production designer Renee Read is responsible for the look of two of TV’s most successful adaptations over the past two years. For Maid, Read was tasked with helping showrunner Molly Metzler Smith and the rest of the crew adapt author Stephanie Land’s 2019 best-selling memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.” The series is centered on Alex (Margaret Qualley), a young woman relying on the Byzantine social services complex to get her and her daughter on their feet.

“Succession” Composer Nicholas Britell Goes Behind Season 3’s Score

Rarely has awful behavior been accompanied by such beautiful music, but the fictitious scoundrels of Succession have now spent three seasons buoyed by brooding scores from pianist-composer Nicholas Britell. A three-time Oscar nominee, Britell honed his skills at Juilliard and Harvard before becoming the go-to composer for directors Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave).

“Barry” Cinematographer Carl Herse on Lighting Season 3’s Dark Path

Barry cinematographer Carl Herse has his fingerprints all of season three in what is turning out to be a reckoning for the titular hitman (played by co-creator/writer/director Bill Hader). Herse joined the Barry team and lensed five of season three’s 8 episodes (1, 2, 6, 7, and 8) in what has turned out to be the darkest stretch of Barry’s decidedly pitch black journey thus far.

Citing influences as wide-ranging as Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood,

Breaking Down the Astonishing Technology Behind Ava DuVernay’s “One Perfect Shot”

The cathedral wedding in John M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians. Diana Prince boldly crossing a World War I battlefield in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. Lisa stuck on a zip-line suspended above a raucous crowd in downtown New Orleans, in Malcolm D. Lee’s Girls’ Trip. Cathartic, lovely, or almost distressingly hilarious, these scenes are indelible. What did their directors do to make them tick?

In One Perfect Shot,

Netflix Reveals “Squid Game” Season 2 Teaser While Creator Reveals Clues

Netflix revealed a brief but beguiling new teaser for Squid Game and a letter from creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, who teases some season two character reveals. These are the kind of actual details we’ve been waiting for.

You’re well aware by now that Squid Game‘s first season was an international sensation, so there’s been a lot of interest, and speculation, about what Hwang Dong-hyuk would do for season two.

First “The Last Of Us” Image Reveals Peek at HBO’s Hugely Ambitious New Series

We’ve got our first image from HBO’s hotly-anticipated upcoming series The Last Of Us, with the show’s two leads, Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) as Joel and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) as Ellie, looking haunted but resilient as they try to get to safety. The image was revealed during Thursday’s Summer Game Fest (the series is based on Naughty Dog’s PlayStation game of the name),

“Ozark” Director Amanda Marsalis on Ruth, Wendy, and Bittersweet Goodbyes

When Ozark came to its bloody, sin-soaked end this year, you might have found yourself, Marty Byrd (Jason Bateman) style, sitting there quietly for a moment to do some accounting. The Byrd family had, against all odds, survived the chaos they’d been plunged into four seasons back when Marty’s business partner in Chicago made the mistake of cheating the wrong client. That put Marty in a life-or-death situation that would carry on for over a year—make matters right by laundering money for a powerful Mexican cartel,

“Stranger Things” Cinematographer Caleb Heymann on Season 4’s Monstrous Mayhem

*Spoilers below for the first seven episodes of season 4!

The first seven episodes — the last two are expected in July — of Stranger Things Season 4 go big. Hopper (David Harbour) is alive but in a Soviet prison. The kids are split up, with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Will (Noah Schnapp) living the opposite of a teenage dream out in California. The rest of the gang are still in Hawkins,

“Stranger Things” Casting Director Carmen Cuba on Finding Season 4’s New Faces

*There are spoilers for season 4 below, so proceed with caution if you’re not caught up!

With every new season of Stranger Things comes a new crop of teens to replace those ill-fated in prior seasons to the predations of the Upside Down that lurks under Hawkins. In addition, in  Season 4, the show’s beloved original members are scattered across the globe, leaving room for new cast members to take on feature roles in Hawkins’ latest rescue.

“The Boys” Season 3 Arrives on Amazon With Hype to Spare

In one narrative thread of season two of Amazon’s gleefully unhinged superhero sendup The Boys, Homelander (Antony Starr) pursued a very messy relationship with Stormfront (Aya Cash). Their budding romance became problematic when Stormfront was revealed to be a full-blown Nazi, a public relations nightmare for the slightly more subtly sadistic Homelander, and it ended, as many relationships do in this show, in an abundance of gore.

Season three has now arrived,