Interview

Hair/Makeup

“Pam & Tommy” Makeup Effects Designer Jason Collins on Transforming Lily James & Sebastian Stan

Pam & Tommy makeup effects designer Jason Collins had his work cut out for him when he boarded creator Robert Siegel’s Hulu series. Collins was tasked with taking on two of the most iconic people of the 1990s and capturing them before, during, and after they were the most famous, and infamous, couple in the world.

“My first thought was sheer fear,” Collins says from the set of Creed III in Atlanta,

By Bryan Abrams  |  March 1, 2022
Legendary “Star Wars” Composer John Williams Wrote the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Theme Song

Outside of George Lucas, there are few people as deeply connected to the Star Wars galaxy as composer John Williams. Now, Variety confirms that the legendary composer has created the theme song for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the highly-anticipated upcoming series on Disney+. Williams is only three years removed from work on his 9th Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker, and there is no one alive better suited to nail the musical signature for Ewan McGregor’s return to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi,

By The Credits  |  February 18, 2022
“Stranger Things” to End With Season 5, Massive Season 4 Coming This May

We finally know when Stranger Things season 4 is premiering on Netflix. It’s been three years since season 3 bowed, so it’s safe to say Stranger Things fans will be happy to hear they won’t be waiting much longer. And, we also now know that season 5 will cap Netflix’s juggernaut sci-fi show. Don’t fret quite yet, Stranger-heads—there’s a potential spinoff series in the works.

Netflix revealed the release date for season 4 via Twitter,

By The Credits  |  February 17, 2022

Interview

Director

Director Sacha Jenkins on Confronting Racism in “everything’s gonna be all white”

Midway through Black History Month, Sacha Jenkins‘ documentary series everything’s gonna be all white debuted on Feb. 11 on Showtime. Introducing itself as “A tale of two Americas, one white, one not,” the three-part show offers a sprawling group portrait of Black, Native American, Korean-American, Puerto Rican, Afro-Peruvian, South Asian, and other citizens of color who go before the camera to offer their unvarnished views on racism in the United States,

By Hugh Hart  |  February 16, 2022
First “Moon Knight” Images Reveal Oscar Isaac as Marvel’s Conflicted Superhero

Marvel Studios has started really giving us the Moon Knight goods in recent weeks. The first official trailer, the Super Bowl spot,  and now a slew of new images have filled out the picture on what the upcoming Disney+ series will be like. Moon Knight stars Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant, a gift-shop employee who seems like he’d be spooked by his own shadow. When Moon Knight begins,

By The Credits  |  February 15, 2022
“Moon Knight” Drops a Twisted Super Bowl Spot

Marvel’s upcoming Moon Knight series on Disney+ promises to be unlike any previous MCU installment. This much has been made clear by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who told Empire Magazine that Moon Knight will be louder and more brutal than anything they’ve done before. “He’s brutal,” Feige told Empire about Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant, aka Marc Spector, the tortured soul at the center of the series.

By The Credits  |  February 14, 2022
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” Series Reveals Poster, Cast & Release Date

At long last, we have an official release date and supporting cast for Disney+’s long-awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Ewan McGregor is reprising his role of the venerable Jedi Master on May 25, bringing along a host of great co-stars. McGregor first played Obi-Wan Kenobi way back in 1999 in the first of George Lucas’s prequel trilogy Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is set 10 years after the events of 2005’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, 

By The Credits  |  February 10, 2022

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Costume Designer

“The Gilded Age” Cinematographer Manuel Billeter on Lighting Old Money & New

Set in New York in the 1880s, The Gilded Age isn’t so much a follow-up to Downton Abbey as an across-the-pond companion piece from creator Julian Fellowes. In what’s being oft-referred to as a ‘lavish epic’ up and down the internet, this new HBO series follows in the footsteps of Fellowes’ previous series, with a slickly-produced focus on all the ways the rich are not like you and me.

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  February 7, 2022
Samuel L. Jackson Teases Young Nick Fury in Marvel’s Disney+ Series “Secret Invasion”

It looks like Samuel L. Jackson’s getting de-aged again. The last time Jackson had the years peeled away to play a young Nick Fury was in 2018’s Captain Marvel, which introduced Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and was set in the 1990s. Now, Jackson has taken to Instagram to tease a return to his younger form for Secret Invasion, Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series that stars Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos,

By The Credits  |  February 4, 2022

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Composer

“Peacemaker” Composer Kevin Kiner About Harnessing The Power of Hair Bands

Even as complicated and thick-headed as is his character may be, with every new episode, John Cena is worming his way into our hearts as Christopher Smith in writer/director James Gunn’s Peacemaker. In its first season on HBO Max, the show picks up where The Suicide Squad left off, expanding on Smith’s character, revealing his tragic backstory, and introducing viewers to a team that includes characters both old and new.

By Leslie Combemale  |  February 2, 2022

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Cinematographer

“Station Eleven” Cinematographer Christian Sprenger on Threading Timelines & Revealing Humanity

It was two days after Christmas when I texted cinematographer Christian Sprenger to ask if he’d be interested in talking about Station Eleven, the critically acclaimed limited series created for television by Patrick Somerville (Maniac, The Leftovers) on HBO Max. I had just finished watching the pilot episode “Wheel of Fire,” which he photographed alongside director Hiro Murai, and the visual aesthetics were astoundingly refreshing.

Adapted from the book by Emily St.

By Daron James  |  February 1, 2022
The First “Halo” Trailer Reveals Paramount+’s Sweeping Live-Action Adaptation

At long last, Master Chief is ready to rumble and is coming to a TV screen near you. The first official trailer for the live-action Halo series arrived this past Sunday during halftime of the Cincinnati Bengals/Kansas City Chiefs game, revealing Paramount+’s adaptation of the massively popular video game series. This is the longest look yet at the highly-anticipated series, and it also came with the show’s premiere date—March 24.

The adaptation of the mega-popular XBox Game Studios’

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2022
C-3P0 Actor Anthony Daniels Teases Fussy But Heroic Droid’s Return to “Star Wars”

The last time we saw C-3P0 (Anthony Daniels) in action, he was playing a crucial part in saving the galaxy in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In J.J. Abrams’s trilogy capping film, C-3P0 allowed his entire memory bank to be erased in order to rewrite his code so he could translate the Sith language. The fussy, nervous droid stepped up when it mattered most, and even Poe (Oscar Isaac) had to begrudgingly accept 3P0’s heroic sacrifice.

By The Credits  |  January 28, 2022
“Halo” Poster Reveals Fresh Look at Upcoming TV Series & Upcoming New Trailer

The adaptation of the mega-popular game Halo will arguably be the biggest series in Paramount+’s history. A new poster for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television series gives us a closer look at Master Chief Spartan John-117 (Pablo Schreiber), one of the genetically and technologically enhanced super-soldiers engaged in a war with an alien race called the Covenant. The poster points to an upcoming trailer that’ll drop this Sunday, where we should learn the series’

By The Credits  |  January 27, 2022
“Batgirl” Movie Cast Ivory Aquino to Play DC’s First Trans Character

The Batgirl movie keeps getting more intriguing. Ivory Aquino has joined the cast to play Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon/Batgirl’s best friend (to be played by Leslie Grace). This is a historic piece of casting, as Aquino, who is transgender, will play the first openly trans character in a live-action DC movie. Alysia Yeoh was created by writer Gail Simone and first appeared in “Batgirl #1, Volume 4” in 2011. She was the first major transgender character written in a contemporary context for a mainstream comic book.

By The Credits  |  January 25, 2022
Amazon’s Mysterious “The Lord of the Rings” Series Reveals Title & Release Date in New Video

Amazon has just released the one true title reveal. Their eagerly-anticipated and almost comically mysterious Middle-earth-set fantasy series is officially titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The title speaks to how the series will be centered on the creation of the original rings of power, which ultimately led the darkest of the dark wizards Sauron to blight Middle-earth with his particular brand of malevolent control. So yes, the big bad Sauron will loom over the new series as he did in J.R.R.

By The Credits  |  January 19, 2022
Ethan Hawke’s “Moon Knight” Villain Might be a Hybrid of Two Very Bad Dudes

Yesterday Marvel revealed the first trailer for Moon Knight, their next upcoming series on Disney+ starring Oscar Isaac as the titular superhero. The trailer focused on the struggles of Isaac’s decidedly unheroic gif shop employee Steven Grant, a man who seems spooked by just about everything. That’s because Grant soon learns he has another name—Marc Spector—and what’s more, he suffers from dissociative personality disorder. Soon enough Steven/Marc’s enemies arrive, and this hybrid,

By The Credits  |  January 19, 2022

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Costume Designer

“Cowboy Bebop” Costume Designer Jane Holland on Creating a Jazzy Outlaw Look

How do you approach adapting the looks of a beloved Japanese anime series for a live-action Netflix series? This was the challenge for Cowboy Bebop costume designer Jane Holland, who managed to capture the glorious color of the original anime series about a crew of bounty hunters who will zealously pursue even the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy—if you’ve got the money—and do it all in the boldest of styles. Cowboy Bebop stars John Cho as the perenially sad bounty hunter Spike Spiegel,

By Bryan Abrams  |  January 18, 2022
Marvel’s “Moon Knight” Trailer Reveals Oscar Isaac in Wild New Series

Marvel Studios has revealed the first official trailer for Moon Knight, their latest Disney+ series, revealing Oscar Isaac as the troubled Brit Steven Grant. Once again, Marvel has managed to mix up the tone and tenor of their latest series, offering a completely different vibe from what we’ve seen thus far in Hawkeye, Loki, What If…?, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision. In Moon Knight, 

By The Credits  |  January 18, 2022
“Batgirl” HBO Max Movie Adds More Stars to Join Lead Leslie Grace

The population of Batgirl‘s Gotham is rising. The upcoming HBO Max movie starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon just added three new cast members. Rebecca Front, Ethan Kai, and Corey Johnson have joined the cast in unspecified roles. They’ll be dropping into a Gotham already inhabited by some big names. Along with Grace, Batgirl includes Michael Keaton reprising his role as Bruce Wayne, marking the second big project that Keaton will be donning the cape and cowl for.

By The Credits  |  January 13, 2022