Daybreak Trailer Reveals Netflix’s new Post-Apocalyptic Series
Netflix‘s upcoming teen apocalypse series has a little something for everyone. Fans of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Alexander Payne’s Election, iconic 1980s flick Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and pop music, in general, are going to find something they like in Daybreak. Netflix has gotten good—very good—at creating series based on teenagers en extremis. The Society, 13 Reasons Why and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before are well well-crafted and wildly different.
Raising Dion Showrunner Carol Barbee on Netflix’s Singular Superhero Show
On film or television, there has never been a superhero origin story with a focus on the superhero’s mom. That changes with the new Netflix show Raising Dion, which is based on a 2015 comic book of the same name by Dennis Liu. The show features Alisha Wainwright as Nicole Reese, a young widow raising 8-year-old Dion (Ja’Siah Young), who begins to exhibit superhuman abilities. Michael B. Jordan plays her late husband Mark,
Netflix Announces Stranger Things Season 4
It’s official—Stranger Things 4 is happening. Netflix made has released this brand new teaser affirming that the Duffer Brothers smash hit is returning for a fourth season. Fresh statements from Netflix and the Duffers also confirm a new multi-year deal. It appears that Stranger Things 4 will be moving beyond Hawkins, Indiana, thanks to the Byers family moving out of town at the end of season three.
The Mandalorian Director on the First-Ever Live-Action Star Wars Series
In a little over a month, The Mandalorian will become the first-ever live-action Star Wars series when it debuts on Disney+ on November 12. Set five years after the events in Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi, the new series will focus on Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter. We’ll see, among other galaxy-shaping events, the rise of the First Order,
The Walking Dead Season 10 Video Teases the Nightmare to Come
Ten years ago, The Walking Dead began as an ambitious but singularly focused series about a cop, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his attempt to navigate a zombie-infested world after waking from a coma. He wanted to find his family and make some sense of the world he’d awoken to. His travels introduced him to new friends, many of whom he’d stick with over the seasons, as well as adversaries, from the zombies themselves to his former partner and best friend,
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Big Night & the Rest of Your 2019 Emmy Winners
The 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards delivered some surprises, so catharsis, and bestowed much-deserved awards on some of the industry’s brightest new stars, and the night did not go entirely as expected. The night was supposed to be dominated by Game of Thrones, which garnered a record-setting 32 Emmy-nominations. It did take home the coveted Best Drama Series but won in only one other major category; Best Supporting Actor to Peter Dinklage (it won 12 Emmys in total for the night).
Olivia Colman is the Queen in The Crown Trailer
Finally, our first good look at the great Olivia Colman in the role of Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown. Colman steps in for Claire Foy, who portrayed the younger Queen for the first two seasons. Colman is coming off winning an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of another Queen—the occasionally bilious Queen Anne in last year’s fantastic The Favourite. In The Crown,
What We Do In the Shadows Cinematographer DJ Stipsen on the Art of Vampire Stupidity
What We Do in the Shadows, based on the feature film of the same name from Taikia Waititi and Jemaine Clement, is unlike any vampire show on TV. Like the film, the show is staged as a documentary of four vampires who have been living together for centuries. In the series, which airs on FX, our vampires live on Staten Island (in the film they were based in Wellington,
Michael B. Jordan’s Superhero Series Raising Dion Releases First Trailer
Executive producer and star Michael B. Jordan is one of the driving forces behind Raising Dion, a new superpowered series on Netflix based on the comic by Dennis Liu (who’s also on board as a director). Raising Dion follows the Warren family, whose son (the titular Dion, played by Ja’Siah Young) is not your average tyke. In fact, Dion’s got some major superpowers, and his mom Nicole (played by Alisha Wainwright) needs to figure out how to protect him.
George R. R. Martin Dishes on the Targaryen-Centered Game of Thrones Prequel
With a new streaming platform seemingly launching every day, and hundreds of content creators flooding the zone with new stories, why couldn’t there be multiple Game of Thrones prequels on air? This is the question George R. R. Martin posed in a recent blog post. Granted, the creator of “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy series that started it all can’t claim he’s an objective voice on the subject, but he does have a point.
How Mindhunter’s Composer Manipulates Sound to Create an Unexpected Score
What kind of music describes the FBI’s early attempts to understand the mind of a serial killer? According to Mindhunter, the David Fincher-produced Netflix series based on Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, the auditory embodiment of this process swings between a creepily high-pitched yet restrained clamor, and quiet, moody intonations, like the rumbling of an ominous wind.
It’s a Multitude of Paul Rudds in Netflix’s new Series Living With Yourself
Paul Rudd has been shrunken (Ant-Man). Paul Rudd has been enlarged (Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame). But now, Paul Rudd has been multiplied. For those of you who love Rudd—and that’s just about everyone—this embarrassment of riches that is multiple Rudds will suit you just fine. Such is the bounty thanks to the premise for his new Netflix series Living With Yourself,
The Creators of Netflix’s Unbelievable on Their Urgent New Series
Buzz for the new true-crime drama Unbelievable, which is now streaming on Netflix, is getting pretty intense, and for good reason. Inspired by real events covered in a Pulitzer Prize-winning article from The Marshall Project and ProPublica called, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” and a This American Life episode called “Anatomy of Doubt,” it tells the story of a teen named Marie (Kaitlyn Dever) who reports a sexual assault,
Game of Thrones Prequel About House Targaryen Nearing Pilot Order
Just when you thought you were safe from House Targaryen, think again. Deadline reports that HBO is nearing a pilot order on another Game of Thrones project, this one focusing on that noble house of madmen—and women—who have ruled and ruined Westeros. The prequel comes from GoT co-executive producer and creator of the source material, George R. R. Martin, and Colony co-creator/executive producer Ryan Condal.
Chernobyl’s Emmy-Nominated Director on Capturing Catastrophe
Within the first few minutes of Chernobyl, director Johan Renck plunges the viewer into a riveting recreation of the infamous nuclear power plant meltdown and its aftermath. Since completing its run this summer, the HBO mini-series has earned 16 Emmy nominations for dramatizing the horrendous impact on victims of the accident while tracking the efforts of scientist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) as he takes on the Soviet establishment to uncover the truth about why the reactor blew up.
Hailee Steinfeld may Lead Disney+’s Hawkeye Series
You’d be hard-pressed to find a better person to play Hawkeye‘s protege, Kate Bishop, than Oscar-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld. Variety reports the immensely talented Steinfeld is in talks to join Jeremy Renner in Marvel Studios upcoming Disney+ series. Bishop is the young woman who, in the comics, becomes the new Hawkeye after Clint Barton passes on the mantle to her. Bishop’s Hawkeye ultimately becomes part of the Young Avengers,
The Man in the High Castle‘s Emmy-Nominated VFX Supervisor on Taking Down Lady Liberty
The third season finale of The Man in the High Castle sees the show’s alternate fascist reality, based on the eponymous Philip K. Dick novel, take a giant leap forward for Nazism in America — surrounded by cheering crowds, the Statue of Liberty is brought down under fireworks, fighter jets, and Himmler’s watch. The episode title, “Jahr Null,” means year zero, the showy start to a new future for America devoid of the country’s history.
How Killing Eve Showrunner Emerald Fennell Delivered 9 Emmy Nominations
“It’s OK if you feel weird. You just killed someone for the first time. With an ax.” That’s one many deadpan Killing Eve lines crafted by actress-turned-showrunner Emerald Fennell and delivered by psychopath Villanelle (Jodie Comer) to fish-out-of-water spy Eve (Sandra Oh). AMC/BBC America’s British thriller earned nine Emmy nominations for its second season including an Outstanding Writing nod for Fennell, who seemingly came out of nowhere to succeed Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the show’s creative boss.
How SEAL Team’s Emmy-Nominated Stunt Coordinators Bring Accuracy to the Action
CBS’s SEAL Team, renewed for a third season, takes an authentic and awe-inspiring look at the lives of Navy S.E.A.L.S., giving you a sense of how “they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions.” Behind the scenes helping to ensure such realism are stunt coordinators Peewee Piemonte and Julie Michaels. The Emmy-nominated husband-and-wife team — Piemonte won two and was nominated for a third for Southland and Michaels was nominated for Shameless — are nominees once again,
Will Poulter Cast in Amazon’s Mysterious Lord of the Rings Series
Will Poulter has a knack for picking interesting projects. He was dynamite as Bridger, the young, in-over-his-head fur trapper in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. In David Slade and Charlie Brooker’s mind-blowing Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Poulter stole every scene he was in as the coding genius Colin Ritman. This summer, he starred in Ari Aster’s gleefully bizarre horror film Midsommar. Now Variety reports that Poulter has nabbed a major role in one of the most mysterious projects in Hollywood—he’ll be in Amazon’s Lord of the Ring series.
