“Black Rabbit” Creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman on Cooking Up Their NYC-Set Thriller

Netflix’s hit series Black Rabbit brings viewers into the vibey, chaotic world of New York City nightlife in a breathless eight-episode sprint that left this viewer spent and satisfied, like after a particularly long and indulgent night in the city it lovingly, if somewhat dementedly, portrays. Starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman as Jake and Vince Friedken, respectively, brothers who try to slough off a particularly rough upbringing by opening the titular Black Rabbit restaurant together,

Jacob Elordi’s Creature Unmasked in “Frankenstein” Official Trailer, + New Images of Guillermo del Toro’s Adaptation

The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein finally revealed the stunning transformation of Jacob Elordi into Frankenstein’s Monster. This is the longest look yet at Del Toro’s passion project, which is firmly told from the Monster’s perspective, as he openly wrestles with the torture of having the memories of multiple people in his head and the general confusion and horror at having been stitched together and electrocuted back into a fractured life.

“The Pitt,” “The Studio,” “Adolescence,” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Have Big Night at the Emmys

The 2025 Emmys Awards telecast crowned the year’s big winners on Sunday night, with The Pitt, The Studio, Adolescence, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert winning big.

The Pitt nabbed three Emmys, including for Best Drama Series. Star Noah Wyle also took home the Best Actor in a Drama Series win, and his co-star, Katherine LaNasa, topped four White Lotus stars to pull in the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Make a Cash Grab in Trailer for Their True Crime Thriller “The Rip”

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are back at it again, this time in a distinctly different kind of film from their last collaboration, Affleck’s delightful look at Nike’s formation of what would become an iconic partnership with Michael Jordan in Air. In their new film, The Rip, Affleck and Damon play two Miami police officers who are leading a squad that works “the dope game,” which means they deal with drugs and guns,

600 Languages, One Vision: How Producer Reza Servia Bridges Indonesia’s Diversity for Netflix’s Global Audience

Born into a family steeped in Indonesian filmmaking, Reza Servia was perhaps destined to find his way into the business one way or another. Along the way, his journey took him through the suburbs of Chicago and Atlanta, via New Zealand and software engineering, with a side quest into competitive e-sports.  

When Servia was five, his mother took him and his two siblings to the US after she separated from his father, accomplished producer and Indonesian film industry stalwart Chand Parwez Servia.

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” Preparing for an Electric Fall

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is one of the most highly anticipated fall releases. The visionary director reteamed with some of his most trusted collaborators to bring to life the movie he had been dreaming of making for over two decades, including production designer Tamara Deverell, cinematographer Dan Laustsen, and composer Alexandre Desplat. Frankenstein has already electrified audiences, first at the Venice Film Festival,

Inside the Heist: Editor Jay Prychidny on Cutting the Monster Mayhem in “Wednesday”

“If These Woes Could Talk,” the fourth episode of Wednesday season two, is an hour of monster playtime from Tim Burton. The fourth episode wrapped up part one of the season and is built as a heist story with Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) seeking family secrets while Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen), a zombie, and a Hyde (aka a mutant) run amok in an institution. It’s exuberant chaos in the hands of Burton’s frequent editor,

Holy Murder Mystery: Daniel Craig is Back on the Case in “Wake Up Dead Man” Trailer

The official teaser for Rian Johnson‘s third Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, has arrived. Daniel Craig returns as the dandy detective Benoit Blanc to solve what the teaser promises will be his most dangerous case, which involves the seemingly impossible crime of a priest’s murder.

“To understand this case, you need to look at the myth that’s being constructed,” Craig’s Blanc says during the teaser.

The Studio Giant You’ve Never Heard Of: How MBS Group Powers James Cameron and Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Productions

You might not recognize the name The MBS Group right away, but if you ever wandered through legendary studio lots like Radford Studio Center, Culver Studios, Raleigh Studios, or Symmetry Park Studios London, you’ve stepped onto one of the nearly 50 studio campuses they operate globally. The company is the world’s largest studio operator, running top-tier campuses in iconic entertainment hubs like Los Angeles, New York, and London. But they’re not just renting out space — they’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse designing studios,

Guillermo del Toro’s Dream Project Comes to Life: New “Frankenstein” Images Showcase Jacob Elordi’s Monster

Frankenstein is ready for his close-up.

Netflix has released nearly a dozen new images from Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, which is slated to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by a global release on Netflix in November.

The new images include a look, at long last, at Jacob Elordi as the iconic monster, along with Oscar Isaac’s mad scientist,

“The Diplomat” Creator Debora Cahn on Refusing to Write Easy Villains in a World of Hard Choices

For Deborah Cahn, the journey from The West Wing to Netflix’s The Diplomat began with a simple encounter that revealed the extraordinary lives hidden within the foreign service. The former West Wing writer spent years cultivating relationships with real diplomats, ambassadors, and State Department officials, learning first-hand how complex the world of international politics was, and how much it demanded of the individuals who dedicated their lives to it.

How “Nobody Wants This” Creator Erin Foster Finally Found Success Writing About Herself

After 15 years of chasing what television networks wanted—workplace comedies, procedurals, whatever was trending—actress and writer Erin Foster had almost given up on her writing career.

“I had a lot of setbacks as a writer,” Foster says. “Some of those were like, ‘You’re not a good joke writer’ and ‘You write things that feel sort of like a play—it’s just people talking and there’s not enough plot.’ So there were a lot of times that I really second-guessed what path I was going to go down.”

Case Closed: How Uzo Aduba Mastered the Art of Playing Television’s Smartest Detective in “The Residence”

From the moment the first episode streamed on Netflix in March, The Residence has garnered millions of fans and great ratings. There’s also been a growing fan base for its lead character, Cordelia Cupp, known as the world’s greatest detective by those surrounding her in this unique mystery dramedy. The whodunit comes from longtime Shondaland collaborator Paul William Davies (Scandal, For the People), and is inspired by Kate Anderson Brewer’s nonfiction book on the history of The White House and its staff.

The Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” Electrifies Millions

The trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has electrified viewers. The first glimpse of the visionary director’s remake of the iconic monster movie has garnered millions of views since its release on Sunday. There are few directors alive who are more perfectly suited to enliven a fresh adaptation of Mary Shelley’s deathless novel, one of the most adapted stories ever told; and after thinking and dreaming about tackling his own version for decades,

“Black Mirror” Creator Charlie Brooker on Remaking Reality

Charlie Brooker is known for many things, and depending on whom you ask, you might get a different answer. In England, where Brooker was born, you may hear about cult comedies The 11 O’Clock Show, Brass Eye, or Nathan Barley, which he wrote, or maybe Newswipe, where he satirizes current events, or the fictionalized reality show Dead Set about zombies attacking the Big Brother house.

Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc Goes Dark in First “Wake Up Dead Man” Teaser, a Horror-Tinged “Knives Out” Murder Mystery

“This was dressed as a miracle…it’s just a murder. And I solve murders.”

So says Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) in the middle of a minute-long teaser for his return as the southern detective in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third film in Johnson’s whodunit franchise. The teaser is a much darker affair than the previous two Knives Out installments, the last of which was a sun-baked mystery set on a Greek Island,

Paul Giamatti on Finding Redemption in the Most Human “Black Mirror” Season 7 Episode

Seven seasons in, Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror still gets under your skin. Usually, the load is heavy and dark, with characters’ lives driven to unambiguously worse places by technology we don’t yet have, but it feels like it may come frighteningly soon. But there’s one episode in this most recent season, Eulogy, starring Paul Giamatti, that stays in your mind for its emotional rewiring of one lonely man’s core memories.

Building the First “Black Mirror” Sequel: How Production Designer Miranda Jones Upgraded the USS Callister Universe

Back in Season 4 of Black Mirror, an enthusiastic programmer, Nanette (Cristin Milioti), gets trapped in a virtual-reality game by its creator and her boss, Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons). Shy and self-minimizing in real life, Nanette’s in-game clone is creative and confident enough to lead the rest of her colleagues, also trapped as crew by Daly on the starship USS Callister, out through a wormhole. Black Mirror picks up the thread with a sequel in Season 7,

One-Shot Wonders: How Casting Director Shaheen Baig Assembled the Perfect Cast for “Adolescence”

Co-created by and co-starring Stephen Graham, Netflix’s four-part series Adolescence has been a widely viewed hit for the streaming site. Nothing about casting the show, about an otherwise ordinary boy, Jamie (Owen Cooper), who has been influenced to such a malign degree by his online life that he becomes capable of murdering a classmate, Katie (Emilia Holliday), was standard operating procedure. Each episode is a single take, and finding an actor young enough to play the difficult role of thirteen year old Jamie and do so while shooting repeat one-shots was no small feat.

Rufus Sewell on Playing ‘The Good Guy’s Bad Guy’ in Netflix’s “The Diplomat”

A proper English thespian who originated a role in Tom Stoppard’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Arcadia fresh out of acting school, Rufus Sewell has since excelled as a character actor with leading man looks. Over the past few years he’s played a sadistic aristocrat (The Illusionist); a Nazi (The Man in the High Castle); an astrophysicist (Eleventh Hour);