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‘Nomadland,’ ‘Rocks’ Lead 2021 BAFTA Awards Nominations By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2021 8:30 am EST Even across the pond, Nomadland is surging to the front of the pack of the awards race. Chloé Zhao’s exquisite road drama has raked up the most nominations at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, alongside Sarah Gavron’s British drama Rocks. With these two films leading the 2021 BAFTA Awards nominations, the British awards ceremony is looking to have a historic year in diversity, just one year after it faced its own #BAFTAsSoWhite scandal....

‘Poor Things’ Will Reunite Yorgos Lanthimos And Emma Stone For A Female Frankenstein Story By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 2, 2021 1:00 pm EST The Favourite team of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are reuniting for Poor Things, based on the book by Alasdair Gray. The novel is a send-up of Victorian literature and a re-imagining of Frankenstein, in which the monster has been replaced with “Bella Baxter – a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant....

Day of the Soldado The 2015 thriller Sicario was a piece of entertainment that had some questionable material handled in a rich, complex, often thrilling way. Not everything in Taylor Sheridan’s script worked, but what Sheridan’s writing lacked, director Denis Villeneuve more than made up for. Villeneuve, working with master cinematographer Roger Deakins, was able to craft a frequently terrifying saga. The first few minutes of the first Sicario are a master class at building tension....

‘The Greatest Showman’ Honest Trailer: P.T. Barnum Was Actually A Huge Jerk By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2018 6:00 am EST Though The Greatest Showman didn’t have a huge opening weekend or break any major box office records, you might be surprised to learn that the film raked in nearly $173 million at the domestic box office, putting it in the lower end of the top 20 highest performing movies of 2017....

By Ben Pearson/Nov. 1, 2017 12:00 pm EST In an interview with Shadow Nation (via DenOfGeek), Jane revealed some key plot details of the film: And he’s a guy they’ve actually marked to kill him because he’s seen a UFO, he’s seen the Predator ships come down so they lock him up and throw him in with us lunatics. They’re going to take that bus, drive it down to a ditch and shoot us all just to get rid of this one guy....

Dune Sequel ‘Ready To Go’ For 2022 If Greenlit, Says Director Denis Villeneuve Warner Bros. By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 3, 2021 12:49 pm EST “Dune” won’t open in theaters and stream on HBO Max until October, but director Denis Villeneuve is ready to make the sequel, which will cover the other half of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction novel. In an roundtable interview with Villeneuve attended by /Film, the “Arrival” and “Blade Runner: 2049” filmmaker shared that he’s more than ready to get to work on “Dune: Part Two,” assuming Warner Bros....

First ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Footage Teases All Kinds Of New Dinos By Chris Evangelista/June 21, 2021 9:57 am EST The first official footage from Jurassic World: Dominion is here, and it offers a glimpse of plenty of prehistoric action. The just-released footage is part of a longer extended look at the film that will be playing exclusively in IMAX theaters before screenings of F9. The footage takes us back 65 million years ago to when real, non-cloned dinosaurs walked the Earth....

“Pain is comedy, right? The harder you hit, the funnier it is.” 20th Century Studios You’ve said before a lot of actors want to do as many stunts as they can, but when is it just not possible? Audiences are really smart these days, and so they can see where you go, oh, there’s the double and there’s the switch. We want to put the actors in as much as we can because, again, the audience is smart....

HDTGM: A Conversation With Mick Garris, Director Of ‘Sleepwalkers’ By Blake Harris/April 12, 2017 7:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From quirky hits (like *batteries not included and Critters 2) to epic haunts (like Stephen King’s The Stand), filmmaker Mick Garris has proven himself to be one of the industry’s true masters of horror. Literally, even; creating the beloved Showtime series Masters of Horror....

Where to Stream Arrested Development 20th Century Studios Who even knows what a Blu-ray player is anymore, right? This is the future! Don’t get me wrong, I still exclusively use the PlayStation 4 to watch my vast collection of outdated physical media. So when the world is bursting into flames and streaming services are no longer up and running because everything is ending, at least I’ll still be able to watch old episodes of “One Tree Hill” on DVD....

Ike Boys Review: A Love Letter To Anime And Outcasts [Fantastic Fest] Wisconation Productions By Amelia Emberwing/Sept. 29, 2021 11:21 am EST Over the years, Fantastic Fest has become known for its “weird” genre films. While it’s not all that screens at the fan-favorite film festival, the oddest entries have often been the most memorable of its respective programs. Eric McEver’s “Iké Boys” is an admirable addition to that line-up, even with its (sometimes many) imperfections....

James Gunn Explains Nathan Fillion’s Lost ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Cameo By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2017 8:30 am EST If you saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and also stuck around for all five of the credits scenes, you know that there are plenty of cool cameos to enjoy. However, some fans might have been disappointed that one cameo ending up on the cutting room floor: Nathan Fillion....

Jeffrey Wright Will Play Batman In HBO Max’s New…Comedy Podcast? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 1, 2021 2:00 pm EST The Caped Crusader? Nah, more like the Caped Comedian, star of a new Batman podcast being launched by HBO Max. No, this isn’t a joke, but a real thing being developed by the WarnerMedia streaming platform, set to star Jeffrey Wright as the Dark Knight himself. Wright is trading the signature Commissioner Gordon mustache for a cowl in Batman: The Audio Adventures, a new HBO Max podcast that offers a “comedic take on the Dark Knight,” according to The Hollywood Reporter....

Live-Action ‘Gundam’ Movie Is Coming To Netflix With Jordan Vogt-Roberts Directing By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 12, 2021 11:00 am EST Time to get in the robot: a Gundam live-action movie is coming to Netflix. Legendary is developing a live-action Gundam feature film, which will be steered by Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. It will stream exclusively on Netflix. Netflix announced that Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct and produce a Gundam live-action movie from Legendary Pictures, based on the beloved mecha-anime franchise....

Mike Flanagan Calls Midnight Mass His ‘Most Personal’ Project Yet Netflix By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 23, 2021 8:26 am EST Mike Flanagan has grown to be one of the best horror directors and writers in the business. This is not an exaggeration. From his first few films like “Absentia,” “Oculus,” and “Ouija: Origin of Evil”, Flanagan’s talent for writing and directing emotional yet disturbing stories has consistently flourished. He has successfully brought multiple Stephen King novels to the silver screen with “Gerald’s Game” and “Doctor Sleep,” and has completely subverted while also setting a sophisticated standard of what an adaptation looks like....

New The Mandalorian Action Figures Include Cobb Vanth, Migs Mayfeld, And Scarred Baldy Boba Fett Hasbro By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 22, 2021 4:01 pm EST Hasbro PulseCon kicked off today, revealing new toys from the likes of “Power Rangers” and “Transformers,” but the collectibles were the most excited to see from Hasbro came from the “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian.” A handful of new “Star Wars” Black Series figures were unveiled, inspired by the second season of “The Mandalorian,” including that handsome devil Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth, decked out in Boba Fett’s armor....

Pandemic Box Office: ‘Tom And Jerry’ Exceeds Expectations, Gives Movie Theaters Hope By Chris Evangelista/March 3, 2021 2:00 pm EST There might be hope for the box office yet, and that hope comes in the form of…checks notes…Tom and Jerry. Even though trailers for the live-action/animation hybrid were the equivalent of having a root canal without having your gums numbed, and critics tore the film asunder, Tom and Jerry ended up with a $14....

San-Diego Comic-Con Will Remain Virtual For 2021 By Chris Evangelista/March 1, 2021 1:00 pm EST It was inevitable. Like last year, San-Diego Comic-Con 2021 will remain virtual. While there are multiple COVID-19 vaccines right now, the pandemic remains a very serious issue. And as much as everyone would like things to go back to normal, it’s unlikely that we’ll see anything close to “normal” anytime soon. With that in mind, Comic-Con has made the tough but wise choice to remain virtual for one more year....

The Appropriately Titled Book ‘Guillermo Del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker And His Work’ Will Hit Shelves This October By Eric Vespe/Aug. 20, 2021 6:19 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ian Nathan, the UK-based author of The Alien Vault, The Terminator Vault and Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth is back once more with a deep (if unauthorized) dive into the incomparable Guillermo del Toro....

The Batman Trailer: The Dark Knight Returns, And This Time He’s Robert Pattinson Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 16, 2021 4:38 pm EST The Dark Knight returns, and this time he’s Robert Pattinson. In “The Batman,” Pattinson becomes the new Caped Crusader — but this is not another origin film. Instead, Batman has been operating in Gotham City for over a year now, and while not everyone is used to the masked vigilante yet, he’s clearly already developed a rapport with cop James Gordon, played this time by Jeffrey Wright....