James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as co-CEOs of DC Studios, with former Marvel Studios executive Jeremy Latcham taking over in December — four years almost to the day after they were hired to rebuild the DCU.
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Victoria Monai Richards talks writing, directing, and starring in Search Party: Where’s Paw Paw? at just 22 — and what she’s learned making the film alongside her mother, working with Tichina Arnold and Tommy Davidson, and building opportunities for herself as a Black female creative in the industry.
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The NOCs of the Roundtable review and discuss the wonderfully wacky roller coaster that is Warner Bros. Animation’s new film The Cat in the Hat, out this weekend.
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We sat down with The Cat in the Hat co-stars Quinta Brunson and Giancarlo Esposito, along with directors Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni, to talk about bringing the Seussian classic to life.
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At L.A. Comic Con, we sat down with the cast and writer of Bring it On: All or Nothing as they celebrated the film’s 20th anniversary, reflecting on their enduring friendships and the passing of Hayden Panettiere.
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America Ferrera, Xochitl Gomez, and Bill Hader sit down with The Nerds of Color for one of the most chaotic, hilarious interviews the site has ever done ahead of The Cat in the Hat’s November 6th release.
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We dig into the final trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, which teases a conspiracy to overthrow Paul Atreides — with Chani potentially playing a role in his downfall.
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We spoke with Mckenna Grace, Ben Wang, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Lili Taylor about introducing a new generation to the world of Panem in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
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We sat down with costume designer Deb Cook, FX lead Ollie Jones, animation head Brad Schiff, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, and Wildwood author Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis to talk about bringing LAIKA’s most ambitious film to life.
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There is something immediately unsettling about waking up injured in the back of a moving trailer with absolutely no idea how you got there. That is where Brock Bodell’s Hellcat drops Lena Orchard (Dakota Gorman), and thankfully, the movie does not waste much time letting her, or us, get comfortable.
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Travis Knight, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, and Jacob Tremblay on bringing LAIKA’s 16-years-in-the-making Wildwood to the big screen.
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Michael Joseph McDonald did not come to filmmaking because he grew up obsessed with movies. In fact, he barely watched them. What eventually pulled him behind a camera was something much less romantic: watching someone be denied the ability to move freely through the world.
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Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston star in Tenzing, which is now playing in select theaters and streaming on Apple TV. We discussed what stood out to them about how Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became a team and learning from each other.
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Whale biologist and Dominica Sperm Whale Project founder Shane Gero joins us to break down whether Whalefall’s premise could really happen, and what his research reveals about sperm whales.
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Whalefall is a gripping and emotional examination of grief, relationships, and moving forward through hardship. We had a chance to speak with actors Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin, director Brian Duffield, and author/co-writer Daniel Kraus about bringing this heart-wrenching story to the big screen.
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We sit down with Street Fighter stars Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Callina Liang to talk training, their characters, and bringing the beloved fighting game to the big screen.
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We talk to the directors, writers, and producers behind Disney’s Hexed about shaping Billie and Alice’s mother-daughter story, the visual language of Hexe, and the Blink-182-inspired scene names they almost didn’t admit to.
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The Nerds of Color joined a group of journalists at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, for an early look at Hexed, where directors Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand, co-director Josie Trinidad, producers Roy Conli and Yvett Merino, and writers Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller pulled back the curtain to reveal a few of the tricks behind the magic of the film’s story, characters, and creative process.
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Ray Gunn is Brad Bird’s first film since 2018’s Incredibles 2. So does it soar to the same heights as his classics? Let’s just say in a movie that features flying cars and jet packs, you better believe it!
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Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa takes Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, moves it to Lagos, and somehow makes the emotional repression feel even more restrictive. With the screenplay written by Chuko Esiri, the film stars Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ayo Edebiri, and Fortune Nwafor.
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi has always been interested in what happens when two people sit down, really talk, and accidentally change each other’s lives. All of a Sudden takes that instinct and stretches it across France, Japan, illness, caregiving, theater, bureaucracy, and grief, landing on a simple, devastating question: what does it actually mean to be alive?
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What immediately sets Once Upon A Time in the Middle East apart from a plethora of war dramas that deal with Southwest Asian conflicts is that not only is this from the Chinese perspective but that the villains are not the “jihadist terrorists” the western media had us fearing for decades. Instead, the villains are the U.S. military itself and with it, the ever-present claws of U.S. imperialism.
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It’s seeing these conversations play out, feeling the warranted anger towards every perpetrator involved in this case, that I find myself thinking about a fictional male character who is a major advocate for girls and women: Eric Draven from the 1994 film, The Crow.
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