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Colin Farrell’s Penguin Returns in ‘The Batman’ Spinoff Trailer
The Penguin is ready to take the big seat. Colin Farrell is back as The Penguin in the new trailer for his Max series, which spins out of the world of the 2022 DC film The Batman. In the events of the film, The Penguin served as a lieutenant to crime boss Carmine Falcone, who […]
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‘The Batman Part II’ Delayed a Year to 2026
The Batman Part II is flying off to a new date. The film will now open Oct. 2, 2026. That’s back a full year from its previous date. Batman 2 wasn’t the only notable change made to Warner Bros. release calendar on Tuesday: The Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed The Bride!, starring Christian Bale, will take Batman 2‘s […]
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Barry Keoghan Says He Spent $10 on Props to Make Audition Tape for Riddler Role in ‘The Batman’
Barry Keoghan revealed what went into creating his viral self-tape audition for the role of the Riddler in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Though he ultimately landed the role of the Joker in the 2022 film, the Saltburn actor said he initially heard there was an opening in the movie for the supervillain and decided to […]
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Wins Big at 2023 Critics Choice Super Awards
Everything Everywhere All at Once has continued its winning ways at the third annual Critics Choice Super Awards, which honor the best film and TV series in the superhero, sci-fi/fantasy, horror and action genres. The awards season juggernaut, which nabbed best picture (and six other awards) at the 2023 Oscars, was named the best science fiction/fantasy […]
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Oscar Winner Andy Nelson on Working With Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven Spielberg
Veteran rerecording mixer Andy Nelson describes working with Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven Spielberg in a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Behind The Screen. This season, Nelson extended his Oscar nominations tally to 24, with a pair of noms for his work on Luhrmann’s Elvis and Reeves’ The Batman. In doing so, he […]
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How the Oscar Nominees for Visual Effects Created Movie Magic at the Highest Magnitude
The Batman The aim of Matt Reeves’ The Batman was to make it feel as if the action could really happen. “There’s no science fiction element or fantastic element that removes it from our reality,” production VFX supervisor Dan Lemmon says, explaining that required doing as much in camera as possible. Special FX supervisor Dominic […]
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How Sound Pros From ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ and ‘Top Gun Maverick’ Sent Audiences to Battlefields, Beneath the Ocean and Into the Sky
When it comes to creating movie sound, it’s all about world-building, says Julian Howarth, sound mixer on Avatar: The Way of Water. “And then it’s to make something believable, emotional and to tell a story,” he adds. “In any film, that’s what we’re here to do.” For Howarth’s team, that was about telling an immersive […]
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Robert Pattinson Gets Candid About Male Beauty Standards in Hollywood: “There’ll Always Be a Guy Who’s in Better Shape Than You”
Robert Pattinson is no stranger to being a heartthrob in Hollywood. He was even named the hottest man in the industry in 2020 by a scientific calculation. But in an interview with ES Magazine that was published online this week, The Batman star got candid about the pressure men face to look a certain way. […]
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Sound Guilds Offer Clues to Oscar Noms
As Hollywood anticipates this year’s Oscar nominations announcement on Jan. 24, many of the societies and guilds have already revealed their favorites. That includes those in sound, for which the Academy had narrowed its field to a diverse slate of 10 movies, among them Edward Berger’s World War I drama All Quiet on the Western […]
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Nominations
CAPTIONPHOTO CREDIT With a trio of nominations, Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the feature competition of the 70th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards, which announced its noms on Monday. Close behind with two nominations apiece are The Batman, Elvis, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream and Top Gun: Maverick. A24’s genre-bending […]
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Heat Vision’s Top 10 Movies of 2022
Welcome to one of the last “Best Movies of 2022” lists. And while other lists try to give you a complete picture in 10 movies, or maybe one specific genre, we here at Heat Vision try to tackle the best of the genres we love, from comic book adaptations to horror to fantasy. And we […]
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‘The Batman 2’: Mattson Tomlin to Co-Write Script With Matt Reeves
Screenwriter Mattson Tomlin is once again heeding the call of the Bat-Signal. Tomlin is reteaming with Matt Reeves to write The Batman 2, the follow-up to Reeves’ well-received Robert Pattinson-starring take on the Caped Crusader that proved to be a hit with audiences. Plot details are being kept in the Batcave. It is not even […]
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