Jennifer Lawrence

Dark Phoenix Is a Bittersweet Goodbye to Fox’s X-Men

Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix became one of the most significant of Fox’s X-Men films the moment it became clear it would be the last installment in the franchise that set the stage for the modern comic book movie boom. Not only was the film going to bring the story of Charles Xavier’s mutant heroes to…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jun 5

Why Dark Phoenix Is the Climax of the X-Men Franchise and Will Have No Problem Killing Characters

That thing you thought you saw in the new Dark Phoenix trailer earlier this week? Yeah, that happened. In the latest X-Men franchise trailer, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) seems to literally blow away Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence)—and while the editing is slightly ambiguous about whether Mystique survives that encounter, writer/director Simon Kinberg is not. “Mystique is…

Movies Germain Lussier Mar 1

New Dark Phoenix Trailer Teases Jean Grey Becoming a God of Death and Rebirth

One of the big things that Simon Kinberg’s upcoming Dark Phoenix installment needs to get right in order to get out of X-Men: The Last Stand’s shadow is to make its take on Jean Grey’s turn to evil feel like a legitimately world-altering event. The story is, after all, one of the most important part…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 28

Benedict Cumberbatch Could Have Been True Blood‘s Vampire Bill

The year was 2008. Barack Obama was in the last leg of his ultimately successful bid for the U.S. presidency and the wildest thing on television aside from election coverage was a quirky little show on HBO called True Blood. The campy vampire soap opera quickly gained a reputation for the way its entire cast…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 19

‘Bionic Actress’ Angel Giuffria Is Ready for People With Disabilities to Get Their Close-Up

It seems like diversity and representation in front of, and behind, the camera has finally become important to filmmakers.

Movies Maria Lewis May 31

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Is Incredibly Fascinating and Unbelievably Frustrating

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is grueling and gruesome. It’s a deliberately pretentious art-house movie, cast with some of the biggest stars on the planet. It’s horrifying on many levels—and yet there’s something deeply admirable about it. Whatever the opposite of “crowd-pleaser” is, this movie is it. mother! begins with imagery that echoes throughout the film: a…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Sep 15

Red Sparrow Looks Like The Black Widow Movie We’ve Been Waiting For Forever

This is what happens when you take too long. Someone beats you to the punch. Directed by Francis Lawrence, Red Sparrow has Jennifer Lawrence playing Dominika Egorova, a former ballerina who submits to training in a secret spy program. The film is based on a book by Jason Matthews but, if you know the Black…

io9 Evan Narcisse Sep 14

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! Looks Like a Terrifying Psychological Thriller

Your parents always said “Never talk to strangers.” But maybe they should’ve also said, “Don’t let them sleep in your house.” That seems to be the start of something very bad in Darren Aronofsky’s new movie mother! The film stars Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a married couple who one day decide…

Trailers Germain Lussier Aug 8

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Sets Its Main Cast and Creative Team With One Big New Addition

All the rumors you’ve heard in the past few months are true. Fox has set Simon Kinberg to make his directorial debut with 2018’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which will return much of the cast from 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse—and possibly add an Oscar nominee too. The Hollywood Reporter says that Jessica Chastain is in talks to…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 14

The Writer and Director of Passengers Address the Film’s Controversial Plot Point

Now that Passengers is out, there’s been a lot of talk of how the trailers and commercials hid what the film is about. It’s not just a film about two extremely attractive people stuck together on a spaceship—it’s about something much more sinister and uncomfortable. Odds are if you’re reading this you know what we’re…

io9 Germain Lussier Dec 22

Passengers Has Huge Ambitions But No Guts

You might expect a big budget science fiction movie, starring two of the most famous people on the planet, and due out on Christmas, to play it safe. But Passengers is more than just a movie about Jennifer Lawerence and Chris Pratt getting sexy in space. It actually tries to challenge you… for a little…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 20

How the Casting of Jennifer Lawrence Transformed Passengers

All movies go through a lot of changes before they hit the screen. There are rewrites, recastings, edits, studio notes—but one of the biggest changes that the upcoming scifi film Passengers went through is when the most famous and recognizable actress on the planet, Jennifer Lawrence, decided to join the project. When writer Jon Spaihts…

Movies Germain Lussier Dec 19

Watch a New Clip From Passengers and Wonder How Chris Pratt Could Possibly Survive

Passengers is basically a two-person disaster movie IN SPACE and every single moment of it looks designed to keep humans afraid of space travel forever. I know that both Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jim (Chris) are in this depressurizing airlock, but Jim also has a big ol’ door closed on his torso. It does not…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 23

Fox Is Scrambling to Reboot Its X-Men Franchise: Report

Fox’s X-Men universe is in trouble and Fox knows it. Its bona fide star, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, is done after Logan. The last X-Men movie made much less than the one before it. And Deadpool just lost its director. Add to that Gambit’s stalled production and it all adds up to Fox’s only successful…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 9

‘Fappening’ Hacker Who Stole Celebrity Nudes Gets 18 Months in Prison

Ryan Collins, the Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to a felony hacking charge earlier this year in connection with the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak known as “The Fappening,” has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, authorities announced on Thursday. http://gawker.com/man-pleads-guilty-to-celebrity-fappening-hacks-1765100174 According to prosecutors, the now 36-year-old Pennsylvania man used a phishing scheme…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Oct 27

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence’s Interstellar Journey Goes Awry in the First Trailer for Passengers

Passengers tells the story of two people who mysteriously wake up from hibernation on a spaceship that still has 90 years left on its journey. From there, things go from bad to worse. There’s a lot going on in this trailer: First, there’s the meet-cute between the only two conscious people on this ship. Then…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Sep 20

Oh, Right, Passengers Is a Huge Movie Coming Out This Year

Summer is over. Fall is here. Winter is fast approaching. And still, we have yet to see a trailer for Sony’s Christmas scifi movie Passengers. This isn’t some small movie either. It stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, plus the footage that was shown to exhibitors back in April looked amazing. The first poster has…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 5

The First Images for Scifi Film Passengers Make Us Even More Excited to See It

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence fall in love in space aboard a maybe-doomed spacecraft in Passengers, written by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Doctor Strange) and directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game). Look, you had us at Chris Pratt. All that other stuff is just gravy. Advance word on the film is fantastic—and the first images…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Aug 12