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One Battle After Another, KPop Demon Hunters Win: Art Directors Guild

One Battle After Another, KPop Demon Hunters Win: Art Directors Guild

One Battle After Another, Frankenstein and The Fantastic Four: First Steps were the big winners at the Art Directors Guild awards Saturday night, winning the top three live-action awards in production design. KPop Demon Hunters landed the prize for best production design in an animated film. The three live-action films — which won in contemporary, period and fantasy categories respectively — now have a leg up for the production design award at the Oscars. though Fantastic Four may be in the strongest position: The fantasy winner has nabbed the Academy Award in three of the past four years. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ was the big winner on the television side. The streamer landed three of the top prizes, for episodes of Severance, Palm Royale and The Studio. (They won for one-hour contemporary single-camera, one-hour period single-camera, and half-hour single camera, respectively.) The ADG awards, the organization’s 30th, honor “the visionary production design teams behind the year’s most visually ambitious films, television series and music projects,” according to the organization. At a moment when human-led design is under threat by AI and computer models, the awards stand as a kind of …

Marvel’s Black Panther Meets Fantastic Four

Marvel’s Black Panther Meets Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four make their introductions with the leaders of Wakanda in the latest teaser trailer for Marvel Studios‘ Avengers: Doomsday. Disney is set to release directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo‘s feature theatrically on Dec. 18. The film will include a lengthy list of Marvel superheroes facing off against Doctor Doom, played by returning Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart Robert Downey Jr. The movie’s footage was released online Tuesday and features voiceover from Shuri (Letitia Wright), who took up the mantle of Black Panther in 2022’s Wakanda Forever following the death of brother T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman). “I’ve lost everyone that matters to me,” Wright says in the new trailer. “A king has his duties to prepare our people for the afterlife. I have mine.” The teaser also shows M’Baku (Winston Duke) introducing himself as the King of Wakanda, after Shuri opted not to challenge him for the throne in Wakanda Forever. That film also included the MCU debut of Namor (Tenoch Huerta), who appears in the trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. “King M’Baku of Wakanda,” Duke …