Wes Anderson is a fastidious filmmaker. We all know this. It's hard not to watch one of his confectionary creations, full of symmetrical images, controlled performances, and impeccable production design and come away with any other conclusion. But I would not call the auteur a maker of "epic movies." Until now. Because the composer of his latest film The French Dispatch, maestro Alexandre Desplat, just revealed to IndieWire how epic Anderson's scope gets. "I saw the finished version of ‘The French Dispatch’ quite a while ago, and it’s just amazing," gushed Desplat, making every film fan jealous …

In a surprise twist, it was revealed that Alexandre Desplat will score Marvel's upcoming feature film Black Widow. Rather than a traditional statement, the news was casually revealed in a "special look" trailer which aired on Monday night on ESPN. This is Desplat's first gig as a composer in 2020. Eagle-eyed entertainment editor Andrea Towers helped raise awareness about Desplat's involvement on Twitter, sharing a screencap of the credits featured in the new trailer. If you, like me, were watching the trailer very casually and not at all thinking something major like the movie's composer …

During NYCC, Screen Rant sat down with Crawl director Alexandre Aja to discuss his take on intense alligator horror during a Florida hurricane.

Hot off his summer horror hit Crawl, genre maestro Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct an untitled haunted house movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, and the kicker is, it will be an interactive horror film featuring a branched narrative -- i.e. a choose-your-own-adventure-style horror movie. The film will be written by Jeff Howard (The Haunting of Hill House), Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Aja, based on an idea by Howard and Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep). [caption id="attachment_317647" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Relativity Media[/caption] To develop the …

High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) director Alexandre Aja makes one hell of a return to horror with Crawl. Set during a Category 5 hurricane in Florida, the film finds an estranged daughter (Kaya Scodelario) and father (Barry Pepper) fighting off a blood-thirsty congregation of alligators. As the waters rise, safe ground rapidly disappears and their old family home becomes an infested alligator nest with no escape in sight. It's a lean, relentless, absolutely gripping survival horror that will have you jumping out of your seat with some of the best "holy shit" movie-going moments …