Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Nebula, Tony Stark, Thor and Okoye Avengers: Endgame film costumes on display...

One of my favourite things about both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame is that they gave 'Thanos' and his children, 'Gamora' and 'Nebula', real characterization and made their motivations more believable. In fact their journeys are just as pivotal to the films as the Avengers themselves. In this final cinematic showdown with the Mad Titan the Avengers have a chance to live up to their name and save all the people who perished in 'The Snap', or die trying.

Screen-worn Avengers: Endgame movie costumes
Avengers Endgame movie costume exhibit
Karen Gillan Avengers Endgame Nebula costume
Robert Downey Jr Avengers Endgame Tony Stark costume
Avengers Endgame Tony Stark arc reactor
Chris Hemsworth Avengers Endgame Thor costume
Avengers Endgame Thor Stormbreaker axe
Thor Stormbreaker axe Avengers Endgame
Chris Hemsworth Avengers Endgame Thor costume
Danai Gurira Avengers Endgame Okoye costume
Avengers Endgame film costumes
This collection of costumes featured in the epic twenty-second movie from Marvel Studios were photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on April 26, 2019.

Judianna Makovsky was Costume Designer on this film, although Ruth E. Cater was responsible for Danai Gurira's Okoye costume and you can also take a closer look at more of her Oscar-winning Black Panther costumes on display.

Avengers: Endgame movie billboard
Avengers Endgame film billboard
In addition you can also check out more costumes from Avengers: Infinity War designed by Judianna Makovsky on display.

Nebula costume worn by Karen Gillan
in Avengers: Endgame
Karen Gillan Avengers Endgame Nebula movie costume
Avengers Endgame Nebula movie costume
Avengers Endgame Nebula film costume
Nebula costume Avengers Endgame
Nebula costume holster Avengers Endgame
Nebula costume holster and gun Avengers Endgame
Nebula costume boots Avengers Endgame
Avengers Endgame Nebula costume boots
Karen Gillan Avengers Endgame Nebula film costume
After sporting various costumes in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Karen Gillan's blue-skinned cyborg 'Daughter of Thanos' received a new look as an ally of the Avengers.

The other costumes from the movie were particularly hard to photograph behind reflective display screens in the cinema's foyer, or I'd photographed them before, but it was great to get a closer look at Nebula's new heroic attire.

Fans of Karen Gillan can also check out her Amy Pond costumes from Doctor Who and her Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle costume on display.

It's safe to say I loved this movie 3000.

Avengers: Endgame movie billboard
Avengers Endgame movie billboard

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Sophie Turner's X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie costumes and more on display...

Now that Disney has bought Fox Studios, it looks like Dark Phoenix will be the last X-Men movie before Marvel Studios takes the reins of the characters and the Fantastic Four. In this latest cinematic tale of Marvel's merry Mutants, Sophie Turner's 'Jean Grey' begins to develop incredible powers that threaten to corrupt her and turn her into 'Dark Phoenix' and the X-Men will have to decide between saving their teammate and friend or saving the planet.

Screen-used costumes and props from Dark Phoenix
X-Men Dark Phoenix movie exhibit
Sophie Turner Dark Phoenix Jean Grey X-Men uniform
Professor X wheelchair X-Men Dark Phoenix
Professor X wheelchair Dark Phoenix
Professor X wheelchair prop Dark Phoenix
Sophie Turner X-Men Dark Phoenix movie costume
X-Men Dark Phoenix movie costumes prop
These costumes worn by Sophie Turner and Professor X's motorised wheelchair where photographed on display in the foyer of ArcLight Hollywood cinema on April 26, 2019.

Dark Phoenix movie poster
Dark Phoenix movie poster
Daniel Orlandi was the Costume Designer in director Simon Kinberg's movie inspired by Chris Claremont's classic X-Men: Dark Phoenix comic book storyline.

You can see more of his design work with these Trumbo movie costumes, these Saving Mr. Banks film costumes and this Cinderella Man movie costume.

Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix costumes
worn by Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner Dark Phoenix Jean Grey X-Men uniform
Sophie Turner Dark Phoenix Jean Grey X-Men costume
Jean Grey X-Men uniform Dark Phoenix movie
Jean Grey X-Men uniform Dark Phoenix
Jean Grey X-Men costume boots Dark Phoenix
Sophie Turner X-Men Dark Phoenix Jean Grey costume
X-Men Dark Phoenix Jean Grey uniform
Sophie Turner X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie costume
Sophie Turner Dark Phoenix film costume
Sophie Turner X-Men Dark Phoenix coat
X-Men Dark Phoenix movie costume
There's something about the simplicity of Jean Grey's X-Men uniform in this installment that reminds me of a Star Trek Starfleet uniform and the maroon leather coat certainly evokes Famke Janssen's Dark Phoenix look from 2006's X-Men: Last Stand.

Fans of the actress can also check out Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark Game of Thrones costume and X-Men aficionados can also enjoy these Magneto and Cyclops costumes from X-Men: Apocalypse on display.

Dark Phoenix movie poster
Dark Phoenix film poster

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Nicholas Hoult's movie costume from Tolkien on display...

In the biographical film Tolkien, Nicholas Hoult plays the orphaned writer during his formative years as he discovers friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school and his time in the trenches of World War I before he ever wrote The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and his other infamous books.

Costume worn by Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien movie costume exhibit
Nicholas Hoult JRR Tolkien film costume
Nicholas Hoult Tolkien film costume
Tolkien film costume exhibit
This costume exhibit from director Dome Karukoski's movie was photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on April 26, 2019.

Colleen Kelsall was Costume Designer on this biopic and she was also co-costume designer on these Pain & Gain movie costumes.

Fans of the Tolkien movies can also enjoy these costumes from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on display.

Tolkien movie poster
Tolkien movie poster

Thursday, April 25, 2019

BlacKkKlansman movie costumes on display...

With neo-Nazi white supremacists marching through the streets of America in recent years there was never a better time for last year's Spike Lee Oscar-nominated BlacKkKlansman movie to shine a spotlight on racism in the U.S., past and present. This film is set in the 1970s and based on the 2014 memoir by police officer Ron Stallworth (played by John David Washington), the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs police department, who sets out to infiltrate and expose the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of fellow Jewish officer 'Flip Zimmerman' (Adam Driver) going undercover. Laura Harrier plays 'Patrice Dumas', the president of the black student union at Colorado College who Stallworth meets undercover at a civil rights rally.

Screen-worn film costumes from BlacKkKlansman
BlacKkKlansman movie costumes
John David Washington BlacKkKlansman Ron Stallworth costume
Ron Stallworth BlacKkKlansman film costume
John David Washington BlacKkKlansman Ron Stallworth costume

Laura Harrier BlacKkKlansman Patrice Dumas costume
BlacKkKlansman Patrice Dumas costume
Laura Harrier BlacKkKlansman Patrice costume
Adam Driver BlacKkKlansman Flip costume
BlacKkKlansman Flip costume
Adam Driver BlacKkKlansman Flip Zimmerman costume
Ron Stallworth BlacKkKlansman movie costume
These costumes from the biographical crime drama worn by John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier were photographed on display at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum on February 5, 2019, as part of there 27th annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition and they were designed by Marci Rodgers.

For more film fashion based on true stories you may also want to check out these Hidden Figures movie costumes, these Selma movie costumes and these Loving film costumes on display.

BlacKkKlansman movie poster
BlacKkKlansman movie poster