A Look Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs Doc The Man in the Machine
While people are understandably excited about director Danny Boyle’s upcoming Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and based on a script by Aaron Sorkin, there’s another Jobs film you might want to set a reminder for on your iPhone (or Apple Watch): Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. A new trailer, and the pedigree of the director, should pique your interest.
Directed by Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Going Clear,
The Kids are All Right: Casting Director Ronna Kress on Paper Towns
Casting director Ronna Kress has worked on everything from The Great Gatsby, to Mad Max: Fury Road and Terminator Genisys. Kress talks to The Credits about casting British supermodel Cara Delevingne in her breakout role as Margot in Paper Towns, which is based on the book of the same name by bestselling teen author John Green, and the most unusual place she’s discovered new talent.
Happy 75th Birthday to Bugs Bunny, and Goodbye Elmer Fudd!
It was seventy-five years ago today that Warner Bros. released A Wild Hare, introducing the irrepressible Bugs Bunny (and the utterly repressible Elmer Fudd) to the world in his first official animated short.
As the New York Times reported earlier today, primitive versions of Bugs had appeared in earlier Warner cartoons, but A Wild Hare brought a fully realized, wise-cracking, street-smart Bugs to viewers for the first time.
Paper Towns Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber
When I originally met screenwriter Michael Weber, he was doing publicity for a small-budget 2013 film entitled The Spectacular Now that he co-scripted with his writing partner, Scott Neustadter. That film, which had been languishing in development for years, went on to receive critical acclaim and helped shoot its two stars— Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley— into superstardom.
Weber and Neustadter earned raves for that successful adaption of Tim Tharp’s novel.
Behold the Full Length Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer
The first full-length trailer for director Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 has been released after making its debut to much acclaim at San Diego Comic-Con, and whoa, are we ready for the march on the Capitol. For the six people unfamiliar with The Hunger Games, we will do a quick catch-me-up. The Hunger Games is part of trilogy of books by author Susanne Collins,
Woody Allen’s Philosopher Fetish in Five Films
Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man, is likely to elicit groans or worse from Allen’s detractors. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Abe Lucas, a floundering philosophy professor for whom things get better after he enters into a relationship with a student, Jill Pollard (Emma Stone). He also considers murdering a judge — who, at least, is corrupt — which also lifts his spirits. Murder and May-December relationships aside, the film’s biggest non-surprise is that Allen finally put a philosopher,
Need a Midweek Smile? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer & This Song Will Help
Need a midweek boost? Check out Pixar’s smile inducing trailer for The Good Dinosaur. The stunning visuals of glittering stars (the kind in the sky) and tumbling rocks make us forget that this movie is in fact animated – it's got that Pixar quality of being almost photo-realistic and yet entirely dreamlike – it is the kind of world we wished we lived in, no boring desks and long lines for a Mochachino.
10 New Photos From Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reveal Epic Stunts
As we've discussed before, Tom Cruise became an action star largely due to his incredible stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series. Recently, CineFix even put together this "Art of the Scene" detailing how Cruise's vault heist scene in the very first Mission: Impossible (his Ethan Hunt needs to still a CIA cover list from their HQ) made him an action star and changed his career in the process:
Cruise has been a major creative force in the
New Spectre Trailer, Images Reveals Bond’s Latest Mission
“Zero to sixty in 3.2 seconds, with a few little tricks up her sleeve,” says Q (Ben Whishaw), showing James his new car, a silver Aston Martin DB10. One of those tricks up “her” sleeve is a pair of flamethrowers in the rear exhaust pipes. We then cut to a thrilling race at night between James and his DB10 and the henchmen Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista, Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy, whose size recalls Harold Sakata's Oddjob) in his Jaguar C-X75 and we're off.
“People are Losing Their Minds” in the New Fargo Season 2 Trailer
Welcome to Luverne, Minnesota, in 1979, where the folksy accent and winter hats with ear flaps makes everyone seem nice; but don’t trust their bright, friendly patter or their puffy winter gear, because Luverne is the setting for season two of Fargo. The first full length trailer is here and there is a whole lot going on, including an insanely promising cast, a murder in a diner, and a surprisingly excellent Richard Nixon impression. (For an in-depth looking on how the show is scored,
New Images & Details Emerge on Bond Women in Spectre
It's been a busy week in the news for Columbia Pictures' Spectre. First it was director Sam Mendes saying that this will definitely be his last Bond film (which is what he said after Skyfall, it should be noted). Tomorrow Columbia will be releasing a new trailer, and today, the film's four "Bond girls" (although this might not be a wholly accurate description of their characters, more on that in a second) were included in a new photo package published by USA Today.
Rectify Creator Ray McKinnon on Teaching Aussies the Georgia Accent
On the Sundance TV drama Rectify, which airs it's third episode of it's third season this Thursday evening (at 10/9 C), Daniel Holden moves back to his tiny Georgia hometown after spending 19 years on Death Row for the murder of a local 16-year old girl. Contending with tense family members and suspicious locals, Daniel articulates a jumble of confused feelings in a lugubrious, utterly convincing southern drawl. His Georgia dialect sounds authentic but in fact,
Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg Kill it in New American Ultra Trailer
Jesse Eisenberg as a stoner? Sure, that’s easy enough to imagine. Jesse Eisenberg as a Jason Bourne-like secret government sleeper agent who was turned into the one of the most lethal humans alive, was relieved of the memory of his training, and then called back into action by a clandestine agent played by Connie Britton? We’re in. It's a major bonus that his love interest in American Ultra is played by Kristen Stewart,
Dissecting the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Comic-Con Trailer
Warner Bros. has only released a single photo from the set of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, of a gloomy looking Supe’(Henry Cavill) standing alone in the rain. In previous teasers, we've seen this rainy moment, and it's an epic one—Superman takes flight, hovering above a seriously pissed Batman (Ben Affleck), who promises to make him bleed.
The trailer released at Comic-Con, however, is 3-plus minutes of juicy action,
Do You Recognize Last Seconds of New Hunger Games Teaser?
Lionsgate will release a new Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 trailer this week, ahead of that, they gave us this little taste in this 14-second long tease:
The clip is most notable for the last few seconds. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is pulling back her bow in a crucial moment that book readers may recognize. Do you? At Comic-Con, director Francis Lawrence said that anyone who loves the book’s ending will love the end of his film as well.
Jane Anderson on her Moving HBO Doc Packed in a Trunk
Writer-director Jane Anderson’s career has spanned film, theater and television. She never planned to make a documentary, let alone figure so prominently in one. But for nearly half her life, Anderson, most recently Emmy-nominated for her adaptation of Olive Kitteridge for HBO, has yearned to bring the artwork and the story of her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, to the public.
That has happened with Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,
Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy in Epic The Revenant Trailer
Fresh off Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematographer, Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki are back with The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy as two seriously bearded and bedraggled 19th century frontiersmen.
DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a man on a revenge mission after being left for dead following a bear attack (glimpsed in the trailer),
Jen Chaney Discusses Her Book “As If: The Oral History of Clueless
"Okay, so you’re probably going, 'Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?' But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl." So said Cher (Alicia Silverstone), nearly 20-years ago to the day in writer/director Amy Heckerling's Clueless, which marks it's 20th anniversary this Sunday. Heckerling's film took it's inspiration from Jane Austen's "Emma" and transported it 180-years into the future and some 5,500 miles west to Los Angeles in the mid-90s.
“Welcome to NEVERLAND!” with the New Pan Trailer
The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s Pan tells a familiar and often told “story about a boy who would never grow up,” but does so with a whole new twist. This is not the story of the Peter Pan that we have all grown up with and cherished. Pan operates on the premise that to understand how the beloved story ends, we must explore its beginning – how “friends begin as enemies and enemies begin as friends.”
Is This the Best Fan-Made Star Wars Video of All Time?
The answer is yes, yes it is. Bill Parker, who is not new to posting videos with impressive effects released this video, entitled “A Jedi takes his new GoPro out for a spin.” The video impressed GoPro enough for them to ask Parker to submit it to their “video of the day” contest.
It would be one thing if the video were merely a Jedi, his or her go-pro, and a couple of Stormtroopers,
