Watch new Footage From Behind-the-Scenes of The Last Jedi in This Epic 11-Minute Clip
There has likely never been a Star Wars director as open about his process than The Last Jedi‘s writer/director Rian Johnson. This is to take nothing away from his fellow Star Wars creators, including The Force Awakens‘ J.J. Abrams or George Lucas himself, who have been open about their process (and in the case of Abrams, his abject fear) when plunging into the Star Wars galaxy.
New Details Revealed about The Joker Origin Film
As we’ve been writing about, your favorite demented clown is getting his own origin film—and no, we’re talking about IT; the iconic DC Comics villain, The Joker, will be getting a proper film all to his own. The plot has been kept tightly under wraps, but new details have finally surfaced about where director Todd Phillips (War Dogs) will take us as we delve into the origins of the Clown Prince.
Oprah, Reese and Mindy Talk A Wrinkle in Time
Women take the reins for A Wrinkle in Time (opening today) both on screen and behind the camera. Frozen auteur Jennifer Lee adapted novelist Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 time travel fantasy for director Ava DuVernay. She in turn enlisted Oprah Winfrey to anchor a powerhouse cast featuring Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and 14-year old newcomer Storm Reid as the time-traveling heroine charged with saving the universe after her scientist father (Chris Pine) disappears into a fifth dimension wormhole.
Pooh Comes to the Rescue of a Grown Up Christopher Robin in First Teaser
The joy of childhood is being able to find a friend anywhere. On the playground, in a class, or even in a treasured teddy bear. Generations of children have loved Winnie the Pooh, but now his dearest friend, Christopher Robin, needs him most of all.
In continuing the live action collection of classic films, Disney is visiting the Hundred Acre Woods with Ewan McGregor in the title role.
What Has Captain America Been Doing Since Civil War? The Secret Avengers
“The Secret Avengers” has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Before we dive in, let’s take a step back and set up why Captain America would have to create a secret (and smaller) version of the super elite, super-powered fighting force he’s been leading since 2012.
The last time we saw Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), he had just gotten done an epic, brutal fight with Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War.
Listen to The Lonely Island’s Scrapped Oscars Song About the Films That Never Win
The Lonely Island had a song about all the movies that people love, yet that never win an Oscar, all prepared for this past Sunday’s Academy Awards, and all we can imagine now having heard it is, “what if?” The producers of the show ultimately cut the song due to it being “financially and logistically impossible.” This is assessment was accurate, considering The Lonely Island themselves (which consists of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) envisioned their song “Why Not Me”
Enrollment is Open for the Get Out Inspired Course Now
If the thought of homework, exams, and sitting through long and boring lectures is enough to make you want to pull the covers over your head and call in sick, here’s the class that will change your mind. A new online course requires students to watch Get Out, Blacula, Night of the Living Dead and more. Sound fun? Enrollment is open now and class is in session.
Chris Hemsworth Calls Avengers: Infinity War one of the Biggest Films in History
We all know Avengers: Infinity War is massive. We’ve shared these 15 photos, with a few in particular that boast so many characters in a single frame it looks like a war film. Well heck, it is a war film, one between the assembled Avengers and nearly every other Marvel character, and Thanos (Josh Brolin) and his assorted intergalactic goons.
We got a taste for Infinity War‘s size from its first official trailer,
Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Casey Affleck & More in Thrilling Triple 9 Trailer
Director John Hillcoat's upcoming cops and robbers thriller Triple 9 boasts an out-of-this-world cast and a very dark premise. A crew of dirty cops, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Anthony Mackie (Captain America) and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) are blackmailed by the Russian mob, lead by Irene (Kate Winslet) to execute an impossible heist,
Around the Web: News on Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse & More
Collider spoke to Simon Kinberg, writer/producoer on X-Men: Apocalypse and producer on Deadpool, about Fox's two highly anticipated superhero films in 2016. We suggest you read the full interview, as it's rich in detail about both films. One thing we'd like to highlight here is, for X-Men, how the breakout from Days of Future Past,
New Zoolander 2 Posters Includes These “Phones for Giants”
Zoolander 2 brings fashion icons Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) well into the moment, fifteen years after they made their first appearance in Zoolander, before social media was even a thing. They've got an Instagram account now, where they can showoff their latest poses, selfies, and celebrity run-ins. "What are these, phones for giants?" Zoolander quips in the caption for the main poster, riffing on the size of these iPhone 6's and calling back the sight gag from the original
X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Collider reports that the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse will be attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Apocalypse joins Captain America: Civil War as two of the big 2016 films wisely attaching their trailers to what could be the largest opening in film history. What is already guaranteed about The Force Awakens is it'll open
Stephen Colbert Debuts Candy Crush the Movie, Starring Liam Neeson
The game "Candy Crush" has been in the news quite a bit lately. The company that makes it, King, was recently sold for $5.9 billion to Activision Blizzard. During last night's Republican Presidential debate, Florida senator Marco Rubio used the game to explain how much faster technology is adapted into our society now: "It took the telephone 75 years to reach 100 million users. It took Candy Crush one year to reach 100 million users."
Talking to Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach About Trumbo
Blacklisted in 1950s Hollywood for having been a member of the Communist Party, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo continued to do what he did best: write scripts. He just couldn't do that under his own name, even when he penned two Oscar-winning movies, Roman Holiday and The Brave One. This period in the writer's life is the subject of Trumbo, directed by Jay Roach and with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston in the title role.
Around the Web: Star Wars Fan Passes, Tarantino Doc, BB-8 Rumors, Etc.
In today’s look at what we’re reading around the web, we begin with some very sad news; Star Wars superfan Daniel Fleetwood, who we wrote about last Friday, has passed away. Fleetwood was suffering from a rare form of cancer called spindle cell sarcoma, and his wife Ashley Tweeted out a plea for Daniel to get an early screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens as his prognosis made making it to the December 18 premiere date possibly unlikely.
The Final Trailer for Marvel’s Jessica Jones is Wall-to-Wall Action
For those of you who were still on the fence on whether or not Marvel’s Jessica Jones, which premieres on Netflix on November 20, was worth a binge watch, we believe you now have your answer. This new, and final, trailer proves that Netflix’s second dance with Marvel (Daredevil, the critical and commercial darling, was their first) might once again result in a supremely satisfying series.
New Star Wars: Battlefront Trailer Takes Video Game Advertisement to New Level
If all we were talking about was the production value alone it would be pretty astounding. Here’s a trailer for a video game that features at least a dozen different locations, dozens of actors and legitimate special effects. Yes, that game happens to be EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront, but the era of big budget video game trailers is still a fairly new one. Yet that’s not even the wildest part, as this trailer also features a bonafide movie star,
Check out Pixar’s New Finding Dory Trailer & Poster
When Finding Nemo came out in 2003, it just about became nearly everyone’s new favorite animated film of all time. Nemo won the 2003 Academy Award® for best animated feature, and was nominated for three additional Oscars—original screenplay, original score, and sound editing. People loved the film, loved little Nemo, and most of all, it turned out, loooved a little forgetful blue tang fish named Dory,
Sicario Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan on Writing Great Dialogue
In Sicario Emily Blunt stars alongside Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro as an FBI agent who is struggling to maintain her principles when she is recruited into the war on drugs at the border between Mexico and the US. The Credits talks to screenwriter Taylor Sheridan about what attracted him to this world and how being a “not terribly good actor” helped inform his scriptwriting.
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The Best Quotes From Wired‘s Interview With J.J. Abrams
Wired sent it’s reporter Scott Dadich to the offices of J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot production facility to interview the secretive writer/director about taking on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You should definitely check out the full interview here. We also cherry picked our favorite quotes from the interview, provided below.
On working with co-writer and Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan
“The collaboration,
