New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Photos
With just two weeks to go before the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on November 20, Lionsgate has been releasing all sorts of great TV spots, trailers, a virtual reality experience, and now, brand new photos. Check them out below:
Check out The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2‘s Virtual Reality Experience
Maybe you heard last week that The New York Times is stepping into the virtual reality game via their new NYT VR, which promises to “simulate richly immersive scenes from across the globe.” Times subscribers can download the app, or, they can use the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewer.” The point, virtual reality is becoming a reality across our media landscape, and when the paper of record is betting big on the technology,
Around the Web: Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Force Awakens Chronology & More
The gang at iO9 is very bullish on Starz’s Ash vs. The Evil Dead, and we can see why. The official synopsis for the show is as follows: "Ash (Bruce Campbell), the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind,
Watch the Thrilling New Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV Spot
"I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people" begins the brand new TV spot for The Force Awakens. And this isn't just a re-cut of the images we've seen before—here we get to see Daisy Ridley in proper ass-kicking mode, as this TV spot puts our heroine Rey at the very center of the action, and suggests this voice over (which we've read on The Verge
The Strange, Wild History of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld
With the opening of newest James Bond adventure Spectre, we’re taking a look at that title and seeing both a return of James Bond’s long lost nemesis and a jumping off point for the current Bond franchise to reboot the “what-once-was-old-is-new-again” relationship between Bond and his most nefarious enemy. Much as Skyfall filled in Bond’s early backstory, which was absent from the previous films and author Ian Fleming’s books,
Dark Forces Are Upon Us in the New Warcraft Trailer
The drumbeat for Warcraft continues with this new trailer dropped by Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures. By now you know that Warcraft is derived from Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenon World of Warcraft. It'll hit theaters on June 10, 2016.
Here's the synopsis:
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another.
Disney Fulfills Terminally-ill Star Wars Fan’s Wish to see The Force Awakens
Star Wars fan Daniel Fleetwood's wife began a campaign on his behalf to see The Force Awakens early, and the plea quickly went viral. Fleetwood has a rare form of cancer called spindle-cell sarcoma, and he was worried he wouldn't live to see the December 18 release. His wife Ashley sprung into action with this Tweet:
#forcefordaniel help my man get his last wish,
Incredible New Footage in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Japanese Trailer
The very first shot in the Japanese version of the Stars Wars: Force Awakens trailer is one we've never seen, and it's a breathtaking measure of scale. There's Rey, standing in the desert of Jakku looking into one of the engines of a downed Starship, and she is a tiny, tiny thing. This version of the trailer offers more shots of BB-8 and a doozy of a new shot at the 37-second mark—a squadron of TIE fighters fly towards us set against a huge setting sun,
The 33 & the Surprisingly Rich Tradition of Mining Movies
Warner Bros’ upcoming release of The 33, which recounts the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners and the plight of their families and friends above ground, is part of a long history of movies’ fascination with miners and their way of life. It makes sense: mining is a tradition full of inherent drama and danger; there’s conflict between business and labor interests; as well as generational conflicts. By no means a definitive list,
The Top Ten Best Bond Villains & Their Bizarre Quirks
Over the past 50 years, James Bond has racked up a significant amount of enemies. From the relentlessly evil Ernst Blofeld to the easily eliminated Dr No, the international man of mystery is no stranger to high-flying combat and even higher-stakes conflicts.
To keep things interesting, the series has established a well-loved tradition of villainous idiosyncrasies, imbuing each new Bond threat with just the right amount of unique or defining features to make them a bit more terrifying,
A New Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
One of the films we're really looking forward to this December is Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. After a tortured production process (in that his first script was leaked), Tarantino's film is ready to see the light of day, and this new trailer gives all you Tarantino fans plenty of reasons to be excited. With his muse, Samuel L. Jackson, and a cast that includes Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh (who is so excellent in her voice work in
Here’s the First Trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass
The first trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass is here, and it sets the stage nicely for what Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is up against—Time itself. That's Time with a capitol 'T,' played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who is central to the sequel's storyline and is part human, part clock. Time happens to be the Mad Hatter's father (the Hatter played by Johnny Depp, of course), and Alice will need to reason with him,
The Peanuts Movie’s Animation Supervisor on Getting the Gang’s into 3 Dimensions
This week marks the return of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s beloved "Peanuts" crew, with Charlie Brown and the gang making their big screen debut in 3D in The Peanuts Movie. Peanuts purists, of course, might be tempted to thumb their noses at a contemporified, animated version of the classic newspaper strip cartoon, a thought that was well anticipated by director Steve Martino and his animation team at Blue Sky Studios.
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Posters Revealed
Well, you had to know that the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer wasn't going to be the very last thing released before the December 18 premiere, right? These five new character posters, three of which were shared on Instagram by the film's stars, all share a common theme—the right eye of the character is covered (or in the case of Carrie Fisher's Leia, simply obscured). What's that about? Just aesthetic cohesion and nothing more?
1st Look of Eddie Redmayne in Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
His name is Newt Scamander, and he's a wizard. He's also being played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redymane in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to her epic Harry Potter series. Redmayne's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's upcoming issue, which gets a first look at his 1920s era wizard and some very intriguing plot details. This is Rowling's first time as a screenwriter,
Ryan Reynolds Shares Slightly Insane Deadpool Halloween Video
One of the things Ryan Reynolds got keep after he finished filming Deadpool was his title character's signature black and red costume. He put it to good use this past Saturday night, when he went out on Halloween dressed as 'The Merc with the Mouth' and, summoning a collection of X-Men, suggested they all join forces and become a team. "How many of you have taken a human life?" he asks,
Check out the First Trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
Spike Lee's upcoming film Chi-Raq, whose title was born from the report that homicides in Chicago surpassed the death toll of American Special Forces operations in Iraq, looks at the troubling violence through the lens of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata." Written in 411 BC, "Lysistrata" tracked one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Her ingenious plan was to persuade the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their lovers and husbands until they ended the war.
A Bond Unbroken: Spectre Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell Carries Family Legacy
Working on a Bond film isn’t anything new to Gary Powell, the stunt coordinator of Spectre. His family has been working on the series since the Sean Connery days.
“It was follow around in the family tradition or get kicked out,” Powell told The Credits about his choice to get into the movie stunt business, delivering the deadpan line with a British accent. Both his father and uncle were stuntmen on the early Bond movies with Sean Connery.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Clips Keep Coming
Yesterday we shared this new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 clip with you, and nowLionsgate has released another new clip, this one showing a conversation between Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).
Titled "Real," the clip gets into Peeta's treatment by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) while he was a captive in the Capitol. Specifically, the way Snow and his henchmen poisoned Peta's memories with venom.
The clip captures—as if she needed any more—yet another reason why Katniss will take the fight right to Snow in the final
Very First Footage From Warcraft Revealed in Teaser
Yesterday we shared with you Legendary Pictures and Universal's Warcraft poster, with a promise to post the trailer for you when it drops on Friday. Now, they've released this 15-second teaser that shows the first footage from the film. Warcraft is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), and it's the adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, which holds the Guinness record for most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
