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...
New Deadpool Info Points to a Different Kind of Superhero Film
Collider's Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub was one several reporters who got to visit the Vancouver set of Deadpool this past year, and as 20th Century Fox released the set-visit embargo today, lots of new information has flooded out.
Ever since it was announced that Deadpool would be rated R, fans of Marvel's irreverent comic book have been very excited that the adaptation they've long waited for is going to live up to the wild,...
Disney Releases 2 Alice Through the Looking Glass Teasers
This past weekend Disney released the first of two teasers for director James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass. What we know: Mia Wasikowska returns as Alice Kinsleigh, Johnny Depp’s back as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonhan Carter returns as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway will play the White Queen again. There’s also word that Sacha Baron Cohen plays a character called Time, and it’s Time that allows Alice to visit the Wonderland characters at different times in their lives...
Watch This Fantastic Live-Action Metroid Short Film
One of the great reveals in video game history was that Samus Aran, the exoskeleton-covered warrior star of Nintendo's Metroid, was a woman. This fact was made clear in the end credits to gamers who finished the journey quick enough, when they finally got a chance to see Aran without her armor. And it turns out that Aran, the alien-slaying, armor-clad badass was inspired by one of film's greatest female warriors—Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) from Ridley Scott's Alien. Like Ripley in Alien,...
Guns & God Converge in Abigail Disney’s Doc The Armor of Light
To make The Armor of Light, documentarian Abigail Disney followed two people with strong feelings about guns. The Rev. Rob Schenck is a longtime anti-abortion crusader and conservative cleric who has come to question the American right's enthusiasm for firearms. Lucy McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, an 18-year-old African American who in 2012 was killed by a Florida man who fired into a car because it was the source of loud music. (The case was the subject of another documentary,...
The First Official Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s Mind-blowing Anomalisa
We got a chance to see Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) and Duke Johnson's stop-motion masterpiece Anomalisa at the Middleburg Film Festival, and we were floored. The film centers on Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), a customer service expert whose giving a speech at a convention in Cincinnati. While there, he meets a shy, insecure woman named Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and an immediate connection is created...
Watch Katniss & Johanna Mason in new Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Clip
Lionsgate has dropped a new clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 onto BuzzFeed's Facebook page, and it gives us a moment between Katniss and Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) in which the Mockingbird tells the District 7 tough gal that she's got no choice but to kill President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
Lawrence has said in recent interviews, including one with ScreenSlam, that at this point in her life,...
New Warcraft Poster Released, Trailer Coming Friday
If you're not a gamer, you're perhaps unaware of Blizzard Entertainment's hugely, hugely popular game World of Warcraft. This massive online multiplayer game had nearly 6 million subscribers as of this past June, and is currently the world's most subscribed MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), holding the Guinness World Record for most popular game. It's also the highest grossing video game of all time, having grossed more than $10 billion, attracting more than 100 million accounts over the game's lifetime...
The Real Moby-Dick Goes Berserk in Final In the Heart of the Sea Trailer
Ron Howard's In The Heart of the Sea comes out on December 11, which couldn't be soon enough for us. Based on the real voyage of the whaleship The Essex in 1820, which inspired one of the greatest novels of all time, Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," In the Heart of the Sea promises to show not only the epic battle between the ship's crew and the seemingly malevolent, vengeful sperm whale, but what happened ...
Watch This New Girls Teaser and Get Excited About Season 5
The trials, tribulations and humiliations of Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her closest friends will continue in season five of Dunham's brilliant Girls. In 25 seconds, the new teaser packs a lot of funny into a small package—the package in this case being Hannah's body, as she dances 'as if no one's watching' in a class that includes at least one person she knows very well.
Girls returns for season five on February 21, and Dunham has said that the series will likely end after the sixth season...
The Artistry of 007: Bond’s 7 Best Posters
With the highly-anticipated Spectre opening this week, it feels only fair to pay homage to the films (and the Bonds) that came before it. In a franchise where looks are nearly everything, it’s fitting that Bond’s posters have become nearly as important to the look and feel of each outing as his perfectly tailored suit. With 23 films to choose from, the key art for the films runs the gamut from astonishing highs to dismal lows,...
How Composer Daniel Pemberton Created 3 Scores for Steve Jobs
We spoke to Steve Jobs composer Daniel Pemberton, whose previous work includes Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E, about the joys of working with a director, Danny Boyle, who’s prepared to take risks, and the challenge of complementing screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s fast-paced dialogue.
What were your original impressions of the script when you were approached about the scoring?
The first thing that happened was I had a meeting with Danny- which got moved around a lot because of the hoo-ha that was going on behind the scenes...
Trouble in Paradise: New Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea
Talk about a massive shift from one film to the next—Angelina Jolie's third feature as a director, the experimental By the Sea, follows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller Unbroken. From the WWII set Unbroken, which followed the incredible true story of Olympian, soldier and eventual POW Louis Zamperini, Jolie's tackled a dark, emotionally volatile story about the dissolution of a marriage between two people who happen to be exceedingly good looking and married in real life...
Create a Halloween Costume From one of These 5 Classic Films
While the costume shops are overflowing with superheroes from the Marvel and DC pantheon, as well as the latest Star Wars characters, Halloween is still a monster mash.
As you are getting dressed to hit the streets on a quest for Snickers, or, adding those last touches of make-up before heading out to a costume party, may we suggest some holiday classic favorites for a hauntingly good time and help you get in the witchy spirit.
The Shining 1980
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"...
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is the Most Heartfelt Horror Film Ever Made
The story of Macbeth is certainly no stranger to adaptation. In fact, the Scottish play belongs to an impressive tradition of auteurist variation, including Orson Welles’ notoriously troubled 1948 production, Roman Polanski’s 1971 film and Kurosawa’s well-loved in 1957.
Any Shakespearean adaptation carries with it piles of textual and philosophical baggage, requiring not only a new spin on a well-worn story but a justification for a new iteration. Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth certainly has both...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Director J.J. Abrams Finally Answers a Bunch of Questions
Okay sort of. Abrams was part of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in which big, bold names in business, entertainment, technology and politics gathered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to chat about, well, nearly everything. Tesla Motor's Elon Musk, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Girls creator Lena Dunham, former ESPN writer and Grantland found Bill Simmons, photographer Annie Lebovitz and more were on hand.
For our purposes,...
Stephen Colbert Accurately Predicts Entire Plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Okay, he doesn't, but that doesn't stop this Star Wars superfan (and close personal friend to director J.J. Abrams…despite "not knowing what J.J. stands for") from speculating on the entire plot of The Force Awakens after watching the final trailer.
The funny thing (well, one of the funny things) is how demonstrably not insane this is. Colbert is a legitimate Star Wars geek, and there's already been speculation about previously good characters becoming evil (although it's doubtful Luke is going over to the dark side,...
Watch Inside Out Characters React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
It's cross promotion at it's most obvious, and, frankly, finest—Disney-owned Pixar's Inside Out characters react to Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. Now that Inside Out is out on Digital HD, with it's DVD and Blu-ray coming next Tuesday, November 3, it makes sense they'd remind viewers about this highly original film by linking it to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which, of course,...
