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."
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,
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,
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,
