Watch Carrie Fisher Slap Oscar Isaac Silly in Fantastic Star Wars: The Last Jedi Gag Reel
We’ve shared a lot of juicy behind-the-scenes videos from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Like this video about some very good dogs helping them create the crystal foxes), or this one, which includes 11-minutes of footage from the documentary The Director and the Jedi. These morsels of Star Wars goodness began hitting the internet in the lead up to the release of The Last Jedi‘s digital HD became available,...
Captain Marvel Brings Three Marvel Characters Back from the Dead
With Disney confirming that Captain Marvel is officially in production, more details are now emerging, and those include the cast list. It looks like three Marvel characters we had said goodbye to are returning, one of whom brings a smile to our face (all three are superb actors, and their involvement is great for the film.)
The first name is a lovable (if a little gruff) character we lost in Josh Whedon’s The Avengers...
Mark Hamill Reveals George Lucas’s Abandoned Ending for Star Wars: Episode IX
When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he was also letting go of control over his vision of how his epic Skywalker saga, beginning with 1977’s Star Wars, would end. Lucas had given Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm’s president, a treatment for the new trilogy once Disney acquired the rights, but ultimately it was J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan’s vision for The Force Awakens which kicked things off and set the new trilogy in motion. The Force Awakens led to Rian Johnson’s unique,...
The Russo Brothers Hilariously Acknowledge Hawkeye’s Avengers: Infinity War Absence
Hey, remember last Monday when we shared this awesome Hawkeye-centric Avengers: Infinity War poster created by artist Boss Logic? Well, the Russo Brothers, the gentlemen directing the film, have heard all about the concerns from Team Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner, obviously) about his absence from promotional materials, have seen Boss Logic’s epic poster, and have responded. That’s right, the dynamic duo who filmed Infinity War and Avengers 4 back-to-back changed their Facebook cover image to include Boss Logic’s ode to Clint Barton,...
This Disney/Pixar Bracket is Destroying Friendships in the Best Possible Way
Sometimes, every once in a while, a thing on the internet that everyone is doing or obsessed with is actually quite lovely and harmless. This is one of those times. Everyone has a favorite Disney movie and everyone is prepared to argue why their favorite is the best. If you’re a Lion King person and someone, even a loved one, comes at you spouting off about how The Little Mermaid reigns supreme, there are gonna be words. ...
New Avengers: Infinity War Posters Assemble Humanity’s Last Hope in Intriguing Pairings
They’re all here. In intriguing groupings that likely speak to alliances within the larger group in Avengers: Infinity War, five new posters gather your heroes, with all their varied skills, histories and heartaches. Let’s have a look, and tease out the potential narrative behind the graphic design.
Consider this your Avengers: New York poster, as all of these superheroes are based there. As the Avenger who kicked off the MCU in 2008 with the original Iron Man,...
Ayşe Toprak on her Groundbreaking Documentary Mr. Gay Syria
The devastating Syrian civil war has made an impact on international film audiences largely thanks to two powerful documentaries: the Oscar-winning The White Helmets (2016) and the Oscar nominee Last Men in Aleppo (2017). Although director Ayşe Toprak’s new documentary Mr. Gay Syria tells its story against the backdrop of the civil war that’s killed 300,000 people since it began in 2011 and caused five million to flee and become refugees, it also tells another,...
Beirut Screenwriter Tony Gilroy on Writing, Waiting, and Rocky Receptions
Tony Gilroy might have made his screenwriting debut with the 1992 cult ice-rink romance The Cutting Edge, but for much of his long, illustrious run in the business, he has focused on thrills and action. As both as a writer (the first four chapters of the Bourne franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Great Wall) as well as directing (Michael Clayton, nominated for seven Oscars including director and picture;...
Black Panther Tops The Avengers as Highest-Grossing Superhero Movie of All Time
How many different ways can you write “All hail the King“? Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is now the highest grossing superhero film in the U.S. of all time. It has raked in $631 million to date at the domestic box office, nabbing another $17 million this past weekend, pushing it past Joss Whedon’s The Avengers $623 million total in 2012.
Coogler’s juggernaut benefited from a young filmmaker at the top of his game,...
A Fun Theory About the Solo: A Star Wars Story Villain
At the 51-second mark of the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer you may be getting a glimpse of the film’s villain. What you can be sure of is he’s not Han’s new buddy (you don’t prepare to unholster your Blaster when you meet an old friend), and he’s one bad looking dude, sporting a cool looking mask (how come the good guys in Star Wars never get cool masks?) and some serious backup...
Breaking Thor’s Hammer in Thor: Ragnarok Was no Easy Feat
We’ve paid proper due Mjolnir, Thor’s mighty hammer, in this piece that functioned as a video obituary for one of the most iconic weapons in all of the MCU. Made from a chunk of Uru that Thor’s father Odin had lying around (he had defeated a cosmic storm called the God Tempest and trapped said God inside the rocky chunk), Odin ordered the Dwarves of Nidavellir to forge Mojlni from the God-containing chunk. This particularly wild backstory aside, ...
Director James Wan Counsels Patience for First Aquaman Trailer
Movie fans, especially fans of superhero and franchise films from Marvel, DC and a certain galaxy far, far away can be a an impatient bunch. For example, there was a lot of angst regarding what was taking Lucasfilm and Disney so long to release the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer (and then one dropped during the Super Bowl, and the peopled were most content, and they rested). There is a similar amount of agita regarding footage for James Wan’s Aquaman, ...
Love, Simon Shares Musical Inspiration with Coming of Age Films of the ’80s
Entertainment in the 1980s took kids seriously. Young people faced serious problems in a mature, yet whimsical that honored the anxious, dramatic phase they were in. Look no further than the Brat Pack, who have been summoned into current discussions about teens across the country protesting gun violence, only to find themselves getting detentions for their walkouts. Once forced together again by school authorities who didn’t think it through, these kids were able to protest yet again...
The Big Sick Director Michael Showalter Directing New Christmas Movie Starring Octavia Spencer & Jessica Chastain
This year’s winter holiday season just got more exciting, with the re-pairing of one of our favorite onscreen duos from recent(ish) years. Variety reports that Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) has been confirmed as director for a new Christmas comedy coming out this winter, starring Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain. They’ll be playing “two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas,” which makes us extremely excited for a Planes,...
Production Designer Paul Harrod on Building Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson’s latest caper, Isle of Dogs, premieres today after a warm reception last month as the opening night film at the Berlinale. The film sees Anderson making a return to stop motion animation, following The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and working in both Japanese (the human characters) and English (the canines, who are presumed to be speaking translated dog). A complex set involves a past-futuristic fictional Japanese city, called Megasaki, and a forlorn yet scenic Trash Island,...
Accept, Enjoy, Enthuse: Jeff Goldblum on his Mantra, Isle of Dogs & More
Jeff Goldblum is a bon vivant at heart. He always seems to be having a good time no matter what he is doing. No wonder he told Vanity Fair that his mantra is “Accept, enjoy, enthuse.” Even when he is only heard and not seen, as is the case in Wes Anderson’s stop-motion, Japanese-infused adventure Isle of Dogs, the 65-year-old actor brings joy to his role as Duke, a gossip-mongering member of a pack of misfit alpha canines banished to a trash-piled island by a corrupt mayor...
Pacific Rim: Uprising‘s VFX Supervisor on Creating 300-Foot Monsters in Photo-Realistic backdrops
When he was a British schoolboy, Peter Chiang used to stand in the local bookstore staring at the covers of science fiction paperbacks and dreaming about fantastical scenarios. “I just loved the imagery,” says Chiang. “I started illustrating space ships and monsters and creatures, growing up on Thunderbirds sci-fi cartoon series here in the UK, and watching Blade Runner, which had a huge impact on my life. I remember thinking ‘I want to do that.'”...
Ready Player One Prepares for Opening with New Poster Highlighting Wade’s Epic Adventure
Are you ready? With less than a week left until Ready Player One is released in theaters, Warner Bros. has released a new poster ahead of the premiere, as fans continue parsing the latest trailers and theme song. The crowds at SXSW were thrilled with the screening they saw.
Ready Player One is adapted from the novel by Ernest Cline, who helped write the screenplay with Zak Penn...
Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth Reuniting to Protect Earth in New Men in Black
If you loved Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok for being a total badass and always putting Thor in his place, then we have good news for you. The dynamic duo of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth have another project on the way, and it isn’t just any old reunion either. THR is reporting that Thompson and Hemsworth have landed the lead roles in the upcoming Men in Black spinoff.
The sequel will be a follow-up to the days of Agents K (Tommy Lee Jones) and J (Will Smith) and will feature new characters...
Margot Robbie Invites You Down the Rabbit Hole in Terminal Teaser
What is this place and where is everyone going? Margot Robbie is an industrial Alice, Queen of Hearts, and Mad Hatter all in one in the first Terminal teaser.
There isn’t much to go off of yet, but IMDb shared the teaser in which Robbie has started to give us some very intriguing clues. A series of people wander through abandoned warehouses and long hallways, all seemingly headed to the same place. Presumably a portal to a place unlike any on Earth...
