Greta Gerwig On Moving Behind the Camera for her Solo Directorial Debut Lady Bird
Fans of Greta Gerwig know her as the go-to muse of indie filmdom’s mumblecore movement and for her collaborations with such notable directors as Joe Swanberg (LOL, Nights and Weekends) and Noah Baumbach (Greenberg,...
How The Ritual‘s Cinematographer Immerses You in Fear
In The Ritual, a group of friends lose one of their own in a robbery gone bad, but that’s just the beginning of the horrors in store. The atmospheric thriller pulls you deeper into the woods where they encounter sinister things they can’t explain that begin to tear their bond apart. Once they begin to turn on one another, none of them are safe. Cinematographer Andrew Shulkind’s filming style immerses you in the terror in a unique way...
Gal Gadot Explains How Her Portrayal of Wonder Woman Has Evolved
When you’re part of a franchise with multiple characters who all have separate storylines played out over many different movies, things sometimes have to evolve to come together. Gal Gadot revealed the artistic choices her and the Wonder Woman team had to make for us to see the character the way she was meant to be.
The contemporary Wonder Woman made her first appearance in Batman v Superman, a film that Ben Affleck agreed took the characters to a dark and unfamiliar place...
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Easter Eggs You’ve Never Seen
In a franchise that is rich with Easter Eggs, tie ins, crossovers, and post credits clues, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 director James Gunn is king. You have to be an eagle eyed super fan to catch everything he’s hidden, but even the sharpest of viewers would have missed these.
Gunn posted photos on Facebook of the Missouri town they built in Atlanta that Star Lord hails from. The charming store fronts,...
Hear from the Cast of the Wild World of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
“The game will always find a way to be played,” star Dwayne Johnson reminds us in a new Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle featurette. The cast is interviewed about the clever new spin on the interactive adventure game in which the players are literally sucked into the game and assume the identities of their avatars. The family film premieres this holiday season and Johnson promises that even though it’s a tropical setting, Jumanji captures the “spirit of wonderment” you crave that time of year...
Writer/Director Margaret Betts on her new Film Novitiate
What happens when a Manhattan socialite turned filmmaker (The Carrier, a 2011 doc about the AIDS pandemic in Africa) makes an impulse pre-flight purchase of a biography about Mother Teresa that contains revealing letters about her passionate relationship with God?
If you are Margaret Betts, 42, you are inspired to dramatically explore the all-consuming intimate nature of a nun’s commitment to her faith...
The Secrets Behind how Filmmakers Made the Most Memorable Aliens of All-Time
The existence of aliens has been confirmed time and time again (in the world of movies). These beings span a wide variety of origins and appearances, genres and styles, as well as unique creative processes and innovative applications for visual and special effects (SFX) in film production. Extraterrestrials have been a rich source of inspiration for filmmakers since nearly the advent of the medium, and have become the stars of some of the most iconic films in history. In 1977,...
Director Rob Reiner Talks Upcoming Biopic LBJ
Rob Reiner’s long list of directing credits includes An American President (1995), about the romance between a fictional widowed U.S. President (Micheal Douglas) and a lobbyist (Annette Bening) that was, in many ways, a precursor to the landmark TV series The West Wing (Aaron Sorkin wrote both). But Reiner tackles a factual political story and a far more complex presidency in his latest film,...
Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows May Get American Spin-Off
Taika Waititi is very soon to be known as “The Thor: Ragnarok guy,” but before that, he made the perfect-in-every-way-cult classic What We Do in the Shadows. Springing off of Waititi’s meteoric success, the vampire mockumentary may be developed into a TV series in the U.S.
Waititi told Fandango, “We’re trying to develop a U.S. version of What We Do in the Shadows. You know, set here in the states,...
Thor: Ragnarok Director Imagines a Funny Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow for a Spinoff
If you still don’t know the name Taika Waititi, enjoy your last weekend of being oblivious to his magic. Waititi directed Thor: Ragnarok, which is going to be a massive hit and has already garnered a ton of praise (the film opens next Friday, November 3). Waititi has collaborated with comedians like Jemaine Clement in the past, with films like What We Do in the Shadows, a delicious vampire comedy, and he used his comedic gifts to sculpt ...
Black Klansman Adds Adam Driver to the Cast
Adam Driver nearly has his pick of projects these days. After his star turn as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars reboot, Driver was plucked by Martin Scorsese for the famous director’s passion project Silence. Deadline now reports that Driver has joined what is sure to be one of the most enthralling projects of next year, Black Klansman.
The movie, based on Ron Stallworth’s book of the same name, will tell the incredible true story of Stallworth’s efforts to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s...
Tom Hardy’s Venom Performance Will Utilize Motion Capture Technology
Andy Serkis has become the most famous face of actors who utilize motion capture. A pioneer of the art form, Serkis has created some of the most memorable characters in film, from Gollum in the Lord of the Ring series to his incredible performance as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes trilogy. The incredibly talented actor has shone a light on the tremendous results that can come from matching inspired casting with the technology. In proving his point to Yahoo!...
Composer Carter Burwell Orchestrates Emotions for Music-Filled Wonderstruck
Carter Burwell scored 15 movies for the Coen Brothers, composed music for three Spike Jonze films and picked up an Oscar nomination for the lush score he wrote for Todd Hayne’s fifties-era melodrama Carol. But in terms of sheer magnitude, Wonderstruck marks Burwell’s biggest film scoring achievement to date. Describing his latest collaboration with Haynes on the kid-friendly adventure, Burwell says, “It’s 80 minutes of music, much more than I’ve written for a film before.”...
The Great Ben Mendelsohn in Talks to Play Captain Marvel Villain
If we had our way, this casting rumor would already be a done deal. According to Variety, Rogue One villain, Bloodline star and perpetual scene-stealer Ben Mendelsohn is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Captain Marvel. Yes please!
Mendelsohn killed it as the evil Orson Krennic in the standalone Star Wars story, and was arguably the best part of Netflix’s Bloodline as the troubled,...
Jigsaw Composer Dissects Why Music Scares Us
Former Nine Inch Nails band member Charlie Clouser knows how to give you a good scare. He’s composed the music for Wayward Pines, that creepy American Horror Story theme, The Stepfather, and The Neighbor, but it all began with Saw. His music is the subverbal terror you can’t name lurking in every one of Jigsaw’s torture rooms. Ever since the first Saw was released in 2004,...
The Never Ending Haunted House of Winchester is Terrifying
The first trailer for Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built has been released, and it’s a chilling haunted house of horrors. The trailer alone will make you jump, so don’t watch this one with the lights out.
Helen Mirren stars as Sarah Winchester, a woman who continuously added on to her home to ward off the spirits of those who were killed by guns that her family manufactured. With hundreds of rooms, some of the doors and stairways lead to nowhere making it dangerous for anyone unfamiliar with the terrain...
X-23 to Pick Up the Wolverine Mantle Post Logan
Logan was an emotionally resonant film that, while cloaked in the fantasy world of superheroes, was a somber sendoff to one of the most beloved Marvel characters ever. It was also an introduction to the next generation of mutants and brought us rising star, Dafne Keen. Keen played Laura Kinney, Wolverine’s similarly talented daughter, also known as X-23.
Keen was so talented and the baton was passed in such a way that we couldn’t imagine filmmakers would pass on an opportunity to give Laura a starring role...
Happy Death Day Cinematographer on Resurrecting the Teen Slasher Genre
There’s nothing quite as horrifying as waking up in a strange dorm room after a night out in college. Except maybe being murdered in your sorority house and reliving your death over again until you identify your masked killer. Such is life for Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) in the most playful slasher film of the year, Happy Death Day. Cinematographer Toby Oliver set the tone for the coed killer movie where the scares are satisfyingly spooky...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Chills-Inducing new Video
Watching the opening of this brand new behind-the-scenes featurette on Star Wars: The Last Jedi (via USA Today), you could be excused for forgetting how stellar a filmmaker writer/director Rian Johnson is, and instead focus on how much he sounds like you or me as he channels the emotions and feelings of any Star Wars fan finding themselves not only on set, but the one in charge. Here’s Johnson describing walking through the Millennium Falcon set:
“Walking up the ramp,...
Liam Neeson is in Some Rough Transit in The Commuter
If you think your ride to work is bad, check out the new trailer for The Commuter. Liam Neeson is just a guy trying to get home from work when he’s pulled into a deadly game. Neeson plays insurance salesman, Michael, who is targeted by a stranger, Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel), with a dangerous proposition.
Michael first thinks that it’s merely conversation to kill time on the train, but when someone is murdered before his eyes,...
