Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen Eyes Milla Jovovich to Play Villain
For fans of Guillermo del Toro’s two Hellboy movies, you’re probably cautiously excited about the Hellboy reboot. First announced this past May, Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen may be missing del Toro and Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, but it does have comics creator Mike Mingola co-writing the script for director Neil Marshall (The Descent), along with scribes Andrew Cosby and Christopher Goldne. Then we found out that Stranger Things standout David Harbour will be playing the titular comics character...
Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton on Adapting Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle
Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton re-teamed with his Short Term 12 star Brie Larson for The Glass Castle, based on Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir about her chaotic childhood. Walls’ parents struggled with substance abuse and mental illness, and their four children were often hungry and neglected. Larson plays Walls as a young adult, professionally successful as a gossip columnist in New York. As the film opens, we see her leave an elegant restaurant after dinner with her Wall Street fiancé and his prospective client. From her taxi,...
Watch Kingsman: The Golden Circle‘s Action-Packed “Southern Charm” TV Spot
Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service was a big hit, giving audiences an inspired, slightly insane mash-up of James Bond and a European Dirty Dozen. Starring Taron Egerton, Mark Strong and Colin Firth as members of a an independent, international intelligence agency operating out of what appears to be a high-end tailor, Kingsman was a blast, famously requiring Firth to do things in a film that no one ever dreamed we’d see him do (the church scene still shocks). ...
Here’s Your First Look at Josh Brolin as Cable in Deadpool 2
One-man marketing department Ryan Reynolds has once again summoned most of the internet to his Twitter page for these images of Josh Brolin as Cable, the time traveling, heavily armored X-Force cyborg (and son of Cyclops) who will be starring alongside Reynolds in Deadpool 2.
“We all have that one, grumpy, heavily armed Uncle from the future,” Reynolds writes beneath the first image of Brolin as Cable, a headshot that highlights Cable’s wicked facial scars and his cyborg eye...
You May be Seeing Woman Woman in the Upcoming Flash Film
While many fans already know of the Wonder Woman sequel that has been confirmed for release in 2019, it has recently emerged that the character will have longevity beyond the sequel alone. Though it has been revealed that one of the next DC Comic films will center around the Flash, it seems as though fans can also expect Wonder Woman to make an appearance.
The upcoming Flash film is set to be based on Flashpoint,...
How Avengers: Infinity War Directors Anthony and Joe Russo Kept the Script Secret
In a world of spoilers and leaked episodes, new pre-release information about franchises such as The Avengers is like gold. And that, perhaps, is why Anthony and Joe Russo, who are directing the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, elected to not give their cast members full scripts. As Elizabeth Olsen, the actress behind the series’ Scarlet Witch, revealed to Stephen Colbert, the Russo brothers only supplied her with script pages immediately relevant to her character,...
The Brilliant Sound Technique That Makes Dunkirk so Viscerally Intense
We’ve written quite a bit about Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, specifically about the film’s boundary pushing technical brilliance. We explained to you why it matters that the film was shot in 70-mm (and how it affects your movie-going experience), and we wrote about how Nolan and his team’s use of IMAX cameras helped tell one of the most miraculous escapes in military history.
Now, a brand new video essay from Vox’s Christophe Haubursin does a great deep dive on Dunkirk’s score,...
Watch This Insane Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Music Video Inferno
There have been lots of reasons to love James Gunn’s two Guardians of the Galaxy films. There’s been the loose, lively chemistry between the cast, the zany, cosmic storytelling, the humor, the heart, Groot, and also, of course, baby Groot (and teen Groot!) What Guardians also possesses, more so than any other Marvel movie in history, is a deep, abiding love of music—it’s right there in the title, with the films so influenced by Star-lord’s beloved mixed tapes...
What we Know About Ex Machina Director Alex Garland’s Next Film Annihlation
Alex Garland projects are some of my favorites. I actually bought the Blu-ray of his 2015 film Ex Machina for fear that the film would rotate out of the streaming services I use, thereby hindering my ability to obsessively rewatch the film every few months or so. And there is no better time to be an Alex Garland fan than now, as it was just announced that his next film, Annihilation, will hit theaters in early 2018...
Fall Film Preview: Major Directors Return With Passion Projects
What other than looking to fall’s slate of Oscar-baiting films will get us through the dog days of summer (besides, right now, an air conditioned theater and a cherry coke the size of our head)? Of course it’s far too early for much buzz to build up, but we still know which of the big studio releases, coming out when the weather cools down, are on our personal must-see roster.
The Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s most iconic novels is the fourth film iteration of the detective drama,...
Taylor Sheridan Talks his Chilling Directorial Debut Wind River
From actor (lawman David Hale on FX’s Sons of Anarchy) to acclaimed screenwriter (2015’s Mexican drug-war thriller Sicario, 2016’s Texas-set neo-Western Hell or High Water) to writer-director (Wind River, opening today), Taylor Sheridan has had quite a career trajectory since he first popped up on the Hollywood scene in the mid-90s as a TV acting staple. The 47-year-old Lone Star native considers his three feature films so far to be part of a trilogy that examines the state of the American frontier,...
Watch Winnie the Pooh’s Creation in Goodbye Christopher Robin Trailer
Fox Searchlight has released the first full-length trailer for Goodbye Christopher Robin, which introduces you to the man who created the iconic character Winnie the Pooh (and his friends, including Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger), and the post World War I era in which the lovable Teddy Bear and his companions were born. A family friendly drama with a stellar cast, Goodbye Christopher Robin offers parents and their children a solid choice at the multiplex this fall...
Check out the First Trailer for Eli Roth’s Death Wish Starring Bruce Willis
We can finally take a peek at the first trailer for Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake, starring Bruce Willis as Paul Kersey, a mild, liberal Chicago architect who essentially becomes the arch angle of death after his wife (Elizabeth Shue) and daughter (Camila Morrone) are the victims of brutal home invasion.
Director Michael Winner’s 1974 original starred Charles Bronson, and was enough of a hit that four sequels followed. Willis, no stranger to action films (he was once the undisputed king of them) is an interesting match for director Eli Roth,...
Pennywise Would Like to see you now in two new It Teasers
All indications point to Andy Muschietti’s It being one of the year’s scariest films. Written by Chase Palmer, writer/director extraordinaire Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman, the trailer and teasers we’ve seen thus far hint at perhaps the most terrifying Stephen King adaptation in years, with an R rating to prove it.
It follows a group of teenagers in Derry Main who are assaulted by It, a malevolent force whose favorite form is that of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard)...
Watch the 1st Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father
Netflix has released the first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father, based on the memoir of Loung Ung, who survived the Khmer Rouge’s despotic regime from 1975 to 1978 and went on to become a celebrate author and human rights activist. The nearly wordless trailer is a poetic, if haunting, look at Loung’s life as a young girl in Cambodia during an era that saw the state-sanctioned murder of millions, and the transformation of her life into a living nightmare...
The Best Line in the Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Was Written by a Make-A-Wish Kid
This gave us a lump in the throat. Entertainment Weekly published this story during Comic-Con about Thor: Ragnarok, and there was a detail about how the best line in record-setting first trailer wasn’t in the script, or improvised by any of the actors, it was suggested by a young kid from the Make-a-Wish foundation who was on set that day.
The line in question happens at the 1:36 moment in the teaser trailer,...
Star Wars & Harry Potter Worlds Collide With new Episode IX Writer
The Star Wars franchise of the last couple years has been no stranger to hard choices and tough shakeups regarding its production team. The script for The Force Awakens was worked on for the better part of a year by Michael Arndt before a change was made. Ron Howard replaced directing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller on the upcoming Han Solo movie in a highly-publicized ousting. And these are just the changes that made headlines...
Landline‘s Costume Designer on Bringing Back ’90’s New York Fashion
Most of us would like to think that the 1990s weren’t that long ago, but the age of dial up Internet, CDs and home phones has already been made into period piece Landline. Love or loath what you wore at the end of the millenium, you’ll definitely recognize some of these looks. Costume designer Elisabeth Vastola combed through consignment racks to revive the era in a recognizable and authentic way. Set in New York, Jenny Slate’s character is fashion forward while her younger sister,...
Production has Begun on Ant-Man and The Wasp
Today marks the official start to production for Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. Your returning champs are director Peyton Reed, Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly as Ant-Man and the Wasp respectively, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, Michael Peña as Luis, and T.I. as Dave. You’ve also got Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, and David Dastmalchian reprising their supporting roles.Your newcomers include Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Bill Foster (a.k.a. Goliath), Walton Goggins as Sonny Burch, Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost,...
Here’s Your First Look at Zazie Beetz as Deadpool 2‘s Mutant Assassin Domino
20th Century Fox has a very good marketing team, but for Deadpool, there is no one more affective than star Ryan Reynolds. He’s been keeping us updated on all the happenings on Deadpool 2, and now he delivered our first look at Zazie Beetz as Domino, the mutant assassin who will be partnered with Josh Brolin‘s Cable in the film.
Beetz looks right at home as she literally crushes Ryan Reynolds’ Merch with the Mouth,...
