Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s Adam Driver Says Film Creates new Rules for Franchise

As Kylo Ren, Adam Driver is one of the central figures in the new Star Wars trilogy, embodying the petulant, powerful Sith Lord wannabe, a Darth Vader acolyte and potent user of the Dark Side of the Force. He’s also an excellent promoter, helping goose interest in a franchise that needs little help by talking about all the things he loves, and we should be excited about, in Rian Johnson’s upcoming The Last Jedi...

Watch the First Trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Dwayne Johnson as a brawny adventurer? Yeah, we’ll buy that, but what's intriguing about Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is that in reality, Johnson's playing a high school kid. Sony has released the first trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trailer, which follows four teenagers who discover the ancient game of Jumanji (they’re bored during detention) and find themselves sucked into the game’s realm, where they become the games avatars, embodied by the aforementioned Johnson,...

Josh Brolin Reveals First Look at X-Force Leader Cable in Deadpool 2 Photo

Ryan Reynolds isn’t the only member of the Deadpool 2 cast who can take to Instagram to whet our appetites about the film. Yesterday Reynolds shared this photo of him, in full Deadpool kit, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople breakout star Julian Dennison on the set, and now co-star Josh Brolin is joining the fun. Brolin is playing Cable, the time-traveling leader of the X-Force, the adult son of the X-Men's Scott Summers (Cyclops)...

Hunt for the Wilderpeople‘s Julian Dennison is in Deadpool 2

Julian Dennison was phenomenal as Ricky Baker in Taika Waititi’s glorious ode to his native New Zealand Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which stood out in crowded field of great films last year. As a foster child who finally finds a warm home, only to see a tragedy upend his newfound sense of family and security. So he and Uncle Hec (Sam Neil, a beloved Kiwi) went on the run in the bush, triggering a national manhunt and making them brand new outlaws...

The Greatest Showman Trailer Showcases All-Star Cast in Promising new Musical

There might be no business like show business, but without P.T. Barnum there would be no show business. It is Barnum’s beloved rags-to-riches tale that is celebrated in the upcoming film The Greatest Showman, directed by up-and-comer Michael Gracey. Part biography, part grand-scale musical, the film will feature original musical numbers by celebrated songwriting/composing duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known for their work with La La Land and the new Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen...

War for the Planet of the Apes Director Matt Reeves on his Vision for The Batman

We've been writing a lot about Matt Reeves' War for the Planet of the Apes, which is getting some of the best reviews of any summer blockbuster not named Wonder Woman in recent memory. What you might not be aware of is Reeves will be directing Warner Bros. stand-alone Batman film, The Batman, which is just now in the early days of the project. As we wrote back on May 1,...

Steven Soderbergh Returns to Feature Filmmaking With Logan Lucky

After Steven Soderbergh announced that he was going to retire from filmmaking and transition into painting by his 50th birthday, here's a snapshop of some of what he has done: He directed Cinemax’s The Knick for two season (sensational, gruesome), helped Spike Jonze edit his award-winning feature Her, executive produced an adaptation of his film The Girlfriend Experience for Starz, is working on an HBO series titled Mosaic (which will allow the audience to interact with the story),...

Watch the First Trailer for Cannes Mind-Blower Good Time, Starring an Unforgettable Robert Pattinson

We've already written about our fondness for A24, the indie studio founded in 2012 that has gone on to produce some of the most compelling films of the last five plus years. In their latest, Josh and Ben Sadfie's Good Time, A24's committment to auteurs and their original visions is once again on display. Starring Robert Pattinson in what many critics are calling a game changer of a performance, Good Time ...

Deadpool 2 has Officially Begun Filming

Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that production on Deadpool 2 has officially begun. Your creatives behind-the-scenes include John Wick and Atomic Blonde director David Leitch, cinematographer Johnthan Sela, and  writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. We just happened to have interviewed Sela, Reese and Wernick in the past, and can attest to their immense skills. The Cabin in the Woods and The Martian ...

Spider-Man Swings into Starbucks to Pick Up a Cold Brew

Gone are the days of movie promotion being limited to red carpet screenings. Publicity teams are now going above and beyond to surprise fans with interactive experiences. Crews are building elaborate setups to create these pranks where unsuspecting movie goers are getting up close with onscreen characters. Last year’s The Conjuring 2 terrified audiences with a spooky surprise (and a hilarious ending.)

Now Sony has released a clip of Spider-Man swinging into Starbucks to pick up his cold brew...

Welcome to Berlin in this new Ferocious Atomic Blonde Clip

In this new clip from Atomic Blonde, we finally meet James McAvoy’s MI6 Berlin station chief David Percival, who arrives just in time to…well, he’s a little late, but luckily Charlize Theron’s Lorraine Broughton can take care of herself.

Stunt coordinator and John Wick director David Leitch (he's also the man behind the upcoming Deadpool 2) has found an even more perfect vessel for his hyperstylized, ingenuously crafted fight sequences than Keanu Reeves in Charlize Theron...

Fan Theory Proves True: Tom Holland Confirms Peter Parker WAS in Iron Man 2

It’s a special day when a really fun fan theory is proven true, and that’s exactly what's happened today. Tom Holland, who plays Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, has confirmed to The Huffington Post that a long-held fan theory that the little boy wearing an Iron Man mask near the end of Iron Man 2 was, in fact, a young Peter Parker.

“It is Peter Parker,”...

The Dark Tower: Discover ‘The Legacy of the Gunslinger’ in new Featurette

There is a lot of excitement around Nikolaj Arcel's The Dark Tower,adapted fromStephen King's ambitious multi-series novel. First and foremost, there's the thrill of seeing one of King's most mind-blowing creations, Mid-World, a dimension like our own that is starting to unravel into a kind of post-apocalypse expanse of deadbeat settlements and towns, realized on the big screen. Mid-World is a wild place, and the two most crucial characters in it,...

Early Buzz: War for the Planet of the Apes is a Summer Blockbuster for the Ages

Earlier today we published our interview with writer/director Edgar Wright about his incredible new film Baby Driver. It is one of the best movies you will see this summer, possibly this year. While Wonder Woman technically premiered before summer, we still consider it a summer film, and one that we, like everyone else, fell in love with. Now we present to you the third excellent film of the summer,...

For the First Time Ever, A Star Wars Concert Series Coming to NYC This Fall

If we were to imagine the most incredible way to watch a bunch of Star Wars films, say, the original trilogy and The Force Awakens, we’d have a tough time topping this: the first-ever live performance of Star Wars, scored by the world class New York Philharmonic performing the iconic music of John Williams. Beginning on September 15 and 16 at Geffen Hall in the Lincoln Center, the NY Phil will score Star Wars: A New Hope ...

How Transformers: The Last Knight Transformed a Local Economy

Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calls Transformers: The Last Knight “badass,” while the New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes that the film “offers more to see and more to startle than do many films by auteurs of overt artistic ambition and accomplishment.” The film’s centered on a war between humans and the Transformers, and what’s making matters worse is the heroic, noble leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, has gone AWOL...

Feast your Eyes on Five new Blade Runner 2049 Feaurettes

Yesterday we shared this new Blade Runner 2049 featurette from People Magazine that gave us our best glimpse yet at director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic. Now Warner Bros. has gifted us with five new featurettes (culled from the nearly four minute long featurette) that focus on the characters played by Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Jared Leto, and also includes a look at Ridley Scott's iconic original and director Denis Villeneuve feelings taking on the sequel...

Pixels into Pig: Okja VFX Maestro Explains Digital DNA for Star Creature

Part super-pig, part hippo, part elephant, the CGI creature at the heart of director Boon Joon-Ho's mostly live-action animal rights adventure Okja wowed crowds at Cannes this spring without so much as a single line of dialogue. Starring alongside Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie (available Wednesday June 28 on Netflix), the pixel-built beast known as “Okja” communicated through body language, wistful facial expressions and roly-poly heroics choreographed by visual effects wizard Erik De Boer...

Watch a Brand New Blade Runner 2049 Behind-the-Scenes Featurette

Yesterday we shared the story about how Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve has made peace with the monumental task of following up Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic. As if Villeneuve needed any more reminders of the seismic impact the original Blade Runner made, this Sunday marks the film’s 35th anniversary. As we look forward to Villeneuve’s sequel, People Magazine has just published their exclusive look at the film.

“Blade Runner 2049: Time to Live”...

The Wizard of Lies Production Designer on Building Bernie Madoff’s World of Deception

Production designer Laurence Bennett was responsible for creating a visual language for a film without sound, and the results earned him an Oscar nomination. We're talking about Bennet's work on Best Picture winner The Artist, which followed the story of a silent movie star’s life turning upside down after he falls for a young dancer only to witness their careers zoom in opposite directions with the arrival of talking pictures.

While Bennett's currently working on David Simon's ...