How Weta Digital & Andy Serkis’s Brilliance Elevate War for the Planet of the Apes
We've written about how the performance capture technology that Andy Serkis has helped create and Weta Digital has perfected made the Planet of the Apes reboot one of the most satisfying, compelling franchise remakes of the century. Serkis plays Caesar, the new trilogy's heart and soul—a chimpanzee that has become vastly more intelligent, and verbal, after he's exposed to an experimental drug meant to battle Alzheimer's disease in-utero in 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes...
John Waters Interviews Sofia Coppola at the Provincetown Film Festival
Sofia Coppola is Hollywood royalty, an Oscar winner for Lost in Translation, and she has a highly-anticipated new film, The Beguiled, ready to hit theaters. But the soft-spoken director is known for being reticent in interviews.
So it’s no wonder that the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) paired Coppola with renowned raconteur John Waters for a one-on-one conversation when Coppola was honored recently as the PIFF’s 2017 Filmmaker on the Edge...
Star Wars News: A new The Last Jedi Teaser Coming Soon, Han Solo Spinoff Shakeup
The first look we got at Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi was way back in April, during the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando. Now, Trailer Track has reported that the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has classified a "Trailer B" with a runtime of one minute and 31 seconds.
Now, this could be a shortened version of the original trailer, an edited 90-second version that will accompany Spider-Man: Homecoming ...
Peter Parker Takes his Driving Test in new Spider-Man: Homecoming Spot
Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has one of the best possible allies in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming; Tony Stark. Not only has Tony provided Peter with a super high-tech new Spidey-suit, he also looks to be lending Peter his ride—a brand new Audi A8. In a new TV spot from Audi, Parker takes his driver’s test in the new car, which is a little more advanced than his instructor (played by the hilarious J.B...
Blade Runner 2049 Director Denis Villeneuve Makes Peace With Enormous Expectations
If there was ever a reason to believe that Arrival and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve was the right man to helm the Blade Runner sequel that didn't depend on his obvious skill, we present you his honesty and humility when asked about the monumental task of creating a sequel to an iconic film from a legendary director.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the CineEurope trade show in Barcelona, Villeneuve discussed the massive expectations,...
Annabelle: Creation Trailer Shows off the Scariest Doll Since Chucky
Warner Bros has had a hot hand with horror since 2013’s The Conjuring (produced by New Line Cinema and directed by the great James Wan) was a commercial and critical success. They followed that film with 2014’s Annabelle, another hit (and a prequel to The Conjuring), then The Conjuring 2, and now they’ve released the second trailer for the fourth film in their unholy Conjuring universe,...
Director Colin Trevorrow had The Last Jedi‘s Rian Johnson Film Something for Episode IX
You might recall how during the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director Rian Johnson, prepping the next film in the new trilogy, asked director J.J. Abrams if he might accommodate a small tweak to his film. Abrams obliged, and once Johnson's The Last Jedi comes out, perhaps we'll find out exactly what that tweak was. A similar situation has happened during Johnson's production; Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow asked him for a favor while he was shooting The Last Jedi...
Godzilla 2 has Started Filming With Three Iconic Monsters as Adversaries
Legendary and Warner Bros. have released a statement that will be music to the ears of all you mega monster fans; Godzilla 2 has begun filming. After the commercial and critical success of Kong: Skull Island, one can surmise that the still untitled Godzilla 2 will be just as ambitious, as the former was not only inspired by Apocalypse Now, but featured some serious monster-on-monster action.
Godzilla will face an even sterner test than he did in ...
After 40 Years, Valerian And the City of a Thousand Planets Becomes a Reality
Many people have their passion projects, the ones that they pour their heart and soul into, and that is precisely what Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is for director Luc Besson. Forty years after falling in love with the “Valerian and Laureline” comics when he was 10 years old, Besson has been waiting to bring the story to the big screen, but for myriad reasons, many of them technological, he was never able to fully execute his vision…until a certain film became a phenomenon eight years ago...
Scarlett Johansson Teases Insane Avengers: Infinity War Scene With 30 + Characters
While Scarlett Johansson had a lot to discuss on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this past Friday, the big thing that'll excite you Marvel-heads and superhero fans in general is when she discussed the Russo Brothers upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.
Johansson discusses how she's pretty sure there are more than 60 Marvel characters in the film. In fact, in one scene in particular, there were so many characters—many of them Marvel superheroes—that she had trouble identifying who was actually in the film and who might have been a crew member. You can watch her discuss the upcoming film at 8:20 mark in the below video:
The closest any film in the MCU has gotten to this kind of maximum superhero involvement was in the epic airport battle scene in ...
Caesar and the Colonel Face Off in new War for the Planet of the Apes Clip
The performance-capture technology that Andy Serkis has helped perfect, from his performances as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings to his star-turning work as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot has become practically flawless. Every new clip we've seen from War for the Planet of the Apes, the final film in the new trilogy, has shown how far the tech has come, even from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, ...
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Venom & Silver and Black Will Coexist
When we wrote that Sony had made some major moves with their Spider-Man spinoffs, Venom (casting Tom Hardy) and Silver and Black (nabbing director Gina Prince-Bythewood), we were always hoping that they’d eventually intersect with Spider-Man. Now, Spider-Man: Homecoming producer Amy Pascal has said that all three of the films will exist in the same world, leaving the possibility open that Tom Holland’s Spidey could pop up in the spinoffs...
Deadpool Drops by to see Some Frenemies in new Photo
Ryan Reynolds Twitter feed is always a fount of Deadpool related material and information, and the latest photo he shared is a doozy. There’s Reynolds in his full Deadpool kit, lounging outside a certain famous mansion. Yup, that’s Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, only once again, nobody seems to be answering the door for mouthy Wade Wilson.
The actual location for the iconic school is in British Columbia—it’s Hatley Castle,...
And Rough Night Makes Three (Bachelorette Parties from Hell)
A party weekend in Miami, a dead stripper, cocaine. A friend group’s freewheeling members forcing their uptight pals to just chill out (and take the coke, already). Sounds like another zany, Apatow-orchestred bachelor party ready to go all kinds of wrong. Right? Make it a bachelorette and replace Judd with director Lucia Aniello (of web series to Comedy Central mainstay Broad City), and we’ve got the second woman-led caper of the summer, Rough Night...
All Eyez on Me Writers Show All Sides of Tupac Shakur
When Tupac Shakur got beaten by a couple of Oakland cops for jaywalking, Eddie Gonzalez, co-writer of the late rapper's All Eyez on Me bio-pic (opening Friday) could relate. Growing up poor in and around L.A.'s tough Compton neighborhood, Gonzalez says "I know about being harassed by police officers. You feel like don't have a voice but you want to say something, do something. That's why people connected with Tupac, and that's why I connected with him...
Watch the Intense Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit
Kathryn Bigelow is a phenomenal director, and one of her many skills is her ability to create thrilling, unfussy action sequences that put her in a league of her own. While the modern action sequence is typified by quick cuts, confusion, and close-ups, Bigelow’s approach is to orient the viewer in space so that what she’s showing us, whether it’s a bomb squad doing their terrifying work in The Hurt Locker or the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Zero Dark Thirty,...
What we Know About X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Here’s what we know for certain; super producer and writer Simon Kinberg (a longtime X-Men creative) will be making his directorial debut with X-Men: Dark Phoenix in 2018, which will bring back a lot of the cast from Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Deals have been struck with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult to return to the franchise (their three-picture deals expired after Apocalypse), while the younger stars,...
The Cast of Dodgeball Goes Back to the Gym for Charity
You’ve seen the Omaze commercials. A super cool celebrity raising money for an awesome cause and a chance to hang out with them. The likes of Matt Damon, Kobe Bryant, Meryl Streep and Chris Pratt have donated their time to the cool crowd funding site, but the latest campaign may have outdone all that came before.
The cast of Dodgeball filmed an in character reunion video supporting, what else, The Stiller Foundation. Ben Stiller adorned the memorable blonde wig and what must be buckets of self-tanner to bring gym bully White Goodman back to life...
What to Watch During Pride Month
Officially, it’s LGBT Pride month in the United States and Canada (happy second Pride, northern neighbors!), with marches, rallies, and festivals taking place from Berlin to Tel Aviv to commemorate the June 1969 Stonewall Riots. After heading to — or in place of, should there be none — your local Christopher Street Day Festival, have a movie night in a celebration of LGBT life and culture in all its on-screen forms. Here are a few suggestions for what to watch other than Brokeback Mountain (with all due respect to the Ang Lee’s iconic “gay cowboy movie”...
Black Panther and The Walking Dead Star Danai Gurira Joins Avengers: Infinity War
The cast for Avengers: Infinity War keeps getting more impressive. Deadline reports that Black Panther and The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira is joining Avengers: Infinity War. While it’s not official, it seems likely that Gurira will be playing her Black Panther character Okoye, a member of T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) elite bodyguard unit called the Dora Milaje, made up of female warriors who watch T'Challa and the rest of his royal family...
