Oscar Watch: Deepwater Horizon’s Sound Editor on Capturing Chaos

Sound editor Wylie Stateman’s first Oscar nomination came in 1990 for his work on Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July. Seven more nominations followed. Stateman has been recognized by the Academy for his work on films ranging from alpine action-adventure stories to period pierces to war films. Cliffhanger, Memoirs of a Geisha, Wanted, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained,...

See how Visual Artists Created Those Fantastic Beasts

It’s no big secret that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them utilizes a fair bit of computer generated effects. Over 20 “fantastic beasts” alone were featured in the film, and that doesn’t even begin to take into account the magical effects and large-scale scenery.

Even after considering all three of those categories, it’s still amazing to realize just how much of the film exists because of work by visual effects artists...

Listen to Josh Groban’s Sing Beauty and the Beast‘s “Evermore”

Disney can lay claim to having two of the most hotly anticipated films of the year—Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast. With Condon’s film hitting theaters in a little over a month, Disney has been delivering a ton of promotional material that highlights why people are going so nuts for this live-action remake of one of their most classic films.

Yesterday we shared a bit of Luke Evans and Josh Gad’s performance of “Gaston,”...

The Creation of X-23 in New Logan Clip

Director James Mangold has once again taken to his Twitter page and shared a new clip from the upcoming Logan. While we’ve made it quite clear how excited we are to see Hugh Jackman in his last performance as Wolverine (unless, you know, Ryan Reynolds has anything to say about it), we are also thrilled about Laura (Dafne Keen), who also goes by her mutant name, X-23. In this new clip, we see X-23’s birth,...

Watch Luke Evans & Josh Gad in Beauty and the Beast Clip

Disney’s 1991 animated classic Beauty and the Beast is one of the most beloved musicals ever committed to the big screen. The musical numbers the film boasts have created factions within the fans of the film on which is best. Is it “Something There” or “Belle”? Do you prefer the classic, romantic “Beauty and the Beast” or, like us, do you have a burning love for the classic number “Gaston”?

In the live action reboot of ...

Team Thor: Part 2 Clip: Living With Thor is Kind of a Nightmare

There’s been a lot of great stuff coming from Marvel recently. Earlier today we shared this clip of the God of Thunder and the Sorcerer Supreme meeting for the first time. Then we took you behind-the-scenes to the production of Avengers: Infinity War, thanks to the three minute teaser Marvel revealed on their Twitter page. Now, we’ve got the best video of the day, the ongoing saga of poor Darryl,...

First Look at Avengers: Infinity War

Marvel Studios released this three and a half minute Avengers: Infinity War teaser on their Twitter page, giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the yearlong production process that began this January 23. Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of Marvel’s massive project, their vaunted MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) that began in May of 2008, when director Jon Favreau, star Robert Downey Jr., cast and crew got together to make Iron Man...

Watch Doctor Strange & Thor Meet for the First Time

Thanks to Christ Hemsworth’s Twitter page, we now get to see the God of the Thunder and the Sorcerer Supreme have their first sit-down. When Doctor Strange was finishing up filming, Thor: Ragnarok’s script was being finalized, and it gave Strange’s team, like producer Stephen Broussard, a fun idea—what if we got the two together to see what their chemistry would be like, considering Doctor Strange would be crossing over with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in short order?...

Oscar Watch: La La Land Sound Editors Make History

The immigrant's tale culminating in double Oscar nominations for La La Land sound editor/mixer Ai-Ling Lee began in Singapore, where she spent her weekends as a kid repeatedly watching Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park in the home theater put together by her audiophile father. The pictures were nice but what really captivated Lee was the sound. "I was amazed at the way sound transports you into the film and enhances the whole experience,"...

First Look at Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled

Writer and director Sofia Coppola is back with her latest film, and once again the auteur has gone in a completely new direction from her previous film. Coppola's last effort was 2013's The Bling Ring, which focused on a group of fame-obssessed teenagers who use the Internet to track the whereabouts of celebrities, then rob their homes. Her new work,The Beguiled, is an adaptation from Thomas Cullinan novel's "A Painted Devil,"...

Watch the Wild new Ghost in the Shell Trailer

Ghost in the Shell features Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Lucy) as Major Motoko Kusanagi, a one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid who leads the elite task force Section 9. The film is directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman), and is based on the famous Kodansha Comics manga series of the same name (written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow). The latest trailer is a knockout, with more eye-popping visuals packed into a little more than two minutes than we’ve seen in a long time. ...

Berlinale 2017: Danny Boyle Brings Back Trainspotting

Having run off to Amsterdam with 16,000 pounds after a heroin deal at the end of Trainspotting, director Danny Boyle’s sequel, T2: Trainspotting, sees Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) return, after twenty years, to Edinburgh. If his Dutch wife and children named Laura and James, seem too bucolic to be believed, it’s because they are. Boyle’s sequel, which screened at the Berlinale film festival on Friday, is not the triumphant tale of four boys who got sober,...

New Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 TV Spot Rocks to David Bowie

No musician on the planet would have been a better fit for a cameo in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise than David Bowie. The icon was, of course, a great actor himself, and one of his many personas was that of the alien rock god Ziggy Stardust. Rolling Stone’s Alan Light wrote about the creation of Bowie’s alter ego last year, diving into Bowie's fascination with space travel and science fiction, which was already present in his work in songs like “Life on Mars?”...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Visual Effects

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Original Song

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Documentary Feature

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Wolverine’s Hilariously Bleak Job in Logan Clip

If you had 100 guesses for what crummy job good old Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) might have in the upcoming Logan, you'd likely never correctly guess the hellish employment he's found. He's not using his considerable strength in a construction job, nor is he engaged in any other kind of physical labor. 

Not only is Wolvy’s job just about as bleak as it gets, the poor guy is desperately trying to buy a boat (no doubt to sail off into the sunset,...

See how Batman v Superman‘s Dark, Visually Layered VFX Were Created

With countless films showcasing explosions, car chases, and other unnatural occurrences, we’ve grown accustomed to watching movies with visual effects and CGI. However, we oftentimes forget the amount of work and the sheer talent that comes with creating credible and powerful visual effects.

Director Zack Snyder recently tweeted a link to a nearly twelve minute long video to a Before & After video showcasing the visual effects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Animated Feature

Our Oscars coverage this year has gone big. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series will once again touch upon every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role and Makeup &...

Njina Warriors Do Battle in The LEGO Ninjago Trailer

Out of the almost unanimous praise for The LEGO Batman Movie—in theaters this Friday—emerges another Lego venture with an all-star cast. The LEGO Ninjago Movie generated buzz Wednesday after the first full-length trailer was posted on the film’s social media pages.

Ninjago is now vying to expand on the Oscar-nominated 2014 hit, The Lego Movie, as well as its soon-to-be released successor. Unlike the two films before it,...