Oscar Watch: The Salesman‘s Cinematographer Hossein Jafarian
The Salesman, nominated for this year’s best foreign film Oscar, reunites Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi with his frequent actors Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. Hosseini earned Best Actor honors for The Salesman at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival (Farhadi won Best Screenplay at Cannes).
The film also re-teams Farhadi, best known for his Oscar-winning A Separation (2011), the first Iranian film to capture that honor, with cinematographer Hossein Jafarian...
How John Wick: Chapter 2‘s Stunt Coordinator Challenged Keanu Like Never Before
Keanu Reeves thrilled action fans three years ago when his title character killed 141 bad guys in John Wick. For John Wick: Chapter 2, opening Friday, stunt coordinator J.J. Perry faced a formidable challenge: How do you take somebody who’s already played a super-lethal hit man and make him even more deadly? "The obvious way to make the movie better was to make Keanu better, since he's our starting pitcher,"...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Makeup & Hairstyling
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 and Actress in a Supporting Role. Check back with us as we go deep on all the rest. In addition to the series,...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Actress in a Supporting Role
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, and Live Action Short, and check back with us as we go deep on all the rest. In addition to the series,...
First Look at John Boyega in Pacific Rim: Uprising
One major film franchise is hardly enough for rising star John Boyega. Already set to reprise his role as the rogue Stormtrooper Finn in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Boyega is also starring in the upcoming Pacific Rim: Uprising. Boyega plays Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba’s character from the first film), a jaeger pilot just like his noble and heroic pop. Boyega was kind enough to share the first official look at ...
Amy Schumer & Goldie Hawn get Snatched in new Trailer
We dropped the first trailer of Snatched on you back in December, and wrote about how it only took a minute for the trailer to elicit our first LOL. Written by Kate Dippold (Ghostbusters, The Heat, Parks & Rec) and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies, The Night Before) the plot details for Snatched are this: Emily (Schumer) is all set to take a trip to South America with her boyfriend when he dumps her...
The LEGO Batman Movie Scores With Critics
The much awaited release of The LEGO Batman Movie is finally just around the corner, and with the embargo on critics lifted, we now have a sense of how the films being received—extremely well. After the incredible success of the first LEGO Movie, it’s no surprise that this Batman-standalone project would have a ton of expectations. Luckily, director Christ McKay and his team were more than up to the challenge, crafting a film that's received an extraordinary amount of praise along with a current 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Live Action Short Film
We've gone big this year for our Oscars 2017 coverage. 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 and Editing, and check back with us as we go deep on all the rest. In addition to the series,...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Editing
We've gone big this year for our Oscars 2017 coverage. 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 and Documentary Short, and check back with us as we go deep on all the rest. In addition to the series, this year we've created a special look at the awards—...
The First Logan Clip Shows an Aging Wolverine
Earlier today, we shared the Logan spot that aired during last night's Super Bowl. With the film's release coming upon us in just a few weeks (March 3 to be exact), 20th Century Fox will be sharing more new footage from the film.
The latest is this minute-long clip that features Logan (Hugh Jackman) and a buddy (Eriq La Salle) get into a bit of a dust-up over La Salle's character's rights to be on a piece of property...
Listen to John Legend & Ariana Grande’s Beauty and the Beast Theme Song
John Legend and Ariana Grande have joined forces to update one of the Beauty and the Beast theme song, an iconic musical number. Legend and Grande, two major stars, have their work cut out for them—they are trying to live up to Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson version of the theme from back in 1991.
So how did Legend and Grande do? As you'd expect, the two are spectacular together.
Legend is no stranger to sharing his musical gifts on film—you can hear his work in ...
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: The Fate of the Furious
We're rounding up the very best of the Super Bowl's film spots. We've already shared Logan, Transformers: Last Knight, Ghost in the Shell and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales. Now we’re taking at a look at the new teaser for The Fate of the Furious...
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
We're rounding up the very best of the Super Bowl's film spots. We've already shared Logan, Transformers: Last Knight, Ghost in the Shell and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2. Now we’re taking at a look at the new teaser for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
This new trailer gives us a much closer look at the film’s main villain,...
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
We're rounding up the very best of the Super Bowl's film spots. We've already shared Logan, Transformers: Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell with you, and now we're moving on to another thrilling new teaser.
Classic rock always features big in any Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 teaser, and last night’s Super Bowl Spot didn’t disappoint. Marvel’s latest cosmic adventure dropped a new trailer during the big game set to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,”...
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: The “Amazing Grace” of Logan
Last night's epic Super Bowl featured the greatest comeback in the history of the title game (of course orchestrated by the Patriots' Tom Brady) and a slew of great new trailers for some of 2017's most highly anticipated films. We've already shared the spots for Transformers: Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell, which were both teased last week. Now we're going through the rest of the Super Bowl spots one-by-one,...
Oscar Watch: Lion DP Greig Fraser Captures Five-Year Old’s POV
He shot 2016’s biggest box office hit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and last month picked up an Academy Award nomination for his work on Lion, so what’s cinematographer Greig Fraser doing in Mexico City filming a TV spot? "Commercials are an incredible technical proving ground," says the Australian-born director of photography. "I'm able to learn new camera systems all the time and that translates directly for features."
Fraser shows off considerable skill in this year's Super Bowl spots he shot for Budweiser,...
Transformers: The Last Knight Drops Super Bowl Spot
When we shared the Ghost in the Shell Super Bowl spot yesterday, we mentioned how last year’s game, between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, drew 114.4 million viewers, the third biggest TV audience in history. Now, Paramount Pictures has debuted the 30-second Transformers: The Last Knight Super Bowl spot, bringing which showcases brand new footage in an extended 55-second ad that will play on Sunday.
The Last Knight is a bit like X-Men: Days of Future Past—...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Documentary Short
We've gone big this year for our Oscars 2017 coverage. Yesterday we kicked off our annual "Know Your Nominee" series with Lead Actor and Foreign Language Film, and continued today with Costume Designers. In addition to the series, this year we've created a special look at the awards—The Road to the Oscars. Click on the image below to learn more about this year's crop of Oscar nominated films and filmmakers, and the effect their contributions have had on the country at large...
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Costume Designers
Yesterday we began our Oscars 2017 coverage, which we're bringing to you in two parts. One is our annual "Know Your Nominee" series, in which we've looked at the Lead Actor and Foreign Language Film nominees. In addition to the series, this year we've created a special look at the awards—The Road to the Oscars. Click on the image below to learn more about this year's crop of Oscar nominated films and filmmakers, and the effect their contributions have had on the country at large...
New Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 Images Reveal Plot Details
Director James Gunn and the folks behind Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 have been giving little morsels of the film, just enough to whet our appetite. Gunn shared a bit of the score (in this awesome video of the orchestra), they’ve dropped new photos (baby Groot—swoon), and they’ve teased links to Avengers: Infinity War.
The latest news is an exclusive photo spread in USA Today...
