Oscar Watch: DP Shoots Lush Oscar-Contender Moonlight Wide Screen Anamorphic
Action franchises like Star Trek, X-Men and Transformers exploit the wide-screen "anamorphic" format so they can showcase epic-scaled explosions. By contrast, the biggest action sequence in coming-of-age drama Moonlight happens when a 14-year old boy busts a chair over the back of his high school classmate. A Best Picture contender, Moonlight takes place in Miami's rough Liberty City neighborhood, where Chiron (portrayed in successive time periods by Alex Hibbert,...
Benedict Wong Talks his Updated Character in Doctor Strange
Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster, Doctor Strange, opens in theaters this weekend. To celebrate, rounds of exclusive interviews are hitting the web, along with a Saturday Night Live appearance by the titular character himself. While Benedict Cumberbatch is busy telling jokes in Manhattan, Benedict Wong sat down with Comignsoon.net to discuss his stereotype-defying take on the coincidently-named character Wong.
“I was more concentrated on what we perceive with him now,...
At Long Last, Benedict Cumberbatch Comes to SNL
Benedict Cumberbatch, upcoming star of Marvel’s Doctor Strange, will finally be taking the Saturday Night Live stage by storm on November 5th in New York City. “We meet at last,” he whispers in the TV spot released this week. Dramatic music ensues as he approaches the dimly lit stage that has been graced by countless entertainment legends before him.
With a career that began in London’s theatre scene before transitioning to TV roles that culminated in his award-winning Sherlock performance,...
The Legendary Sonia Braga Talks Aquarius
Sonia Braga became an international star — and nearly single-handedly put Brazilian cinema on the map — when Bruno Barreto’s 1976 sexy comedy Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) became a U.S. art-house hit with Braga as the breakout star for her earthy, sensual performance. She followed that with two of her trademark roles: Gabriela (1983) reunited her with Barreto as Braga reprised a role she’d played on a popular telenovela of the same name in Brazil that had already made her a star...
Ezra Miller Geeks Out, the Niffler Gets Greedy in Fantastic Beasts Videos
What do you get when cast one of the biggest Harry Potter nerds in your film? You get an on-set wizarding world historian, and in Fantastic Beasts and Where to FInd Them, that is Ezra Miller. Ironically, Miller's role in the film is that of Credence Barebone, the son of Mary Lou Barebone, the leader of the New Salem Philanthropic Society, a No-Maj (American for Muggles) anti-witchcraft group. In the first clip, Miller ties together some of the clues we learned in ...
Communication Breakdown: Arrival‘s “Kangaroo” Featurette
Last week we shared with you this beautiful Arrival promo that Paramount released that gets at the very heart of the film's conceit. Paramount took people from all across the world and paired them in groups of two, with the caveat being they had to speak different languages and therefore be unable to communicate with words. This leads them to drawing, acting, and other clever work arounds in order to explain to each other who they are,...
Things are Heating up on the set of Jumanji
Things are heating up on the set of Jumanji out in Hawiia. Dwayne Johnson, a huge fan of Robin Williams and the original film, has been working extra hard along with director Jake Kasdan, the rest of the cast and crew to makes sure the new film is up to snuff. This includes practicing on set with a special flamthrower designed by the film's crack FX team. Johnson plays Dr. Smolder Bravestone, a "smoldering" hero who has this specially created flamethrower attached to his arm...
James Mangold Reveals Beautiful Logan Storyboards & Images
Director James Mangold has been slowly revealing images and artwork related to his upcoming Logan, helping us to piece together what Hugh Jackman's final turn as Wolverine is all about. What we've gleaned thus far is Logan is going in a very different direction from the previous films in the stand-alone Wolverine franchise, as well any X-Men film. As the first trailer revealed (ditto the film's title), Logan will revolve around a severely diminished Wolverine,...
How the Trainer for Bleed For This Whipped Miles Teller into Shape
Boxing coach Darrell Foster had eight months to transform Will Smith into his Oscar-nominated version of Muhammad Ali for the 2001 bio pic Ali. With the fact-based Bleed For This (Nov. l8), he only had a few weeks to teach Miles Teller how to fight like five-time world champion Vinny Pazienza, who severed his spine in a 1991 car crash, then made an astonishing come back and reclaimed his championship belt...
Bring Your Children: The Eagle Huntress Soars
As inspiring as Katniss Everdeen was, there's one thing the 13-year-old eagle huntress Aisholpan has over her; she's real. Sony Pictures Classics The Eagle Huntress introduces audiences to the young member of the Kazakh people in the Altai region of western Mongolia, where she's training to become the youngest eagle huntress in the region's history, and one of the few women to ever take up the practice.
For 2,000 years, the Kazakh people have practiced a tradition of hunting with golden eagles,...
Go See Doctor Strange in the Theater
Opening this week is Marvel and Disney’s latest, Doctor Strange, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the titular lead. Cumberbatch goes American, Marvel gets out of science fiction and into mystical voodoo, Tilda Swinton is bald, and the universe bends at will. The tale of an arrogant and ruined surgeon turned sorcerer-defender of the universe is well worth the trip to the theater. Here are a few of the highlights:
Perfect hair: Not as in,...
Meet the Mysterious Creator Behind Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Steve Ditko, legendary comic book writer, artist, co-creator of Marvel's "Spider-Man" and numerous other classic Silver Age Marvel Comics characters, must be considered the major creative influence behind Marvel Studio’s upcoming Doctor Strange movie, based on the character he created in 1963.
Strange was initially conceived by Ditko, with some input from Marvel honcho Stan Lee, as a different type of Marvel superhero, one who used magic and mystical powers that allowed him to travel to different dimensions to battle his foes,...
This Arrival Promo Will Make you cry
This new promo Paramount Pictures put together for Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is brilliant. The film's conceit is that a dozen alien ships have touched down all across the globe and it's up to linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and an elite team of investigators to try and decode their language and figure out a way to communicate with them before the world breaks out into a global war. Villeneuve is going for something beyond your usual alien attack film,...
Paramount’s God Particle is 3rd Film in Cloverfield Series
Remember when 10 Cloverfield Lane surprised everyone by a) existing, and b) being a continuation to Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams' 2008 monster thriller Cloverfield? Well Abrams' Bad Robot production company, along with Paramount Pictures, have confirmed that God Particle is indeed the third film in the Cloverfield series.
The Wrap got the scoop that not only is ...
Inches From an Icon: Gimme Danger Cinematographer on Filming Iggy Pop
Cinematographer Tom Krueger has filmed his share of charismatic musicians ranging from Bob Dylan and U2 to Stevie Wonder and David Bowie. But nothing prepared him for the Iggy Pop experience. Shooting Jim Jarmusch-directed documentary, Gimme Danger, Krueger captures the hair-rising misadventures of proto-punk band the Stooges as told by craggy-faced Jim Osterberg, known to the world as Iggy Pop.
Iggy Pop in GIMME DANGER. Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios / Magnolia Pictures...
Loving Featurette: The People Behind the Landmark Supreme Court Case
"Richard and Mildred Loving were two people that loved each other, and they didn't understand why the rest of the world couldn't see it," says writer/director Jeff Nichols about Loving, his film about the two people behind a landmark Supreme Court case that changed the country. The film follows Richard and Mildred's decision to wed, despite the fact that this was a violation of Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, known as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "colored"...
Warren Beatty Returns With Rules Don’t Apply
Warren Beatty’s first film in 15 years, Rules Don’t Apply, has released its final trailer. Set in 1950’s Los Angeles, the film follows Marla (Lily Collins), an aspiring young actress who struggles to follow the rules set by her employer, Howard Hughes (played by Beatty himself), that prohibits romantic relationships between his staff. This causes complications when she develops feelings for Hughes’s driver, Frank (Alden Ehrenreich, star of the upcoming Han Solo film).
In addition to producing and writing the script,...
The World of Assassin’s Creed Includes Parkour, Amazing Stunts
Director Justin Kurzel's Assassin's Creed looks like it might be the film that finally rises from its video game franchise origins into a wholly realized film, one that functions on its own terms. The first hint is how doggedly Kurzel and his team have worked to make the action grounded in reality. We showed you the historic free fall pulled off by Michael Fassbender's stunt double, Damien Walters, in one of the highest free falls in almost 35 years,...
Watch Toyko get Crushed in Godzilla: Resurgence VFX Reel
Shin Gojira—which is Godzilla Resurgence to you non Japanese speakers—is the 31st Godzilla film in the franchise, and the 29th produced by the legendary Toho Studios. Co-directed by Hideki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, this latest Godzilla film once again unleashed the most famous monster in movie history on the city of Tokyo.
The film’s premise was clever; when the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line mysteriously floods and collapses (the line is a bridge-tunnel combo that runs across Tokyo bay),...
Doctor Strange Will Make Huge Waves in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
With just nine days until the premiere of Doctor Strange and a ton of positive reactions already percolating from the press screening, Marvel and Walt Disney Studios can expect their new addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have a huge ripple effect. With critics hailing the film's "dark and spooky psychedelic horrors" and calling it a "wonderfully trippy, visually stunning origin story that intros great characters into the MCU," it looks like Benedict Cumberbatch's mystical medical wizard is the true start to Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ...
