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. ...
Dwayne Johnson Croons in new Moana Clip
Can Dwayne Johnson sing? In the newest clip from Moana, the multitalented performer puts that question to rest as his formerly mighty demigod Maui sings a little diddy for his new friend. Have a look and listen:
Walt Disney Animation Studios Moana is about the eponymous adventurous teenager (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) who sets sail on a dangerous mission to save her people. On this journey she meets the once-mighty demigod Maui (Johnson),...
Basking in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight at the Middleburg Film Festival
Barry Jenkins' Moonlight played to a packed house at the Middleburg Film Festival, and for 110 minutes the crowd was mostly silent and rapt. Masterfully touching upon three periods in a single life, Moonlight is the rare film that manages to feel fully realized but impossibly swift, and I for one both wished the film had lingered just a little bit longer and was stunned by how quickly it had managed to move me,...
Donald Glover Cast as Young Lando Calrissian in Han Solo Star Wars Film
The upcoming Han Solo stand alone movie just scored a major, major coup in nabbing Donald Glover as the young Lando Calrissian. First, let's us all just take a moment to appreciate that the film will even have a young Lando Calrissian. Next, let's contemplate how perfect Glover is for the role, both physically (he looks a whole lot like a young Billy Dee Williams, who himself was only 43 when he starred in The Empire Strikes Back) and talent-wise. ...
The Final Arrival Trailer Teases one of Fall’s Most Antcipated Films
We’ve written before how excited we are for Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. After helming the thrilling, blood-soaked Sicario, Villeneuve’s turn towards a cerebral, haunting sci-fi film was just the type of unexpected transition you love from an up-and-coming director. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, and this final trailer gives us one more reason to look forward to the film’s release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W1m5ER3I1Y
Sci-fi’s enjoying a comeback...
Doctor Strange Buzz: Some of the Best Action Scenes in Marvel History
Folks, first press screenings of Doctor Strange happened last night in New York City and Los Angeles, and while the full reviews are embargoed until Sunday, there's a ton of spoiler-free buzz out in the Twitterverse, and it's very, very positive. The action set pieces are said to be some of the best in Marvel history, and, in keeping with the Marvel formula, there's a lot of wit and humor.
Here's just a taste of what some film critics are saying about ...
New Logan Teaser & Photo, Trailer Coming Today
We've been tracking all the developments in director James Mangold's Logan, the last time we'll ever see Hugh Jackman in the role of Wolverine. We've showed you these set photos, the film's awesome poster and even page two of the script. Now comes the blink-brief teaser, which Mangold and Jackman released on their Twitter pages, and a new photo of Jackman as Logan/Wolverine to boot. While Wolverine is supposed to be an ageless,...
New Teaser & Poster for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 is Here
Without further ado, here's the very first glimpse at Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in this brand new teaser Marvel just released, the action opens (as it seems like it must) with Blue Suede's "Hooked on a Feeling."
It's brief, with a few cool shots of unlikely allies (Yondu and Rocket, to name one), a reveal of a captured Nebula, and an awkward pep talk from Drax to Peter Quill. Ah, the gang is (mostly) back,...
Watch This Stunning, Devastating Pixar Short
Pixar animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coates quietly released their short film, Borrowed Time, on Vimeo for a limited time only, just a few days ago. It's crushing. Pixar has long established itself as a studio that manages to mix the existential with the exciting, the melancholy with the mercurial. At their best, from Toy Story to Up to Wall-E, Pixar makes animated films that dont shy away from ruminating on life in all its complexity,...
Talking to Composer Abel Korzeniowski About Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals
When I interviewed Abel Korzeniowski in August of 2015, it was to discuss his work on the small screen, specifically Penny Dreadful. Yet what had drawn me to his work, long before I ever knew I’d be speaking with him, was his score for Tom Ford’s A Single Man. Lush, at turns haunting and, from beginning to end, totally gorgeous, Korzeniowski's A Single Man score became a major part of my listening rotation...
Modern Technology Meets the Spanish Inquisition in new Assassin’s Creed Trailer
We've been excited about Assassin's Creed for a while now. When we shared with you the historic free fall pulled off by Michael Fassbender's stunt double, one of the highest free falls in almost 35 years, you seemed just as excited as we did. That feat was pulled off by stunt perofrmer Damien Walters, one of the best in the business. Director Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders) knows a thing or two about realistic action,...
Ben Affleck’s The Batman to Begin Shooting in 2017
While we're still waiting to find out exactly when Warner Bros. plans on releasing Ben Affleck's solo Batman movie that might be called The Batman, they at least seems fairly close to choosing when the film will start shooting. Joe Manganiello, who’ll play the film's main villain Deathstroke, told Entertainment Tonight that the film starts shooting in spring of 2017. Considering the the average time from principal photography to a wide release for Warner Bros. DC film is 18 months,...
Looks Like a Spider-Man Sequel is Happening
The level of excitement generated from Tom Holland's small but potent turn as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War proved how well the casting job was. Holland was perfect in Civil War as the young Peter Parker, equal parts superhero and excitable teenager. Now word is out that Sony is already planning on a sequel to the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, which just recently wrapped shooting in New York City and doesn't debut until next summer...
From Storyboard to Animation: See how Pixar Created Toy Story 2
Storyboards are an essential part of the filmmaking process, and perhaps no studio on the planet relies on them quite the way that Pixar does. A Pixar storyboard is essentially a hand-drawn version of the movie, and helps the artists making diagram the action and the dialogue. The storyboard is basically the blueprint for the film. "Each storyboard artist receives script pages or a 'beat outline', a map of the characters' emotional changes that need to be seen through actions," the studio explains...
Nobel Prize Winner Bob Dylan’s Influence on Film
One of the greatest lyricists in American music history, Bob Dylan, has received the Nobel Prize in literature. His influence on songwriting is undeniable, single handedly reviving folk music in America and influencing every other genre over the past five decades. As Slate's Stephen Metcalf writes (in a piece gently arguing that the prize should have gone to a writer, not a musician), "It was Dylan, more than anyone, who took Truth from out of the Victorian attic and put it into rock ’n’...
New Rogue One Images Capture Grittiest Star Wars Film Yet
Just this morning we shared with you the final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer. It's a doozy, right? And along with the final trailer, Disney has also delivered a batch of new photos to pour over. Let's have a look (all photos Courtesy Walt Disney Studios):
Alan Tudyk plays K-2S0 (called 'Kaytoo' by his rebel comrades), a new droid who is essentially the anti C-3P0...
Behold the Final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Trailer
Happy Thursday, gang. Disney has released the final trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Rather than tell you what you likely already know (that the film stars Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso, the leader of a band of rebels out to steal the plans to the Death Star, which lead directly to the events in the very first Star Wars), we’ll go ahead and let you enjoy the trailer first,...
New Fantastic Beasts Posters Chock Full of Details
Warner Bros. has been delivering a lot of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tidbits over the last few weeks. We shared the weird, cool new promos, the sensational final trailer, and now, the studio has delivered a bunch of character posters that are chock-a-block with details. Let's have a look, starting with the least known characters—Ezra Miller and Samantha Morton's, who play "Second Salemers."
The Second Salemers,...
