A Monster Calls Promo Lands on ‘Face Your Fears’ Day
When A Monster Calls bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival, the critical reception was so positive that Focus Features decided the film deserved a proper awards season release date closer to Christmas. Director J.A. Boyena (helming the upcoming Jurassic World 2) has created a lyrical, lovely children's tale about a young boy, his dying mother (Felicity Jones) and the big, scary friend he's conjured to help him through this incredibly difficult period...
Freeing Susan Turner: Watch the new Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Clip
If Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) has met anyone even remotely on his level, it's Army Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), a bad ass in her own right who finds herself in no small amount of trouble in Never Go Back. It's up Reacher to spring her from the clink and, with her help, go on the lam and uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy that involves the death of U.S. soldiers. The film is based on "Never Go Back,"...
The First Power Rangers Trailer has Dropped
Is it possible to make a darker, serious Power Rangers? Director Dean Israelite (Project Almanac) looks like he’s managed to do just that, at least as far as this first trailer reveals. The film had its New York Comic-Con presentation, where Israelite confirmed that Goldar, Rita Repulsa’s infamous henchman who dogged the Rangers in the ’90s-era series, will be in the film.
The basic conceit of Power Rangers is simple: five teenagers are granted superpowers after they come into contact with some alien material...
Things get Weird in new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Promos
As you know by now, those magical beasts in the film's title really are fantastic. Now that we're nearing the premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we've learned a bit more about the titular creatures. There's the Bowtruckle (skinny, plantlike), the Swooping Evil (Monarch butterfly meets pterodactyl), and the Demiguise (a little like Gremlins Gizmo), and they're just a few of the critters that we can't wait to meet...
Avengers 4 to Feature Evangeline Lilly’s the Wasp
You knew a lot of headlines were going to come out of New York's Comic-Con, and here's a juicy one for you; Evangeline Lilly told Blastr that her Wasp will be appearing in Avengers 4. Lilly was at Comic-Con discussing the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp, where she revealed to Blastr that the script has been finished and is awaiting studio approval. She said that she's gleaned a bit about where the film is heading, which will be an origin story of the Wasp,...
Fox Drops Awesome War for the Planet of the Apes Digital Billboard
The goods are already flowing from New York Comic-Con. 20th Century Fox released this digital billboard for their upcoming War for the Planets of the Apes, which continues their comerically and critically successful reboot of the Apes franchise. For Comic-Con attendees, the studio also shared footage from the film, and the reaction has been very positive.
First, that digital billboard:
On hand in New York were director Matt Reeves (the man behind 2014's excellent ...
Wolverine 3 Director James Mangold Shares Title, Poster, Page of Script
What did we when we wanted updates on movies before the age of social media? Oh right, we waited for set visit interviews to run in major magazines and on websites, which most often wouldn't run until the promotional window opened a few weeks before the film came out. Obviously times have changed.
Wolverine 3 director James Mangold has taken to Twitter to clue us in on his film's title, poster (which reveals some interesting things),...
The Dressmaker’s Costume Designer’s Stunning Creations
The Dressmaker, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and adapted from Rosalie Ham’s beloved novel, stars Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage, a chic, sophisticated dressmaker who returns from Paris to her small Australian outback town to find out the truth behind the scandal she was at the center of as a child. We speak to costume designer Marion Boyce about designing the incredible costumes, alongside Margot Wilson, that are the backbone of this offbeat comedy/drama.
The film was just beautiful and I thought it was a really wonderful rendering of the book...
Mark Duplass on Stripping Away Artifice For Blue Jay
Mark Duplass readily admits he’s “a schmaltz hound.”
“I have it deep in me. I can put on Same Time, Next Year or Somewhere in Time and just go for it,” he says. “I’m a nostalgic and melancholic person and I normally try to curb that in my art because I feel like if I don’t, it’s going to run rampant over everything. With this movie, I [decided to] let the floodgates open and spill it all out.”...
Dressing the Goofballs of Masterminds
Boasting credits that include George Clooney's Michael Clayton and Angelina Jolie's Salt, costume designer Sarah Edwards usually dresses glamorous stars in sleek outfits for serious adult dramas.
And then there's Masterminds.
Based on an actual 1997 North Carolina heist and directed by quirky Napoleon Dynamite filmmaker Jared Hess, Masterminds stars Zach Galifianakis as a simple-minded armored truck guard who conspires with trailer park goofballs (Owen Wilson and Kristen Wiig) to steal $17.3 million from his employer...
Ben Affleck Reveals Title of his Stand-Alone Batman Film
As Ben Affleck was doing his promotional tour for The Accountant, he was asked by the Associated Press if he had a title yet for his stand-alone Batman film, and lo and behold, he revealed it! Drum roll please…
The Batman has some things going for it. First, it's what Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow calls him in Chirstopher Nolan's reboot, Batman Begins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLDCIZ1DIs
Second,...
Up Close and Personal with Income Inequality in HBO’s Class Divide
A nine-year-old resident of the Elliott-Chelsea housing project on Manhattan’s West Side walks down the dim hallway of his building, talking about the Titanic. His class has been studying the doomed ship and its passengers. Asked where he would be on that ship today, he answers “second class,” and then quickly amends it to third.
Joel is one of the young subjects in Marc Levin’s documentary Class Divide,...
Doctor Strange‘s Cloak of Levitation has a Pesky Collar
For the first batch of Doctor Strange trailers and teasers that Marvel Studios had released, there was little of the studio's signature wisecracking and much more of the studio's signature world building. Doctor Strange is Marvel's weirdest superhero, dealing less in the physical, material world of The Avengers and much more in a mystical, mind-bending world of its own.
Lately, however, we've started to see some witty repartee in recent teasers, like in this one in which Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) goes mano-y-mano with the film's main villain,...
See how They Made Black Panther’s Suit
Last week we shared the news with you that Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War was created entirely in post-production. The suit was the product of state-of-the-art visual effects, necessary beacuse the look directors Anthony and Joe Russo wanted would have been impossible to achieve practically.
Luckily, the VFX studio Cinesite was there to help. Civil War was their third Marvel collaboration, and they were prepared to help make Black Panther's suit by far the coolest superhero duds around...
Spider-Man: Homecoming Production Moves to New York
Production for Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster Spiderman: Homecoming has concluded filming in Atlanta and moved to New York City. In the comics, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) grew up and fought crime as his web-slinging alter ego in Queens, so the production move not only makes sense but has brought an air of excitement to the city. Footage from Atlanta was screened by director Jon Watts exclusively at the Sandiego Comic-Con in July to positive reviews, and fans hope that it is only a matter of time before the first public trailer is released...
See how They Filmed Jurassic World in new Behind-the-Scenes Videos
This might be the largest release of behind-the-scenes footage by a studio on their YouTube page ever. I mean, wow. Universal Studios' Jurrasic World YouTube page has made an absolute ton of awesome footage available—this includes, behind the scenes b-roll footage, rough-cut dailies, previs, interviews and a whole lot more.
We're giving you just a few of these videos (there's too many to stuff on a single post) for you to enjoy...
Jonás Cuarón Talks About his Savagely Intense Film Desierto
Desierto, Mexico’s official submission as Best Foreign Language Film to the next Academy Awards, doesn’t seem a likely inspiration for Gravity, which won seven Oscars in 2014. But when young filmmaker Jonás Cuarón showed the first draft of the script to his father Alfonso nearly 10 years ago, the elder Cuarón said he wanted to make a movie like it — in space.
“Like Gravity,...
The Jungle Book‘s Jon Favreau to Direct Live-Action The Lion King Remake
Walt Disney Studios has found their man to direct a live-action remake of their blockbuster 1994 animated smash The Lion King. And why wouldn’t it be Jon Favreau? He just directed another Disney smash, the live-action remake of The Jungle Book, which was a critical and commercial homerun. Now Favreau will be taking on an even more celebrate classic from the Disney archives, one that spawned the most successful Broadway shows in history,...
Start Planning Your JT Watch Party Now
Soon you’ll be able to relive the life-affirming Justin Timberlake 20/20 Experience World Tour every night for the price of a Netflix membership. The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme is releasing Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, featuring the concert stop at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Demme is a big music buff who has made other concert films including Talking Head’s Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold...
Talking to the Director Robert Kenner & Writer Eric Schlosser About Command & Control
In September 1980, a Titan II missile bearing a nuclear warhead caught on fire in a Air Force silo near Damascus, Arkansas. The incident was reported at the time, but the full implications of the conflagration weren't widely known until Eric Schlosser's book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, was published in 2013.
The author interviewed Harold Brown, then the U.S. Secretary of Defense; Bob Peurifoy, head of nuclear weapons development at Sandia Labs;...
