Brand new U-Wing Ship From Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Revealed
Ever since the Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016 in London, the Star Wars related reveals have been coming at a warp speed. We were introduced to the new Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich, found out about the inspiration for the new Death Troopers, and watched the brand new Rogue One sizzle reel.
Today, the news comes to us, once again, courtesy "The Star Wars Show." Lucasfilm Story Group member Matt Martin popped on over to the show to dish about another one of the film's new ships—the U-Wing...
The Lost City of Z to Close the New York Film Festival
New Yorker writer David Grann's 2009 book "The Lost City of Z" tells the incredible story of Colonel Percy Fawcett, a swashbuckling adventurer whose exploits in the Amazon rainforest were front page news in his day, and became the stuff of legend when he disappeared, along with his son and his son's best friend, in the jungle in 1925 in search of the Lost City of Z. Z was thought to be the kingdom of El Dorado,...
Talking to Little Men Director & Co-Writer Ira Sachs
Like his 2014 film Love is Strange, director/co-writer Ira Sachs’ new film Little Men is a touchingly realistic examination of the relationships between people thrown together by circumstance. In Love is Strange, the economics of life in New York force a recently wed gay couple (John Lithgow and Alfred Molina) to live separately after Molina’s character loses his job. In Little Men, a struggling actor (Greg Kinnear) inherits a Brooklyn building from his father and moves his own family there...
Warner Bros. Sets Release Date for Fantastic Beasts Sequel
If you’ve already devoured Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (the fastest selling book in the UK this decade) and are looking for your next wizarding world fix, there's good news from Warner Bros. today. Deadline reports the studio has locked in a release date for the sequel to the highly anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The first installment will hit theaters this November 18 and the second flick will premiere November 16,...
Suicide Squad‘s World Premiere a Celebration of Diversity
We're just four days away from Suicide Squad's August 5 premiere, but for a lucky few, the world premiere happened last night at the Beacon Theater in New York. Director David Ayer and the cast were on the black, barbed-wired carpet of Warner Bros.’ world premiere, and it was a welcome sight, where the cast's diversity was a major point of celebration.
"What I love about working with this group, it's a rainbow — it's all races,...
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Aliens
Fun fact; Bill Paxton is the only actor ever to have been killed by a Terminator, an Alien and a Predator. Yes, the poor guy's heard that before, but as it was recently the 30th anniversary of Aliens, James Cameron's raucous 1986 follow-up to Ridley Scott's seminal Alien, Paxton had to expect he'd hear that once more.
At Comic-Con this year, most of the cast returned to talk about what made Aliens such a surprising critical darling—it was nominated for 7 Oscars—and why the film has stood the test of time...
Disney Unveils new Titles for Next two Avenger Films
Up until now, you've thought of the upcoming Avenger films from directors Joe and Anthony Russo as Avengers: Infinity War Part I and Part II. Well, Disney announced on Friday that the Marvel Studios sequel will simply be titled Avengers: Infinity War. This means that the followup film will have a different title completely. It's now being referred to as the untitled Avengers movie. Infinity War will come out on May 4,...
Chatting With Writer/Director Patricia Rozema About Into the Forest
From her 1987 debut feature I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), writer-director Patricia Rozema makes films with women characters that drive the action. But what’s unusual is how sanguine Rozema is about the always-looming issue of the dearth of central women’s roles and the financing obstacles most female-led films face, if they are not about Ghostbusters.
“You just never know what’s plain old getting-a-film-together difficultness and what’s because-it’s-girls difficultness...
Marvel 101: Looking at Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Groot
Last week there was an interesting news item regarding how many lines Matt Damon has in the upcoming Jason Bourne; 25. There's actually been quite a history of famous actors taking on roles that required very little in the way of dialogue. As Slashfilm pointed out, Arnold Schwarzenegger only spoke 700 words, total, in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Henry Cavill doesn't do a lot of talking in ...
Peek Inside Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Director Tim Burton has carved out an singular career, managing to do his thing on a grand scale. 20th Century Fox has given us this inside peek of Burton's incredible world of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Combining a visionary director like Tim Burton with the sensational debut novel by Ransom Riggs is manna from heaven for thus of us (and we are legion) who love when Burton gets to go as weird and peculiar as possible,...
Office Christmas Party‘s 1st Trailer is Gleefully Insanse
This might be one of the most phenomenal comedy casts in recent memory; Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Kate McKinnon, Olivia Munn, Vanessa Bayer, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Karan Soni, Courtney B. Vance and Matt Walsh—all together in a single film. We're talking about Paramount's Office Christmas Party, folks, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory) and scripted by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (Bad teacher) and Laura Solon (Hot in Cleveland). ...
Inspired by the Late Muhammad Ali, Gleason Doc Maker Captures an Athlete and His Disease
Documentary maker Clay Tweel first saw Steve Gleason on TV in 2005 when the feisty New Orleans Saints defensive back blocked a punt to win the team's first post-Katrina home game. Nine years later while promoting his film Print the Legend at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Tweel saw Gleason on screen again but this time, the former athlete faced the camera from the confines of a wheelchair. The clip documented the ravages of neuromuscular disease ALS and reduced Tweel to tears...
Director Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o Talk Black Panther at Comic-Con
At Comic-Con this year, writer/director Ryan Coogler revealed that Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Black Panther" comics have been an influence on the work he's doing as he preps the film. It makes us even more excited for the first stand-alone Black Panther film to learn that Coogler's found inspiration in the work fo MacArthur Genius and National Book Award winner. As Coogler told Vulture of Coates work, "I mean, he’s my favorite writer right now in the world...
The Boys are Back: Watch the T2: Trainspotting Teaser Trailer
What have Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie been up to? That's a question fans of Trainspotting, Danny Boyle's iconic, incandescent 1996 film that followed a group of Scottish heroin addicts and lunatics, are thrilled to find out. Nobody saw the original film coming, and when it did, Ewan McGregor became a legitimate star, and the careers of Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle all took off. Now, Sony Pictures has revealed a new teaser trailer for T2: Trainspotting, which reunites us with those core four and promises that the hi-jinx (and low-jinx) will continue apace...
How Lights Out Writer Stretched Fear of Dark Premise to Feature Length Hit
The 2014 short version of Lights Out teased a primal horror hook grounded in universal fear: people freak out in total darkness. After director David F. Sandberg uploaded his YouTube mini-thriller about a monster who pops up when the lights go out, the clip attracted 3.2 million views and caught the notice of Hollywood producers. When they enlisted screenplay writer Eric Heisserer to expand the short, he faced a daunting question: how do you stretch a two-minute, 41-second premise into a full-length feature?...
Director Luc Besson Makes 1st Comic-Con Appearance to Talk Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
French director Luc Besson made his first-ever Comic-Con appearance to talk about his 2017 release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Presented with Comic-Con’s highest accolade, the Inkpot award, he insisted on handing it back — temporarily. “Let me show you some of the film, and then you can decide if I should keep this,” he told the crowd of over 6000, which was soon roaring its approval.
Besson is a fanboy favorite for his dynamic action scenes and for the wildly imaginative 1997 film The Fifth Element, which turns out to have a Valerian connection...
Writer/Director Matt Ross on Captain Fantastic
Matt Ross is best known as an actor; besides dozens of films on his resume, he’s currently winning laughs and legions fans as narcissistic CEO Gavin Belson in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Before that, Ross was a standout on HBO’s Big Love, playing Alby Grant, the creepy son of the polygamist cult leader played by Harry Dean Stanton.
A Juilliard School graduate, Ross made his feature film debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with 28 Hotel Rooms...
Marvel Unveils New Doctor Strange Trailer at Comic-Con
It all happens at Hall H during Comic-Con, and this year Marvel made sure they used their time wisely. During their Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios revealed a brand-new Doctor Strange trailer and poster.
Doctor Strange has an outrageous cast, beginning with your hero, Benedict Cumberbatch, as the talented but closed off neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must learn to jettison his massive ego to learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions in order to become the Sorcerer Supreme...
Chris Hemsworth Returns to Star Trek 4 as George Kirk—but how?
While Star Trek Beyond hasn’t even opened yet (it comes out this Friday, July 22), there’s already news for the next film in the franchise, and it’s exciting—Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk will cross paths with a man he's never met, but whose legacy has haunted him since the day he was born—his father.
If you recall in 2009's Star Trek, the official reboot to the franchise, Chris Hemsworth appeared as George Kirk, but only for a few minutes—the spectacular opening to J.J...
Video: Rogue One Director Gareth Edwards Talks Death Troopers
"What we found out early on is there's this really fine line of what is Star Wars," Rogue One director Gareth Edwards says during this interview with The Star Wars Show at the celebration in London, "if you just go to the left of it, you're some other sci-fi movie, like Star Trek, and if you just go to the right of it, all you're doing is copying what's been before...
