A new Finding Dory Trailer Hints Pixar’s Latest was Worth the Wait
Rejoice, Pixar fans—the new trailer for Finding Dory is here. As you're well aware, Dory returns many of the stars from Finding Nemo, including leads Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks. The action picks up just six months after the first movie (13 years in actual human time, of course), with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) living a quiet life among her clown fish friends. Only when Dory joins Nemo on a class trip to see a manta ray migration,...
Chatting With X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Composer, Editor & Co-Producer John Ottman
John Ottman is a very busy guy. He was composer, editor, and co-producer of X-Men: Apocalypse, which he describes as “running the store.” But that’s not all – he also composed the score for another film opening this month, The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling and written and directed by Shane Black. Somehow, he managed to find a few minutes to chat about both projects.
You’ve worked on X-Men movies before. ...
Ready or Not, Here Comes Adam Sandler’s The Do-Over for Netflix
Adam Sandler's second film for Netflix is upon us. Behold The Do-Over, which premieres Friday, May 27, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Sandler and old SNL pal David Spade play Max and Charlie, old friends who reunite at their 25th high school reunion and, thanks to Max's doing, engage in the ultimate deception; they fake their deaths. Now they can take a second crack at life under assumed identities. What could possibly go wrong?
Before you immediately dismiss this due to Sandler's recent track record,...
Ryan Coogler on his Black Panther Film & More
Chadwick Boseman's turn as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War was one of the most satisfying parts of the film. While a lot of the buzz post Civil War has focused on Tom Holland's Spider-Man and the incredible second act climax that featured Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) doing something huge, we've seen these characters before. Boseman turn as Black Panther was the first time the character has been seen on the big screen, and it was a relief;...
Oscar Isaac & John Boyega (Briefly) Talk Star Wars: Episode VIII
While Star Wars: Episode VIII is in the midst of filming, actors naturally come and go depending upon their shooting schedules. This means they also occasionally need to do promotion for other films they're in, which is the case for Oscar Isaac and X-Men: Apocalypse (the premiere was in London), and, in John Boyega's case, he was down in Cannes to accept the Trophée Chopard. What this means is journalists can then ask them about Episode VIII, ...
Get Excited: Margot Robbie in Talks for Harley Quinn Movie
Suicide Squad isn't out until August 5, but we can already pretty much guarantee that Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn will be one of the best parts. She's practically stolen every trailer they've released thus far, including the very first trailer that hinted at Quinn's character being a potential linchpin to the whole sordid affair (and director David Ayer has said as much). Ayer posted this question, which would confirm the notion that Quinn's love for the Joker is a central plot point in ...
The BFG‘s new Trailer is Here
The BFG had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and now Walt Disney Pictures has released a new trailer for director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic.
The important part of the BFG's name is that F—he's friendly. This makes him an outlier in Giant Country. where giants like Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) are not known for placing nice. They're also much bigger than the BFG, who is 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell,...
Writer/Director Whit Stillman on his Jane Austen Comedy Love & Friendship
Most of the characters in Metropolitan, writer-director Whit Stillman's 1990 debut, are wealthy young Manhattan sophisticates with an enthusiasm for the artifacts of a refined past — notably, the novels of Jane Austen. Stillman's movie just happened to be followed by a rush of Austen adaptations.
Now the filmmaker has made his own Austen movie, Love & Friendship, which opens in limited release today, May 13. It's based on Lady Susan,...
Video: Fast 8 First Hollywood Movie Shot in Cuba
Fast 8 has the distinction of the being the first global Hollywood movie to be allowed to film in the country. This video shows the incredible reaction of the Cuban people to the production, "You can feel the emotion from all of the people," says director F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton). "We couldn't re-create this anywhere." Fast 8 boasts a stellar cast, with Charlize Theron joining Vin Diesel,...
Watch James McAvoy Become Professor X
Some roles require more than just an emotional and spiritual transformation—some call for both an electric and a straight razor. Up until now, James McAvoy's turn as Professor X has never required the actor to lose his luscious locks, as his young Charles Xavier still had hair in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past (he also had something of a drug problem). For X-Men: Apocalypse, ...
The Lobster Continues Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Singular Path
Yorgos Lanthimos has come far since his film debut 15 years ago, with his name now a veritable indie-film buzzword after creating such cinematic oddities as Alps and Dogtooth. The director is set to make his English-language debut with the Colin Farrell-starring The Lobster, but the Greek native has been making films for fifteen years now, establishing a backlog of films worth a closer look.
Lanthimos begin his career in 2001 with My Best Friend,...
X-Men: Apocalypse – Becoming Cyclops
So how did Scott Summers become Cyclops? In X-Men: Apocalypse we get to meet a lot of the most iconic mutants as they're just blossoming (or mutating, as it were). For Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan), as it's been for many mutants, his transition is pretty brutal.
If you remember some mutant origin stories from the past, they're typically hideously traumatic. Rogue just wanted to kiss her boyfriend, and in doing so she put him in a coma...
Captain America: Civil War Directors Joe & Anthony Russo
As the much-anticipated third installment of Marvel’s Captain America franchise hits theaters today, we catch up with directors Anthony and Joe Russo. The brothers discuss how they addressed the challenge of cramming so many of Marvel’s superheroes into Captain America: Civil War, how they subverted the genre by creating a film with no clear villain and playing good cop bad cop on set.
Captain America: Civil War is getting great reviews...
Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Discuss the new Black Panther
When you see the new Captain America: Civil War, you'll be treated to one of the coolest superheroes of them all's first big-screen appearance. Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa (Black Panther) is a noble prince from the African nation of Wakanda with a seriously ferocious alter-ego. His fighting style in the film is so impressive that even the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) is taken aback. Black Panther all but steals the film in his brief but potent scenes...
Universal’s Monster Shared Universe Includes Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp
While a lot of the blockbuster movie oxygen is sucked up by the Marvel Universe and DC's growing slate of films, Universal has a huge library of classic monsters that they're tapping into to create a potential shared universe of their own. They've put into place an ambitious plan that will see major stars tackling iconic monsters, beginning on June 9, 2017 when The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman, lurches into theaters...
Marvel Announces Ultimate Captain America Marathon
Have you met anyone who attended last year's "The Ultimate Marvel Marathon," the 28-hour, 11 movie marathon that ended with the brand new Avengers: Age of Ultron? If so, let us know how they fared. Now, Marvel's announced a slightly more sane marathon—the “Ultimate Captain America Marathon,” which will screen in select theaters this Thursday, May 5, and will conclude with a screening of Captain America: Civil War.
For those of you who are interested,...
The History of Apocalypse Revealed in new X-Men: Apocalypse Featurette
20th Century Fox has released a much deeper dive into the back story of the big baddie in X-Men: Apocalypse. One of the many interesting reveals of this featurette is that Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) is said to have brought civiliazation to mankind. This comes straight from director Bryan Singer, who goes on to explain that in giving the world civilization, Apocalypse felt that he was humanity's rightful God. Clearly, things didn't work out that way, but now he's back,...
See How They Created The Incredible Beasts in The Jungle Book
At the end of the The Jungle Book, one of the most immersive live-action/CGI films of all time, there is a note on the screen about where the film was shot—downtown Los Angeles. Despite having spent the entire run time in the Indian jungle amongst gloriously life-like beasts, from tigers (Shere Khan, voiced by Idris Elba) and panthers (Bagheera, voiced by Ben Kingsley) to giant pythons (Ka, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) and a Gigantopithecus (a now extinct species of ape,...
Rian Johnson Shares Set Photos From Star Wars: Episode VIII
Director Rian Johnson has really bought into the TGIF feeling: he's shared Star Wars: Episode VIII set photos on his Tumblr. Like The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, Johnson and the Episode VIII team have been secretive about production—there's even a story that they've got drones on set designed to take down other drones who might be trying to snap some photos—yet he has shared a few images from production in the past...
It’s National Superhero Day, so Maybe That Means There’s an Iron Man 4 Announcement?
Folks, it's National Superhero Day (we know what you're thinking—isn't every day National Superhero Day at this point?), and on April 28, we honor the men and women who use their extraordinary abilities for good rather than evil. Or, in the case of Deadpool, for good and for being a wise-ass.
With that in mind, it's the perfect day to share with you this clip from ABC News in which Robert Downey Jr...
