Daisy Ridley Answers Your Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Episode VIII Questions
Okay, she's not giving away any spoilers for Episode VIII, of course, but this 30-minute Q&A session with Daisy Ridley is still plenty informative. Ridley, who we don't need to tell you but are duty-bound to write it, anyway (she played Rey in The Force Awakens, there) sat down with StarWars.com’s Andi Gutierrez for a Q&A session broadcast live on on Facebook, answering questions from fans around the world. Among many things,...
Demolition Screenwriter Bryan Sipe Pours Himself Into Jake Gyllenhaal Character
Bryan Sipe is the screenwriter of two films released in 2016 that could hardly be more different in tone and subject matter. He adapted Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Choice, a romance set on the shore of North Carolina, and, he wrote an original screenplay for Demolition, a provocative drama about a man named Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) who literally and metaphorically takes his life apart after his wife is killed in a car accident. ...
So Far, Critics Love The Jungle Book
The early reviews are in for The Jungle Book, and Jon Favreau's retelling of the Disney classic is currently enjoying a 100% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com. As we've been covering the character featurettes, extended IMAX trailers and behind-the-scene teasers, we kept coming back to the same thing; man this films look beautiful. The blend of live-action and photoreal animation, put to such fantastic use in 2012's ...
Don Cheadle on Co-Writing, Directing & Starring in Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle co-wrote, directed, and stars in Miles Ahead, an impressionistic riff on the life of iconic musician Miles Davis. Cheadle was determined not to make a traditional, chronological story. “I wanted to make a movie that Miles Davis would want to star in. Much more than something that you could just read in an autobiography or you could read or see in a documentary that made sure to check all the important boxes. I wanted it to feel improvisational;...
Guardians of the Galaxy Star Dave Bautista Joins Blade Runner Sequel
Yet more exciting news on the Blade Runner sequel front—Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista, who portrays the surprisingly funny Drax with such aplomb, has just been cast to star alongside Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Robin Wright.
Warner Bros. sent out a press release touting the newest member of the Blade Runner team:
Dave Bautista will join Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Robin Wright in an important supporting role in Alcon Entertainment’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece BLADE RUNNER,...
Pixar Reveals it’s Been Hiding a Single Character in Every one of its Films
We already knew Pixar films have been talking to one another, so to speak, over the years. The animation studio has been hiding Easter eggs like the Luxo Ball, the Pizza Planet Truck and A113 (which is a nod to the animation classroom at CalArts where several Pixar filmmakers went) in one film after another, creating a Pixar Universe. Today, the studio revealed that particular character has been in every single Pixar film since 1995's Toy Story...
Game of Thrones Maisie Williams Joins X-Men Spinoff New Mutants
When a show is as beloved as Game Of Thrones, it makes sense that its younger stars, the ones who hadn't yet made much of an impact in the film world, would see their fortunes rise with the ratings. This is the path Sophie Turner, so excellent as the long suffering (then again, who isn't on this show?) Sansa Stark has enjoyed, moving into the role of the young Jean Grey on the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. ...
Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage of the Lightsaber Duels in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
To credibly inhabit Rey, a scavenger on the desert junkyard planet of Jakku, Daisy Ridley had to train on a climbing wall (to name just one piece of her pre-production workout routine). And how about all those great lightsaber moves by Rey, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Finn (John Boyega)? Now you can see a brief snippet of how these actors trained for their roles; Target has released this little taste of the bonus features that will be exclusively available from their version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-Ray combo pack,...
Bill Murray is Baloo in This new The Jungle Book Clip
Bill Murray as a happy-go-lucky bear? Well, of course. This new clip from The Jungle Book features Murray as Baloo, the friendly bear that the man-cub Mowgli (Neel Sethi) meets along his journey through the jungle. We've been publishing a lot of Jungle Book related videos lately, as Disney has been releasing behind-the-scene featurettes and clips featuring characters like Idris Elba's mighty tiger Shere Khan and Lupita Nyong'o's maternal wolf Raksha...
Watch Deleted Scenes From Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Yesterday, we shared Daisy Ridley's amazing Star Wars: The Force Awakens audition tape, which we'll embed again below for your watching pleasure. Today, thanks to Star Wars UK, we're also sharing this deleted scenes teaser, which showcases a few choice moments that never made it to the final cut; Kylo Ren boarding the Millennium Falcon after its' crash landed on the Starkiller base; a scene beneath Maz Kanata's cantina after The First Order attacks (we've written about this moment before—apparently Maz makes the ceiling crumble on the advancing Stormtroopers heads…with her mind) and more...
Five Incredible Moments in Film, Dissected
We're living in a world of rankings—the five best this, the ten worst that—so it's nice every once in a while to slow down and appreciate something that takes time to consider. Filmmaking is the antithesis of the instant gratification our Internet-and-social-media dominated world seems to rely on—like most of our best art, to do it right takes a lot of time.
With this in mind, CineFix has devoted their montage this week to five brilliant moments in film—unranked...
Watch Daisy Ridley’s Powerful Star Wars: The Force Awakens Audition Tape
“What we were looking for was someone new, ” J.J. Abrams says in the incredible clip of Daisy Ridley's audition tape, which will be part of extras available when Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes to Digital HD on April 1st and the Blu-ray and DVD on April 5th. There will be loads of special features, including deleted scenes, a feature length documentary about the making of the film and the first table read with the cast. But back to Ridley's audition tape,...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of The Jungle Book
On Wednesday we shared the first clip of Idris Elba's magnificent tiger, Shere Khan, who is the central antagonist in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book. In this new featurette, Favreau talks about how, thanks to the huge leap in technology in the past few years, photo real animation has made it possible, and worthwhile, to remake the classic 1976 original Disney film. Bill Murray, who plays the lovable, carefree bear Baloo,...
Uncovering the Secrets of The Wizard of Oz Doc The Slippers
Few films have captured the American imagination quite like The Wizard of Oz. Despite its age, the film remains a fabulously imagined time capsule representative of the ingenuity and creativity possible in filmmaking. Though much of the film’s output has become unquestionably iconic, it’s the ruby slippers that are arguably the most memorable piece of culture to last the 77 years since the film’s initial release. But the slippers have had a surprisingly troubled past,...
Chris Pratt Shows off the Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 Set
Star Lord, also known as Peter Quill, who sometimes goes by Chris Pratt when he's not in outer space, is here to give you a tour of the set of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2. While production for the film has been going on for a while, with rumors circulating suggesting that Sylvester Stallone is in Vol 2 (we think he is!), we'd like share a bit of concrete Vol 2. ...
Film & TV: The Great American Export & the Growing Streaming Platform
In the United States, you can now legally stream films and television shows on 120 different platforms, with the number growing seemingly every day. Globally, there are 480 unique legitimate online services that serve the growing appetite of movie and TV lovers across the world. You can consider film and television one of America's natural resources, and these services and platforms are like a series of growing (and carbon-neutral) pipelines getting this resource to people all over the globe.
Films like ...
Melissa and Winston Rauch’s Golden Script for The Bronze
In Bryan Buckley's The Bronze, co-written by star Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston, a small town girl who was once America's sweetheart has gone to seed in the most American way possible; by milking her minor celebrity for freebies and handouts. Rauch plays Hope Ann Greggory, a former gymnast whose gusty performance on a ruptured Achilles heel at the world’s most prestigious gymnastics tournament earned an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S. team, and fame and glory to both Hope and her hometown of Amherst,...
Getting the Performances and Music Right on I Saw the Light
Biopics in general, and especially biopics of legendary musicians, can be a tricky endeavor to say the least. For every well received Ray and Walk the Line, you have a Greetings from Tim Buckley and the already-embroiled-in-scandal Nina. This is to say nothing of the biopics that are good but little seen, like Jimi: All is by my Side. ...
SXSW 2016: A Q&A With the Writer/Director, Production Designer & Producer of American Fable
Many first time directors might find themselves tempted to make their debut entrance into the world of filmmaking with simple, festival-ready fare, but for Anne Hamilton, the writer and director of American Fable, that approach just wouldn’t do.
Standing as easily one of the most visually striking films to play at this year’s SXSW, American Fable is what Hamilton & Co. have labeled as a “fairytale thriller” set during the farm crisis in the American Midwest in the 1980s...
Watch This Fascinating Video Interview With Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill
He might not be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens for all that long, but Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker is who drives the entire narrative—everybody in The Force Awakens is looking for him, and we know he'll be a huge part of Episode VIII. In this 70-minute interview with the Oxford Union, Hamill discusses his frustration with the end of Return of the Jedi ...
