The Good Wife Set Decorator Beth Kushnick
Beth Kushnick has been a set decorator for approximately three decades. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, she worked on countless films including Jumanji, Private Parts and Frequency.
In the early part of this century, she moved predominantly to television where she worked on several programs — including 3 lbs., Law and Order: Trial by Jury and Canterbury’s Law —...
Chatting With Mississippi Grind Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are a filmmaking duo best known for 2006’s Half Nelson. They’re latest collaboration, Mississippi Grind, is a character driven story exploring addiction and redemption, starring Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn and Sienna Miller. The Credits talks to the pair about recapturing the aesthetic of seventies classics and cracking that elusive on-set chemistry.
What originally drew you to making this film in the south?...
It’s Here: Listen to Sam Smith’s New Spectre Theme Song
As NPR reported, Sam Smith's journey to writing the Bond theme song began two years ago. That's when Smith sent an email to his agent with a very succinct, bold subject line that read "007." Today, the British singer's lifelong dream comes true with the release of "Writing's on the Wall."
"I hope the people aren't expecting for me to be bringing out a big pop song," Smith said to ScreenSlam. "Because that's not what I wanted to do here...
Go Behind the Scenes of Spectre
A plane crashing through a house and skidding down a huge, snowy slope? Check. James Bond (Daniel Craig) scrambling, for real, across the rooftops of Mexico City while real helicopters corkscrew 360 degrees above him? Check. A chase involving a plane, a helicopter, and three cars along an alpine road with a precipitous drop off the side of a cliff. Check.
Access is everything, and for the folks at ScreenSlam.com, access is what they do...
Found Foot-age: Finders Keepers Directors on Their Insane Doc
In Finder Keepers, filmmakers Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel chronicle one of the strangest feuds in the history of small-town America. John Wood, who lost his foot in a small-plane crash, lost it again when he couldn't pay the rent on the Maiden, N.C. storage unit where he'd stored the amputated, embalmed limb in a BBQ smoker. The contents were sold at auction to Shannon Whishnant, a local entrepreneur with more ambition than shame.
The two men disputed custody of the leg for years,...
Star Wars Fans, Take a 360 Degree Ride Across Jakku
Star Wars fans, get excited. Disney and Lucasfilm just rolled-out a 360-degree video in their Facebook News Feed that puts you right into the action – in a “galaxy far, far away.” The “Star Wars: The Force Awakens Immersive 360 Experience” was created exclusively for Facebook as part of the social media giant’s new 360 videos.
Duck! The Angry Birds Movie Trailer is Here
It started it’s life as an app for the iPhone, developed by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. It was the game that every other person was playing on the subway, bus, in line at the grocery store, waiting for the movie to start and in just about every other possible situation in which their attention wasn’t necessary. It was an app so wildly popular that it was featured in an 100-page report on innovation and jobs written by two Oxford University economists...
Watch Giant Praying Mantis Terrify Jack Black, Kids in Goosebumps Clip
A good family film around Halloween is nothing to sneeze at. Especially a live-action horror-comedy starring Jack Black as horror author R.L. Stine, whose creations have burst out into the real world and are now terrifying the community of Greendale, Maryland. This is the world of Goosebumps.
Teaming up with his daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush) and some teenagers from town, Goosebumps is based on the book of the same name by real life author R.L...
Watch CineFix’s Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Deadpool Trailer
CineFix’s “Homemade” series is pretty fantastic. The amount of work that must go into their lovingly crafted remakes of movies, trailers and original songs is staggering. They create these shot-for-shot remakes at home, and without any special effects. They’re also open to you creating your own homemade remakes and sharing it with them (just please, be sensible and do not try to do a shot-for-shot remake of, say, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation).
Their latest creation is for the hugely popular Deadpool trailer...
The Brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write “Black Panther” Comic Series
National correspondent for The Atlantic, author of "Between the World and Me," a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize and arguably one of the most important books of the year, and unabashed Marvel Comics geek. These all describe Ta-Nehisi Coates, and they're all reasons to find the news that Marvel has asked him to write the new "Black Panther" comic series very exciting indeed.
The series is set to be published next spring,...
Sam Smith’s Teases Bond Theme Song for Spectre
We have written a number of articles in anticipation of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre, because, well – we are big James Bond fans, and Daniel Craig in the title role with Sam Mendes directing has reinvigorated the franchise. (For the record, we can't think of a better successor to Craig than Idris Elba—he would be perfect.)
About two weeks ago we were excited to learn that Sam Smith had been chosen to sing the title song “Writing’s on the Wall.”...
The Peanuts Movie has a Trailer
They've had Christmas specials galore, but Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Woodstock and Linus have never had a big theatrical film before. Finally, after 65 years and countless adventures (and misadventures—sorry, Charlie Brown), the gang's got a film. The whole bunch is here—along with our aforementioned favorites, there’s Peppermint Patty, Pig Pen, Sally, Schroeder and Lucy van Pelt, to name a few.
Director Steve Martino, writers Bryan and Craig Schulz and Cornelius Uliano look to have crafted a film that’s of our time (a dance interlude starring eternal klutz Charlie Brown set to DJ Khaled’s “All I Do is Win”...
Watch Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling & More in The Big Short
The dark knight is coming back… whoa, not Batman (this time), the dark knight of financial scandal – Christian Bale. Bale has jetted forward in time from the ABSCAM financial sting of the late 1970s/early 1980s in American Hustle to the global banking crash of the late 2000s in Paramount’s The Big Short.
The Big Short is based on New York Times non-fiction best-seller “The Big Short –...
Awesome Theory of how Darth Vader Fits Into Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There’s a theory that’s been floated by very knowledgeable Star Wars fan and journalist Germain Lussier that very intriguing. It sounds credible to us on a lot of levels, not least of which is the fact that Lussier is parsing things said by the very people who made the film, finding nuggets and teasing them out into potential motives.
Because this theory could be true, we have to warn you right now that read no further if you want to go into Star Wars: The Force Awakens without even a chance of knowing what a big character like Kylo Ren might be up to...
The Good Dinosaur‘s International Trailer
We get a bit more of an introduction to the star of The Good Dinosaur, the young apatosaurus named Arlo, and his feral human friend, Spot. But this new international trailer is all about the other dinosaurs that will challenge our fearless (in Spot's case, anyway) heroes as they journey through their wild world.
Check out the new trailer and catch a few very familiar (and wonderful) voices of some of the dinosaurs,...
Female Directors Shone at the Toronto International Film Festival
One of the surprises and highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the number of films about women and the number directed by women. Sure, most were small indies. But in an industry where only 1.9 percent of the 100 top-grossing fictional films distributed in the United States from 2007 to 2014 were directed by women, according to a report released in August by the University of Southern California, the news at TIFF was encouraging.
It just might signal a trend of female writers,...
Black Mass & Johnny Depp’s Many Film Transformations Recalls his Idol
With Black Mass opening today, audiences will once again witness Johnny Depp completely transform himself into his newest character, the terrifying and notorious Boston gangster Whitely Bulger. Depp is nearly unrecognizable as this killer with a devil’s smile, and to help him achieve this startling transformation, the actor turned to longtime make-up artist Joel Harlow and hair designer Gloria Casny, both Oscar winners, to fabricate the complex silicone and hair prosthetics. Harlow and Casny helped create the looks of Depp’s iconic portrayals of Tonto in The Lone Ranger,...
Talking to the Ashley Smith, The Real Woman Behind Captive
Kate Mara and David Oyelowo star in Captive, the gripping, intense film version of Ashley Smith’s memoir "Unlikely Angel." In the book Smith recounts her experience in 2005 when she had a terrifying but ultimately life-changing encounter with Brian Nichols, who had escaped custody in an Atlanta courthouse and fatally shot four people. Smith- at the time a young widow battling drug-addiction- was held hostage by Nichols in her apartment overnight...
Now That’s a Software Update: The New Steve Jobs Trailer Dazzles
It's Michael Fassbender day in the film world, apparently, as not one but two juicy new trailers came out for projects he's starring in. First, we got a glimpse of Fassbender as General Macbeth, coming upon the three witches in Justin Kurzel’s gritty Macbeth adaptation. And next came this new trailer for his turn as Steve Jobs, which opens with Fassbender's voiceover (a credible approximation of Jobs' higher voice than the actor's own) asking, "What if the computer was a beautiful object,...
Watch Michael Fassbender as Macbeth Face the Three Witches
This is the moment when things begin to change inside Macbeth (Michael Fassbender). Having dutifully served as a general to King Duncan (David Thewlis), killing the traitor Macdonwald in a fierce battle with Macdonwald’s rebel forces, Macbeth comes upon three figures in the gloom after the battle. These are the three witches who first put the thought in Macbeth's head that it is he, not King Duncan, who will be the Thane of Cowdor and King of Scotland. In director Justin Kurzel's evocatively shot,...
