New Teaser Connects Black Panther to Avengers: Age of Ultron
With Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron available today on Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA), the studio is releasing a few new bonus features to remind fans (as if they needed reminding) about how interconnected the vast Marvel universe really is. DMA is available via iTunes, Google Play, and Walmart’s VUDU, and adds more devices next week as Roku and Android TV come on board.
The latest example clues us in on a few hints to the Black Panther’s ghostly presence in Age of Ultron...
Sam Smith Will Sing Your Spectre Title Song
It was always going to be hard to top Adele's thrilling, gorgeous song "Skyfall" for the last James Bond film. Adele's "Skyfall" won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. For a quick refresher, have a listen to what was, in our opinion, the greatest title song in the modern Bond era.
The upcoming ...
Watch This Avengers: Age of Ultron Blooper Reel
If you're curious how they were able to actually make Avengers: Age of Ultron, look no further than our interview with the film's production designer, Charles Wood, right here. If you're wondering what prominent authors and scientists think about the possibility of an sentient artificial intelligence becoming Ultron-like (evil, that is), you can read this piece to find out. Or, if you want to watch Chris Evans forget possibly the easiest line in the film,...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Force Friday is Upon Us
BB-8 in a Hot Wheels, Kylo Ren's mask, a Lego Millennium Falcon—all this and more is available at retailers around the globe as ‘Force Friday’ is officially underway. It's a merch extravaganza, inspired, of course, by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and following the 18+ hour global live unboxing event on YouTube, where the new product range were officially unveiled. Now more than the 3,000 retail locations in the U.S. have opened their doors at midnight for fans to use the force of their wallets to snatch up all that sweet ...
This Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 Toy is Gonna be Huge
The company Sphero has unleashed a toy so adorable it may just blow your (or your 10-year old son's) mind. Behold, the already-beloved BB-8, now in miniature form, controllable from your Android or iOS device. Bow down to your new master:
You can drive your new BB-8, you can put the BB-8 in "patrol mode," its autonomous setting, so it can keep an eye on you while you raid the fridge (data on the BB-8's speed, path,...
Great Quotes From J.J. Abrams About Making Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Internet is abuzz with speculation this morning that a new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be coming next week, while The Force Awakens global toy unboxing live stream event is happening now. If you’re looking for more concrete Star Wars info, however, the Associated Press’s Jake Coyle nabbed an interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J...
Everest Opens Venice Film Festival With Thrills & Chills
The 72nd Venice Film Festival got off to a thrilling, chilling start with Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest. The 3D drama premiered out of competition at the festival, the first of several high-profile U.S. films playing alongside films by a slew of international superstar directors.
Described by The Hollywood Reporter’s chief critic Todd McCarthy as a “gripping and immersive dramatization of a tragic trek,” Everest follows the real life account of a deadly 1996 expedition by two different climbing teams during one of the mountain’s legendarily brutal storms...
Three Seriously Talented Actresses on Star Wars: Episode VIII Shortlist
The folks over at The Wrap reported that Oprhan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Olivia Cooke are all on the shortlist for Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, to be directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Brick) and set for release on May 26,...
Killer Cars: Check out This Mad Max: Fury Road Infographic
Back in May, we introduced you to Jacinta Leong, art director on Mad Max: Fury Road and one of the people responsible for bringing you those beastly machines. Leong's task was huge, both literally and narratively, as without the machines, Mad Max: Fury Road can't exist. Fusing two Cadillacs bodies together, installing a massive engine and having the thing actually drive was just part of her task.
Today, Warner Bros. has released the below infographic to re-introduce you to the vehicles that helped make ...
Back to School Watch List: College Edition
Whether you are filling out your 25th undergrad application, heading to monster ragers as your parents drive away with tears in their eyes, or quietly preparing yourself for a whole new phase of your life – we've got a college movie for you. We can all relate to these famous flicks with a wince or a smile…. Everyone is or was one of these famous film foils.
Okay, so maybe you didn’t invent Facebook or get accepted to Harvard (undergrad or law);...
The Danish Girl Looks Utterly Moving
The word “Oscar” has been unavoidable ever since people learned Eddie Redmayne would be starring in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, playing transgender artist and pioneer Lili Elbe. Fresh off his Oscar win for his astonishing transformation into Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, all anybody needed to hear was "Redmayne" and "transgender artist" to grant him his second nomination for Best Actor in a row. Well, after watching the first trailer for ...
Director David Ayer Shares Suicide Squad Wrap Photo
Can you pick out the various bad guys that star in David Ayer’s upcoming Suicide Squad in this sprawling wrap photo? Can you find the Enchantress (Cara Delevigne), Deadshot (Will Smith), and the Killer Croc (Adele Akinnuoye-Agbaje)? Ayer (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day) is perhaps the perfect director to tackle the story of a bunch of supervillains taking on a suicidal black ops mission, and if the Comic-Con trailer and this wrap photo of what appears to be a pretty happy group of stars and filmmakers are any indiction,...
Will Smith’s Concussion Trailer Drops Right in Time for NFL Season
As millions of fans get psyched up for the start of the 2015 NFL season, the sport’s brutality, and its subsequent, lasting effect on the players, is a fact that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore. And now comes writer/director Peter Landesman’s film Concussion, starring Will Smith’s as the real life forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, and his battle against the NFL, which just released its new trailer...
Back To School Watch List: High School Edition
The buses are hitting the road; new planners are blank slates primed for doodling and you're in the homework honeymoon period. Labor Day approaches, which means school is right around the corner, and there's no time like the present to travel back in time and share a little school anxiety and mischief with some of our favorite high school characters.
Who can forget surfer dude Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High or the spirit finger of the Mighty Toros in Bring It On (celebrating its 15th anniversary this week)...
Must-See Doc: He Named Me Malala Trailer Debuts
If you've never heard the story, you should read up on Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, and then you should see acclaimed director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about her when it's released on October 2.
At the age of 15, Yousafzai was targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan. She was shot in the head. The result wasn't Yousafzai's death, but rather international media outrage and the emboldening of the intended target. Far from silenced,...
We Are Your Friends & the History of DJs in Film
Inventing the next big app and selling it to Facebook for umpteen billion dollars is so last year. If We Are Your Friends, opening today and starring Zac Efron, is to be believed, contemporary, money-minded millennials would rather make it big throwing the party, rather than get rich in order to get into it. Coming up with the next big EDM hit is the new inventing Instagram for Efron’s Cole Carter, a college student busy DJing parties (with varying success),...
Finn’s Got A Lightsaber? Watch new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser
“There’s been an awakening. Have you felt it”? Um, yes, Star Wars, we have. And now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens released a teaser to a teaser trailer today on Instagram, we can be pretty sure that the 8 people who haven’t yet felt it (they’ve been on the International Space Station) have as well. While short in length, it reverberated with in sound, scope, and dramatic effect. Also, it showed our new favorite character,...
The Iron Giant: Signature Edition Re-Entering Theaters With 2 New Scenes
Yahoo! Movies! gives us this glimpse of Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) 1999 classic The Iron Giant, now being re-released into theaters after getting remastered, including the addition two all-new scenes. The Iron Giant was two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird's debut, and is the story of an unlikely friendship between a rebellious boy named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) and a giant robot,...
Pixar in a Box: Learn Pixar’s Creative Process in Free Online Class
Animators, filmmakers, students of (almost) all ages, and fans of Pixar alike have reason to smile this morning, as a new online resource that explores the concepts behind Pixar's creative process goes online at KhanAcadmey.org. The series will consist of interactive exercises, video lessons and hands-on activities, where students from middle school up to people of all ages can learn the academic concepts Pixar filmmakers use to create their worlds.
Starting today, students can access Pixar in a Box and learn:
How combinatorics are used to create crowds,...
Creating Star Wars: The Force Awakens Newest Droid—BB-8
When it came to creating a new droid for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the task for J.J. Abrams and his fellow filmmakers was not without potential disaster—R2-D2 and C-3P0 are such iconic characters in the Star Wars universe that any new droid that was to have a decent sized role (larger a role than, say, the jealous droid R5-D4) would have to be worthy of its legendary predecessors. The folks at StarWars.com published this eye-opening long form article about the newest droid in the galaxy—BB-8,...
