M. Night Shyamalan’s Surprising Choices While Making The Visit
Much has been made about the odyssey of M. Night Shyamalan’s film career. He had one of the most explosive debuts in modern film history, bursting onto the scene with The Sixth Sense, his 1999 blockbuster that resonated with audiences and had that incredible twist ending. The twist ending became the young director's hallmark, as would his ability to make intimate, uncannily creepy films. He followed The Sixth Sense up with two more hits—his ordinary man who is actually a superhero film, ...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toys Offer Chance to See Characters, Vehicles
Next Friday, September 4, has been christened “Force Friday” by the Walt Disney Company. That’s the day that more than 1,000 retail partners around the world will be opening their stores at midnight to unveil toys and products associated with the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Disney has also initiated a video component to promote the toys. Beginning in Australia on September 3 and continuing over the next 18 hours in 12 countries, their network of online video creators will open up the new toys...
9 Things You Might Not Have Known About Back to the Future
Our friends over at CineFix are it again, this time with a look at 9 things you might not know about Back to the Future as we celebrate it’s 30th anniversary.
While some of these are reasonably well known at this point (are you really unaware that Michael J. Fox wasn’t the original Marty McFly, but rather this guy was?), lots of these tidbits are juicy,...
Hayao Miyazaki’s Brilliant Princess Mononoke Retold as an 8-Bit Videogame
Princess Mononoke is one of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films. It’s been hailed as a landmark in the world of animation, an epic anime action historical fantasy written and directed by Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. Set in the late Muromachi period (roughly 1336-1573), the story follows young Emishi warrior Ashitaka and her role in the struggle between the forest gods and the humans who hope to plunder its resources. If you haven’t seen it,...
Kylo Ren’s Lightsaber! Stormtroopers! Beautiful Star Wars Fan Art
Perhaps more than any other film franchise in the history of the medium, Star Wars has created a vast universe of fan fiction, art, videos and more in a kind of parallel universe in which George Lucas’s creations live on, and on, and on. A lot of is very, very good, too.
Take “No country for old men,” an illustration by Ornicar (and named after Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name,...
Andy Milburn on Scoring Screams in Sinister 2
Bughuul (aka The Bogeyman) is back to his terrifying ways in Sinister 2. The Credits talks to composer Andy Milburn, one half of prolific composing duo tomandandy, on working on the score and why horror requires a more delicate touch than you would think.
So, I just saw Sinister 2, and I’m terrified of horror movies, but I got through it. It was scary but I survived,...
Artist Drew Struzan Thinks The Force Awakens is Best Star Wars Film Ever
The ripple effects from Disney’s D23 Expo are still being felt—and now we have this: poster artist extraordinaire Drew Struzan, who has been with the franchise since the very beginning, thinks that J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be the best Star Wars yet. In a conversation with Movie-Weekly, Struzan and this to say:
"I got to read the script and subsequently I’ve seen half of it (The Force Awakens) and I can tell you and the fans this, honest to god,...
Things Go Bump in the Night in 1st Victor Frankenstein Trailer
James McAvoy is Victor Von Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe is his loyal assistant Igor in 20th Century Fox's Victor Frankenstein. So that’s a pretty good start there. Told from Igor’s perspective, this seemingly kinetic take on Mary Shelley’s deathless classic looks like good fun. At 1:30 in, your first glimpse at a now very much alive monster promises that director Paul McGuigan screenwriter Max Landis are not pulling any deadly punches. This version of the Frankenstein tale also seems to give Igor a whole lot more complexity (and removes his hunchback),...
Composer Daniel Pemberton on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. & More
For you Peep Show fans out there (and we know you're out there), composer Daniel Pemberton is the man who created the British comedy's incredibly catchy theme song, "Pip Pop Plop." If you've never seen the show, you start watching it—it's consistently hilarious. If you have seen the show, then this little diddy will make you smile:
Pemberton has done a lot of great work for British TV, from the beloved Peep Show ...
Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange & More Revealed at D23 Expo
So who is your favorite Avenger? It seems Captain America is the favorite of many young fans in attendance at this past weekend’s D23 Expo in Anaheim. Let's start with this incredibly cute picture of a “Captain America: 2035”…. Young actor/dancer/rapper Miles Brown (Baby Boogaloo) with Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie.
Marvel Studios held a two-hour presentation, treating superhero aficionados to pre-teaser/trailer footage for Captain America: Civil War, due to hit theaters in May 2016. ...
Artist Drew Sturzan’s Gorgeous Star Wars: The Force Awakens Poster
Amid the Star Wars smorgasbord that was the D23 Expo this past weekend, this juicy poster from artist Drew Struzan was released. Struzan has created more than 150 movie posters, many of them iconic. Along with Star Wars posters, Struzan's created indelible images for Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Struzan's beautiful poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens ...
Star Wars: Rogue One Cast Photo Revealed
The massive D-23 Expo this past weekend in Anaheim has given us a ton of fresh Star Wars news, including this cast photo from the set of Gareth Edwards' Star Wars: Rogue One.
The new standalone Star Wars stories series has begun principal photography, with director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters) at the helm, Rogue One centers on resistance fighters, led by Felicity Jones, who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star...
Mad Style: The Man From U.N.C.L.E’s Production Designer Oliver Scholl
Guy Ritchie’s latest film The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a remake of the 1960s TV series, starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander. The spy film, set at the height of the Cold War, is a stylish ride, shot through with humor. The Credits talks to production designer Oliver Scholl (Jumper, Edge of Tomorrow) about how to achieve a stylish, rather than stylized look, and the challenge of creating “Frankenstein”...
The New York Film Studio That Helped the Allies Win World War II – Part II
We continue our discussion with Hal Rosenbluth, President/CEO of Kaufman Astoria Studios, about the studio’s contribution to the war effort. Once the home of Paramount Pictures, the Astoria Studio was taken over by the U.S. Signal Corps at the beginning of WWII in 1943. Then known as the Army Pictorial Center, it was used for the filming and development of Army training and indoctrination films, including Frank Capra's epic Why We Fight series. The basement sound stages were also used for wartime blood drives...
Check out Artist Marko Manev’s Noir Star Wars Print Series
Today at 12pm eastern, Bottleneck Gallery and Acme Archives are releasing Marko Manev's latest noir print series of the original Star Wars trilogy. Manev's Star Wars-inspired art is elegant, stripped down and haunting. They capture something ineffable about these characters—the loneliness of Vader juxtaposed with the camaraderie and loyalty of friends like Han Solo and Chewy and R2D2 and C3PO.
The 13″ x 19″ giclee prints (meaning they were made on inkjet printers) will be numbered out of an edition of 125,...
The New York Film Studio That Helped the Allies Win World War II – Part I
August 15, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of V-J Day, the day the world found out that Japan had surrendered which, in effect, ended World War II. To commemorate the anniversary, we had the pleasure of speaking with Hal Rosenbluth, President/CEO of Kaufman Astoria Studios, where, along with the Signal Corps Photographic Center (SCPC), all of the Army’s films where shot. Today Kaufman Astoria Studios produces some of the most acclaimed movies and television shows,...
Trumbo: A Powerful Look at Hollywood and the Blacklist
Hollywood loves the topic of Hollywood. Most movies about movies illuminate the wonderful, creative, even magical process of bringing stories to the screen, but with Trumbo, a critical eye is being turned towards a less savory aspect of Tinsel Town, in particular the effects that the House Committee on Un-American Activities had on those who plied their trade in the movie business, and those who helped created and maintain the Hollywood Blacklist.
The first trailer for the biopic Trumbo has just been released,...
Get to Know the New Bond Women of Spectre
In a new behind-the-scenes video about Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, we get to meet the latest in the franchise’s tough, resilient – and beautiful “Bond women.” Director Sam Mendes shares his vision for the type of women to play against the character of James Bond, and why he selected Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color, Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded,...
Here’s How They Made the Incredible Inception Hallway Fight Scene
CineFix’s latest Art of the Scene video tackles one of the more ambitious, wild sequences in modern film history: the rotating hotel corridor fight scene in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. In the scene, Joseph Gordon-Levitt grapples with a bad guy in zero gravity dream battle. The beauty of the scene was in no small part due to Nolan’s decision to find a practical way to film it rather than rely on CGI. CineFix shows us how they pulled this off,...
Sleeping With Other People & the ‘Can Guys & Girls Just Be Friends?’ Film
The story sounds like so many we've heard before—you run into the guy who took your virginity at a sex-addict support group and form a When Harry Met Sally-type friendship. Does this ring a bell for you? Okay, not exactly the stuff of the famous Katz’s Deli scene (also, at that point Harry and Sally hadn't become lovers), but this is exactly what happens in the romantic comedy Sleeping with Other People, starring Alison Brie (Community,...
