Oscar Watch: Black Panther Co-Editor Michael Shawver on the key to Cutting Fight Scenes
Editor Michael Shawver goes way back with writer/director Ryan Coogler. In fact, he edited Coogler’s first two films, his 2013 breakout film Fruitvale Station, and his deft resurrection of the Rocky franchise with 2015’s Creed. His work on Creed turned out to be the perfect training for his next Coogler project; the epic, game-changing Black Panther.
Shawver’s gut—and keen eye—led him to feel very connected to the hand-to-hand combat scenes that took place at Warrior Falls.
John Boyega Teases Shocking Moment in Star Wars: Episode IX
Star Wars has not lacked for wild moments. In fact, the entire, mega franchise has been built around them, from the first time we plunged into the Mos Eisley Cantina with Obi-Wan and Luke to the game-changing Darth Vader reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, the early films set the template for the big, shocking moment. Once J.J. Abrams launched the new trilogy with The Force Awakens, the major moments have been coming hard and fast (Han Solo’s death,
Here’s Where the Ghostbusters Have Been Hiding
Sometimes we wait months or even more than a year to see the first trailer for a highly anticipated film. For Ghostbusters, however, 30 years is long enough. We just learned that director Jason Reitman would be dropping a new sequel and we’re already getting a taste of what revisiting the paranormal hunting movie will be like.
Reitman tweeted out a brief clip this morning reintroducing some familiar sights and sounds to Ghostbusters fans.
How’s this for Size? Warner Bros. Will Release Six Movies in ScreenX Format
Forget a 180 — how would you like to do a 270? Warner Bros. recently declared that it is releasing six movies in the ScreenX format worldwide, which allows for films to be viewed at a whopping 270 degrees.
The Hollywood Reporter stated that among the six proposed, three have already been announced: Shazam! and The Curse of La Llorona by New Line Cinema, out April 5 and April 19,
Jason Reitman to Direct new Ghostbusters Following Original Film’s Storyline
“Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!” The rumors are true: a new Ghostbusters film is coming to a theater near you. What’s even better: this chapter will be set in the same world fans of the 1984 original fell in love with.
Entertainment Weekly broke the story and spoke with the film’s slated director and co-writer, Jason Reitman (his father, Ivan Reitman, directed the original Ghostbusters.) Reitman spoke to EW about visiting the set as a kid,
A Grieving Detective Drives the Action in Film Noir State Like Sleep
Like her brooding State Like Sleep heroine Katherine Grand, filmmaker Meredith Danluck lost a close friend to suicide. Like Katherine, she moved from the United States to Belgium to live with a highly secretive partner. And like Katherine, Danluck rushed to a Brussels hospital after her mother suffered a stroke. Now currently available on Digital, On Demand, and in select theaters, State Like Sleep may draw many of its plot points from Danluck’s adult life but one of its most offbeat sequences comes straight out of a movie she saw at the age of seven.
Geeking out Over the Elementals in the Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer
Sony dropped the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home yesterday, and it made quite the splash. We speculated this past August that Hydro-Man could be in the film after Tom Holland shared some behind-the-scenes footage that included a whole lot of water being blasted everywhere. Yet the Hydro-Man of the comics is human named Morris Bench who gets transformed into the watery beast after (you guessed it) an experiment gone wrong.
New Spider-Man: Far From Home Poster Teases Peter Parker’s Travels
Pack your bags and grab your passport: Peter Parker is heading to Europe! In a surprise tweet this morning, Sony Pictures revealed the first poster for Spider-Man: Far From Home.
In theaters July 5. #SpiderManFarFromHome ?️ pic.twitter.com/K3xfXuqk3D
— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) January 15, 2019
Minutes later, Marvel showcased an epic teaser trailer, which we discuss here.
Peter Parker Fights the Elementals in First Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer
Behold, Spidey-fans; Sony has dropped the first Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. The youngest member of the Avengers has returned from the dead (somehow) after the events in Avengers: Infinity War and has taken his talents abroad. Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his high school pals are on a school trip to Europe, but you know that wherever Peter goes trouble awaits. The poor kid has already had to fight against Captain America in Germany (Captain America: Civil War),
Can the Night King Resurrect Long Dead Starks & Other Questions Following the Game of Thrones Teaser
So we’ve all watched that cryptic Game of Thrones teaser, correct? HBO has become expert at creating teasers that don’t actually show us footage from the upcoming season but are more like very beautifully crafted, narratively relevant art pieces. This most recent teaser was not the kind of fan-baiting that we’ve seen in the past (that melting block of ice, anyone?), but rather an artfully staged trip both into the past and the future,
Oscar Watch: The Favourite‘s Production Designer Re-Designs History With a Flourish
England’s Queen Anne, who only reigned from 1707 to 1714, is hardly the most notable female British sovereign, but to watch her played by Olivia Colman in director Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, one might wonder why this the first we’re hearing of her in so long. True to history, Lanthimos’s depiction of the queen shows her nearly constantly ill and in other ways unwell—she is in possession of 17 rabbits,
Oscar Watch: Composer Nicholas Britell on Nailing the Tone for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk
Juilliard-trained New York composer Nicholas Britell worked non-stop in 2018 and now he’s got two Oscar shortlisted movie scores to show for it. Early in the year, he teamed with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to write the music for If Beale Street Could Talk, the tragic love story set in early-’70s Harlem. Then he scored Dick Cheney bio-pic Vice, featuring Oscar front runner Christian Bale,
Oscar Watch: How NASA Footage Inspired the First Man Editor’s Style
The moon landing was welcomed as a shared triumph in American history, but no one had more at stake than the men who traveled there. The mission’s success was as much a feat of will as of science. First Man captures the danger and courage of pioneering space travel in both broad historic and intensely microscopic ways. Editor Tom Cross was inspired by the movie’s ambition of telling a famous story from a human perspective.
Oscar Watch: How BlacKkKlansman‘s Composer Channeled Jimi Hendrix’s Iconic Riffs
Terence Blanchard landed on this year’s Best Original Score Oscar shortlist by crafting the stirring score for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Based on a true story and set in 1971, the movie casts John David Washington as Ron Stallworth, a black cop who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with his Jewish colleague (Adam Driver) by impersonating a white supremacist over the phone. Blanchard, a jazz trumpeter who grew up in New Orleans alongside Wynton Marsalis,
Oscar Watch: A Quiet Place‘s Sound Designers on Triggering our Brain’s Reptilian Fear Response
Supervising sound editors Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn had the unusual challenge of applying their expertise to a film that would be so quiet, it had the word in its title. John Krasinski’s thrilling, chilling A Quiet Place was predicated on a brilliant idea; alien monsters have turned the planet into one giant Amtrak quiet car. Only in this world, if you make a sound you’ll suffer a fate far worse than the annoyance of your fellow train passengers.
Game of Thrones Season 8 Trailer Teases Epic Clash, Reveals Premiere Date
The first official teaser for Game of Thrones 8th and final season begins more or less where the epic series began—the Crypt of Winterfell. I say the series began there because it was Ned Stark (Sean Bean)’s death in season one that sent such shockwaves through the viewing public (especially for those of us who hadn’t read George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Fire and Ice” novel series) and made Game of Thrones a show even people who claimed to hate fantasy pay attention to.
Oscar Watch: Justin Hurwitz on Composing the Emotional Toll of Reaching For The Moon in First Man
Oscar and Golden Globe-winning composer Justin Hurwitz crafts scores that feature stirring and beautiful notes and chord progressions, but they are born from human experiences. Hurwitz mines melodies alongside his longtime creative partner, Damien Chazelle, who directs with music in mind. Their first three films together examined the human condition through musicians including a jazz trumpeter (Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench), a drum student (Whiplash),
Oscar Watch: A Quiet Place‘s Production Designer on Creating Killer Spaces
In John Krasinski‘s A Quiet Place, sound kills. Yet it’s not only what one might say (or scream) that can get you killed, but anything you come into contact with. This means the spaces within the world of A Quiet Place can go from a sanctuary to a trap in a heartbeat. In order to create an environment that was as claustrophobic and terrifying as the film’s brilliant premise,
Oscar Watch: DP James Laxton on Creating Radical Intimacy in If Beale Street Could Talk
Oscar-nominated cinematographer James Laxton (Moonlight) and his longtime collaborator director Barry Jenkins did something novel with If Beale Street Could Talk, and we’re not just talking about the fact the film is adapted from the legendary James Baldwin’s titular novel. Unlike their previous collaborations, 2008’s Medicine for Melancholy, set in San Francisco, and 2016’s Oscar-winning Moonlight, set in Miami, Beale Street unfolds in a city neither had an intimate knowledge of—New York.
Are the Avengers Reassembling for the Oscars?
What will it take to bring back our beloved, fallen Avengers after the now infamous Thanos snap? If you’re thinking it’s Captain Marvel, you might be right about how things shake out in Avengers: Endgame, but it looks like we’ll be seeing them a whole lot sooner—at the Oscars. The Hollywood Reporter has it that the Oscars producers are looking to bring back the Avengers for the telecast (there will be no host this year),
