Green Book‘s Viggo Mortensen on the Power of a Great Script
The much-anticipated new release from director and co-screenwriter Peter Farrelly, Green Book, was just given the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Middleburg Film Festival. The film has been received with equal enthusiasm at all its screenings, garnering, among others, the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The story, which is based on the experiences of the real people portrayed in the film, is about the development of a lifelong friendship between working-class Italian-American Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) and erudite piano virtuoso and African-American Doctor Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali),...
The Cast of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Gushes Over the Costume Design
“There’s one side of acting that I have always loved, and that’s the costume side,” Dame Helen Mirren professes in a new featurette for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. And she has worn some fantastic ones from Mike O’Neill’s designs for Elizabeth I to the Excalibur costumes designed by Bob Ringwood. Her ensemble for Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms may be her most fanciful yet...
Listen to a Piece of Hans Zimmer’s Score for Steven McQueen’s Widows
Steven McQueen’s Widows is one of this fall’s must-see films. One of the most thrilling heist movies in recent memory, Widows boasts an exceptional cast, a killer script from Sharp Objects and Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn and McQueen, and, not for nothing, a subtle, potent score from the legendary Hans Zimmer. As wrote this past September, when you see McQueen’s brilliant crime drama, you’ll notice a persistent humming throughout...
Fans Spot a Potential New Clue in that Avengers 4 Image
More than a month has passed since the Russo Brothers dropped that cryptic image on the set of Avengers 4 with a supposed hidden clue in sight. The black and white image seems to be pretty devoid of any recognizable MCU imagery, but there is still a lot to look at. People were counting the shapes that made the letter “A,” trying to make out hidden words, and zooming in on Joe Russo’s computer screen. Now,...
Three Criminals and A Judge: Women Rule in our Friday Trailer & Clip Breakdown
Their characters might have nothing in common, but all these women share one thing; they’re headlining these big-time fall films.
We’ve already told you about how sensational Widows is (you can read our interviews with the film’s composer Hans Zimmer and editor Joe Walker)—the incomparable Viola Davis leads a stellar, female-focused cast in director Steve McQueen’s heist masterpiece. In a new featurette from 20th Century Fox, the cast and co-writer Gillian Flynn discuss the deliciously twisty story,...
Star Trek Getting an Animated Makeover from Rick and Morty Writer
The most delightfully nerdy event in the nerdy history of Star Trek may be what nerded today. CBS All Access has picked up two seasons of a new animated series call Star Trek: Lower Decks. As the title may imply, the stars of the series will be the most mundane among the ship. Rick and Morty writer and Star Trek superfan, Mike McMahan, will helm the project, which all but guarantees it will be seriously funny...
Hiccup Unites the Town to Save the Dragons in a New Hidden World Trailer
If you truly love something, let it go. That’s the lesson Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) seems destined to learn in the final chapter of How to Train Your Dragon. The third movie of the trilogy will reveal The Hidden World, or a dragon oasis and the safe haven may be needed now more than ever. There’s a ruthless hunter who is determined to kill out dragon kind including Toothless. A new trailer for the animated epic illustrates the stakes we are dealing with here...
Liam Neeson is a Deadly Snowplow Driver in First Cold Pursuit Trailer
“What makes you think you can kill a man?” William Forsythe’s character asks Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson) at the start of the Cold Pursuit trailer. The question no doubt makes sense within the plot of the film (Nels isn’t some former assassin or ex-cop, he’s a snowplow driver), but it also serves as a winking nod to the fact that Neeson has become, somewhat unexpectedly at first, the most bankable action-star not named Dwayne Johnson in the business,...
Watch Taron Egerton Train to Be a Master Archer in Robin Hood
I am here today to confess that I owe the cast and crew of Robin Hood an apology. Ever since the first trailer was released, I never stopped to consider that the arrow action could be remotely realistic, much less real. There is a lot of jumping, spinning, and fire throwing going on, so I didn’t imagine Taron Egerton was slinging any actual arrows. Turns out, I was wrong. The archery consultant for the film, Lars Andersen,...
Enter the Panic Room in new The Girl in the Spider’s Web Clip
When you’re a vigilante with a long list of highly dangerous enemies, you need to watch your back. When you’re a vigilante who is also an expert hacker and your enemies list include spies, international mafias and assassins, you need a panic room. Such is the case for Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) in this new clip from The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Having previously watched Salander string up a man who was beating his wife and ride her motorcycle across a frozen lake,...
Midge Has Big Goals for Her Career in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 2
Praise be to the comedy gods. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is just weeks away from returning. A lot has happened to Midge since we saw her last, which she will probably catch us up on through her standup routine. A new trailer for season 2 reveals that a year has passed since Midge first walked out on her cheating husband and onto the stage. She took some big risks with even bigger repercussions that will hopefully be addressed when the Emmy winning show returns...
The Vietnam War Sound Designer on Enhancing Emotional Memories of the War
The Vietnam War was a harrowing conflict with ramifications that spread far from the fighting. It was the most divisive war of the 20th century that haunted veterans and civilians alike for decades. Cameras captured the brutal battles with unprecedented access. Piecing together hundreds of hours of archival footage and interviews with survivors, celebrated documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick assembled an intimate portrait of the horror and humanity of the war. The Vietnam War created an illusion of immersion that demanded reconstruction of scenes with no or low-quality sound and gripping witness accounts...
The First Trailer for Netflix Thriller Bird Box Starring Sandra Bullock Looks Incredible
Netflix’s has dropped the first trailer for their upcoming thriller Bird Box, which boasts a stellar cast, a novel concept and a terrific director in Susanne Bier. If you want to compare Bird Box to a recent film, you won’t do better than John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place. Where A Quiet Place dealt with a terrifying alien force that hunted by sound, Bier’s film, based on a novel from Josh Malerman (adapted by Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer),...
The Mid90s Cast on Skating & Sticking to the Script in Jonah Hill’s Directorial Debut
Sunny Suljic, the young, breakout star of Mid90s, says most audiences don’t even know that he’s a proficient skater in real life. But for Suljic that’s proof that he did a convincing job playing a novice skateboarder in Jonah Hill’s directing debut.
Truth is, the pint-sized Suljic, at just 13, is as adept at extreme skateboarding as the rest of the movie’s young ensemble of non-professionals (Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Ryder McLaughlin) that was cast for both skateboarding skills and group chemistry...
Details Emerge About Hereditary Director Ari Aster’s Next Horror Movie
Writer/director Ari Aster is going to ruin the end of your 2020 (but in the best way). The talented filmmaker behind Hereditary, this year’s scariest horror movie, will once again be writing and directing a new film for powerhouse studio A24, set to bow late next summer, on August 9. Details have emerged about the plot, and they sound promisingly creepy. Jack Reynor (Macbeth), Florence Pugh (Outlaw King) and Will Poulter (The Maze Runner) will star in a film about a vacation that goes horrifically wrong...
Joker Movie Casts its Young Bruce Wayne
The final pieces are coming together for Todd Phillips’ Joker. The gritty take on Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix)’s transformation into Gotham’s most prolific, unhinged villain has just cast Dante Pereira-Olson as the young Bruce Wayne and Douglas Hodge as Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne family butler who becomes something like the young Bruce’s surrogate father. Pereira-Olson has already worked with Phoenix before; he played a young version of Phoenix’s character Joe in Lynn Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. ...
How the Strodes Honored the Past and Opened the Future of Halloween
The moment after seeing Halloween at TIFF, I was immediately squirming to talk about it with everyone everywhere. The time has finally come to do just that as virtually everyone and their babysitter has now seen the much-anticipated sequel. Halloween cut down the competition with a $33.3 million an opening day in October and raking in $77.5 million in the first weekend. Jamie Lee Curtis shattered dusty records paving the way for other women,...
Jean-Marc Vallée to Direct John Lennon/Yoko Ono Film for Universal
Jean-Marc Vallée might not be a household name quite yet, but we bet that’s going to change. The Wild and Dallas Buyers Club director has made his mark on the big screen and small. Lately, his work on HBO has been phenomenal. He helmed every episode of two standout series; Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Now Deadline reports that Vallée has jumped on board Universal Pictures’...
Emily Blunt Sings Our Troubles Away in New Mary Poppins Returns Trailer
Disney has released a musical, magical, marvelous look at Mary Poppins Returns. Everyone’s favorite nanny looks – and sounds – as lovely as ever and we get to see her enchanting abilities in action. From porpoises in the bath to flying over the city, there’s nothing Mary cannot do.
The sequel to the 1964 film will revive the brief period of Disney history that mixed animation with live action. The 2D animation has definitely undergone some sprucing with even more impressive integration than before...
Wonder Woman 1984 Returns to Its Original Release Date
While Wonder Woman fans are surely going to argue with this fact, it’s likely very good news that Wonder Woman 1984‘s release has been pushed back 8 months. Patty Jenkins’ follow has been slated for a November 1, 2019 premiere, but has now been moved back to June 5, 2020. Diana Prince herself Gal Gadot shared the news on Twitter:
Super excited to announce that, thanks to the changing landscape, we are able to put Wonder Woman back to its rightful home...
