Thor: Ragnarok Director Had a Bold, New Vision for the Franchise
When you head to the theater this weekend to see Thor: Ragnarok, don’t expect to see the same old Thor swinging the same old hammer saving the same old world from certain doom. Ok, well, he probably will be doing those things, but director Taika Waititi had a vision for the franchise that gives the Norse god new energy.
Speaking with io9, Waititi said he was drawn to the series because of its potential...
First Look at A Christmas Story Live!
The itchy collars, the ugly sweaters, the gaudy leg lamps. We all remember taking the family Christmas photo and now we can relive it all again with the Parkers. The first promo for A Christmas Story Live! reveals Ralphie, Randy, Mother and the Old Man posing in their wintry best.
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The iconic battle over the Old Man’s “major award” is brewing once again. Mother (Maya Rudolph) has the boys in picture perfect order while the Old Man (Chris Diamantopoulos) sets up the self-timing camera on the tripod...
The Design Secrets Behind the Porgs in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Over the course of Rey’s search for Luke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she finally found the Jedi master hiding out on the remote planet of Ahch-To. What we’re also going to find in The Last Jedi is something wonderful we weren’t expecting; the planet is inhabited by many interesting species, but the most adorable of all are the porgs.
The cuddly pocket sized creatures with their enormous eyes were definitely designed with the “aw” factor in mind,...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi “Destiny” Spot Boasts new Footage
Think about how patiently we all waited for a Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer, how richly we were rewarded when the first official one dropped, and then how casually most of us missed the new “Destiny” spot. Granted, it’s not technically new, but it does feature a few brand new moments from Rian Johnson’s film, which is more than enough reason to give this a bit more than three minutes of your time. The theme, right there in the title,...
1922 Costume Designer on Bringing Stephen King’s Characters Off the Page
The ‘Roaring 20s’ are often glamourized in entertainment, but there was a more pragmatic lifestyle on farmland in the Midwest. Costume designer Claudia da Ponte gets that tone just right in the Stephen King thriller 1922, setting farmer Wilfred James and his family off on a long and gruesome descent into madness. What the characters want, and the conflict it causes with what they have, drives the course of their lives. The most visual cue of their yearning comes from their clothing,...
Giant Ants Wreak Havoc in It Came From the Desert Trailer
Ants don’t usually rank too high on the list of common phobias, but thanks to It Came from the Desert, we can confirm that if they were the size of a horse, ants would terrorize everyone. The first trailer from the video game inspired movie is ridiculously fun and scarier than you might imagine giants ants would be.
A group of teenage motocross enthusiast in the desert are suddenly attacked by a swarm of gigantic ants...
Pet Sematary Remake Brings Directing Team Onboard
This is Stephen King’s world and we are just living in it. It blew up box offices this year, the long anticipated Dark Tower was released, Mr. Mercedes was renewed for a 2nd season, and Gerald’s Game and 1922 added strong content to Netflix’s lineup, all from King’s source material. Fans can’t get enough of the King of Horror and a remake of 1989’s Pet Sematary is in the works...
Blade Runner: 2049 Had Enough Footage for Two Films
When filmmakers harvest a really great idea, sometimes the most difficult part is cutting it down. Telling a really rich story, without overly obvious exposition, can be a challenge. Such appears to have been the case for one of the most complex films of the year, Blade Runner 2049.
The film’s editor, Joe Walker, told Provideo Coalition that the original cut was nearly four hours. He said that director Denis Villeneuve considered releasing two movies with all of the extra footage...
Greta Gerwig On Moving Behind the Camera for her Solo Directorial Debut Lady Bird
Fans of Greta Gerwig know her as the go-to muse of indie filmdom’s mumblecore movement and for her collaborations with such notable directors as Joe Swanberg (LOL, Nights and Weekends) and Noah Baumbach (Greenberg,...
How The Ritual‘s Cinematographer Immerses You in Fear
In The Ritual, a group of friends lose one of their own in a robbery gone bad, but that’s just the beginning of the horrors in store. The atmospheric thriller pulls you deeper into the woods where they encounter sinister things they can’t explain that begin to tear their bond apart. Once they begin to turn on one another, none of them are safe. Cinematographer Andrew Shulkind’s filming style immerses you in the terror in a unique way...
Gal Gadot Explains How Her Portrayal of Wonder Woman Has Evolved
When you’re part of a franchise with multiple characters who all have separate storylines played out over many different movies, things sometimes have to evolve to come together. Gal Gadot revealed the artistic choices her and the Wonder Woman team had to make for us to see the character the way she was meant to be.
The contemporary Wonder Woman made her first appearance in Batman v Superman, a film that Ben Affleck agreed took the characters to a dark and unfamiliar place...
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Easter Eggs You’ve Never Seen
In a franchise that is rich with Easter Eggs, tie ins, crossovers, and post credits clues, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 director James Gunn is king. You have to be an eagle eyed super fan to catch everything he’s hidden, but even the sharpest of viewers would have missed these.
Gunn posted photos on Facebook of the Missouri town they built in Atlanta that Star Lord hails from. The charming store fronts,...
Hear from the Cast of the Wild World of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
“The game will always find a way to be played,” star Dwayne Johnson reminds us in a new Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle featurette. The cast is interviewed about the clever new spin on the interactive adventure game in which the players are literally sucked into the game and assume the identities of their avatars. The family film premieres this holiday season and Johnson promises that even though it’s a tropical setting, Jumanji captures the “spirit of wonderment” you crave that time of year...
Writer/Director Margaret Betts on her new Film Novitiate
What happens when a Manhattan socialite turned filmmaker (The Carrier, a 2011 doc about the AIDS pandemic in Africa) makes an impulse pre-flight purchase of a biography about Mother Teresa that contains revealing letters about her passionate relationship with God?
If you are Margaret Betts, 42, you are inspired to dramatically explore the all-consuming intimate nature of a nun’s commitment to her faith...
The Secrets Behind how Filmmakers Made the Most Memorable Aliens of All-Time
The existence of aliens has been confirmed time and time again (in the world of movies). These beings span a wide variety of origins and appearances, genres and styles, as well as unique creative processes and innovative applications for visual and special effects (SFX) in film production. Extraterrestrials have been a rich source of inspiration for filmmakers since nearly the advent of the medium, and have become the stars of some of the most iconic films in history. In 1977,...
Learn how to Become Westworld‘s Wicked Bandit Armistice for Halloween
If you’ve been following our monsters-in-motion Halloween extravaganza, you’ll have learned about great spooky family classics, heard from the Jigsaw composer Charlie Clouser on how to construct a score for a film designed to scare you half to death, taken a trip inside the never-ending haunted house of Winchester, learned from the Happy Death Day cinematographer how to revive the teen slasher film and more. Today,...
Director Rob Reiner Talks Upcoming Biopic LBJ
Rob Reiner’s long list of directing credits includes An American President (1995), about the romance between a fictional widowed U.S. President (Micheal Douglas) and a lobbyist (Annette Bening) that was, in many ways, a precursor to the landmark TV series The West Wing (Aaron Sorkin wrote both). But Reiner tackles a factual political story and a far more complex presidency in his latest film,...
Nathan Fillion to Headline The Rookie
The sting of Castle ending last year after eight seasons is still raw, but there is hope for something equally exhilarating to fill our bruised and battered hearts. Deadline reported that Nathan Fillion has signed on to star in The Rookie on ABC produced by Castle showrunner, Alexi Hawley.
Fillion’s guest appearances on Modern Family have kept us afloat, but this sound like a return to material that is much more similar to Castle’s format...
Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows May Get American Spin-Off
Taika Waititi is very soon to be known as “The Thor: Ragnarok guy,” but before that, he made the perfect-in-every-way-cult classic What We Do in the Shadows. Springing off of Waititi’s meteoric success, the vampire mockumentary may be developed into a TV series in the U.S.
Waititi told Fandango, “We’re trying to develop a U.S. version of What We Do in the Shadows. You know, set here in the states,...
Thor: Ragnarok Director Imagines a Funny Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow for a Spinoff
If you still don’t know the name Taika Waititi, enjoy your last weekend of being oblivious to his magic. Waititi directed Thor: Ragnarok, which is going to be a massive hit and has already garnered a ton of praise (the film opens next Friday, November 3). Waititi has collaborated with comedians like Jemaine Clement in the past, with films like What We Do in the Shadows, a delicious vampire comedy, and he used his comedic gifts to sculpt ...
