The Gladers Head for the Lost City in New Maze Runner: The Death Cure Trailer
We’re so thrilled to see this trailer for the final film of the Maze Runner trilogy after star Dylan O’Brien’s terrifying accident on set last year. It’s great to see the actor back in action. O’Brien’s recovery pushed back production by a year, but it looks like he’s back in top form to fight the WKCD.
After spending the first two films escaping the Glade and avoiding the Flare, The Death Cure finds the Gladers on a mission to enter the Lost City,...
The Last Movie: Character Actor Harry Dean Stanton, RIP, Finally Gets Lucky Title Role
Stealing scenes for more than half a century in some 200 movies and TV shows, Henry Dean Stanton has played everything from spaceship crew member (Alien) and psychotic criminal (Repo Man) to a Mormon patriarch with fourteen wives (Big Love). Instantly identifiable in his later years for haunted eyes suggesting a man who’s stared straight into the abyss and lived to tell the tale, Stanton finally snagged his first title role in Lucky (opening Friday Sept...
New Blade Runner 2049 Images Hint at Epic Sci-Fi Noir
We are only two weeks away from the premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which means that Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment will likely be stepping up their promotion of the film, hence this fantastic batch of new images. Blade Runner 2049’s story, scripted by Hampton Fincher (the man who wrote Ridley Scott’s original film) and Michael Green (Alien: Covnenat) has been largely kept secret, but we’ve got a bit more of an idea of the central thrust of the narrative now...
Californians Claim a Victory with Battle of the Sexes
Last week, we published our tennis obsessed correspondent David Thorpe’s fantastic interview with Battle of the Sexes editor Pamela Martin, about how Martin helped turned stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell into tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. It took a village—including Martin, cinematographer Linus Sandgreen, and the visual effects company Lola—to turn Stone and Carell into their hard-hitting characters in their iconic tennis battle for the ages.
“We’ve never had that great tennis movie because it’s too hard to re-create,” Martin told us...
Tom Cruise’s American Made Continues our Fascination With American Outlaws
In his comeback to quality cinema, Tom Cruise stars in American Made, about real-life TWA pilot turned drug smuggler Barry Seal. The Universal Pictures film from director Doug Liman opens September 29th, likely timed as Oscar bait, thereby following in a grand tradition of well-made American maverick biopics featuring subjects whose high-flying lives ultimately can’t outlast the effects of their misbegotten fortunes coming home to roost.
For commercial aviation pilot Seal, his shift into more feckless operations began after flying on reconnaissance missions in South America for the CIA,...
Ron Howard Teases “Desperate & Dangerous” World in new Han Solo Photos
Oh Ron Howard, your Twitter game is strong. It was only a week ago we were enjoying the director’s latest bit of Han Solo promo work, doling out this delightful tease—that we may get to see Han Solo’s iconic Kessel Run (in only 12 parsecs) in Howard’s upcoming Han Solo stand-alone film. Now Howard’s back on his favorite social media platforms, Twitter and Instagram, teasing more juicy details from the film.
How unleashed a series of posts on both IG and Twitter this weekend,...
Unbreakable and Split Actors Set to Return for Glass
Ever since Dr. Malcolm Crowe realized his true fate in The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan has earned his reputation as the king of the twist ending. Last year’s Split was a brilliant and thrilling film from the horror master, but no one was prepared for that stunning ending that revealed it was truly a sequel to Unbreakable. Shyamalan will be tying the films together in a trilogy ending with Glass.
THR reports that many of the cast from both films will return for the third installment...
Matthew Broderick Set to Narrate FOX’s A Christmas Story Live Musical
We hope Matthew Broderick doesn’t shoot his eye out!
The stage and screen veteran has been cast as the adult Ralphie in Fox’s A Christmas Story live musical. Broderick is no stranger to theater productions starring in Broadway productions How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and The Producers.
Broderick’s role in the show serves as narrator of the universal story of joy and anxiety experienced around the holidays...
Neil Gaiman Lending his Voice to The Simpsons‘ cat Snowball in “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII”
Get ready for a very spooky, yet always humorous, Simpsons Halloween! The decades-long tradition continues as The Simpsons will be debuting their 28th annual “Treehouse of Horrors” Halloween special coming next month. The 2017 edition will feature legendary writer Neil Gaiman, who will finally give voice to the favorite family cat, Snowball (a first!). The episode will classically feature all the beloved family members outside of the shows normal setting. From The Shining to Stephen King novels,...
The Joker Origin Film Script is Nearly Done
Back on August 23, we told you about how DC was developing a stand-alone Joker origin film. We also clued you into the fact that there was a fantastic, delicious bit of industry gossip that thanks to Martin Scorsese’s involvement in the Joker film, Leonardo DiCaprio was Warner Bros. number one choice to play the Clown Prince of Chaos.
Now word is the Joker script is almost done. Variety‘s Justin Kroll tweeted yesterday that he’d heard the Joker script was a week away from being completed...
Gal Gadot & Kumail Nanjiani to Host Saturday Night Live
Two of this year’s biggest stars, Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot and The Big Sick‘s Kumail Nanjiani, couldn’t have been in more disparate films, but their success can be measured in critical raves (and insane box office for Wonder Woman) and the fact they’ve both asked to host Saturday Night Live. Gadot, who had arguably the biggest year of any movie star, will host Oct. 7 with musical guest Sam Smith. Nanjiani,...
Designing Jake Gyllenhaal’s Look in Boston Bombing Film Stronger
The scene of two homemade bombs exploding at the Boston marathon in 2013 was devastating, but from it rose images of hope and stories of triumph. Jeff Bauman was among the crowd of victims whose lives were changed by the attack. Bauman lost both of his legs, which began his incredible journey to recovery. Jake Gyllenhaal portrays Bauman in Stronger, the emotional film that examines the pain of grief and tragedy under the public eye. Hair and makeup designer Donald Mowat has been collaborating with Gyllenhaal since ...
Director Stephen Frears on Directing Dame Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul
Stephen Frears steered Helen Mirren to an Oscar as The Queen and landed Meryl Streep in the Best Actress circle last year for Florence Foster Jenkins. But when it comes to Judi Dench, who stars in his latest film Victoria & Abdul (opening Friday //Sept. 22// in New York and L.A.) the veteran British filmmaker brushes aside any suggestion that he contributed in any significant way to her bravura performance as England’s 81-year-old Queen Victoria...
Fox Reveals that New Mutants May be the Scariest Superhero Film Yet
Long gone are the days of studios being in the business of curating movie stars, and it’s getting rarer to even see standalone films. Marvel has long had a multi-phase plan of building out its superhero universe and DC has begun to launch the Justice League era of film, but not much is yet known about the direction Fox will take their properties. New Mutants may be the answer to that question.
Josh Boone is directing the new X-Men universe film that’s set to star Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Split)...
CW Developing a new Sabrina the Teenage Witch Project
Ever since Riverdale took the traditionally wholesome Archie comics series and turned it into a racy teen melodrama, fans have been clamoring to see more from the characters. Our wish has been granted in the form of a horror version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch that’s being developed by The CW.
The series will be based on Archie spinoff comic series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The company still prints the classic style you’re used to,...
Check out the Glorious First Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Stop-Motion Animation Feature Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson has already made one modern stop-motion animation classic, his beautiful, Oscar-nominated 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox. Clearly Anderson loved working in the medium, hence his upcoming Isle of Dogs, and with the first trailer now available, we’ve got our first look at Anderson’s film about a near-future Japan where dogs have been banished to a trash-strewn island after a rash of dog attacks. Isle of Dogs is centered on a young boy who ventures to the island in search of his own dog,...
Matthew Vaughn’s Idea for a Young Wolverine Movie May Still Happen
It is difficult to imagine a more fitting ending for Hugh Jackman’s run as Wolverine than Logan. Jackman first took on the role in 2000, and his final performance was incredibly moving. Although Jackman may have hung up his claws, Wolverine is one of the X-Men’s most satisfying characters and could be the focus of future films. Amidst promotion for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, director Matthew Vaughn revealed his vision for a young Wolverine film...
Jake Gyllenhaal & Jeff Bauman on Their Bond, Using Real Pain to Fuel Stronger
When it comes to cinematic accounts of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Stronger is the flip side to last year’s Patriots Day. The earlier film – an action thriller about catching the bad guys – focused on Beantown native Mark Wahlberg’s fictional composite-character cop being celebrated as a hero. Stronger, opening this Friday, instead is an intimate look at what happens when a survivor of a tragedy is seen as a hero while trying to recover from the loss of his legs as well as his former life...
Ron Howard Teases Millennium Falcon’s Iconic Kessel Run for Han Solo Film
More than 40 years after Star Wars fans first heard about Han Solo’s famous Kessel Run in the Millennium Falcon, it appears we’ll finally get to see the actual event. Finally, we’ll find out if Han really did make the run in twelve parsecs, as Han boasted in George Lucas’s original Star Wars in 1977.
Han Solo Director Ron Howard once again took to Twitter to drop a little clue; a photo of a cave entrance and a one word caption: “Spicey?”
As Han bragged in ...
Ali Fazal on Playing Queen Victoria’s Friend & Teacher in Victoria and Abdul
Victoria and Abdul director Stephen Frears said he had to go to India to find an actor to play the Muslim who was Queen Victoria’s friend and munshi (teacher) in the last years of her life. “I knew that you needed somebody from India,” he said, to get “that sort of wide-eyed quality….When Ali [Fazal] came in, by the time he left the room I said, ‘Well, I can see why she’ll like him.’ It was really as simple as that.” ...
