Blade Runner 2049 Director Denis Villeneuve Makes Peace With Enormous Expectations
If there was ever a reason to believe that Arrival and Sicario director Denis Villeneuve was the right man to helm the Blade Runner sequel that didn't depend on his obvious skill, we present you his honesty and humility when asked about the monumental task of creating a sequel to an iconic film from a legendary director.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter
Annabelle: Creation Trailer Shows off the Scariest Doll Since Chucky
Warner Bros has had a hot hand with horror since 2013’s The Conjuring (produced by New Line Cinema and directed by the great James Wan) was a commercial and critical success. They followed that film with 2014’s Annabelle, another hit (and a prequel to The Conjuring), then The Conjuring 2, and now they’ve released the second trailer for the fourth film in their unholy Conjuring
Director Colin Trevorrow had The Last Jedi‘s Rian Johnson Film Something for Episode IX
You might recall how during the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director Rian Johnson, prepping the next film in the new trilogy, asked director J.J. Abrams if he might accommodate a small tweak to his film. Abrams obliged, and once Johnson's The Last Jedi comes out, perhaps we'll find out exactly what that tweak was. A similar situation has happened during Johnson's production; Episode IX
Godzilla 2 has Started Filming With Three Iconic Monsters as Adversaries
Legendary and Warner Bros. have released a statement that will be music to the ears of all you mega monster fans; Godzilla 2 has begun filming. After the commercial and critical success of Kong: Skull Island, one can surmise that the still untitled Godzilla 2 will be just as ambitious, as the former was not only inspired by Apocalypse Now, but featured some serious monster-on-monster action.
Godzilla will face an even sterner test than he did in
After 40 Years, Valerian And the City of a Thousand Planets Becomes a Reality
Many people have their passion projects, the ones that they pour their heart and soul into, and that is precisely what Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is for director Luc Besson. Forty years after falling in love with the “Valerian and Laureline” comics when he was 10 years old, Besson has been waiting to bring the story to the big screen, but for myriad reasons, many of them technological,
Scarlett Johansson Teases Insane Avengers: Infinity War Scene With 30 + Characters
While Scarlett Johansson had a lot to discuss on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this past Friday, the big thing that'll excite you Marvel-heads and superhero fans in general is when she discussed the Russo Brothers upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.
Johansson discusses how she's pretty sure there are more than 60 Marvel characters in the film. In fact, in one scene in particular,
Caesar and the Colonel Face Off in new War for the Planet of the Apes Clip
The performance-capture technology that Andy Serkis has helped perfect, from his performances as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings to his star-turning work as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot has become practically flawless. Every new clip we've seen from War for the Planet of the Apes, the final film in the new trilogy, has shown how far the tech has come,
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Venom & Silver and Black Will Coexist
When we wrote that Sony had made some major moves with their Spider-Man spinoffs, Venom (casting Tom Hardy) and Silver and Black (nabbing director Gina Prince-Bythewood), we were always hoping that they’d eventually intersect with Spider-Man. Now, Spider-Man: Homecoming producer Amy Pascal has said that all three of the films will exist in the same world, leaving the possibility open that Tom Holland’s Spidey could pop up in the spinoffs.
Deadpool Drops by to see Some Frenemies in new Photo
Ryan Reynolds Twitter feed is always a fount of Deadpool related material and information, and the latest photo he shared is a doozy. There’s Reynolds in his full Deadpool kit, lounging outside a certain famous mansion. Yup, that’s Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, only once again, nobody seems to be answering the door for mouthy Wade Wilson.
The actual location for the iconic school is in British Columbia—it’s Hatley Castle,
Dear White People Creator Justin Simien Talks Race and Comedy
In Netflix series Dear White People, sarcastic black radio host Samantha (Logan Browning), worn out after a long day of anti-racist activism at fictional Ivy League Winchester College, asks her best friend Joelle (Ashley Blaine Featherson) to "Say something funny and specific." Joelle obliges with a snappy one liner involving Drake and his ancient sitcom Degrassi High, propelling the show into its next scene on a buoyant comedic note.
And Rough Night Makes Three (Bachelorette Parties from Hell)
A party weekend in Miami, a dead stripper, cocaine. A friend group’s freewheeling members forcing their uptight pals to just chill out (and take the coke, already). Sounds like another zany, Apatow-orchestred bachelor party ready to go all kinds of wrong. Right? Make it a bachelorette and replace Judd with director Lucia Aniello (of web series to Comedy Central mainstay Broad City), and we’ve got the second woman-led caper of the summer,
All Eyez on Me Writers Show All Sides of Tupac Shakur
When Tupac Shakur got beaten by a couple of Oakland cops for jaywalking, Eddie Gonzalez, co-writer of the late rapper's All Eyez on Me bio-pic (opening Friday) could relate. Growing up poor in and around L.A.'s tough Compton neighborhood, Gonzalez says "I know about being harassed by police officers. You feel like don't have a voice but you want to say something, do something. That's why people connected with Tupac, and that's why I connected with him.
Genius‘s Hair & Make-up Department on Creating Einstein’s Look
Genius marks National Geographic’s first foray into scripted drama. The series, which is based on Walter Isaacson’s book Einstein: His Life and Universe and executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, charts the rise of the disruptive physicist who changed the way we understand the universe. We chat to Fae Hammond (hair) and Davina Lamont (make-up) about the process of transforming stars Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn into the wild-haired genius at the different stages of his life.
Watch the Intense Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit
Kathryn Bigelow is a phenomenal director, and one of her many skills is her ability to create thrilling, unfussy action sequences that put her in a league of her own. While the modern action sequence is typified by quick cuts, confusion, and close-ups, Bigelow’s approach is to orient the viewer in space so that what she’s showing us, whether it’s a bomb squad doing their terrifying work in The Hurt Locker or the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Zero Dark Thirty,
What we Know About X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Here’s what we know for certain; super producer and writer Simon Kinberg (a longtime X-Men creative) will be making his directorial debut with X-Men: Dark Phoenix in 2018, which will bring back a lot of the cast from Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Deals have been struck with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult to return to the franchise (their three-picture deals expired after Apocalypse),
The Cast of Dodgeball Goes Back to the Gym for Charity
You’ve seen the Omaze commercials. A super cool celebrity raising money for an awesome cause and a chance to hang out with them. The likes of Matt Damon, Kobe Bryant, Meryl Streep and Chris Pratt have donated their time to the cool crowd funding site, but the latest campaign may have outdone all that came before.
The cast of Dodgeball filmed an in character reunion video supporting, what else,
What to Watch During Pride Month
Officially, it’s LGBT Pride month in the United States and Canada (happy second Pride, northern neighbors!), with marches, rallies, and festivals taking place from Berlin to Tel Aviv to commemorate the June 1969 Stonewall Riots. After heading to — or in place of, should there be none — your local Christopher Street Day Festival, have a movie night in a celebration of LGBT life and culture in all its on-screen forms. Here are a few suggestions for what to watch other than Brokeback Mountain (with all due respect to the Ang Lee’s iconic “gay cowboy movie”
Ryan Murphy’s Next American Crime Story Will be About Gianna Versace
Ryan Murphy’s (Glee, American Horror Story) critically acclaimed anthology American Crime Story has been pushed back to air the next cycle until early 2018.
The second cycle was originally slotted to be Katrina: American Crime Story. Instead, Versace: American Crime Story will air first in early 2018 and Katrina will follow in late 2018.
Black Panther and The Walking Dead Star Danai Gurira Joins Avengers: Infinity War
The cast for Avengers: Infinity War keeps getting more impressive. Deadline reports that Black Panther and The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira is joining Avengers: Infinity War. While it’s not official, it seems likely that Gurira will be playing her Black Panther character Okoye, a member of T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) elite bodyguard unit called the Dora Milaje, made up of female warriors who watch T'Challa and the rest of his royal family.
John Cena Lends his Voice to Soft-Hearted Bull in new Ferdinand Trailer
John Cena was one of the most pleasant surprises in Amy Schumer's breakout comedy Trainwreck. Cena played Amy's hugely muscular, hugely conflicted boyfriend (he clearly preferred men to women) who had one of the most memorable arguments in a movie theater you'll ever see in a film. Cena's comedic timing was excellent, as if the former wrestler-turned-actor had been in the wrong profession until now.
In Ferdinand,
