War for the Planet of the Apes Director Matt Reeves on his Vision for The Batman
We've been writing a lot about Matt Reeves' War for the Planet of the Apes, which is getting some of the best reviews of any summer blockbuster not named Wonder Woman in recent memory. What you might not be aware of is Reeves will be directing Warner Bros. stand-alone Batman film, The Batman, which is just now in the early days of the project. As we wrote back on May 1,...
Steven Soderbergh Returns to Feature Filmmaking With Logan Lucky
After Steven Soderbergh announced that he was going to retire from filmmaking and transition into painting by his 50th birthday, here's a snapshop of some of what he has done: He directed Cinemax’s The Knick for two season (sensational, gruesome), helped Spike Jonze edit his award-winning feature Her, executive produced an adaptation of his film The Girlfriend Experience for Starz, is working on an HBO series titled Mosaic (which will allow the audience to interact with the story),...
How Taboo’s DP Conjured Painterly Tableaux of 19th Century London
When cinematographer Mark Patten got hired to shoot Tom Hardy's moody 19th century period thriller Taboo, he immediately invited Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm to check out British masterpieces at London museums. "I took Krisotoffer to see landscape paintings by William J. Turner, who was painting the Thames at the time of our story," Patten recalls. "We wanted to understand the way the light looks and start with that knowledge about the river because it gives so much life to Tom Hardy's character...
Watch the First Trailer for Cannes Mind-Blower Good Time, Starring an Unforgettable Robert Pattinson
We've already written about our fondness for A24, the indie studio founded in 2012 that has gone on to produce some of the most compelling films of the last five plus years. In their latest, Josh and Ben Sadfie's Good Time, A24's committment to auteurs and their original visions is once again on display. Starring Robert Pattinson in what many critics are calling a game changer of a performance, Good Time ...
Deadpool 2 has Officially Begun Filming
Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that production on Deadpool 2 has officially begun. Your creatives behind-the-scenes include John Wick and Atomic Blonde director David Leitch, cinematographer Johnthan Sela, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. We just happened to have interviewed Sela, Reese and Wernick in the past, and can attest to their immense skills. The Cabin in the Woods and The Martian ...
Spider-Man Swings into Starbucks to Pick Up a Cold Brew
Gone are the days of movie promotion being limited to red carpet screenings. Publicity teams are now going above and beyond to surprise fans with interactive experiences. Crews are building elaborate setups to create these pranks where unsuspecting movie goers are getting up close with onscreen characters. Last year’s The Conjuring 2 terrified audiences with a spooky surprise (and a hilarious ending.)
Now Sony has released a clip of Spider-Man swinging into Starbucks to pick up his cold brew...
Meet Ramin Djawadi, the Man Behind The Music of Game of Thrones
The last time we checked in with Game of Thrones, we were unpacking the epic second trailer for season seven, and we were going behind-the-scenes with the special effects team to meet the folks who put the fire in Drogon's breath. Today, we're taking a look—and a listen—to the composer who gives the show its signature sound—Ramin Djawadi. HBO has released a new "Inside Game of Thrones" that highlights Djawadi's work, and it's a pleasure to watch him he pluck away the theme song on his guitar. ...
Welcome to Berlin in this new Ferocious Atomic Blonde Clip
In this new clip from Atomic Blonde, we finally meet James McAvoy’s MI6 Berlin station chief David Percival, who arrives just in time to…well, he’s a little late, but luckily Charlize Theron’s Lorraine Broughton can take care of herself.
Stunt coordinator and John Wick director David Leitch (he's also the man behind the upcoming Deadpool 2) has found an even more perfect vessel for his hyperstylized, ingenuously crafted fight sequences than Keanu Reeves in Charlize Theron...
Japanese Sci-Fi Series FACE: Cyber Crimes Special Investigation Unit Coming to Amazon
Japan is a sci-fi mecca, having given us everything from Godzilla to anime and manga, with sci-fi roots that stretch all the way back to the 8th century, when a kind of proto sci-fi story, ‘Urashima Taro,’ involved time travel. The Japanese have a long, rich sci-fi history, and the news that Amazon has ordered its first original Japanese sci-fi drama series is very intriguing.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Amazon will be streaming FACE: Cyber Crime Special Investigation Unit,...
Star Trek: Discovery Plot Details & More
We are excited about Star Trek: Discovery for a bunch of reasons. First, the iconic sci-fi franchise’s return to TV is, in itself, a big deal. We’ve been waiting since 2005 for the Starfleet to be back on the small screen, and to know its being shepherded by Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller and The Mummy’s Alex Kurtzman only sweetened the deal. Then, there was the casting of The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green in the lead role,...
Fan Theory Proves True: Tom Holland Confirms Peter Parker WAS in Iron Man 2
It’s a special day when a really fun fan theory is proven true, and that’s exactly what's happened today. Tom Holland, who plays Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, has confirmed to The Huffington Post that a long-held fan theory that the little boy wearing an Iron Man mask near the end of Iron Man 2 was, in fact, a young Peter Parker.
“It is Peter Parker,”...
The Dark Tower: Discover ‘The Legacy of the Gunslinger’ in new Featurette
There is a lot of excitement around Nikolaj Arcel's The Dark Tower,adapted fromStephen King's ambitious multi-series novel. First and foremost, there's the thrill of seeing one of King's most mind-blowing creations, Mid-World, a dimension like our own that is starting to unravel into a kind of post-apocalypse expanse of deadbeat settlements and towns, realized on the big screen. Mid-World is a wild place, and the two most crucial characters in it,...
Get in the Ring With GLOW‘s Women Wrestlers
You know you’ve hit upon a tantalizing subject for a new series when the creator of the mega popular, critically acclaimed musical Hamilton Tweets this:
GLOW, Netflix’s new series, is loosely based on the real-life low-budget wrestling show “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” and was created by two seriously talented people; Liz Flahive (Homeland, Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch (Nurse Jackie, Weeds)...
Early Buzz: War for the Planet of the Apes is a Summer Blockbuster for the Ages
Earlier today we published our interview with writer/director Edgar Wright about his incredible new film Baby Driver. It is one of the best movies you will see this summer, possibly this year. While Wonder Woman technically premiered before summer, we still consider it a summer film, and one that we, like everyone else, fell in love with. Now we present to you the third excellent film of the summer,...
Austin Composers Use Old Synthesizers for New Stranger Things Music
Ever since they bonded over a shared obsession with electronic dance music as Texas fourteen-year olds, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein spent every spare minute listening to techno artists like Aphex Twin and creating tracks on their laptops. But after college, Dixon and Stein shared an epiphany that would eventually lead to a break-through gig as co-composers for '80s-era Netflix hit thriller Stranger Things. "We didn't even knowing there had been these things called synthesizers in our teens,"...
For the First Time Ever, A Star Wars Concert Series Coming to NYC This Fall
If we were to imagine the most incredible way to watch a bunch of Star Wars films, say, the original trilogy and The Force Awakens, we’d have a tough time topping this: the first-ever live performance of Star Wars, scored by the world class New York Philharmonic performing the iconic music of John Williams. Beginning on September 15 and 16 at Geffen Hall in the Lincoln Center, the NY Phil will score Star Wars: A New Hope ...
How Transformers: The Last Knight Transformed a Local Economy
Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calls Transformers: The Last Knight “badass,” while the New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes that the film “offers more to see and more to startle than do many films by auteurs of overt artistic ambition and accomplishment.” The film’s centered on a war between humans and the Transformers, and what’s making matters worse is the heroic, noble leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, has gone AWOL...
Feast your Eyes on Five new Blade Runner 2049 Feaurettes
Yesterday we shared this new Blade Runner 2049 featurette from People Magazine that gave us our best glimpse yet at director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic. Now Warner Bros. has gifted us with five new featurettes (culled from the nearly four minute long featurette) that focus on the characters played by Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Jared Leto, and also includes a look at Ridley Scott's iconic original and director Denis Villeneuve feelings taking on the sequel...
Pixels into Pig: Okja VFX Maestro Explains Digital DNA for Star Creature
Part super-pig, part hippo, part elephant, the CGI creature at the heart of director Boon Joon-Ho's mostly live-action animal rights adventure Okja wowed crowds at Cannes this spring without so much as a single line of dialogue. Starring alongside Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie (available Wednesday June 28 on Netflix), the pixel-built beast known as “Okja” communicated through body language, wistful facial expressions and roly-poly heroics choreographed by visual effects wizard Erik De Boer...
Unpacking the new Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer
Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere, but for the perpetually warring folks of Westeros, winter has finally come. That is made painfully, beautifully real in a brand new trailer for Game of Thrones’ seventh (and penultimate) season, nearly two minutes of fresh footage that speaks to a lot of what we were thinking (and hoping) was going to happen this season, and a lot of what we've been reading. Let’s have a look at the trailer and discuss. Spoiler alert—some of the below is based on speculation that,...
