Gearing up for Game of Thrones Season 7
As you prepare for Game of Thrones season 7, you'll likely want a refresher on where everything stands in Westeros. There’s no shortage of sites and articles devoted to schooling you on everything that’s happened in the series six bloody seasons thus far. Vanity Fair put together this handy guide on where we left off in season 6, while the USA Today put together a list of seven things to expect in season seven.
The Lion King Live-Action Remake Casts Seth Rogen & Billy Eichner as Timon & Pumbaa
We wrote about director Jon Favreau’s passion for taking on The Lion King live-action remake. Disney knew they had the right person for the job after his ace job handling The Junlge Book live-action remake, and now, they’ve got two very funny actors for the film’s funniest characters, Timon and Pumbaa.
The Wrap reports that Rogen and Eichner are in final negotiations to voice the warthog and meerkat respectively,
Brie Larson on why She’s Taking on the role of Captain Marvel
We were very excited when he heard that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck would be directing Captain Marvel. The two young directors had done stellar work on Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, as well as on the small screen on The Affair and Billions. In this piece we wrote about them (we interviewed them about Mississippi Grind), we touched upon how tricky it will be to take a very complicated,
Star Wars: Episode IX, Frozen 2 & Indiana Jones 5 get Release Dates
Disney announced some updated release dates for a slew of its upcoming films; some of them are their very biggest titles. They include Star Wars: Episode 9, Indiana Jones 5, Frozen 2, Gigantic, The Lion King, and Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2.
The biggest news is for Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars: Episode IX,
Watch the First Official Trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle
After a few cheeky teasers, the first official trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle is finally here, and it’s a beaut. Vaughn’s follow up to his 2014 smash hit Kingsman: The Secret Service gives us a long glance at what happens when the deadly, dapper Kingsmen need to reach out across the pond for a little help from their American friends.
The two-minute trailer sets up the film's international scope,
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Earlier we wrote about the insane success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One way to measure that success is by how different the individual films within that universe can be from one another. Guardians of the Galaxy is a perfect example of how Marvel has stayed ahead of the curve by dipping into their wild canon of misfits and antiheroes and giving you a new host of characters to care about that are nothing like the previous characters you also love.
What’s Marvel Planning After Avengers 4?
The vaunted Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has revolutionized the film industry in a way that perhaps only Marvel thought possible, continues apace. Marvel's achievement cannot be understated; they created an interconnected, multi-phase slate of films that has been a massive success by ever metric and is now the envy of the industry. Let’s have a brief look at the first three phases of the MCU.
Phase One:
It all began with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man in 2008,
Production Begins on Four Avatar Sequels
Nearly eight years after we were first enchanted by the world of Avatar, it’s beginning to look like we’ll get a sequel after all.
Or, four sequels, rather. The official Avatar Facebook page posted a photo of director and writer James Cameron in front of a large crew, with the caption, “Avatar takes flight as we begin concurrent production on four sequels. The journey continues December 18, 2020,
Jon Favreau Talks Live-Action Lion King at Tribeca Film Festival
Director Jon Favreau is no stranger to huge expectations. When he took on directing a live-action remake of Disney’s beloved 1967 animated classic The Jungle Book, he had his work cut out for him. What he and his team pulled off in their version was stunning, a lush, fully realized world of bears, panthers, pythons, a seriously sinister tiger and one very spirited little boy named Mowgli was astonishing.
Favreau’s next project comes with even higher expectations,
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Scores Again With Critics
Now that the review embargo has been lifted on James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we can get a sense of how the sequel stacks up against 2014’s juggernaut first film—and it looks as if there’s very good news in the galaxy. Considering Star-lord, Gamora and the gang aren’t hitting your local multiplex until next week, May 5, we’ll tread lightly here as we roundup some of the reviews and avoid any spoilers.
Breakups Abound in Season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Netflix released the official trailer for the third season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and we can’t possibly wait to be reunited with our favorite mole person and her entourage. Still confused by the outside world yet just as bubbly and positive, Kimmy decides to go to college after finishing her GED. We don’t know what she will be studying, but we’re sure she will be learning a lot.
Listen to James Gunn’s Original Song for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Writer/director James Gunn is something of a renaissance man. Not content with simply helming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and committing to directing the entire run of its trilogy, he’s also a real music guru. Every Guardians fan knows that the films are infused with, and inspired by, great music—it’s right there in the title. Gunn recently released the playlist for “Awesome Mix Tape Vol.
New on HBO: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In 1951, at the age of 31, an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks died at Johns Hopkins Hospital of a particularly aggressive cervical cancer. Unbeknownst to her husband or her heirs, prior to her death, a biopsy of her tumor cells was harvested and transported to a lab, where they were kept alive and growing. The cells, the first to live outside a human body, were named HeLa — at a time when there was no established practice regarding consent for cell donation,
The Mummy Drops Action Packed International Trailer
A brand new international trailer for The Mummy has been released, giving us the most detailed glimpse yet at director Alex Kurtzman’s film. The Mummy is the first in a series of shared universe monster movies coming from Universal Pictures, with Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon and the Invisible Man (Johnny Depp) on the slate. The Mummy stars Tom Cruise as Nick Morton,
New Game of Thrones Season 7 Images Hint at War to Come
Season six of Game of Thrones ended with a brutal war between the always scheming, striving humans of Westeros. What we know about season seven is that winter has officially arrived, which means that the power struggles for the Iron Throne will soon seem very silly when compared to the battle to come. Dany, Jon Snow, Cersei and the rest of our perptually agitated players will face their greatest test in the form of the Night’s King and his undead army.
John Ridley on his Post-Rodney King Verdict Riots Doc Let It Fall
He wrote 12 Years a Slave and tackled anti-Muslim prejudice, homophobia and immigration in his American Crime TV series. Now, 25 years after the Rodney King "not guilty" verdict sparked riots in Los Angeles, Oscar-winning writer-director-producer John Ridley takes another deep dive into American dysfunction with Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992. Opening theatrically April 21 and airing on ABC April 28, the documentary examines a decade's worth of catastrophic decisions culminating in the six-day uprising that cost 55 lives and more than a billion dollars in property damage.
Check out the Terrifying new Neomorph in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant
Empire has released these three new photos from Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, with the final shot being the money maker. In it, you'll see a new alien, the “Neomorph," in the midst of a grotesque meal. "The Neomorph was inspired by Scott’s fondness for nature documentaries on living nightmares, like goblin sharks," Empire's John Nugent writes. Screenwriter John Logan told him that nature docs end up inspiring Scott and find their way into his films.
Sofia Copolla is Back with Civil War era Drama The Beguiled
Writer/director Sofia Coppola doesn’t retread the same ground from film to film. The young auteur has tackled 1suburban ennui in The Virgin Suicides, loneliness and marital strife in Lost in Translation, the doomed life of an 18th century Austrian duchess who becomes the Queen of France in Marie Antoinette and the criminal shenanigans of fame-obsessed teenagers in The Bling Ring.
Captain Marvel Lands its Directing Team
We’d like to say we saw it coming when we interviewed the Mississippi Grind directing duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the filmmaking team has landed the directing gig for Captain Marvel after an extensive search by Marvel. This is the first female-centered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the studio was adamant about making the right directing choice.
Here’s Your Awesome Mix Vol. 2 Playlist From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Calling all Guardians of the Galaxy fans; you’re in luck! Before today, only a few of the upcoming film’s, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, were available to us from various trailers. Now, the full soundtrack is available online, courtesy of Rolling Stone.
The soundtrack, entitled Awesome Mix Vol. 2, is an eclectic blend of everything from Fleetwood Mac to Sam Cooke. Writer and director James Gunn created its counterpart,
