Mars Executive Producer Justin Wilkes Talks the Category Defying Miniseries
Last fall, National Geographic premiered a new series that was as ambitious and innovative as its subject: the first manned mission to Mars. Over seven episodes, Mars featured inspiring interviews with some of the greatest minds of our age while visualizing the first human colonization of the red planet. Experts delve into the history of space exploration, the unbelievable technology that’s already been developed, and what it will take to make home on a new planet...
Winter Officially Arrives in Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere
What better day to confirm that Winter has officially arrived in Game of Thrones than on the summer solstice (for us northern hemispherians)? HBO confirmed in a brand new social media campaign that winter will arrive in the first episode of the season on July 16 via some “winterizing” activations across Twitter, Reddit, and Google.
First, they revealed this via a winter-themed promo for Season 7, which showcases how with winter comes the Night King and his army...
Watch a Brand New Blade Runner 2049 Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
Yesterday we shared the story about how Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve has made peace with the monumental task of following up Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic. As if Villeneuve needed any more reminders of the seismic impact the original Blade Runner made, this Sunday marks the film’s 35th anniversary. As we look forward to Villeneuve’s sequel, People Magazine has just published their exclusive look at the film.
“Blade Runner 2049: Time to Live”...
The Wizard of Lies Production Designer on Building Bernie Madoff’s World of Deception
Production designer Laurence Bennett was responsible for creating a visual language for a film without sound, and the results earned him an Oscar nomination. We're talking about Bennet's work on Best Picture winner The Artist, which followed the story of a silent movie star’s life turning upside down after he falls for a young dancer only to witness their careers zoom in opposite directions with the arrival of talking pictures.
While Bennett's currently working on David Simon's ...
How Weta Digital & Andy Serkis’s Brilliance Elevate War for the Planet of the Apes
We've written about how the performance capture technology that Andy Serkis has helped create and Weta Digital has perfected made the Planet of the Apes reboot one of the most satisfying, compelling franchise remakes of the century. Serkis plays Caesar, the new trilogy's heart and soul—a chimpanzee that has become vastly more intelligent, and verbal, after he's exposed to an experimental drug meant to battle Alzheimer's disease in-utero in 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes...
Lost & The Leftovers‘ Damon Lindelof Developing Watchmen for HBO
Arguably the most iconic comic book series of all time looks like it might be coming to HBO. Variety reports that Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers, is in talks to develop a TV adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ brilliant comic book series "Watchmen." Lindelof is no stranger to this material; in 2015, he tried to bring the story to the small screen.
"Watchmen" takes place in an alternate history in which superheroes work in league with the government and helped shape the course of the 20th Century...
John Waters Interviews Sofia Coppola at the Provincetown Film Festival
Sofia Coppola is Hollywood royalty, an Oscar winner for Lost in Translation, and she has a highly-anticipated new film, The Beguiled, ready to hit theaters. But the soft-spoken director is known for being reticent in interviews.
So it’s no wonder that the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) paired Coppola with renowned raconteur John Waters for a one-on-one conversation when Coppola was honored recently as the PIFF’s 2017 Filmmaker on the Edge...
Star Wars News: A new The Last Jedi Teaser Coming Soon, Han Solo Spinoff Shakeup
The first look we got at Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi was way back in April, during the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando. Now, Trailer Track has reported that the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has classified a "Trailer B" with a runtime of one minute and 31 seconds.
Now, this could be a shortened version of the original trailer, an edited 90-second version that will accompany Spider-Man: Homecoming ...
Check out This Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Clip From Nat Geo’s Genius
Last week we shared with you the story of how the hair and make-up departments working on National Geographic's Genius have transformed stars Johnny Flynn and Geoffrey Rush into the young and not-so-young Albert Einstein at the different stages of his life. Now, we've got an exclusive clip from behind-the-scenes of the show (Nat Geo’s first foray into scripted drama, by the way) that showcases the work of showrunner Ken Biller and cinematographer Mathias Herndl.
The clip is a preview of the series’...
Peter Parker Takes his Driving Test in new Spider-Man: Homecoming Spot
Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has one of the best possible allies in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming; Tony Stark. Not only has Tony provided Peter with a super high-tech new Spidey-suit, he also looks to be lending Peter his ride—a brand new Audi A8. In a new TV spot from Audi, Parker takes his driver’s test in the new car, which is a little more advanced than his instructor (played by the hilarious J.B...
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 at the CineEurope trade show in Barcelona, Villeneuve discussed the massive expectations,...
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 universe,...
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 director Colin Trevorrow asked him for a favor while he was shooting The Last Jedi...
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, he was never able to fully execute his vision…until a certain film became a phenomenon eight years ago...
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, there were so many characters—many of them Marvel superheroes—that she had trouble identifying who was actually in the film and who might have been a crew member. You can watch her discuss the upcoming film at 8:20 mark in the below video:
The closest any film in the MCU has gotten to this kind of maximum superhero involvement was in the epic airport battle scene in ...
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, even from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, ...
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.
Logan Browning Photo by Adam Rose/Netflix...
