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, Rough Night...
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), while the younger stars,...
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, The Stiller Foundation. Ben Stiller adorned the memorable blonde wig and what must be buckets of self-tanner to bring gym bully White Goodman back to life...
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, Cena plays the titular giant bull with a big heart whose mistaken for being a dangerous beast,...
New War for the Planet of the Apes Clip Shows Astonishing Leap in Performance Capture Technology
In this new clip from War for the Planet of the Apes, the performance capture technology that star Andy Serkis (he plays Caesar in the film) has helped usher in is shown in all its glory. The clip, titled "Meet Bad Ape," shows us the moment when Caesar meets this old, wizened ape he mistook for a human (Bad Ape wears clothes). Bad Ape is an escapee from a zoo, and represents the first new ape Caesar has met outside of his tribe in the entire trilogy,...
Watch Video That Captures Every Single Death in Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones became a cultural phenomenon in part due to the show’s fearlessness with which it approached the death of major characters. Granted, this was in large part because show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were committed to staying as true to George R.R. Martin’s source material as possible, but it was still a shock to see arguably the main character, Sean Bean’s Ned Stark, get killed in season one. Since then, all GOT fans (who haven’t read Martin’s novels) have relied on the fact that their favorite character could die at any moment...
Brilliant Sound Design on Display in new Dunkirk Spot
We wrote earlier today about how seeing the Dunkirk trailer on the big screen before Wonder Woman was breathtaking, and now a new 30 second TV spot has been released, making brilliant use of sound design and proving, once again, just how masterful the folks editing trailers have become.
The film chronicles the crucial events of May 1940, when time was running out on the Allied forces chance to evacuate hundreds of thousands of French,...
Check out how Unsettling the Afterlife is in the First Flatliners Trailer
When we think back to the early 1990s, we usually think of Steven Spielberg’s game-changing Jurassic Park, which premiered in 1993. However for a certain segment of the population, the decade started off properly in 1990 with a wild, creepy thriller, Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julian Roberts and Billy Baldwin. Now, 27 years later, Sutherland returns in Niels Arden Oplev’s remake, which stars Ellen Page (Juno),...
Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel Gets Release Date
Woody Allen’s new film Wonder Wheel, a drama set during the 1950s in Coney Island,will hit theaters this December 1. The cast includes Jim Belushi, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, and Kate Winslet. This will be the first Winslet’s first time working with Allen after having to drop out of the 2005 film Match Point for family reasons.
Amazon Studios will be distributing the film, which continues their growing relationship with the tireless writer/director...
Meet the Fire Starters: Go Behind-the-Scenes With Game of Thrones‘ Special Effects Team
Last week we told you that Game of Thrones had likely entered the Guinness Book of World Records with a massive stunt they pulled off for season 7. In the upcoming season, thanks to Dany's dragons now being the size of 747s, the stunt, visual and special effects department cooked up a massive sequence in which 20 stunt professionals were set on fire simultaneously. Now, HBO has dropped this inside look at ...
Japanese Actress Shioli Kutsuna Cast in Deadpool 2
Any key role that's filled in Deadpool 2 is a big deal, so this news, fresh from Deadline, that Japanese actress Shioli Kutsuna has been cast in Fox/Marvel’s upcoming sequel is pretty major. While her role is being kept under wraps, Kutsuna joins a growing cast that will surround the Merc with the Mouth himself, Ryan Reynolds, in the sequel fans are salivating over. as the Merc with the Mouth. The studio isn’t offering any details on who Kutsuma is playing,...
The Most Thrilling Trailer That Played Before Wonder Woman in the Theater Was…
By now you've seen Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman, and like us, probably loved it. We're curious, however, about what your favorite trailers were that played before Gal Gadot's Diana Prince started teaching Steve Trevor and the rest of the Allied forces to believe in her? We saw a bunch of very strong trailers (and one very brief, intriguing teaser), but there was one that stood out—Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
While we loved the brief tease for ...
Remembering Adam West
Friday night, the world lost the original Batman, Adam West. West, 88, passed away after a short battle with leukemia.
West played the original Batman in the 1960s television series. Following his run on the show, he went on to pursue other ventures in his acting career, and was beloved for never taking himself too seriously, being kind to those both in and outside the industry, and forever making Batman a part of the American cultural landscape. Later on in his career,...
Ryan Coogler & Marvel President Kevin Feige Talk Black Panther Trailer
Everybody's talking about the phenomenal Black Panther trailer. It looks as if director Ryan Coogler has delivered a Marvel film unlike any other, and the glimpse the trailer offered of Wakanda, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and life in the technologically advanced, secretive African nation has gotten the entire internet buzzing. While you can find a ton of frame-by-frame breakdowns online today, you're not going to do any better than Entertainment Weekly's conversation with Coogler and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige on what,...
