See how Edgar Wright Built Baby Driver Around 35 Songs

If you're Edgar Wright, writer/director of hits like Shuan of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and The World's End, you can get just about anybody to read your latest screenplay. When that screenplay arrives with a thumbdrive containing 35 songs, songs that the script was built around, you listen while you read, and you marvel at both his audacity and his skill. Baby Driver is a film that truly exists for and because of music,...

Luke Hemsworth on Playing Legendary Wild West Gunslinger in Hickok

Luke Hemsworth’s younger brothers Chris (Thor) and Liam (The Hunger Games) are known for blockbusters, and now Luke Hemsworth (Westworld) is making a name in some smaller projects. His latest is the title role in Hickok, a western about the legendary gunslinger, co-starring Kris Kristofferson and Trace Atkins. In an interview, Hemsworth explained why Wild Bill Hickok wears his gun handles facing toward the back and shared the show business advice he got from an Oscar-winning legend...

The Black Panther Teaser Trailer is Even Better Than you Expected

At long last, Marvel Studios has released the first teaser trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, and unsurprisingly the young auteur looks like he’s got another hit on his hands. Having proven himself one of the most promising young directors after his debut Fruitvale Station and his hit Rocky spinoff Creed, Coogler joined the Marvel team to give Black Panther his first stand-alone film,...

Check out the First Black Panther Poster, Trailer Arrives Tonight

The last time we checked in on writer/director Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Marvel had recently screened a small portion of it to some select journalists, and their reaction was more or less WOW. The action, the acting, the costumes—as we wrote back in April, all of it was working, with journalists from outlets like Vulture, Vanity Fair and The Verge enthusing about what they’d seen.

“Black Panther doesn’t look like any of the other Marvel movies,...

Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer Shows Off Spidey’s Suit

We’ve gotten a peek inside Spidey’s brand new, Tony Stark build suit before, but never like this. In this new international trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming, the suit is center focus. One of our favorite moments in this new trailer can be summed up in two words: web grenade. Tony Stark has really kitted Peter Parker (Tom Holland) out with the best Spidey suit we’ve ever seen. 

The new trailer actually takes us back to Spidey's racuous introduction in ...

More Monsters and Horror Coming in Season Two of Stranger Things

Season two of Stranger Things is going to be all hands on deck for the VFX team. Season one rekindled the excitement of 1980s era mastery of practical effects that was seriously amped up by digital techniques. The CGI was awesome and anyone who watched the series had at least one nightmare about the deadly demogorgon. As VFX supervisor Marc Kolbe told us, "What the Duffers saw [in season one] can be done digitally,...

Zoe Lister-Jones on her Directorial Debut Band Aid

Zoe Lister-Jones has a robust career as a comic and dramatic actress. She’s a regular on the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces and had a featured role as then-Senator Joe Biden’s assistant in HBO’s 2016 drama Confirmation about the Clarence Thomas hearings famous for the testimony from Anita Hill.

But in the indie film world, Lister-Jones has thrived by creating her own roles and wearing many production hats. She co-starred, co-produced, co-wrote and performed on the soundtrack of the 2009 micro-budgeted breakout feature Breaking Upwards,...

Watch This Nearly 10 Minute Extended Preview for Logan

Now that Logan is out on Blu-ray and available for digital download, we imagine most of the superhero loving world, and a whole lot of film lovers in general, have seen James Mangold and Hugh Jackman's brutal masterpiece. This nearly ten minute long extended preview will give any holdouts ample reason to watch the film, showcasing the patience, and the passion, of the filmmaking.

While much hay was made about Logan's R-rating and the subsequent freedom it gave the filmmakers to show just how brutal of a world it is for mutants,...

Transformers: The Last Knight International Trailer Reveals Dark Optimus Prime

The synopsis for Michael Bay's Transformers: The Last Knight reads like this: 

Humans are at war with the Transformers, and Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now, it's up to the unlikely alliance of Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), Bumblebee, an English lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford professor (Laura Haddock) to save the world...

The Land of the Dead Looks Magical in Pixar’s Coco Trailer

While Pixar has done extremely well creating franchises (Toy Story, Cars, Finding Nemo/Dory), they remain at the forefront of original filmmaking, pushing the envelope of what we expect from an animated film. Their latest, Coco, is another brand new story, centered on one boy's arrival in the Land of the Dead.

Coco follows the story of Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old boy living in a Mexican village,...

Wonder Woman Continues hot Streak With Win at Golden Trailer Awards

The Golden Trailer Awards seek to recognize the best in movie marketing every year, focusing primarily on the trailers but also on movie posters. The 2017 Golden Trailer Awards have been awarded and it’s no surprise that Wonder Woman has taken home one of the big prizes. But more than that, the real winner of the night was Warner Bros., taking home 26 trophies, showing that they really know how to make a solid trailer. Helping to give Warner Bros...

Stranger Things VFX Supervisor on Making Monster Mayhem

The Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things was a critical smash for Netflix, a medley of throwback charm, real tension, ace casting and superb pacing. The setting (small town Indiana) and the era (1983) were handled with loving attention and period-perfect detail, as we followed the mysterious case of a missing child, his friends' courageous attempts to find him, and the deepening weirdness that involved government experiments, supernatural creatures and worlds, and a possibly superpowered little girl who goes by Eleven. ...

Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Signs on with Horror Streaming Service Shudder

Patty Jenkins is the woman of the hour after delivering a totally kickass Wonder Woman that was fresh, fierce and cathartic. Jenkins’ exploding fan base is watching her every move clamoring to know what’s next. There’s definitely a sequel for the superheroine in the works, but The Hollywood Reporter says the director may be eying another genre. Horror streaming service Shudder is expanding into original content and they have a Jenkins project on the calendar...

Game of Thrones May Break Record for Fire Stunt in Season 7

You have to love the ambitious, slightly mad professionals who work on Game of Thrones. For TV's biggest, wildest series, simply setting a few stunt professionals on fire is never enough. Up until season seven, arguably the craziest practical effect created by the GOT team took place in season five's "The Dance of Dragons." This was the sequence in which Daenerys' largest dragon, Drogon, swooped in to save her from the fighting pit in Meereen...

Star Wars: Episode IX Director Colin Trevorrow on Honoring Carrie Fisher

Star Wars: Episode IX writer/director Colin Trevorrow was just as shocked and saddened by the loss of Carrie Fisher late last year as the rest of us. What differentiates him from us, of course, is that he has been preparing for the final film in the new trilogy, one in which Fisher was to play a big part. The late, great icon had already finished filming her scenes for Rian Johnson's upcoming The Last Jedi, ...

See how They Created Wolverine’s Claws in Action in Logan

If you had to pick a single mutant attribute as the most iconic of them all, you’d have to go with Wolverine’s adamantium claws. For 16-years we’ve watched these razor-sharp, indestructible and retractable weapons emerge from Hugh Jackman’s hands, and for most of that time, what we’ve been seeing was the work of the props department. However, when Wolvy needs to sink his claws into somebody, the visual effects team steps in, and we’ve never seen those claws put to bloodier use than we did in James Mangold’s thrilling,...

Wonder Woman is the Best Kind of Feminist Superhero

When William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman for DC Comics in 1941, he invented a character neither comic books nor television had yet seen — an independent swashbuckling bondage-inspired heroine, admirable in equal parts for her smarts, superhuman physical abilities, and the sexy way she threw off the chains of the evil men who would drag her down. It was an S&M-inflected commentary, at the time, on the more subtly insidious ways that men tried to hold back fierce and capable women,...

Watch Rough Night‘s Superb Cast Play ‘Would you Rather’

There is a lot of reason to believe that director Lucia Aniello’s (Broad City, The Traveling Bong) Rough Night could be one of the summer’s funniest films. Aniello’s comedic chops are indisputable, as she’s helped turn Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s Broad City into one of the most hilarious, consistently inventive comedies on television. In Rough Night, Aniello could do for the ladies what The Hangover did for the guys,...

Thor’s Still Annoyed he Missed out on the Fight in Captain America: Civil War

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has become an unlikely fount of comedy, threatening to take Tony Stark's title of funniest Avenger. Ever since he was left out of Captain America: Civil War (he and the Hulk were off on their own adventures), Marvel has been having fun with Thor's reaction to the slight. There were those very funny videos of what it would be like to live with Thor (spoiler alert—extremely annoying) while the rest of his buddies were battling it out,...