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.
This season is also filled with breakups...
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. 2,” the songs that will help drive the action as Star-lord (Chris Pratt) and the Guardians try to track down his father and save the galaxy one again...
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, a man who becomes irrevocably intertwined with the demands of the newly risen Ahmanet,...
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.
Now the official trailer The Beguiled,...
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,...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Will be the end for This Team
James Gunn hasn’t even seen his Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit theaters, but that hasn’t stopped him from thinking ahead. He’s already confirmed he’ll be back in the director’s chair for Vol. 3, finishing out a trilogy he’s infused with his specific style and personality. Now the word is out that Gunn has said that for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the current Guardians team likely won’t be intact as we know them...
Guess who Pops at the end of the Kingsman: The Golden Circle Teaser?
Yesterday when we shared the super sped up Kingsman: The Golden Circle teaser, we had no idea a certain somebody would be intruding on the action. Yes, that’s right, him:
Wade Wilson never misses an opportunity to stick his masked face in other peoples' properties, but then again, he's usually invited. Kingsman star Taron Egerton has already floated the idea of a Kingsman/Deadpool crossover film,...
Director Taika Waiti is Korg in Thor: Ragnarok
Staying true to his habit, director Taika Waititi has cast himself as Korg in his newest film, Thor: Ragnarok. Waititi is no newcomer to the big screen; he played Thomas Kalmaku in Green Lantern, a 2011 superhero film, and even took on larger roles in two of his own films: Boy and What We Do in the Shadows.
This is exciting news for Thor fans,...
Love’s in the air in new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The big romantic connection in the first Guardians of the Galaxy was between Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana). They met cute (she kicked his butt, then they all got arrested), they fought and teased each other, they shared some personal history, and then he nearly died saving her life. For Vol. 2, it seems we might see the two take their relationship to the next level, although we’re guessing that the new couple on the scene,...
The Makeup Designer Behind Logan and Star Trek Beyond
When Hollywood needs to create a character that’s cool, creepy, crazy or out of this world, they know just who to turn to. Academy Award winner Joel Harlow and his team, Morphology FX, have created special effects makeup designs for Planet of the Apes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek Beyond, and many more. Harlow has established himself as the go to designer for master chameleon Johnny Depp creating amazing transformations like “Whitey”...
Marvel Screens Portion of Black Panther to Raves
Marvel is feeling very good about Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. This much was clear to the journalists who were invited to an open house event at the Marvel Studios’ office on the Disney lot this past Monday night for a preview of Phase 3 in their Marvel Cinematic Universe. The night included a full screening of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (reviews are embargoed), teasers for Thor: Ragnorak, Spider-Man: Homecoming,...
Soldier Tells His Tale in Iraq War Drama Sand Castle
Screenwriter Chris Roessner's strange but rewarding career began the summer after he graduated from high school, when he sold air humidifiers door to door in his home town of Temple, Texas. Three years later, he found himself in Saddam Hussein’s abandoned palace working the night shift for U.S. Army occupation forces. Inspired by his deployment in Iraq, Roessner wrote Sand Castle (April 21), which stars Nicholas Hoult and Henry Cavill as soldiers working to win the hearts and minds of Iraqi civilians...
Silhouettes Say it All in Dramatic Feud Title Sequence
When Feud: Bette and Joan creator Ryan Murphy envisioned a retro opening for his FX series about Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange), he reached out to Emmy-winning main title director Kyle Cooper with a simple mandate: take inspiration from mid-century graphic designer Saul Bass. "Ryan wanted this to be like the kind of thing Saul Bass did for Anatomy of a Murder in 1959, so that was our creative brief,"...
The Filmmakers Behind the Sweeping Historical Epic The Promise
Although best known for 2004's Hotel Rwanda, Terry George has written or written and directed a half dozen films about areas of conflict, notably his own childhood homeland, Northern Ireland. With The Promise, which opens April 21, George addresses the genocide of Armenians in what is now Turkey during World War I. The murder of approximately 1.5 million is well documented, yet Turkish authorities have never acknowledged it.
The movie is a sweeping romance that observes the tumult through the device of a love triangle...
Video Recap Highlights an Emotional Star Wars Celebration in Orlando
Earlier today we shared this recap of all the things we loved about last weekend’s Star Wars celebration in Orlando. There were moving tributes to Carrie Fisher, incredible panels, the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi , and the glorious teaser poster to name a few. Naturally, we joined the rest of the Internet in dissecting the trailer and highlighting potential Easter eggs placed throughout the two minute and thirteen second glimpse of writer/director Rian Johnson's coming film...
