New Kong: Skull Island Clips Showcase Most Ambitious Kong Film yet
Yesterday we discussed how Kong: Skull Island will introduce the largest Kong ever put on screen. Standing more than 100 feet tall, this Kong is more than four times the size of the incarnation we saw in Peter Jackson’s 2005 film, and rules as a god over an island with more beasts and monsters than we’ve seen in any previous Kong film. Skull Island follows a team of explorers,
Watch the Nearly 5-Minute Alien: Covenant Prologue
If you’re one of the many people who loves FX’s new X-Men show Legion, you may have caught this fantastic, nearly five minute long prologue for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Eschewing any alien frights (well, save for one tense moment), the prologue introduces you to the crew of the Covenant before they enter cryosleep. Their mission is to colonize a remote planet and form a new human settlement.
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Cinematography
We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role,
Oscar Watch: Kubo Costume Designer Infuses Clothes with Ancient Japanese Tradition
She's been styling puppets for a decade in stop-motion classics like Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline. Now, British émigré Deborah Cook has been nominated by the Costume Designers Guild for her intricately detailed contributions to Animation Feature Film Oscar contender Kubo and the Two Strings. The young hero's quest to become a Samurai warrior takes place in the distant past,
Kong: Skull Island IMAX Featurette Delivers Biggest Kong of All-Time
One of the long-standing issues in a Godzilla versus Kong narrative is their size discrepancy. Judging on their most recent incarnations (Skull Island notwithstanding), Gareth Edwards Godzilla was roughly 350 feet tall, while Peter Jackson’s Kong was only a puny 25 feet fall. Naturally, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are more than aware about this, that’s likely why (or at least one of the reasons) that in Kong: Skull Island,
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Updates
While pretty much the entirety of the Internet awaits the first trailer for writer/director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there have been a few developments we can report on.
The first is the above photo that Johnson published to his Tumbler and Twitter page. The behind-the-scenes shot of a phalanx of Stromtroopers is accompanied by the news that Johnson will be attending the Star Wars Celebration panel in Orlando on April 14.
Berlinale 2017 — Wrap-Up
The 67th Berlinale is a wrap, with the Golden Bear awarded to Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi for Testről és lélekről, or On Body and Soul, a love story set in a Budapest slaughterhouse. A number of women directors had strong entries in the festival — Sally Potter’s The Party comes to mind, a theatrical black-and-white comedy of (sometimes very strange) upper-middle-class manners set in a London townhouse and starring Kristin Scott Thomas,
Disney Releases Han Solo Cast Photo
Disney has released the first cast photo from the Han Solo spinoff, and it’s nothing but smiles. Along with the photo, Disney has confirmed that filming officially began on Monday at Pinewood Studios in London. The photo was released on the Star Wars official twitter page, along with this Tweet:
“Han Solo – Smuggler. Scoundrel. Hero. A new Star Wars Story begins.”
Let’s do a quick roll call for the photo,
Talking With David Oyelowo About A United Kingdom, Acting & More
For actor David Oyelowo, “different and more diverse perspectives behind the camera” are necessary “for audiences not to be malnourished.”
Oyelowo certainly backs up those words with his film choices. Best known for playing Dr. Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Oyelowo last year played a sensitive chess coach who recognizes a young African girl’s unique skills in Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe.
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Actor in a Supporting Role
We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role,
XX & the new Female Voices of Modern Horror
For about as long as the genre’s been around, women have played a large part in traditional horror storytelling. Whether it’s the virginal Mina in Tod Browning’s Dracula, beset by the hypnotic forces of the titular vamp, the tough as nails Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Rosemary, the helpless young mother at the center of Roman Polanski’s iconic demonic tale.
Oscar Watch: Editor Joe Walker Masters Time and Space in Arrival
Oscar-nominated Arrival editor Joe Walker contributed his unerring instinct for the well-timed cut to his 2014 collaboration with director Denis Villeneuve in drug-trafficking thriller Sicario. "When I saw Sicario with an audience for the first time at Sundance, I nearly had a heart attack," laughs Walker, referring to film's hyper-suspenseful opening sequence. This time around, Walker's edit steered the Best Picture nominated Arrival toward a non-violent payoff brimming with existential mystery.
Watch the First Trailer for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
If there was any director who could breathe new life into one of the greatest tales ever told, it would be Guy Ritchie. That’s why we’re excited about his take on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which just dropped its first official trailer. Pairing Ritchie’s kinetic, energetic style to the legendary tale of the man who led Britain’s defense against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries and who,
Watch Emma Watson as Belle in new Beauty and the Beast Clip
The press tour has begun for director Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, with the principals gathering in Paris to tout the most anticipated film of the year thus far. Their tour will be accompanied by some fresh looks at the film, including this new look at Emma Watson, who plays your beauty, Belle, in a brand new clip.
The luscious look of the film is courtesy of not only Condon,
Berlinale 2017: The Modern-Classical-Non-Blockbuster The Lost City of Z
“Because the cinema is in such trouble, and everyone is so afraid, everyone wants to make a big blockbuster, they want to get their own franchise and stuff,” the director James Gray explained during Berlinale interviews for his new historical adventure film, The Lost City of Z. “I feel a natural tendency to not do that, because that’s what everyone’s trying to do, and I would wish that there was a little space where somebody could try to put him or herself into the film in the mainstream American context.”
American Fable‘s Writer/Director Anne Hamilton on her Gothic Fever Dream
American Fable, which is available today, is an American gothic style fairy tale set against the farm crisis of the Reagan era that manages, without overt effort, to speak directly to today’s anxieties. The heroine of the story is Gitty (Peyton Kennedy), a soulful, intelligent young girl who finds herself in a major predicament when her father, pushed to the brink financially, makes a desperate decision that could spell doom for the entire family.
See How They Obliterated Jedha in Killer Rogue One VFX Video
The Oscar-nominated visual effects of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story were, inarguably, the most talked about of the year. First was the fact that the film recreated the late, great actor Peter Cushing through digital effects and motion-capture performance, making his Grand Moff Tarkin a major character in the film. Then there was that incredible ending, which (spoiler alert) saw the Death Star Plans handed to a 19-year old Princess Leia (the late,
Oscar Watch: Why Ted Melfi Passed on Spider-Man: Homecoming to direct Hidden Figures
Before he became an award-winning TV commercial director, before he lured Bill Murray out of semi-retirement to star in his St. Vincent film, before he earned Oscar nominations for co-writing and producing this year's most popular Best Picture nominee Hidden Figures, Ted Melfi launched his creative journey in unlikely fashion by serving as child sports columnist for the M.A.F.I.A. Bulletin Board.
Melfi's volatile father,
New Kong: Skull Island Clip Connects to Future Godzilla Fight
"Monsters exist." This would seem stating the obvious, but, for Lieutenant Colonel Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), this seems to come as something of a surprise in this new Kong: Skull Island clip, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. He’s pointing a gun at Bill Randa (John Goodman) and trying to get to the bottom of what, exactly, the deal is with Skull Island. The deal, according to Randa,
Wolverine Meets his Nemesis in new Logan Clip
"As I live and breathe—the Wolverine."
This is Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook), meeting Logan (Hugh Jackman) for the first time in this new Logan clip. He’s come to see the old man (yes, Logan seems to be aging, and losing his powers) about a certain piece of “R&D gone bad.” That would be Laura (Dafne Keen), also known as X-23, the Wolverine clone who might be even more ferocious than he is,
