Best of the Super Bowl Spots: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
We're rounding up the very best of the Super Bowl's film spots. We've already shared Logan, Transformers: Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell with you, and now we're moving on to another thrilling new teaser.
Classic rock always features big in any Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 teaser, and last night’s Super Bowl Spot didn’t disappoint.
Best of the Super Bowl Spots: The “Amazing Grace” of Logan
Last night's epic Super Bowl featured the greatest comeback in the history of the title game (of course orchestrated by the Patriots' Tom Brady) and a slew of great new trailers for some of 2017's most highly anticipated films. We've already shared the spots for Transformers: Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell, which were both teased last week. Now we're going through the rest of the Super Bowl spots one-by-one,
Oscar Watch: Lion DP Greig Fraser Captures Five-Year Old’s POV
He shot 2016’s biggest box office hit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and last month picked up an Academy Award nomination for his work on Lion, so what’s cinematographer Greig Fraser doing in Mexico City filming a TV spot? "Commercials are an incredible technical proving ground," says the Australian-born director of photography. "I'm able to learn new camera systems all the time and that translates directly for features."
Transformers: The Last Knight Drops Super Bowl Spot
When we shared the Ghost in the Shell Super Bowl spot yesterday, we mentioned how last year’s game, between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, drew 114.4 million viewers, the third biggest TV audience in history. Now, Paramount Pictures has debuted the 30-second Transformers: The Last Knight Super Bowl spot, bringing which showcases brand new footage in an extended 55-second ad that will play on Sunday.
The Last Knight is a bit like X-Men: Days of Future Past—
The Walking Dead Midseason Trailer Promises Resistance
This past season of The Walking Dead was brutal. We watched our favorite characters deal, in their different ways, with endless, appalling trauma. After the sociopath Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) ruled the roost, mocking, taunting and murdering the residents of Alexandria, the mid-season trailer promises that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and company are ready to strike back.
After Negan monstrously killed Glenn (Steven Yuen) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), there was never going to be any true peace between him and our gang.
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Documentary Short
We've gone big this year for our Oscars 2017 coverage. Yesterday we kicked off our annual "Know Your Nominee" series with Lead Actor and Foreign Language Film, and continued today with Costume Designers. In addition to the series, this year we've created a special look at the awards—The Road to the Oscars. Click on the image below to learn more about this year's crop of Oscar nominated films and filmmakers,
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Costume Designers
Yesterday we began our Oscars 2017 coverage, which we're bringing to you in two parts. One is our annual "Know Your Nominee" series, in which we've looked at the Lead Actor and Foreign Language Film nominees. In addition to the series, this year we've created a special look at the awards—The Road to the Oscars. Click on the image below to learn more about this year's crop of Oscar nominated films and filmmakers,
New Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 Images Reveal Plot Details
Director James Gunn and the folks behind Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 have been giving little morsels of the film, just enough to whet our appetite. Gunn shared a bit of the score (in this awesome video of the orchestra), they’ve dropped new photos (baby Groot—swoon), and they’ve teased links to Avengers: Infinity War.
The latest news is an exclusive photo spread in USA Today.
Might a Deadpool & Wolverine Movie Actually Become Reality?
Everyone knows that Logan is supposed to be Hugh Jackman’s last turn as Wolverine. After 16 glorious years playing the claw sporting Canadian roughneck, Jackman made sure that Logan would be his last, best run at the character. Yes, Variety did get him to admit that a final go-round with Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool could be "the perfect fit," but Jackman and Reynolds are friends,
Check out Ghost in the Shell‘s Super Bowl Spot
Running your trailer during the Super Bowl is for big timers. There’s a reason it’s the most coveted time slot for ad buys in the year—more than 110 MILLION people tune in to watch the game. Last year’s year game, between Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos and Cam Newton’s Carolina Panthers, drew the third largest audience in TV history with 114.4 million people tuning in.
Paramount Pictures has nabbed a spot sometime before kickoff to showcase Ghost in the Shell,
Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Actor in a Leading Role
Today begins our Oscars 2017 coverage! We kick off our annual "Know Your Nominee" series by looking at actors in a leading role. In addition to the series, we've also created a special look at the awards—The Road to the Oscars. Click on the image below to learn more about this year's crop of Oscar nominated films and filmmakers, and the effect their contributions have had on the industry and the country at large.
Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness Brings the Pain
Earlier today, we wrote about the upcoming film Rings, which continues the American take on the 1998 Japanese horror film The Ring, by Hideo Nakata. The first remake of that film was by director Gore Verbinski, whose 2002 adaptation scared the pants off American audiences.
Verbinski is back with another horror, A Cure For Wellness, which plumbs one of the most interesting sub genres in horror—the hospital setting.
Rihanna Joins Bates Motel in Season 5
A&E’s Bates Motel has had a great run, and now season five is adding a global superstar to their cast. Rihanna is joining the cast as the iconic Marion Crane in the show’s final season.
Bates Motel is the contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, providing fans with a glimpse into how Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) became the monster that we met in Hitchcock’s iconic 1960 film.
Star Trek: Discovery has Begun Production
CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery has begun promotion, bringing the beloved Starfleet back to the small screen for the first time since 2005. The series is brought to you by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek). You can think of Discovery as the Star Trek version of Rogue One (yes, we just compared Star Trek and Star Wars),
First Look at FX’s new Marvel Series Legion
FX and Marvel Entertainment’s upcoming Legion is finally bringing a live-action TV series that’s connected X-Men to the screen. Now we’re getting our first look at the new series, which premieres on FX on February 8.
Legion’s creator is Noah Hawley, the visionary behind FX’s Fargo, and is based on the eponymous Marvel comic by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz. Legion tells the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens,
GLAAD Award Nominees: Moonlight, Star Trek Beyond & TV Shines
GLADD has announced its nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond earning nominations for films in wide release. The organization chooses the nominees based on fair and inclusive representation, with an eye towards originality, boldness, impact and overall quality.
TV boasts 10 nominees in the comedy category alone, which includes shows from NBCU, Amazon, Netflix, The CW,
Rian Johnson on The Last Jedi‘s Influences
Now that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is only months (11 and change, to be exact) away from coming out, writer/director Rian Johnson has begun speaking about the film. We know the film was shot in Skellig Michael (where Rey finds Luke at the end of The Force Awakens), the massive Pinewood studios, Dubrovnik, Croatia and County Cork. Since they wrapped filming, Johnson has started to reveal,
Behold the Final, Stunning Beauty and the Beast Trailer
Perhaps with the exception of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the most eagerly anticipated film of 2017 is the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. The source material helps—this is arguably the most iconic story in Disney's rich canon—but it's also the talent behind the film (and the gorgeous glimpses we've gotten of their work thus far) that has generated the huge amount of excitement. Director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Ocean’s 8 Cast Goes Underground
Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' have just delivered a first look at Ocean's 8, capturing our heroines in an iconic New York City location—the subway. The ensemble film stars Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean (the sister of George Clooney's Danny Ocean), who, like her brother, assembles the perfect crew to pull off easily the most stylish heist of all time, at the star-studded annual Met Gala. Her crew consists of Lou (Cate Blanchett),
SAG Awards 2017: An Emotional Night
After a second weekend in a row that saw protests around the world, this time in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration, the Screen Actors Guild Awards presented Hollywood with an opportunity to speak out—and speak out they did.
Winners took to the stage to accept their words and make their voices heard, clearly and unequivocally. Pleas for community and acceptance of immigrants and strangers were joined by pointed reminders of our country’s proud,