Game of Thrones Tortures Fans With Teaser, Reveals Premiere Date
Game of Thrones has built up so much good will among its millions of fans, it can ask them to watch a giant block of ice melt. That’s the premise behind their latest, torturous publicity stunt regarding the release of the show’s penultimate 7th season, a hilarious and effective bit of psy-op marketing. A staggering 1.5 million people watched the ice melt on Facebook Live, typing “FIRE” into the comments section in order to make the flames rise and melt the ice block quicker. ...
Celebrating Reel Women: Directors
From gripping films like The Hurt Locker and Selma to groundbreaking documentaries like 13th and Blackfish, to horror films like XX and The Invitation (their contribution to the genre is staggering), women in film are consistently leading the industry in new and refreshing directions.
Female directors are responsible for bringing some of film's most iconic moments from script to screen...
Love Actually 2 is Happening—Sort of
We’ve finally gotten what we’ve been asking for after all these years! Director Richard Curtis is reuniting the majority of the Love Actually cast for a short film titled Red Nose Day Actually. As the title suggests, it is made in honor of Red Nose Day, an event started by charitable initiative Comic Relief, which was co-founded by Richard Curtis.
In the short, we will be catching up with one of our favorite film ensembles...
Cutting-Edge Technology Lets Planet Earth II Shoot in the Dark
The BBC’s Planet Earth series has captivated audiences worldwide, stunning viewers with incredible high-quality nature footage. The filmmakers were able to create groundbreaking episodes, showing tidbits of life in the wild we have never been exposed to before. Its sequel, Planet Earth II, has surpassed all expectations. Somehow, they managed to shoot even more dynamic and intimate shots, making most of us wonder: how did they do that?
Many wildlife filmmakers are confronted with the great challenge of figuring out how to capture mesmerizing realistic footage while minimizing your influence on the animals and your surroundings...
Game of Thrones Season 7 Poster Teases Battle Between Fire vs. Ice
We’ve been waiting patiently for Game of Thrones news for a while now. The last time we checked in on our Lannisters and Starks, we were writing about their big haul at the Creative Arts Emmys, where the show was the night’s big winner with 9 awards. Since then, there have been a few tidbits here and there, but all’s been quiet on the Westeros front. It’s as if our actual lives here in the real world has become GoT like,...
Zack Snyder Teases Aquaman Footage From Justice League
In cased you missed it, a week ago director Zack Snyder teased some footage of Aquaman (Jason Momoa) from Justice League, as a little reverse birthday gift he delivered to fans. The shot is brief but beautiful, showing the superhero in his natural element. In just five seconds, we watch Aquaman swim up to a man on a throne, which most people speculate is Willem Dafoe’s Nuidis Vulko. Aquaman’s movements are impressively graceful and fish-like,...
How the Kong: Skull Island Cinematographer Channeled Apocalypse Now
From the minute cinematographer Larry Fong walked into Jordan Vogt-Roberts' office to discuss Kong: Skull Island, it became clear that the director wanted to make more than a by-the-numbers monster movie. "The walls in Jordan's office were filled with stills from Apocalypse Now," recalls Fong, citing Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War masterpiece. "We were both interested in capturing this kind of classic '70s look, rather than just taking all our references from other monster movies...
Meet Colleen Wing, the Modern Day Samurai in Marvel’s Iron Fist
Marvel’s Iron First premieres on Netflix on March 17, and our guess is one of your favorite characters will be Jessica Henwick’s Colleen Wing. In the comics, Wing first premiered in “Marvel Premiere #19” in 1974, descended from a family Samurai who meets the superhero Iron Fist while on a quest to avenge her grandfather’s murder.
In Marvel’s new show, the extremely capable Henwick embodies the modern day Samurai, and from the look of this clip,...
Death Haunts new Extended Life Clip
Director Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi thriller Life was written by Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who told us one of their primary sources of inspiration was Ridley Scott’s Alien. This is a long way of saying there will clearly be plenty of death in Life, as this extended clip teases.
The concept is intriguing: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson are a few of the scientists aboard the International Space Station who find the discovery of a lifetime—life on Mars...
Tupac Returns in All Eyez on Me Trailer
The likeness between actor Demetrius Shipp Jr. and the late Tupac Shakur is so uncanny, it could be the only thing you focus on while watching the new trailer for the Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me. That would be a mistake. Benny Bloom’s film, which is set to open on June 16, 2017, has a chance to do for Tupac what Straight Outta Compton did for NWA.
On September 7,...
Harry Potter Villain Jason Isaacs to Play Captain in Star Trek: Discovery
It was heartening news when we heard that The Walking Dead‘s tough-as-nails Sonequa Martin-Green was going to be playing the lieutenant commander of the U.S.S. Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery. The show’s cast just added another fantastic actor, the great Jason Isaacs, who was so convincingly scary in Netflix’s surprise hit The OA, also a veteran of the Harry Potter franchise.
To millions of fans,...
How to Make Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 at Home
One of our favorite running video series if CineFix’s “Homemade Movies,” which shows you how to make your favorite film’s costumes, props and sets at home. You would think this would be nearly impossible for a film like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which takes place on various planets and in space, and involves a huge cast of aliens and otherworldly weirdos, but the gang at CineFix is more than up to the challenge...
Strong Reviews Suggest Kong: Skull Island a Smashing Good Time
We’ve been feeling good about Kong: Skull Island ever since the first teasers and trailers started rolling in. A great ensemble cast set on a rococo primordial island with the largest Kong ever committed to screen? Yeah, we were sold. When Warner Bros. hit us with this wild final trailer, we felt very confident that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, his crew and his principal cast of Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L...
Watch the Beauty and the Beast Music Video
We’ve already shared the iconic theme song from Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast that features the voices of Ariana Grande and John Legend. Now have a look at the singers in action in this new music video that features Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and the Beast, with special appearances by a few of your favorite enchanted castle residents.
Grande and Legend are taking a page out of Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion's book,...
This Alien: Covenant Red Band Trailer is Incredibly Intense
If the first Alien: Covenant trailer was described as “promising” and “terrifying,” what’s left to say about the second one?
Referred to as the film’s “red band” trailer for the red MPAA ratings graphic at the beginning, the film’s second trailer was approved to be shown only before R and NC-17-rated films. As a result, we’re now able to see a bit more of the intriguing horrors of the Alien franchise that have only improved with the advancement of CGI and special effects...
Hugh Jackman’s Last Turn as Wolverine Lifts Logan to Epic Heights
It’s official—Logan is a hit in every way. We’ve already written about how the film scored big with critics, and this past weekend it enjoyed a massive opening. This is what happens when you have a committed director in James Mangold and star in Hugh Jackman determined to make their last Wolverine film the very best. This is Fox’s third biggest opening of all time, behind only X-Men: Days of Future Past and Avatar...
Get Your First Look at the World of Avatar
Pandora – The World of Avatar is a new addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort. The attraction is inspired by the fantastical universe in James Cameron’s Avatar film series. Although James Cameron’s Avatar 2 film doesn’t yet have a set release date (it's due out this year), audiences can satisfy their excitement by attending the attraction after it opens on May 27.
Disney has been teasing different aspects of the much anticipated addition on its Twitter page,...
Belle Meets Lumiere and Cogsworth in New Beauty and the Beast Clip
The new web series The Oh My Disney Show included a nice little gift for you Beauty and the Beast fans—a clip from the new film showing Emma Watson’s Belle meeting Ewan McGregor’s Lumière and Ian McKellen’s Cogsworth.
In director Bill Condon’s lushly realized live-action retelling of the studio’s 1991 classic, Lumière and Cogsworth (as well as the rest of the gang, especially Dan Stevens Beast) come alive in ways we’ve never seen before...
See how They Built the Epic Brawl in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We recently shared with you the incredible before-and-after video of how the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice VFX team built the film’s dark, layered look. While director Zack Snyder’s movie took some hits from critics, nearly all agreed that the film’s visual style was arresting. To help give Gotham and Metropolis this gritty, gorgeous look, the film needed more a lot of help. In this new video, we see how the post-production company MPC handled the film’s centerpiece sequence—the epic brawl between Batman and Superman,...
Check out the new Deadpool 2 Teaser
If you haven’t seen Logan (go see it, it’s great), that you means you’ve missed the Ryan Deadpool 2 teaser that Fox dropped in theaters—so we’ve gone ahead and embedded it below. 20th Century Fox has released the full teaser online, which includes proof of how impossible it would really be to change into your superhero outfit in a phone booth, Superman-style, with our favorite Merc with the Mouth wondering aloud (while laying on a dead man) what a phone booth is doing on a city street these days...
