Writer/Director Garth Jennings Mixes Legendary Music & Animation in Sing
If you have ever watched American Idol or The Voice and wished that the contestants were animals instead of humans, then Sing is definitely playing your tune – or should that be ‘toon? Writer/director Garth Jennings – the British filmmaker whose quirky vision graced the cult hit Son of Rambow as well as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy –takes his first stab at an animated feature,
Steve Zahn on Being a Bad Ape in War for Planet of the Apes
The third chapter of the Apes franchise is set two years after Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, with Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian army are forced into open warfare with humans, lead by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson) who sees no path to peace with the apes. Caesar's side suffers brutal loses, forcing the leader of the apes to confront his dark side and decide how far he's willing to go to save his species.
Rogue One Stars Riz Ahmed & Alan Tudyk Talk Rebellion
Yesterday we shared this video interview with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Donnie Yen and Diego Luna, and learned how these two global stars have a ton of Star Wars fans in their respective home countries of China and Mexico. Yen and Luna play a blind Jedi follower Chirrut Imwe and a rebel Spy Cassian Andor respectively, two important figures fighting alongside Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to steal the Death Star plans.
See the First Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s War Epic Dunkirk
Director Christopher Nolan has carved out a career for himself that, even at the tender age of 46, reminds one of Steven Spielberg. Nolan's films are simultaneously personal and hugely ambitious (Memento, Inception, Interstellar), which he's paired along side blockbuster popcorn movies (albeit ones with complexity and heft) like his Batman trilogy, with The Dark Knight
Costume Designer Evokes Vintage NASA Look for Hidden Figures
Costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus had just heard about the death of astronaut John Glenn when she got on the phone last week to talk about NASA period piece Hidden Figures (opening limited Dec. 25). “I'm so upset," she said. "These guys were so brave and cocky and well-trained, they were like cowboys — the rock stars of their time." Cocksure yes, but not flashy. "I put Jim Powell, the actor who played John Glenn,
Suicide Squad Spinoff Gotham City Sirens Reunites Margot Robbie & Director David Ayer
Arguably the villain that popped the most in Suicide Squad was the deliriously deviant Harley Quinn, played with infectious brio by star Margot Robbie. While we heard that Warner Bros. was looking to expand their DC cinematic universe this past summer, it's still great to hear that the first Suicide Squad spinoff is going to focus on the film's most electric character and and place her in an all-female villain story.
Your Guide to the 2017 Golden Globes
The annual award show will air its 74th ceremony live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8th from 8-11p.m. ET. Comedian and “The Tonight Show” anchorman Jimmy Fallon will provide a night filled with laughs as he takes the hosting reigns this year.
Selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the awards are a historic event that recognizes the best of the best in the film and television industry. Damien Chazelle’s La La Land leads the pack this year with nominations in seven categories,
Rogue One Stars Diego Luna & Donnie Yen Talk Star Wars Global Appeal
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story stars Diego Luna and Donnie Yen are major players in director Gareth Edwards upcoming stand-alone Star Wars film. (Have you heard? It comes out this Friday, December 16!)
Luna plays Cassian Andor, a crack rebel pilot who is so effective partly because he's in touch with a darker side of himself. This is what helps him take on some of the most difficult missions for the Rebellion,
Netflix Drops Trailer for Their Mysterious Thriller The OA Trailer
You have to hand it to Netflix—they are not timid when it comes to keeping their cards very, very close to their chest. The streaming service has just surprised us again with the trailer for a new, totally mysterious original show we didn't know existed, OA, a thriller starring Brit Marling (she's great in just about everything she does), which will be released this Friday, December 16. If you're keeping count, that means Netflix is letting the world know about the show a mere four days before its premiere.
Screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick on Deadpool 2 & More
Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have created the perfect recipe for mixing high-octane action, gore, and comedy without being heavy handed. The duo struck gold with Zombieland and if you thought their success might be a fluke, they came back and did it again in Deadpool. The R-rated Marvel box-office smash was just nominated for two Golden Globes, thanks in no small part to Reese and Wernick's mastery of combining humor and action. Their ability to mix genres could be disastrous in less skilled hands.
La La Land Cinematographer Goes Wide to Evoke Classic Hollywood Look
Oscar frontrunner La La Land declares its affection for old-school Hollywood spectacle in its very first frame, when a retro-looking PRESENTED IN CINEMASCOPE logo takes over the screen. From that moment on, writer director Damien Chazelle’s movie musical unspools across an unusually wide screen as an expertly crafted love letter to mid-century movie making. The challenge for Swedish cinematographer Linus Sandgren? He needed to capture present Emma Stone's struggling actress and Ryan Gosling's downcast jazz musician against a modern-day Los Angeles backdrop that assumes fairytale like splendor once the sun goes down.
Check out These Thrilling new Rogue One Clips
With Director Gareth Edwards is set to deliver the first Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, coming out next week (!!!), we're getting more glimpses at what his vision for the galaxy looks like—and it looks like war.
As you know by now, Rogue One takes place right before the events in the first film in the franchise.
The Fate of the Furious Releases Epic Traielr
The Fate of the Furious is the official title to the follow up to the mega-hit Furious 7, one of the fastest movies to reach $1 billion worldwide in box-office history and the sixth-biggest global title of all time. The Fate of the Furious picks up where Furious 7 left off, with Dom (Vin Diesel) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are on their honeymoon and Brian (the late Paul Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) have retired from the game—and the rest of the crew has been exonerated—the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life.
It’s Species v. Species in War for the Planet of the Apes Epic First Trailer
One of the most clever ways they’ve shown just how smart Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his fellow apes have become is by watching their mastery over other animals, specifically horses. Seeing Caesar and his crew atop horses, riding along a beach in Northern California, is how the first official trailer for 20th Century Fox’s War for the Planet of the Apes begins, reminding you just how far we’ve come from 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes,
Watch the First Official Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer
The entire Avengers team makes an unexpected cameo in the first trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming! Okay, you'll have to watch it to see what we mean, but what we're pretty sure you'll agree that this first look at Tom Holland as the web-slinger is ver promising.
The first trailer debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and not only do we get a few glimpses at Peter Parker's alliance with Tony Stark (the advice the latter gives the former leaves a lot to be desired),
Composer Justin Hurwitz on Creating La La Land‘s Gorgeous Score
The collaboration between writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz has produced three of the most musically ambitious films of the last seven years. Their first, which began its life as a student film and ended up becoming a major calling card for both of them, was Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. The original concept for the film, as Hurwitz explained it to us in 2014, was to make a sixteen millimeter black and white vérité style movie,
The Lifeguards are Now on Duty: Baywatch Drops First Trailer
The lifeguards are back! The first big-screen adaptation of the hit NBC show that premiered in 1989 is finally here.
You remember the original Baywatch (or you don’t, because you’re that young)—it started off with David Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson, Shawn Weatherly, Billy Warlock, Erika Eleniak, Peter Phelps, Brandon Call and Holly Gagnier, but this crew was canceled after a single season. When a first-run syndication deal breathed new life into the show, the series returned in 1991,
Get Fifty Shades Darker in New Trailer
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan return as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Darker, continuing the blockbuster saga that leapt of the pages of E.L. James's mega best selling book series and became something of a cinematic phenomenon in 2015. Darker arrives, appropriately, on February 10 (Valentine’s Day!) and promises to take things to territory that's a touch darker than before.
A less cocksure Grey wants to get Ana Steele back into his life,
How Jackie‘s Editor Helped Show First Lady in Brand New Light
When Chilean director Pablo Larrain chose to make Jackie his first film in English, he invited his frequent collaborator and fellow Chilean Sebastian Sepúlveda to edit the film. That’s little surprise, since Sepúlveda’s work is one of the reasons Larrain’s films are heralded for their distinct mix of the surreal and the politically incisive.
Sepúlveda edited Larrain’s acclaimed The Club (2015), about a secret retirement home in Chile for Catholics priests.
New Rogue One International Trailer & TV Spot Begin Countdown to Premiere
There are 9 days until Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters. As we’ve said again and again, this means Walt Disney Studios will be flooding the airwaves and the Interwebs with a final flurry of material, forcing you to decide at what point you stop watching them (if you stop at all).
Just in the past few days we've gotten a closer look at Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones),
