Female-Directed Horror Anthology XX Drops Sensational new Trailer
We’ve been excited about XX since we first heard about it four years ago. The all-women-directed horror anthology has undergone a few permutations on just who would be involved since the idea was hatched in 2013, but eventually the film keyed in on four incredibly talented directors, and will see its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, which begins on January 19. The first trailer has us extremely excited for the film.
XX is a horror anthology that’s made up of four stories written and directed by the following: Annie Clark (you might know her as singer/songwriter/performer St...
Felicity Jones Goes Rogue in First SNL of 2017
Felicity Jones was sensational in the role of Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, giving the Star Wars universe a plucky new heroine, along with Daisy Ridley's Rey and the late, great Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia (who became General Organa in The Force Awakens and Episode VIII). Joining the Star Wars universe meant that Jones, a rising star already, had officially arrived on the global stage,...
The Coen Brothers Will Write & Direct Their First TV Series Buster Scruggs
The small screen has become a siren song for some of the best and brightest talent in film, so it should come as no surprise that two living legends, Joel and Ethan Coen, are creating a TV show. It's called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and it will be a limited anthology series set in the Old West. The Coens have made two memorable forays into westerns already, with their astonishing No Country For Old Men ...
Step Inside Resident Evil: The Final Chapter‘s Killing Floor
There are certainly less chilling ways to start your Thursday. Sony Pictures has released this new Resident Evil: The Final Chapter immersive 360 degree experience in which you can see what it's like to be Alice (Milla Jovovich) for nearly two minutes. This virtual experience takes you deep into the Hive, placing you in a gruesome basement filled with the undead.
If you haven't checked out a Resident Evil film before, you're missing out...
Rian Johnson on Rey, Luke, and the Official Title for Star Wars: Episode VIII
Now that Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII is in post-production, the writer/director has been just a touch more revealing about the middle chapter of the new trilogy. In fact, one of the things we've learned recently is that Johnson has long had a title for the film (in fact, he's had it since the very first draft of the script), but, of course, he's not telling. (Any guesses?)
What we do know for sure is that ...
The New Cars 3 Trailer is Legitimately Thrilling
Cars is typically the Pixar series that gets the youngest fans revved up, but the new trailer for Cars 3 features a violent wreck and tackles the pitfalls of aging. While not quite the material you'd expect from Pixar's most reliably untroubled franchise, director Brian Fee and the Pixar team appear to be going for a bit more heft for the series' third race around the track.
Speaking of races, the whole 90-second spot is a thrilling race to the end,...
Baywatch Drops Two Hilarious International Trailers
Whether or not you were a fan (or even old enough to have remembered) the original Baywatch, which premiered on NBC in 1989 and then found a second life when it returned in 1991 and became a hit, you will likely find Paramount Pictures' upcoming film version exciting. That's because for the big screen adaptation, Baywatch is going to be funny. How do we know? Try these two, surprisingly NSFW new international trailers that just dropped...
Director Chris Wedge on the Joys of Making Monster Trucks
Unlike Scrat, the nutty cartoon rodent who has shared his voice for nearly 15 years, Chris Wedge, 59, has claimed more than a few choice acorns throughout his career. He is the Academy Award-winning director of Bunny, a ground-breaking computer-animated short from 1999. He co-founded Blue Sky Studios, whose movies are distributed by 20th Century Fox. He directed the company’s first feature, 2002’s Oscar-nominated Ice Age, as well as 2005’s Robots and 2013’s ...
Chris Hemsworth Calls Star Trek 4 Pitch “Amazing”
You might recall that right around the time director Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond premiered, JJ Abrams mentioned that he’d had an idea for how to bring back Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk for the fourth filming the franchise. As James’ (Chris Pine) father and the driving force behind the young captain’s enrollment into the Starfleet, George Kirk’s ghost has had a huge impact on the storylines thus far. In fact, Bones (Keith Urban) and Captain Kirk have a fairly lengthy discussion about George in Beyond,...
Writer/Director Rian Johnson Talks Star Wars: Episode VIII
If there is one (and honestly, probably only one) thing you can be sure about in 2017, it's that Star Wars: Episode VIII will likely be the biggest film of the year. As the galaxy far, far away has gotten a much needed bost of fresh female heroes in the form of The Force Awakens' Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Roge One's Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). The latter was the leader of the rebel team that stole the Death Star plans that were then delivered to the only other major heroine from the series,...
New Justice League Images Reveal Glimpse into DC’s Biggest Film Yet
With the Golden Globes over and the Oscars on the way, we're officially in that period of time where we're simultaneously appreciating what came the year before, and preparing for what's to come this year. Without a doubt one of the biggest films of the year will be Zack Snyder's Justice League, which brings together Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), The Flash (Ezra Miller), and Aquaman (Jason Momoa) in a battle royale that will be DC Films biggest contribution yet to their shared cinematic universe...
New Beauty and the Beast Promo Drops During Golden Globes
Perhaps you're one of the millions of people who are thrilled about director Bill Condon's live-action Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as your beauty, Belle, and Dan Stevens as your beast. In fact, this past November, Disney’s trailer for the film set a new record with 127.6 million views in its first 24 hours, making it clear that fans of this classic story are eager to see what Condon and his stars can bring to the tale in a lushly realized,...
Golden Globes Highlights: Moonlight, La La Land & Meryl Streep
If you didn't catch last night's Golden Globes, we've got you covered. It was an emotional night, highlighted by a big win for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, a record number of Globes for Damien Chazelle's La La Land, and a stirring, eloquent, pointed speech from living legend Meryl Streep upon accepting her Cecil B. De Mille Award for lifetime achievement.
We begin with the fact that La La Land wasn't just the night's big winner,...
The Music of A Monster Calls Captures the Hope of Humanity
A Monster Calls is a simultaneously explosive and fragile tale that finds some of its most powerful moments in the quietest scenes. Celebrated composer Fernando Velázquez carefully molded the score to cradle audiences as the tender story unfolds. The film illustrates the imagination of a young boy coping with his mother’s illness, but Velázquez reveals how the story transcends the fairytale. “It’s a movie about why we do movies,” he explains. “We do movies because it’s a way of understanding the world and explaining the world to ourselves.”...
Moonlight‘s Breakout Star Trevante Rhodes Joins Shane Black’s The Predator
Trevante Rhodes is the third and final actor who plays Chiron in Barry Jenkins' phenomenal Moonlight. The character is portrayed at three stages of his life; as a child (by Alex Hibbert), as a teenager (by Ashton Sanders), and finally as an adult, by Rhodes. The actors get roughly the same amount of screen time, and each deliver astonishing performances, with Rhodes in particular soaring in a scene set in a diner that was so good,...
The Sci-Tech Awards Honor the Industry’s Wizards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced the recipients of its 2017 Scientific and Technical Awards. Among the thirty-four individual winners and five organizations honored are some of the tech brains behind several of our favorite films of the prior year. Having pioneered the CGI Studio renderer at Blue Sky Studios, Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy, and Maurice van Swaaij are included in the Technical Achievement Award winners — Blue Sky, it should be noted, offered a unique contribution in 2016 with its masterfully updated visuals in the The ...
Fences: a Critical Smash and a Boon for PA Economy
When Denzel Washington set out to adapt August Wilson's brilliant 1985 play Fences for the big screen, he brought along his co-star from the 2010 Broadway revival, Viola Davis (they both won Tony's for their performances) and set his film where it had to be; Pittsburgh's Hill District. "Fences" was the sixth part of Wilson's ten-play "Pittsburgh Cycle," an epic undertaking in which Wilson explored the evolving African-American experience, examining many themes, including race relations. When Washington decided he would be directing the big screen adaptation,...
Oscar Watch: Picking Three Actors for One Role in Moonlight
Yesi Ramirez knew she wanted to pick the actors for Moonlight as soon as she read the script — twice. "The first time I read the script I cried," she says. "The second time, I cried again." The Los Angeles-based casting director had never worked with Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins before, but she liked what she heard when they sat down for breakfasts to discuss the gay-themed Oscar contender that called for three actors to portray the forlorn "Chiron"...
Moonlight‘s Editor Joi McMillon on Cutting the Story of a Lifetime
Nominated for six Golden Globes, the stunningly beautiful, brilliantly executed Moonlight was one of the best films of the year. We've spoken to composer Nicholas Brittell, breakout star Janelle Monáe and cinematographer James Laxton about how they helped bring director Barry Jenkins film to life. The story, tracking three periods of time in one young man's life—as a child, a teenager and a grown man—was based on the play by Tarell Alvin McCraney called "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue."...
Woody Harrelson Eyes Mentor Role in Han Solo Spinoff?
Woody Harrelson is no stranger to playing a mentor to troubled but potentially potent young fighters. His Haymitch Abernathy was a crucial mentor to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in The Hunger Games franchise, very often helping her stay alive amid not only the deadly games at the center of the film, but the equally deady politics that surrounded them. So Variety's exclusive that Harrelson is in talks to play Han Solo's mentor in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's upcoming ...
