Watch Kong: Skull Island’s Rollicking Japanese Teaser
Riffing on Japans' own legendary monster, this Japanese trailer for Warner Bros. upcoming Kong: Skull Island teaser seems to hint at a battle we won't see for another two years—Godzilla vs. King Kong, which is slated for June 8, 2018. This is hinted at in a brief mention of Godzilla and the chosen shots in the teaser. One sequence in particular sees King Kong rising in the distance, huge against a blazing sun,
Go See Doctor Strange in the Theater
Opening this week is Marvel and Disney’s latest, Doctor Strange, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the titular lead. Cumberbatch goes American, Marvel gets out of science fiction and into mystical voodoo, Tilda Swinton is bald, and the universe bends at will. The tale of an arrogant and ruined surgeon turned sorcerer-defender of the universe is well worth the trip to the theater. Here are a few of the highlights:
Perfect hair: Not as in,
Meet the Mysterious Creator Behind Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Steve Ditko, legendary comic book writer, artist, co-creator of Marvel's "Spider-Man" and numerous other classic Silver Age Marvel Comics characters, must be considered the major creative influence behind Marvel Studio’s upcoming Doctor Strange movie, based on the character he created in 1963.
Strange was initially conceived by Ditko, with some input from Marvel honcho Stan Lee, as a different type of Marvel superhero, one who used magic and mystical powers that allowed him to travel to different dimensions to battle his foes,
This Arrival Promo Will Make you cry
This new promo Paramount Pictures put together for Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is brilliant. The film's conceit is that a dozen alien ships have touched down all across the globe and it's up to linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and an elite team of investigators to try and decode their language and figure out a way to communicate with them before the world breaks out into a global war. Villeneuve is going for something beyond your usual alien attack film,
Second Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Trailer Astonishes
The second trailer for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk's second trailer reveals brand new footage from director Ang Lee's stunning new film, and perhaps cements the film as one of the most hotly anticipated in the upcoming Oscar season when it bows on November 11.
As you've probably heard by now, three time Academy Award winner Lee has filmed Billy Lynn in 3D at 4K resolution and 120 frames per second (24 frames is the norm),
Paramount’s God Particle is 3rd Film in Cloverfield Series
Remember when 10 Cloverfield Lane surprised everyone by a) existing, and b) being a continuation to Matt Reeves and J.J. Abrams' 2008 monster thriller Cloverfield? Well Abrams' Bad Robot production company, along with Paramount Pictures, have confirmed that God Particle is indeed the third film in the Cloverfield series.
Inches From an Icon: Gimme Danger Cinematographer on Filming Iggy Pop
Cinematographer Tom Krueger has filmed his share of charismatic musicians ranging from Bob Dylan and U2 to Stevie Wonder and David Bowie. But nothing prepared him for the Iggy Pop experience. Shooting Jim Jarmusch-directed documentary, Gimme Danger, Krueger captures the hair-rising misadventures of proto-punk band the Stooges as told by craggy-faced Jim Osterberg, known to the world as Iggy Pop.
Iggy Pop in GIMME DANGER.
Loving Featurette: The People Behind the Landmark Supreme Court Case
"Richard and Mildred Loving were two people that loved each other, and they didn't understand why the rest of the world couldn't see it," says writer/director Jeff Nichols about Loving, his film about the two people behind a landmark Supreme Court case that changed the country. The film follows Richard and Mildred's decision to wed, despite the fact that this was a violation of Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, known as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924,
Warren Beatty Returns With Rules Don’t Apply
Warren Beatty’s first film in 15 years, Rules Don’t Apply, has released its final trailer. Set in 1950’s Los Angeles, the film follows Marla (Lily Collins), an aspiring young actress who struggles to follow the rules set by her employer, Howard Hughes (played by Beatty himself), that prohibits romantic relationships between his staff. This causes complications when she develops feelings for Hughes’s driver, Frank (Alden Ehrenreich, star of the upcoming Han Solo film).
James McAvoy Stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s Thriller Split
He's baaaaaack. Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is having something of a resurgence after last year's horror The Visit and his TV series Wayward Pines. Now he returns to his thriller roots with Split, a film that plunges into the mysterious recesses of one man’s fractured, extremely powerful mind. Will this be the Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs?
Gilmore Girls Bring the Binge this Thanksgiving
The binging won’t end with the turkey and your great-aunt’s sweet potato pie this Thanksgiving. Netflix is serving up six hours of fresh Gilmore Girls on Black Friday.
Lorelai and Rory are returning to Stars Hollow for four 90-minute episodes of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. The trailer just dropped and fans are rejoicing to see that many of their favorite characters make an appearance.
Rory’s exes are back.
The World of Assassin’s Creed Includes Parkour, Amazing Stunts
Director Justin Kurzel's Assassin's Creed looks like it might be the film that finally rises from its video game franchise origins into a wholly realized film, one that functions on its own terms. The first hint is how doggedly Kurzel and his team have worked to make the action grounded in reality. We showed you the historic free fall pulled off by Michael Fassbender's stunt double,
Watch Toyko get Crushed in Godzilla: Resurgence VFX Reel
Shin Gojira—which is Godzilla Resurgence to you non Japanese speakers—is the 31st Godzilla film in the franchise, and the 29th produced by the legendary Toho Studios. Co-directed by Hideki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, this latest Godzilla film once again unleashed the most famous monster in movie history on the city of Tokyo.
The film’s premise was clever; when the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line mysteriously floods and collapses (the line is a bridge-tunnel combo that runs across Tokyo bay),
Doctor Strange Will Make Huge Waves in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
With just nine days until the premiere of Doctor Strange and a ton of positive reactions already percolating from the press screening, Marvel and Walt Disney Studios can expect their new addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have a huge ripple effect. With critics hailing the film's "dark and spooky psychedelic horrors" and calling it a "wonderfully trippy, visually stunning origin story that intros great characters into the MCU,"
Netflix Horror I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House Debuts Trailer
There’s been a lot of bad stuff happening in houses this year. The Conjuring 2 and Don’t Breathe come to mind, for example. Those are houses we wouldn’t want to spend a single minute in. And now, right before Halloween, Netflix is releasing Oz Perkins’s (yup, he is in deed the son of Anthony) horror film I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, which will debut on October 28.
Dwayne Johnson Croons in new Moana Clip
Can Dwayne Johnson sing? In the newest clip from Moana, the multitalented performer puts that question to rest as his formerly mighty demigod Maui sings a little diddy for his new friend. Have a look and listen:
Walt Disney Animation Studios Moana is about the eponymous adventurous teenager (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) who sets sail on a dangerous mission to save her people. On this journey she meets the once-mighty demigod Maui (Johnson),
Basking in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight at the Middleburg Film Festival
Barry Jenkins' Moonlight played to a packed house at the Middleburg Film Festival, and for 110 minutes the crowd was mostly silent and rapt. Masterfully touching upon three periods in a single life, Moonlight is the rare film that manages to feel fully realized but impossibly swift, and I for one both wished the film had lingered just a little bit longer and was stunned by how quickly it had managed to move me,
Amy Adams & Jack Gyllenhaal Thrive in Nocturnal Animals
A week ago we published this interview with Nocturnal Animals composer Abel Korzeniowski, who told us that director Tom Ford, despite not having made a film in the seven years since the two had collaborated onA Single Man, had somehow grown in his skills behind the camera. The film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival. The results speak for themselves. Nocturnal Animals
Hidden Figures Featurette Goes Behind the Numbers
20th Century Fox's Hidden Figures exposes at a little known piece of American history; the black female NASA mathematicians who were critical to lauching astronaut John Glenn into space. Director Theodore Melfi's film follows the exploits of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) as they penetrate the all male, all white world of NASA to help America's space program get John Glenn (Glen Powell) become the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth. This new featurette goes behind-the-scenes to give you a taste of how the film was made,
The Walking Dead Premiere as Brutal as Promised
Obviously spoiler alert. If you haven't watched the season 7 premiere, stop reaidng now.
Still here? Great. Still feel a little sick from last night's episode? Yeah, us too. Just as Lennie James told us when we interviewed him, The Walking Dead's season 7 premiere was absolutely brutal. As had been hinted at before, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) doesn't just kill one beloved member of Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) crew,
