Production Designer Stuart Craig on Fantastic Beasts and How They Came to Be
In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hogwarts graduate Newt (Eddie Redmayne) crashes his way through New York in 1926, fresh off a steamer ship from London, in hot pursuit of his various ill-trained magical beasts, whom he just can’t seem to keep trapped in a suitcase. After the case gets accidentally swapped with other nondescript brown luggage, Newt’s predicament grows, given that only one of the bags contains an entire fantastic beast-sanctuary. With a muggle in tow,...
Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard Sizzle in new Allied Clips
It's 1942 in North Africa, and intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) meets French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. They go under cover as a married couple, charged with taking out a high ranking official. Their cover relationships becomes real, but eventually their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressure of the war when Max's handlers declare that Marianne is a Nazi spy.
Directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis, written by an Oscar-nominated writer (Steven Knight, ...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Rogue One in New Featurette
Folks, this new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story featurette is as hot off the presses as you can get. Lucasfilm and Disney just released it, and we wanted to share it with you as quick as can be.
"If I'd known since I was four that I was going to be shooting a Star Wars film, I would have planned it all my life," says director Gareth Edwards as the behind-the-scenes featurette opens...
New Photos Reveal Logan Henchman in his Cyborg Glory
The official Logan Instagram account @wponx, as well as director James Mangold's Twitter feed, have been a great resource for new photos from the film. On Mangold's Twitter feed, we've seen new photos of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and some fantastic storyboards by artist Gabriel Hardman. On @wponx, we've met Laura, likely Wolverine's new charge (a mutant very much like him, only with a different ratio of claws and a whole lot younger),...
The First Kong: Skull Island Trailer is Dazzling
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures had been teasing us with Kong: Skull Island tidbits for the last week, but finally, the new trailer aired last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This is our first really good look at the largest, meanest Kong of all time.
It only takes 39 seconds for King Kong to make his appearance in the trailer ("is that a monkey?" a member of the helicopter crew innocently asks),...
Hidden Figures Reveals Official Trailer
On Sept. 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the festival held a preview of 20th Century Fox’s much-anticipated drama Hidden Figures, about the black female mathematicians who had pivotal roles in the NASA space program during the late ‘50s/early 60s. This was a 20-minute clip that screened for the press and public from the then still-unfinished film—the early take on the clip was very positive.
Now, with a press screening set for this coming Monday,...
Inside Westworld‘s Game-Changing Scene
Did you catch last week's episode of Westworld? If not, read no further—spoiler alert.
Okay, so you caught the seventh episode of Westworld this past Sunday, and perhaps you had a similar experience to one people across the country felt as Theresa (Sidse Babett Knudsen) was flipping through some robot designs in Dr. Ford's (Anthony Hopkins) secret lab—no, please no, anyone but Bernard (Jeffrey Wright). When Theresa shows Bernard the schematic she's found—a robot that looks ...
Warner Bros. to Release Animated Justice League Dark
Warner Bros. has been interested in making a Justice League Dark movie for years now. It began with the great Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim) developing the comic book film for a few years, and eventually ended up with Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). While the live-action film seems to be making progress, we’ll get an early look at some of DC Comics weirder superheroes in a new animated original movie from Warner Bros Animation...
Become an X-Wing Pilot in Rogue One 360 Degree Immersive Expeirence
Short of being on Jyn Erso's Rogue One team and going after the Death Star plans, we've got the next best thing for you. Verizon and ILMxLAB have debuted Rogue One: Recon, a short immersive 360 experience connected to Rogue One that'll let you experience what it's liek to be a Rebel X-wing pilot. The experienced was created by ILMxLAB.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is now only a little more than a month away...
It’s Dad Versus Billionaire Delinquent in Why Him? Trailer
It's Bryan Cranston versus James Franco in Why Him?, a movie that focuses on one of the most ancient battles of all time—father versus daughter's feckless boyfriend. Only here, it's even worse—the tattooed weirdo is going to be a son-in-law.
Here's the conceit; It's the holidays, and Ned (Cranston), a loving but overprotective father, and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets her new boyfriend, Laird (Franco). Laird has one thing going for him;...
Manchester by the Sea‘s Writer/Director Kenneth Lonergan—Part 2
In Part 2 of an interview with writer/director Kenneth Lonergan about his latest release, Manchester by the Sea, which opens Friday, the New York City native speaks about his penchant for acting in his own films, his choice of classical music to accompany a drama like Manchester by the Sea that is set in a working-class milieu and how the current political climate might affect his artistic vision in the future – or not.
For part I,...
Talking to Manchester by the Sea‘s Writer/Director Kenneth Lonergan—Part 1
At 54, Kenneth Lonergan has experienced the highs and lows of the movie biz. The filmmaker has basked in the glow of having his directorial debut, 2000’s You Can Count on Me, bestowed with rave reviews and two Academy Award nominations – one for his screenplay and the other for his leading lady, Laura Linney. And he has dealt with the frustration when the running time of his more ambitious sophomore effort, 2011’s Margaret, ...
Two new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Clip Follow Positive Early Reviews
The early reviews for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them are in, and they’re very good. Currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the first film to be scripted by J.K. Rowling herself is being hailed as “sheer magic” by Newsday’s Rafer Guzman, a surprisingly dark origin story that will appear more to grownups than youngsters by Us Weekly’s Mara Reinstein, and film that has a “spellbinding polish” by indieWIRE’s Eric Kohn (to call out just a few.) With the release date quickly approaching,...
Peter Berg’s Patriots Day Drops new Trailer
Director Peter Berg knows his way around true stories of heroism and sacrifice. Patriots Day is his third collaboration with Mark Wahlberg in which the actor plays a man at the center of a deeply dangerous situation pulled right from real life. There was 2013’s Lone Survivor, in which Wahlberg played Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who is trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, pinned down by Taliban fighters. This year, the two teamed up for Deepwater Horizon,...
Check out the Trailer for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
A classic gets a gorgeously rendered update. A new trailer for Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the studio’s animated classic Beauty and the Beast has dropped, showing a meticulously beautiful take on one of the most classic tales ever told. Directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn parts 1 and 2), Beauty and the Beast stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, with an extraordinary ensemble cast surrounding them, including Luke Evans,...
Ghost in the Shell‘s Mind Melting Official Trailer
Director Rupert Sanders Ghost in the Shell remake has been a long time in the coming. It began in 2008 when Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to a live-action adaptation of the original manga by Masamune Shirow. Eventually Sanders took over the project, with Scarlett Johansson stepping into the lead role. That role is a doozy; Johnson plays The Major, a Cyborg counter-cyberterrorist who leads the task force Section 9, with a goal of thwarting cyber criminals and hackers...
Go see Arrival This Weekend
We've been talking about Denis Villeneuve's Arrival since it had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this past September 1. There couldn't be a more appropriate time for a film about the importance of communication in times of peril then right about now. Arrival's conceit is simple and brilliant: linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is tasked with leading an elite team of investigators to decipher what, if anything, the aliens inside the 12 colossal ships that have touched down all across the globe,...
Costume Designer Lynn Falconer on her Vintage Designs in Ouija: Origin of Evil
Ouija: Origin of Evil taps into one of the most iconic eras for horror costumes, the 1960s. Mia Farrow’s blue nightgown in Rosemary’s Baby or Tippi Hedren’s green skirt suit in The Birds have become synonymous with terror. Costume designer Lynn Falconer mastered the era creating gorgeous vintage looks that reach the sinister standards of our favorite horror classics. We spoke with Lynn about mining estate sales for inspiration, preparing for the wear and tear of stunts,...
Director Luc Besson Returns to Sci-Fi Form With Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on a French comic book series written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, which is just about the perfect source material for director Luc Besson. The Fifth Element director is a man who thinks weird is good (and so do we) and has been dreaming about making this film for years. With this new trailer, we finally have a peek at what he’s been dreaming up...
Collateral Beauty is Designed to Break Your Heart
Director Dave Frankel's Collateral Beauty is poised to make a big splash when it premieres on December 16. The film is about Howard (Will Smith) a successful New York advertising executive who retreats from his life after losing his child. His friends and colleagues are desperate to get him to re-connect with life, but all Howard seems to want to do is demand the universe itself give him answers. He goes about this by writing letters to Love,...
