Loving‘s Breakout Star Ruth Negga on the Role of a Lifetime
If, as expected, Ruth Negga, the breakout star of Loving, snags a best actress nomination, it will likely be met in some corners by furrowed brows and the question, ‘Who’s Ruth Negga?’
They’ll know soon enough. Predominantly a British stage actress who’s played Ophelia at the National Theatre and legendary singer Shirley Bassey in the 2011 BBC biopic Shirley, Negga was born in Addis Ababa to an Irish mother and an Ethiopian father and lived there until she was four before being raised in Limerick and London...
Oscar Watch: Designing the Look of Loving With the DP, Costumer & Production Designer
In telling the true story of a white man and his black wife, director Jeff Nichols nails the late fifties period with uncanny precision. His Oscar-buzzed Loving (opening wide Nov. 11) begins in 1958 when police arrest Richard and Mildred Loving at their own Virginia home in the middle of the night and throw them in jail for being a mixed race couple. Banished from Virginia, Richard and Mildred (played with slow-burn intensity by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) decide to fight back and eventually win a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case declaring all anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional...
Dumbledore and Depp to Appear in Fantastic Beasts Series
As Potterheads around the world gear up for the first installment of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, there's some exciting confirmation to share about the sequel. Albus Dumbledore will in fact appear in the second part of this series – now expected to include five films instead of three.
Set in the 1926, fans may expect to see a younger Albus (around 44-45 years old) roaming the wizarding world in the second Fantastic Beasts...
Almost Christmas Drops Music Video
The Christmas movie is a staple of our cinematic heritage going back to Frank Capra’s 1946’s It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart in the iconic role of George Bailey. The very next year, another classic, Miracle on 34th Street, was released, which beat Bad Santa by 56 years in the depiction of a drunken Saint Nick (granted, in the latter film, he's the star). Since then,...
Hair & Makeup: Meet the People who Transform SNL Stars
Saturday Night Live is an institution, and that's always felt particularly keenly during presidential election years. This season, of course, we've witnessed Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin transform into Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Their performances have been, in short, hysterical. The nuances of their impersonations, from McKinnon's compassionate take on Hillary's struggles with connecting with audiences, and Baldwin's spot-on physical incarnation of Trump (the pursed lips, the hand gestures) are such a big part of the appeal...
The Assassin’s Creed Mythology
Can Assassin's Creed make the leap from hugely popular video game franchise to successful film? The ingredients for this difficult adaptation are there, starting with director Justin Kurzel and star Michael Fassbender. In this new promo from 20th Century Fox, the ancient war between assassins and templars that drives the film is explored. The Assassins, led by a 15th Century Spanish assassin named Aguilar (Fassbender), believe that all mankind should have free will. The Templars are more interested in power and control. ...
How Arrival’s Production Designer Created an Alien Language
Oscar-nominated production designer Patrice Vermette was tasked with creating an alien language for the new movie Arrival — and although he started by studying the languages used in other films about alien invasion, he ended up “reverse engineering” the language that Amy Adams uses to communicate with the invaders in the new film (in theaters Nov. 10). Vermette took a feelings-first approach to crafting the alien language by thinking about what it said to the audience without words...
Oscar Watch: La La Land‘s Director Damien Chazelle & Star Emma Stone on Their Moving Musical
Oscar-nominated writer/director Damien Chazelle set out to make a genre film with La La Land. Inspired by classic song-and-dance movies such as Singin’ in the Rain and Swing Time, he wanted to create an old-fashioned musical but “keep it grounded” in realism and contemporary Los Angeles.
“It was about trying to use real locations, use a lot of real spaces, then try to dress them up and make them feel a little more magical,”...
Join the Rebels: New Rogue One TV Spot
If you were watching The Walking Dead last night, you caught the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story promo. Every new teaser and promo offers just a touch more detail to parse in director Gareth Edwards non-saga film, and the more we see, the more excited we get. As you likely know by now, Rogue One centers on a band of resistance fighters who attempt a kind of bank heist in space—they aim to steal plans to the Death Star...
The LEGO Batman Movie‘s new Trailer is Best Yet
In the midst of a golden age of superheroes in cinema, the time has come to break the mold. Batman has long been a part of the men in tights craze, but this time around he’s going to be animated – with Legos. The LEGO Batman Movie has released its latest trailer, and arguably the best one yet. In the film, Bruce Wayne (Will Arnett) faces off against his arch enemy, The Joker (Zach Galifianakis). However, Batman must learn to let go of his alter ego’s mysterious loner façade and accept help from Robin (Michael Cera),...
Oscar Watch: DP Shoots Lush Oscar-Contender Moonlight Wide Screen Anamorphic
Action franchises like Star Trek, X-Men and Transformers exploit the wide-screen "anamorphic" format so they can showcase epic-scaled explosions. By contrast, the biggest action sequence in coming-of-age drama Moonlight happens when a 14-year old boy busts a chair over the back of his high school classmate. A Best Picture contender, Moonlight takes place in Miami's rough Liberty City neighborhood, where Chiron (portrayed in successive time periods by Alex Hibbert,...
Still Crazy After all These Years: T2 Trainspotting Drops 1st Trailer
The boys are back. Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated Trainspotting sequel, T2 Trainspotting, has a brand new trailer.
Boyle’s original and the sequel are based on characters created by Irvine Welsh, reuniting the visionary director with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge. All of the principal cast of the 1996 film have returned—Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle will reprise the iconic roles of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie. Sony Pictures has released the T2 Trainspotting trailer...
Benedict Wong Talks his Updated Character in Doctor Strange
Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster, Doctor Strange, opens in theaters this weekend. To celebrate, rounds of exclusive interviews are hitting the web, along with a Saturday Night Live appearance by the titular character himself. While Benedict Cumberbatch is busy telling jokes in Manhattan, Benedict Wong sat down with Comignsoon.net to discuss his stereotype-defying take on the coincidently-named character Wong.
“I was more concentrated on what we perceive with him now,...
At Long Last, Benedict Cumberbatch Comes to SNL
Benedict Cumberbatch, upcoming star of Marvel’s Doctor Strange, will finally be taking the Saturday Night Live stage by storm on November 5th in New York City. “We meet at last,” he whispers in the TV spot released this week. Dramatic music ensues as he approaches the dimly lit stage that has been graced by countless entertainment legends before him.
With a career that began in London’s theatre scene before transitioning to TV roles that culminated in his award-winning Sherlock performance,...
The Legendary Sonia Braga Talks Aquarius
Sonia Braga became an international star — and nearly single-handedly put Brazilian cinema on the map — when Bruno Barreto’s 1976 sexy comedy Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) became a U.S. art-house hit with Braga as the breakout star for her earthy, sensual performance. She followed that with two of her trademark roles: Gabriela (1983) reunited her with Barreto as Braga reprised a role she’d played on a popular telenovela of the same name in Brazil that had already made her a star...
This Extended Doctor Strange Chase Sequence Breaks new Ground
Not since Christopher Nolan's Inception have we seen visuals this gleefully unconcerned with physics. And somehow, Doctor Strange manages to take the notion of parallel dimensions and malleable architecture several steps further, creating a one-of-a-kind, M.C. Escher-like chase sequence that showcases why the film has had such an impact on people who have seen it. In just two days, Doctor Strange will be hitting theaters all over the U.S.,...
Ezra Miller Geeks Out, the Niffler Gets Greedy in Fantastic Beasts Videos
What do you get when cast one of the biggest Harry Potter nerds in your film? You get an on-set wizarding world historian, and in Fantastic Beasts and Where to FInd Them, that is Ezra Miller. Ironically, Miller's role in the film is that of Credence Barebone, the son of Mary Lou Barebone, the leader of the New Salem Philanthropic Society, a No-Maj (American for Muggles) anti-witchcraft group. In the first clip, Miller ties together some of the clues we learned in ...
Communication Breakdown: Arrival‘s “Kangaroo” Featurette
Last week we shared with you this beautiful Arrival promo that Paramount released that gets at the very heart of the film's conceit. Paramount took people from all across the world and paired them in groups of two, with the caveat being they had to speak different languages and therefore be unable to communicate with words. This leads them to drawing, acting, and other clever work arounds in order to explain to each other who they are,...
Things are Heating up on the set of Jumanji
Things are heating up on the set of Jumanji out in Hawiia. Dwayne Johnson, a huge fan of Robin Williams and the original film, has been working extra hard along with director Jake Kasdan, the rest of the cast and crew to makes sure the new film is up to snuff. This includes practicing on set with a special flamthrower designed by the film's crack FX team. Johnson plays Dr. Smolder Bravestone, a "smoldering" hero who has this specially created flamethrower attached to his arm...
James Mangold Reveals Beautiful Logan Storyboards & Images
Director James Mangold has been slowly revealing images and artwork related to his upcoming Logan, helping us to piece together what Hugh Jackman's final turn as Wolverine is all about. What we've gleaned thus far is Logan is going in a very different direction from the previous films in the stand-alone Wolverine franchise, as well any X-Men film. As the first trailer revealed (ditto the film's title), Logan will revolve around a severely diminished Wolverine,...
