The Dressmaker’s Costume Designer’s Stunning Creations
The Dressmaker, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and adapted from Rosalie Ham’s beloved novel, stars Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage, a chic, sophisticated dressmaker who returns from Paris to her small Australian outback town to find out the truth behind the scandal she was at the center of as a child. We speak to costume designer Marion Boyce about designing the incredible costumes, alongside Margot Wilson, that are the backbone of this offbeat comedy/drama.
The film was just beautiful and I thought it was a really wonderful rendering of the book...
Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard’s Latest Allied Trailer a Tense, Taut Affair
The last time we checked in on director Robert Zemeckis's Allied, we showed you this very promising trailer. The film warrants your attention; it's a romantic thriller set during World War II from an Oscar-winning director, written by an Oscar-nominated writer (Steven Knight, Dirty Pretty Things) and starring two Oscar-winning lead actors in Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt—(Pitt won his Oscar for producing, but he's been nominated for acting three times) should be more than enough to excite you...
Jordan Peele’s Horror Film Get Out Drops First Trailer
If Jordan Peele (Key & Peele, Keanu) is involved, we’re interested, and that’s certainly the case with his upcoming horror film Get Out. Written and directed by Peele, Get Out is a horror in the spirit of Night of the Living Dead, a scare-fest that doubles as social commentary. Who better than Peele to bring us back to the days when a horror film actually had a ton to say,...
Marvel’s Iron Fist Releases First Photo, Netflix Premiere Date
If you've already devoured Luke Cage season 1, don't sweat it—Marvel is no done extending it's ever-expanding universe on Netflix. Your next taste will be in the form of Iron First , which will be unveiled on the s treaming platform on March 17, 2017, starring Finn Jones as the titular superhero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYcmsfrI-U
Yeah, there's not much to go on in the above teaser, but Netflix has provided the photo above and a synopsis of the show:
Fifteen years after being presumed dead in a plane crash,...
Mark Duplass on Stripping Away Artifice For Blue Jay
Mark Duplass readily admits he’s “a schmaltz hound.”
“I have it deep in me. I can put on Same Time, Next Year or Somewhere in Time and just go for it,” he says. “I’m a nostalgic and melancholic person and I normally try to curb that in my art because I feel like if I don’t, it’s going to run rampant over everything. With this movie, I [decided to] let the floodgates open and spill it all out.”...
Dressing the Goofballs of Masterminds
Boasting credits that include George Clooney's Michael Clayton and Angelina Jolie's Salt, costume designer Sarah Edwards usually dresses glamorous stars in sleek outfits for serious adult dramas.
And then there's Masterminds.
Based on an actual 1997 North Carolina heist and directed by quirky Napoleon Dynamite filmmaker Jared Hess, Masterminds stars Zach Galifianakis as a simple-minded armored truck guard who conspires with trailer park goofballs (Owen Wilson and Kristen Wiig) to steal $17.3 million from his employer...
HBO’s Westworld‘s Stunning Premiere Draws Largest Audience in 3 Years
From the very opening title sequence, you could sense you were embarking on something exciting. We've been looking forward to HBO's Westworld ever since we first heard Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy Nolan were taking on J.J. Abrams' long gestating passion project, and this past Sunday's premiere didn't disappointment. Viewers now have a legitimate reason to be excited that the network has hit upon its next great drama, and HBO itself must feel good about the premiere's ratings. Multiple sources confirm ...
Ben Affleck Reveals Title of his Stand-Alone Batman Film
As Ben Affleck was doing his promotional tour for The Accountant, he was asked by the Associated Press if he had a title yet for his stand-alone Batman film, and lo and behold, he revealed it! Drum roll please…
The Batman has some things going for it. First, it's what Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow calls him in Chirstopher Nolan's reboot, Batman Begins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLDCIZ1DIs
Second,...
Up Close and Personal with Income Inequality in HBO’s Class Divide
A nine-year-old resident of the Elliott-Chelsea housing project on Manhattan’s West Side walks down the dim hallway of his building, talking about the Titanic. His class has been studying the doomed ship and its passengers. Asked where he would be on that ship today, he answers “second class,” and then quickly amends it to third.
Joel is one of the young subjects in Marc Levin’s documentary Class Divide,...
Doctor Strange‘s Cloak of Levitation has a Pesky Collar
For the first batch of Doctor Strange trailers and teasers that Marvel Studios had released, there was little of the studio's signature wisecracking and much more of the studio's signature world building. Doctor Strange is Marvel's weirdest superhero, dealing less in the physical, material world of The Avengers and much more in a mystical, mind-bending world of its own.
Lately, however, we've started to see some witty repartee in recent teasers, like in this one in which Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) goes mano-y-mano with the film's main villain,...
HBO Releases Teaser for Intriguing The Young Pope
HBO released the first teaser of their intriguing ten-episode series from Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty. The Young Pope features Jude Law as Lenny Belardo, the first American and youngest person to ever become Pope. He's joined by Academy Award winner Diane Keaton as Sister Mary, a nun from the U.S. now living in Vatican City. Production began in early August. Here’s HBO’s release on the show:
Born Lenny Belardo,...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Drops 1st Teaser
We're going to go out on a (wooden) limb and say that Javier Bardem's villain Captain Salazar will rise to the very top of your favorite Pirates of the Cairbbean moody, mean-spirited pirate list. In the first trailer for Dead Men Tell No Tales, Bardem's Salazar is the main event, overtaking a British ship in his quest for a certain somebody.
Walt Disney Pictures revealed the first Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales trailer during the season 2 finale of ...
Tom Cruise Kicks Butt in new Jack Reacher: Never Go Back IMAX Trailer
As we've written before, Tom Cruise doesn't seem to age. And one of his lasting contributions to film will be his fearless commitment to performing his own stunts. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood, a man who worked with Cruise on Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, we learned first-hand just how hard Cruise works to make sure the action in his films is as real as possible, which often means he's doing things he really shouldn't be doing...
Hitchcock Stories Getting a TV Reboot
Alfred Hitchcock has not been on the small screen for more than fifty years, but Universal Cable Productions is reimagining stories by the master of suspense. Variety reported that the Alfred Hitchcock Estate has given their blessing to the production company for a new anthology series called Welcome to Hitchcock.
Hitchcock’s mid-century program Alfred Hitchcock Presents featured a different suspense story each week. The upcoming series is set to follow a new story arc each season and will draw from classics by the famous director like Psycho,...
See how They Made Black Panther’s Suit
Last week we shared the news with you that Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War was created entirely in post-production. The suit was the product of state-of-the-art visual effects, necessary beacuse the look directors Anthony and Joe Russo wanted would have been impossible to achieve practically.
Luckily, the VFX studio Cinesite was there to help. Civil War was their third Marvel collaboration, and they were prepared to help make Black Panther's suit by far the coolest superhero duds around...
Spider-Man: Homecoming Production Moves to New York
Production for Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster Spiderman: Homecoming has concluded filming in Atlanta and moved to New York City. In the comics, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) grew up and fought crime as his web-slinging alter ego in Queens, so the production move not only makes sense but has brought an air of excitement to the city. Footage from Atlanta was screened by director Jon Watts exclusively at the Sandiego Comic-Con in July to positive reviews, and fans hope that it is only a matter of time before the first public trailer is released...
See how They Filmed Jurassic World in new Behind-the-Scenes Videos
This might be the largest release of behind-the-scenes footage by a studio on their YouTube page ever. I mean, wow. Universal Studios' Jurrasic World YouTube page has made an absolute ton of awesome footage available—this includes, behind the scenes b-roll footage, rough-cut dailies, previs, interviews and a whole lot more.
We're giving you just a few of these videos (there's too many to stuff on a single post) for you to enjoy...
Jonás Cuarón Talks About his Savagely Intense Film Desierto
Desierto, Mexico’s official submission as Best Foreign Language Film to the next Academy Awards, doesn’t seem a likely inspiration for Gravity, which won seven Oscars in 2014. But when young filmmaker Jonás Cuarón showed the first draft of the script to his father Alfonso nearly 10 years ago, the elder Cuarón said he wanted to make a movie like it — in space.
“Like Gravity,...
The Jungle Book‘s Jon Favreau to Direct Live-Action The Lion King Remake
Walt Disney Studios has found their man to direct a live-action remake of their blockbuster 1994 animated smash The Lion King. And why wouldn’t it be Jon Favreau? He just directed another Disney smash, the live-action remake of The Jungle Book, which was a critical and commercial homerun. Now Favreau will be taking on an even more celebrate classic from the Disney archives, one that spawned the most successful Broadway shows in history,...
The Final Trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is Fantastic
The fantastic beasts in the title really are fantastic. There's the Bowtruckle (skinny, plantlike), the Swooping Evil (Monarch butterfly meets pterodactyl), and the Demiguise (a little like Gremlins Gizmo), and they're just a few of the critters that makes Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them such an alluring addition to the expanding world of Harry Potter. It's not for nothing that J.K. Rowling herself has penned the script (she hadn't adapted any of the Potter books for the screen)—we're as deeply immersed in Rowling's imagination in the upcoming David Yates film than ever before. ...
