Talking to Veep‘s Emmy-Nominated Director About Art Imitating Life
Veep Assistant Director Dale Stern has been the creative right hand man to show creator Armando Iannucci for four seasons, steering the series toward critical and audience acclaim. In the fifth season, Stern took over the directing chair for a single episode that was so brilliantly executed it earned him an Emmy nomination. In mid-season standout Mother, Stern took on some of the darkest material the show has tackled and it turned out to be some of the funniest. ...
See how They Created the Visual Effects for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Industrial Light & Magic has made as massive impact on filmmaking. ILM's imprint is all over the entirety of the Star Wars saga, and has touched so many of our most visually dazzling films it's hard to understate their impact. We've interviewed multiple ILM employees over the years to find out how they made alien robot-car hyrbids walk and talk, how they created the amazing time travel sequence at the end of Lucy ...
Watch the Gorgeous Official Trailer for A Monster Calls
Last week we shared a preview of A Monster Calls, a film directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, with Jurassic World 2 up next) based on Patrick Ness's book of the same name. Today we’ve got the full official trailer, which we’ve embedded below. The most striking thing about A Monster Calls is the lush visual palate Bayona and his The Impossible cinematographer Oscar Faura have used...
It’s all Giggles & Curse Words in Captain America: Civil War‘s Gag Reel
Captain America: Civil War might be one of the more somber Marvel films to date, but that doesn't mean the large cast of mostly old friends didn't have a hoot filming it. Considering most of the principals have been together for a long time, it's not surprising to see them falling to pieces over flubbed lines, stunt mishaps and more. Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow has some trouble with her trusty batons and starts giggling. Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark starts to lose it in his scene with Tom Holland's Peter Parker...
Chadwick Boseman Promises Darker, Grittier Black Panther
The principal cast and crew working on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther are like a who's who of up-and-coming filmmakers: Coogler himself, his co-writer Joe Robert Cole, his star Chadwick Boseman, and his cast (thus far) that includes Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danai Guriria. That a major studio film is also primarily made up of young African-American talents is not a small deal.
L-r: Marvel president Kevin Feige, Ryan Coogler, Lupita Nyong'o,...
Telluride Film Festival Ignites Oscar Buzz
The Telluride Film Festival is the first official American fest of the fall season, and once again it has provided real excitement with a crop of high quality films by up-and-comers and legends alike. Telluride functions as a cinematic palate cleanser after the often heavy, loud, and CGI-reliant summer blockbuster films. One of the lovely things about Telluride is the fest has had an uncannily good history of programming, plus, for those lucky folks who make it to the Colorado mountains, the mingling of stars like Clint Eastwood,...
Samuel L. Jackson Catches the Wind in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Clip
Tim Burton's film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will hit theaters on September 30, based on the book by Ransom Riggs. We've been loving what 20th Century Fox has shared thus far, including this tour Riggs took of the incredible set. The film follows Jacob (Asa Butterfield), a boy who, following a terrible family tragedy, sniffs out a bunch of clues that lead him to an abandoned orphanage on a Welsh island. Of course,...
Can you Figure out Who Negan Killed in new The Walking Dead Teaser
The Walking Dead premieres in a little more than a month, on October 23, and with the internet still aflame about the controversial ending to season six, every new piece of footage AMC drops is met with intense scrutiny and a CSI-level amount of analysis. Is there a clue to who Negan's victim was in the latest teaser? Let's find out.
You can watch the new teaser here. Once you're done,...
See how they Filmed the Fight Scene Between Captain America and the Winter Soldier
There were a lot of big, bruising brawls in Captain America: Civil War, but none are more personal than when Cap fights his best friend (of 80 years!) the Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes. In this behind-the-scenes clip unveiled by Marvel, directors Joe and Anthony Russo show us how they built this fight early in the film.
Fight coordinator James Young explains that the key to crafting a believable, emotional fight is to remember that these brawls need to be "character moments."...
Watch the 1st Trailer for Christopher Guests’s Mascots
Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) is back, ladies and gentlemen, and he looks to be in perfect Guestian form. His new film, Mascots, will be streaming on Netflix on October 13. Let's first take a look at the new trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swTWozTxQ-E
This is Guest through-and-through, taking us into the weird, wild world of a profession most of us have only a passing interest in (say,...
Watch a Sneak Peek Emma Watson & Dan Stevens in Live-Action Beauty and the Beast
Here's a fun little sneak peek of Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which will be coming out in 2017. You'll see stars Emma Watson, who is your Beauty, Belle, and Dan Stevens, who is your Beast, at a table read, you'll hear from director Bill Condon, and you'll see some of the stunning visuals from the upcoming film, mixed with the classic images from the animated Beauty and the Beast ...
Method Man, A$AP Ferg & More Come Together to Give Luke Cage Its Beat
Have we mentioned how excited we are for Marvel’s Luke Cage? Right, we have. And this new video showcasing the musical heart of the show only gets us more pumped up.
It’s fitting that legendary hip hop artists and bands are going to be a big part of the show’s soundscape, considering the show is about an ex-con and brawler (who happens to have unbreakable skin) doing right in New York City. Hip hop and the themes the music explores that will give the show it’s “street-level authenticity,”...
This Morgan Trailer is 1st Ever Created by Artificial Intelligence
Robots are going to take over the world—happy Thursday!
At least, that's the feeling we had after seeing the latest piece of gonzo promotion that 20th Century Fox has cooked up for their artificial intelligence/horror/thriller Morgan. To think, it was only a week ago when we thought it was pretty amazing when 20th Century Fox had two robots watch and react to the Morgan trailer. Little did we know that the studio was just getting started...
Pretending to Contact Spirits Spells Real Evil in Ouija: Origin of Evil
In Ouija: Origin of Evil, a brand new cast makes up the sequel to the surprise 2014 hit. This time around, we're fifty years prior to the events in the first film, in 1967's Los Angeles, where a widowed mother and her two daughters are using a Ouija board and a whole bunch of tricks to bilk money out of paying customers in their scam seancé business. Naturally, this type of messing around with the occult can't go unpunished,...
Critical Smash Stranger Things Renewed at Netflix, Season 2 Coming in 2017
One of the most surprising twists of this summer was the critical darling Stranger Things on Netflix, one of those seemingly out-of-nowhere delights that managed to evoke the beloved 1980s without buckling under the weight of Spielbergian pastiche. Then, the second most surprising thing was the fact that Netflix hadn't renewed the show for a second season. What could the holdup possibly be? Everyone who watched it loved the show, and everyone wanted more.
And then,...
Watch new Rogue One Toys Come to Life in Adorable Star Wars Story
Well this is an adorable way to start your Wednesday. Here's chapter one of a four-part stop-motion mini-movie (and we do mean mini) featuring Rogue One's Jyn Erso as she steals the Death Star plans from a pack of the galaxy's most wee Stormtroopers. In fact, there's not only tiny little Lego Stormtroopers, but also proper action figure versions and bobbleheads. All in all, they make up the cutest little Empire you'll ever see. The clip was written and produced by ...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Doctor Strange
The home video release of Captain America: Civil War has already provided us with one juicy bit of extra footage; you remember earlier this week when we published this hilarious video showing what Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his pal Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) were up to when the rest of the Avengers were having a bit of a brawl. plug some of its other upcoming titles. Today, we've got a little more good stuff thanks to the ...
Emmy Watch: How they Created Jessica Jones‘ Spooky Cool Title Sequence
The Emmy nominees behind Marvel's Jessica Jones' spooky-cool title sequence didn't actually know anything about the dyspeptic comic book detective when they started work on the Netflix series. But after production company Imaginary Forces and composer Sean Callery brainstormed with series creator Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight), they distilled the essence of Kristen Ritter's title character into a moody 68-second tease that artfully sets the tone for all that follows.
Creative director Michelle Dougherty cites Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 peeping Tom classic Rear Window as a key influence...
Looking Ahead to the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival opens Sept. 8 with a bang — literally. Antoine Fuqua’s highly anticipated western The Magnificent Seven starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard and Haley Bennett among the outlaws, bounty hunters, hired guns and lawmen of the old west, has its world premiere as the curtain rises on the prestigious North American festival that’s considered an awards season barometer.
The Magnificent Seven is just one of the major titles at this year’s TIFF,...
A Monster Calls may be a Surprise End-of-Year Hit
You may not have heard much about A Monster Calls, but we're guessing you will in the coming months. The news today is the film's release date was pushed back, from October 21 to December 23, but, before you think this signals trouble (as it often does), that doesn't look to be the reason in this case. In fact, it looks as if this move by Focus Features is based on the studio liking what they've seen,...
