Building one of the Largest Sets in History on Deepwater Horizon
The Deepwater Horizon was the largest oil rig in the world, digging the deepest well that had ever been dug. Director Peter Berg makes this point at the start of this Deepwater Horizon behind-the-scenes featurette, released by Lionsgate. The video below gives you a glimpse of how Berg, his cast and his crew tackled telling the story of the 12 hours leading up to the explosion on the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 that cost 11 people their lives,...
Deadpool‘s Coming to HBO
Did you happen to miss Deadpool in theaters? Did you then fail to rent the film on Blu-ray? Did you decide at some point, hey, I'm just going to wait for one of the surprise hits of 2016 to appear on my TV screen? Well, you're a patient sort, and now your patience will finally be rewarded. On Saturday, October 1st, the Merc with the mouth is coming to HBO. Not only did Deadpool find commercial and critical praise when it premiered in February,...
New Luke Cage Clip Shows One Annoying Aspect of Being a Superhero
Marvel's Luke Cage is giving Mike Colter's eponymous superhero the starring role he so clearly deserves. Colter's Cage was one of the best things about the very, very strong first season of Jessica Jones, and now that he's got his own show on Netflix, we'll get to spend a lot more time getting to know him. In this new clip, we find out one of the more annoying aspects about being an unbreakable superhero—people keep ruining your clothes in an attempt to take you down...
Meet the new Big Bad: Ben Affleck Reveals Deathstroke in Justice League
Warner Bros. dropped our first peek at Justice League a month ago via this pretty sweet Comic-Con reel. Today, thanks to Batman himself, Ben Affleck, we've got another taste of what's to comein the undeniably potent form of DC villain Deathstroke. First, a refresher with the Comic-Con reel:
Now onto Deathstroke. Affleck's video reveals that Steppenwolf won’t be the only villain battling Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Cyborg and, we assume, a resurrected Superman. Affleck is staying silent on details,...
Lennie James on Playing the Moral Center of The Walking Dead
Audiences may have tuned in to The Walking Dead expecting a zombie gore fest, which is often what they get, but the emotional draw of the characters has carried the story through six seasons. The show reached an emotional high as fans have been left to agonize all summer wondering, “Who did Negan kill?” But the moral and emotional tone was introduced by one of the show’s most beloved characters, Morgan, in the very first episode...
Here’s What Thor & The Hulk Were Doing During Captain America: Civil War
One question that always nagged at us while we watched Captain America: Civil War was where in the heck Thor and the Hulk were during all of this? They would have made a huge impact on the film’s titular battle, right? And while there were plenty of good reasons that it wouldn't have made sense to include the Hulk (screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told Entertainment Weekly ...
The Magnificent Seven Character Vignettes
The town of Rose Creek is under the control of sinister industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard—always a great villain), so the townspeople seek help from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns to help them wrest control of their fate from this brutal madman. Yes, The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a remake of a remake, but as we've been saying all along, we're betting that director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) and this cast can do justice to the great 1960 John Sturges film, which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic ...
Gorgeous new Star Wars Posters From Artist Andy Fairhurst
Digital painter Andy Fairhurst loves to work in the fantasy and sci-fi genre. He’s been featured in books and book covers, magazines and websites (he’s been recognized with awards by sites like CGSociety and devianART). Now Fairhurst has created three beautiful new posters for Bottleneck Gallery featuring three Star Wars heroines. In fact, if one were to read into these posters, you could be excused for believing they depicted a single branch of a family tree—Padme Amidala,...
How Daredevil‘s Emmy-Nominated Sound Designer Makes the Punches Pop
During a marathon stairway brawl early in Daredevil's second Netflix season, hero Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) sounds like he's beating a gang of bikers to a bloody pulp. In fact, the hits seem far more furious than they really are thanks to Emmy-nominated sound designer Jordan Wilby. "There's a lot of different ways we get our sounds," explains Wilby, who gave voice to every punch in the fight using audio files from his massive library of sound sources...
Watch a Telling Deleted Scene From Captain America: Civil War
What it would be like if The Winter Soldier had to take Captain America's shield and, perhaps, take on his identity as our most moral superhero? That's the sly joke (one of the jokes, anyway) in a deleted scene from Captain America: Civil War. The Winter Soldier gets to experience what it's like to wield the vibranium shield when Cap's momentarily taken out of the action.
This deleted scene takes place during the clash in the film's title;...
New Rogue One Images Include Darth Vader, New Planet, K-2SO Droid
Disney and Lucasfilms have released a new batch of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story photos, and they're stunners, including the galaxy's most famous Sith Lord. Let's take a look at the photos and glean what we can, shall we?
First, there's this guy, who is said to play a small but pivotal role in the film. Considering that Rogue One is, in part, a heist film (a band of rebels are out to steal the Death Star plans),...
Watch the Don’t Think Twice Cast Catch the ‘Viral Video Virus’
Mike Birbiglia's Don't Think Twice is about a popular New York City improv troupe and what happens when one of them, just one, gets cast on a hit TV show. The group, best friends all, begin to realize that success and fame aren't likely to touch every one of them, and one member's triumph begins to look like everyone else's failure.
Birgbiglia made his mark at Sundance a few years ago with Sleepwalk with Me,...
A Burglary Attempt Gone Bad: Watch the new Don’t Breathe Trailer
Here's a thought—don't try to rob a wealthy blind man if that blind man is Stephen Lang. Most well known for playing Colonel Quaritz in James Cameron's Avatar, Lang is a formidable screen presence who also happens to be a seriously strong individual. In Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe, three teenagers plan to burglarize Lang's home, figuring the blind man is an easy mark. Instead, they end up fighting for their lives.
Along with Lang,...
One of Horror’s Most Beloved Franchises Returns in the new Rings Trailer
Paramount has just dropped a brand new trailer for Rings, director F. Javier Gutierrez's return to one of the most beloved horror franchises ever. It began in1998 in Japan, with Hideo Nakata's The Ring (the Japanese are notoriously clever, and fearless, when it comes to making horror). Then director Gore Verbinski made an American version, starring Naomi Watts, in 2002. These films managed to shock and terrify without relying on a glut of gore—they were moody,...
La La Land‘s new Teaser and Posters Showcase the Los Angeles of our Dreams
The new teaser and two new posters for La La Land have arrived, and once again, we're floored by how lovely this film looks. The teaser trailer has not a stitch of dialogue—it's all music, set to Emma Stone's "Audition," an original song created for the film. Writer/director Damien Chazelle, working once again with his Whiplash composer Justin Hurwitz, knows how to tell a story set to, and about, the most fluid of arts...
Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams Says Season 7 Will Break You
When all was said and done in season six of Game of Thrones, viewers were left with a very odd sensation; relief. For the previous five seasons, a lot of the things non-book readers were desperate to see happen didn't happen. Oberyn Martell snatched defeat from the jaws and victory and ended up losing his fight to the Mountain (watching the making of that gruesome scene here). The Starks, the only noble characters in all of Westeros,...
From Senator to Bad-Ass, Tovah Feldshuh Talks The Walking Dead
Her first day on Georgia set of The Walking Dead Season Five, Tovah Feldshuh shared a nine-page scene with star Andrew Lincoln to establish her Deanna Monroe character as the level-headed leader of Alexandria's "Safe Zone" gated community. By the time Season Six began, Deanna was instructing Lincoln's Rick Grimes to kill the murderer of her husband with two succinct words: "Do it." Summing up her character arc showcased in The Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season (released today,...
See how the Gorgeous Opening of Kubo and the Two Strings was Created
Travis Knight's Kubo and the two Strings is a gorgeous, animated meditation on the love between a mother and a son. The luscious look of the film, created by Laika's brilliant stop-motion animation, is something to behold (this is to say nothing of the the sound of the film, which includes a glorious theme song by Regina Spektor). Knight is Laika's CEO, and his first foray into filmmaking begins with a cold open, throwing the audience right into the heart of the story without explanation...
The Blair Witch is Back
Back in 1999, a little film that combined Hi-8 video and black 16mm became a monster success, and one of the most terrifying film experiences a generation of moviegoers had ever had. Directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick's The Blair Witch Project weren't the first filmmakers to use the "found footage" conceit to create something so satisfyingly unsettling, but they certainly made it their own. The film is presented as a straight forward documentary,...
Cinematographer Crescenzo Notarile on his Emmy Nominated work on Gotham
Whether you’re a fan of movies, television, or music videos, Crescenzo Notarile’s award winning cinematography has permeated nearly every medium of entertainment. Notarile has worked with some of the most iconic directors, musicians and brands in the industry for more than 30 years. He was there at the very beginning of the CSI series, helping to shape it into one of the most watched television programs in the world.
Notarile is now nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Cinematography for transforming New York into a pre-Batman Gotham...
