Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Shailene Woodley Star in Snowden Clip

If anyone was going to make a narrative film about Edward Snowden, few writer/directors could come to the project with more fearless audacity than Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Never one to fear tackling some of America’s most tortured flash points, from the Vietnam war with Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in JFK, Stone has written and directed Snowden,...

By  |  August 22, 2016
Dwayne Johnson Says Jumanji is a Sequel & Will Honor Robin Williams

There are few actors as on top of their social media game as Dwayne Johnson. Whether he’s keeping us up to speed on what’s happening on the set of Fast 8, or sharing with us a photo of the stack of scripts he’s considering for his next projects, Johnson keeps fans as looped into his projects as possible.

With that in mind, it’s not surprising that we got some insight into the upcoming Jumanji,...

By  |  August 22, 2016
Epic New 3 Minute Sully IMAX Trailer

Clocking in at 3 minutes, with new footage that includes some behind-the-scenes looks, this new Sully IMAX trailer is the best peek yet at Clint Eastwood’s latest film. Starring Tom Hanks in the title role as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who safely brought his Airbus A320 with 155 passengers down on the frigid waters of the Hudson river on January 15, 2009, Sully will take us into the maelstrom that followed this unforgettable moment. ...

By  |  August 22, 2016
Intriguing Theory Emerges Thanks to Photos From the set of Thor: Ragnarok

Thanks to our age of social media, we now get to glimpse images from films as they’re being made, shared by the very people who are making them. This is the case with Thor: Ragnarok, which has been filming in Brisbane, Australia for a few weeks. Director Taika Waititi and his cast have dropped a couple of new photos that tease Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) return to Earth, and, spoiler alert, a potential run-in with Marvel’s newest superhero to hit the big screen,...

By  |  August 22, 2016
New Westworld Images Heighten Excitement for HBO’s Sci-Fi Thriller

When HBO finally released the teaser trailer for their sci-fi thriller Westworld, we were both excited and relieved. Once the cast was announced, expectations for the show, already pretty massive considering the involvement of J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan (he wrote the Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar), skyrocketed. Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Jimmi Simpson, Rodrigo Santoro, Ben Barnes,...

By  |  August 22, 2016
Tour Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children With Author Ransom Riggs

You might not know that the upcoming Tim Burton film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, began it’s peculiar life as a book by Ransom Riggs. The weirdness of the book fits Burton’s finesse (and love) of the fantastical perfectly. The book follows Jacob, 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, that orphanage turns out to be anything but abandoned...

By  |  August 19, 2016
American Horror Story Drops 2 Delightfully Creepy, Confusing Teasers for Season 6

There are so many reasons to love Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story. The first and main reason, for us, anyway, is that for five seasons now the show has been relentlessly weird. How weird? Even the show’s promos are a head trip, which is in evidence with these two spots for the upcoming season six.

Murphy and Falchuk have been known to play with fans expectations and use the promos to throw us all off the scent...

By  |  August 19, 2016
Finally! The Man Who Fell to Earth‘s Soundtrack to be Released 40 Years Later

When David Bowie passed away this past January, the world seemed to stand still. The genre-defying, trailblazing musician, performer, and unclassifiable chameleon seemed to many to be beyond human, which made his passing feel almost surreal and, to some, not possible. Of course Bowie was human (even if he often seemed to be more than that), but in his first and arguably most memorable film role, he played the alien many of us liked to believe he just ma have been. ...

By  |  August 18, 2016

Interview

Director

YouTube-Inspired Director Used GoPro Cameras to Capture Ben-Hur Chariot Action

Before Timur Bekmambetov shot a single frame of the new Ben-Hur, he wanted to find out exactly what it felt like to be in the kind of four-horse chariot race that propelled its 1959 predecessor to 11 Academy Awards.

So the Russian director got behind the reins himself.

"I asked our stunt coordinator to let me ride the chariot, which was absolutely illegal because it's dangerous," Bekmambetov says by phone from Germany...

By  |  August 18, 2016
Regina Spektor’s Gorgeous Beatles Cover for Kubo and the two Strings

If you haven't heard about Kubo and the Two Stringslet us introduce you to a gorgeous film you need to see. This animated fantasy adventure film, directed by Travis Knight, centers on Kubo, a you Japanese boy who takes care of his mother. They make ends meet until one day an ancient spirit takes Kubo on a magical adventure involving a struggle for Earth's survival. This is a bare bones synopsis of a film that has complexity, beauty and depth—in fact,...

By  |  August 18, 2016
Director Rian Johnson has Begun Editing Star Wars: Episode VIII

Godzilla and Looper editor Bob Ducsay will be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to cutting Star Wars: Episode VIII, but as with most films, he’ll be joined in the editing bay by director Rian Johnson. And Johnson did what any savvy 21st century filmmaker would do; he shared a photo on Instagram yesterday of himself seated before a bunch of screens, with the word “Picture Start”...

By  |  August 17, 2016

Interview

Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

Watch Assassin’s Creed Stunt Performer’s Historic 125 Foot Free Fall

It's actually hard to watch. Michael Fassbender's stunt double in Assassin's Creed pulls off one of the highest free falls in almost 35 years. Stunt performer Damien Walters is one of the best in the business, which is why they trusted he could pull off this death-defying feat successfully. Director Justin Kurzel wanted to ground the action of Assassin's Creed in reality as much as possible, which meant that the "Leap of Faith," a major moment in the film where Fassbender's assassin Callum Lynch is trapped and needs to take a 125 foot plunge to free himself,...

By  |  August 16, 2016
WOW: Watch 1st Trailer for Director Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival

Director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario) has quickly become the type of filmmaker whose every movie warrants attention. His latest is a major swerve from the claustrophobic thrillers he has become a master at—Arrivalbased on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella "Story of Your Life," is a film about mysterious alien spacecraft that touch down all across the globe and the small team brought together to investigate what they might want, lead by a linguist tasked with deciphering their language...

By  |  August 16, 2016
Is Daryl Dead? First Clip From The Walking Dead Season 7 Teases his Fate

The Walking Dead has had its share of controversy during it's six massively successful seasons. There's been the unusually high showrunner turnover, including creator Frank Darabont and Glen Mazzara. And that's just some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. In fact, perhaps no scene has drawn more scrutiny than last season's finale shot, which ended on a brutal cliffhanger—who, exactly, did the sociopath Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) kill with his spiked bat? 

That final sequence created such a vociferous reaction from fans that The Walking Dead ...

By  |  August 16, 2016
Japanese Trailer for Rogue One Reveals New Footage

Hot on the heels of last week’s new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer, a Japanese version has dropped online. There are a few brief shots of new footage, and a nice shot of some Stormtroopers arriving in what appears to be a first-of-its-kind in a Star Wars film—a tank. As we've discussed before, director Gareth Edwards' film has the feel of a war epic that exists within the Star Wars ...

By  |  August 16, 2016
You’ll Stop Laughing at Aquaman Once Director James Wan and Star Jason Momoa Have Their Say

There may be no more difficult superhero to bring to the big screen than Aquaman. First, the fish-talking sea-king has long been a bit of a punching bag in the comics world. For fans of DC Comics in general and the Justice League in particular, Aquaman has always taken a back seat to Batman, Superman and the Flash. Second, filming Aquaman always meant dealing with a narrative that would take place largely, or at the minimum partially,...

By  |  August 15, 2016
Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard are Spies in Love in First Allied Teaser

Here's a good idea for a film; Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard play two spies who fall in love during WWII. Clearly, there's going to be a lot more to director Robert Zemeckis's Allied but this premise alone has us intrigued. Now that we've gotten a peek at the first trailer, we feel that Allied could be a player come awards season (the film opens November 23, right in the thick of Oscar hopeful releases)...

By  |  August 12, 2016
The new Rogue One Trailer has Landed

As promised, the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dropped last night during the Olympics, and it's special. You already know the story behind the first "non-saga" Star Wars film, but we'll refresh your memory nonetheless. The events in Rogue One take place shortly before the action gets going in A New Hope, the 1977 original film that set this entire Star Wars saga into motion. You've got a group of rebels soldiers,...

By  |  August 12, 2016
Let This Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Announcement Clip Wow You

If it's been a while since you've seen Star Wars: The Force Awakensthen this Blu-ray announcement clip will be sort of shocking—in that you'll go, wow, this movie really was pretty awesome. This 45 second blast of Star Wars goodness is the Battle of Takodana, when Han, Rey, Chewie and Finn go to seek Maz Kanata's help and end up drawing the First Order to her castle. The clip showcases what was so great about J.J...

By  |  August 11, 2016
Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Lethal Weapon TV Series

Lethal Weapon essentially invented the insane buddy copy dramedy in 1987. Richard Donner's film, off Shane Black's script, was an absurdly appealing bit of high octane mischief, smashing the loose cannon (Mel Gibson's Martin Riggs) into the by-the-book, aging cop Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) in what appeared to be an 'anything goes' bit of cinematic mayhem, but what was actually a formula invented and perfected on the first go.

Needless to say, the film was a hit,...

By  |  August 11, 2016