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...

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,...

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,...

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. ...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

Regina Spektor’s Gorgeous Beatles Cover for Kubo and the two Strings

If you haven't heard about Kubo and the Two Strings, let 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,...

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”...

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,...

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—Arrival, based 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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,...

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)...