Warner Bros. Delivers Storks‘s 3rd Trailer
In Storks, Warner Bros. new animated film directed by Nicholas Stoller (known for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors) and Doug Sweetland, a crisis looms; the titular birds are no longer delivering babies, they've now been reduced to delivering packages for a global internet giant Cornerstore. That is, until a stork named Junior (Andy Samberg) accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing a baby girl that he has to get home...
Game of Thrones Gets Involved (Sort of) in our Wild Election
As we wrote yesterday, HBO made it official that Game of Thrones will end after season eight. On top of that, with season seven production delays, we won't be getting any new GoT episodes until the summer of 2017.
This hasn't stopped HBO from using their hugely popular series to have a little fun with our hugely crazy presidential election. GoT has always been something of a political show—with giants,...
Stunning Concept art Reveals Batman v Superman‘s Underrated Visual Flare
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had a very dark visual palate when compared to the lighter, brighter hues we associate with Marvel films like Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man and The Avengers. This makes sense considering any film that has Batman in it will likely be darker—he's reliably our most brooding superhero, and his entire look and ethos is based on darkness.
Today, BvS concept artist Christian Lorenz Scheurer released a slew of concept art from the film,...
Disney Unveils new Titles for Next two Avenger Films
Up until now, you've thought of the upcoming Avenger films from directors Joe and Anthony Russo as Avengers: Infinity War Part I and Part II. Well, Disney announced on Friday that the Marvel Studios sequel will simply be titled Avengers: Infinity War. This means that the followup film will have a different title completely. It's now being referred to as the untitled Avengers movie. Infinity War will come out on May 4,...
It’s Official: Game of Thrones Ending After Season 8
We knew winter had arrived, and now we know when it will end (for us, anyway)—Entertainment Weekly has it that Game of Thrones is officially ending after it's 8th season.
EW spoke with the network’s new programming president Casey Bloys about showrunners' David Benioff and Dan Weiss's previously mentioned desire to end the show's run after season 8, and he confirmed that was the plan. This is the first time someone at HBO has officially confirmed this. ...
Watch the Wild First Trailer for The Great Wall
The conceit of The Great Wall is the kind of speculative fiction we love; what if when the Chinese were building the Great Wall, they were doing it to keep out something a lot more dangerous than a human army…what if they were trying to keep out monsters? What's even more interesting is that The Great Wall, produced by Universal and Legendary Pictures, is the largest English-language production ever shot in China...
The Thrilling new Wonder Woman Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures has distilled the most thrilling part of the Wonder Woman Comic-Con trailer they released last week into this minute-long burst of pure action. The film has a ton going for it, starting with a central protagonist fans have wanted to see on the big screen for decades, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, played by rising star Gal Gadot (Batman v Superman). It's got a director in Patty Jenkins (Monster), ...
The Wonder Woman Trailer Released at Comic-Con is Sensational
The Wonder Woman trailer at Comic-Con has been the most buzzed about footage (as far as Twitter is concerned) of the entire festival. Considering how many amazing things were released during the festival—The Woods turning out to be a The Blair Witch Project sequel, Kong: Skull Island, Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them…yet nothing was as well received as Wonder Woman. The Wall Street Journal reported that the trailer was the most Tweeted about Comic-Con footage (using metrics gleaned from ListenFirst Media)—and here you can see why...
Dissecting the Justice League Comic-Con Teaser
"Arthur Curry…I know you can talk to fish." Folks, if you haven't seen this new Justice League teaser that premiered at Comic-Con, here's your first look. Let's discuss.
Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) is on a mission to recruit a team of superpowered friends in order to battle a threat he knows is coming. So, in the first seconds of Warner Bros. Justice League teaser, we get our introduction to Jason Momoa's Aquaman,...
Chatting With Writer/Director Patricia Rozema About Into the Forest
From her 1987 debut feature I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), writer-director Patricia Rozema makes films with women characters that drive the action. But what’s unusual is how sanguine Rozema is about the always-looming issue of the dearth of central women’s roles and the financing obstacles most female-led films face, if they are not about Ghostbusters.
“You just never know what’s plain old getting-a-film-together difficultness and what’s because-it’s-girls difficultness...
Marvel 101: Looking at Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Groot
Last week there was an interesting news item regarding how many lines Matt Damon has in the upcoming Jason Bourne; 25. There's actually been quite a history of famous actors taking on roles that required very little in the way of dialogue. As Slashfilm pointed out, Arnold Schwarzenegger only spoke 700 words, total, in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Henry Cavill doesn't do a lot of talking in ...
Peek Inside Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Director Tim Burton has carved out an singular career, managing to do his thing on a grand scale. 20th Century Fox has given us this inside peek of Burton's incredible world of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Combining a visionary director like Tim Burton with the sensational debut novel by Ransom Riggs is manna from heaven for thus of us (and we are legion) who love when Burton gets to go as weird and peculiar as possible,...
Comic-Con: The Big Bang Theory Writer’s Panel
No group is happier to appear at Comic-Con than The Big Bang Theory writers. “This is our Coachella,” Tara Hernandez told the audience filling one of Comic-Con’s biggest venues. The writers and producers appeared on a panel with their real-life science consultant, David Saltzberg, moderated by actress Melissa Rauch, who plays Bernadette.
The characters in The Big Bang Theory are passionate fans of the same comic books, movies, television series, and games that bring over 100,000 fans to San Diego every year for Comic-Con...
Office Christmas Party‘s 1st Trailer is Gleefully Insanse
This might be one of the most phenomenal comedy casts in recent memory; Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Kate McKinnon, Olivia Munn, Vanessa Bayer, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Karan Soni, Courtney B. Vance and Matt Walsh—all together in a single film. We're talking about Paramount's Office Christmas Party, folks, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory) and scripted by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (Bad teacher) and Laura Solon (Hot in Cleveland). ...
Inspired by the Late Muhammad Ali, Gleason Doc Maker Captures an Athlete and His Disease
Documentary maker Clay Tweel first saw Steve Gleason on TV in 2005 when the feisty New Orleans Saints defensive back blocked a punt to win the team's first post-Katrina home game. Nine years later while promoting his film Print the Legend at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Tweel saw Gleason on screen again but this time, the former athlete faced the camera from the confines of a wheelchair. The clip documented the ravages of neuromuscular disease ALS and reduced Tweel to tears...
The LEGO Batman Movie Unveils First Official Trailer
The DC film universe that Warner Bros. Pictures is building began with one Batman (in the form of Ben Affleck) in Batman v Superman (Affleck also has a small role in the upcoming Suicide Squad—so technically that's two Batmans), and will continue with a stand alone Batman film…only this Batman is bite-sized. Yup, we're talking about The LEGO Batman Movie, and now that Warner Bros. has dropped this new trailer from their panel at Comic-Con,...
Director Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o Talk Black Panther at Comic-Con
At Comic-Con this year, writer/director Ryan Coogler revealed that Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Black Panther" comics have been an influence on the work he's doing as he preps the film. It makes us even more excited for the first stand-alone Black Panther film to learn that Coogler's found inspiration in the work fo MacArthur Genius and National Book Award winner. As Coogler told Vulture of Coates work, "I mean, he’s my favorite writer right now in the world...
Everything That’s Happened in the Bourne Films in 90 Seconds
You'll be excused for not quite remembering where we left Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) the last time we saw him. In fact, since we first met him in The Bourne Identity (2002), it's been as hard to keep track of our amnesiac super spy as it has been for himself. Luckily, Universal Pictures has put together a nice video primer to get you up to speed on what's happened to Bourne over the course of the three previous films, from ...
The Boys are Back: Watch the T2: Trainspotting Teaser Trailer
What have Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie been up to? That's a question fans of Trainspotting, Danny Boyle's iconic, incandescent 1996 film that followed a group of Scottish heroin addicts and lunatics, are thrilled to find out. Nobody saw the original film coming, and when it did, Ewan McGregor became a legitimate star, and the careers of Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle all took off. Now, Sony Pictures has revealed a new teaser trailer for T2: Trainspotting, which reunites us with those core four and promises that the hi-jinx (and low-jinx) will continue apace...
How Lights Out Writer Stretched Fear of Dark Premise to Feature Length Hit
The 2014 short version of Lights Out teased a primal horror hook grounded in universal fear: people freak out in total darkness. After director David F. Sandberg uploaded his YouTube mini-thriller about a monster who pops up when the lights go out, the clip attracted 3.2 million views and caught the notice of Hollywood producers. When they enlisted screenplay writer Eric Heisserer to expand the short, he faced a daunting question: how do you stretch a two-minute, 41-second premise into a full-length feature?...
