Michael Bay Introduces Adorable new Transformer Squeeks
Thus far, the biggest news coming out of Michael Bay's Transformers: The Last Knight have been a few new vehicle forms for fan favorite Bumblebee and the Decepticon Barricade, not exactly earth shattering stuff. Thanks to Bay's Instagram page, however, today we get a little bit more from the set in the form of a new, cute Wall-E looking Autobot named Squeeks. The new little guy is clearly aimed at our heartstrings; he doesn't even turn into a powerful military vehicle or a sexy,...
Peek Inside The Magical Briefcase in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
"My heroes are always people who feel themselves to be set apart, stigmatized, or othered," says J.K. Rowling at the beginning of this Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them featurette. "That's at the heart of most of what I write. That's certainly at the heart of this movie." If there ever was a more apt time for such a spirit to imbue a major motion picture like Fantastic Beasts, now's that time.
In this featurette,...
Spider-Man: Homecoming Quietly Putting Together Incredible, Diverse Cast
Director Jon Watts has been on a casting tear for Spider-Man: Homecoming, which began filming a few days ago. A wonderful mix of rising stars have been recently added to join Tom Holland (Spidey himself), Marisa Tomei (Aunty May), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Zendaya Coleman (as Peter's love interest, we think), and Michael Keaton (probably playing the villain the Vulture). The two latest to sign on are Michael Mando, whose made the most of his recurring roles in ...
New Suicide Squad Footage Featured in Music Video
And for our second bit of Suicide Squad news today (earlier we posted about these awesome new posters), check out the new footage in the music video for the film's soundtrack. Warner Bros. had already released the track listing for the album, and now they've released this video, created by the band Twenty One Pilots, for their song "Heathens."
The video gives us a peek at some of our favorite new antiheroes,...
It’s Official: Darth Vader Will be in Rogue One
There's been a lot of hubbub over Rogue One: A Star Wars Story lately. First, there was the news that Gareth Edwards' film was undergoing reshoots, which initially seemed to indicate all was not right in a galaxy far, far away. A little digging showed that this wasn't necessarily true. The reshoots were scheduled even before principal photography began, and are a common practice for films of this size so that the filmmakers can make adjustments after seeing the film in assembly...
New Trailer for Oscar Contender The Birth of a Nation
Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for this year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner The Birth of a Nation. Writer/director and star Nate Parker's 7-year labor of love left this year's Sundance with the two top prizes, a record-setting deal with Fox Searchlight, and a ton of momentum carrying it towards a potential big haul come awards season. Parker's passionate epic about Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 required the star himself to take two years off his own acting schedule and plunge $100,000 of his own money to get the film into production...
Chatting With Legendary Filmmaker James Schamus at the Provincetown Film Festival
James Schamus has been responsible for some of the best films of the last 20 years. The award-winning screenwriter, producer and CEO of quality film juggernaut Focus Features has put his stamp on modern cinema with a slew of stylish, intelligent independent films, which has included producing some of the most respected filmmakers in the industry. These filmmakers have included Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener, Michel Gondry, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, and the Coen Brothers. His creative partnership with Ang Lee has been a quiet,...
Chatting With Jeff Goldblum About Independence Day: Resurgence
Twenty years after the humans united to fight the invading aliens, with the help of computer virus uploaded by a nerdy genius David Levinson, played by Jeff Goldblum, the aliens have returned, and Jeff Goldblum has, too, in Independence Day; Resurgence. In an interview, Goldblum talked about returning to the role of David Levinson two decades after the first film. But any conversation with Goldblum is guaranteed to be wide-ranging and he asks at least as many questions as he answers,...
The Moment of the Attack in The Shallows‘ New Clip
We've been loving the woman vs. great white angle in Jaume Collet-Serra's minimalist thriller The Shallows ever since we saw the first trailer. Like Open Water before it, The Shallows promises thrills within (and because of) it's simple premise; Blake Lively's character Nancy isn't marooned out to sea, she's just 200 yards from the beach when she's attacked by a great white. Yet that 200 yards might as well be 200 miles,...
Finding Dory Clip: Baby Dory’s Cuteness is off the Charts
This past weekend Finding Dory had the biggest opening for an animated film in history, easily overtaking former champion, Shrek the Third (2007), by nearly $15 million. Pixar's latest has swam past the competition on a current of strong reviews, sitting at a rating of 94% fresh on RottenTomatoes.com. CNN's Brian Lowry writes, "Pixar films are invariably clever and play on multiple levels, and this one is no exception. There's something deeply moving about Dory's plight."...
Game of Thrones Finale Teaser Hints at Major Reckoning
As has been the case since the first season, Game of Thrones delivered the goods in it's ninth episode, "Battle of the Bastards." The focus in this hugely ambitious hour of television was on two storylines only; the titular battle between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton, and the battle in Meereen between Dany and her forces and the Sons of the Harpy and the slavers. This meant no time spent with the Hound or the Lannisters,...
Game of Thrones: How They Shot the Battle of Winterfell
The ninth episode in any Game of Thrones season is epic, but last night's "Battle of the Bastards," the ninth in season six, set the bar about as high as it can go. "As soon as we wrote episode nine, we knew that it was going to have to operate on a scale we've never operated [on] before," says showrunner and episode co-writer D.B. Weiss. His co-writer and fellow showrunner David Benioff explains that while they've had several night battles and sieges in ...
Game of Thrones Recap: Battle of the Bastards
Our long national nightmare is over. Well, one of them. In "Battle of the Bastards," Jon Snow fought valiantly, but stupidly, and was just about ready to die (again), along with Tormund, Davos, Wun Weng Wun and a few thousand wildlings (and a few dozen Bear Island men), but they were saved. Saved by Sansa Stark. The blue eyed bad ass was writing to Lord Baelish when we saw her with quill in hand in last week's episode, and thank the Lord of Light she did,...
Finally! HBO’s Westworld Releases First Teaser
HBO aired the new Westworld trailer right before last night's epic Game of Thrones episode (don't worry, we'll get to that in another post), and from this glimpse we're convinced we might have the cable network's newest hit on our hands.
Westworld will clock in at 10, one-hour long episodes that focuses on the fantastic, brutal world of the title in which humans can do anything (truly anything) they want in a theme park populated by artificially intelligent robots...
Sunday’s Game of Thrones Episode: By the Numbers
It’s almost that time, Game of Thrones fans. The penultimate episode of each season is always a treat (or not, if you like your characters alive and happy), and this Sunday we get to watch Jon Snow face off with Ramsay in what should be an epic battle over Winterfell (read a bit more about the Battle of the Bastards here). It might be the most anticipated episode of season six,...
Yup, This Sunday’s Game of Thrones is Going to be Huge
You know what's coming on this Sunday's Game of Thrones—the Battle of the Bastards. We've been waiting for this all season. In fact, while we didn't know it would be Jon Snow who would lead the charge, we've been waiting for Ramsay Bolton to have face someone, anyone in an actual fight (and no, Yara Greyjoy and her small band of soldiers who tried to free Theon from Ramsay's cage don't count—that was a search and rescue mission). ...
James Gunn has Just Wrapped Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
And that's a wrap, folks. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. is in the can, a fact made official with an announcement on Facebook by director James Gunn and star Chris Pratt. The video came from Pinewood Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, where Gunn had some kind words for his crew, the men and women who make these movies possible, and so with little fanfare. There is no Star-Lord without costume designers, production designer, SFX supervisors and many, many more. ...
Andy Samberg Delivers Your Baby in Storks
There’s a new family movie about delivering babies, which is less strange than it sounds.
Warner Bros. Pictures delivered the second trailer today for Storks, the upcoming animated movie that's literally about the journey of a bird named Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg, which is impossible to ignore) tasked with delivering a baby to its parents. The only problem is that delivering babies is sort of a dying career for the storks, who now deliver packages for a retail company called Cornerstone...
Become Tarzan in new The Legend of Tarzan 360 Experience
In The Legend of Tarzan, our jungle raised hero (Alexander Skarsgård) has been living with his wife Jane (Margot Robbie) in London. Life is good. But, this being Tarzan, he can't stay in the city forever. Thus, Tarzan is forced to return to the Congo in order to act as a trade representative for England, a rather stuffy reason to return to his very wild home. Lucky for us, there's a nefarious Belgian captain (Christoph Waltz) who has sinister plans for his beloved jungle,...
Marvel Unveils 10 Facts About Black Panther
We've got another two years until Ryan Coogler's Black Panther hits the big screen, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the coolest superhero of all time's resurgence, starting with Chadwick Boseman's turn in Captain America: Civil War and continuing with award winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates writing an 11-issue series for Marvel. As Coates writes in The Atlantic, scripting a Black Panther comic series was a dream come true:
"The Black Panther—who,...
