The 1st Assassin’s Creed Trailer is Here
Director Justin Kurzel and star Michael Fassbender are as good a combo as you could ask to bring a beloved video game to the big screen and do it justice. And now with the first trailer for Assassin's Creed, we're finally getting a peek at their take on the game series. To be technical, Assassin’s Creed isn’t actually a direct adaptation of any one of the games, but rather a separate narrative that will exist in the same universe but live as a companion piece...
Game of Thrones Actress Hannah Murray Joins Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Film
When Kathryn Bigelow casts you in a film, it's a big deal. The Oscar-winning director of Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best in the business at filming nervy, complex action films and, in the process, making action stars (or cementing them) of her actors and actresses. Think of Jessica Chastain's gritty performance in Zero Dark Thirty, or Jeremy Renner's in The Hurt Locker—after these films, both these actors have gone on to star in plenty of action films...
Video: Fast 8 First Hollywood Movie Shot in Cuba
Fast 8 has the distinction of the being the first global Hollywood movie to be allowed to film in the country. This video shows the incredible reaction of the Cuban people to the production, "You can feel the emotion from all of the people," says director F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton). "We couldn't re-create this anywhere." Fast 8 boasts a stellar cast, with Charlize Theron joining Vin Diesel,...
Watch James McAvoy Become Professor X
Some roles require more than just an emotional and spiritual transformation—some call for both an electric and a straight razor. Up until now, James McAvoy's turn as Professor X has never required the actor to lose his luscious locks, as his young Charles Xavier still had hair in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past (he also had something of a drug problem). For X-Men: Apocalypse, ...
The Lobster Continues Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Singular Path
Yorgos Lanthimos has come far since his film debut 15 years ago, with his name now a veritable indie-film buzzword after creating such cinematic oddities as Alps and Dogtooth. The director is set to make his English-language debut with the Colin Farrell-starring The Lobster, but the Greek native has been making films for fifteen years now, establishing a backlog of films worth a closer look.
Lanthimos begin his career in 2001 with My Best Friend,...
The Man Behind the Brilliant Sets on Key & Peele & Time Traveling Bong
Gary Kordan was the production designer for the entire Key & Peele comedy series, the legendary sketch comedy show that was not just brilliantly performed, but ambitiously produced, from the costumes and sets to the direction. Kordan also helped build multiple eras for Time Traveling Bong, a three-part miniseries starring Ilana Glazer and Paul Downs from Broad City. Kordan created sets for a dozen different times in history,...
X-Men: Apocalypse – Becoming Cyclops
So how did Scott Summers become Cyclops? In X-Men: Apocalypse we get to meet a lot of the most iconic mutants as they're just blossoming (or mutating, as it were). For Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan), as it's been for many mutants, his transition is pretty brutal.
If you remember some mutant origin stories from the past, they're typically hideously traumatic. Rogue just wanted to kiss her boyfriend, and in doing so she put him in a coma...
The Walking Dead Creator’s New, Super Creepy Show Outcast
Comic creator superstar (and burgeoning television powerhouse) Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead) and artist Paul Azaceta's comic "Outcast" has been adapted for the small screen, and the first trailer for the show is deliciously creepy. Outcast is centered on Kyle Barnes (Patrick Fugit), a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Kyle's looking for help from man with demons of his own,...
Watch the new Jason Bourne Featurette
As you know by now, Matt Damon is returning to the role that made him one of the early aught's most unlikely but ultimately reliable action heroes as Jason Bourne, with director Paul Greengrass back at the helm. We recently shared this knockout trailer for Jason Bourne with you, and now we've got a brand new featurette with perhaps the funniest line in any Bourne-related trailer or teaser at the 8 second mark...
Join the ESD in new Independence Day: Resurgence Spot
Do you have what it takes to join the Earth Space Defense? That's the global force that was created in the aftermath of the alien attack in the first Independence Day, which in the parlance of Resurgence is known as the War of 96. As we've written before, Resurgence features alien technology in the hands of our human heroes, a program led by War of 96 hero David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum)...
Game of Thrones Recap: “Oathbreaker”
A few major Jon Snow-related questions were answered in "Oathbreaker," beginning with what the resurrected Lord Commander would be like; more or less the same. Although he's only been back among the living for a short time, Jon Snow seems to be himself (with a few nasty stab wounds). He was emotional and understandably confused. He was appreciative of his friends, like Davos and Toromund (who managed to get a joke in about Jon's penis size, mere minutes after he'd risen from the dead—Wildling humor knows no bounds,...
It’s a Mutant Cage Match in new X-Men: Apocalypse Clip
One of the most memorable scenes in X-Men film history is one of the first—Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fights a cage match as a young girl (who turns out to be Rogue) watches him break a much larger man's hand when their fists collide. Obviously, his opponent wasn't aware that this cigar chomping lunatic with the funny hair had bones made of adamantium.
In this new clip from X-Men: Apocalypse, we get another cage match,...
Captain America: Civil War Directors Joe & Anthony Russo
As the much-anticipated third installment of Marvel’s Captain America franchise hits theaters today, we catch up with directors Anthony and Joe Russo. The brothers discuss how they addressed the challenge of cramming so many of Marvel’s superheroes into Captain America: Civil War, how they subverted the genre by creating a film with no clear villain and playing good cop bad cop on set.
Captain America: Civil War is getting great reviews...
Blake Lively Battles a Great White in The Shallows
While real life encounters between humans and great whites mostly involve marine biologists, shark cages, and a metric ton of safety equipment, in the movies, great whites have been stalking and devouring us since the Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws on us in 1975. That's the case again in The Shallows, where a grieving young woman (Blake Lively) is out for a meditative bit of surfboarding when a certain super predator gets between her and the land...
Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates Discuss the new Black Panther
When you see the new Captain America: Civil War, you'll be treated to one of the coolest superheroes of them all's first big-screen appearance. Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa (Black Panther) is a noble prince from the African nation of Wakanda with a seriously ferocious alter-ego. His fighting style in the film is so impressive that even the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) is taken aback. Black Panther all but steals the film in his brief but potent scenes...
X-Men: Apocalypse – the Angel of Death
Yesterday we shared this mini featurette about X-Men: Apocalypse's Storm (Alexadra Shipp), who for the first time in any X-Men film is fighting against Professor X and the forces for good. Now it's time to take a look at Ben Hardy's Angel.
While less known to most folks, Angel (also known as Archangel) first appeared well before Storm in the Marvel comic universe. In fact, he appeared in the ...
Universal’s Monster Shared Universe Includes Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp
While a lot of the blockbuster movie oxygen is sucked up by the Marvel Universe and DC's growing slate of films, Universal has a huge library of classic monsters that they're tapping into to create a potential shared universe of their own. They've put into place an ambitious plan that will see major stars tackling iconic monsters, beginning on June 9, 2017 when The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman, lurches into theaters...
X-Men: Apocalypse—Storm’s a Force of Nature
Alexandra Shipp plays the young storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, yet unlike Halle Berry's version of the character in previous X-Men films, here Storm is a force of nature for evil. In fact, her powers in Apocalypse are the most potent they've ever been, having been given a boost by the film's eponymous villain, Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac.
Storm's first appearance in a Marvel comic was 1976's "X-Men #102,"...
The Good Wife director Rosemary Rodriguez Talks About the Show’s End
When The Good Wife premiered in 2009, it was a different type of show. It had many of the elements of a procedural — weekly court cases and stand-alone proceedings — but it also featured a strong premise that helped the show build intriguing long-term storylines, strong relationships and truly memorable characters. Even when cable and premium shows began dominating many of the major Emmy categories, CBS’ The Good Wife stood out and was the last network show to be nominated for best drama at the Emmys (a feat it accomplished in 2011). ...
Marvel Announces Ultimate Captain America Marathon
Have you met anyone who attended last year's "The Ultimate Marvel Marathon," the 28-hour, 11 movie marathon that ended with the brand new Avengers: Age of Ultron? If so, let us know how they fared. Now, Marvel's announced a slightly more sane marathon—the “Ultimate Captain America Marathon,” which will screen in select theaters this Thursday, May 5, and will conclude with a screening of Captain America: Civil War.
For those of you who are interested,...
