Death’s Everywhere in Game of Thrones Season 6 March Madness Promo
In the last few weeks Game of Thrones has released a bevy of exciting material, from this awesome behind-the-scenes footage of the prosthetics department making a White Walker to the trailer that had everyone parsing (including us) every second.
Now they've released this promo during March Madness, and as before, it's an ominous, if brief, bit of business. Jaqen H'ghar (Tom Wlaschiha), the leader (right?) of the Faceless Men promises Arya: "One way or another,...
Watch Suicide Squad‘s Action-Packed International Trailer
The new Suicide Squad international trailer is even more deliriously destructive than its' American counterpart. With a few new bits of footage and the pedal firmly pressed against the metal, director David Ayer's ensemble DC Comics anti-hero film looks to be more in the mold of Deadpool than X-Men, favoring bad boys (and girls) behaving very badly over superheroes trying to do the right thing. ...
Watch the new Captain America: Civil War International Trailer
The reviews are in for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which are pretty wildly mixed but at least speak to a film worth seeing in the theater, and on an IMAX screen if there's one anywhere close to your house. As Peter Sciretta of Slashfilm writes, "This is probably the first IMAX movie since Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol that I think you must see on an original IMAX screen."...
Batman v Superman & 10 Other Mind-Blowing Superhero Fights
Unless you've been living on Krypton, you're well aware that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens today. It is, pretty much inarguably, the most anticipated superhero smack down ever put on film, with the two most iconic characters in all of comics going toe-to-toe. With Captain America: Civil War continuing the trend of superheros going after each other rather than some bad guys, ScreenSlam has helpfully put together this video of 10 of the most mind blowing fights between superheroes from Marvel,...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of The Jungle Book
On Wednesday we shared the first clip of Idris Elba's magnificent tiger, Shere Khan, who is the central antagonist in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book. In this new featurette, Favreau talks about how, thanks to the huge leap in technology in the past few years, photo real animation has made it possible, and worthwhile, to remake the classic 1976 original Disney film. Bill Murray, who plays the lovable, carefree bear Baloo,...
Uncovering the Secrets of The Wizard of Oz Doc The Slippers
Few films have captured the American imagination quite like The Wizard of Oz. Despite its age, the film remains a fabulously imagined time capsule representative of the ingenuity and creativity possible in filmmaking. Though much of the film’s output has become unquestionably iconic, it’s the ruby slippers that are arguably the most memorable piece of culture to last the 77 years since the film’s initial release. But the slippers have had a surprisingly troubled past,...
Chris Pratt Shows off the Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 Set
Star Lord, also known as Peter Quill, who sometimes goes by Chris Pratt when he's not in outer space, is here to give you a tour of the set of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2. While production for the film has been going on for a while, with rumors circulating suggesting that Sylvester Stallone is in Vol 2 (we think he is!), we'd like share a bit of concrete Vol 2. ...
Film & TV: The Great American Export & the Growing Streaming Platform
In the United States, you can now legally stream films and television shows on 120 different platforms, with the number growing seemingly every day. Globally, there are 480 unique legitimate online services that serve the growing appetite of movie and TV lovers across the world. You can consider film and television one of America's natural resources, and these services and platforms are like a series of growing (and carbon-neutral) pipelines getting this resource to people all over the globe.
Films like ...
The LEGO Batman Movie Teaser Trailer
It's still a year away, but The LEGO Batman Movie has dropped this Batcave teaser just a day before his human version comes punching, kicking and Superman-bashing into theaters in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Now perhaps is the perfect time to witness a Batman a little less world weary and embittered. The brooding Bat will be fine for Batman v Superman, and that outlook makes sense in a truly terrifying real world,...
Melissa and Winston Rauch’s Golden Script for The Bronze
In Bryan Buckley's The Bronze, co-written by star Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston, a small town girl who was once America's sweetheart has gone to seed in the most American way possible; by milking her minor celebrity for freebies and handouts. Rauch plays Hope Ann Greggory, a former gymnast whose gusty performance on a ruptured Achilles heel at the world’s most prestigious gymnastics tournament earned an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S. team, and fame and glory to both Hope and her hometown of Amherst,...
Getting the Performances and Music Right on I Saw the Light
Biopics in general, and especially biopics of legendary musicians, can be a tricky endeavor to say the least. For every well received Ray and Walk the Line, you have a Greetings from Tim Buckley and the already-embroiled-in-scandal Nina. This is to say nothing of the biopics that are good but little seen, like Jimi: All is by my Side. ...
Go Behind-the-Scenes of Fear the Walking Dead
On Sunday night, April 10, Fear the Walking Dead will return to AMC. The surprisingly nimble, affecting prequel to AMC's powerhouse The Walking Dead had a brisk, well paced and ultimately harrowing first season. In just six episodes viewers got to see how the beginning of the zombie apocalypse looked from the perspective of three families that are thrust together in the very middle of the undead action. Kim Dickens stars as the capable Madison Clark,...
Idris Elba’s Shere Khan Rules Over The Jungle Book Clip
Walt Disney Pictures has dropped the first clip for The Jungle Book clip that features Idris Elba as the the mighty tiger, Shere Khan. Khan doesn't take kindly to the fact that a family of wolves has taken in a 'man-cub' by the name of Mowgli (Neel Sethi). The clip shows off the seamless blend of live-action and CGI that director Jon Favreau and his filmmaking team have created. Shere Khan is every bit as lifelike as Richard Parker, the tiger that animated (literally and figuratively) ...
Two New Batman v Superman Teasers Offer More New Footage, Dialogue
"I have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns." This, perhaps, is the best bit of dialogue we've heard thus far, and it's delivered, of course, by Batman in this new TV clip.
With just two days to go, we're winding down our pre-release coverage of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Well, we would be, yet every day Warner Bros. releases just a little bit of new footage and dialogue via featurettes and teasers,...
SXSW 2016: A Q&A With the Writer/Director, Production Designer & Producer of American Fable
Many first time directors might find themselves tempted to make their debut entrance into the world of filmmaking with simple, festival-ready fare, but for Anne Hamilton, the writer and director of American Fable, that approach just wouldn’t do.
Standing as easily one of the most visually striking films to play at this year’s SXSW, American Fable is what Hamilton & Co. have labeled as a “fairytale thriller” set during the farm crisis in the American Midwest in the 1980s...
Making the Night’s King: Inside Game of Thrones Season 6
You're allowed to be very excited for season six of Game of Thrones. Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff told Entertainment Weekly that season six is "the best one we've done." Granted, they're the showrunners, what else are they going to say, but with a ton of mysteries going into the season, and just about all of the major power players in various states of distress, Weiss and Benioff's excitement makes sense...
Check out the new The Huntsman: Winter’s War Trailer
Universal Pictures just released the first trailer for The Huntsman: Winter’s War, and it looks even more epic than the surprisingly action-packed Snow White and the Huntsman. Winter's War returns Chris Hemsworth and Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron, joined by Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain.
Here's the gist: Queen Ravenna (Theron) betrays her peaceable sister Freya (Blunt) in the most hideous way, thus releasing Freya's immense power and setting up a battle for the ages...
Watch This Fascinating Video Interview With Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill
He might not be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens for all that long, but Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker is who drives the entire narrative—everybody in The Force Awakens is looking for him, and we know he'll be a huge part of Episode VIII. In this 70-minute interview with the Oxford Union, Hamill discusses his frustration with the end of Return of the Jedi ...
A ton of Things You Didn’t Know About Batman & Superman
As you prepare for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the biggest superhero battle of them all (until Captain America: Civil War bows), we have two new sources of great Batman and Superman information to help give you some context for their coming fight.
First, Abraham Riesman has written a great piece about the history of these two iconic superheroes and how they went from friends and colleagues to begrudging partners and,...
SXSW 2016: A Q&A With Long Nights Short Mornings‘ Director & Star
Writer/director Chadd Harbold’s Long Nights Short Mornings stars Shiloh Fernandez (We Are Your Friends, Evil Dead) as James, a young man looking for love (or perhaps just sex) in New York through a series of connected vignettes, each titled with the name of the woman he's courting (I use this term loosely). These vignettes unfold over the course of what feels like one very long,...
