Here’s the Newest Monster Tease in This 10 Cloverfield Lane Clip
You knew with 10 Cloverfield Lane opening this Friday, March 11, the clips and teasers would start pouring in. Yesterday we showed you the incredible short that 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg made that got the attention of Hollywood. We also shared a nearly 10-minute interview with producer J.J. Abrams on what excited him about the spec script for 10 Cloverfield Lane, and why he was so impressed with the work of not only first time feature director Trachtenberg,...
Watch the Short That put 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg on the map
10 Cloverfield Lane will be released this Thursday, and while the film has generated considerable hype, including embedding subliminal images into the trailers it released to theaters, we actually don’t know that much about it. A few things we do know is that it’s peripherally related to Cloverfield (but not a sequel), it was written by Drew Goddard (the Oscar nominated screenwriter of The Martian),...
Captain America: Civil War Drops Awesome New Poster, Images
Anthony and Joe Russo’s highly anticipated followup to their best in class Captain America: The Winter Soldier is, as you of course know, Captain America: Civil War. The film bows on May 6, and it promises to be an even more bruising superhero-v-superhero battle than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which pits “only” two epic titans against one another. ...
After 6 Glorious Seasons, Downton Abbey Says Goodbye
After six mostly glorious seasons on air, Downton Abbey had its series finale on Sunday night. Show creator Julian Fellowes managed to create a hugely appealing, compelling series centered on Lord Grantham, his extended family and the servants whose lives intersected with their employers. What’s so amazing, as Vulture’s Jen Chaney points out, is Fellowes hit show didn’t require a central character who was difficult and dark, which made ...
J.J. Abrams Talks 10 Cloverfield Lane
Earlier today we introduced you to the great short film that put 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg on the map; now we’d like to point your attention towards this great interview with producer J.J. Abrams about the most mysterious film of 2016 thus far. With this Cloverfield “blood relative” opening on Thursday, all eyes are on 10 Cloverfield Lane, which has done an ace job of baffling and teasing us with a slew of enigmatic teasers and trailers,...
Gotham’s Biggest Bruiser Goes Big in New Batman v Superman TV Spot
With only two weeks left until the premiere of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the teasers and TV spots are coming fast and furious. Warner Bros. just released the latest, which shows just how much more grizzled, weary, and ready to straight up throttle people Zack Synder and Ben Affleck’s version of Batman is, compared to the younger, leaner, more cerebral version offered by helmer Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale.
There’s not a ton new here,...
10 Cloverfield Lane Drops Two New IMAX TV Spots
In one week, on March 11, the enigmatic 10 Cloverfield Lane will be roaring into theaters, which is exactly when (and not a moment before) we'll finally figure out what Dan Trachtenberg's film is all about. Today, Paramount Pictures (via IMAX) has released two new 10 Cloverfield Lane IMAX TV spots. What we do know is it's not a proper sequel to Cloverfield,
We've already written about the wild subliminal messages ...
Zootopia Animator Darrin Butters on Drawing From Disney’s Rich Heritage
Disney’s latest animated film Zootopia imagines a world where predator and prey live together in harmony- not to mention talk and wear pants. We talk to animator Darrin Butters about drawing on Disney’s rich heritage, the benefits of CGI animation and his side gig as a warm-up guy.
Zootopia is such a richly drawn world: did you enjoy having a blank canvas to be able to create this society filled with different creatures?...
Jennifer Lawrence Narrates Gorgeous A Beautiful Planet Doc
A Beautiful Planethas a bunch of things going for it; a stunning portrait of our marvel of a planet, an extremely potent visualization of the effect humans are having on Earth, and the narration by one of the most beloved actresses on the globe, Jennifer Lawrence .Walt Disney Studios and IMAX released the trailer for their new nature documentary, and it's a stunner.
A Beautiful Planetbenefits greatly from the fact it was created in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),...
Patriots Day Starring Mark Wahlberg Gets Prime Awards Season Release
Director Peter Berg's Patriots' Day, starring Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons, centered on the horrific 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, has been slated for a December 21 release, a slot reserved for prestige films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The joint CBS films and Lionsgate project looks at the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, with a specific focus on the Boston and Watertown Police Departments. Wahlberg plays a Boston police officer deeply involved in the investigation and subsequent manhunt,...
Watch the First Official Ghostbusters Trailer
The first official trailer for Ghostbusters is here, and it takes only 40 seconds for Kristen Wiig's Erin Gilbert to be covered in ectoplasm. A brief set up introduces who our Ghostbusters are; Erin Gilbert (Wiig) is the brainiac ("Erin, no one's better at quantum physics than you!); Kate McKinnon is Jilian Holtzman, the brilliant engineer, Melissa McCarthy is Abby Yates, the team leader, and Leslie Jones is Patty Tolan, the one who knows New York City inside and out...
American Aggression & American Vulnerability Go Hand-in-Hand in Alex Gibney’s Zero Days
The tinfoil hat crowd is going to love Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Zero Days, because the chilling feature will likely confirm many of their fears. The film, which had its European premiere at the 66th Berlinale, examines the phenomenon of Stuxnet, the self-replicating super virus discovered by international IT experts in 2010. Commissioned by the Bush administration, and continued under President Obama, the American and Israeli governments used the program, officially code-named Olympic Games, to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program at Natanz...
Ian McShane Joins Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
If you're not a fantasy fan, and are fairly ignorant of Neil Gaiman's skill set or prolific career, you might be excused for scoffing at being handed his novel "American Gods," a nearly 500 page book that follows an ex-con named Shadow who joins some huckster named Mr. Wednesday (these names!) on a road trip across America, only the huckster is actually an old, diminishing god looking to team up with the other old gods in America, all brought over by immigrants who came to the U.S.,...
Tina Fey Embraces the Absurd in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Clip
Journalist Kim Barker's book "The Taliban Shuffle" might not sound, on first blush, to be the kind of story that would be adapted into a film starring Tina Fey. Barker was a reporter for ProPublica and the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009, and her book covers her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the aptly titled (if you don't get the joke of the title,...
Zoe Saldana is Nina in New Trailer
Last year, Netflix released What Happened, Miss Simone?, a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated documentary that utilized rare archival footage, never-before-heard recordings and her most beloved work to tell the story of one of the 20th century's most potent singers, Nina Simone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOQXZxriKY
Simone is such an iconic figure that news that a biopic was also being produced was hardly surprising, so when writer/director Cynthia Mort (The Brave Rone, TV's Roseanne) wanted to tackle a dramatic retelling of the legendary figure's life,...
Idris Elba & Matthew McConaughey Join Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Stephen King fans, rejoice; The Dark Tower adaptation is happening, and its' two leads are Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Entertainment Weekly broke the news that a film adaptation of King's epic The Dark Tower series is nearing its' production start date, after years of near misses and development hell. To give you a sense of how long this project has been gestating, consider Ron Howard was going to direct and Clint Eastwood was one of King's top choices to star...
Knight of Cups Composer Hanan Townshend on Scoring for Terrence Malick
Composer Hanan Townshend reunited with director Terrence Malick on his latest enigmatic offering Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale. We talk to the US-based New Zealander about collaborating with Malick, his experimental process and creating an adaptable score.
How do you approach your composing work? What would be a starting point for you with something like Knight of Cups?
Knight of Cups is a little bit more specific to more of a collaboration that I've had with Terrence Malick over the years...
Go Deep With New Finding Dory Trailer
Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks return for the long-awaited sequel to Finding Nemo, which picks up six months after the first film. In Finding Dory, the titular clown fish (DeGeneres) is enjoying a quiet life, that is, until she joins Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, compelling the practically amnesiac Dory to find out where her original home was.
Dory's home turns out to be the California Marine Biology Institute,...
Showrunner Kahane Cooperman on Amazon’s The New Yorker Presents
The New Yorker Presents, a 10-episode half-hour series that debuted February 16 on Amazon Prime, brings the venerable magazine, The New Yorker, to life through a cinematic smorgasbord of short documentaries, narrative films, poetry readings, animated spots and more based on the publication’s content. Produced by award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Condé Nast Entertainment, The New Yorker Presents boasts a distinguished crew and cast, including directors Jonathan Demme,...
Check out These New Batman v Superman TV Spots
We're now a matter of weeks away from the March 25 release of Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Warner Bros. has been releasing TV spots and teasers by the Batmobile load. These three new spots each have a few brand new sequences sprinkled amongst the stuff you've likely already seen. The new stuff includes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bathtub romance (you read that right), a few new moments from the titular battle, and what appears to be a quick,...
