Interview

Actor

Charlize Theron May Go From Furiosa to Fast 8 Villain

All it took was a little axle grease mascara, a claw for an arm the ability to plausibly beat the snot out of Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road to make Charlize Theron’s Furiosa one of the most iconic characters of the past few years. Theron’s Furiosa immediately warrants mention with other deathless big screen heroines like Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor in The Terminator and T2 and Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Alien and Aliens...

By  |  February 10, 2016

Interview

Actor

Jane Fonda Honored With The Coolidge Award for Excellence in Film

After a career spanning 1960 to the present, Jane Fonda may be entitled to be called an icon or Hollywood royalty. But when the two-time Oscar winner, author, heath and fitness entrepreneur, activist and humanitarian was in Boston recently to be feted by the independent, non-profit Coolidge Corner Theater, she was the opposite of regal.

Yes, Fonda dressed in elegant, bejeweled black and exuded a classy professionalism. But she engaged with audiences at a fundraising dinner and at ...

By  |  February 10, 2016

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Actor

Check Out the Full-Length Trailer for Fuller House

The first full-length trailer for Netflix’s Fuller House is here, transporting us back to the ‘90s – an era that seems so much more sane, even if at the time it surely didn't.

Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber visited Ellen this morning and following a discussion with the talk show icon, shared an exclusive new clip. The trailer reunites most of the original Tanner clan (plus Kimmy Gibbler) and welcomes a few new faces (Kimmy’s daughter and DJ’s sons to mention but a few). ...

By  |  February 9, 2016

Interview

Actor, Director

The Jungle Book Super Bowl Breakthrough Spot Now Online

Did you catch the cool "breakthrough" Super Bowl spot for The Jungle Book? If you missed it, Walt Disney Pictures has brought it online, and it does a great job of furthering interest in director Jon Favreau’s upcoming live-action take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale. It's a pretty nifty fit to create a 3D feel to a teaser that's actually not. Check it out here. What's more, there's also a new full-length trailer, which we've embedded below.

The A-list cast and phenomenally lush visuals make ...

By  |  February 9, 2016

Interview

Producer

Deadpool: How Marvel’s Biggest Misfit Fits In and Acts Out

Before the MCU (that is, the Marvel Cinematic Universe) was ubiquitous, the X-Men dominated film’s superhero landscape and for much of the early aughts, the X-Men series stood as a popular representation of Marvel Comics’ cinematic potential. But in 2008, the official MCU commenced with Iron Man, leaving Spider-Man under the control of Sony, and X-Men, (not to mention Deadpool and Gambit) under the control of 20th Century Fox...

By  |  February 9, 2016
Whales in Space? New Star Wars Rebels Clip Says YES

In this new clip from the Star Wars Rebels episode “The Call,” your beloved Ghost crew, led by Ezra and Kanan, are in a part of deep space that Captain Ahab and Ishmael may have felt at home in ("Moby-Dick" reference, y'all)—if those aren't space whales, then honestly what could a space whale possibly be? 

For those of you not obsessed with "Moby-Dick," there's a reason Melville picked the sperm whale as his titular monster (aside from hearing the reports of the whaleship Essex,...

By  |  February 9, 2016

Interview

Editor

Kung Fu Panda 3 Editor Clare Knight Builds a Trilogy and a Family

If anyone was silly enough to bet against the appeal of pandas- especially the martial arts-loving kind- they’ll be sorely disappointed as Kung Fu Panda 3 topped the box office for a second weekend in a row. We chat to editor Clare Knight about spending the last 12 years working on the Panda trilogy, finding the ‘gold nuggets’ of Jack Black’s performance and potentially launching her son’s career as a voice actor (he’s five).  ...

By  |  February 9, 2016
February Party TV: From the Super Bowl to the Oscars

The month may be short, but February is the biggest month of the year for television gatherings. Sunday night kicked off a month of small screen festivities as American audiences joined together in a celebration of wings and chili in what will be, when the chip dust settles, this year’s most watched night on television – Super Bowl 50. From the Broncos stingy defense to that guy wiping sweat off Chris Martin's forehead, Coldplay's lead singer, with a rainbow print hankie,...

By  |  February 9, 2016

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Actor

Super Bowl 50: X-Men: Apocalypse Spot

X-Men: Apocalypse got in on the Super Bowl ad extravaganza in a big, scary way. In what appears to be the biggest, boldest X-Men movie yet, director Bryan Singer and titular villain Oscar Isaac are bringing the pain in this appropriately apocalyptic Super Bowl spot.

Pitting the ancient mutant Apocalypse against the younger versions of our favorite X-men, including Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, and Alexandra Shipp as Storm, X-Men Apocalypse follows the theme of a lot of the major superhero films this year,...

By  |  February 8, 2016

Interview

Actor, Director

Super Bowl 50: Jason Bourne is Back

The team behind Bourne 5 has kept the film as mysterious as the skills the titular hero woke up having in the very first movie. The return of Matt Damon to the title role, along with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass, meant that whatever the film was going to be, people, like us,...

By  |  February 8, 2016
Super Bowl 50: Turkish Airlines Super Clever Batman v Superman Ads

Warner Bros. may have pulled off the greatest ad campaign coup in recent memory; if it's true they didn’t actually buy any airtime during Super Bowl 50, they still managed to plug Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice thanks to their, partner Turkish Airlines. In fact, they dropped two promos, and the best part is they were very clever.

The conceit is simple; Turkish Airlines is touting tourism ads for two new cities that the airline now serves; the twin cities of Metropolis and Gotham...

By  |  February 8, 2016

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Actor

Super Bowl 50: 10 Cloverfield Lane Spot

It was less than a month ago that J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot revealed the existence of a film no one was anticipating. Now, with a Super Bowl 50 spot that pours on the intrigue (without revealing a thing, really) 10 Cloverfield Lane is officially vexing. Starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr., 10 Cloverfield Lane's latest spot at least hints at the return of the beast from the original Cloverfield, ...

By  |  February 8, 2016

Interview

Actor

Super Bowl 50: Captain America: Civil War Spot

Have you tried tweeting #TeamIronMan or #TeamCap yet? If not, give it a try and see what happens, it's sort of adorable.

Anyway, during last night's Super Bowl, Captain AmericaCivil War dropped some new footage on us, a brief, potent teaser that made the stakes as clear and stark as ever. The battle between Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gathers superheroes on both sides, including the introduction of the Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman),...

By  |  February 8, 2016
Super Bowl 50: The new Deadpool Spot

There is no more coveted, or expensive, ad time in America than during the Super Bowl. A slew of studios ponied up the dough to introduce, or really re-introduce, the characters in their biggest films  to the millions of people watching the game (won primarily by a stout Broncos defense). So as we watched the Broncos beat the Panthers, we were re-introduced to likes of Jason Bourne, furious aliens, conflicted superheroes and huge, mutant teenage martial arts experts who also happen to be turtles...

By  |  February 8, 2016

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Actor

Super Bowl 50: Independence Day: Resurgence Trailer

It was 20 years ago when Independence Day first blew up the White House in one of the most iconic Super Bowl spots of all time, so it was fitting, if predictable, that 20th Century Fox dropped Independence Day: Resurgence during last night's Super Bowl and once again destroyed much of America. The aliens are back in what appears to be an even more pissed off mood than the first time around. ...

By  |  February 8, 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Crosses $900M Domestic Today, Making Film History

As if it weren't already official, today it's officially official—Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a historic box office obliterating smash. Today marks the 50th day of its' release, and the film is expected to be the first in history to cross the $900 million mark at the domestic box office. Folks, this is bananas box office for a single film. This is a film in box office in beast mode. Hell, this is a film in a Hulkbuster made specifically to destroy box offices (okay,...

By  |  February 5, 2016

Interview

Props

Lightsabers, James Bond’s Aston Martin and Scarlett Johansson: Your Friday Video Roundup

From James Bond’s car to StarWars.com’s list of the 10 best lightsabers, we’ve got your Friday video roundup here. 

Yesterday, StarWars.com’s editorial staff released this video of their ranking of the 10 best lightsabers in the galaxy—do you agree with their assessment?

Oh James, you should have thought of this before you got behind the wheel of your tricked-out Aston Martin in Spectre.

Screen Rant’s at it again with this “10 Amazing Details Hidden in Movie Credits”...

By  |  February 5, 2016

Interview

Special/Visual Effects

Star Wars, The Revenant & Game of Thrones Shine at Visual Effects Society Awards

A bear, a dragon and a scavenger from Jakku walk into a bar. This start to a bad joke also functions as a decent (okay, not really) summation of the big winners at the 14th Annual VES Awards, the annual celebration that recognizes the real people behind the surreal, photoreal, and out-of-this-world visual effects that are such a huge part of the entertainment industry. The now infamous bear attack suffered by Hugh Glass (Leonadro DiCaprio) in The Revenant won the Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature...

By  |  February 5, 2016

Interview

Production Designer

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies‘s Production Designer Melds High Society With the Undead

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the film adaptation of the novel adaptation of Jane Austen’s iconic tome of class, manners, marriage, and love, opens this week. Starring Lily James as heroine Elizabeth Bennett and Sam Riley as Mr. Darcy, these two have something else on which to focus their fraught, unlikely courtship: the undead. As a zombie disease sweeps through the bucolic British countryside and London walls itself off from the plague, the audience is treated to a refreshingly badass set of Bennett sisters —...

By  |  February 4, 2016

Interview

Director

Director Tim Miller Talks What Makes Deadpool Special in new IMAX Featurette

Deadpool will finally deliver all the quips, banter and NSFW bon mots we've been enjoying in tiny bites as a full scale, feature length meal on Friday, February 12. Director Tim Miller, who has been attached to the project since 2009, explains in this new featurette why Deadpool is the perfect Marvel hero for right now. And this being an IMAX featurette, Miller also explains why the film’s best seen on the biggest of big screens.

“I’m not some Hollywood director who decided to jump on the comic book bandwagon,”...

By  |  February 4, 2016