Sandy Powell & Judy Becker on the Costumes & Sets Behind 1950’s Period Wonder Carol
Carol, a beautiful adaption of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, about the evolution and dissolution of a relationship between two women in New York in the early 1950’s, opens today. Cate Blanchett stars as the title character, a lovely housewife in a convenient marriage (Kyle Chandler is Blanchett’s cuckolded husband) who embarks on a relationship with a younger store clerk, Therese (Rooney Mara). The film was directed by Todd Haynes and shot on a tight budget,...
The Real Locations Used to Bring The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 to Life
To bring the Capitol to life in the final installment of The Hunger Games, director Francis Lawrence and production designer Philip Messina knew they needed to up the ante and look beyond Atlanta, where much of the production had previously taken place. They found locations in France and Germany that provided the unique combination of both futuristic and historic backdrops necessary to create the wartime metropolis that serves as the setting for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 2...
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Puts Spotlight on Finn
So obviously no one has any idea how many more Star Wars: The Force Awakens teasers there are going to be. We thought the "final trailer" that aired during the Monday Night Football game between the Eagles and the Giants was the last new footage we'd see, and then had to keep updating you with another unexpected teaser and new footage, our surprise increasingly feeling foolish. So while the latest teaser's existence isn't surprising in itself,...
The Districts, the Capitol & Peeta Mellark: The Hunger Games Primer You Need
“Start simple, start with what you know is true. My name is Katniss Everdeen, I live in District 12. I was in the Hunger Games, I escaped. Peeta was left behind.” So begins The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the precursor to the upcoming final installment in the wildly successful franchise following the driven and intense Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she battles the powers in the Capitol, run by the fear mongering President Snow. A lot has happened for Katniss since she first stepped foot in the Hunger Games ring years ago,...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2‘s Production Designer on Creating the Capitol
Translating descriptions in a book to physical places for a movie is a tall challenge, one that risks leaving faithful readers disappointed. Production designer Philip Messina performed that translation four times in a row for Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series, culminating with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.
The movie takes place as the rebel forces, including heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), storm the Capitol and seek to kill its leader,...
Who is Jessica Jones? Details on the New Netflix Series & 4 More Fierce Superheroines
Establishing itself as a gritty and faithful Marvel outlet with last year’s dark retelling of Daredevil, Netflix is now trying their hand with Jessica Jones, an original series based on Brian Michael Bendis’ comic series, Alias. Originally published under Marvel’s adult label Max, the series was an unapologetic sex and profanity-filled epic, drawn together around a singularly sassy, self-possessed and incredibly damaged superhero...
The Huntsman: Winter’s War New Trailer Puts Emily Blunt on a Polar Bear
Following the success of director Rupert Sanders' Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles, some of the mian players are back for the sequel The Huntsman Winter's War. Hemsworth and Charlize Theron return to their roles as the noble Huntsman and the Evil Queen Ravenna respectively, while new cast members include Emily Blunt as Freya, the Ice Queen and Ravenna's little sister, and Jessica Chastain as Sara, the Warrior who also appears to be the Huntsman paramour and a force for good...
The new Zoolander 2 Trailer is Absurd, Awesome
With the second trailer fleshing out more ludicrous plot details, Zoolander 2 just became our most anticipated comedy for 2016. Washed up and left behind by the fashion world, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are plunged into the Bond-ian realm of international espionage when the world's most beautiful people (Justin Bieber, Usher, etc.) are murdered, each captured in their last moments (in Bieber's case, captured by himself in a deathbed selfie) brandishing Zoolander's trademark look,...
How Quentin Tarantino Protege Zoe Bell Traded Stunts For Acting
It’s not easy to switch from movie “staff” to acting, and Zoe Bell credits being “deluded” or at least “clueless” for her move from stuntwoman to actress. Quentin Tarantino deserves some credit, too. After working with Bell as Uma Thurman’s stunt double in Kill Bill, he went on to cast her in 2007’s Death Proof, her first acting role and one she took reluctantly. This year, Bell is the star of Camino,...
From Winter’s Bone to Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence’s Rise to Fame
Though it’s become increasingly difficult to think of a time in which Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t a household name, it's been only five years since Winter’s Bone kickstarted her meteoric rise to fame, but that certainly wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence’s first role for the screen. Beginning her career nearly 10 years ago in small or low profile parts on television and film, the Kentucky-born actress moved to Los Angeles at the age of 14 and has been acting ever since. ...
How Macbeth‘s Producer Brought the Rogue Adaptation to the Screen
Though Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth isn’t necessarily the kind of adaptation that promises to satisfy strict Bard purists, it may be one of the more accessible and artful adaptations committed to the screen. A measured melodrama, graphic western and disturbing horror film wrapped in a neat Shakespearean package, this Macbeth for a new age stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as the titular Lord and Lady. Treading the well-worn story of greed and loss with newly thoughtful footsteps,...
Composer Kerry Muzzey on Scoring Intimate Doc The Seer
The upcoming documentary The Seer: A Conversation With Wendell Berry– directed by Laura Dunn with executive producers Terrence Malick and Robert Redford- tells the story of small generational farmers in Kentucky through the eyes of the poet, writer, activist and farmer Wendell Berry. We talk to the composer Kerry Muzzey about scoring the film and how he got over his initial fears.
You’ve said that you felt like the score for this documentary needed to be Americana,...
A Conversation with Director & Artist JR About his Film ELLIS
Last night installation artist JR's short film about immigration – Ellis, starring Robert De Niro and written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Eric Roth, premiered in New York. We had a chance to chat with JR about his film, his inspiration and more.
JR’s Background:
For those unacquainted with him, JR is a pseudonym for an artist and photographer who has made the choice to remain anonymous. His gallery is the streets of the world and his audience are those who are not the typical museum visitor...
Emerging Artists Create Original Star Wars Art for Charity
This past weekend Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles hosted a Star Wars art exhibit featuring well respected and emerging contemporary artists. The pieces they created are now being auctioned off in the name of Star Wars: Force for Change to support UNICEF Kid Power. “All original pieces featured in the gallery are now up for auction through eBay for Charity, along with select prints for sale,” Disney states in a press release...
Check out the Bonkers Trailer for Gods of Egypt
The ambitious director Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) has assembled quite the cast for his epic, insane-looking Gods of Egypt. There's something wonderfully refreshing about what looks to be a totally gonzo approach to telling the story of Egyptian gods going deity-y-deity in a nation-shaking battle. Starring Gerard Butler(300) as the evil god Set versus Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) as the falcon-headed god Horus, the first trailer for ...
The Divergent Series: Allegiant Trailer Comes Out Swinging
A new trailer for The Divergent Series: Allegiant titled “The Truth Lies Beyond” is here and it packs quite a punch. Allegiant will be the third film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s best selling science fiction young adult novel series, with this film being part one of last book in the trilogy, in the tradition of Mockingjay. Allegiant picks up where Insurgent left off –...
The Sound of Fear: Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on Scoring Sicario
Scoring Denis Villeneuve’s latest film Sicario, about the brutal battle against Mexico’s drug cartels, required quite a tonal shift for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson from his work on last year’s The Theory of Everything. He talks to The Credits about how he gravitates towards darker worlds and the challenge of scoring action sequences.
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Sicario is a very tense film. Creating that mood is obviously a big part of your job when you’re scoring...
Disney Channel Promo Includes New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Footage
Naturally the Disney Channel is going to have access to some never-before-seen footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and with this new promo they don't disappoint. The new promo comes complete with some explanatory narration, at one point describing BB-8 as a “mysterious droid,” meaning Rey (Daisy Ridley) must come into contact with BB-8 (like Luke did with R2D2), rather than start the film with BB-8 at her side. These links between Rey and the Skywalker clan keep increasing,...
New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV Spot
“Today, we will watch more than a mere spectacle,” says President Coin (Julianne Moore) to a huge crowd of cheering rebels in this new TV spot. It’s not the only chills inducing dialogue in the new spot, which also includes a moment of major peril for Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).
As you know by now, Mockingjay – Part 2 comes out this Friday, November 20. As the final installment in the epic franchise, Mockingjay –...
Incredible New Footage in Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV Spot
Yup, it’s another new round of TV spots for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and in just 30 seconds this new spot has some incredible new footage. First, let’s show it to you so you can experience it yourself, then we’ll parse the new stuff we’ve detected. As these new spots have each given a few new sequences, we're starting to get at least a hint of what J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan and the rest of the ...
