Trouble in Paradise: New Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea
Talk about a massive shift from one film to the next—Angelina Jolie's third feature as a director, the experimental By the Sea, follows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller Unbroken. From the WWII set Unbroken, which followed the incredible true story of Olympian, soldier and eventual POW Louis Zamperini, Jolie's tackled a dark, emotionally volatile story about the dissolution of a marriage between two people who happen to be exceedingly good looking and married in real life...
Create a Halloween Costume From one of These 5 Classic Films
While the costume shops are overflowing with superheroes from the Marvel and DC pantheon, as well as the latest Star Wars characters, Halloween is still a monster mash.
As you are getting dressed to hit the streets on a quest for Snickers, or, adding those last touches of make-up before heading out to a costume party, may we suggest some holiday classic favorites for a hauntingly good time and help you get in the witchy spirit.
The Shining 1980
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"...
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is the Most Heartfelt Horror Film Ever Made
The story of Macbeth is certainly no stranger to adaptation. In fact, the Scottish play belongs to an impressive tradition of auteurist variation, including Orson Welles’ notoriously troubled 1948 production, Roman Polanski’s 1971 film and Kurosawa’s well-loved in 1957.
Any Shakespearean adaptation carries with it piles of textual and philosophical baggage, requiring not only a new spin on a well-worn story but a justification for a new iteration. Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth certainly has both...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Director J.J. Abrams Finally Answers a Bunch of Questions
Okay sort of. Abrams was part of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in which big, bold names in business, entertainment, technology and politics gathered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to chat about, well, nearly everything. Tesla Motor's Elon Musk, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Girls creator Lena Dunham, former ESPN writer and Grantland found Bill Simmons, photographer Annie Lebovitz and more were on hand.
For our purposes,...
Stephen Colbert Accurately Predicts Entire Plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Okay, he doesn't, but that doesn't stop this Star Wars superfan (and close personal friend to director J.J. Abrams…despite "not knowing what J.J. stands for") from speculating on the entire plot of The Force Awakens after watching the final trailer.
The funny thing (well, one of the funny things) is how demonstrably not insane this is. Colbert is a legitimate Star Wars geek, and there's already been speculation about previously good characters becoming evil (although it's doubtful Luke is going over to the dark side,...
Watch Inside Out Characters React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
It's cross promotion at it's most obvious, and, frankly, finest—Disney-owned Pixar's Inside Out characters react to Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. Now that Inside Out is out on Digital HD, with it's DVD and Blu-ray coming next Tuesday, November 3, it makes sense they'd remind viewers about this highly original film by linking it to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which, of course,...
Can Patrick Schwarzenegger Top Dad in Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse?
Having had its release pushed back a week, to October 30th, Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse opens just in time to be a gore-filled romp for everyone too old to trick-or-treat (which should be most of the film’s audience, since Scout’s Guide was raunchy enough to get an R rating). The movie features three devoted scouts, who, at the end of their high school careers,...
The Great ‘Chivo’ Reveals Photos From Set of The Revenant
Long before we interviewed cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, known to his friends and collaborators as Chivo, we've been huge fans of his work. The two time Oscar winner (and five time nominee) has put his indelible stamp on some of the most visually ambitious films of the last twenty years. While he's won Oscars the last two years for Birdman and Gravity (the film we interviewed him about),...
Empire Magazine Reveals Enchantress Suicide Squad Cover
Empire Magazine has different covers for their big Suicide Squad feature that will hit newsstands tomorrow. Some of the psychos, killers and freaks who grace Empire's covers are The Joker (Jared Leto), Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margo Robbie) and the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne).
While director David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day) told Empire ...
Why The Walk’s VFX Team Used Largest Amount of Cloud Computing in Film History
Director Robert Zemeckis’s long gestating project The Walk, on Philippe Petit’s once in a lifetime high-wire walk across the Twin Towers of The World Trade Center on August 7th, 1974 finally reached the screen this month, in glorious 3-D utilizing breathtaking visual effects. We spoke to VFX Supervisor Kevin Baillie & VFX Producer Camille Celluci by phone on how the production team was able to re- create in such immense detail both the Twin Towers and the 1974 New York skyline on a tight budget and production schedule,...
Watch the new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV Spot
Unless you were watching game one of the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets last night (what a game), you missed the new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV spot Lionsgate dropped. Once again, it was a doozy.
Like the all of Lionsgate's previous trailers and TV spots, the latest is masterclass in giving us just enough new stuff (images,...
The Martian’s VFX Supervisor on Creating Zero Gravity Without a ‘Vomit Comet’
As The Martian continues its impressive box office run and enjoys some early Oscar buzz, The Credits talks to Richard Stammers, the film's visual effects supervisor and a frequent collaborator with Ridley Scott, about the dual challenge of recreating the Mars landscape and simulating a convincing zero gravity environment without anyone having to get in a “vomit comet”.
You've worked with Ridley Scott before on films like Prometheus?...
Are you Prepared for an Adam Sandler Western? Watch The Ridiculous Six Trailer
You've got Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight due in December, and a remake of John Sturges’ iconic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven (itself based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt due out next September. And in case you weren't aware, you've also got Adam Sandler's The Ridiculous Six, co-written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy and directed by longtime Sandler collaborator Frank Coraci streaming on Netflix on December 11...
Watch the Worst Take-Out Order of all Time in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In tonight's episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is marooned on an alien planet, but unlike Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in The Martian, Simmons can't grow her food, she's got to kill it.
In season two, Simmons was sucked into the Kree monolith after agreeing to go on a date with Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), a mistake she'll won't likely make again...
Third Annual Middleburg Film Festival Draws Deep Roster of Talent
In it's third year, the Middleburg Film Festival is becoming a vibrant late festival season stop for filmmakers and film enthusiasts alike. Middleburg is in Virginia's horse country, and its beauty can hardly be improved upon in late October, but as much as a draw as the setting is, the festival itself, created by BET co-founder and Sundance Institute member Sheila Johnson and ably directed by Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Susan Koch, is drawing people for it's discerning slate and roster of talent...
The Incredible Link Between Helena Bonham Carter & Suffragette Villain
In Sarah Gavron’s film Suffragette, about the fight to gain votes for women in Edwardian England, the Prime Minister, Lord Herbert Asquith, opposes women’s suffrage and, on this issue, falls squarely on the wrong side of history. When it came time to cast the film, which stars Carey Mulligan, Gavron had Helena Bonham Carter at the top of her wish list to play one of the Suffragettes. One slightly complicating factor is that Bonham Carter is the great-granddaughter of Asquith...
Middleburg Film Festival: Miss You Already Director Catherine Hardwicke
Director Catherine Hardwicke is well into her third successful career. The former architect was one of the most ambitious, consistently excellent production designers in Hollywood, working on gorgeous, genre-defying projects like Three Kings for David O. Russell and Vanilla Sky for Cameron Crowe. She launched her directing career with the excellent Thirteen, which she co-wrote, about a young girl’s relationship with her mother as she begins experimenting with drugs,...
Ice Age & Rio Director Carlos Saldanha Shares Wisdom at Tokyo International Film Festival
Renowned film director Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age, Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, RIO, RIO 2) passed on his passion and process to the next generation filmmakers. From his first turn as a director,...
New Joker Photos from Suicide Squad
Empire Magazine's upcoming story on Suicide Squad comes complete with photos from the set, and, this colorful cover image of the craziest super villain of them all, the Joker (Jared Leto).
What you probably already know is that Suicide Squad follows a host of bad guys following their conditional release from their various maximum security dungeon-cells so they can join forces and track down an even badder guy. It's directed by David Ayer (Fury,...
What if Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Was Voiced by Brooklynites?
Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, you now have an answer to this question. Kimmel was filming Jimmy Kimmel Live in Brooklyn all last week, and he decided to ask his local crew to record their voices over the actors in the Stars Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. The result? Hilarious. From the opening voiceover, "Hey what's up, how's everything?" playing over the masked face of Rey (Daisy Ridley), to Rey's verbal assault of her droid BB-8,...
