A Game of Thrones Movie? Rumors, Rumors…
Editor's note: we were excited by the news reported by The Daily Star that George R. R. Martin had confirmed a Game of Thrones movie was in the works—alas, it looks like that might not be the case. Variety reported this morning that Martin to took his Livejournal to debunk this rather juicy rumor. Below is the initial story, which got our hopes up a tad too much.
While you eagerly await season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones,...
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola on Finding Vlad the Impaler’s Grave
Sony Home Entertainment is releasing the Blu-ray DVD of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula on October 6. With that release come some juicy behind-the-scenes footage of the legendary director talking about his beautiful, beastly 1992 film. Here's a refresher for those of you who don't remember (or never saw) this great film:
Starring Gary Oldman as Dracula, it should come as no surprise that the man who brought us The Godfather would be fascinated with his film's dark heart...
Steadicam Inventor Garrett Brown to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
In July of 2014, we ran a two-part interview with Steadicam® inventor Garrett Brown. It was just announced that Brown will receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the Television Academy’s 67th Engineering Emmy Awards. There are few individuals who have made a greater impact on film and TV that Brown. Brown was awarded an Oscar for Technical Achievement in 1978 for his invention.
Brown, a Philadelphia-based cinematographer, introduced the Steadicam in the early 1970s, a device that supports a handheld camera that allows the operator to film a subject in motion without the shaking that typically comes with handheld shots...
“The Truth IS Still Out There” in this new The X-Files Trailer
The first 24-seconds of the trailer begins with a man’s voice in a low staccato rhythm, “It will probably start on a Friday. What will seem like an attack on America by terrorists or Russia, driven by a well oiled, well armed and multinational group of elites, using alien technology the government’s been hiding for seventy years.” If we heard nothing else but this, punctuated by a single base note, we could guess which dynamic duo is returning after an almost fourteen year absence –...
With NASA’s Help, The Martian Plumbs Real Science for Thrills
As a genre, science fiction tends to lean more heavily on the fiction side of things than the science. Think Star Wars, The Matrix, and Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s latest movie The Martian, on the other hand, is an ode to the compelling nature of actual science, with both a plausible plot and realistic aesthetics. Based on the best-selling novel by computer-programmer-turned-author Andy Weir,...
Why is Everyone Dancing on the set of Pan?
Why couldn’t Hugh Jackman cut through this sheet?
And why is everybody dancing on the set of Pan? These are the questions that arise when watching these two 15 second teasers of outtakes from the set of Pan, which opens on October 9.
Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice), Pan’s a live-action feature that’s a brand new original adventure about the beginnings of the beloved characters created by J.M...
Watch a Brutal Bear Attack inThe Revenant’s New Trailer
At 50 seconds into The Revenant's new trailer, you see the moment that changes everything for trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio). Glass and his fellow trappers, including John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), are moving through the forest when a huge grizzly attacks, crashing atop Glass. The moment is thrilling, terrifying, and very realistic. Grievously wounded and therefore a burden, Fitzgerald decides to bury Glass alive rather than care for him until he's healed...
Watch Trevor Noah’s First 11 Minutes on The Daily Show
"Growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I would one day have, well, two things, really," Trevor Noah began as the new host of The Daily Show. "An indoor toilet and a job as host of The Daily Show. Now I have both, and I'm quite comfortable with one of them." It was a humble, funny start for the new host, one who faced his fair share of controversy from the moment he was selected,...
Watch Thor Kiss the Vision & More in Avengers: Age of Ultron Gag Reel
Marvel has been releasing a steady stream of heretofore unseen footage from Avengers: Age of Ultron. We showed you the deleted scene of Thor entering the Norn Cave yesterday, and today we’re sharing their epic gag reel (the second, actually) that reveals how much fun these folks have while making these films. And it’s not just the actors—check out what the team that creates the Hulk has fun with the big,...
Water Discovered on Mars, Just in Time for The Martian
The Red Planet is all the rage this week.In celebration today’s NASA announcement confirming liquid water flowing on Mars and this coming weekend’s much anticipated release by 20th Century Fox of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic, The Martian, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, we are offering a look back at few past film and television portrayals of the fourth rock from the Sun.
Certainly nothing is more exciting than the new evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)...
Watch Bradley Cooper as a Rampaging Chef in Burnt
Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a hotshot (and hot headed) American chef who made more enemies than he did meals in an epic flameout in Paris in Burnt. Now, Jones wants to resurrect his career in London, putting his diva behavior and past drug use behind him as he attempts to create the most ambitious kitchen on the planet.
We all know Cooper can do intensity, and with Sienna Miller, Uma Thurman, Alicia Vikander and Emma Thompson surrounding him,...
New Photos of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in The Revenant
As we wrote back in July, there is just a ton of reasons to be very, very excited for The Revenant. The film's director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki (we've interviewed both, you can read our chat with Iñárritu here, and and Lubezki here), both took home Academy Awards last year for their work on Birdman (which also won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay)...
Has Rick Met his Match? Watch Epic Season 6 Teaser for The Walking Dead
We're inching closer to the first episode of The Walking Dead's sixth season, after one hell of a ride in season 5.
Let's take a quick look back on last season to get us up to speed on what's coming. Season 5 showed our main group, still led by Rich Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), begin to fray in Alexandria. Compared to the Alexandrians, who have lived relatively safely behind the walls of their city,...
Watch the Norn Cave Deleted Scene From Avengers: Age of Ultron
You can excuse director Joss Whedon for having to leave quite a bit on the cutting room floor considering how much ground (and sky, and space) he had to cover in Avengers: Age of Ultron. One of the scenes that didn't make it into the film was this extended look at the Norn Cave that Marvel has just released.
The Norn Cave has a small but very magically potent pool that Thor prepares to enter,...
The Good Wife Set Decorator Beth Kushnick
Beth Kushnick has been a set decorator for approximately three decades. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, she worked on countless films including Jumanji, Private Parts and Frequency.
In the early part of this century, she moved predominantly to television where she worked on several programs — including 3 lbs., Law and Order: Trial by Jury and Canterbury’s Law —...
Chatting With Mississippi Grind Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are a filmmaking duo best known for 2006’s Half Nelson. They’re latest collaboration, Mississippi Grind, is a character driven story exploring addiction and redemption, starring Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn and Sienna Miller. The Credits talks to the pair about recapturing the aesthetic of seventies classics and cracking that elusive on-set chemistry.
What originally drew you to making this film in the south?...
It’s Here: Listen to Sam Smith’s New Spectre Theme Song
As NPR reported, Sam Smith's journey to writing the Bond theme song began two years ago. That's when Smith sent an email to his agent with a very succinct, bold subject line that read "007." Today, the British singer's lifelong dream comes true with the release of "Writing's on the Wall."
"I hope the people aren't expecting for me to be bringing out a big pop song," Smith said to ScreenSlam. "Because that's not what I wanted to do here...
New Truth Trailer Recalls the Scandal That Rocked Washington
“Why did you get into journalism?” young reporter Mike Smith (Topher Grace) asks Dan Rather (Robert Redford). “Curiosity” he replies, the trait that would serve him well on a remarkable career that would end, abruptly, in disgrace.
Truth is based on the book “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power” by his producer Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett). It delves into the drama surrounding CBS’s handling of a incendiary investigative report in 2004 detailing George W...
Watch the Cold Open for Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The premiere for season three of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't until next Tuesday on ABC, but they've released the cold episode of that episode early, a full five minutes of juicy material. It seems a lot has changed since season two's finale, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was battling with Jiaying (Dichen Lachman) and her army of Inhumans.
The opening sequence is a stunner—the ruins of a kitchen and some petrified body parts,...
Go Behind the Scenes of Spectre
A plane crashing through a house and skidding down a huge, snowy slope? Check. James Bond (Daniel Craig) scrambling, for real, across the rooftops of Mexico City while real helicopters corkscrew 360 degrees above him? Check. A chase involving a plane, a helicopter, and three cars along an alpine road with a precipitous drop off the side of a cliff. Check.
Access is everything, and for the folks at ScreenSlam.com, access is what they do...
