Finally a Look at Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
For those of you (and we know there are many) who have been jonesing for a little Tarantino in your diet, finally, finally we’ve got a taste of his upcoming The Hateful Eight. And just look at that opening shot! Imagine that in ultra Panavision 70mm, which Tarantino promised the entire film would be shot in and which The Weinstein Company is promising to give the format it's widest release in 20 years.
The Hateful Eight,...
Amazing Infographic Showing the Influence of Star Wars on Pop Culture
First, have you seen this new photo from Star Wars: The Force Awakens? You've certainly heard about it, as it was revealed in a quick shot at the beginning of the new Korean teaser.
And now, a hat tip to Shutterstock Blog and their friends PopChartLab.com for their collaboration on this epic Star Wars infographic. Their conceit is simple; they created an illustrated look at Star Wars' ...
Director Ty Evans on his Skateboard Documentary We Are Blood
Director Ty Evans is a skateboarder and self-taught filmmaker who went from filming his friends using whatever cameras he could scrounge the money for to using state-of-the-art camera equipment, some times mounting cameras to a helicopter, for his groundbreaking work on We Are Blood. The documentary features renown skateboarder Paul Rodriguez (P-Rod) and his skateboarding family (Theotis “Theo” Beasely, Chris “Cookie” Colbourn and Boo Johnson) as they travel around the world, with Evans and his small crew, to skateboard in places like Spain,...
Straight Outta Compton Screenwriter Andrea Berloff on N.W.A.’s Story
They invented gangsta rap and put West Coast hip hop on the map, and in the process triggered a tectonic shift across an entire cultural landscape. N.W.A. was the baddest, boldest, most influential rap band of their era. Coming from South Central Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, N.W.A.'s members—Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella and MC Ren channeled the rage, remorse and bravado of the streets of Compton, a hotbed of police brutality and gang turf wars between the Crips and the Bloods,...
Post Apocalyptic Animated Comedy Cassius and Clay Will be Awesome
Have you ever watched Archer? If the answer is no, rectify this situation immediately. Comedy Central’s genius animated comedy, created by Adam Reed, is consistently hilarious. This animated spy thriller follows Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and his often bloody, absurd exploits with his fellow operatives (which includes Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler and Jessica Walter, the latter best known as Lucielle Bluth on Arrested Development).
Now Archer creator Adam Reed is teaming up with writer and executive producer Megan Ganz,...
The New Shot in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens International Teaser
Is it just us, or does the title Star Wars: The Force Awakens look really cool in Korean? The recently released Korean-teaser doesn’t reveal anything totally new, but it's cut differently from previous teasers, and, it does feature a single new shot right at the opening of the teaser that's worth a look. It's a moment from behind the man at the center of the stage in the below shot, so we get the view of the amassed stormtroopers,...
New Steve Jobs Trailer Focuses on Icon’s Family Issues
“The two most significant events in the 20th century, the allies win the war, and this,” says Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) in the the latest Steve Jobs trailer, the ‘this’ no doubt referring to the release of one of his beloved products. This opening line becomes an emblem for the focus of the latest trailer, which is about Jobs’ relentless pursuit of perfection in his business life while his personal life,...
HBO Teases Westworld & Amy Schumer Live at the Apollo
It almost looks like a conventional western, which wouldn’t be a bad thing for HBO considering the last time they tackled the genre they gave us Deadwood. Only Westworld is hardly a proper western, as many of those cowboys and cowgirls aren’t actually human.
HBO dropped the teaser right before the True Detective finale last night, and it’s a creepy little number. Loosely based on the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton,...
Vin Diesel’s Beard, Angelina Jolie’s Rage & Marisa Tomei Enters Empire
A few new tasty trailers have been released, and they really couldn't be more different. Let's take a quick peek:
The Last Witch Hunter
At six seconds into The Last Witch Hunter trailer, we finally find out what Vin Diesel might look like if he played a young Saint Nicholas. That beard! Only this is no Christmas movie. The Last Witch Hunter is Diesel’s return to playing a kind of super soldier (think Riddick) in a world gone witchy...
Disney Animation’s Aimee Scribner on Frozen Fever & More
Aimee Scribner worked on two animated short films included on the new Blu-Ray/DVD release, Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection (August 18, 2015). Both were sequels to huge animated musical hits: Tangled Ever After and Frozen Fever. In an interview, she talked about going past the “happily ever after” ending to create new adventures for the characters.
“In both of these, you make a film, you fall in love with the characters and you form such a deep bond with the artists and the film makers...
New Everest IMAX Trailer is Phenomenal
“Human beings simply aren’t built to function at the cruising altitude of a 747. Everest is without a doubt the most dangerous place on Earth.”
This comes from Rob Hall (Jason Clarke), legendary New Zealand mountaineer and the head guide of the doomed 1996 Mount Everest expedition that Everest based on it. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband), Everest will follow two expedition groups, one led by Hall,...
Actress/Producer Miranda Bailey on The Diary of a Teenage Girl
As CEO of Cold Iron Pictures, Miranda Bailey believed strongly in Marielle Heller’s directorial debut, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, itself an adaptation of the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. As a producer, Bailey had already proven herself to have a keen eye—she executive produced Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, and more recently, Time out of Mind, an upcoming IFC film starring Richard Gere,...
The Deadpool Trailer is Finally Here
When Wade Wilson goes in for his surgery, the one that will turn him into Deadpool, an anti-superhero with Wolverine-like healing powers, he’s told “one thing that never survives this place is a sense of humor.” That this isn’t close to true is one of the things that has fans salivating for the release of Deadpool. As this trailer proves, this film will have, among the usual accoutrements of the superhero genre, along with a huge heaping of very blue humor...
Mission: Impossible Stunt Coordinator on Tom Cruise’s Feats
Tom Cruise is famous for his tenacity when it comes to performing his own stunts, but now that he’s in his fifties he would be forgiven for taking things a little bit easier. But that just isn’t Cruise’s style. If anything, he’s pushing himself harder than ever. Take the opening scene of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. During the four minute, 10-second sequence, Cruise- as secret agent Ethan Hunt- hangs off the side of an Airbus A400M during its steep vertical takeoff...
New Deadpool Teaser is Hilarious
The new Deadpool trailer will finally be unveiled tomorrow night on Conan, but here’s the almost NSFW teaser released by 20th Century Fox. You really have to hand it to the studio, the star Ryan Reynolds, and the whole filmmaking team for sticking to their commitment to really going for an R-rated superhero film in which the titular anti-hero essentially mocks the whole notion of superheroes. In this teaser, Deadpool (Reynolds) manages to mock the whole notion of trailers,...
Greta Gerwig & Lola Kirke Talk Mistress America
Mistress America is a sharply observed, witty story about Tracy, a freshman at NYU, played by Lola Kirke, who becomes friendly with her prospective stepsister named Brooke, played by Greta Gerwig., who co-wrote the film with director Noah Baumbach.
Tracy, a would-be writer who is feeling alone, uncertain, and a little lost, is initially dazzled by Brooke’s sophistication and confidence, though she admits that she often goes along with Brooke because it is fun, not because she believes everything Brooke says...
Finally, 15 Years Later We’ve Got a New Zoolander 2 Trailer
This past March 10, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) walked the runway at the Valentino Fashion Show during Paris Fashion Week at Espace Ephemere Tuileries. It was one of the more meta film plugs in recent memory, and it was, unsurprisingly, hilarious.
Now Derek and Hansel are back in this brand new trailer for Zoolander 2, which opens with a voiceover by a Stephen Hawking-like computerized voice, describing the birth of the universe,...
The Intern Trailer: Using Humor to Tackle Ageism
Warner Bros. Pictures just released the second official trailer for The Intern by Oscar-nominated and award-winning writer/filmmaker Nancy Meyers. Meyers, the highest-grossing female director, with a body of work which includes hits like It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, and Private Benjamin, has that rare ability to use humor to subtly guide her audiences to confront their attitudes about vital societal issues. At 65, Meyers is asking us to consider ageism,...
New X-Men: Apocalypse Photos, Video Revealed
There's been a steady stream of intriguing tidbits dropping about X-Men: Apocalypse, starting way back in September of last year when this wonderfully creepy teaser was released.
More recently, there was Olivia Munn's Instagram video, which showed kicking some butt as the mutant Psylocke. And fresh photos have now been released, giving us a glimpse at some the new faces coming to the franchise. The film is said to be set in 1983,...
Sizzling Venice Lineup Includes Black Mass, Everest & Beasts of No Nation
Between September 2nd and October 11th, four major film festivals take place, each with their share of major world premieres. Venice runs from September 2-12, Telluride from September 4-7, Toronto from September 10-20, and finally New York, from September 25 to October 11. It's sort of insane to think that in a little over a month this many major films, many of them likely to end up vying for Oscars, will be seen in such a glut.
As the first of the four festivals to start,...
