Elders React to Batman v. Superman Trailer
Fine Brothers Entertainment is at it again. The folks who brought you the Kids React videos (check out their 'Kids react to 1st iPod' video here, for one example of their ingenious work) are now bringing you the reaction of some very funny older people to the latest Batman v. Superman trailer that debuted at Comic-Con this year.
A few things to note: There’s some general concern over two legendary superheroes fighting. The excitement of Catherine over the arrival of Superman is,...
The Two Most Intense Stunts in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
When it comes to stunts and action set pieces in franchise films, we want them bigger, better, faster, and more insane in each new film. From Fast & Furious to The Avengers have to deal with a monster of their own making—how to one up the last thing they did, which was often, at the time, what they thought was near the limit of what was possible. For franchises in the Marvel universe, CGI helps, but it’s not the answer to everything...
Michael Bay’s Benghazi Movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Paramount released the first trailer for Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, portraying the Sept. 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. The trailer begins with swiftly cut images of the U.S. consulate, one familiar face (John Krasinski, playing Jack Silva, a former Navy SEAL who we'll assume is one of the secret soldiers of the film's title) and text that read, "In 2012, the threat level in Benghazi, Libya, was deemed 'critical.'"...
How the David Foster Wallace Film The End of the Tour Came to the Screen
Few modern authors command the kind of intense adoration like the late David Foster Wallace. And among his many pieces of fiction and journalism (want to kill time today at work in the best way possible? Read this, or this, or this), the work that still inspires the most articles, reviews, conversations, critiques, and wonder is his opus, Infinite Jest.
Infinite Jest has inspired deeply serious,...
15 Years Later, They’re Younger? Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
The premise is, in our mind, perfect: the Wet Hot American Summer gang is back, 15-years after David Wain and Michael Showalter’s original classic, only they’re playing slightly younger versions of themselves in First Day of Camp.
“We’re supposedly playing 16-year olds,” says Elizabeth Banks.
“Everyone looks like they’re playing their own parents,” says Amy Poehler.
"We're all really too young to understand any of these things,"...
Henry Jackman on Scoring Kingsman: The Secret Service, Pixels, Captain America & More
Killer pre-teens (Kick-Ass), killer mutants (X-Men: First Class), killer Samuel L. Jackson’s (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and now killer classic arcade game characters (Pixels), composer Henry Jackman has scored his fair share of intense action and mayhem. He's been the composer of the apocalypse (This is the End), high seas drama (Captain Phillips), and beloved animated films (Big Hero 6)...
Fans Hilariously Answer Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Question
Hugh Jackman will put away the claws after his appearance in the upcoming, stand alone and as of yet untitled Wolverine film. Jackman’s been having fun with his long goodbye, as evidenced by the latest image he posted on his Twitter feed. We’ll assume he’s flipping off his adversaries and not us, his fans.
There have been hints that Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine will revolve around the Old Man Logan storyline from the comics, set fifty years into the future,...
Fantastic Four “Invisibility” Featurette Includes Actual Invisibility
As we inch closer to the August 7 premiere of Fantastic Four, the re-imagining of Marvel’s iconic and longest-running superhero team, the studio is dropping little nuggets to satiate us until the release. The latest is this “Invisibility” featurette, which stars…theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku?
Yup, that’s right, the author of “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension,” “Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers,...
A Look Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs Doc The Man in the Machine
While people are understandably excited about director Danny Boyle’s upcoming Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and based on a script by Aaron Sorkin, there’s another Jobs film you might want to set a reminder for on your iPhone (or Apple Watch): Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. A new trailer, and the pedigree of the director, should pique your interest.
Directed by Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Going Clear,...
The Kids are All Right: Casting Director Ronna Kress on Paper Towns
Casting director Ronna Kress has worked on everything from The Great Gatsby, to Mad Max: Fury Road and Terminator Genisys. Kress talks to The Credits about casting British supermodel Cara Delevingne in her breakout role as Margot in Paper Towns, which is based on the book of the same name by bestselling teen author John Green, and the most unusual place she’s discovered new talent...
Happy 75th Birthday to Bugs Bunny, and Goodbye Elmer Fudd!
It was seventy-five years ago today that Warner Bros. released A Wild Hare, introducing the irrepressible Bugs Bunny (and the utterly repressible Elmer Fudd) to the world in his first official animated short.
As the New York Times reported earlier today, primitive versions of Bugs had appeared in earlier Warner cartoons, but A Wild Hare brought a fully realized, wise-cracking, street-smart Bugs to viewers for the first time.
The full length A Wild Hare is eight-minutes long,...
Paper Towns Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber
When I originally met screenwriter Michael Weber, he was doing publicity for a small-budget 2013 film entitled The Spectacular Now that he co-scripted with his writing partner, Scott Neustadter. That film, which had been languishing in development for years, went on to receive critical acclaim and helped shoot its two stars— Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley— into superstardom.
Weber and Neustadter earned raves for that successful adaption of Tim Tharp’s novel. Although they had been a screenwriting team for over a decade and had penned the wonderful 2009 hit (500) Days of Summer,...
Behold the Full Length Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer
The first full-length trailer for director Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 has been released after making its debut to much acclaim at San Diego Comic-Con, and whoa, are we ready for the march on the Capitol. For the six people unfamiliar with The Hunger Games, we will do a quick catch-me-up. The Hunger Games is part of trilogy of books by author Susanne Collins, and the final book, “Mockingjay,” was split into two parts,...
Woody Allen’s Philosopher Fetish in Five Films
Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man, is likely to elicit groans or worse from Allen’s detractors. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Abe Lucas, a floundering philosophy professor for whom things get better after he enters into a relationship with a student, Jill Pollard (Emma Stone). He also considers murdering a judge — who, at least, is corrupt — which also lifts his spirits. Murder and May-December relationships aside, the film’s biggest non-surprise is that Allen finally put a philosopher,...
Need a Midweek Smile? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer & This Song Will Help
Need a midweek boost? Check out Pixar’s smile inducing trailer for The Good Dinosaur. The stunning visuals of glittering stars (the kind in the sky) and tumbling rocks make us forget that this movie is in fact animated – it's got that Pixar quality of being almost photo-realistic and yet entirely dreamlike – it is the kind of world we wished we lived in, no boring desks and long lines for a Mochachino.
In this world lives an Apatosaurus dinosaur named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) and a 6/7-year-old caveboy named Spot (voiced by Jack Bright) whose budding friendship warm even the coldest of hearts...
10 New Photos From Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reveal Epic Stunts
As we've discussed before, Tom Cruise became an action star largely due to his incredible stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series. Recently, CineFix even put together this "Art of the Scene" detailing how Cruise's vault heist scene in the very first Mission: Impossible (his Ethan Hunt needs to still a CIA cover list from their HQ) made him an action star and changed his career in the process:
Cruise has been a major creative force in the ...
New Spectre Trailer, Images Reveals Bond’s Latest Mission
“Zero to sixty in 3.2 seconds, with a few little tricks up her sleeve,” says Q (Ben Whishaw), showing James his new car, a silver Aston Martin DB10. One of those tricks up “her” sleeve is a pair of flamethrowers in the rear exhaust pipes. We then cut to a thrilling race at night between James and his DB10 and the henchmen Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista, Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy, whose size recalls Harold Sakata's Oddjob) in his Jaguar C-X75 and we're off...
“People are Losing Their Minds” in the New Fargo Season 2 Trailer
Welcome to Luverne, Minnesota, in 1979, where the folksy accent and winter hats with ear flaps makes everyone seem nice; but don’t trust their bright, friendly patter or their puffy winter gear, because Luverne is the setting for season two of Fargo. The first full length trailer is here and there is a whole lot going on, including an insanely promising cast, a murder in a diner, and a surprisingly excellent Richard Nixon impression. (For an in-depth looking on how the show is scored,...
New Images & Details Emerge on Bond Women in Spectre
It's been a busy week in the news for Columbia Pictures' Spectre. First it was director Sam Mendes saying that this will definitely be his last Bond film (which is what he said after Skyfall, it should be noted). Tomorrow Columbia will be releasing a new trailer, and today, the film's four "Bond girls" (although this might not be a wholly accurate description of their characters, more on that in a second) were included in a new photo package published by USA Today...
Rectify Creator Ray McKinnon on Teaching Aussies the Georgia Accent
On the Sundance TV drama Rectify, which airs it's third episode of it's third season this Thursday evening (at 10/9 C), Daniel Holden moves back to his tiny Georgia hometown after spending 19 years on Death Row for the murder of a local 16-year old girl. Contending with tense family members and suspicious locals, Daniel articulates a jumble of confused feelings in a lugubrious, utterly convincing southern drawl. His Georgia dialect sounds authentic but in fact,...
