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Actor, Director

A New Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

One of the films we're really looking forward to this December is Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful EightAfter a tortured production process (in that his first script was leaked), Tarantino's film is ready to see the light of day, and this new trailer gives all you Tarantino fans plenty of reasons to be excited. With his muse, Samuel L. Jackson, and a cast that includes Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh (who is so excellent in her voice work in 

By  |  November 6, 2015

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Actor

Here’s the First Trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass

The first trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass is here, and it sets the stage nicely for what Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is up against—Time itself. That's Time with a capitol 'T,' played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who is central to the sequel's storyline and is part human, part clock. Time happens to be the Mad Hatter's father (the Hatter played by Johnny Depp, of course), and Alice will need to reason with him,

By  |  November 5, 2015

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Actor, Art Director

New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Posters Revealed

Well, you had to know that the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer wasn't going to be the very last thing released before the December 18 premiere, right? These five new character posters, three of which were shared on Instagram by the film's stars, all share a common theme—the right eye of the character is covered (or in the case of Carrie Fisher's Leia, simply obscured). What's that about? Just aesthetic cohesion and nothing more?

By  |  November 5, 2015

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Actor

1st Look of Eddie Redmayne in Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

His name is Newt Scamander, and he's a wizard. He's also being played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redymane in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Thema prequel of sorts to her epic Harry Potter series. Redmayne's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's upcoming issue, which gets a first look at his 1920s era wizard and some very intriguing plot details. This is Rowling's first time as a screenwriter,

By  |  November 5, 2015

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Actor

Ryan Reynolds Shares Slightly Insane Deadpool Halloween Video

One of the things Ryan Reynolds got keep after he finished filming Deadpool was his title character's signature black and red costume. He put it to good use this past Saturday night, when he went out on Halloween dressed as 'The Merc with the Mouth' and, summoning a collection of X-Men, suggested they all join forces and become a team. "How many of you have taken a human life?" he asks,

By  |  November 5, 2015

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Actor

The Real Moby-Dick Goes Berserk in Final In the Heart of the Sea Trailer

Ron Howard's In The Heart of the Sea comes out on December 11, which couldn't be soon enough for us. Based on the real voyage of the whaleship The Essex in 1820, which inspired one of the greatest novels of all time, Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," In the Heart of the Sea promises to show not only the epic battle between the ship's crew and the seemingly malevolent, vengeful sperm whale,

By  |  November 3, 2015

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Actor, Director, Producer

Watch This New Girls Teaser and Get Excited About Season 5

The trials, tribulations and humiliations of Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her closest friends will continue in season five of Dunham's brilliant Girls. In 25 seconds, the new teaser packs a lot of funny into a small package—the package in this case being Hannah's body, as she dances 'as if no one's watching' in a class that includes at least one person she knows very well.

Girls returns for season five on February 21, and Dunham has said that the series will likely end after the sixth season.

By  |  November 2, 2015

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Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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 Seafollows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller UnbrokenFrom 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.

By  |  October 31, 2015

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Actor

Can Patrick Schwarzenegger Top Dad in Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse?

Having had its release pushed back a week, to October 30th, Scouts 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 Scouts Guide was raunchy enough to get an R rating). The movie features three devoted scouts,

By  |  October 29, 2015

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Actor

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 

By  |  October 28, 2015

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Actor, Screenwriter

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,

By  |  October 28, 2015

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Actor

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 MartianSimmons 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),

By  |  October 27, 2015

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Actor, Cinematographer, Composer, Director, Producer

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.

By  |  October 27, 2015

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Actor, Director, Producer

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.

By  |  October 27, 2015

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Actor

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.

By  |  October 26, 2015

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Actor

Watch Daisy Ridley & BB-8 React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

We have been trying to take a breather from Star Wars: The Force Awakens tidbits considering the release of the final trailer and everything surrounding it (the pre-ticket sales, the IMAX screening locations, the new images) pretty much dominated last week. But then we saw BB-8 watching the trailer in bed and threw all that out the window.

Take a moment to think about how much film marketing has been changed by social media.

By  |  October 26, 2015

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Actor

Jem vs. Jem: Eighties Relic Hits 21st Century in new Jem and the Holograms

Opening on Friday is director Jon M. Chu’s mildly more believable, live action version of the 80s classic cartoon Jem and the Holograms. The original Hannah Montana, before Miley Cyrus was even a twinkle in Billy Ray’s eye, cartoon Jem was a regular girl in disguise as a rock star, a feat made possible by a one-of-a-kind hologram machine named Synergy, a magical pair of earrings, and endless glitter, guts,

By  |  October 26, 2015

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Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Trailer for Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, Oh My

“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of singing, dancing and the art of war.”

When you think of Jane Austen you think of the landed English gentry of the 19th century, women dancing in long Empire-waisted dresses gossiping and plotting, and English class. If we were to play a word association game what would you say if we said “Pride and Prejudice” – you might say Mr. Darcy, Laurence Olivier, Colin Firth,

By  |  October 23, 2015

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Actor, Screenwriter

Fall Read/Watch List: Read These Books, Then See Their Film Adaptations

This year, we’ve been treated to a variety of great cinematic adaptations. From Paper Towns this summer (read our interview with the screenwriters here), to more recent films like The Martian and Black Mass, Hollywood, once again, has been looking to the page for cinematic inspiration. Many of the films this fall are no different with at least ten more book adaptations hitting the big screen in 2015.

By  |  October 22, 2015

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Actor

Meryl Streep Crushes Another Accent in Suffragette

Suffragette, which portrays the more violent side of Great Britain’s women’s fight for the vote during the late 19th century and early 20th, stars Carey Mulligan as a beleagured young worker who becomes entrenched in the front lines of the suffrage movement. Leading Mulligan’s character and her fictional cohort is Emmeline Pankhurst, a pivotal and very real suffragette and political activist who died in 1928, living to see her mission accomplished plus ten years.

By  |  October 22, 2015