Interview

Actor, Cinematographer, Director

Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy in Epic The Revenant Trailer

Fresh off Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematographer, Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki are back with The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy as two seriously bearded and bedraggled 19th century frontiersmen.

DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a man on a revenge mission after being left for dead following a bear attack (glimpsed in the trailer),

By  |  July 17, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Comic-Con 2015: Suicide Squad‘s Bad Girls & Guys Wow Crowd

"Oh, I'm not gonna kill you," says Jared Leto's joker, whose wears less makeup and more bling in his teeth than Heath Ledger did in his iconic performance in the role in 2008's The Dark Knight. "I'm just gonna hurt you really, really bad." After watching the first look at David Ayer’s Suicide Squadwe're pretty sure Warner Bros. won't be hurting when they release this film in a little over a year.

By  |  July 14, 2015

Interview

Director

Comic-Con 2015: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Director Burr Steers

Director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down, 17 Again) said in an interview that his new film, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is about "the most repressed society you possibly could imagine and then bringing in the element of these agents of malicious chaos to bear. More so than early 1960’s America, where you had [George] Romero’s monsters as metaphors in those movies, challenging white hegemony. This culture is even more uptight.

By  |  July 14, 2015

Interview

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Comic-Con 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel

There were a ton of major moments for film and TV fans at Comic-Con, but it's inarguable which panel was the most hotly anticipated. So fans got to properly freak out in Hall H when Star Wars:The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence Kasdan sat down to dish some dirt on the film, bringing the cast up on stage—Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson,

By  |  July 13, 2015

Interview

Director

Director David Thorpe on his Doc Do I Sound Gay?

Journalist David Thorpe never intended to become a filmmaker. Thorpe was getting his MFA in creative non-fiction with the idea to write a book about his anxiety over his voice, and more to the point, his anxieties over sounding "gay." But Thorpe realized that a book wouldn't do the topic justice, so he dropped out of the program and funneled the money he would have spent on his classes into what would become, four years later, his debut documentary 

By  |  July 10, 2015

Interview

Director

Here’s How They Created Minionese, the Language of the Minions

In Universal Pictures' Minions, the three lead Minions are Kevin, the “big brother,” protector and leader, Stuart, the rebellious “middle brother,” and Bob, the innocent, eager “little brother” who loves everyone and everything. They're on a mission to find a new master (this is a prequel to Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2so they haven't met Gru yet),

By  |  July 7, 2015

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

Writer/Director Patrick Brice on the Late Night Intimacies in The Overnight

Over the years, plenty of films have featured over-the-top parties that slowly spiral out of control, but there have been few movies like Patrick Brice’s new comedy The Overnight.

The film tells the story of two sets of parents who come together for a pizza party in a Los Angeles home. The couple played by Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling have recently moved to L.A. from Seattle and are looking for new friends in the neighborhood.

By  |  July 2, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Screenwriter

New Creed Trailer is a Mike Tyson-in-his-Prime Knockout

“A great fighter once said, ‘it ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.’”

This reference to the 2006 film Rocky Balboa by the eponymous protagonist Adonis Johnson Creed says it all about the future of the “Rocky” franchise. This first Creed trailer has come out swinging and is definitely moving forward. The music, the first rate editing,

By  |  July 1, 2015

Interview

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Maya Forbes on her Highly Personal, Illuminating Infinitely Polar Bear

Behind the scenes, writer/director/producer Maya Forbes has helped directors and filmmakers tell a lot of stories, but in her directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear, she’s telling her own.

Her new drama chronicles the eighteen months that Forbes and her sister lived with their bipolar father in Boston in the 1970s while their mother attended graduate school in New York. Although that period was sometimes tumultuous, it also gave her a lot of beautiful memories about her dad—

By  |  June 29, 2015

Interview

Director

From Bigelow To Scorsese: 7 Music Videos & Commercials By Iconic Directors

There’s something profound to appreciate when it comes to renowned film directors who’ve pursued telling stories with images beyond the silver screen. For many, this has meant moving into the world of the music video or the high-end fashion commercial. You’re probably already familiar with some of these high profile collaborations—from Tim Burton directing “Here With Me” and “Bones” for The Killers to Sofia Coppola directing a risqué video for The White Stripes or even several of Martin Scorsese’s ad campaign ventures with brands such as Dolce &

By  |  June 26, 2015

Interview

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Dana Nachman on the Phenomenon of her Doc Batkid Begins

When Miles Scott told the Make-A-Wish Foundation that he wanted to be “the real Batman” no one could have predicted how epically his dream would be fulfilled. The documentary Batkid Begins, which premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival, goes back to November 15, 2013, when, with the help of the Mayor, the Chief of Police and thousands of volunteers, San Francisco became Gotham City, to the delight of a five-year-old boy battling leukemia.

By  |  June 24, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Thomas Haden Church Talks War Dogs, More in Max

Here’s a little known fact about actor/director/writer Thomas Haden Church: Following memorable turns on television (Wings) and in film (Free Money), he stepped away from acting in late 2000 and left Los Angeles for his 2,000-acre cattle ranch in his native Texas. It was director Alexander Payne who lured him back to the screen with a plum part in 2004’s sleeper indie hit Sideways,

By  |  June 23, 2015

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

Dope Debuts in Theaters After Smashing Sundance Premiere

One of the buzziest crowd-pleasers to come out of Sundance, Dope tells the story of Malcolm, a 90s hip-hop obsessed geek from Inglewood with dreams of studying at Harvard. After a wild night there’s suddenly a backpack of drugs standing in his way and only his two nerdy friends to help him offload them. (Hint: their plan involves bitcoin).

We talk to writer-director Rick Famuyiwa, who grew up in Inglewood,

By  |  June 19, 2015

Interview

Director, Producer

Battle of the Titans: Robert Gordon on William Buckley vs. Gore Vidal in Best of Enemies

Playing at the BAMcineamaFest in Brooklyn and AFI Docs in Los Angeles tonight, Magnolia Pictures' Best of Enemies is a riveting behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., where these two intellectual heavyweights clobbered each other over their views about God, sex, and politics.

We spoke with co-director and producer Robert Gordon about how this film came to be,

By  |  June 17, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Aligning Past, Present & Future in Terminator Genisys

Director Alan Taylor and writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier had a lot to juggle when they went to work on Terminator Genisys. With the four previous Terminator films and their corkscrewing stories, the filmmakers had to find a way to honor the universe the franchise has already built while setting off on their own, singular path. At what part of the saga of man's battle with machines would they pick up,

By  |  June 15, 2015

Interview

Animator, Art Director, Director, Producer, Production Designer, Special/Visual Effects

Meet the Crew That Worked on Both Jurassic Park & Jurassic World

Universal's new Jurassic World is being heralded as a proper folllow-up to Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic Jurassic Park, the film that raised the bar for what CGI could accomplish and blew the minds of kids and adults alike. When director Colin Trevorrow took the helm of Jurassic World, the first film in the franchise in 14-years, both he and executive producer Steven Spielberg wanted to recapture the magic of that first film.

By  |  June 11, 2015

Interview

Director

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has faced rejection before in the movie business. In 2014, his horror film The Town that Dreaded Sundown was only released in a few theaters nationwide and then went straight to video on demand. He wanted a chance for that film to build an audience but never had the opportunity. The Texas born filmmaker had steadily worked his way up through the ranks, starting as a personal assistant for some of Hollywood's biggest stars (Nora Ephron,

By  |  June 8, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Melissa McCarthy Continues Tradition of Screwball Spy Comedies in Grand Fashion

In writer-director Paul Feig’s Spy, Melissa McCarthy takes the reins as the latest bumbling protagonist in that tried and tested movie genre: the spy comedy. McCarthy plays CIA desk-jockey Susan Cooper who is unexpectedly called up to go undercover in the field. (See our interview with stunt coordinator J.J. Perry here about turning McCarthy into a proper, butt-kicking spy.)

Unlike the slick, womanizing James Bond, who navigates his way through each world-saving assignment improbably unruffled,

By  |  June 4, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director, Special/Visual Effects, Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

How’d They Film That? Inside the Fault Lines on San Andreas

When your film is about the San Andreas fault giving way and a magnitude 9-plus earthquake turning California into so many dominoes and sinkholes, decimating cities and their historic landmarks, you’re going to need some serious CGI. Yet you’d be surprised how much of San Andreas was shot in camera, using practical stunts and a lot of old fashioned movie magic (and a whole lot of chutzpah from the stunt professionals).

By  |  May 28, 2015

Interview

Actor, Director

Details on Jurassic World, Questions About Game of Thrones & More

A few things on our minds that we'd love your feedback on, including excitement over Jurassic World, frustration with a certain awful someone on Game of Thrones, and hope for an upcoming comedy. Let us know what we've missed and what you think on the below.

Jurassic World's Indominus Rex is not only a crazy hybrid dinosaur but also a sly jab at our insatiable appetite for the next big thing.

By  |  May 26, 2015