SXSW Alumni: Bryan Singer’s Start in Austin
We've already looked at Trey Parker and Matt Stone's SXSW debut, as well as Lena Dunham's. Now we turn our attention to one of the most prolific director's working today. The first edition of SXSW’s film festival hosted the regional premiere of Public Access, the debut feature by Bryan Singer and his screenwriting partner Christopher McQuarrie. Their follow-up, The Usual Suspects,
SXSW 2016: Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some a Perfect Festival Opener
There are few filmmakers out there who have had as big of an impact on their city as Richard Linklater has had on Austin. Festival director Janet Pierson introduced Everybody Wants Some, saying that Linklater was the reason she moved to Austin in the first place. She then handed the reigns over to Lewis Black, founder of the Austin Chronicle and cofounder of Austin's SXSW festival, as well as the director of the documentary Richard Linklater: dream is destiny,
SXSW Alumni: Lena Dunham’s Start in Austin
Girls creator Lena Dunham can credibly say that her career officially began at the SXSW Film Festival. It started with the rejection of her short film Creative Nonfiction. Instead of giving up on it, Dunham kept working on it and re-submitted the film. The determination paid off— Creative Nonfiction was accepted. When she came to Austin with the film, she not only had what she called "the best week of her life"
The Hilarious Writer/Director Michael Showalter Discusses Hello, My Name Is Doris
Hello, My Name is Doris, the latest comedy from Wet Hot American Summer co-creator Michael Showalter, stars Sally Field as a woman falling in love for the first time. We talk to the writer/director about creating a new type of comic protagonist, landing Sally Field and having to be the bad guy on set.
Hello, My Name is Doris started as a short film.
SXSW Alumni: Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s Start in Austin
As we settle into Austin and prepare for SXSW 2016, we're also looking back at some of the great careers that were launched here. We begin with longtime creative partners Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who brought their animated short, The Spirit of X-Mas and its' cadre of soon-to-be-infamous characters—Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny—to South by Southwest in 1997. Yet their road to SXSW began years earlier, in 1992, when Parker and Stone, then students at the University of Colorado,
Hilarious NSFW Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Trailer Debuts
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the 10 Cloverfield Lane of comedies; it came out of nowhere and now it feels like an absolute must see. We're not saying this is the most hilarious trailer ever, but, it sure looks like one of the most hilarious of this young year, which is not surprising considering it's coming from The Lonely Island comedy troupe (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer,
John Travolta Goes John Wick in I Am Wrath Trailer
John Travolta is looking credibly hard in this new I Am Wrath trailer, a revenge pic directed by Chuck Russell that's a little John Wick-like, only Travolta's Stanley Hill is avenging a lot more than a beloved puppy. Stanley Hill is a man whose life is upended when his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Morna) is brutally murdered by a trio of killers. Only Stanley appears to be more than just a down-on-his-luck unemployed family man grieving a senseless act of violence;
New Captain America: Civil War Behind-the-Scenes Footage
At some point today, Marvel is going to drop a new Captain America: Civil War trailer on us, with the juiciest rumor being that Spider-Man will be featured heavily. While we await the trailer's release, there's a lot of new stuff already out there, including this behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the movie by Entertainment Tonight.
This look at the production of Civil War
New 10 Cloverfield Lane Clip Pits Mary Elizabeth Winstead Against the World
This Friday, March 11, all the speculation about 10 Cloverfield Lane will end and we'll finally know for certain what is happening on this now infamously sketchy street. Has the monster from Cloverfield returned (this new clip once again seems to suggest that John Goodman's character isn't the only thing that's menacing our heroine), or, has something else, tangentially related to the original film (thus earning J.J.
Team Iron Man v Team Captain America in Two New Teasers
Although we're still two months away from the May 6 premiere of Captain America: Civil War, that hasn't stopped Marvel and Walt Disney Pictures from whetting our appetite for the ultimate superhero brawl. We published the new photos and poster they dropped just this past Monday, and now there's two new clips, highlighting the division between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), and just who's taking whose side.
Watch the new International Trailer for Ghostbusters
We were thrilled when the first official trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters dropped on March 3. Frankly, if you're not excited about watching Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones battle the supernatural in New York, well, maybe you need to have your head examined (or you're a humorless ghost). The new Ghostbusters movie,
Game of Thrones Drops Epic Season 6 Trailer
We've got just a bit more than a month left before Game of Thrones season 6, finally begins on April 24. The big question, of course, is the fate of Jon Snow. In this new, ripping trailer for the season, GOT wastes exactly zero seconds putting the loveliest crow of them all right in center frame. There he is, just as we left him, bled out in the courtyard of Castle Black.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Leads MTV Movie Awards Noms
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not be leaving the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards emptied handed. J.J. Abrams' galaxy dominating film leads the pack with 11 nominations, including one for movie of the year. It'll be competing against Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Deadpool, Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton.
That's not all—the principals in
SXSW 2016: A Brief List of Some of the Narrative Features We’re Excited About
This week we're headed to the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, where we'll once again run around like lunatics, trying to figure out how to parse 139 features (52 of them from first-time filmmakers), 89 World Premieres, 13 North American Premieres and 8 U.S. Premieres. This is to say nothing of the TV lineup, which has grown in recent years, and includes some hottest properties this year from Cinemax, HBO, AMC and more.
Here's just a brief glance at some of what we're excited to see in the narrative feature category.
Writer/Director Dominique Schilling on her Film A Reason
Writer/director Dominieque Schilling's film A Reason centers on a generational clash, moving in often surprising, funny, and all-too-believably painful ways. So in other words, it feels like watching an actual family. We meet Serena (Magda Apanowicz), a young, introverted lesbian and her controlling older brother Nathan (Nathan Hilgrim), who gather, along with the rest of their family, at the house of their elegant, opionionated elderly Aunt Irene (Marion Ross) to hear the reading of her will.
Before Fantastic Beasts, new Trailer Reveals J.K. Rowling set to Release Four New Stories
Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly revealed this trailer for J.K. Rowling's History of Magic in North America, which teases the four brand new stories Rowling will be releasing on Pottermore today. As EW revealed, these new stories will help set the stage for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which will take viewers into the world of North American wizarding (specifically, in New York City) and is based on Rowling's first official script,
Watch the Short That put 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg on the map
10 Cloverfield Lane will be released this Thursday, and while the film has generated considerable hype, including embedding subliminal images into the trailers it released to theaters, we actually don’t know that much about it. A few things we do know is that it’s peripherally related to Cloverfield (but not a sequel), it was written by Drew Goddard (the Oscar nominated screenwriter of The Martian),
Captain America: Civil War Drops Awesome New Poster, Images
Anthony and Joe Russo’s highly anticipated followup to their best in class Captain America: The Winter Soldier is, as you of course know, Captain America: Civil War. The film bows on May 6, and it promises to be an even more bruising superhero-v-superhero battle than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which pits “only”
After 6 Glorious Seasons, Downton Abbey Says Goodbye
After six mostly glorious seasons on air, Downton Abbey had its series finale on Sunday night. Show creator Julian Fellowes managed to create a hugely appealing, compelling series centered on Lord Grantham, his extended family and the servants whose lives intersected with their employers. What’s so amazing, as Vulture’s Jen Chaney points out, is Fellowes hit show didn’t require a central character who was difficult and dark,
J.J. Abrams Talks 10 Cloverfield Lane
Earlier today we introduced you to the great short film that put 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg on the map; now we’d like to point your attention towards this great interview with producer J.J. Abrams about the most mysterious film of 2016 thus far. With this Cloverfield “blood relative” opening on Thursday, all eyes are on 10 Cloverfield Lane,
