Sicario Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan on Writing Great Dialogue
In Sicario Emily Blunt stars alongside Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro as an FBI agent who is struggling to maintain her principles when she is recruited into the war on drugs at the border between Mexico and the US. The Credits talks to screenwriter Taylor Sheridan about what attracted him to this world and how being a “not terribly good actor” helped inform his scriptwriting.
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Around the Web: Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Force Awakens Chronology & More
The gang at iO9 is very bullish on Starz’s Ash vs. The Evil Dead, and we can see why. The official synopsis for the show is as follows: "Ash (Bruce Campbell), the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind,
The Strange, Wild History of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld
With the opening of newest James Bond adventure Spectre, we’re taking a look at that title and seeing both a return of James Bond’s long lost nemesis and a jumping off point for the current Bond franchise to reboot the “what-once-was-old-is-new-again” relationship between Bond and his most nefarious enemy. Much as Skyfall filled in Bond’s early backstory, which was absent from the previous films and author Ian Fleming’s books,
The 33 & the Surprisingly Rich Tradition of Mining Movies
Warner Bros’ upcoming release of The 33, which recounts the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners and the plight of their families and friends above ground, is part of a long history of movies’ fascination with miners and their way of life. It makes sense: mining is a tradition full of inherent drama and danger; there’s conflict between business and labor interests; as well as generational conflicts. By no means a definitive list,
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 Eight. After 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
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,
The Peanuts Movie’s Animation Supervisor on Getting the Gang’s into 3 Dimensions
This week marks the return of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s beloved "Peanuts" crew, with Charlie Brown and the gang making their big screen debut in 3D in The Peanuts Movie. Peanuts purists, of course, might be tempted to thumb their noses at a contemporified, animated version of the classic newspaper strip cartoon, a thought that was well anticipated by director Steve Martino and his animation team at Blue Sky Studios.
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?
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 Them, a 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,
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,
Check out the First Trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
Spike Lee's upcoming film Chi-Raq, whose title was born from the report that homicides in Chicago surpassed the death toll of American Special Forces operations in Iraq, looks at the troubling violence through the lens of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata." Written in 411 BC, "Lysistrata" tracked one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Her ingenious plan was to persuade the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their lovers and husbands until they ended the war.
A Bond Unbroken: Spectre Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell Carries Family Legacy
Working on a Bond film isn’t anything new to Gary Powell, the stunt coordinator of Spectre. His family has been working on the series since the Sean Connery days.
“It was follow around in the family tradition or get kicked out,” Powell told The Credits about his choice to get into the movie stunt business, delivering the deadpan line with a British accent. Both his father and uncle were stuntmen on the early Bond movies with Sean Connery.
Guns & God Converge in Abigail Disney’s Doc The Armor of Light
To make The Armor of Light, documentarian Abigail Disney followed two people with strong feelings about guns. The Rev. Rob Schenck is a longtime anti-abortion crusader and conservative cleric who has come to question the American right's enthusiasm for firearms. Lucy McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, an 18-year-old African American who in 2012 was killed by a Florida man who fired into a car because it was the source of loud music.
The First Official Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s Mind-blowing Anomalisa
We got a chance to see Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) and Duke Johnson's stop-motion masterpiece Anomalisa at the Middleburg Film Festival, and we were floored. The film centers on Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), a customer service expert whose giving a speech at a convention in Cincinnati. While there, he meets a shy, insecure woman named Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh),
New Warcraft Poster Released, Trailer Coming Friday
If you're not a gamer, you're perhaps unaware of Blizzard Entertainment's hugely, hugely popular game World of Warcraft. This massive online multiplayer game had nearly 6 million subscribers as of this past June, and is currently the world's most subscribed MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), holding the Guinness World Record for most popular game. It's also the highest grossing video game of all time, having grossed more than $10 billion,
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,
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.
How Composer Daniel Pemberton Created 3 Scores for Steve Jobs
We spoke to Steve Jobs composer Daniel Pemberton, whose previous work includes Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E, about the joys of working with a director, Danny Boyle, who’s prepared to take risks, and the challenge of complementing screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s fast-paced dialogue.
What were your original impressions of the script when you were approached about the scoring?
The first thing that happened was I had a meeting with Danny- which got moved around a lot because of the hoo-ha that was going on behind the scenes.
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 Sea, follows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller Unbroken. From 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.
Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth is the Most Heartfelt Horror Film Ever Made
The story of Macbeth is certainly no stranger to adaptation. In fact, the Scottish play belongs to an impressive tradition of auteurist variation, including Orson Welles’ notoriously troubled 1948 production, Roman Polanski’s 1971 film and Kurosawa’s well-loved in 1957.
Any Shakespearean adaptation carries with it piles of textual and philosophical baggage, requiring not only a new spin on a well-worn story but a justification for a new iteration.
