Disney’s The Jungle Book Triptych Poster
Walt Disney Pictures all-new live-action/CGI remake of their classic, The Jungle Book will be swinging into theaters in RealD 3D and IMAX® 3D on April 15, 2016.
A gorgeous new triptych poster for The Jungle Book has been released by IGN. The first two panels were revealed individually on Tuesday and Wednesday, but now we get to see the complete poster in all its' detailed glory.
Get to Know Your Golden Globe Nominees for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Earlier we published a primer for the Golden Globe nominees for Best Motion Picture, Drama. The idea here is while you probably haven't had the time to see all these films, we have, and we've also interviewed a ton of people from them, thus offering you a chance to give these interviews a glance and bolster your film IQ going into the big night. You can do with this info what you want—we suggest you use it to casually mention minute details of the filmmaking process to whoever you might be watching with.
Get to Know Your Golden Globe Nominees for Best Motion Picture, Drama
With the Golden Globes airing this Sunday night, we figured we'd put together a little hyperlinked primer for you. Unless your job it is to know how these films are actually made, chances are you've seen some, missed others, and know who the bold faced names are. With that in mind, and to shed a little light on the folks behind the stars you'll be watching during the broadcast, we've rounded up the interviews we've done over the past year with the below-the-liners who helped make these movies.
Spotlight’s Editor Tom McArdle Helps Make Journalism Look Thrilling
People pour over files, excel spreadsheets, and names in a directory. There's phone calls, and more phone calls, and some face-to-face meetings. There's a late hour knock on a nervous journalist's door, and it reveals…a colleague bearing a pizza. These are some of the things editor Tom McArdle was cutting when he worked on Spotlight, and in each instance, the scenes are thrilling. The film, centered on a team of Boston Globe investigative reporters who uncover a massive coverup of sexual abuse at the Catholic archdiocese of Boston in the early aughts,
The Hateful Eight‘s Makeup Dept. Head on Making Pretty People Ugly
Makeup department head Heba Thorisdottir has been working with Quentin Tarantino since Kill Bill: Vol 1, and hasn't missed one of his movies since. With The Hateful Eight, she might have just put in her most impressive work yet, tending to the grizzled faces of characters living hard lives in the late 19th century, none more so than Jennifer Jason Leigh's sociopathic, bloody-faced Daisy Domergue. We spoke with the Icelandic makeup maestro about what it was like working on Tarantino's claustrophobic,
I Like the Way You Die, Boy: Tarantino’s 8 Best Villains
It’s no secret that professional provocateur Quentin Tarantino has one of the most twisted minds in the business, spawning some of the most vile (and violent) characters to ever exist on screen, with quirks and sadism aplenty.
Perhaps more unsettling is the knowledge that Tarantino’s cinematic worlds intersect, which means that Reservoir Dogs’ psychotic Mr. Blonde has ties to the menacing pawn shop owners Maynard and Zed of Pulp Fiction,
The Martian’s Screenwriter Drew Goddard on Adapting What he Loves
The Martian began its life with a cult following on the internet, then became a bestseller and ended up as one of the biggest movies of the 2015, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Screenwriter Drew Goddard (World War Z) talks to The Credits about adapting Andy Weir’s page turner about surviving being stranded on Mars, handing over the directing reins to Scott and telling Weir it was time to quit his day job.
Check out The Force Awakens Cinematographer Dan Mindel’s Amazing Photos
Cinematographer Dan Mindel worked with J.J. Abrams on the reboot for Star Trek, and again on Star Trek: Into Darkness, and even as eagerly anticipated as those films were to Trekkies the world over, his work on The Force Awakens was going to be scrutinized to a degree an order of magnitude higher. Now that the film has been a critical and commercial smash, Mindel's released a few photos from behind-the-scenes of the shoot.
Chatting With Joy‘s Production Designer Judy Becker
Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and writer/director David O. Russell join forces again to tell the rags to riches story of Joy, a woman who built an empire on a clever design for a mop. We talk to production designer Judy Becker, who, like Lawrence and Cooper, also worked on Russell’s films Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, about being part of the Russell filmmaking family, how she was inspired by the Wizard of Oz and why she relished the chance to go full Dynasty when she was creating the set of the soap opera.
Learn from Leo: Bear Safety Tips, per The Revenant
The award for the biggest and baddest Christmas Day opening this year will likely go to Alejandro Iñárritu’s doomy, Leonardo DiCaprio-led, frontier Western, The Revenant. Based loosely on events that befell Hugh Glass, an early 20th century explorer and trapper, the film depicts in realistically gritty detail Glass’s South Dakota excursion in which he was mauled by a grizzly bear, left for dead by his men, and dragged himself around 80 miles (which,
The Revenant‘s Production Designer Jack Fisk on Filming in the Great, Deadly Outdoors
Production designer Jack Fisk has worked with some of the greatest living directors over his long, distinguished career. Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Brian DePalma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and now, Alejandro González Iñárritu. The privilege of working with an auteur goes both ways in this case; these directors have sought out Fisk because he, like them, is an artist.
Fisk's work on Anderson's There Will Be Blood might be the closest antecedent to his incredible work designing
Around the Web: Christoper Nolan’s Next Movie, The Force Awakens Fan Theories & More
Here's what we're reading around the web today:
Christopher Nolan's next movie is going to be Dunkirk, based on another of his original screenplays. The film is set during the legendary evacuation in France in 1940 during WWII, and once again Nolan will be utilizing a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large format film photography, much as he did on his last epic, Interstellar. The Hollywood Reporter
Bloody Perfect: A Q&A With The Revenant‘s Costume Designer Jacqueline West
The tale of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century trapper and explorer mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by John Fitzgerald, one of his men, became the stuff of legend. Never quite on the scale of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan, but subject to similar embellishment, Glass’s story was told and re-told to stretch his wounded crawl back to civilization and revenge from, for instance, a truthful eighty miles to a ludicrous 200, with myriad other details hyperbolized until Glass’s own nature was mostly obscured. Now,
Director Vanessa Block & Producer Steve Tisch Discuss Their Oscar Shortlisted Doc The Testimony
"The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has cost more lives than any other since World War II." This startling fact is one of the first things you learn in director Vanessa Block's documentary short The Testimony, and it lingers in your mind long after the film is finished. What's more astonishing than this brutal metric is the unquestionable strength of the women who live in Congo, specifically Eastern Congo,
Brooklyn Costume Designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Brooklyn, based on the novel by Colm Toibin, stars Saoirse Ronan as the young Irish immigrant Eilis, finding her way and falling in love in Brooklyn in the 1950s. We spoke to costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux (An Education, One Day) about sourcing vintage costumes and taking inspiration from old Hollywood moviestars.
The film is beautiful. How did the job come about for you in the first place?
Spend Christmas With Leonardo DiCaprio & 10 of his Best, Oscar Snubbed Performances
It would be difficult to find an actor more famously snubbed by the Academy than Leonardo DiCaprio. Despite his two-decade long career and his predilection for prestige projects, the actor, who got his start on shows like Parenthood and Growing Pains, has had no luck in turning up an Oscar since his first nomination at the age of 19. Embarking on an unofficial but career-long Oscar campaign with films like Titanic,
Killer Looks: A Q&A With Camille Friend, Hair Department Head on The Hateful Eight
Camille Friend, Hair Department head on The Hateful Eight, will be celebrating twenty years in the business in 2016, and her filmography contains a bevy of memorable character looks which stand out in our movie culture. She has been department head hair stylist on several Eddie Murphy pictures including Dr. Doolitle 2 (2001), his Academy Award nominated role in Dreamgirls (2006), Norbit (2007), Meet Dave (2008),
Director Amy Berg on her Joplin Doc Janis: Little Girl Blue
Director Amy Berg is best known for her hard-hitting investigative documentaries, particularly the Oscar-nominated Deliver Us From Evil (2006), about clergy sex abuse, and West of Memphis (2012), about the rush to judgement in the murder convictions of three young men in Arkansas who were released after spending nearly 20 years in prison. The prolific Berg also made An Open Secret, about the sexual abuse of teenagers and children within the entertainment industry,
Check Out How They Updated This Classic Scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Once again, if you haven't seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, read no further. This video, produced by Tested, unlocks how Phil Tippett and Tippett Studios created the classic Dejarik holochess game for The Force Awakens, which was seen in the very first Star Wars. Don't remember that scene? Here's a refresher— R2-D2 plays Chewbacca while aboard the Millennium Falcon, and after the little droid pulls off a successful move against Chewie,
Ant-Man Costume Designer Sammy Sheldon Differ
Sammy Sheldon Differ designed some of my favorite movie costumes in films like Stardust, Kinky Boots, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and has worked with comic book characters from Hellboy and Kick-Ass to the X-Men. Next year, you'll see her work in Assassin's Creed, from director Justin Kurzel (he directed this year's striking
