New Footage in Batman v Superman International TV Spot

In this international TV spot for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new footage is mainly the two titular superheroes beating the crap out of each other. Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has premiered, this is the next "big" film that fans are going to salivate over. It also represents the first time these two legendary characters face off on-screen. In fact, 2016 is the year of superhero v superhero battles; let's not forget about Marvel’sCaptain America: Civil War.

Cinematographer Danny Cohen on Room & The Danish Girl

We talk to Danny Cohen, the cinematographer of two of the year’s most talked about films- Room and The Danish Girl– about how a crazy idea to actually shoot in a very small room paid off, why he and director Tom Hooper work so well together and why he’d love to tackle sci-fi.    

Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson as Jack and Ma in Room.

Let’s Talk About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Have you seen The Force Awakens? If so, great, stick around so we can discuss it. If not, stop reading this article. This piece is going to do a bit of a deep dive and there's going to be spoilers aplenty. I'll give you a minute to bail. 

Are they gone? Good. Let's take a look.

The Big Picture

The script was penned by J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back,

A Christmas Gift: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Sisters

“Would you mind not drinking tonight, so I can let my freak flag fly?” Amy Poehler’s character asks her sister, Kate (Tina Fey), the more freewheeling of the two. This mostly sums up the movie, in which Poehler and Fey’s characters say farewell to the childhood home their parents have put on the market without their knowledge, and throw the rager they never got to as teens. From grocery store run-ins with old frenemies to unlikely romantic pursuits (and all the ways those can go wrong),

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lands on AFI’s Movies of the Year List

While Star Wars: The Force Awakens only opened last night, it's probably safe to say the film is a huge successs. J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan have not only survived the most fraught resurrection in film history, they have plainly prevailed, with a 95% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes, a whopping 234 positive reviews out of the 246 that have been aggregated thus far.  

It was always going to be a success financially,

See Tina Fey in the First Trailer for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

With Tina Fey's latest film, Sisters, opening against a tiny, obscure indie called Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Paramount has decided to pour it on with the first trailer for another one of her projects, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Based on the book "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan" by Kim Barker, Fey plays Baker as reporter at ProPublica (she was also the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009) who finds herself in Afghanistan and Pakistan,

BB-8: From Napkin Sketch to Starring Role in The Force Awakens

We're just hours away from the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and here's a great, spoiler free way to pass the time until you see it—a featurette on the new droid BB-8.

BB-8 is perhaps the most emblematic creation in all of The Force Awakens because this adorable "soccer ball" droid represents a return to the practical effects that director and co-writer J.J. Abrams was insistent upon.

Director László Nemes & Actor Géza Röhrig on Their Heartbreaking Son of Saul

Director and co-writer Laszlo Nemes's Son of Saul, an astonishingly accomplished first feature, follows a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau for about 36 hours. Saul, played by Geza Rohrig, is a member of the Sonderkommando, the group that led people into the gas chambers and then disposed of their bodies. Saul identifies a new arrival as his son, and after the youth's murder attempts to arrange a proper burial for him.

Talking to Stacey Sher, Producer of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

Producer Stacey Sher first worked with director Quentin Tarantino on his 1994 film Pulp Fiction, in which she was executive producer. Twenty-one years later she’s working with him again on his 70mm widescreen extravaganza The Hateful Eight,  their third film together (after 2012’s Django Unchained on which she was a producer). In between those films, even a partial list of her credits reads like a best-of list from the last two decades: Get Shorty (1995);

J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Debuts Trailer

As select journalists left a screening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens last night (they're not allowed to say a peep about the film until it opens), they were greeted with the news that Warner Bros. had slipped in a brand new trailer for their most anticipated film of 2016, the J.K. Rowling scripted Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. 

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 

Star Wars Countdown, 1st Star Trek Beyond Trailer & More

Slashfilm’s Peter Sciretta sat down with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams to discuss the future of the Star Wars saga. While Lucasfilm and Disney are clearly focused on this week’s premiere of The Force Awakens, they’re also deep into planning the remainder of the planned sequel trilogy. Check out the piece to find out what’s been planned thus far. 

The Critics’

Talking to Mark Ulano, Production Sound Mixer on The Hateful Eight

Production Sound Mixer Mark Ulano has been recording and mixing location sound for Quentin Tarantino’s films since 1997’s Jackie Brown. Entrusted by the director with obtaining the best possible recording of his legendary character dialogues, along with the rest of the location sound work, Ulano takes understandable pride in the fact that not a single word of dialogue has ever been replaced [looped] in post-production on their films together. Beginning his production sound mixing career in the late 1970s working on a slew of low budget films produced by Roger Corman and also Canon Films,

How They Made the White Whale in Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea

“There she blows! There she blows! A hump like a snow hill! It is Moby Dick!”

This is the moment in Herman Melville's iconic "Moby-Dick" that the titular white whale is spotted, the demon that mad Captain Ahab has made the Pequod's suicidal mission. It's one of the most breathtaking moments in American literature, coming on page 624 (in the Barnes & Noble Classics edition, at least), on chapter 133. For the final three chapters of arguably the greatest piece of literature in the American canon,

Brooklyn’s Production Designer Francois Seguin’s Period Perfection

Though the romance film is about as out of vogue as ever before, it’s a testament to the work behind director John Crowley’s Brooklyn that the quiet Saoirse Ronan-starring love story has become an Oscar favorite since its premiere at Sundance earlier this year. A respectful return to the traditions of melodrama, Brooklyn is stuffed with astonishing performances and masterful design, causing many critics to take note not just of the affecting emotional qualities,

Your Golden Globes Nominees Announcements LIVE

You can still catch the live broadcast of the Golden Globe nominations here. Below's the list thus far. 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

Idris Elba, Luther
Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero
David Oyelowo, Nightingale
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall
Patrick Wilson, 

Talking to Casting Director Fiona Weir About Brooklyn, Room & More

It remains a baffling omission that casting directors don't have their own Academy Award category. There is hardly a more important aspect of pre-production, and few decisions can make or break a film like those charged to the casting director. From Selma's Aisha Coley to the legendary Bonnie Timmerman (The Karate Kid, Bull Durham, Black Hawk Down) and Pat Moran (The Wire,

Mark Hamill to Host Lightsaber Duel on ESPN, SAG Nominees Announced & More

Happy hump day, folks. Here's some of what we're reading about film and TV on this Wednesday, December 9th:

Did you know that the Screen Actors Guild is the largest nominating body within the Academy Awards? Well it is! And today they’ve doled out their 2016 Screen Actor Guilds Awards nominations (the ceremony will be simulcast live on Saturday, January 30, on TNT & TBS at 8 p.m. ET), with some wonderful surprises to boot.

Steven Spielberg’s The BFG Releases First Teaser

"Never get out of bed. Never go to the window. Never look behind the curtain." But, of course, this is exactly what Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) does, earning her first sight of the BFG (the Big Friendly Giant, played by the great Mark Rylance, who nearly stole Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg‘s last film, right out from under Tom Hanks). This first teaser of Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s children’s classic looks very promising.

Barnhill is a newcomer,

Watch the new Captain America: Civil War Featurette

Curious why directors Anthony and Joe Russo and Marvel honcho Kevin Feige decided to bring the Black Panther into Captain America: Civil War? Or how about why all the turmoil started between former friends Cap (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)? And how does the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) factor into all of this? In this new featurette, originally reported and created by Entertainment Weekly and now released by Marvel Entertainment,

Around the Web: George Lucas Has Seen The Force Awakens & More

Here’s some of what we’re reading today.

Vulture caught up with George Lucas after hearing the news that he’d finally seen The Force Awakens. His verdict? “I think the fans are going to love it. It’s very much the kind of movie they’ve been looking for.” Hmm…as Vulture notes, he didn’t say he loved it. Then again, as the Washington Post reported in their profile of Lucas,