The Sound of Fear: Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on Scoring Sicario
Scoring Denis Villeneuve’s latest film Sicario, about the brutal battle against Mexico’s drug cartels, required quite a tonal shift for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson from his work on last year’s The Theory of Everything. He talks to The Credits about how he gravitates towards darker worlds and the challenge of scoring action sequences.
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Sicario is a very tense film. Creating that mood is obviously a big part of your job when you’re scoring.
Juliette Binoche on Being Drawn to The 33
Juliette Binoche has the lead female role in The 33, a movie named for the 33 male Chilean coal miners who spent 69 days below ground in 2010. Although the glamorous French actress is widely known for appearing in The English Patient, she rarely does big international-cast productions, preferring to work on a smaller scale with such notable art-film directors as Oliver Assayas, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Cinematograopher Goes Dark With The 33 Miner Drama
Cinematographer Checco Varese understands terror. After all, he shot horror maestro Guillermo del Toro's vampire series The Strain and in his earlier years, the Peruvian-born director of photography filmed war zone documentaries. But nothing prepared Varese for the pitch-black adventures in underground filming he encountered while making miner drama The 33. Inspired by the 2010 ordeal in which 33 Chilean miners spent 69 days trapped 2,600 feet beneath the earth,
Andy Serkis Talks About his Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character
Of the many things we know next to nothing about in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is Supreme Leader Snoke, a crucial villain played by Andy Serkis. We knew Snoke would be rendered in performance-capture (of which Serkis is the undisputed king), and we knew he was bad (in Star Wars, anyone with 'supreme' in their title is bad), but that was about it. We heard his voice in that very first trailer,
Around the Web: It’s General Leia, Not Princess, Mad Max: Fury Road & More
Entertainment Weekly’s big Star Wars: The Force Awakens feature, with four separate covers, includes this tiny but not insignificant detail—in the film, Princess Leia is now General Leia. Director J.J. Abrams told EW this: “She’s referred to as General, But … there’s a moment in the movie where a character sort of slips and calls her ‘Princess.’”
Ever wondered why she was referred to as a Princess in the first place?
Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Casey Affleck & More in Thrilling Triple 9 Trailer
Director John Hillcoat's upcoming cops and robbers thriller Triple 9 boasts an out-of-this-world cast and a very dark premise. A crew of dirty cops, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Anthony Mackie (Captain America) and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) are blackmailed by the Russian mob, lead by Irene (Kate Winslet) to execute an impossible heist,
Around the Web: News on Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse & More
Collider spoke to Simon Kinberg, writer/producoer on X-Men: Apocalypse and producer on Deadpool, about Fox's two highly anticipated superhero films in 2016. We suggest you read the full interview, as it's rich in detail about both films. One thing we'd like to highlight here is, for X-Men, how the breakout from Days of Future Past,
New Zoolander 2 Posters Includes These “Phones for Giants”
Zoolander 2 brings fashion icons Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) well into the moment, fifteen years after they made their first appearance in Zoolander, before social media was even a thing. They've got an Instagram account now, where they can showoff their latest poses, selfies, and celebrity run-ins. "What are these, phones for giants?" Zoolander quips in the caption for the main poster, riffing on the size of these iPhone 6's and calling back the sight gag from the original
X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Collider reports that the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse will be attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Apocalypse joins Captain America: Civil War as two of the big 2016 films wisely attaching their trailers to what could be the largest opening in film history. What is already guaranteed about The Force Awakens is it'll open
Stephen Colbert Debuts Candy Crush the Movie, Starring Liam Neeson
The game "Candy Crush" has been in the news quite a bit lately. The company that makes it, King, was recently sold for $5.9 billion to Activision Blizzard. During last night's Republican Presidential debate, Florida senator Marco Rubio used the game to explain how much faster technology is adapted into our society now: "It took the telephone 75 years to reach 100 million users. It took Candy Crush one year to reach 100 million users."
Talking to Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach About Trumbo
Blacklisted in 1950s Hollywood for having been a member of the Communist Party, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo continued to do what he did best: write scripts. He just couldn't do that under his own name, even when he penned two Oscar-winning movies, Roman Holiday and The Brave One. This period in the writer's life is the subject of Trumbo, directed by Jay Roach and with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston in the title role.
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,
