Artist Drew Struzan Thinks The Force Awakens is Best Star Wars Film Ever
The ripple effects from Disney’s D23 Expo are still being felt—and now we have this: poster artist extraordinaire Drew Struzan, who has been with the franchise since the very beginning, thinks that J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be the best Star Wars yet. In a conversation with Movie-Weekly, Struzan and this to say:
"I got to read the script and subsequently I’ve seen half of it (The Force Awakens) and I can tell you and the fans this, honest to god,
The Witch Will Freak You Out
“What were out in this wilderness to find, leaving our country, kindred, our father’s houses, for what? For the kingdom of God. Let us pray.”
These are the words that open The Witch trailer, writer/director Robert Eggers' (The Tell-Tale Heart, Hansel and Gretel) feature film debut that plants us in a world at once very American but also weirdly, creepily, alien—17th century New England, 62 years before the Salem witch trials.
Matt Damon’s the “Greatest botanist on this planet” in New The Martian Trailer
As we wrote the last time 20th Century Fox released a trailer for The Martian, there’s some very real science behind sending a manned mission to the red planet. A fantastic story appeared in the April 20th issue of The New Yorker, reported by Tom Kizzia, entitled “Moving to Mars,” about a group of NASA recruits who are being studied in a massive,
Emmy-Nominated Composer Sean Callery on 24: Live Another Day & More
Composer Sean Callery is one the most prolific people working in TV today. Callery recently received his 14th Emmy nomination for his work on Fox's 24: Live Another Day. Callery's work can be heard on Showtime's Homeland, CBS's Elementary (both of which he was nominated for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2013), and two more Fox shows—their longest running procedural drama, Bones, and their upcoming,
Things Go Bump in the Night in 1st Victor Frankenstein Trailer
James McAvoy is Victor Von Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe is his loyal assistant Igor in 20th Century Fox's Victor Frankenstein. So that’s a pretty good start there. Told from Igor’s perspective, this seemingly kinetic take on Mary Shelley’s deathless classic looks like good fun. At 1:30 in, your first glimpse at a now very much alive monster promises that director Paul McGuigan screenwriter Max Landis are not pulling any deadly punches.
Composer Daniel Pemberton on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. & More
For you Peep Show fans out there (and we know you're out there), composer Daniel Pemberton is the man who created the British comedy's incredibly catchy theme song, "Pip Pop Plop." If you've never seen the show, you start watching it—it's consistently hilarious. If you have seen the show, then this little diddy will make you smile:
Pemberton has done a lot of great work for British TV,
Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange & More Revealed at D23 Expo
So who is your favorite Avenger? It seems Captain America is the favorite of many young fans in attendance at this past weekend’s D23 Expo in Anaheim. Let's start with this incredibly cute picture of a “Captain America: 2035”…. Young actor/dancer/rapper Miles Brown (Baby Boogaloo) with Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie.
Marvel Studios held a two-hour presentation, treating superhero aficionados to pre-teaser/trailer footage for Captain America: Civil War,
Star Wars Photos From Disney’s D23 Expo
There was this cast photo from Star Wars: Rogue One that has everybody asking who exactly these folks are playing. SlashFilm tips us off to some fans suggesting that Diego Luna might be playing Biggs Darklighter: "Darklighter has a history with Luke Skywalker. The two of them were childhood friends on Tatooine, but Biggs left to join the academy before Luke did. If you want more information on Biggs Darklighter,
Star Wars: Rogue One Cast Photo Revealed
The massive D-23 Expo this past weekend in Anaheim has given us a ton of fresh Star Wars news, including this cast photo from the set of Gareth Edwards' Star Wars: Rogue One.
The new standalone Star Wars stories series has begun principal photography, with director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters) at the helm, Rogue One centers on resistance fighters, led by Felicity Jones,
Mad Style: The Man From U.N.C.L.E’s Production Designer Oliver Scholl
Guy Ritchie’s latest film The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a remake of the 1960s TV series, starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander. The spy film, set at the height of the Cold War, is a stylish ride, shot through with humor. The Credits talks to production designer Oliver Scholl (Jumper, Edge of Tomorrow) about how to achieve a stylish, rather than stylized look,
Check out Artist Marko Manev’s Noir Star Wars Print Series
Today at 12pm eastern, Bottleneck Gallery and Acme Archives are releasing Marko Manev's latest noir print series of the original Star Wars trilogy. Manev's Star Wars-inspired art is elegant, stripped down and haunting. They capture something ineffable about these characters—the loneliness of Vader juxtaposed with the camaraderie and loyalty of friends like Han Solo and Chewy and R2D2 and C3PO.
The 13″ x 19″ giclee prints (meaning they were made on inkjet printers) will be numbered out of an edition of 125,
Trumbo: A Powerful Look at Hollywood and the Blacklist
Hollywood loves the topic of Hollywood. Most movies about movies illuminate the wonderful, creative, even magical process of bringing stories to the screen, but with Trumbo, a critical eye is being turned towards a less savory aspect of Tinsel Town, in particular the effects that the House Committee on Un-American Activities had on those who plied their trade in the movie business, and those who helped created and maintain the Hollywood Blacklist.
The first trailer for the biopic Trumbo has just been released,
Get to Know the New Bond Women of Spectre
In a new behind-the-scenes video about Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, we get to meet the latest in the franchise’s tough, resilient – and beautiful “Bond women.” Director Sam Mendes shares his vision for the type of women to play against the character of James Bond, and why he selected Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color, Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded,
Here’s How They Made the Incredible Inception Hallway Fight Scene
CineFix’s latest Art of the Scene video tackles one of the more ambitious, wild sequences in modern film history: the rotating hotel corridor fight scene in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. In the scene, Joseph Gordon-Levitt grapples with a bad guy in zero gravity dream battle. The beauty of the scene was in no small part due to Nolan’s decision to find a practical way to film it rather than rely on CGI.
Finally a Look at Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
For those of you (and we know there are many) who have been jonesing for a little Tarantino in your diet, finally, finally we’ve got a taste of his upcoming The Hateful Eight. And just look at that opening shot! Imagine that in ultra Panavision 70mm, which Tarantino promised the entire film would be shot in and which The Weinstein Company is promising to give the format it's widest release in 20 years.
Director Ty Evans on his Skateboard Documentary We Are Blood
Director Ty Evans is a skateboarder and self-taught filmmaker who went from filming his friends using whatever cameras he could scrounge the money for to using state-of-the-art camera equipment, some times mounting cameras to a helicopter, for his groundbreaking work on We Are Blood. The documentary features renown skateboarder Paul Rodriguez (P-Rod) and his skateboarding family (Theotis “Theo” Beasely, Chris “Cookie” Colbourn and Boo Johnson) as they travel around the world, with Evans and his small crew,
Straight Outta Compton Screenwriter Andrea Berloff on N.W.A.’s Story
They invented gangsta rap and put West Coast hip hop on the map, and in the process triggered a tectonic shift across an entire cultural landscape. N.W.A. was the baddest, boldest, most influential rap band of their era. Coming from South Central Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, N.W.A.'s members—Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella and MC Ren channeled the rage, remorse and bravado of the streets of Compton, a hotbed of police brutality and gang turf wars between the Crips and the Bloods,
Post Apocalyptic Animated Comedy Cassius and Clay Will be Awesome
Have you ever watched Archer? If the answer is no, rectify this situation immediately. Comedy Central’s genius animated comedy, created by Adam Reed, is consistently hilarious. This animated spy thriller follows Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and his often bloody, absurd exploits with his fellow operatives (which includes Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler and Jessica Walter, the latter best known as Lucielle Bluth on Arrested Development).
Now Archer creator Adam Reed is teaming up with writer and executive producer Megan Ganz,
New Steve Jobs Trailer Focuses on Icon’s Family Issues
“The two most significant events in the 20th century, the allies win the war, and this,” says Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) in the the latest Steve Jobs trailer, the ‘this’ no doubt referring to the release of one of his beloved products. This opening line becomes an emblem for the focus of the latest trailer, which is about Jobs’ relentless pursuit of perfection in his business life while his personal life,
HBO Teases Westworld & Amy Schumer Live at the Apollo
It almost looks like a conventional western, which wouldn’t be a bad thing for HBO considering the last time they tackled the genre they gave us Deadwood. Only Westworld is hardly a proper western, as many of those cowboys and cowgirls aren’t actually human.
HBO dropped the teaser right before the True Detective finale last night, and it’s a creepy little number. Loosely based on the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton,
