Interview

Director

Michael Bay’s Benghazi Movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Paramount released the first trailer for Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, portraying the Sept. 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. The trailer begins with swiftly cut images of the U.S. consulate, one familiar face (John Krasinski, playing Jack Silva, a former Navy SEAL who we'll assume is one of the secret soldiers of the film's title) and text that read, "In 2012, the threat level in Benghazi,

By  |  July 30, 2015

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Actor

15 Years Later, They’re Younger? Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

The premise is, in our mind, perfect: the Wet Hot American Summer gang is back, 15-years after David Wain and Michael Showalter’s original classic, only they’re playing slightly younger versions of themselves in First Day of Camp.

We’re supposedly playing 16-year olds,” says Elizabeth Banks.

“Everyone looks like they’re playing their own parents,” says Amy Poehler.

"We're all really too young to understand any of these things,"

By  |  July 28, 2015

Interview

Composer

Henry Jackman on Scoring Kingsman: The Secret Service, Pixels, Captain America & More

Killer pre-teens (Kick-Ass), killer mutants (X-Men: First Class), killer Samuel L. Jackson’s (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and now killer classic arcade game characters (Pixels), composer Henry Jackman has scored his fair share of intense action and mayhem. He's been the composer of the apocalypse (This is the End), high seas drama (Captain Phillips),

By  |  July 28, 2015

Interview

Actor

Fans Hilariously Answer Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Question

Hugh Jackman will put away the claws after his appearance in the upcoming, stand alone and as of yet untitled Wolverine film. Jackman’s been having fun with his long goodbye, as evidenced by the latest image he posted on his Twitter feed. We’ll assume he’s flipping off his adversaries and not us, his fans.

There have been hints that Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine will revolve around the Old Man Logan storyline from the comics,

By  |  July 28, 2015

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Special/Visual Effects

Fantastic Four “Invisibility” Featurette Includes Actual Invisibility

As we inch closer to the August 7 premiere of Fantastic Four, the re-imagining of Marvel’s iconic and longest-running superhero team, the studio is dropping little nuggets to satiate us until the release. The latest is this “Invisibility” featurette, which stars…theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku?

Yup, that’s right, the author of “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension,” “Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers,

By  |  July 27, 2015

Interview

Director, Screenwriter

A Look Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs Doc The Man in the Machine

While people are understandably excited about director Danny Boyle’s upcoming Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and based on a script by Aaron Sorkin, there’s another Jobs film you might want to set a reminder for on your iPhone (or Apple Watch): Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. A new trailer, and the pedigree of the director, should pique your interest.

Directed by Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Going Clear,

By  |  July 27, 2015

Interview

Casting Director

The Kids are All Right: Casting Director Ronna Kress on Paper Towns

Casting director Ronna Kress has worked on everything from The Great Gatsby, to Mad Max: Fury Road and Terminator Genisys. Kress talks to The Credits about casting British supermodel Cara Delevingne in her breakout role as Margot in Paper Towns, which is based on the book of the same name by bestselling teen author John Green, and the most unusual place she’s discovered new talent.

By  |  July 27, 2015

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Screenwriter

Paper Towns Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber

When I originally met screenwriter Michael Weber, he was doing publicity for a small-budget 2013 film entitled The Spectacular Now that he co-scripted with his writing partner, Scott Neustadter. That film, which had been languishing in development for years, went on to receive critical acclaim and helped shoot its two stars— Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley— into superstardom.

Weber and Neustadter earned raves for that successful adaption of Tim Tharp’s novel.

By  |  July 24, 2015

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Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Woody Allen’s Philosopher Fetish in Five Films

Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man, is likely to elicit groans or worse from Allen’s detractors. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Abe Lucas, a floundering philosophy professor for whom things get better after he enters into a relationship with a student, Jill Pollard (Emma Stone). He also considers murdering a judge — who, at least, is corrupt — which also lifts his spirits. Murder and May-December relationships aside, the film’s biggest non-surprise is that Allen finally put a philosopher,

By  |  July 23, 2015

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Actor

Need a Midweek Smile? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer & This Song Will Help

Need a midweek boost? Check out Pixar’s smile inducing trailer for The Good Dinosaur. The stunning visuals of glittering stars (the kind in the sky) and tumbling rocks make us forget that this movie is in fact animated – it's got that Pixar quality of being almost photo-realistic and yet entirely dreamlike – it is the kind of world we wished we lived in, no boring desks and long lines for a Mochachino.

By  |  July 23, 2015

Interview

Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Person

10 New Photos From Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reveal Epic Stunts

As we've discussed before, Tom Cruise became an action star largely due to his incredible stunt work in the Mission: Impossible series.  Recently, CineFix even put together this "Art of the Scene" detailing how Cruise's vault heist scene in the very first Mission: Impossible (his Ethan Hunt needs to still a CIA cover list from their HQ) made him an action star and changed his career in the process:

Cruise has been a major creative force in the 

By  |  July 23, 2015

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Actor

New Images & Details Emerge on Bond Women in Spectre

It's been a busy week in the news for Columbia Pictures' SpectreFirst it was director Sam Mendes saying that this will definitely be his last Bond film (which is what he said after Skyfall, it should be noted). Tomorrow Columbia will be releasing a new trailer, and today, the film's four "Bond girls" (although this might not be a wholly accurate description of their characters, more on that in a second) were included in a new photo package published by USA Today.

By  |  July 21, 2015

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Actor

Rectify Creator Ray McKinnon on Teaching Aussies the Georgia Accent

On the Sundance TV drama Rectify, which airs it's third episode of it's third season this Thursday evening (at 10/9 C), Daniel Holden moves back to his tiny Georgia hometown after spending 19 years on Death Row for the murder of a local 16-year old girl. Contending with tense family members and suspicious locals, Daniel articulates a jumble of confused feelings in a lugubrious, utterly convincing southern drawl. His Georgia dialect sounds authentic but in fact,

By  |  July 21, 2015

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Actor

Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg Kill it in New American Ultra Trailer

Jesse Eisenberg as a stoner? Sure, that’s easy enough to imagine. Jesse Eisenberg as a Jason Bourne-like secret government sleeper agent who was turned into the one of the most lethal humans alive, was relieved of the memory of his training, and then called back into action by a clandestine agent played by Connie Britton? We’re in. It's a major bonus that his love interest in American Ultra is played by Kristen Stewart,

By  |  July 21, 2015

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Actor

Dissecting the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Comic-Con Trailer

Warner Bros. has only released a single photo from the set of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, of a gloomy looking Supe’(Henry Cavill) standing alone in the rain. In previous teasers, we've seen this rainy moment, and it's an epic one—Superman takes flight, hovering above a seriously pissed Batman (Ben Affleck), who promises to make him bleed.

The trailer released at Comic-Con, however, is 3-plus minutes of juicy action,

By  |  July 20, 2015

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Director

Do You Recognize Last Seconds of New Hunger Games Teaser?

Lionsgate will release a new Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 trailer this week, ahead of that, they gave us this little taste in this 14-second long tease:

The clip is most notable for the last few seconds. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is pulling back her bow in a crucial moment that book readers may recognize. Do you? At Comic-Con, director Francis Lawrence said that anyone who loves the book’s ending will love the end of his film as well.

By  |  July 20, 2015

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Director, Screenwriter

Jane Anderson on her Moving HBO Doc Packed in a Trunk

Writer-director Jane Anderson’s career has spanned film, theater and television. She never planned to make a documentary, let alone figure so prominently in one. But for nearly half her life, Anderson, most recently Emmy-nominated for her adaptation of Olive Kitteridge for HBO, has yearned to bring the artwork and the story of her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, to the public.

That has happened with Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,

By  |  July 20, 2015

Interview

Actor, Cinematographer, Director

Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy in Epic The Revenant Trailer

Fresh off Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematographer, Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki are back with The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy as two seriously bearded and bedraggled 19th century frontiersmen.

DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a man on a revenge mission after being left for dead following a bear attack (glimpsed in the trailer),

By  |  July 17, 2015

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Actor

“Welcome to NEVERLAND!” with the New Pan Trailer

The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s Pan tells a familiar and often told “story about a boy who would never grow up,” but does so with a whole new twist. This is not the story of the Peter Pan that we have all grown up with and cherished. Pan operates on the premise that to understand how the beloved story ends, we must explore its beginning – how “friends begin as enemies and enemies begin as friends.”

By  |  July 17, 2015

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Actor

Before You See Trainwreck, Watch Amy Schumer’s Best Relationship Jokes

Amy Schumer, the comedian best known for her eponymous Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, is making her leading role film debut this Friday in Trainwreck, the latest Judd Apatow-directed rom-com. Here too, Amy plays a character named Amy, a magazine writer with a hellish boss (Tilda Swinton) and a well-meaning boyfriend, Steve (John Cena) who doesn’t seem to have much a of a clue what’s up with his significant other.

By  |  July 16, 2015