Ant-Man VFX Supervisor on the Power of Shrinkage
Jake Morrison, Ant-Man’s VFX Supervisor, talks to The Credits about the challenges of bringing a tiny superhero to life and convincing the audience to come along for the ride, especially when he's riding a flying ant.
You must be happy for people to be able to finally see Ant-Man? I imagine it’s a long process for you?
Yes, I'm looking forward to Friday being the big day.
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Throw a Rager in New Sisters Trailer
We’ve all been waiting for that perfect joint project between Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, longtime friends and collaborators who met at Second City in Chicago, helped return SNL to cultural and comedic significance, and then went on to star in their own beloved comedies on TV. Yes, they’ve starred in Baby Mama together, and have crossed paths in Anchorman 2, Mean Girls, and, of course, Martin & Orloff (Google it).
Trainwreck Editor Loves Mistakes: ‘It Feels Real’
Some editors might look for the most perfectly delivered take to put in a movie. But not editor William Kerr, who took the lead editing Amy Schumer-led, Judd Apatow-directed comedy Trainwreck.
“I love dirty stuff,” Kerr said. “I love mistakes, little things that seem peculiar, because they seem like reality.”
The same could be said of the heroine of Universal’s Trainwreck –Schumer. She plays a commitment-phobe,
Comic-Con 2015: Suicide Squad‘s Bad Girls & Guys Wow Crowd
"Oh, I'm not gonna kill you," says Jared Leto's joker, whose wears less makeup and more bling in his teeth than Heath Ledger did in his iconic performance in the role in 2008's The Dark Knight. "I'm just gonna hurt you really, really bad." After watching the first look at David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, we're pretty sure Warner Bros. won't be hurting when they release this film in a little over a year.
Comic-Con 2015: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Director Burr Steers
Director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down, 17 Again) said in an interview that his new film, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is about "the most repressed society you possibly could imagine and then bringing in the element of these agents of malicious chaos to bear. More so than early 1960’s America, where you had [George] Romero’s monsters as metaphors in those movies, challenging white hegemony. This culture is even more uptight.
Comic-Con 2015: The Stars of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Matt Smith and Jack Huston have a bit of a bro-mance going on. The eleventh Dr. Who and the Boardwalk Empire star play very different characters in the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but they both fail to gain the heart of Elizabeth Bennett (played by Cinderella star Lily James) and in an interview they joked that the main reason they made the film was the chance to work together.
Comic-Con 2015: Art Directors From Fantastic Four, Batman v. Superman, Jurassic World, Terminator Genisys & More
Before the sets are designed and the stunts are mapped out, before the costumes are created and sometimes even before there is a script, there are the illustrators of the Art Directors Guild, who come in at the very beginning to literally sketch out what the movie will look like. Their panel’s title referred to them as the “hidden gems” of film and television. Illustrators from superhero and fantasy films talked about how they got started and how they work.
Comic-Con 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Panel
There were a ton of major moments for film and TV fans at Comic-Con, but it's inarguable which panel was the most hotly anticipated. So fans got to properly freak out in Hall H when Star Wars:The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence Kasdan sat down to dish some dirt on the film, bringing the cast up on stage—Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson,
Director David Thorpe on his Doc Do I Sound Gay?
Journalist David Thorpe never intended to become a filmmaker. Thorpe was getting his MFA in creative non-fiction with the idea to write a book about his anxiety over his voice, and more to the point, his anxieties over sounding "gay." But Thorpe realized that a book wouldn't do the topic justice, so he dropped out of the program and funneled the money he would have spent on his classes into what would become, four years later, his debut documentary
Getting Edgy With Kill Bill Sword Choreographer Tetsuro Shimaguchi
I’m standing in a dimly lit bar located two floors below street level in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, while a man clad in black is rapidly approaching while swinging a Samurai sword directly towards my neck.
I’ve had interviews go better.
The weapon of note is being welded by expert swordsman Tetsuro Shimaguchi, best known for his featured role as Crazy 88’s “Miki”, the right-hand minion of Lucy Liu’s character O-Ren Ishi in Quentin Tarantino's 2003/2004 opus Kill Bill Vol.
The Next Han Solo Will Have to Live up to These Star Wars Moments
The ingredients for the recently announced standalone Han Solo film include two proven co-writers and directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 & 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie), who know how to stage witty, exciting action, a good combo for a film about the most beloved rogue in the Star Wars galaxy (yes, even more beloved than Boba Fett).
Mulder & Scully are Back in 201 Days of The X-Files
When people think of the iconic TV duos of all time they think of Laverne & Shirley, Lucy & Ethel, Felix & Oscar, Jerry & Elaine – and of course, Mulder & Scully. The new 40-second promo for the upcoming Fox X-Files miniseries has just been released; in it we get our first glimpse of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back together after 13, long, Mulder-and-Scully-less years.
When we say glimpse,
Kill Bill’s Sword Choreographer Critiques 5 Iconic Star Wars Lightsaber Battles
Playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton believed that “The pen is mighter than the sword.” back in 1839, but if he’d stuck around to pick a fight with Tetsuro Shimaguchi, he might’ve have reconsidered that stance.
As the drumbeat of anticipation grows for the Dec. 18th release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens with the latest news about the film soon to be revealed at Comic-Con this Friday,
This Sneak Peak at AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead Raises One Huge Question
AMC’s zombie ratings colossus, The Walking Dead, wrapped up arguably their best season to date this past March with their season five finale. So it was hardly surprising when word came they’d be expanding the franchise with Fear the Walking Dead, a companion series set in Los Angeles and featuring new storylines and characters.
So what have we gleaned from the feautrette AMC just released today?
Here’s How They Created Minionese, the Language of the Minions
In Universal Pictures' Minions, the three lead Minions are Kevin, the “big brother,” protector and leader, Stuart, the rebellious “middle brother,” and Bob, the innocent, eager “little brother” who loves everyone and everything. They're on a mission to find a new master (this is a prequel to Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2, so they haven't met Gru yet),
New Ant-Man Featurette: Marvel’s Biggest Avenger May Come in its Smallest Suit
He may not be as sexy a character as billionaire geinus (and narcissist) Tony Stark, as irresistibly rococo as the Hulk, or as satisfyingly kick-ass as the Black Widow, but you could argue none of these beloved Avengers are more important than Dr. Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man, and the man he puts in his miraculous suit, thief-turned-hero, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd).
As one of the original founders of the Avengers, and “one of the smartest people in the Marvel universe,”
A Q&A With Sam Elliott, Whose Career, Like his Mustache, is as Strong as Ever
Veteran actor Sam Elliott, known for his impressive mustache and that velvet-in-gravel voice, at age 70 is experiencing a late-career resurgence.
Not only did he star in the final season of FX’s critically acclaimed series Justified (playing the clean-shaven Markham), Elliott was feted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for three films: Digging for Fire, directed by Joe Swanberg; I’ll See You in My Dreams,
Michael Fassbender Channels Steve Jobs to Startling Effect
A great opening monologue, a great beat beneath it, and images of the legions of Apple fans (and worshippers) starts yet another fantastic new trailer released this week. In this new trailer for director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs, Apple’s tech genius Steve Wozniak, played by Seth Rogen, asks his mercurial, infuriating mastermind of a partner, Steve Jobs (Fassbender), the question we have all wondered about Jobs – “What do you do?”
Writer/Director Patrick Brice on the Late Night Intimacies in The Overnight
Over the years, plenty of films have featured over-the-top parties that slowly spiral out of control, but there have been few movies like Patrick Brice’s new comedy The Overnight.
The film tells the story of two sets of parents who come together for a pizza party in a Los Angeles home. The couple played by Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling have recently moved to L.A. from Seattle and are looking for new friends in the neighborhood.
New Creed Trailer is a Mike Tyson-in-his-Prime Knockout
“A great fighter once said, ‘it ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.’”
This reference to the 2006 film Rocky Balboa by the eponymous protagonist Adonis Johnson Creed says it all about the future of the “Rocky” franchise. This first Creed trailer has come out swinging and is definitely moving forward. The music, the first rate editing,
