New Images & Details Emerge on Bond Women in Spectre
It's been a busy week in the news for Columbia Pictures' Spectre. First 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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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,
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),
“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.”
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.
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).
