Class in Session: Meet the Makers of Monsters University
...fresh canister—where collected screams are stored—Mike is two monster steps ahead of him. And when Mike needs a romantic dinner date reservation for his serpent-haired girlfriend’s birthday, Sulley has his little lime-green...
Oscar Winners Nat Faxon & Jim Rash on Reading, Writing, & The Way Way Back
...Rash: We pretty much got hit with a lot of rain when we started. The house stuff was shot outside of Marshfield, MA in Green Harbor, and the water park was in East...
Disasters in Space: Hollywood’s History of Co-Opting NASA’s Real Fears
...to open the pod bay doors, her response is lifted right from the movie). In Prometheus, Ridley Scott's 2012 prequel to Alien, there's a really questionable (Spoiler Alert!) moment when archaeologist Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) willingly...
George Mastras on Writing & Directing One of Breaking Bad’s Best Episodes
...be amazing if we could do a train heist? A train heist is not the kind of thing most people could pitch in a writing room and have green lit. It was...
An Evening With Haifaa Al Mansour, Writer/Director of the Historic Wadjda
...more famous example, Rosebud from Citizen Kane. In Haifaa Al Mansour’s fantastic, ground-breaking Wadjda (the first feature length film to be shot entirely in the Kingdom), the object is a beautiful green...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 & 7 Delicious Food Films
...Another classic centered on sweets, only there may not be another food film in the medium’s history is as shot-through with dread as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (okay, Soylent Green probably is). Directed...
The Many Moving Parts to The LEGO Movie
...Offerman, Will Arnett (Batman!), Alison Brie, Elizabeth Banks, Jonah Hill (Green Lantern) and Charlie Day to name a few. You've also got Channing Tatum (Superman), Liam Neeson (Bad Cop) Cinematographer Pablo Plaisted’s...
Thanksgiving Holiday Movie Survival Guide
...10:33 Green Lantern plays on FX, while night owls can revisit a fantastic actor we lost far too soon when A Knight’s Tale, starring Heath Ledger, airs at 12:45am on Encore. Thursday, November...
Going Viral: The Hilariously Savvy Selling of Anchorman 2
...Burgundy sings Mayor Rob Ford’s campaign song November 20 Back in March 2012, Conan O’Brien’s talk show was the forum where Will Ferrell announced that Anchorman 2 had gotten the green light,...
10 Movie Themed Cocktails Crafted by Nitehawk Cinema's Beverage Manager
...French, was invented there in the 1890s. It combines gin, sweet vermouth, and chartreuse, the lemon-green liqueur made for hundreds of years by French monks in possession of a secret recipe. Served...
Talking With Adam Garber, Director of the White House Student Film Festival
...workshops, green screens, makeup & wardrobe tutorials, and directing and writing workshops. Being a part of an administration that recognizes the importance of the arts is inspiring to work around, and was...
How The Lego Movie Got Its Stop-Motion Look
...Batman, Green Lantern, Abraham Lincoln, and Han Solo showing up in the same movie. How were you able to combine all these worlds? One of the most interesting things that people might...
CinemaCon 2014: 20th Century Fox & Warner Bros. Tout Strong Women, Big Monsters
...season. The film opens on April 25. John Green’s gorgeously written novel has been adapted for the screen in another likely winning turn for Shailene Woodley, who plays Hazel, a sixteen-year-old cancer...
2014 Tribeca Film Festival at a Glance—5 Female Directors to Watch
...blow up Oregon’s Green Peter Dam. Their righteous cause, however, will require a level of commitment that threatens their own morality. Knowing Reichardt’s work, the film will be both beautiful and harrowing....
Film, Fashion & Passion: Cinemoi is a New Kind of Television Experience
...of our channel is green. No one has ever broadcast the closing ceremony of Cannes before. We didn’t make a big deal out of it because we want to get all the...
Dawn of the Planets of the Apes Location Manager on Filming in Rainforests
...to say, ‘What about that forest that had that beautiful green moss and that river?’” Once Kearney has winnowed down the photos to a digestible number, she posts them so everyone, from...
Filmmaking on the Edge at the 2014 Provincetown Film Festival
...the Excellence in Acting award, joining past honorees like Tilda Swinton, Vera Farmiga and Alan Cumming. There are four Clarkson films screening, including festival entrant Last Weekend, in which Clarkson plays Celia Green, the...
Tech Evolution: The Wild Ambition of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
...apes forest sanctuary. By shooting outside rather than in front of a green screen or in more manageable (but less interesting) interior sets, the filmmakers allowed the actors portraying the apes to...
Comic-Con 2014: A Snapshot of Films, Panels & Events
...(Facts of Life), the voice of Velma, Grey Griffin (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated), the voice of Daphne,and screenwriter Jim Krieg (Green Lantern: The Animated Series). 2:15-3:15pm World Premiere of Tom and Jerry: The...
Space Creators: Building the Guardians of the Galaxy
...that took the longest to perfect was her green skin color. Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) Creating Rocket and Groot, two principal characters who were ultimately entirely CGI creations, took many, many...