Brie Larson Pulls Some Strings In ‘Free Fire’ [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 24, 2017 12:00 pm EST There’s more than meets the eye with some of the characters in Free Fire. They can reveal shades of humanity you wouldn’t immediately expect at the start of Ben Wheatley’s action-comedy. Some characters, on the other hand, like Vernon (Sharlto Copley), can be chalked up to “what you see is what you get.”...
Carl Erik Rinsch’s The Gift Wins Cannes Lions Advertising Awards By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 1:00 pm EST Carl Erik Rinsch’s futuristic action thriller short film The Gift was the leader of the pack, spawning a bidding war between several big Hollywood movie studios to turn the short film into a feature. We even broke more information about the project, titled Small, and posted some leaked concept renderings. News broke over the weekend that Rinsch’s The Gift has won the inaugural Gold Film Craft Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in Cannes....
Cast Photo And Concept Art: Colin Trevorrow’s ‘The Book Of Henry’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2015 3:30 pm EST Star Wars Episode 9 director Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World follow-up The Book Of Henry starts filming today. Focus Features has sent out a press release announcing the start of production and Trevorrow took to twitter to release the first photo of his film’s cast. And if you look closely, you might see some concept art in the background....
Five-Day Box Office: Enchanted $53M; This Christmas $28M; Beowulf #3; Hitman #4 By Steve Mason/Nov. 25, 2007 1:54 am EST Amy Adams was nominated for an Academy Award for the funny, but hardly-seen comedy Junebug, and then matched Will Ferrell joke-for-joke in her supporting turn in Talladega Nights last summer. Now, she’s at the top of the box office and almost certainly headed for, at least, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress â€" Comedy or Musical....
Germain’s 10 Most Anticipated Films Of 2012 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 27, 2011 12:00 pm EST If 2012 is the end of the world, that’s all right with me. Hollywood has overstocked the Mayan calendar’s final year with so many potentially amazing movies that trying to cut it down to a top ten was virtually impossible. How could movies like The Amazing Spider-Man, Brave or Lincoln not be on this list? Ten then became twenty, which was more satisfying but there were still a few major films lingering....
Hollywood Was Getting “The Sea Of Trees” Wrong Long Before Logan Paul Ever Entered The Forest By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 9, 2018 8:00 am EST As an American who lives in Japan and has spent time hiking the Jukai Nature Trail — which winds through Aokigahara, the so-called “suicide forest” — it hit close to home for me to see the Logan Paul controversy play out in the news. If you somehow missed it, Paul is the YouTube personality with over 16....
JJ Abrams’ ‘Super 8’ Super Bowl Commercial And Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2011 5:06 pm EST Tonight during the Super Bowl, Paramount Pictures finally aired footage from the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed movie Super 8. Also, Abrams has finally come forward to talk at length about his until-now super-top-secret science fiction film Super 8.Watch the television spot and find out more about the film, after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below....
New ‘Westworld’ Season 2 Images Take Us Back To The Park By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2018 2:30 pm EST HBO has released a new batch of Westworld season 2 images. There are plenty of familiar faces, but these photos also give us our first look at Get Out actress Betty Gabriel in the show. She’s about as far from Georgina as possible here: she’s traded her maid outfit for some body armor and a high-powered rifle....
Q&A: Who Gets Credit For A Screenplay? And What’s The Deal With The Ampersands And Ands? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2011 5:00 pm EST This is the first edition in a new regular series where I attempt to answer your questions about the film industry. We’ll be taking a look at the box office, forgotten Hollywood landmarks, the marketing process and more. Sometimes I’ll attempt to answer the question myself, and other times I will contact experts in the particular field to give a more detailed answer....
Rogue One Bits: Reshoots Drama, Tie-In Book Covers Revealed, And The First TV Spot By Jacob Hall/Aug. 3, 2016 9:00 am EST In this edition of Rogue One Bits: More details about the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story reshoots arrive online. The first TV spot arrives. A new image of Riz Ahmed as Bodhi Rook. The covers of three Rogue One books are revealed. Mads Mikkelsen drops new details about Galen Erso....
Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Hellboy, Spider-Man, Wolverine By Germain Lussier/March 27, 2012 11:00 am EST Where did police really pull over Batman driving a Lamborghini? What did Tom Hiddleston have to say after seeing The Avengers? Will The Dark Knight Rises be at San Diego Comic-Con or not? In what scenario would actor Bob Hoskins could have played Wolverine? How would Gotham City advertise for tourism if they were real?...
Superhero Bits: Smallville, Thor 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises By Germain Lussier/Oct. 18, 2011 11:00 am EST Who could be scoring The Avengers? How can you play as Batman Beyond in Batman: Arkham City? Where does Robert Downey Jr. rank Iron Man 3 with the other films in the franchise? Will Thor 2 change Hollywood’s perception of blockbuster female directors? What news came out of the Smallville retrospective that screened at New York Comic Con?...
Superman Blu-Ray Anthology Offically Announced For US Release By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2011 3:09 pm EST A couple weeks ago UK listings for a Blu-ray anthology of all five existing Superman films were found, and we started to get info about what might be in the box set. Now Warner Bros. has confirmed the set for US release. Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology will be released on June 7, 2011 in an eight-disc set that contains all five films (Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, and Superman Returns) as well as alternate versions of the first two movies and a wealth of special features....
The Winners And Losers Of Sundance 2015 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2015 9:30 am EST They aren’t all winners, but the losers we’re going to highlight, for the most part, aren’t actually films or filmmakers. They’re other parts of the business that didn’t manage to come out on top this year. The Losers 35mm Projection There is no more 35mm projection at Sundance. The festival that launched several waves of independent filmmakers, several of whom are now standard-bearers in the fight to save the possibility of shooting and projecting on film, is now almost entirely digital....
This Week In Trailers: Ronaldo, The 17th Annual Animation Show Of Shows, Power Of Grayskull, Homesick For Chicago, Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 3, 2015 8:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...
This Week In Trailers: Where Soliders Come From, The Love We Make, The Weird World Of Blowfly, Un Monstre à Paris (A Monster In Paris), El Bulli: Cooking In Progress By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 3, 2011 10:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...
Thomas Lennon And Danny Trejo In Harold & Kumar 3; Final Title Seems To Be Undecided By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2010 7:08 pm EST Thanks be to the almighty press release to inform us of new casting info. Warner Bros. issued a release for the third Harold & Kumar film, which is shooting right now. (Little late on the draw for a ‘begins production’ release, but why quibble over details?)...
YouTube’s ‘Origin’ Series Is ‘Lost’ Meets ‘Event Horizon’, Watch The Trailer Now [Comic-Con 2018] By Jacob Hall/July 19, 2018 3:00 pm EST If Cobra Kai didn’t convince you to check out YouTube Premium, how about a new science fiction horror series that feels as if Event Horizon and Lost were genetically spliced together? And that Event Horizon comparison isn’t a throwaway reference, either – the first two episodes of Origin were directed by Paul W....
‘Castle Rock’: Even Stephen King Doesn’t Know What’s Up With This Stephen King Show By Ben Pearson/Jan. 2, 2018 2:00 pm EST Castle Rock, Hulu’s upcoming anthology series set in the multiverse of author Stephen King, has been shrouded in secrecy since it was announced. In fact, that shroud is so thick that even King himself has no clue what’s going on with the show. Read the latest Stephen King Castle Rock comments below, and learn everything we do know about the show thus far....
‘Doctor Who’ Comic-Con Panel Highlights [Comic-Con 2015] [UPDATED With Video] By Angie Han/July 11, 2015 11:03 am EST Doctor Who took Hall H by storm this year, welcoming Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi to Comic-Con for the very first time. “I’ve never been in front of 7,000 people in my life,” he remarked upon seeing the crowd. But it didn’t take him long to adjust. He and the other panelists — stars Jenna Coleman and Michelle Gomez, and showrunner Steven Moffat — quickly won over the Whovians who’d waited all day....
