Super Bowl 50: Captain America: Civil War Spot
Have you tried tweeting #TeamIronMan or #TeamCap yet? If not, give it a try and see what happens, it's sort of adorable. Anyway, during last night's Super Bowl, Captain America: Civil War dropped some new footage on us, a brief, potent teaser that made the stakes as clear and stark as ever. The battle between Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) ...
Super Bowl 50: Independence Day: Resurgence Trailer
It was 20 years ago when Independence Day first blew up the White House in one of the most iconic Super Bowl spots of all time, so it was fitting, if predictable, that 20th Century Fox dropped Independence Day: Resurgence during last night's Super Bowl and once again destroyed much of America. The aliens are back in what ...
New Ghostbusters Images Show Melissa McCarthy & Gang in Civilian Clothes
Director Paul Feig has been Tweeting a steady stream of images from his upcoming Ghostbusters, which, in case you've been marooned in space and haven't heard, follows the exploits of four female ghostbusters, recasting the roles made famous by Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson with some of the funniest women around. Everyone with a ...
The New International Trailer for Gods of Egypt is Deliciously Over the Top
Director Alex Proyas's Gods of Egypt is one of those films that seems to revel in its' own absurdity. And we don't mean that pejoratively. Proyas is an ambitious director, as his work on Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing proves. The man clearly loves the weird and wild side of storytelling, and has infused his sci-fi narratives with ...
HBO’s Animals Trailer Reveals a new Breed of Comedy
The Duplass Brothers, Mark and Jay, are on fire. The second season of Togetherness, the brothers’ hit couples-centric dramedy (drama-comedy) television series for HBO, will premiere on February 21 – starring Mark. Jay can be seen in the critically acclaimed, Emmy nominated Amazon Prime Original comedy-drama series, Transparent. Last week their “Duplass Brothers Production” released the ...
Boba Fett! Code Names! The Rogue One Rumor Mill is Alive & Well
What you already know about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the next addition in Disney's Star Wars canon, is probably pretty limited. You know it's the first film in Disney's upcoming release schedule that's not a part of the Skywalker saga trilogy, to which The Force Awakens was the first, and you know it's about the band of rebels who stole the plans for the Death ...
Watch the new Batman v Superman International Trailer
With the premiere date drawing ever closer (March 25, folks), Warner Bros. Pictures has been releasing a slew of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailers and TV spots. The latest is a new international trailer, which keeps the dialogue to a minimum and the mayhem at full throttle. By now you know that the premise ...
Watch This Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Featurette
"The job we have to do is to make it seem natural and kind have to ignore your own sense of wonder watching it," says actress Katherine Waterston about her work in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The highly secretive and hugely exciting project is the first screenplay penned by J.K. Rowling herself, and will ...
Spotlight Wins SAG Award, Shaking up Oscars Race
You can consider the Oscars race officially shaken up. The Screen Actors Guild handed out their awards to their fellow members, and your big award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture went to Spotlight, bucking the recent rise of The Revenant, the big winner at the Globes, and The Big Short, the big winner at the Producers Guild Awards. All of these are ...
Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation Sweeps Top Two Prizes at Sundance
Nate Parker is, officially now, your king of Sundance, 2016. The festival's a wrap, and this past Saturday night, the awards for feature filmmaking were given, including the two biggest, The Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. As was evident from the standing ovation writer, director, producer and star Parker received before his The Birth of a Nation even ...
The Real Effects Used to Simulate the Raging Sea in The Finest Hours
The Finest Hours tells the incredible true story of a daring rescue mission conducted by a handful of men from the Chatham, Massachusetts, Coast Guard when a huge storm struck New England on February 8, 1952. The storm ripped two 500-foot oil tankers in half, leaving their crews stranded at sea. Despite hurricane-force winds and ...
Sundance 2016: Review Roundup, Part IV
Welcome back. You’ve already read parts I, II and III of our Sundance film review roundup. Let's begin with Whit Stillman's Jane Austen adaptation, Love & Friendship. While you might be thinking, another Austen adaptation, keep in mind Stillman is the man who brought you Metropolitan and Last Days of Disco, and is uniquely suited to bring out Austen's biting humor, which she has in ...
Sundance 2016: Review Roundup, Part III
We’re back with part III of our Sundance film review roundup. You can read parts I and II to catch up on all the films we've looked at thus far. “Meet the She-Wolves of Wall Street,” writes Variety’s Guy Lodge about Meera Menon’s sophomore feature, Equity. Menon’s “refreshingly female-skewed financial thriller proves that the women ...
Watch The Birth of a Nation‘s Nate Parker’s Potent Short Film
This is the power of the Sundance Film Festival, it can turn a talented artist like Nate Parker into a sensation over night. As the undisputed King of Sundance this year with The Birth of a Nation, a film Parker wrote, directed, and starred in—after nurturing the project for 7 years and using $100,000 of his own ...
Sundance 2016: Nate Parker’s Huge Night & More
We wrote yesterday about the rapturous response to Nate Parker’s Sundance-shaking Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation. Today, reports are flooding in that the whopping, festival record-setting $17.5 million offer the film got from Fox Searchlight was actually less than what Netflix was willing to part with. THR reports that writer, director and ...
Actor Alex Jennings On The Lady in the Van, his New Netflix Show & More
Alex Jennings is no stranger to playing real-life characters on stage or on screen. He was Prince Charles in Stephen Frears’s 2006 movie The Queen with Helen Mirren and is playing The Duke of Windsor in Peter Morgan’s upcoming 10-episode series The Crown for Netflix — a role that just might make this longtime star ...
Sundance 2016: A Roundup of Reviews, Part II
Let’s take a look at what the critics are saying about some of the films that have premiered at Sundance. The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker and Tony Espinosa in 'The Birth of a Nation.' Photo by Elliot Davis. Courtesy Sundance Film Festival. Earlier today, we took a look at Nate Parker’s The Birth of ...
Sundance 2016: Fox Searchlight Nabs Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation
Nate Parker, writer, director, and star of The Birth of a Nation's seven year commitment to his labor of love has paid off in a distribution deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures, The Wrap reports. Parker's epic is currently the talk of Sundance. The Hollywood Reporter Rebecca Ford writes that Parker’s film earned a rapturous standing ovation at its' premiere in Eccles theater ...
Sundance 2016: A Film Review Roundup
Earlier we looked at some of the films that have premiered at Sundance that have found homes in a variety of studios, from IFC to Amazon. Now let's take a look at some of the films reviews coming out of the festival this year, perhaps gleaning what will be next on the bidding block. Vulture's Bilge Ebiri ...
Sundance 2016: Complete Unknown, Morris From America & More are Sold
As the first major film festival of the year, and arguably one of the most important on the ever expanding festival circuit, the Sundance Film Festival is something of a taste maker. Studios small and large vie for the distribution rights of a number of films, while unknown talents can, in a single Park City night, ...
