Talking to Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach About Trumbo
Blacklisted in 1950s Hollywood for having been a member of the Communist Party, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo continued to do what he did best: write scripts. He just couldn't do that under his own name, even when he penned two Oscar-winning movies, Roman Holiday and The Brave One. This period in the writer's life is the ...
Around the Web: Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Force Awakens Chronology & More
The gang at iO9 is very bullish on Starz’s Ash vs. The Evil Dead, and we can see why. The official synopsis for the show is as follows: "Ash (Bruce Campbell), the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the ...
A New Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
One of the films we're really looking forward to this December is Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. After a tortured production process (in that his first script was leaked), Tarantino's film is ready to see the light of day, and this new trailer gives all you Tarantino fans plenty of reasons to be excited. With his muse, Samuel L. ...
Here’s the First Trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass
The first trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass is here, and it sets the stage nicely for what Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is up against—Time itself. That's Time with a capitol 'T,' played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who is central to the sequel's storyline and is part human, part clock. Time happens to be the Mad Hatter's father ...
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Posters Revealed
Well, you had to know that the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer wasn't going to be the very last thing released before the December 18 premiere, right? These five new character posters, three of which were shared on Instagram by the film's stars, all share a common theme—the right eye of the character is covered (or ...
1st Look of Eddie Redmayne in Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
His name is Newt Scamander, and he's a wizard. He's also being played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redymane in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to her epic Harry Potter series. Redmayne's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's upcoming issue, which gets a first look at his 1920s era wizard and some very intriguing ...
Ryan Reynolds Shares Slightly Insane Deadpool Halloween Video
One of the things Ryan Reynolds got keep after he finished filming Deadpool was his title character's signature black and red costume. He put it to good use this past Saturday night, when he went out on Halloween dressed as 'The Merc with the Mouth' and, summoning a collection of X-Men, suggested they all join forces and become a team. ...
The Real Moby-Dick Goes Berserk in Final In the Heart of the Sea Trailer
Ron Howard's In The Heart of the Sea comes out on December 11, which couldn't be soon enough for us. Based on the real voyage of the whaleship The Essex in 1820, which inspired one of the greatest novels of all time, Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," In the Heart of the Sea promises to show not only the epic battle ...
Watch This New Girls Teaser and Get Excited About Season 5
The trials, tribulations and humiliations of Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her closest friends will continue in season five of Dunham's brilliant Girls. In 25 seconds, the new teaser packs a lot of funny into a small package—the package in this case being Hannah's body, as she dances 'as if no one's watching' in a class that includes at ...
Trouble in Paradise: New Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea
Talk about a massive shift from one film to the next—Angelina Jolie's third feature as a director, the experimental By the Sea, follows her adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's nonfiction bestseller Unbroken. From the WWII set Unbroken, which followed the incredible true story of Olympian, soldier and eventual POW Louis Zamperini, Jolie's tackled a dark, emotionally volatile story about the dissolution of a ...
Can Patrick Schwarzenegger Top Dad in Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse?
Having had its release pushed back a week, to October 30th, Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse opens just in time to be a gore-filled romp for everyone too old to trick-or-treat (which should be most of the film’s audience, since Scout’s Guide was raunchy enough to get an R rating). The movie features three ...
Empire Magazine Reveals Enchantress Suicide Squad Cover
Empire Magazine has different covers for their big Suicide Squad feature that will hit newsstands tomorrow. Some of the psychos, killers and freaks who grace Empire's covers are The Joker (Jared Leto), Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margo Robbie) and the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne). While director David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day) told Empire that Harley Quinn's efforts to ...
Are you Prepared for an Adam Sandler Western? Watch The Ridiculous Six Trailer
You've got Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight due in December, and a remake of John Sturges’ iconic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven (itself based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai), directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt due out next September. And in case you weren't aware, you've also got Adam Sandler's The Ridiculous Six, co-written by Sandler and Tim ...
Watch the Worst Take-Out Order of all Time in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In tonight's episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is marooned on an alien planet, but unlike Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in The Martian, Simmons can't grow her food, she's got to kill it. In season two, Simmons was sucked into the Kree monolith after agreeing to go on a date with Fitz (Iain De ...
Third Annual Middleburg Film Festival Draws Deep Roster of Talent
In it's third year, the Middleburg Film Festival is becoming a vibrant late festival season stop for filmmakers and film enthusiasts alike. Middleburg is in Virginia's horse country, and its beauty can hardly be improved upon in late October, but as much as a draw as the setting is, the festival itself, created by BET co-founder ...
The Incredible Link Between Helena Bonham Carter & Suffragette Villain
In Sarah Gavron’s film Suffragette, about the fight to gain votes for women in Edwardian England, the Prime Minister, Lord Herbert Asquith, opposes women’s suffrage and, on this issue, falls squarely on the wrong side of history. When it came time to cast the film, which stars Carey Mulligan, Gavron had Helena Bonham Carter at ...
New Joker Photos from Suicide Squad
Empire Magazine's upcoming story on Suicide Squad comes complete with photos from the set, and, this colorful cover image of the craziest super villain of them all, the Joker (Jared Leto). What you probably already know is that Suicide Squad follows a host of bad guys following their conditional release from their various maximum security dungeon-cells so they can join ...
Watch Daisy Ridley & BB-8 React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
We have been trying to take a breather from Star Wars: The Force Awakens tidbits considering the release of the final trailer and everything surrounding it (the pre-ticket sales, the IMAX screening locations, the new images) pretty much dominated last week. But then we saw BB-8 watching the trailer in bed and threw all that out the ...
Jem vs. Jem: Eighties Relic Hits 21st Century in new Jem and the Holograms
Opening on Friday is director Jon M. Chu’s mildly more believable, live action version of the 80s classic cartoon Jem and the Holograms. The original Hannah Montana, before Miley Cyrus was even a twinkle in Billy Ray’s eye, cartoon Jem was a regular girl in disguise as a rock star, a feat made possible by ...
Trailer for Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, Oh My
“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of singing, dancing and the art of war.” When you think of Jane Austen you think of the landed English gentry of the 19th century, women dancing in long Empire-waisted dresses gossiping and plotting, and English class. If we were to play a word association game what would ...