TIFF 2019: Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit Makes the Heart Leap
There’s a reason Taika Waititi has become, to film lovers at least, a household name. For longtime followers, his genius hasbeen evident for years. From What We Do in the Shadows (2014) to Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Waititi’s unique blend of comedy, compassion, and fearlessness has been apparent in spades. Once he deployed his ...
Ad Astra‘s Second Trailer Reveals Brad Pitt’s Epic Sci-Fi Drama
Writer/director James Gray is a man who makes very good films, and he takes his time on each one. Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013) and The Lost City of Z (2016) couldn’t have been more different from one another, yet each bore the mark of Gray’s meticulous craft. With Ad Astra, which he co-wrote with Ethan Gross, Gray has ...
How Avengers 4 Could Resurrect Characters Without the Time Stone
Defeating Thanos will be the biggest goal of Avengers 4, but is there still hope to somehow revive all the heroes and civilians he demolished? VFX supervisor Dan DeLeeuw previously said that the Power Stone was the one that turned half the population to dust at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. So which stone ...
Watch This Spoiler Filled, Freewheeling Conversation With Avengers: Infinity War‘s Screenwriters
If you’ve somehow still not seen Avengers: Infinity War, the title of this piece tells you that you do not belong here. For the rest of you, this 45-minute interview Collider conducted with Infinity War screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will likely answer a ton of your questions, as well as ones you never thought to ...
The Definitive Guide to the Guardians‘ Rap Sheets
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve, but the Guardians of the Galaxy wear their crimes on their pants. Reddit users recently picked up on an Easter egg that was so brilliant and harbored so much detail that director James Gunn joined in to comment. He even took time away from finishing a draft of ...
Sad Porg, Gross Milk—This is Star Wars: The Last Jedi Post You’re Looking For
From the world of Star Wars creatures come two highlights from Disney featuring the most adorable—and most repulsive—moments in The Last Jedi. First up, if it’s cute and it’s in The Last Jedi, it must be porgs (although those crystal foxes were pretty darn precious, too). For months we fawned over the adorable screaming porg ...
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 ...
Disney’s The Jungle Book Triptych Poster
Walt Disney Pictures all-new live-action/CGI remake of their classic, The Jungle Book will be swinging into theaters in RealD 3D and IMAX® 3D on April 15, 2016. A gorgeous new triptych poster for The Jungle Book has been released by IGN. The first two panels were revealed individually on Tuesday and Wednesday, but now we get to ...
The First Captain America: Civil War Trailer is a Superhero Brawl
The first trailer for Captain America: Civil War debuted during Jimmy Kimmel last night (in the midst of his Star Wars week, giving Disney a nice one-two marketing punch) and it begins exactly where the teaser during Ant-Man's credit sequence left us, with Cap (Chris Evans) and Falcon (Anthony Mackie) interrogating the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). Only it quickly escalates into a ...
Check out Pixar’s New Finding Dory Trailer & Poster
When Finding Nemo came out in 2003, it just about became nearly everyone’s new favorite animated film of all time. Nemo won the 2003 Academy Award® for best animated feature, and was nominated for three additional Oscars—original screenplay, original score, and sound editing. People loved the film, loved little Nemo, and most of all, it turned out, loooved a little forgetful blue tang ...
The Best Quotes From Wired‘s Interview With J.J. Abrams
Wired sent it’s reporter Scott Dadich to the offices of J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot production facility to interview the secretive writer/director about taking on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You should definitely check out the full interview here. We also cherry picked our favorite quotes from the interview, provided below. On working with co-writer and ...
Incredible New Footage in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Japanese Trailer
The very first shot in the Japanese version of the Stars Wars: Force Awakens trailer is one we've never seen, and it's a breathtaking measure of scale. There's Rey, standing in the desert of Jakku looking into one of the engines of a downed Starship, and she is a tiny, tiny thing. This version of the trailer offers more ...
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 ...
Disney Releases 2 Alice Through the Looking Glass Teasers
This past weekend Disney released the first of two teasers for director James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass. What we know: Mia Wasikowska returns as Alice Kinsleigh, Johnny Depp’s back as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonhan Carter returns as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway will play the White Queen again. There’s also word that Sacha Baron ...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Director J.J. Abrams Finally Answers a Bunch of Questions
Okay sort of. Abrams was part of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in which big, bold names in business, entertainment, technology and politics gathered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to chat about, well, nearly everything. Tesla Motor's Elon Musk, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Girls creator Lena Dunham, former ESPN writer and Grantland found Bill ...
Watch Inside Out Characters React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
It's cross promotion at it's most obvious, and, frankly, finest—Disney-owned Pixar's Inside Out characters react to Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. Now that Inside Out is out on Digital HD, with it's DVD and Blu-ray coming next Tuesday, November 3, it makes sense they'd remind viewers about this highly original film by linking it to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ...
Check Out These New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Images
We were waiting for Disney and Lucasfilm to drop some hi-resolution images on us from the latest, and last, Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, and they've obliged. These new images allow for much clearer scrutiny for you obsessive Star heads (apologies), although they likely won't sate your appetite completely. Considering the film doesn't premiere until December 18, one ...
Thoughts After Repeated Viewings of Final Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer
Now that we’ve had nearly 12 hours to digest the 2:36 worth of new footage in the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, we can start to put some of the pieces together. First, the trailer again, so you can go through it with us point-by-speculative-point: The events of the original Star Wars trilogy ...
Long Held Rumors and Myths Surrounding Aladdin Finally Answered
Here’s a scoop for Disney Aladdin fans. To promote the release of the Aladdin: Diamond Edition (Blue-ray/DVD/Digital), Ron Clements and John Musker, directors of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules sat down with E! News!, answering questions and debunking myths. Musker discussed how the location of Aladdin came to be called Agrabah – It was ...
