Tyrese Gibson Really Wants To Be ‘Green Lantern’ By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2015 11:00 am EST Some actors play coy or stay vague about the roles they hope to win, but not Tyrese Gibson. The Furious 7 star really, really wants to play Green Lantern in Warner Bros.’ DC franchise, and he’s very eager to let the world know it. Gibson has started posting pictures of himself as the superhero, including several pieces of fan art....
VOTD: Check Out Writer Bob Gale’s Incredible ‘Back To The Future’ Prop Collection By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2015 5:00 am EST Here’s Bob Gale’s Back to the Future prop collection from Beyond the Marquee: As you can see in the video, Gale has the flux capacitor, the device which makes time travel, sparked by a vision had by Doc Brown when he slipped and fell in the bathroom and hit his head....
VOTD: Revisit Steven Spielberg’s ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’ In This Visual Study By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2015 5:00 am EST While some movies are immediately beloved and acclaimed, destined to be one of the films we talk about every year for decades, others come and go without much pomp and circumstance. One of those movies seems to have been A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the former Stanley Kubrick project that was completed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2001....
Watch ‘Kung Fury,’ The Most Insane Half Hour Of 2015 By Russ Fischer/May 29, 2015 10:00 am EST If you can’t wait for the opening of Jurassic World to see dinosaurs used to their full potential in a movie, you’re in luck — there’s a free movie full of kung-fu madness, Nazis, cheap ’80s animation, Norse gods, and, yeah, dinosaurs, that you can watch for free right now. Kung Fury, featuring a cop who hacks time to fight Hitler, has exploded onto the internet, and the half-hour nuke blast of action comedy is embedded in full below....
What ‘The Revenant’ Was Originally About By Jack Giroux/Dec. 18, 2015 4:30 pm EST On the surface, The Revenant is a revenge film. Co-writer Mark L. Smith and co-writer/director Alejandro Iñárritu weren’t particularly interested in the revenge element, though. To them, The Revenant is about much more than that — a spiritual journey through what’s both heaven and hell. After the jump, Smith shares what the original driving force of The Revenant was....
Will Smith And David Ayer’s Orc Cop Thriller ‘Bright’ Coming To Netflix By Angie Han/March 10, 2016 7:16 am EST Netflix is still relatively new to film distribution, but they’re already making a lot of noise. After scooping up what feels like half of this year’s Sundance lineup, the company has set its sights on David Ayer’s Bright, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Described as a mash-up of Alien Nation and Ayer’s own End of Watch, the cop thriller unfolds in a world where orcs(!...
‘Agent Carter’ And ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Renewed, But ‘SHIELD’ Spin-Off Is DOA By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2015 5:00 am EST ABC likes Marvel’s agents — well, most of them — and the network will give each of the two ABC Marvel shows a new season. So: Agent Carter renewed? Check. Agents of SHIELD renewed? Check. The proposed spin-off from Agents of SHIELD greenlit? Well, no. That one has been slapped down like a weak Hydra agent....
‘Avatar’ Villain Stephen Lang Campaigning To Play Cable In ‘Deadpool 2’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2016 11:00 am EST Thankfully, Deadpool is exceeding expectations at the box office, landing a record February box office haul of $135 million for the Presidents’ Day weekend and has been very well received by critics and audiences alike. So it sounds like Deadpool 2 is a forgone conclusion, and one actor is already campaigning for a pivotal role that was teased in the scene after the credits of the movie....
‘Baywatch’ Female Lead Goes To Alexandra Daddario [UPDATED] By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2015 8:45 am EST UPDATE: Deadline reports today that Daddario has won the female lead role of Summer, a lifeguard and love interest to Zac Efron’s character. Original story from November 9, 2015 follows. After setting Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron for the male leads over the summer, Paramount’s Baywatch reboot dove deep into the casting pool to find a female lead....
‘Deadpool’ Super Bowl Spot Pokes Fun At Football Players By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2016 3:20 pm EST There’s just under a week to go until Deadpool hits theaters, and that’s enough time for one last, big marketing push from 20th Century Fox. Star Ryan Reynolds and his colleagues were reportedly all over the Bay Area this weekend, handing out chimichangas and taking over a local bar, and their big weekend culminated today in an appropriately irreverent Deadpool Super Bowl spot....
‘Spearhunter’ Trailer: Are These Guys The Ultimate Hunters? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2015 6:00 am EST One of the chief appeals of documentary film is the ability any given film has to pull you into a subculture that would otherwise be off-limits. Here’s Spearhunter, which follows some people you probably wouldn’t even guess existed: a set of men in Alabama who hunt wild boar with spears. In particular it investigates one guy who proclaimed himself the greatest spear hunter, and created a museum dedicated to the art of spear hunting....
‘Spectre’ Teaser Trailer: James Bond Harbors A Dark Secret [Updated With New Images] By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2015 4:44 pm EST Here’s the first Spectre trailer! Daniel Craig returns to play James Bond a fourth time, and behind the camera is Sam Mendes, who returns as director after Skyfall. But most important may be the return of SPECTRE, the villainous organization which has menaced Bond in the past in the pages of Ian Fleming’s novels, and on the big screen....
‘Suicide Squad’ Picks Up Jay Hernandez By Angie Han/Feb. 19, 2015 7:28 am EST Should Hernandez close his deal, he’ll be part of a starry cast that also includes Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg, and Jared Leto as the Joker. In addition, Viola Davis is in negotiations to play Amanda Waller and Jesse Eisenberg is in talks to reprise his Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice role as Lex Luthor....
‘The Maze Runner 3’ Story Picks Up One Year After ‘The Scorch Trials’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2015 10:30 am EST In just over a couple weeks, the sequel Maze Runner: Scorch Trials hits theaters, picking up exactly where the first film left off with Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the surviving members of the Gladers escaping the maze and being escorted to “safety” in a helicopter. However, when it comes to the second film leading into The Maze Runner 3, it won’t be the same kind of transition....
‘The Ridiculous 6’ Trailer: Adam Sandler Rides Into Netflix’s Original Movie Slate By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2015 9:30 am EST Netflix is following up the apparent success of its first-ever prestige picture, Cary Fukunaga’s harrowing wartime drama Beasts of No Nation, with something completely different. And we mean completely. The company has just dropped the first trailer for The Ridiculous 6, a Western comedy starring Adam Sandler. Watch the Ridiculous 6 trailer after the jump....
‘The Walk’ IMAX Trailer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Walks The Twin Towers By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2015 8:30 am EST Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk is the kind of movie that demands to be seen in IMAX 3D, or at least the kind of movie Sony would like you to think demands to be seen in IMAX 3D. So the studio has just issued a nearly five-minute IMAX trailer to convince you that those pesky surcharges will be totally worth it....
‘The Wolfpack’ Subjects Recreate Favorite ’90s Films By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2015 5:00 am EST We liked the documentary The Wolfpack at Sundance this year — directed by Crystal Moselle, the film focuses on six brothers who spent their lives leaving their Lower East Side apartment only a couple times a year. Inside the flat, they obsessively watched movies, and eventually recreated their favorite films for their own amusement. The film captures some of these recreations on video, and they are startlingly good....
Average Movie Ticket Price Hits All-Time High In U.S. (And We Have ‘Star Wars’ To Blame) By Angie Han/Jan. 25, 2016 6:00 am EST The National Association of Theater Owners (via TheWrap) reports that the average price of admission in American cinemas reached a record high of $8.70 in the fourth quarter of 2015. That’s about a 5% increase over the same period last year, when tickets cost an average of $8....
By Jacob Hall/April 6, 2016 12:00 pm EST Rockwell, who played walking, whining redshirt Guy Fleegman in Dean Parisot’s film, recently appeared on the Nerdist podcast (via ScreenCrush) and revealed this news: The original Galaxy Quest followed a group of washed-up actors, famous only for their roles on a ’70s science fiction television series, who get pulled into an actual interstellar way between two alien races. On the surface, it was a parody of Star Trek and Star Trek fandom, but in execution, it was a brilliantly executed blend of actual science fiction and character-driven comedy....
Cool Stuff: In Service Of Monsters: A Guillermo Del Toro Art Show Tribute By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2015 3:30 pm EST This Friday night, Gallery 1988 (West) is presenting In Service of Monsters, a group art show in tribute to the films of Guillermo Del Toro’s films: Cronos, Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II. Hellboy, Pan’s Labrinth, Hellboy II, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. The art show is curated by Chogrin and Gary Deocampo, and will feature work by dozens of artists reinterpreting del Toro’s films in their own unique styles....
