VOTD: ‘Warcraft’ Movie Trailer Impressively Recreated In The Video Game By Ethan Anderton/May 16, 2016 8:00 am EST The jury is still out as to whether or not Moon director Duncan Jones will deliver a worthy adaptation of the popular video game Warcraft. While the visual effects look stunning, the movie looks like it could be a little too deep of a fantasy for the niche video game audience familiar with the title....
VOTD: Johnny Depp Surprises Disneyland Attendees As The Mad Hatter By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2016 6:00 am EST Looking to get some promotional mileage for Alice Through the Looking Glass, hitting theaters in a couple of weeks, Disney staged a pretty cool stunt at Disneyland in Anaheim, California involving Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter. Around the park there are plenty of advertisements for the forthcoming sequel, but one particular screen that was circulating through character posters was given a little modification....
VOTD: Supercut Assembles Some Of The Best Opening Shots Of All Time By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 3, 2015 6:30 am EST From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Wars to The Matrix to Lost in Translation, there’s quite a variety in this selection of 35 different opening shots from movies spanning decades. The oldest comes from 1915 while the most recent comes from 2013. Check out the video below! Here’s The Art of the Opening Shot (via The Playlist):...
Warner Bros. Will Turn Sci-Fi Short ‘Sundays’ Into A Feature By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2015 5:00 am EST Here we are again: a short film with heavy use of VFX has attracted the eyes of a studio, which has bought rights to turn it into a feature. The short, Sundays, is described by its creators as “an ambitious philosophical science-fiction proof-of-concept short.” It’s pretty, I guess, but it also looks like a pastiche of a bunch of other recognizable concepts stitched together with glossy CG....
‘Big Hero 6’ Directors Tease Marvel Easter Eggs And A Post-Credits Scene By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2014 6:00 am EST While lots of the early November movie buzz has been about Interstellar, definitely start looking forward to Big Hero 6. It’s an action-packed delight. A wonderful blend of superhero origin story and buddy movie with a big giant heart. In the film, Hiro and his brother’s robot Baymax, form a superhero team to try and stop a rising super-villain....
‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ Poster May Give John Carpenter Fans A Heart Attack By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2016 3:00 pm EST This past spring, the bonkers teaser trailer debuted for Tyler Perry’s return as the goofy old woman Madea. This time, we get another holiday themed outing in the form of Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween. The teaser trailer had Madea armed to the teeth and preparing to defend her house against some impending All Hallow’s Eve threats....
‘Daredevil’ Trailer: Daredevil And Kingpin Have A Lot In Common By Angie Han/March 10, 2015 8:29 am EST Finish up House of Cards, catch up on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and prepare to race through Bloodline. You’ll want your queue cleared up for next month, when Netflix opens up its own corner of the Marvel universe with Daredevil. Charlie Cox leads the superhero drama as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who depends on his other extraordinary senses to fight crime is a vigilante by night....
‘Keeping Up With The Joneses’ Set Visit: Jon Hamm Gets Silly With Zach Galifianakis By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2016 7:00 am EST Jon Hamm knows this. He’s voiced a character on the show, after all. And would you be shy if knew you were the living incarnation of TV’s greatest/most irritating spy? Probably not. “Lanaaaaaaa!” he bellows before anyone can ask him to do so. Given those two leads and the setup, this could be skewed as an action film, Mr....
‘The Lobster’ Trailer: Colin Farrell Doesn’t Want To Spend The Rest Of His Life As A Single Lobster By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2016 11:30 am EST We’ve got all kinds of romances at the cinema this year. Love is blossoming amid zombie apocalypses and inspiring superpowered vengeance and overcoming Nicholas Sparks-ian brushes with death. But when it comes to sheer weirdness, all of these love stories pale in comparison to Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, which is set in a world where singletons who can’t find a mate within 45 days are turned into an animal of their choosing....
‘The X-Files’ Returning For Limited Series Featuring Mulder And Scully By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2015 9:39 am EST Talk of a return for the series has intensified in recent months, especially in the wake of such TV continuations as 24’s revival, the upcoming Heroes Reborn, and news of the return of Twin Peaks, a series which directly paved the way for The X-Files. The exec said in a statement, Chris Carter said of the new episodes and the long period of time since the show went off the air,...
‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Trailer: A Bloody Funny Vampire Comedy By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2014 11:30 am EST Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark) play centuries-old vampires in the comedy What We Do in the Shadows, which they also wrote and directed. The film is akin to a Christopher Guest take on the vampires vs. werewolves conflict, but imbued with the humor that will be familiar to fans of Flight of the Conchords....
Colin Trevorrow Confirmed To Direct ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2015 12:15 pm EST The press release says: Today at D23, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn announced that writer-director Colin Trevorrow will direct Star Wars: Episode IX, which is set for release in 2019. Star Wars: Episode IX will conclude the third trilogy of Star Wars movies that begins with Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 18, 2015....
David Tennant Joins Marvel’s ‘AKA Jessica Jones’ As Villain By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2015 10:31 am EST The gregarious Tenth Doctor will be taking a dark turn in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. David Tennant is set to join Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series AKA Jessica Jones as Zebediah Killgrave, a villain with ties to Jessica Jones’ (Krysten Ritter) past. Hit the jump for more on the David Tennant AKA Jessica Jones casting....
Jon Stewart Heads To HBO With New Four-Year Deal By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2015 4:00 pm EST After leaving behind The Daily Show at Comedy Central earlier this year, Jon Stewart has found a new home at HBO with a four-year deal that will have him creating a variety of entertainment for the cable network. Stewart will begin working at HBO by creating some short-form digital content that will be showcased on HBO Now, HBO Go and some other platforms....
New ‘Furious 7’ Trailer Has Pretty Much Everything By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2015 10:25 pm EST If the Super Bowl spot wasn’t enough for you, here’s a new Furious 7 trailer. This trailer, which runs nearly three minutes, has just about everything. First up, the late Paul Walker is front and center, which begs the question of how long-time fans will be able to watch this sequel and not break down at least a little bit....
New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Adds ‘Wrath Of Khan’ Director As Writer And Consulting Producer By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 27, 2016 11:00 am EST This month already brought great news for the developing Star Trek TV series situated at CBS when Pushing Daisies and Hannibal writer and executive producer Bryan Fuller was brought on as showrunner. And now the show has gotten even more promising with the addition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer coming on board the show as a writer and consulting producer....
Scarlett Johansson To Lead ‘Ghost In The Shell’ By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2015 9:30 am EST Scarlett Johansson is following up Her and Lucy with another high-tech role. She’s set to star in Ghost in the Shell, Rupert Sanders’ adaptation of the classic manga by Masamune Shirow. Get the details on the Ghost in the Shell Scarlett Johansson casting after the jump. Johansson was offered $10 million to lead Ghost in the Shell back in October, after Margot Robbie bailed to do Suicide Squad....
See A Poster For Mel Gibson’s First Directorial Effort In Almost A Decade By Jack Giroux/July 1, 2016 4:30 pm EST Mel Gibson hasn’t directed a feature film since 2006’s Apocalypto. The somewhat dated digital photography aside, that thrilling and brutal chase movie is arguably his best picture as a director (the film’s biggest fan, Robert Duval, likely agrees), but it’s far from his most successful, once you compare it to Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ’s box-office numbers....
See How ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ Visual Effects Were Created By Ethan Anderton/June 1, 2015 5:00 am EST One of the best films of the new century is undoubtedly Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s an innovative, beautiful, mesmerizing, heartbreaking and simultaneously uplifting romance. The Charlie Kaufman scripted, Michel Gondry directed film is one of my five favorites of all time, and I’ve explored and read about every facet of the film....
That Evil Nun From ‘The Conjuring 2’ Is Getting Her Own ‘Annabelle’-Style Spin-Off By Jacob Hall/June 15, 2016 3:30 pm EST The Conjuring 2 is one of the best horror sequels ever made, which is a brazen statement that I backed up with a couple thousand words earlier this week. It’s not quite as good as The Conjuring, but that film is one of the best horror movies of the millennium so far and the sequel is just a fantastic time at the movies....
