‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Music: Who Composed It? Watch A Music-Only Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2015 10:30 am EST If you’re anything like me, you’re watched and rewatched the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer more times than you care to admit. You may have even broken down the trailer, shot by shot to see what secrets were hidden in each frame (oh, was that only me?...
‘The Alchemist’s Letter’ Short Film Trailer: John Hurt Has Built A Glorious Machine By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2015 5:00 pm EST The Alchemist’s Letter is a new short film from animator Carlos Andre Stevens, based at Laika’s commercial subdivision, Laika/house. While Laika is known primarily as a stop-motion animation company, Laika/house did a variety of work, and this is a CG short (reportedly Laika/house’s last) featuring the voices of John Hurt and Eloise Webb....
‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Enlists Steve Zahn By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2015 2:30 pm EST War for the Planet of the Apes has enlisted two new human characters in recent months, to be played by Woody Harrelson and Gabriel Chavarria. So it seems only fair to bring another ape in as well. Steve Zahn has boarded the next installment of the sci-fi franchise as an ape, joining Andy Serkis as Caesar....
Bryan Singer And Sam Mendes Taking A Break From X-Men And Bond By Angie Han/May 31, 2016 4:00 pm EST Blockbuster franchises can do great things for a filmmaker’s career, but most of them don’t want to remain stuck churning out sequels for the rest of their careers. Case in point: After four X-Men movies, Bryan Singer is ready to step away from the X-universe for a little while. “I’d like to do something different,” he said, while adding that he could still return in the future....
First ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Clip: Rey And Finn Run Away From Spoilers… And Probably TIE Fighters By Jacob Hall/Nov. 23, 2015 7:30 am EST For over a thousand days, J.J. Abrams was the guardian of spoilers and plot details in the newly revived Star Wars universe. Before the TV spots. Before the Disney marketing department. After literally years of tight-lipped secrecy, the past few weeks have seen an explosion of new footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens....
Reese Witherspoon Developing A Movie About The Inception Of Barbie By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2015 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s already a live-action Barbie movie in development at Sony Pictures with a script from Jenny Bicks (What A Girl Wants, Rio 2), rewritten by Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult), and slated for release on June 2nd, 2017. But now a movie about Barbie’s origins is in the works, focusing on how the creator came up with the idea for the iconic doll....
Rumor: Warner Bros. Approaches Christopher Nolan For ‘Ready Player One’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2014 9:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Recently, we reported that Penn’s script had been turned into the studio. If they like it, the timing is right to go out to directors. However, you have to think that Warner Bros. offers Nolan every single movie they have. If he wanted to direct Justice League, Wonder Woman, another Batman movie or The Hobbit, he could....
Superhero Bits: Deadpool 2 Production Start, Vixen Casting, Alternate Apocalypse Design & More By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2016 4:30 pm EST Want to see some superior, alternate designs for the title villain in X-Men: Apocalypse? When will Deadpool 2 start shooting if all goes well? Who will play the new Vixen in the second season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? What does Kevin Conroy have to say about the animated Batman: The Killing Joke movie....
Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Jessica Jones Wants To Team With Iron Man, Black Panther Not A Superhero? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 24, 2016 4:30 pm EST The next episode of The Flash won’t be until March 22nd, but here’s a promo for the episode. Spider-Man is said to form a strong bond with a certain Avengers in Captain America: Civil War. But who? Elektra takes to the rooftops in a new motion promo for the second season of Daredevil....
Video: Get A Much Closer Look At The Lexus Hoverboard In Action By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2015 2:00 pm EST Back in June, fans were cautiously optimistic about Lexus introducing a new device called Slide, which they purported to be a working hoverboard, just in time to meet the deadline set in place by Back to the Future Part II. At the time we didn’t know how legitimate this project was, but now we have a much closer look at the very real hoverboard, and it’s pretty slick....
‘Crimson Peak’ Clip And Features: Guillermo Del Toro’s Latest Is Fabulous Designer Porn By Jack Giroux/Oct. 6, 2015 3:00 pm EST We’re a week and a half away from the opening of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak. The buzz is strong for the director’s horror-romance, but it’s still a financial gamble. Del Toro’s film is an original, R-rated period piece, which are never a sure thing at the box-office. Then again, there’s nothing else quite like Crimson Peak coming out anytime soon, so maybe that’ll be enough to draw general audiences in....
‘Good Kill’ Trailer: Ethan Hawke Goes To War For Andrew Niccol By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2015 9:30 am EST A decade after Lord of War and nearly two decades after Gattaca, Andrew Niccol and Ethan Hawke have joined forces again for Good Kill. Hawke leads the drama as a military pilot at war, but the twist is that he’s fighting this particular war from home — he’s a drone pilot stationed in Las Vegas while controlling machines halfway around the world....
‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’ Trailer: Sam Neill And A Chubby Kid Are Quite The Outlaws By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 2016 6:30 am EST One of the hit premieres out of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival this year was New Zealand’s comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople. The film comes from What We Do in the Shadows director Taika Waititi, who is preparing to make the jump to big budget filmmaking with Thor: Ragnarok at Marvel Studios, and his latest film proves why he’s one of the best and brightest filmmakers working today....
‘Iris’ Trailer: Albert Maysles’ Final Documentary By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2015 9:00 am EST The passing of pioneering documentary Albert Maysles isn’t a good way to bring attention to his final film, but we’re happy knowing that we get to see one last effort from he master filmmaker. Iris is a doc nominally about Iris Apfel, the 94-year old designer and fashion icon, with the film primarily focused on the Met exhibition that celebrated her career in 2006....
‘Lego Star Wars’ Series Will Re-Tell Stories Of The First Six Films By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2015 10:30 am EST One of the original conceits behind Star Wars was that the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 were the characters that tied everything together, and through whose “eyes” the stories were told. That’s not quite how it worked out, because the human characters turned out to be a lot more interesting. But the droids were always around, and now they’ll really take center stage in a Disney XD series called Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales....
‘Spring’ Trailer: “I Don’t Think You’re Ready For Where This Is Going” By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2015 2:45 pm EST Spring was one of the movies that had the most people talking at Fantastic Fest last year, and it was the one I was most bummed to miss. It comes from writer/directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who previously made the intense and unsettling film Resolution, and features Lou Taylor Pucci as an American backpacker who meets a beguiling young woman (Nadia Hilker) in Italy… and then discovers that she has secrets that set her apart from every other girl he’s ever met....
‘The Magnificent Seven’ Trailer: You Gotta Hate What You’re Firing At By Ethan Anderton/July 18, 2016 7:00 am EST Even though the blockbuster summer will be over in just a few weeks, that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of excitement yet to come this fall. In fact, the arrival of the forthcoming remake of The Magnificent Seven looks just as good if not better than some of the best releases this summer has seen....
‘Wolverine 3’ Producer Confirms R-Rating, Future Setting, Your Wildest Fantasies, Etc. By Jacob Hall/May 9, 2016 11:30 am EST A few months ago, it was rumored that The Wolverine 3 would be shooting for an R rating. But not because of the success of Deadpool. No sir. It definitely has nothing to do with that film skyrocketing to the top of the superhero heap, becoming the highest-grossing X-Men movie and trampling the likes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice at the domestic box office....
Aaron Sorkin Is Bringing ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ To Broadway By Jacob Hall/Feb. 10, 2016 11:30 am EST Aaron Sorkin’s tremendous screenplay for Steve Jobs may have been snubbed at the 2016 Academy Awards, but the acclaimed screenwriter and playwright isn’t taking any time to lick his wounds. While Sorkin will not visit the Oscar stage this year, he will be returning to Broadway for a new stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird that is set to debut in 2017....
Chevrolet Unveils A Lame ‘TRON’ Inspired Car At The Beijing Auto Show By Ethan Anderton/May 3, 2016 5:00 am EST Arriving about six years too late for a successful cross promotion with the sequel TRON Legacy, the automobile manufacturer Chevrolet just unveiled a new version of their signature Cruze sedan. However, this version of the car is inspired by the aesthetics of the world of TRON. The Chevy TRON car was unveiled at the Beijing auto show last week....
