Video: How To Make A Lego Oscar [UPDATE: Vote To Make The Lego Oscar Set A Reality] By Angie Han/Feb. 24, 2015 1:52 pm EST Update: The Lego Oscar is now open to votes at the Lego Ideas site. Click here to learn more and support the cause. Original story follows. It’s a rare honor to receive a little gold man at the Academy Awards. It’s an even rarer one to receive a little gold man made out of Lego bricks....
VOTD: Mirror Shots In Movies: Women Cry And Men Smash By Ethan Anderton/May 2, 2016 8:30 am EST Plenty of movies have featured a shot focusing on the central character looking into a mirror in a moment of self-reflection. But what’s interesting is the emotional reaction that follows after they look at themselves. Fandor has assembled a video that takes a look at the difference between what usually happens when a female character looks in the mirror and when a male character looks in the mirror....
Who Is The Black Panther? Get To Know Marvel’s First Black Superhero Movie By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2014 8:00 am EST Marvel announced last week that not only was a Black Panther movie finally coming, they’d already hired Chadwick Boseman to play him. Which is great news for comic book fans, who’d been begging the studio to make a Black Panther film for years. For those less familiar with the comic book universe, though, that just makes things more confusing....
Why Steven Spielberg Always Wanted To Tell The Wright Brothers Story By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2015 4:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies is out in a few weeks, but while promoting it he revealed there’s another historical story he’s been itching to tell. The director confessed he’s “always wanted” to do a project about Orville and Wilbur Wright, credited with inventing the first airplane at the turn of the 20th century....
‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ Trailer: Time For A Return To Wonderland By Angie Han/Nov. 5, 2015 6:30 am EST At this point Disney has more live-action fairy tales in various stages of development than we can count, but the movie that kicked off that whole craze to begin with was 2010’s Alice in Wonderland. The Tim Burton-directed adventure racked up more than $1 billion worldwide, making a sequel more or less inevitable, and now that sequel is almost here....
‘All The Way’ Trailer: Bryan Cranston Is Accidental President Lyndon B. Johnson By Ethan Anderton/March 20, 2016 9:00 am EST After portraying President Lyndon B. Johnson in the stage play All The Way, Emmy winner Bryan Cranston is reprising his Tony-winning performance for an HBO film adaptation of the same name. The first trailer for the film which chronicles the struggle of the accidental president, working as hard as he can to fill the empty presidential shoes left behind by the belovedJohn F....
‘Batman V. Superman’ Scene Descriptions Surface, Brainiac Planned For The Future By Ethan Anderton/July 4, 2015 10:00 am EST Hot on the heels of new images from the anticipated Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment production of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, some new details have surfaced online with regards to a few scenes from the comic book tentpole. In the upcoming Comic-Con issue of Entertainment Weekly three scenes are briefly described, two involving Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and his trusty butler Alfred (Jeremy Irons), and also the main event, Batman fighting Superman (Henry Cavill)....
‘Better Call Saul’ Set Video Starts Teasing Secrets By Germain Lussier/Nov. 7, 2014 9:30 am EST There are a few revelations in the first behind the scenes set video of AMC’s upcoming Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul. The show stars Bob Odenkirk as the slimy lawyer from Breaking Bad, and if you haven’t followed along with the early promos for the show, one revelation here is that Saul Goodman isn’t the guy’s real name....
By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 1, 2016 9:30 am EST Last year, a teaser trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduced us to the American magical world that we’ll see on the big screen this fall. Now a new featurette on the film shows off even more of the Harry Potter spin-off, including our new adult main characters played by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol. However, we don’t find out much more about Colin Farrell here....
‘Life’ Trailer: Robert Pattinson Wants To Find Something Beautiful By Jack Giroux/Nov. 16, 2015 4:30 pm EST Anton Corbijn’s Life has been flying under-the-radar the past few months. We saw a trailer for the film back in August, but Corbijn’s bio film didn’t generate much love or awards talk at any festivals. Then again, the director’s second feature film, The American, was hidden from critics and loathed by plenty of moviegoers, and that movie is a terrifically sparse thriller....
‘Norm Of The North’ Is Already The Worst Reviewed Film Of 2016 By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2016 7:00 am EST People sometimes talk about “the critics” as if they were a single monolithic entity, as in “the critics love Carol” or “the critics hate Paul Blart.” In truth, though, it’s uncommon for critics to reach unanimous consensus on much of anything. Film criticism is highly subjective by its very nature, which means even the most gorgeously wrought masterpieces will leave some viewers unmoved, while even the most lazily slapped together dreck will tickle a few people in the right spots....
‘Room’ Trailer: Brie Larson Breaks Out In Lenny Abrahamson’s Intense Family Drama By Angie Han/July 30, 2015 8:21 am EST Emma Donoghue’s Room was one of the most talked-about novels of 2011, and now it could be one of the most talked-about films of 2015. A24 has just released the chilling first trailer for the Room movie, starring Brie Larson as a young woman who’s been held captive for years along with her 5-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay)....
2016 Golden Trailer Awards Nominations Announced By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2016 11:30 am EST Here is the official information: Top trailer houses in this year’s pack included Trailer Park with 28 noms, Mark Woollen & Associates with 21 nominations, AV Squad had 20, Zealot had 18 nods this year and Buddha Jones earned 16. On the agency side, LA was the leading creative house for their work on 32 of this year’s print nominees....
Ansel Elgort Will Star In Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ By Germain Lussier/March 31, 2015 1:30 pm EST UPDATE 3/31/15: We originally ran this story on January 13. Elgort has now officially be cast. We’ve made the appropriate changes. Edgar Wright is getting ready to make his next movie and he’s in talks with a new leading man. The film is called Baby Driver, and Wright is writing and directing. Now Ansel Elgort, of The Fault in Our Stars and Divergent fame, will officially star....
Cary Fukunaga Drops Out Of Stephen King’s ‘It’ Adaptation For New Line By Angie Han/May 25, 2015 12:26 pm EST Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It seemed to be making some real progress, what with Will Poulter entering talks earlier this month to play Pennywise. But now it may be deader than one of the killer clown’s victims. Fukunaga has dropped out as director, after clashing with the studio. Read up on the Cary Fukunaga It exit after the jump....
Does Superman Appear In ‘Suicide Squad’? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2015 12:30 pm EST Even before the Comic-Con trailer for Suicide Squad officially made it online, spy photos from the Warner Bros. set had confirmed that Ben Affleck will appear in the DC Comics cinematic universe film as Batman. It only makes sense, as his arch nemesis, The Joker (Jared Leto) is a primary character in the movie. However, what about his future opponent, The Man of Steel?...
First Look: Paul Feig’s ‘Ghostbusters’ Uniforms By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2015 3:57 pm EST Paul Feig took to Twitter today to release the first look at the costumes from his upcoming reboot of Ghostbusters. Feig has been shooting in Boston for a couple weeks now and a few set photos have leaked of costumes for cast members such as Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, but no photos have revealed the new Ghostbuster outfits....
Mark Rylance Joins ‘Ready Player One’, May Be Attached To Steven Spielberg Forever By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2016 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win—and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape....
Neill Blomkamp Moving On From ‘Alien’ With Time Travel Sci-Fi Adaptation ‘The Gone World’ By Angie Han/Nov. 11, 2015 10:30 am EST Based on what little we know about The Gone World, it’s not hard to see why it would’ve attracted Blomkamp’s attention. Sci-fi is his genre of choice, and he seems to relish creating new worlds. What’s a little less encouraging is the notion that he also plans to script....
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2014 12:00 pm EST Comedian Bill Burr has had an eclectic journey to stardom. He first came to our attention with a few roles on Chappelle’s Show. That brought more and more people to his comedy shows, one of which became a legendary viral video in which he eviscerated the people of Philadelphia. A few acting gigs here and there lead to a small but crucial role on Breaking Bad....
