Aaron Sorkin Explains Steve Jobs’ Daughter Is “The Heroine” Of Upcoming Film By Russ Fischer/Nov. 17, 2014 5:30 am EST The Steve Jobs film to be directed soon by Danny Boyle isn’t a biopic, emphasizes screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and we know that the structure of the film is unusual. Rather than tracing the entrepreneur’s life, the script looks in on his life at three specific points in time over more than a decade....
Bill Hader Joining ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Season Three As The New Captain By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2015 3:30 pm EST Entertainment Weekly reports Hader will at least be guest starring in the third season premiere on September 27th, but they haven’t revealed whether or not he’ll be sticking around for a few episodes. But the precinct’s former boss, Captain Holt (Braugher), was just recently forced into taking a public relations post for the NYPD, thanks to his rival, Deputy Chief Wuntch (Kyra Sedgwick)....
George Miller Wants To Make A Small Film Next, Not ‘Man Of Steel 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2015 2:00 pm EST The next film from Mad Max director George Miller probably won’t be a huge spectacle, and he’s almost certainly not making a Man of Steel sequel. It’s been a strange journey for George Miller in the past decade. Work on Mad Max: Fury Road began about fifteen years ago, and when that film was delayed he turned to Justice League, casting and designing the film (see the concept art above) and getting it to a point where production could begin....
Hollywood’s Stunt Performers Protest For Their Own Oscar Category (And How Could You Say No?) By Jacob Hall/Feb. 26, 2016 2:00 pm EST If you’ve ever looked over the list of categories at the Academy Awards and wondered why the American film industry’s highest honor doesn’t recognize stunt coordination, you’re not alone. Stunt performers have been calling for recognition at the Oscars for over two decades and over 100 of them recently rallied at the offices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make their voices heard in demanding an Oscars stunt category....
How The Lucasfilm Story Group Figures Out The Star Wars Canon By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2015 9:30 am EST That’s Pablo Hidalgo, one of the members of the Lucasfilm Story Group, trying to explain how and why their team makes story choices. The Story Group is a new group of Lucasfilm employees, headed up by Kiri Hart and created by President Kathleen Kennedy, whose job is to make sure every single Star Wars movie, TV show, book, comic book and video game tell one, big Star Wars story....
J.J. Abrams Puts Positive Spin On ‘Westworld’ Delay: “They’re Not Rushing It” By Angie Han/March 16, 2016 5:00 pm EST HBO’s Westworld hasn’t had an easy go of it. The sci-fi Western halted production in January, and word was the series premiere could be pushed back all the way to 2017 – after originally being slated for 2015. Sure, none of this is to say Westworld won’t be great when it finally premieres....
Maisie Williams Still Optimistic About ‘The Last Of Us’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2014 12:00 pm EST Talk of Maisie Williams playing one of the two lead roles in video game adaptation The Last of Us began this past summer at Comic Con when producer Sam Raimi and The Last of Us video game creative director, Neil Druckmann, who is scripting the film, announced the development during Screen Gems’ panel. During that conversation Raimi mentioned that he had met with the young Game of Thrones actress to play Ellie, the young woman who navigates a sort of post-apocalyptic world after a viral pandemic ravages humanity....
Marvel’s ‘Civil War’ Will Be The First To Use New Digital IMAX Camera By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2015 1:00 pm EST Other film series have taken the plunge into full-format IMAX shooting, and Captain America: Civil War will be Marvel’s first foray into using full IMAX sequences. The twist is that this one will go about it in a slightly different way. The sequel, which is about to get under way in Atlanta under the direction of Anthony and Joe Russo with returning cinematographer Trent Opaloch, will be the first to use a new IMAX camera, the digital 2D system co-developed by IMAX and Arri....
Mondo’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Posters Available In Consumer-Friendly Timed Edition By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2015 3:30 pm EST The poster and collectibles company Mondo has just begun shipping the LP pressing of the Mad Max: Fury Road soundtrack, but if you missed out on that order there are yet more Mondo Mad Max offerings. The company revealed three posters, two by portrait artist Mike Mitchell and one by Ken Taylor, featuring the characters from George Miller’s action blast....
By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2015 7:30 am EST Kidman, of course, is a much bigger star today than she was back then. Certainly she’s past needing to do a supporting role in a superhero movie just for the exposure or the paycheck, so whatever her role in Wonder Woman we can probably assume it’s a significant one. And that it’ll involve less breathy banter about black rubber. The Aussie actress kicked off her year with the surprise hit Paddington, and recently hit TIFF as part of Jason Bateman’s sophomore directorial effort The Family Fang....
Paramount Making ‘Substitute Teacher’ Movie Based On ‘Key & Peele’ Sketch By Angie Han/March 25, 2015 8:30 am EST Key and Peele are bringing their act to the big screen. Paramount Pictures has picked up Substitute Teacher, based on a sketch from the duo’s popular Comedy Central sketch show.Keegan-Michael Key will reprise his role as Mr. Garvey, an inner city teacher who thinks his white, middle-class students are messing with him....
Sebastian Stan Teases Significance Of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Credits Scene In ‘Ant-Man’ By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2015 2:00 pm EST If you haven’t seen Ant-Man yet, we won’t spoil the fun credits scenes in this opening paragraph if you just haven’t had time to make it to the theater and want to go in blind. But just beware that some new chatter from Sebastian Stan has surfaced about the second credits scene that ties into Captain America: Civil War, and we’re going to get into some spoiler territory below....
See Megan Gale As Wonder Woman In George Miller’s Abandoned ‘Justice League Mortal’ By Angie Han/Nov. 20, 2015 2:00 pm EST 2017’s Justice League Part One will mark the first time the Justice League has officially assembled in a live-action feature film, but there were plenty of attempts to bring the superhero team to the big screen before that. One of the most famous is George Miller’s Justice League Mortal, which had a cast in place before the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike derailed it altogether....
Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek Beyond’, ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘World War Z 2’, ‘Jack Reacher’, ‘Mockingjay’, ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ By Angie Han/Aug. 26, 2015 11:00 am EST That Star Trek Beyond set video was notable for its reveal of the new Starfleet uniforms — but as it turns out, we actually saw them for the first time several weeks back. Here’s a photo posted last month by Zachary Quinto: View this post on Instagram...
The ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Jyn Erso Black Series Figure Will Be For Sale At Comic-Con By Jacob Hall/July 20, 2016 12:30 pm EST If you’re attending San Diego Comic-Con this week, go ahead and add this to your list of must-buy items: the Black Series action figure of Jyn Erso, the Rebel fighter played by Felicity Jones in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, will be one sale at the con…and it will be a Comic-Con exclusive....
Watch ‘Great Directors’ Documentary, With Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, And More By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2015 7:00 am EST The 2009 film Great Directors from doc filmmaker Angela Ismailos is a great introduction to the work, creative philosophies and personalities of ten directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film presents conversations and clips from the work of those filmmakers, and is just the sort of thing to turn new audiences on to films from each of those filmmakers, or, if you’re already a fan of that crew, to bolster your knowledge of each....
Watch Kate Winslet, Dame Helen Mirren, And More In The Hollywood Reporter Actress Roundtable By Jack Giroux/Jan. 11, 2016 3:00 pm EST The Golden Globes were last night, but the Awards season is far from over, as the Oscars and more events are still to come. Generally one of the few joys of all this awards coverage are The Hollywood Reporter roundtables, which puts some of the most talked about actors, writers, directors, and more artists in a room together for an hour....
WTF: A ‘Dear Zachary’ TV Show Is In The Works By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2014 6:00 am EST There’s little doubt Dear Zachary is one of the most heartbreaking films every made. The 2008 documentary by Kurt Kuenne started innocently enough as the director tried to make a movie about his deceased friend for his yet-to-be-born son. But as the story unfolded, reality turned into a nightmare for the child, his family and, to a lesser extent, anyone who watched it....
‘Fargo’ Casts ‘HIMYM’ Mother As Molly’s Mother By Angie Han/March 13, 2015 3:40 pm EST The mother from How I Met Your Mother will also be the mother on Fargo. Cristin Milioti has joined Fargo Season 2 as Betsy Solverson, mom to Season 1’s Molly Solverson (played last season by Allison Tolman). She joins Patrick Wilson and Ted Danson. Learn more about the Fargo Cristin Milioti casting after the jump. Deadline reports Milioti is set for a recurring role on the upcoming season of the FX series....
‘Gambit’ Aims To Shoot In Spring 2017 By Angie Han/July 11, 2016 7:30 am EST We’re getting six major superhero movie releases in 2016 (Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, and the upcoming Suicide Squad and Doctor Strange) but at one point we were going to get even more. Gambit was initially slated to open in fall 2016, only to hit a snag when original director Rupert Wyatt walked away....
