Boasting a 95% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer has become one of the most critically heralded films of the year. And now it's the first to be sent to the Academy of Arts and Sciences for consideration for awards season. Deadline dropped the news that a DVD of Snowpiercer has been sent out to Academy members, who could receive the sci-fi drama as early as today. It's a bold...
The NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton is in the thick of production, and picking up momentum with the announcement of a dash of Snoop Dogg. The Wrap reports Short Term 12's Lakeith Lee Stanfield (formerly credited as Keith Stanfield) has signed on to Straight Outta Compton to play a young Calvin Broadus Jr., A.K.A. Snoop Dogg (A.K.A. Snoop Lion). Stanfield joins a cast of relative unknowns including...
Not too long ago, Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series of books was the toast of Hollywood and the best seller list. With The DaVinci Code bringing in a boatload in 2006 and Angels And Demons making a more modest success of itself, the franchise starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard was on financially stable ground, but it still wasn't clear whether the series would have the momentum to continue...
Following up on the new trailer for the feature adaptation of Joe Hill's Horns comes the international trailer, which takes a different approach in terms of the tone of the film. While the trailer that released at Comic-Con showed off a mixture of humor and horror, this one takes it to full horror and suspense, as we see Daniel Radcliffe getting in touch with his dark side... Directed by Alexandre...
Marvel movies rely on their humor, and their cavalier attitude. Man of Steel, as a counterbalance, did not. Star-Lord, Chris Pratt's Guardians of the Galaxy hero, cracks jokes. In Christopher Nolan’s world, Bane cracked Batman’s spine. It’s not an easy divide between Marvel and DC movies to say that one side drifts toward light while the other embraces the shadows. Step back and...
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has been spending more time on the big screen lately, with roles in such high-prestige pics like Lee Daniels' The Butler and the upcoming Civil Rights docudrama Selma. But for her next film, she's going downright gritty. TMZ reports Oprah Winfrey has been cast to play a brothel-running madam in the biopic about the late Richard Pryor. But this is no common lady pimp role....
Meet Riley, the "star" of Pixar’s next feature Inside Out who will be placing all of her conflicting emotions on display for the sake of our entertainment next June. Pixar Animation Studios tease an early look at Riley as part of the Disney Movies Anywhere app. The service promised subscribers access to exclusive footage, and a sneak peek inside Inside Out appears to be the latest video. We...
Marvel Studios has firmly established itself as one of the biggest - if not the biggest - brands in Hollywood. After six years of releasing movies, the company has not only made two of the highest grossing films of all time - Joss Whedon's The Avengers and Shane Black's Iron Man 3 - but also has proven able to take a property that nobody has ever heard of and turn it into gold. Guardians of the Galaxy...
Just because you don't hear about a certain in-development movie for a number of years doesn't actually mean that the project will never end up on the silver screen. Some are just destined to spend a bit of time in what has been dubbed "Development Hell." Take, for example, the Looney Tunes Acme factory film. We first wrote about the feature all the way back in October 2010, but haven't heard a peep...
Over the past few years, anti-Western sentiment has spread through portions of Russian society. In fact, there’s currently a bill being debated that would ban foreign films that portray Russia or its citizens in a negative manner. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean the country has adopted a completely negative attitude toward Hollywood. In fact, the Ministry of Culture just released a list...
Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 will have more than a few familiar faces, from Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen (duh) to Liam Hemsworth's Gale (featured in the poster above), but just like in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, we'll be meeting plenty of new faces as well. There's a large number of new characters within the world of Panem who aren't too happy living under...
Spoiler Warning! The following article contains spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. If you haven't seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier yet and wish to not have any of the movie ruined for yourself, I recommend clicking on another one of our fantastic other stories! While Joe and Anthony Russo's Captain America: The Winter Soldier is certainly a complete, three-act structured film,...
Going back to 2008, Robert Downey Jr. has been the face of the Marvel Studios franchise. It was his performance as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau's Iron Man that lit the powder keg that wound up becoming the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he has been a key player and figure ever since. As important as both Downey Jr. and Iron Man have been to the success of Marvel, however, the actor will now admit that...
Similar to Screen Gems' other major franchise, Resident Evil, the Underworld movies were always far more successful internationally than there were here in the United States. While none of the films thus far have managed to break $65 million here in the States, the box office numbers balloon to triple digits when the foreign markets are accounted for. The studio has been profiting off of this pattern...
Music has long played a very important role in Martin Scorsese's career. Whether it's the memorable uses of songs like Eric Clapton's "Layla" or "I’m Shipping Up to Boston" by Dropkick Murphys in features like Goodfellas and The Departed or concert documentaries he's helmed like The Last Waltz and Shine A Light, the filmmaker has long found a way to bring the two mediums into harmonious sync....
So you've just seen one of the latest comic book movie blockbusters, and you're interested enough to take a peek at what these characters are like on the page. Good for you, literate fan! However, once you enter your local comic-book store, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the fact that there are many versions of your new favorite heroes and villains on the shelf. Picking one up may result in...
No one tells Tom Cruise how to world-premiere a movie. Tom Cruise tells YOU how to world-premiere a movie. Unveiling your new action movie in one major city just isn’t enough for Tom Cruise. So he’s bringing Edge of Tomorrow to THREE major, global cities in one day … and you can follow along using the video above. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and director Doug Liman are currently in...
It's been 12 years since Nia Vardalos won over audiences with her rowdy and sweet romantic-comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And in her mind, it's time for a good old-fashioned sequel. Variety reports Gold Circle Films and HBO Films are reteaming to produce My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which has not yet released an official title. Nia Vardalos and John Corbett, who starred in the first film, will be...
Every year is filled with dubious Robert De Niro choices, but most people forget that he tends to be pretty good, even in garbage. He's always been dedicated to his craft, whether he's working with Scorsese or Jay Roach. Now Olivier Assayas is going to be the next guy who shepherds a Robert De Niro performance, because it looks like the two of them are teaming up. Deadline reports that De Niro is...
During the height of the American space program, the Florida-based Kennedy Space Center was a crown jewel in the United States' quest to reach the stars. Naturally, this got the attention of the world, and in particular the attention of Russia and China, two of the United States' greatest opponents in the Cold War. However, there was one leader we never knew had their sights on Florida's historical...