Posts

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Gag Reel: Watch Poe Get Slapped, Flubbed Lines, And More StarWars: The Last Jedihas been available to buy on Digital HD platforms for a little while now, today marks the first time the latest film in theStar Warssaga is available to own on Blu-ray and DVD. To celebrate,Entertainment Tonighthas released another peek at one of the film’s bonus features: a gag reel that showsOscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron getting slapped repeatedly byCarrie Fisher’s General Leia, actors making goofy faces on the set, and more....

82nd Annual Academy Award Nominations Announced The nominations for the82nd Annual Academy Awardshave been released, and there are a few small and pleasant surprises in the list. The list of ten films nominated for Best Picture is causing some sensation, asDistrict 9is among the group. Lest that make you too hopeful,The Blind Sidealso got a Best Picture nod, though after the success of that film in the past two months that isn’t much of a surprise....

Already Musical Backbeat To Become A Musical Iain Softley’s debut feature wasBackbeat, a biopic recounting of Suart Sutcliffe’s time in The Beatles, his romance with Astrid Kircherr and very close friendship with John Lennon. The film’s secret weapon was Ian Hart’s performance as Lennon – the second of three times he took the role, afterThe Hours and the Timesand beforeForrest Gump– but as well as that superscud, it was a pretty well armed attack beast overall....

Check Out Concept Art And Info For Weta’s ‘Panzer 88’ Star WarsandThe Empire Strikes BackproducerGary Kurtzis going back to big effects films withPanzer 88. We first heard about the film very briefly last year, whenHellboyco-writerPeter Briggswas said to be directing “a supernatural horror film set in a German tank during WW2.” At the time, Briggs said he’d been having meetings with Kurtz, and the producer is now completely on board, along with the effects gurus at WETA, who will bring the $20m indie to life....

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Has Landed Vikings Star Gustaf Skårsgard Christopher Nolan is collecting actors like Pokémon for his latest directorial effort, “Oppenheimer,” a historical drama about the people who created the first atomic bomb. The cast is already absolutely stacked, but it had one fatal flaw: There weren’t any Skarsgårds! The Swedish family is known for its thespians, including father Stellan (“Thor: The Dark World”), and brothers Alexander (“The Northman”), Gustaf (“Westworld”), Bill (“It”), and Valter (“Black Lake”)....

Classic Christmas Movies That Really Didn’t Need Sequels In some families, like mine for instance, watching Christmas movies is as much of a holiday tradition as opening presents, overeating, and arguing about current events after a few too many glasses of spiked hot chocolate. Christmas movies may hit their watchable peak once a year, but when just about everyone who celebrates the holiday is watching the same rotation of roughly 25 films, that seasonal peak allows a film to survive for generations....

Collapse Movie Trailer (The Best Reviewed “End Is Near” Documentary Of The Year?) Bill Murray recently offered the following skepticism at a press junket, “I saw a guy talking about the end of the world a couple of years ago, and I haven’t seen that either.” Many notablecriticsfeel that the new documentary entitledCollapse, from the well-regarded director behindAmericanMovieandTheYesMen, more or less informs the world, Murray included, that the end in the form of total economic collapse is once again near....

David Fincher May Make Graphic Novel Adaptation ‘Black Hole’ After All It’s a good day for those who like to see films based on some of the more serious and/or challenging comics out there. We got word that a film adaptation of the first arc in Ed Brubaker’s greatCriminalseriesis still in the works, now with Kim Jee-Woon (I Saw the Devil) directing. And now the once-dead adaptation ofCharles Burns' wild and very unsettling graphic novelBlack Holeis back on, withDavid Fincheragain set to direct....

Director Joe Lynch Talks ‘The Knights Of Badassdom’ Plus Footage And Trailer Impressions Saturday at Comic Con, a little movie that could with a star-studded cast will take the stage in Hall H. What happens next? Well, I can’t tell you yet because I’m writing this from the past. Last week, /Film was one of several outlets invited to get an early look atThe Knights of Badassdom, a horror comedy adventure film starringRyan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn, Summer Glau, Danny Pudiand others about the world of live action role playing....

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson In Talks For ‘Journey 3’ Since making the movie from the ring to the big screen,Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnsonhas tried to balance teen to adult-skewing action movies with more family-friendly fare. His latest family outing wasJourney 2: The Mysterious Island, in which he essentially took the place of Brendan Fraser, who had starred in the 2008Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D. Journey 2was dinged by critics left and right, but it did well enough, especially internationally, to out-perform the first film....

First ‘Fast And Furious 9’ Trailer Arrives In January, Accompanied By A Live Concert In Miami January is going to get a dose of nitrous when the firstFast and Furious 9trailer arrive online. Universal Pictures just announced an entire event dedicated to launching the trailer in the new year, which includes aFast and Furious-inspired live concert. However, it’s not just a bunch of cars playing instruments or the cast of theFast and Furioussaga forming a band, though both of those options would arguably more interesting than the real concert....

First Official Look At Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz And Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Django Unchained’ Doesn’tLeonardo DiCapriolook great as a villain? That’s Leo as Calvin Candie, the slaver antagonist ofQuentin Tarantino’s new filmDjango Unchained, in which the character is opposed by a German bounty hunter and a freed slave, played byChristoph WaltzandJamie Foxx. That image is one of two fantastic official first looks at the characters; the other, featuring the heroes, is below....

George Romero Left Behind A Full Unreleased Movie And 50 Unproduced Scripts There will never be anotherGeorge Romero, and the filmmaker’s death in 2017 left a big hole in the world of movies. But Romero’s legacy lives on through his work, and it might continue on into the future thanks to unreleased material. Romero’s widowSuzanne Desrocher-Romerohas revealed that theNight of the Living Deadfilmmaker left behind round 50 unproduced scripts, as well as a completed film from 1973 that most filmgoers have never seen....