‘Hamilton’ Might Be Headed To The Big Screen Alexander Hamilton, movie audiences are waiting in the wings for you.Hamiltonis a worldwide phenomenon, and people have been wondering when the inevitable movie adaptation would be announced. Well, you might be able to seeHamiltonon the big screen very soon, butnotas an adaptation. Instead, a recorded version of the hit musical with the original Broadway cast is currently being fought over in Hollywood....
‘In The Heart Of The Sea’ Set Visit: How Ron Howard Crafted His Whale Of A Tale Everyone knows the tale ofMoby-Dick, but far fewer people know that it was inspired by a true story. And it’s that true story which serves as the basis ofRon Howard’s new movie,In the Heart of the Sea. In 1820, a whaling ship called the Essex was destroyed after an encounter with a massive whale, leaving the crew — including captain George Pollard (played byBenjamin Walkerin the movie), first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (Tom Holland) stranded thousands of miles off the coast of South America....
‘Project Power’ Trailer: A Mysterious Pill Unlocks Superpowers In This New Netflix Movie Project Powerfeels like a film that came out of nowhere.Jamie FoxxandJoseph Gordon-Levittboth star in this Netflix pic, which is set to arrive next month, and yet this almost seems like it’s the first time we’re even hearing about it. To be fair, the project was previously going under a different name –Power. It was also completed in 2018 and has been sitting around since then, which isn’t exactly the most encouraging sign....
‘Tales To Astonish’ Trailer: Marvel Makes A Documentary Over the years, Marvel Studios has given us a ’40s war movie (Captain America: The First Avenger), an otherworldly fantasy-adventure (Thor), and a political thriller (Captain America: The First Avenger). Now one of their newest projects expands Marvel’s horizons even further, into the realm of documentary.Tales to Astonishis a short-form documentary series that examines the context of Marvel’s most famous recent tales....
‘The Boxtrolls’ Behind-The-Scenes Trailer: Laika’s Got The Whole World In Their Hands Laika’sThe Boxtrollsmay celebratea pretty unconventional family, but it’s brought to life using some classic, time-tested methods. Focus Features has just unveiled a behind-the-scenes video from the stop-motion feature, which shows off the painstaking work that went into creating this intricate universe. Check it out after the jump. The Boxtrollsis only Laika’s third feature, but the studio has already amassed quite a following for their smart, sweet, lovingly crafted stop-motion / CG hybrid pictures....
‘The Father’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Gives One Of His Greatest Performances In One Of The Best Films Of 2020 [TIFF] One of the main joys of film festivals is to go into a film knowing as little as possible, guided by the hopes that the programmers have selected something worthy of your time. I’d missed Florian Zeller’s filmThe Fatherat its Sundance premiere, conflating it withanother film about an ailing old-manas one of several dramas I skipped to focus on that fest’s remarkable doc slate....
‘The Halloween Tree’ Movie In The Works At Warner Bros., Based On Ray Bradbury’s Excellent Novel Warner Bros. has hired a writer to tackle the script forThe Halloween Tree, a movie adaptation of science fiction and fantasy writerRay Bradbury’s classic 1972 novel.Will Dunn, who went through 20th Century Fox’s writing program and once had a screenplay on the Blacklist, will write the screenplay. If you’re a fan of the Halloween season, you should be very excited about the potential of a newThe Halloween Treemovie....
‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Will Adapt More Than Just ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ The Haunting of Bly Manor, the second season ofThe Haunting of Hill House, is taking its main inspiration from Henry James’The Turn of the Screw. But according to creatorMike Flanagan,Screwwill be just one of several Henry James ghost storiesBly Manorwill draw from. In fact, Flanagan says thatTurn of the Screwis “one of a dozen stories” that the new season will tell....
‘The Hero’ Review: Sam Elliott Shines In An Otherwise Middling Drama The Herocenters on an aging movie star who’s best remembered for his performance in a beloved western forty years earlier. It’s a vehicle written specifically for actorSam Elliott, who, of course, has his own storied history in that genre and has embraced that vibe as a key part of his acting persona, even in films as divergent asGhost RiderandThe Big Lebowski....
‘The Hollars’ Trailer: John Krasinski Should Call Home More In 2009, actorJohn Krasinskimade his directorial debut with an adaptation ofDavid Foster Wallace’sBrief Interviews with Hideous Men. The film, which does feature some good performances, wasn’t received particularly well. Seven years after its premiere, Krasinski returned to the Sundance Film Festival with his second feature as a director,The Hollars, which stars himself,Anna Kendrick,Margo Martindale,Sharlto Copley,Charlie Day,Richard Jenkins,Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Below, watchThe Hollarstrailer....
‘Warcraft’ Teaser Trailer Premieres At Comic Con 2014 Saturday afternoon during the Warner Bros presentation in Hall H at 2014 San Diego Comic Con International,Duncan Jonescame out to premiere his upcoming film,Warcraft. That’s, of course, the big screen adaptation of the popular massive multiplayer online video game. Jones is still over a year from release, but he explained a bit about the premise of the movie – an origin story of the conflict in Azeroth – and debuted a short teaser trailer....
[UPDATED] New ‘Suicide Squad’ Posters Assemble The Worst Heroes Ever UPDATE: A new poster has arrived with the team on the poster forming the smile of a face with X’s for eyes. This week will bring another look at the second anticipated DC Comics movies of the year when a new trailer forSuicide Squaddebuts during aDawn of Justice LeagueTV special airing on The CW. But before that new trailer arrives, Warner Bros....
A Brief History Of The ‘Star Wars’ Universe That Once Was A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away there was a very special place where countless books, comics, and video games all lived under the same canon. Spanning millennia, these tales allowed your favorite space opera to live on and grow outside of the films you know and love. It was a world where your most beloved heroes had children and most hated villains had entire art galleries dedicated to poor souls trapped in carbonite....
