According to Charlie Cox, Andrew Garfield has secured his legacy as “the third greatest Spider-Man of all time.” Cox’s jokey roast was made as he introduced his long-time friend Garfield to the stage at the GQ Men of the Year event. While toasting and gently roasting Garfield, Cox also called him “One of, if not the greatest actor of our generation,” as he paid tribute to the actor’s “sickeningly good year....
We have two brand new exclusive images from the upcoming Labor Day action flick Machete, which will hit theaters nationwide on September 3rd. Director Robert Rodriguez is once again utilizing the Grindhouse aesthetic to promote the upcoming film. Here, we have two old fashion lobby card style pics featuring Michelle Rodriguez and Robert De Niro. Check them out below: “Machete is based on the “fake” trailer in Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 Grindhouse, featuring Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey reprising their original roles....
20th Century Fox is gearing up to start production on the 24 movie in April 2012, which is when star Kiefer Sutherland will be available. Screenwriter Mark Bomback (Unstoppable, The Wolverine) will have his draft of the script ready by the end of this year. The studio is currently eyeing five directors to take on this project, although it doesn’t seem there is a front runner yet. Back in February, Kiefer Sutherland revealed director Tony Scott was interested in directing 24, but he is no longer attached to the project....
Marla Sokoloff, Marion Ross and Christina Pickles have rsvp’d for Flower Girl, a wedding-themed original movie for Hallmark Channel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sokoloff plays Laurel, who runs a floral shop with her meddling grandmother, Rose (Ross), and is always planning weddings for everyone but herself. With all of Laurel’s friends getting married, she begins to wonder if she will ever find Mr. Right. Unexpectedly, she meets two possible matches, forcing her to choose between her head and her heart....
Even Hollywood’s most gifted and celebrated actors have had their fair share of movie duds, with many vocally acknowledging their performance woes. Regardless of whether fans and critics love or loathe these buzzed about roles and flicks, the talent behind the characters may not always share the same sentiment. Whether it was a passion project gone awry, an ill-conceived screenplay or simply an opportunity to make a quick buck, actors have gotten more open and honest about their career mishaps....
The Rogue One Prequel series at Disney+ doesn’t have an official title yet. But it is confirmed to be moving forward as the second live-action Star Wars TV show after The Mandalorian. It was previously confirmed that Diego Luna would be reprising his role as Cassian Andor. Now it has been announced that another very important Star Wars character introduced in Rogue One will also be back. Advertisement Yes, it was announced Thursday at the big Disney Investor Event that Alan Tudyk will return to reprise his role as former Imperial droid K-2SO in the Rogue One hour long sci-fi adventure drama....
The Good The best movie of 2007 thus far. The Bad Paltry extras. Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) leads group of young thugs that deal in drugs and a quest for power. They live in a privileged suburb and are heavily influenced by gangsta rap. Things get all too real when Johnny, who pushes everybody around, messes with Jake Mazursky (Ben Foster). Mazursky is the real deal. Having been in and out of jail, he has no designs on going back but he certainly isn’t going to be picked on....
Rafe Judkins, the showrunner, had previously stated that the shutdowns were ultimately good for the series as it allowed them to refine and perfect the show. He said it even allowed them to delve into the possibilities and storylines of Season 2 (assuming it gets renewed) as they improved the first season. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY “If my job is to protect the spine and the heart of what’s there, sometimes that is changing things....
Actor Antonio Banderas felt something deeply emotional when working alongside Hollywood legend Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, calling it “beautiful to just be close to him.” Discussing the Indiana Jones sequel with Total Film, Banderas compared acting alongside Ford to a childhood dream, likening it to when fans talk to him about Shrek. Banderas has already revealed that his role as Renaldo, a friend of Indy’s, is not a major role in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny....
Netflix has released a new trailer along with the key art for Archive 81, a supernatural thriller series telling a story across two separate timelines. Set to debut on the streamer this month, the show provides something new for viewers looking for something dark and a bit mind-bending. You can see what we mean by checking out the trailer below. Archive 81 follows archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie), who takes a job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994....
ASMR is not everyone’s cup of tea, but it tends to pop up more in film than you’d expect it would thanks to the tireless work of foley artists and sound designers. ASMR is a combination of sounds that are very pleasing to the ear for many people. It can be a calming thing for some people or a tingling, euphoric sensation for others, and thus can work well with specific films....
Prolific filmmaker Ava DuVernay is doubling down on DC. The Queen Sugar creator is set to direct a pilot based on the Vertigo comic series DMZ for HBO Max. The potential show will add another DC hero to DuVernay’s pile as she is already serving as co-writer and director for the feature film The New Gods based on the comic series of the same name. “DMZ” ran under DC’s Vertigo imprint from 2005 to 2012 under writer Brian Wood with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli....
Avatar skeptics have succumbed to the powerful word of mouth the film has generated, as evident by the film’s hefty $16.4 million pull on a Monday. According to ERC Box Office, the film has had an amazing weekday run, bringing its total grosses up to nearly $94 million dollars after just four days in release. While the film’s international Monday grosses are not yet available, the film brought in an estimated $165 million overseas over the weekend....
Horror as a genre is arguably the most reliant on its time period. What constitutes scary is defined very differently by each generation. As horror cinema adds different standards of special effects or masters the craft of jump scares, some movies may look more funny than scary to modern audiences. Still, horror classics of the 60s have a special place in modern cinema. The 60s in the US were a time of uncertainties, paranoia, and rapid changes, which, of course, reflected on the big silver screen....
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has become one of the most notorious directors to come out of the country. Born in northern Iran, Panahi found an interest in cinema and movies after acquiring a film camera. He worked to have the money to go out and see films at a theater, and after serving in the Iranian army, he enrolled at the College of Cinema and TV in Iran. His early work mainly consists of documentary films made for television, and he made several short films during this era....
Indian-American director Mira Nair didn’t originally intend to become a filmmaker and expected to study sociology. That is what she studied in India before transferring to Harvard University, but it was at Harvard that she joined the theater club on campus and ignited a passion for performance. Acting would lead her into filmmaking, where she began making documentaries about Indian cultural traditions, even making her Harvard thesis a documentary set on the streets of Old Delhi....
Las Vegas is an iconic city, and is particularly popular not just among gamblers and sun-seekers, but also with screenwriters, directors, and filmmakers. From the lights of the Las Vegas hotels and casinos of the Strip and downtown areas, to the views of soaring mountains and desolate desert, the city never fails to provide a dramatic backdrop to any storyline and cast. From dark dramas like Leaving Las Vegas to classic films like Viva Las Vegas,great heist films like the different versions of Oceans 11, or comedies that deserve more respect like Fools Rush In and Honeymoon in Vegas — the films on this list have something for every film lover in your household....
White-collar crime films often give way to the financial sector. The criminals are hoarded off to the monotonous offices where crooks dress in suits to act as if they are above the law. While the definition of the crime is non-violent, the violence is felt elsewhere. Like, in recent years, the financial crisis of 2008 has been the subject of many films, told in a serious glib nature as intended or with satiric undertones like that of Adam McKay in The Big Short....
The final season of AMC’s Emmy-nominated Better Call Saul concluded the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, Jimmy McGill (Breaking Bad character and fan-favorite Bob Odenkirk), into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould effectively brought the thrilling series to a satisfying conclusion, so it’s no wonder Better Call Saul recently cleaned up at the Saturn Awards as well. What started as a promising Breaking Bad spin-off turned into an epic standalone series that ran even longer than its Emmy-winning predecessor....
Better Call Saul went home empty-handed from the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, which took place last night. A spinoff to AMC’s acclaimed crime drama Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul follows Bob Odenkirk as the titular conman turned lawyer, Saul Goodman, aka Jimmy McGill, in his early years while also exploring the aftermath of the events of Breaking Bad. But unlike its predecessor, Better Call Saul has largely been ignored by the Emmys and most other major television awards, even though the show is just as good, if not better than Breaking Bad....
