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27 minutes ago

Last week Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, J.J. Abrams and Judd Apatow banded together in an effort to convince studios to buy a set amount of Kodak film over the next few years (Kodak being the only major company left producing motion-picture film).  Now Martin Scorsese is tossing his hat in the ring as well.  While digital filmmaking is obviously going to be the way most movies are shot in the future, it’s nice to at least have the means to go for a more traditional aesthetic.  As good as digital looks, it still has a bit of a way to go before it appears as cinematic as film does.  Not to mention the fact that, although shooting on digital is cheaper,  storing digital information is actually more expensive if done properly since it has to be transferred to a new medium every few years. On the heels of Kodak »

- Evan Dickson

34 minutes ago

Though the studio is certainly celebrating the success of Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios was once again called out this weekend for its lack of a female superhero movie, and rightfully so.  The superhero genre is bigger than ever, but even in the midst of numerous $200 million plus tentpoles from various studios, we have yet to see a female-led franchise pic.  All of this despite the fact that female moviegoers make up a hefty portion of audiences (the Guardians opening weekend was 44% female—the biggest yet for a Marvel movie), and yet are massively underrepresented at the marketplace.  When studios do decide to make quality female-led features, the results speak for themselves.  Just look at the grosses of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen. And so now it looks like the time has finally come for one of the majors to move forward with a female-led superhero pic, »

- Adam Chitwood

1 hour ago

Taking on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn’t like signing on to direct any old film.  It’s a property that comes with an enormous fan base and, therefore, sky-high expectations and even while shooting it, director Jonathan Liebesman was well aware of it.  Last June we got the chance to visit the film’s Wall Street set in New York City and Liebesman took a brief break to say hello and also note, “I’ve never had a film that people are so excited to see so long before, so I think it’s just challenging to do something that meets the expectations.  Honestly, that’s hard.” Fortunately, Liebesman’s got some quality talent backing him up including VFX supervisor Pablo Helman, the man responsible for leading the initiative to bring the Turtles back to the big screen in the most groundbreaking and realistic way possible.  Hit the jump »

- Perri Nemiroff

1 hour ago

Sure, Megan Fox is quite well known and is likely receiving big offers on a regular basis, but when it came to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, she insisted that it was her passion for the source material and enthusiasm for bringing the iconic characters back to the big screen that set her apart and helped her score the role of April O’Neil.  In Jonathan Liebesman’s movie, April’s a wannabe hard news reporter who’s stuck doing puff pieces with her cameraman, Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett).  While on the hunt for a big scoop that’ll prove her worth, April comes face-to-face with something unimaginable – teenage mutant ninja turtles. While on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set back in June 2013, we got the chance to sit down with Fox and Arnett to run through the basics of their characters, what kind of relationship they’ve got with the Turtles, »

- Perri Nemiroff

1 hour ago

I want a good female Expendables movie.  If The Expendables movies are built on nothing but fan-casting (and let's be honest: they are), then there's no reason it can't be done with the many women who have excelled in action films.  However, context is incredibly important, and the plot for Robert Luketic's planned "The Expendabelles", might be disturbingly insulting.  According to a Deadline report from February, the story has a promising start with the main cast being a group of elite mercenaries brought into rescue a nuclear scientist.  Here's where it could get really, really bad: "The only way in: some of the world’s deadliest female operatives must pose as high-class call-girls shipped in by private plane to satisfy a dictator–and instead save the scientist and the day."  That's right: Luketic and writers Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah might have considered a plot that has female ass-kickers going undercover as whores. »

- Matt Goldberg

2 hours ago

While revving up for the August 15th debut of The Expendables 3, Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas took to Reddit to field some fan questions.  The duo covered quite a bit of submissions, but we’ve got two highlights worth noting – Snipes and Banderas’ descriptions of their Expendables 3 characters and some information on Banderas’ upcoming sci-fi thriller, Autómata. Based on what we’ve seen in previous films and from the third installment’s promos thus far, we’ve got a solid sense of what The Expendables 3 is all about - watching iconic action heroes kick some you-know-what (surprise, surprise) – however, we don’t know much about who these guys are playing and what the characters are all about.  Hit the jump to learn a little more about Snipes’ Dr. Death and Banderas’ Galgo. When one participant asked for a description of their characters, Snipes jumped in and replied first: “My character is Dr. »

- Perri Nemiroff

2 hours ago

The Weinstein Company has released the first two Big Eyes images online.  Tim Burton's latest film focuses on the artistic coupling of Margaret (Amy Adams) and Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz).  Walter became famous in the 1950s and 60s for paintings featuring saucer-eyed kids, though it was the shy Margaret who really did the work.  Margaret eventually tired of the misplaced credit, which led to a divorce and a heated court battle to prove authorship of the paintings.  I would love to see Burton take on a worthwhile story again, and this one has the potential to catapult him back to making an interesting movie with real characters as opposed to Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter being weird for 100 minutes. Hit the jump to check out the Big Eyes images.  The film also stars Krysten Ritter, Terrence Stamp, Jason Schwartzman, and Danny Huston.  Big Eyes opens December 25th. Via USA Today. »

- Matt Goldberg

3 hours ago

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is one of the director's weakest efforts, but it's also by far his highest grossing.  The movie made over $1 billion worldwide at the box office, and I'm surprised it's taken so long for a sequel to start moving into production.  But four years later, production has begun on Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass with James Bobin (The Muppets) in the director's chair and the original actors returning along with new additions to both the live-action and the voice cast.  Plot details are scarce, but the story will "revisit Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories with an all-new new tale that travels back to Underland—and back in Time." Hit the jump for the press release, which includes the full cast and who they're playing as well as the production's key contributors behind the camera.  Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass »

- Matt Goldberg

3 hours ago

Yesterday, there were a flurry of reports that the beloved Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli was shutting down.  For those unfamiliar with the studio, it was founded in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) and Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) and producer Toshio Suzuki (The Wind Rises).  In addition to producing all of Miyazaki's classic films since 1986's Castle in the Sky, the studio has also played host to a collection of other talented filmmakers.  It's no surprise that the studio's closing was met with an outpouring of grief. However, Ghibli isn't closed just yet.  That being said, it's no longer going to remain in its current form.  Hit the jump for more. As Russ at /Film astutely picked up yesterday, the news of Ghibli's closing was widespread, but no Japanese publication had actually made that report.  It came from a poorly translated quote. Variety reports that on a »

- Matt Goldberg

9 hours ago

The Hitman video game franchise kicked off in 2000 with the release of Hitman: Codename 47, and while the game series has enjoyed success over the subsequent five other installments, Hollywood has also taken a stab at transporting the character over to the silver screen.  The Timothy Olyphant-fronted 2007 feature film iteration was a modest success, but now Hitman is getting rebooted in the form of director Aleksander Bach’s upcoming actioner Hitman: Agent 47.  This time around, Homeland actor Rupert Friend assumes the role of the titular bald assassin, and after the jump you can check out a new side-by-side Hitman: Agent 47 image that compares Friend’s physical transformation with the in-game character.  I’m not sure how important physical likeness is to the overall quality of the film, but if you’re keen on seeing how Friend stacks up to the CG-created Hitman, feel free to take a look. »

- Adam Chitwood

15 hours ago

No recent episode has felt like old times like "May Be The Last Time," which featured such True Blood classics as Sookie running through the night in a white dress to Bill, and Jason horndoggin' on women he shouldn't be checking out.  There was also the continued parade of old characters from the show, appearing in hallucinations, or being conjured.  And of course, there were a lot of things that just didn't make a lick of sense, but then again, would it really be True Blood without that?  Hit the jump for why "my word is oak." This season on True Blood, the best moments have been when character supersedes the supernatural.  Andy's breakdown on the dock with Holly was one of the best small moments possibly of the entire series.  At that point, it wasn't about vampires and weres and fae … it was just about two parents who were »

- Allison Keene

15 hours ago

What "Guest" proved is that The Leftovers is at its best with its single-focus episodes.  One of the show's major flaws has been a lack of world-building.  The lives of all of its main characters seem to begin when the series does, and the particulars of The Sudden Departure remain nebulous at best.  As for the leads, there are mentions of their old life, but barely; and there are certainly no examples of how things were before the Departure.  Was anyone ever happy?  At least with Matt's episode, and now with Nora's in "Guest," The Leftovers is able to close in on a portrayal of grief and desperation that finally feels like something.  Hit the jump for why "I don't give a shit about you, I already have your money, and I'm fucking exhausted." The two best episodes of The Leftovers so far have been complicated portraits of a single »

- Allison Keene

15 hours ago

I wish I had had this episode title handy when I did my first review for The Strain, because it says it all -- The Strain: It's not for everyone.  If there aren't genitals falling off, there are heads being lopped off by septuagenarians.  And yet, despite the painful dialogue, those creeps and the gore are really fun to watch each week.  So taking it as it is, hit the jump.  If you can't handle it, it's ok: "some brains just can't adjust." In "It's Not For Everyone," Ephraim makes the decision with Nora and Jim to cut Doyle open right then and there, examining and video taping as they go along.  The regular organs are all necrotic, but there are shiny new organs that help project "the stinger" (as Eph dubs it).  Jim rightfully loses it over this deluge of information, talking about the six-foot python that shoots out from the body, »

- Allison Keene

15 hours ago

Masters of Sex's "Dirty Jobs" had a lot to live up to after "Fight," one of the best episodes of the series (and possibly of the year).  It was an episode that focused on trust, a theme very relevant to all that is Masters of Sex.  The hospitals have to trust Bill with his study, the patients have to trust that they are not being exploited, and of course there is the trust present in the personal relationship between Libby and Bill, Bill and Ginny, and even characters like Betty and her husband Gene.  But in "Dirty Jobs," many of these connections were broken, with only some hope of repair.  Hit the jump if you know that you sleep with your mouth open, just like a tiny baby bird. There have been many things in Masters of Sex that have been teetering on the edge of truth and consequence, and in "Dirty Jobs, »

- Allison Keene

16 hours ago

No matter what happens on Ray Donovan, things always come back to family.  The definition of family, and relationships among family members, have been driving forces on the show since the beginning.  "S U C K" was also about drawing lines, even where loved ones are involved.  But for Ray, and even for Abby, where those lines should be is unclear.  Ray has an idea about himself, and who he wants to be, but his reality is very different.  In "S U C K," he was forced to come to terms with that in a number of ways.  Hit the jump for why "You don't need to worry about the natives, the natives need to worry about you."  The past is always alive on Ray Donovan, and much of the action in "S U C K" revolved around Sully's death from last season.  After Tiny resurfaces and mouths off to »

- Allison Keene

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