Find Legal Online Movies With Speedcine I was talking with a friend the other day about how my appetite for owning stuff had dramatically decreased in the past few years. While I once was very happy with my large VHS and DVD collection, at this point I’m just as happy to get rid of most of my physical copies of films. In part that’s because so much is available legally online, in ever-better quality....
Glory To The Holy Wi-Fi Originator Nikola Tesla For An Electrifying Episode Of ‘Doctor Who’ Doctor Whois a show of sky-highs and deep lows, and baby, we’re back up in the air again. After last week’s episode wasted a fantastically creepy monster design and an ambitious premise,Doctor Whois back to the well trod historical.Doctor Whohas had an unusual history with its historical episodes — early seasons of the Classic series infusing as little sci-fi elements as possible, while theDoctor Whorevival went full-tilt on “Shakespeare battles alien witches,” etc....
How The Jackass Crew Pulled Off A Stunt With Brad Pitt If there’s one thing the"Jackass"franchise does right — joke’s on you, though, they doeverythingright — it’s their celebrity cameos. The team knows how to pack a punch with the appearances they select and, in turn, those appearances make their already-exciting projects that much more compelling. One of the best examples of this is legendary actorBrad Pitt’s two turns on the beloved stunt-and-smash series, because of course it is, knowing Pitt and his wacky sense of humor....
Joss Whedon’s Theory On Why DC Comic Book Movies Usually Suck Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning geek writer/directorJoss Whedonhas a theory on why it’s so hard to translate DC comic book characters to the big screen: “Because, with that one big exception (Batman), DC’s heroes are from a different era. They’re from the era when they were creating gods.” Whedon explains to Maxim that DC’s characters, like Wonder Woman, Superman and Green Lantern, were “all very much removed from humanity....
Kate Mara Did Not Have A Good Time On ‘Fantastic Four’ Most everyone who worked onJosh Trank’s 2015Fantastic Fourhas, at some point, wished they could forget about the whole thing. From Trank, who has been open about hisclashes with studio execsbehind the scenes, to the cast members, all of whom came out of the box office bomb relatively unscathed, and even bigger stars in some cases. One of those cast members isKate Mara, who recently revealed that she had a “horrible experience onFantastic Four,” apart from meeting her now-husband Jamie Bell....
Last Voyage Of The Demeter First Look: Don’t Let Dracula On Your Boat “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” a new take on “Dracula” from “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” filmmaker André Øvreda, has wrapped principal photography – and that news comes with our first look at the movie. Sort of. There are no characters in the image, but we do get a look at the wheel of the doomed ship that transports Count Dracula from Transylvania to England....
Local Comic-Cons Will Be Legally Required To Change Their Names The future of anyComic-Conotherthan San Diego Comic-Con and its official equivalents is now in serious doubt thanks to an injunction. A judge has ruled against Salt Lake Comic-Con from using titles “Comic Con” and “Comic-Con”, as well as any phonetic equivalents (like ComiKon). In short, if you have a local Comic-Con near you, it’s probably going to be changing its name very quickly....
Must Watch: Kees Van Dijkhuizen’s Cinema 2010 One of the other “best of the year” videos we’ve featured over past years is created by editor Kees van Dijkhuizen (see the videos for2008and2009), who most recently was commissioned by Fox Searchlight to edit a video to celebrate"15 Years of Fox Searchlight". Gen Ip, editor of 2010’s viral sensation Filmography 2010 has cited Keesas one of her inspirations, stating that Dijkhuizen’s “film compilations have been particularly outstanding....
New ‘Antebellum’ Clip Brings In A Creepy Child There’s a rule written down somewhere that says if you’re making a horror movie, youreallyshould consider including at least one creepy child. It can be a boy or a girl, but usually, it’s a creepy girl.Antebellumcertainly got the memo, because the clip below does indeed feature a creepy little girl. And just to make thingsextracreepy, she’s wearingold-timey clothes, so you know something is seriously wrong here....
New ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Featurette Has Bryce Dallas Howard Riding A T-Rex If you’ve ever wanted to see Ron Howard’s daughter climb onto the back of a T-Rex, today is your lucky day. A newJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomfeaturette reveals some behind-the-scenes footage of the practical effects work in the film, and offers a glimpse ofBryce Dallas Howardtrying to hold onto a T-Rex like it’s a mechanical bull. Fallen Kingdom Featurette This might just be theJurassic Worldfeaturette that finally sold me on the movie....
New ‘Power Rangers’ Movie Will Share Continuity With Original TV Show If you spent days and weeks of your life watchingMighty Morphin Power Rangersas a kid, that knowledge is about to pay off. In a new interview, the producer of therecently announced new film,Roberto Orci, said the upcoming film is not a reboot. It will, in fact, share continuity with everything that’s been set up before it. Read his full quote and some more details below....
New ‘The Haunted Mansion’ Movie In The Works From ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Writer Katie Dippold Time for the dreams of a Guillermo del ToroHaunted Mansionmovie to die yet again! The acclaimed filmmaker has been talking about making aHaunted Mansionmovie for Disney for years, and while it looks like the House of Mouse is now ready to give a new film take on the classic attraction a try, del Toro isn’t involved. Instead,Katie Dippold, who wrote theGhostbusterreboot andThe Heat, is tackling the script....
New ‘Transformers’ Movie In The Works With ‘Charm City Kings’ Filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto Set To Direct It’s time for more rock ‘em, sock ‘emTransformers.Because we’ll never be rid of those alien metallic monstrosities, Paramount Pictures has started developing a newTransformersmovie, which will be directed byAngel Manuel Soto, the filmmaker behind last year’s critically acclaimed teen dramaCharm City Kings. The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news that Paramount Pictures made a blind script commitment to a newTransformersfeature film that will be penned byMarco Ramirez, the showrunner of Netflix’s Marvel seriesThe Defenders, while Angel Manuel Soto will direct....
