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80s Flashback: Remembering the First ‘Gremlins’ Movie
25 May 2012 7:33 PM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
If there was one great gift the 80s gave us, it was the gift of the B-flick, horror movie. Malicious villains like Freddy Krueger and Jason were born in Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Both of these films kept children awake at night with nightmares of gruesome deaths. Parents regretted not heeding the “R” rating that drove those children into their beds. I still remember my dad waking up with bruises left from me kicking him in the back. Shame on him for allowing this five-year old kid to watch Freddy eviscerate everyone on Elm Street. The Gremlins was one movie that received acclaim during this era of low-budget horror. The story revolved around a young boy who received a pet Mogwai, named Gizmo, as a gift. However, much like the Amazing Spider-Man, with great Mogwai comes great responsibility. When two rules are broken, all hell breaks »
- Bags Hooper
Exclusive: An Interview With Vic Armstrong, "The World's Greatest Stuntman"
25 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Vic Armstrong has worked in the film industry for over three decades, and regardless of whether it's his work as a stuntman, stunt coordinator or director, one need only think of their favourite action movie and you can just about guarantee that Vic worked on it. Whether it's doubling for the likes of Christopher Reeve, Sean Connery and Harrison Ford or working alongside directors such as Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Irving Kirshner, the story of "The World's Greatest Stuntman" is a truly fascinating one. Yesterday, I was lucky enough to talk to Vic and ask him about some of the many projects he's tackled over the years, as well as hearing his fascinating insights into the stunt industry and much more. A big thank you to Titan Books' Tom green for setting up the interview and to Vic himself for taking the time to answer my questions. The Book »
Emily S. Whitten: Getting Started in the Comics Industry
22 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
I love comics. I love reading them, thinking about them, discussing them, and even critiquing them. I also love writing them, something I’ve discovered in the last couple of years as I started writing a series of webcomics about characters in upcoming comic book-related movies, which were then published on movie news websites like MTV Splash Page and ReelzChannel. Since that time, I’ve realized that I’d really like to keep writing comics, including, hopefully someday soon, full issues for a major company, to be seen by all the worrrrrrld [insert maniacal laugh here].
That may seem like a big leap, but it could happen. After all, most of the people who are or have been involved in professional comics started out just as I did: as ridiculously huge fans of the medium and the characters and stories. I mean, sure, maybe a few here or there got pulled into a job »
- Emily S. Whitten
Cannes Review: It's Ad Men vs. Bad Men in Pablo Larrain's Exciting, Funny, Moving 'No' Starring Gael Garcia Bernal
18 May 2012 6:34 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Playing as part of the Director's Fortnight, Pablo Larraín's "No" is exactly the kind of film you hope to stumble across at Cannes -- a film that hadn't been on your radar until buzz from too many quarters too diverse to be ignored made you seek it out, discovering a film that's extraordinarily well-made, superbly acted, funny, human, warm, principled and, yes, as enthrallingly entertaining as it is fiercely moral and intelligent. Set in Chile in 1988, "No" stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Réne, a "creative" at an ad agency. At the start of the film, he's explaining to a group of clients how this spot he's about to show them represents the new, young feeling of Chile, and how it's in tune with the youth of that country and their needs. And then he rolls … a soda commercial, full of shoulderpad-wearing rockers, exultant crowds of youth, and a mime. »
- James Rocchi
'What To Expect When You're Expecting': Five Epic Movie Birth Scenes
18 May 2012 7:53 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Ahhh birth. The miracle of life. And one of Hollywood's favorite plot points.
Birth scenes in movies range from shouty and grunty to creepy and gooey and often leave viewers with the highly philosophical question: What is that baby really covered in?
You'll get birth scenes in spades when you catch "What To Expect When You're Expecting," the new star-studded rom-com opening today. Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford, Chris Rock and Anna Kendrick are just a few of the celebs who bring to life the wacky rollercoaster ride that anticipating a brand new bundle of joy can be.
It's loosely based on the bestselling self-help book by Heidi Murkoff (there's probably a well-worn copy stashed somewhere in your parents' house), and focuses on five couples as they anticipate parenthood. There are lots of preggo bellies, raging hormones, slapstick humor and moments of sheer terror — err, »
- MTV Movies Team
Harry Lennix Reveals Excitement Over Appearing in Man of Steel
8 May 2012 11:16 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Actor Harry Lennix once again expressed his excitement over playing General Swanwick in next year’s anticipated superhero film ‘Man of Steel,’ Comic Book Movie is reporting. In an interview with Black Film, Lennix said he has a good role in the film, and is a huge Superman fan. Of starring in ‘Man of Steel,’ Lennix said the film “is going to be a very big deal when it comes out…I was like a kid in a candy shop. Superman has always been my favorite superhero…As a teenager I saw the reboot with Christopher Reeve and I’ve watched that man, many times, and the second one with Christopher Reeve many, many [ Read More ] »
- Karen Benardello
Now Let's Cast the 'Justice League' Movie
8 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
For superhero fans, there's only one thing in this world that could possibly be more exciting than "The Avengers": a Justice League movie. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of DC Comics' legendary heroes, all in one film? Superhero nirvana.
With "The Avengers" blasting away box office records, that dream may finally become a reality. So we thought now would be the perfect time to reveal our dream cast for "The Justice League." Because someone needs to assemble these heroes, and it might as well be us.
Batman
Christian Bale has already announced he's done with the Bat suit, so Warner Bros. will be searching for a new Bruce Wayne to serve as the strategic mind behind the Justice League. Batman needs to be both cerebral and violently physical, emotionally withdrawn but wracked with buried demons. We know just the guy: James Franco. Think about it, and »
- Scott Harris
Time For DC To Assemble? Thn’s Guide To The Justice League Of America Movie
7 May 2012 10:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
With Marvel’S Avenegers Assemble taking an estimated $200 million in its opening weekend state side, let’s assume the superhero movie is only just getting started. Marvel Studios’ efforts have been a resounding success: expertly replicating their comic universe, expanding ever so slightly with each new movie, and culminating with Joss Whedon’s ultimate spandex-clad smackdown, proving the superhero ensemble can work. Can we now expect DC Comics to follow suit with its own super-squad, The Justice League of America?
Though DC are falling behind on big-screen solo projects, they do have an advantage: owned by Warner Bros, there will be no quibbling over character rights, and whilst Marvel will have to wait an age (and shell out big bucks) before they can include later members Spider-Man and Wolverine in their Avengers movies, DC will have no such problem. And with Marvel taking just four years to build a blockbusting franchise, »
- Tom Fordy
'The Avengers' Star Tom Hiddleston: Loki Is A 'Crazy, Gothic Rock Star'
30 April 2012 10:47 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
"The Avengers" villain Loki is menacing and mad, but the actor who plays him, Tom Hiddleston, couldn't be more charming and humble, especially about his growing (and extremely devoted) Internet following. (Did you know there are sites dedicated just to his voice and his laugh?) Hiddleston spoke to Moviefone about which movie villains have inspired him, the Tom Hiddleston Tumblrs and how Woody Allen would have directed "The Avengers." (Hiddleston played F. Scott Fitzgerald in Allen's 2011 film, "Midnight in Paris.") I blush to say it, but are you aware there's a "F-ck Yeah, Tom Hiddleston" tumblr? [Smiles] I am. And that there's also a "F-ck Yeah, Tom Hiddleston's Voice" tumblr? I'm not aware of that one. That's incredible. I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing. It's flattering, though. Yeah, enormously. It's sort of surreal. »
- Sharon Knolle
New On-The-Set Pictures from Man Of Steel
29 April 2012 4:53 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
I might have written some time earlier about my dissatisfaction (as a die-hard fan of Superman) with the casting choice for the role of Superman on big screen, post-Christopher Reeve period (may his soul rest in peace), so now that I got my hands on this set of pics, I can honestly say that my [...]
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- Sunrider
5 Things To Happen At DC After The Dark Knight Rises
25 April 2012 8:08 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With The Avengers hitting cinemas imminently, this year’s wave of superhero films is finally underway. The Superhero film has become a staple genre for the last decade or so. A large part of this is down to properties originating from Marvel Comics. Without Marvel films the genre would arguably be nowhere near as popular as it is now. With three of their films being released this year alone, it is clear that they kind of dominate the genre. You therefore feel as if DC kind of got left behind in the cinematic area. Granted they have the most successful property, but sadly that is coming to an end this year.
With the closing of Christopher Nolan’s Batman series and with The Avengers about to make close if not more than $1 billion at the box office, just where will DC go next with their cinematic ventures so they aren’t left behind. »
- Addison Crosbie
Tom Hiddleston interview: The Avengers, modern myths, playing Loki and more
25 April 2012 4:21 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
We jumped at the chance to chat to Loki himself, Tom Hiddleston, ahead of the release of The Avengers. Here’s what he had to say...
Will nothing stop Tom Hiddleston’s geek-crush level from rising? After his striking, bright-eyed turns in a variety of films, from a cringe-inducing, well-meaning upper class chap in Archipelago, to F Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris, he’s only gone and done it again with his darker, more troubled reprisal of Loki in The Avengers.
And, as if that’s not enough, last week he wrote an article for The Guardian, praising contemporary superhero movies as ‘the pinnacle of cinema’, modern-day equivalents of mythology and morality tales. This actor, it seems, is quite the believer in the power of the comic book movie.
At the Avengers press junket that same morning, we had the chance to quiz Hiddleston about the article, »
Tom Hiddleston Talks Avengers, Entertainment and an After-Life After Loki
24 April 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
We’re days away from the UK release of Avengers Assemble, and as the excitement for the movie builds to fanboy-bursting levels, we’re keeping our coverage coming.
Last week we reviewed the movie, and had a very interesting chat with Kevin Feige on the red carpet at the UK premiere. Yesterday we published our interview with Clark Gregg, better known to fans as franchise-lynchpin, Agent Coulson.
Today it’s the turn of villain of the piece, Loki – otherwise known as the very charming Tom Hiddleston, who spoke about making Loki (sort of) likeable, ridiculous outfits and treating comic book films as more than lightweight entertainment.
Joining The Cast Of Avengers Assemble
At what point did you know you were going to be the main villain in this? Was it before you read the script for Thor, was it basically clear that you’d be coming back for The Avengers? »
- Ben Mortimer
Tom Hiddleston Pens Poetic Defense Of Superhero Movies
23 April 2012 11:14 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Leave it to Tom Hiddleston to stand up for the integrity of the superhero genre.
"The Avengers" star wrote an editorial for The Guardian defending what has become one of the most popular types of movie in Hollywood. Hiddleston explained that, in his opinion, comic book movies are inventive and innovative, like the films the Lumière brothers made back at the turn of the 20th century, and should be treated as such.
"Big talk for someone in a silly superhero film, I hear you say. But superhero films offer a shared, faithless, modern mythology, through which these truths can be explored," Hiddleston wrote. "In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out."
He continued, "Superhero movies also represent the pinnacle of cinema as 'motion picture. »
- Terri Schwartz
Avengers Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Great Article Defending Superhero Films
21 April 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
I love the superhero films that are being made these days! And of course I love the superhero films of the past such as Superman, Batman among many others. These films actually served as our inspiration for starting GeekTyrant, in fact we launched the website at the same time as Jon Favreau's Iron Man.
There was a time when these comic book adaptations went through some disappointing phase with movies like Daredevil, Electra, Fantastic Four, X-Men: The Last Stand and a few others we like to tear apart. But for the most part, comic book movies are constantly evolving and getting better and better as time goes on. There's a place for these films in our lives, and they aren't going away anytime soon.
Marvel has gloriously cornered the market for these movies, and are epically adapting comics that at one point I honestly didn't think we would see so awesomely made. »
- Venkman
Tom Hiddleston: Why I love superhero movies
20 April 2012 7:05 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Superman to Batman, superhero films have much to teach us about faith and humanity – as well as being terrrific visual spectacle, writes Avengers Assemble star Tom Hiddleston
Earlier this year, beneath the wind-whipped tarpaulin of a catering tent in Gloucester, I was working on a film with the actor Malcolm Sinclair. Over scrambled eggs at an ungodly hour, he told me something I had not previously known: when Christopher Reeve was young, barely out of Juilliard, he was roundly mocked by his peers on Broadway for accepting the role of Superman. It was considered an ignoble thing for a classical actor to do.
I grew up watching Superman. As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on (my Lois Lane) from a playground bully (General Zod). Reeve, »
- Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart
Hologram Tupac: Hero Of The Week
19 April 2012 9:06 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Until Tupac Shakur appeared last weekend at Coachella, it would have been hard to think of a hologram as anything but crazy nerdy. Remember "X-Men" villain Genesis, whose mutant power was the ability to project other people's memories in the form of holograms? I didn't think so. One need not go for such a deep cut: we've got Princess "You're My Only Hope" Leia, shimmering "Harry Potter" characters inside Universal Studios' Wizarding World, and too many holodeck-focused "Star Trek" episodes to count.
But now, for better or for worse (and until Biggie Smalls or "Star Trek 2" deliver a more kickass rendering of a 3-D image), Tupac's computer-generated doppelganger reigns as the coolest hologram in pop culture. That's why Hologram Tupac is Splash Page's Hero of the Week.
Though news of Holo-pac's Coachella resurrection leaked days before he appeared at the music festival, no one actually thought it was »
- Eric Ditzian
Broadway To Continue Grabbing Hits From Hollywood
16 April 2012 11:52 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Although in the past a hit Broadway show almost inevitably led to a hit Hollywood movie, the reverse process is increasingly occurring these days, the New York Post observed on Sunday as it laid out a long list of movies that are being developed for Broadway or that have already made the schedule for fall debuts. The newspaper quoted Broadway producer Manny Azenberg as saying, “A hit film is a brand, and it gives you that recognition factor.” Ken Davenport, a producer who is currently preparing to mount the 1980 Christopher Reeve time-traveler Somewhere in Time on the Great White Way, dismisses criticism that such shows lack the creative innovation that is expected of a Broadway show that people often pay hundreds of dollars to see. He told the Post: “Totally original musicals that aren’t based on anything are unbelievably rare, and have a big failure rate. I look for source material that will make a great musical, and I don’t care if it’s from a book, a movie or a postcard!” Among the movies in the process of being transformed into stage productions are: Animal House, Back to the Future, Big Fish, Bullets over Broadway, Flashdance, and Sleepless in Seattle. »
- admin
'Man Of Steel' Star Promises 'Edgy' Superman, Just Like 'Dark Knight'
11 April 2012 12:28 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Though "Man of Steel" is more than a year away and we have many other superhero projects to keep us occupied until then, it's hard not to be interested in what form Zack Snyder's Superman project will take. It's clear that it's going to deviate in tone from the Christopher Reeve films we all know and love, but it turns out that Snyder is going to be taking Superman down a darker path.
ClevverTV got a chance to catch up with Dylan Sprayberry, the actor who plays young Clark Kent in "Man of Steel." Turns out that Snyder compared his vision of the movie to "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros's other successful DC comic book property, during their early conversations.
"When Zack [Snyder] and I were talking about it the first time, he was saying how Superman, they want to give it a more edgy feel like 'The Dark Knight' »
- Terri Schwartz
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
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