Demetri Martin Discusses His Role In Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock Demetri Martin’sImportant Thingsdebuted last night on Comedy Central and was, by most credible accounts, a really rather funny piece of work. Doing the publicity rounds to hawk the show, Martin gave several interviews and perhaps the most interesting of these was withAfter Elton’s Michael Jensen. The focus of their discussion was Martin’s lead role inTaking Woodstock, the upcomingAng Leemovie about Elliot Tiber....

DreamWorks Shuts Down Tim Minchin’s Animated Musical ‘Larrikins’ For the last four years, Australian comedian, singer, actor, director and composerTim Minchinhas been developing the DreamWorks animation musical,Larrikins. After a couple of years of hard work and hiringHugh Jackman,Margot Robbie,Ben Mendelsohn,Naomi Watts, andRose Byrneto provide voices for the movie, DreamWorks has shut the project down. Minchin and co-directorChris Miller’s (Shrek the Third) film was going to be about a marsupial exploring the Australian Outback for the first time and discovering a life-altering secret....

Fauci Trailer: An American Hero Gets His Life Story Told On Disney Yes, you read that headline correctly. Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D. is an American hero, and National Geographic will soon tell the story of his life and career, with a special focus on how he vehemently fought to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic while government officials around him acted as if everything would magically be fine. “Fauci” will premiere this week on Disney+, and the first trailer for the feature documentary has arrived....

First ‘Oldboy’ Poster Features An Image From The Spike Lee Film; Trailer Out Wednesday [Updated With New Images] Over the past several years, Park Chan-wook’sOldboyhas been established as a modern classic. The intense, surprising and violent revenge story of one man mysteriously imprisoned for years, then released out of the blue, has struck a chord with audiences worldwide. In America, however, a foreign film can unfortunately only gain so much popular traction, which is (part of) whySpike Leewas hired to direct a remake....

First Official Look: Michel Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo’ In the past few years,Michel Gondryseems to have fallen away somewhat from the playful dreaminess that characterized his earlier work likeEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,The Science of Sleep, andBe Kind Rewind. Last year’sThe Green Hornetlooked more or less like the studio superhero flick that it was, and his upcoming dramaThe We and the Iseems to have an almost documentary-ish feel to it....

Fox Pushes Back ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ To 2019; ‘The New Mutants’ Delayed Six Months X-Men: Dark Phoenixwill rise a little later than anticipated. 20th Century Fox release dates have been reshuffled, pushing back the release ofX-MenpropertiesDark PhoenixandTheNew Mutants. In the place ofX-Men: Dark Phoenix’s November 2018 release date will be the Freddie Mercury biopicBohemian Rhapsody. Fox pushed back the theatrical release dates of three of its upcoming major releases,Deadlinereported late Monday night....

Guillermo Del Toro Writing And Directing Secret Bad Robot Project ‘Zanbato’ Guillermo del Torohasn’t set up a live-action directing project since winning an Oscar forThe Shape of Water, but it looks like that’s about to change. The filmmaker is writing and directing a movie a for Paramount andJ.J. Abrams' Bad Robot which is said to be about “young female ninja”, although del Toro himself has weighed in to say that’s not 100% accurate....

Has The Fabled Undiscovered ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Easter Egg Finally Been Found? Most of the easter eggs in Marvel Studios films are pretty easy for fans to pick out. Whether it’s a shout-out to a location or character featured in the comics on which the movie is based, or maybe just anotherStan Lee cameo, it’s normally not long untila video like this onepops up to break down everything fans may have missed during their first theatrical viewing....

High Res Photos: Pixar’s Tokyo Mater Disney has sent us high resolution photos of Pixar’s new 3D short filmTokyo Mater, which will be attached toBoltbeginning December 12th. Full press release and four more photos after the jump. DISNEY•PIXAR TO PREMIERE ITS FIRST Disney Digital 3-D™ SHORT FILM Oscar®-Winner John Lasseter Directs Animated Short Based on “Cars” Character BURBANK, Calif. (Jul 13, 2025) – Disney•Pixar will premiere its first Disney Digital 3-D™ short film – “Tokyo Mater” – directed by Academy Award®-winner John Lasseter, at theaters nationwide beginning December 12....

Horror Movies Audiences Walked Out Of There are many reasons for someone to walk out of a movie. In some cases, it’s a sign that something has gone horribly wrong — the movie is boring, dull, and the walk back to the lobby sounds better than enduring another moment. In others, it’s a sign that something has gone horribly right — a movie is so intense or upsetting that it’s provoking the exact kind of visceral response a filmmaker was looking for....

How The ‘Loki’ And ‘WandaVision’ Finales Set The Stage For The Next Phase Of The MCU Even though Marvel Studios was forced to take a break from the big screen due to the coronavirus pandemic, it allowed the comic book movie studio to make waves with their new original shows on Disney+. It’s almost a blessing in disguise that Marvel’s movies were pushed back, allowingWandaVision,The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, andLokito shine....

Interview: ‘Arrival’ Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson On How You Score First Contact Arrivalis one of 2016’s best movies, an intelligent and humane science fiction epic powered by big ideas that ultimately reveals a big, beautiful, and deeply heartfelt soul. And the soundtrack to those ideas, the key to that soul, comes courtesy of composer (and two-time Academy Award nominee)Jóhann Jóhannsson. This is Jóhannsson’s third collaboration with directorDenis Villeneuve, followingPrisonersandSicario, the latter of which earned him one of those Oscar nods....

It Took More Than A Few Rejected Scripts To Find The Right Tone For American Psycho Certified modern classic “American Psycho” was up against a major challenge in its conception: adapting a beloved novel and translating it onscreen. The first step in that process, after acquiring the rights to the story, was to find the perfect screenplay to bring it to life. The script would act as a roadmap in guiding the film to its completion, and the wrong map could have led the film down the path of obsoletion....