https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfybDxplPw Hot off a #1 wide release debut, a Best Picture - Drama win at the Golden Globes, and on the cusp of major Oscar nominations, Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) finds his new World War I epic 1917 one of the most buzzed about films of the awards season. At the core [...]
https://youtu.be/Nz9lnIDdkMo "We're going to show what it's really like to be a Top Gun pilot." So says producer Jerry Bruckheimer about the long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick, and here's the behind-the-scenes featurette to prove it. In an age where everyone makes the default assumption that what they're watching in a blockbuster is a digitally animated, [...]
Be careful what you click on. In two new promo videos for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, one is a sentimental tear-jerker while the other is, in its way, a spoiler. Both will trigger your emotions but in very different ways. The first, titled "The Final Conclusion", is another Skywalker Saga retrospective. Director J. [...]
One the eve of the first trailer (now live, watch here), Lin-Manuel Miranda helps debut five clips (see below) from the film adaptation of In The Heights, his first Tony Award winner for Best Musical before Hamilton. Cast members Anthony Ramos (Usnavi), Leslie Grace (Nina) and Dascha Polanco (Cuca) join him in tweeting first-look footage [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVu1eFiseA&t=0s Another day, another promo piece for The Rise of Skywalker. Today, straight from the Star Wars panel at CCXP (a.k.a. 2019 Comic Con Experience) in São Paulo, Brazil, is a two-minute featurette. It focuses on the friendships forged between the three new central actors of the final trilogy -- Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mml9IGoDia8 Star Wars has left a legacy unparalleled in popular culture, and the marketing team from Lucasfilm taps into our reservoir of sentiment for the beloved space epic in this latest "Special Look" promo. Before you go see the final chapter, here's a brief look back at how the Star Wars saga has permeated our [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0UpRNq1xg A beautiful day in the multiplex is almost here, with a new behind-the-scenes featurette to help remind us. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, inspired by the true story of a reporter whose life wass changed while doing a feature on Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks), has garnered exactly the kind of nostalgic accolades you'd [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7TlaXDPrg What gives "the happiest place on earth" its magic? We're about to find out, directly from the source. Disney World / Disneyland is about to take us behind the curtain to show us how the magic is made. The Disney+ documentary The Imagineering Story will give us a backstage pass to the biggest attractions [...]
And that's a wrap. Filming for Steven Spielberg's highly-anticipated adaptation of West Side Story is now complete. To mark the occasion, the legendary director tweeted out new images along with a note of thank you's to the cast and crew. (See below) Spielberg is known for his effusive excitement, but even by that reputation his [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSjs2hBa94 Step aside, Birdman. Sam Mendes is taking the feature-length one-shot approach outdoors and into war. 1917, co-written and directed by Mendes (an Academy-Award winner for American Beauty and helmer of hits like Skyfall), is the story of two British soliders during World War I who are sent on a dangerous mission across the European [...]
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