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Amanda Seyfried Wishes She Had Intimacy Coordinators as a Teen, Let Herself Be Uncomfortable on Set: ‘I Wanted to Keep My Job’
Amanda Seyfried told Porter magazine that she purposely let herself be uncomfortable on film sets earlier in her career because she felt it was the only way to keep her job.The publication noted that the Emmy and Oscar nominee “wishes she could be coming up now, in an era where intimacy coordinators are an on-set […]
Continue readingPeter Jackson Says Amazon Ghosted Him After Asking For His Help On Their ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Prequel Series
Kiwi director Peter Jackson helped revolutionize modern studio blockbusters with his original “Lord of The Rings” trilogy, using practical effects in conjunction with newly developed CGI effects from his companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. These companies would later help bring James Cameron’s “Avatar” to life. While there were mixed reactions to “The Hobbit” critically, […]
Continue readingElijah Wood’s Lord Of The Rings Audition Was A Little Out Of The Ordinary
When it comes to casting, the stakes are never higher than when adapting a much-loved book. That’s something Peter Jackson took to heart when he embarked on the monumental quest to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy tale “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy to the big screen. The journey undertaken to create the films was a […]
Continue readingComic-Con 2022: Wakanda Forever, Sandman and Bill Murray joins the MCU
Plus 16 new Marvel projects, a Dungeons & Dragons film, the new Lord of the Rings series, a sneak peek at Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam, and Keanu Reeves returns as John WickTruly the nerds have inherited the earth, or at least Hollywood: this Comic-Con gave us the first look at the forthcoming adaptation of […]
Continue readingGoing underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue
Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explainsOne day, retired firefighter Rick Stanton got a phone call at his home in Coventry. It was Ron Howard. […]
Continue readingThinking the unthinkable: is Hollywood really going to make a sequel to Et?
Comments this week from Henry Thomas, who played Elliott in the 1982 hit, indicated that Et, wherever he is, just might be getting a call …Lord of the Rings is unfilmable; nobody will ever better Sean Connery in the role of James Bond; Top Gun will never get a sequel … a lot of unshakable […]
Continue readingTaika Waititi’s Crew Stole Equipment from ‘Hobbit’ Set for Low-Budget ‘What We Do in the Shadows’
Taika Waititi isn’t beating around the New Zealand bush when it comes to the true story behind his favorite party quip.The “Thor: Love and Thunder” writer-director revealed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that his 2014 vampire mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows,” er, borrowed, from fellow NZer Peter Jackson’s big-budget “Lord of […]
Continue readingThe ‘Wheel of Time’ Score Shreds the Fantasy Template
Enough sprawling fantasy epics have been adapted for film and TV in the past 20 years that the genre has developed a set of conventional sights and sounds. The music, for example, has its own sense of sprawl, with sweeping orchestral and choral arrangements whose influence traces back to Tolkien — or, in this case, […]
Continue reading‘Lord of The Rings’ Star Simon Merrells Leads Sci-Fi Thriller ‘A Million Days,’ Signature Selling in Cannes (Exclusive)
“The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power” star Simon Merrells and “We Hunt Together’s” Hermione Corfield will lead the sci-fi thriller “A Million Days.”Signature Entertainment (“Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts”) will introduce the film to buyers at next month’s Cannes Film Festival as part of its international sales slate. The film is the third […]
Continue readingTop Gun: Maverick Director Joseph Kosinski Shot 800 Hours Of Footage
Joseph Kosinski knows his way around a long movie. His feature films “Tron: Legacy,” “Oblivion,” and “Only the Brave” all surpass the two-hour mark, but the editing team of the highly-anticipated “Top Gun: Maverick” surely had their work cut out for them. According to an interview with Empire, Kosinski confessed to having shot around 800 […]
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