Tag: Mad Max
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George Miller Took A Page From The Buster Keaton Playbook For Mad Max: Fury Road
An age in which the use of CGI reigns supreme in Hollywood blockbusters means that audiences tend to be less impressed about the scale of imaginary worlds and the scope of action-packed battles, but “Mad Max: Fury Road” stands out as a milestone achievement in practical effects and visual storytelling. The film feels both groundbreaking…
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How to Watch Three Thousand Years of Longing: Where to Watch the Movie
The next big George Miller adventure arrives today with the film Three Thousand Years of Longing. The mastermind behind Mad Max and Happy Feet is bringing out the new fantasy drama seven years after his last critically acclaimed film Mad Max: Fury Road. Back in 2018, Miller announced his plans for a new epic film…
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George Miller Tried to Cast Tilda Swinton in ‘Furiosa,’ Calls Actress ‘One of the Wisest People I’ve Ever Known’
George Miller went in a dramatically different direction for his “Mad Max: Fury Road” followup, opting to make “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a two-hander starring Tilda Swinton as a woman confronted by a Djinn (Idris Elba). But now, with that film out of his system, the 77-year-old is preparing to return to the “Mad…
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Three Thousand Years of Longing review – Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in Mad Max: fairy overload
George Miller’s belated followup to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a consciously unfashionable fantasy about a wary academic and a chatty genie that may leave you wishing for moreGrant the Mad Max fans a magic wish and they’d conjure up a new film from George Miller, right here and right now, not a moment…
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‘A fetish party in the desert’: the making of Mad Max: Fury Road
It is hailed as one of the greatest action movies ever, but making Mad Max: Fury Road was far from easy. Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, director George Miller and a huge cast of creatives recall what went down in the Namib desertPlenty of movies claim to be mad and filled with fury, taking it to…
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Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron’s Intense Chemistry on ‘Mad Max’ Made Casting Director Crash Her Car
The path to “Fury Road” is paved with off-the-charts sexual chemistry.While casting “Mad Max: Fury Road” took years, casting director Ronna Kress knew that Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy were the perfect actors to play Furiosa and Mad Max, respectively.Despite Hardy wowing in his audition — and beating out other actors like Michael Fassbender, Armie…
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Exits Mad Max Spin-Off Furiosa, Tom Burke Steps In
George Miller’s “Furiosa” prequel movie has just replaced one of its key drivers.According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has hired actor Tom Burke to replace Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who had to leave the project due to a scheduling conflict. The report says Abdul-Mateen has been developing a secret passion project for a while and when that…
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s ‘Furiosa’ Prep: ‘Become Strong Enough’ Mentally to Carry the Entire Movie
Anya Taylor-Joy is in prep on George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa” ahead of filming next year, and she’s already loving getting the chance to work with the Oscar-nominated director. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly to promote Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” Taylor-Joy called Miller “incredibly generous and so passionate.” Taylor-Joy is taking…
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Prisoners of the Ghostland review – testicle-detonating Nicolas Cage sci-fi
Nicolas Cage teams up with Japanese enfant terrible director Sion Sono for an entertaining post-apocalyptic mashupCult Japanese film-maker Sion Sono never shies away from an opportunity to shock and surprise with lashings of gore, weirdness and lurid, louche lunacy. Nicolas Cage, meanwhile (now practically a cult himself), loves to rage, bellow and glower in offbeat…
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Mad Max Spin-Off Furiosa Pushed Back One Year, Salem’s Lot To Haunt Theaters Next September
We’ve got some good news and some bad news on the release date front. The good news is, “Mad Max: Furiosa,” the long-awaited prequel to “Mad Max: Fury Road,” has a new release date. The bad news is it’s a whole lot further away than was previously expected. But in further good news for Stephen…