“You know this story” Igor tells us as the curtain goes up on Victor Frankenstein, another reincarnation of the good doctor’s experiments in bringing the dead to life. In seeking to give oxygen to the well-worn tale, writer Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) concerns himself with the relationship between Victor (James McEvoy) and Igor (Daniel Radcliffe), a meeting of brilliant minds that bond over the ability to affect and change life through medicine and science. The film peddles back to the moment of their first meeting, as Igor, then a nameless hunchback and abused circus freak is rescued by Victor when he comes in search of dead animals for his latest project. Really Igor is Frankenstein’s first true creation, curing him in the most revolting fashion of his hunched back, marking just the beginning of their grotesque practices. McAvoy and Radcliffe make for a winning team, the Walter...
- 12/2/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Clare Daly)
- www.themoviebit.com
Nobody seems to enjoy teasing fans on Instagram as much as Bryan Singer. In the past he.s posted short clips and images from the set of the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. Well, he.s at it again. Although to be fair this time he.s not teasing us with an image so much as teasing us with a teaser. The director is in the studio putting the first teaser together probably right this minute. Back in the cutting room w #johnottman teaser coming soon. A photo posted by Bryan Singer (@bryanjaysinger) on Nov 2, 2015 at 1:11pm Pst While the image posted does give us a single frame of the movie in the background, it isn.t anything particularly earth shattering. If you didn.t already know James McEvoy was in the movie, then apparently that.s a spoiler, sorry. He still has his hair in that scene, so that.s...
- 11/3/2015
- cinemablend.com
Having written last week about the movies I saw this last summer and really enjoyed, I might as well this week talk about what’s coming up in the movie theaters between now and the end of the year. Which ones look interesting and which ones I’m really looking forward to.
The latter is the easiest to identify – Star Wars Episode VII, The Force Awakens – and the next entry in the James Bond saga, Spectre.
Star Wars is a gimme. I’ve been a Star Wars fans for a loooooong time and I labored in George Lucas’s vineyard for about ten years, doing a passel of comics. Yes, those are now in the process of being taken out of continuity but, Otoh, they were never A Canon, which meant Lucas could disregard them at any moment.
The Force Awakens is going to do what I really wanted after...
The latter is the easiest to identify – Star Wars Episode VII, The Force Awakens – and the next entry in the James Bond saga, Spectre.
Star Wars is a gimme. I’ve been a Star Wars fans for a loooooong time and I labored in George Lucas’s vineyard for about ten years, doing a passel of comics. Yes, those are now in the process of being taken out of continuity but, Otoh, they were never A Canon, which meant Lucas could disregard them at any moment.
The Force Awakens is going to do what I really wanted after...
- 9/13/2015
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
One of the most impressive and squee-worthy panels for attendees of Comic-Con 2013 last weekend was the panel for X-Men Days of Future Past. The very fact that it took place was the first surprise, since the schedule entry for 20th Century Fox gave absolutely no details as to which movie would receive Comic-Con panel treatment.
Fox’s first panel of the day was in support of next weekend’s The Wolverine, and to help get us all revved up for it was the star, Hugh Jackman. As if you didn’t know. Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine has actually now been featured in six movies, seven by next summer; he landed the role 14 years ago. He also appeared before our eyes in Hall H:
Jackman promised that in The Wolverine will be “you’ll finally get to see the berserker rage in full,” and that his claws are more destructive than we’ve seen before.
Fox’s first panel of the day was in support of next weekend’s The Wolverine, and to help get us all revved up for it was the star, Hugh Jackman. As if you didn’t know. Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine has actually now been featured in six movies, seven by next summer; he landed the role 14 years ago. He also appeared before our eyes in Hall H:
Jackman promised that in The Wolverine will be “you’ll finally get to see the berserker rage in full,” and that his claws are more destructive than we’ve seen before.
- 7/22/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
According to director Bryan Singer, currently in Montreal shooting the new Fox super-mutant feature "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", actor Omar Sy has been cast as 'Bishop' and Booboo Stewart as 'Warpath'.
Created by writer Whilce Portacio and illustrator Jim Lee, 'Bishop' aka 'Lucas Bishop', debuted in Marvel Comics' "Uncanny X-Men" #282 (1991), as a member of 'Xavier's Security Enforcers', a mutant police force from a dystopian future of the Marvel Universe, who traveled to the 20th century and joined the 'X-Men'.
A brash antihero, Bishop had difficulty adjusting to the norms of the time period. After a decade and a half of acting as a member of the team, Bishop eventually became one of the X-Men's main antagonists.
Bishop's mutant ability enables him to absorb all forms of radiant or conductive energy directed towards him and to release that energy from his body. This power is passive,...
Created by writer Whilce Portacio and illustrator Jim Lee, 'Bishop' aka 'Lucas Bishop', debuted in Marvel Comics' "Uncanny X-Men" #282 (1991), as a member of 'Xavier's Security Enforcers', a mutant police force from a dystopian future of the Marvel Universe, who traveled to the 20th century and joined the 'X-Men'.
A brash antihero, Bishop had difficulty adjusting to the norms of the time period. After a decade and a half of acting as a member of the team, Bishop eventually became one of the X-Men's main antagonists.
Bishop's mutant ability enables him to absorb all forms of radiant or conductive energy directed towards him and to release that energy from his body. This power is passive,...
- 4/25/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek a new picture of Oscar-winner Halle Berry as the weather controlling mutant 'Storm', tweeted from director Bryan Singer as he shoots "X-Men: Days Of Future Past".
Plus take a look at the animated "X-Men" TV series, showcasing the "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", for those unfamiliar with the story arc of the upcoming film.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the animated "X-Men: Days Of Future Past"...
Plus take a look at the animated "X-Men" TV series, showcasing the "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", for those unfamiliar with the story arc of the upcoming film.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the animated "X-Men: Days Of Future Past"...
- 4/23/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek the first picture of 'The Beast' (Nicholas Hoult) tweeted from director Bryan Singer as he preps "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", plus take a look at the animated "X-Men" TV series, showcasing the storyline of "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", for those unfamiliar with the story arc of the upcoming film.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the animated "X-Men: Days Of Future Past"...
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the animated "X-Men: Days Of Future Past"...
- 4/6/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Every now and again a movie comes along that leaves you mesmerised. So mesmerised in fact, that you’ll be hanging on every single frame that appears on screen.And that latest movie from Danny Boyle, Trance, is just the movie to all of the above and much more. Without delving into spoiler land, Trance follows the tale of an art auctioneer (James McEvoy) who gets mixed up with a bunch of criminals, which enlist a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson) to help recover a lost painting that McEvoy’s character can’t remember where he last left it. To go into any more detail here will have the spoiler police hurtling through my back door, but this brief plot synopsis is only the tip of the ice berg. There is alot going on in Trance, and while the idea is straight forward, the journey Danny Boyle takes his audience on is...
- 3/30/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Review Paul Martinovic 22 Mar 2013 - 06:38
Danny Boyle's new film, Trance, has lots of ambition, but lots of problems, reports Paul...
There are things that feel seismically important at their moment in time, then fade in the memory as the years go by, their artifice and unremarkable nature suddenly apparent when plucked from their initial context.
The opening ceremony for the Olympics is not one of these things. It was spectacular then when I watched it in a garden in Hackney with all of my friends, initially sceptical, then awed by the spectacle, tickled by Bond and the Queen, weirdly moved by Mr Bean then completely won over by the NHS celebration, before heading onto the roof to watch the entire horizon explode into fireworks and generally radiate with the feeling that we (with we pertaining to us as individuals, our friendship groups and respective relationships, and the whole...
Danny Boyle's new film, Trance, has lots of ambition, but lots of problems, reports Paul...
There are things that feel seismically important at their moment in time, then fade in the memory as the years go by, their artifice and unremarkable nature suddenly apparent when plucked from their initial context.
The opening ceremony for the Olympics is not one of these things. It was spectacular then when I watched it in a garden in Hackney with all of my friends, initially sceptical, then awed by the spectacle, tickled by Bond and the Queen, weirdly moved by Mr Bean then completely won over by the NHS celebration, before heading onto the roof to watch the entire horizon explode into fireworks and generally radiate with the feeling that we (with we pertaining to us as individuals, our friendship groups and respective relationships, and the whole...
- 3/21/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Sneak Peek director Bryan Singer, talking about the next "X-Men" movie, "X-Men: Days Of Future Past", scheduled to start shooting in Montreal mid-April 2013.
The new film will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Most of the cast have worked in Montreal before, including Berry in "Gothika" (2003), Jackman in "The Fountain" (2006) and Hoult in the 2012 horror comedy "Warm Bodies".
Canada has traditionally been home for the Fox "X-Men" films, including "X-Men" shot in Toronto, "X-Men 2: X-Men United" in Toronto and Vancouver and "X-Men: The Last Stand" in Vancouver. Several sequences for the first stand-alone "Wolverine" movie were also lensed in Vancouver.
The new film will star Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Halle Berry, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, James McEvoy, Peter Dinklage and Canadian actors Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore.
Singer, who previously directed two "X-Men" movies for Fox, will shoot the new film @ the Montreal studio complex, Mel’s Cité du Cinema.
Most of the cast have worked in Montreal before, including Berry in "Gothika" (2003), Jackman in "The Fountain" (2006) and Hoult in the 2012 horror comedy "Warm Bodies".
Canada has traditionally been home for the Fox "X-Men" films, including "X-Men" shot in Toronto, "X-Men 2: X-Men United" in Toronto and Vancouver and "X-Men: The Last Stand" in Vancouver. Several sequences for the first stand-alone "Wolverine" movie were also lensed in Vancouver.
- 3/13/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: Andrea Riseborough has joined the cast of Birdman, from Biutiful and Babel director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The dark comedy centers on a former actor, famous for playing a superhero, who attempts a career revival by directing a Broadway play and finds his efforts stymied by an egotistical lead actor. Riseborough will play the role of Laura. She joins Michael Keaton, who stars as the former actor, and Ed Norton, whose casting was announced yesterday. She will next be seen March 27 in Welcome To The Punch with James McEvoy and opposite Tom Cruise in Oblivion, which bows April 19.
- 3/7/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
James McEvoy has said that he would love to play legendary wizard Gandalf. The character, who features heavily in Jrr Tolkien's most famous works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, has been made famous by Sir Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson's screen adaptations. Total Film reports that the X-Men: First Class star revealed that he would like the role should there be any prequels to the recent films. Revealing an in-depth knowledge of Tolkien's work, he specifically referenced the possibility of appearing in something adapted from Tolkien anthology The Silmarillion. (more)...
- 1/6/2013
- by By Paul Martinovic
- Digital Spy
Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart have signed on for new X-Men movie Days of Future Past. The film, a follow-up to the 2011 prequel X-Men: First Class, will feature Michael Fassbender and James McEvoy in the roles of Magneto and Professor X respectively. However, director Bryan Singer, who makes a return to the franchise after directing the first two entries in the series, has announced that McKellan and Stewart will also be making a return. He tweeted: "Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @SirPatStew are joining the cast of #Xmen #DaysOfFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come.." (more)...
- 11/27/2012
- by By Paul Martinovic
- Digital Spy
Howard Berger features in a new documentary called Nightmare Factory, which showcases some of the best make-up effects he has created over the years with Greg Nicotero - his business partner at K.N.B. Effects Group. Together, they have worked on some of the biggest movies in the history of Hollywood, such as Evil Dead II, Pulp Fiction and From Dusk Till Dawn.
Read more about the documentary in the new October-November (#149) issue of If magazine.
If Magazine: What have been the highlights of your career so far?
Hb: I still treasure the time I spent on Army of Darkness and remember the experience as some of my best days in film. I also really enjoyed working on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But I have to say that Hitchcock, which I have worked on recently, was a surprisingly dream project for me. It was...
Read more about the documentary in the new October-November (#149) issue of If magazine.
If Magazine: What have been the highlights of your career so far?
Hb: I still treasure the time I spent on Army of Darkness and remember the experience as some of my best days in film. I also really enjoyed working on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But I have to say that Hitchcock, which I have worked on recently, was a surprisingly dream project for me. It was...
- 10/11/2012
- by Rodney Appleyard
- IF.com.au
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