Opening in limited release on April 5th and wide release on April 12th is the new drama thriller entitled Trance from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting). The film stars an excellent cast that includes James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City).
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Rosario Dawson to talk about her work on Trance, as well as her upcoming sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. The stunningly beautiful actress discussed her new film, what it is like on a Danny Boyle set, her string female character, and learning hypnotism from Mrs. Brady (Florence Henderson), as well as reuniting with director Robert Rodriguez on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the upcoming sequel to Sin City.
Opening in theaters on April 5th is the highly anticipated new horror film Evil Dead, which is a remake of director Sam Raimi's classic The Evil Dead trilogy starring Bruce Campbell. The new movie was written and directed by Fede Alvarez, and features Jane Levy (Nobody Walks), Shiloh Fernandez (Skateland), Lou Taylor Pucci (Beginners), Jessica Lucas (Cloverfield), and newcomer Elizabeth Blackmore.
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with director Fede Alvarez and actress Jane Levy to talk about their work on Evil Dead, as well as the recently announced sequel. The filmmaker discussed his new movie, how he decided which elements to include from the original series, having Easter eggs for the fans, incorporating shots from the first film as "Sam Raimi cameos," currently working on the script for the sequel, that it won't be a remake of Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn but rather it's own stand alone movie, and how this new series actually lives in the same cinematic universe as the original trilogy, while Levy talked about not being familiar with the franchise, never seeing Evil Dead II, the tree rape scene, how her character's drug addiction helped ground this film in a certain reality, and her favorite classic moment from the original movie to recreate.
Opening in limited release on April 5th and wide release on April 12th is the new drama thriller entitled Trance from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting). The film stars an excellent cast that includes James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City).
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with James McAvoy via satellite from London to talk about his work on Trance, as well as the upcoming sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past. The popular actor discussed his new film, why he wanted to work with director Danny Boyle and what the process is like, the film's strong "old school" caper-type script, and his research into hypnotism, as well as his upcoming sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, reuniting with his X-Men: First Class cast members, working with the original X-Men series actors, having scenes with Sir Patrick Stewart but not Sir Ian McKellen, just reading the script for the first time the day before, and why fans and new audiences alike will enjoy the upcoming movie.
At WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim, California on Saturday, actor/director/co-writer Seth Rogan (The Guilt Trip), director/co-writer Evan Goldberg (The Green Hornet), appeared in front of a packed arena crowd to discuss their upcoming comedy film This Is The End, which also stars Danny McBride (30 Minutes or Less), Craig Robinson (Escape from Planet Earth), James Franco (Oz the Great and Powerful), Paul Rudd (This Is 40), Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street), Jason Segal (The Muppets), Michael Cera (Superbad), Jay Baruchel (Goon), Aziz Ansari (30 Minutes or Less) and Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1).
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick had a chance to speak with Seth Rogan, and Evan Goldberg before the panel on Saturday about the possibility of making a sequel to The Green Hornet. The actor and his writing/directing partner confirmed that they have absolutely no interest in making a sequel to their super hero film and explained why they are much happier working on smaller budgeted films like This Is The End.
At WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim, California on Saturday, actor Craig Robinson (Escape from Planet Earth) appeared in front of a packed arena crowd to discuss his upcoming comedy This Is The End, which was co-written and co-directed by Seth Rogan (The Guilt Trip) and Evan Goldberg (The Green Hornet), and in addition to Rogan and Robinson also stars James Franco (Oz the Great and Powerful), Paul Rudd (This Is 40), Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street), Jason Segal (The Muppets), Michael Cera (Superbad), Jay Baruchel (Goon), Aziz Ansari (30 Minutes or Less) and Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1).
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick had a chance to speak with Craig Robinson before the panel on Saturday about the status of his next project Hot Tub Time Machine 2, which is a sequel to the popular 2010 comedy. The funny actor talked about the upcoming film, confirmed that while the deal is not done he will return for the sequel and that shooting begins in June.
Vin Diesel has spoken. He hath declared that the seventh installment in the Fast & Furious franchise will commence production this summer.
Then he amended his declaration to be less emphatic. But as you and I know, attempting to remove from the internet is like training to strain pee from a pool.
Hail to the king, baby!
With Evil Dead, a remake to the groundbreaking horror classic, opening on April 5th, rumors about the future of the franchise have been circulating for several weeks now. At the new film’s recent SXSW premiere, director Fede Alvarez announced that a sequel to his remake was in the works. While the original trilogy’s director Sam Raimi admitted during his press tour for Oz the Great and Powerful, that he was planning on writing a forth installment of the franchise with his brother Ivan. At first, the proposed film was considered to be entitled Evil Dead 4, but was later confirmed to actually be Army of Darkness 2, a direct sequel to the final film in the original series.
Today, at WonderCon 2013 during a panel presentation for Evil Dead, Alvarez and producer/original series star Bruce Campbell announced that their ultimate plan would be for Alvarez’s Evil Dead 2 and Raimi’s Army of Darkness 2 to be followed by a seventh movie that merges the narratives of both films and include the characters of Ash (Campbell) and Mia (Jane Levy). Campbell was even quoted as saying, “I think seven is a nice number.”
However, when I had a chance to speak with actor/producer Bruce Campbell right before the panel, he seemed less enthused with the possibilities of a sequel to Army of Darkness and reprising his legendary role as Ash. The following is my conversation with Campbell about the proposed sequel, why he is so skeptical, and how he feels about returning to play his beloved character. I also had a chance to ask him about proposed sequels to two of his other popular films, Bruce vs. Frankenstein, which is a follow up to ‘2007s My Name is Bruce. As well as Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, a sequel to ‘2002s Bubba Ho-tep, a movie that up until this point the actor has stated he had no interest in making.
Judy Greer is a phenomenally talented actress, a beautiful woman with surgical comedic instincts.
She'll be putting those instincts to use in her first major motion-capture role as Cornelia, the lead female chimpanzee in next year's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Opening in theaters on March 28th is the new action film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which is a sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and based on Hasbo's popular line of toys, comic books, and cartoon series. The movie was directed by Jon M. Chu (Justin Bieber: Never Say Never), and features returning stars Channing Tatum (Haywire), Ray Park (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace), Byung-hun Lee (I Saw the Devil), Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy), and Jonathan Pryce (Tomorrow Never Dies), as well as newcomers to the franchise such as Dwayne Johnson (Fast Five), Adrianne Palicki (Red Dawn), D.J. Cotrona (Dear John), Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone), Elodie Yung (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists), and Bruce Willis (A Good Day to Die Hard).
IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with D.J. Cotrona to talk about his role in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The popular actor discussed the new film, why it has a different tone than the original, playing the pivotal role of Flint, how he's been a fan of the character since he was a kid, telling Flint's origin story, having Duke pass the torch to him during the course of the film, the importance of Flint and Lady Jaye's (Palicki) romance to the franchise's mythology, his concerns when he heard that the director of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never was directing the film, what he learned from working with Bruce Willis, why Dwayne Johnson is the nicest guy in Hollywood, and which obscure G.I. Joe characters he would like to see pop up in a possible sequel.
With less than two months until the twelfth Star Trek film spills its secrets on May 17th, we have a pair of new stills from Star Trek Into Darkness.