Category: Movies

The kind of games Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele like to play aren’t really the kind of games you can see on national television. But they can be advertised during a game that is. Focus Features has just released the Fifty Shades of Grey Super Bowl spot, and you can check it out after the jump.

Fifty Shades of Grey opens February 13.

Fifty Shades of Grey is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling book that has become a global phenomenon. Since its release, the “Fifty Shades” trilogy has been translated into 51 languages worldwide and sold more than 100 million copies in e-book and print—making it one of the biggest and fastest-selling book series ever.

Stepping into the roles of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, who have become iconic to millions of readers, are Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson.

Joining Dornan and Johnson in the cast are Luke Grimes as Elliot, Christian’s brother; Victor Rasuk as José, Anastasia’s close friend; Eloise Mumford as Kate, Anastasia’s best friend and roommate; Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Grace Trevelyan Grey, Christian’s mother; Rita Ora as Mia, Christian’s sister; Max Martini as Taylor, Christian’s bodyguard; Callum Keith Rennie as Ray, Anastasia’s stepfather; Jennifer Ehle as Carla, Anastasia’s mother; and Dylan Neal as Bob, Carla’s husband.

Fifty Shades of Grey is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and produced by Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti alongside E L James, the creator of the series. The screenplay for the film is by Kelly Marcel.

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2015 brings the return of the hit superhero show, Heroes. The new version is called Heroes Reborn and casting has begun to speed up for the show, which is expected to air later this year. With the Super Bowl airing on NBC, the network took the opportunity to drop a very short, very cool teaser for the show during the game. Watch the Heroes Reborn Super Bowl teaser trailer below.

Thanks to NBC for the awesome teaser.

Heroes Reborn Super Bowl Commercial

Heroes Reborn stars Jack Coleman and Zachary Levi so far. Here’s the official description:

The saga behind the 2006 breakout series Heroes will continue as creator Tim Kring returns to the fold and develops new layers to his original superhero concept. This highly anticipated 13-episode miniseries will reconnect with the basic elements of the show’s first season where ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities. This series will be preceded by a new digital series that will introduce audiences to the new characters and storylines that will take the Heroes phenomenon to new places.

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Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane return for Ted 2, in which Wahlberg plays an adult whose childhood toy has come to life — and now the sentient teddy bear wants to have a child. That poses some obvious potential problems, and the Ted 2 Super Bowl spot is kind of a mini-heist scenario showing how the duo attempts to deal with the situation. Specifically, they try to get Tom Brady to donate a little genetic material to the process… except that he doesn’t know that’s about to happen.

This spot doesn’t even get into all the real meat of the story — that Ted wants to be legally declared human, which puts him before a judge with the help of a lawyer played by Amanda Seyfried. But why waste time on that stuff when there’s a football-appropriate sequence to riff on?

Ted 2 opens on June 26.

Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow Ted writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as John Jacobs and Jason Clark.

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While everyone else was glued to the Super Bowl, Pixar’s Inside Out gang was scoping out the Puppy Bowl. Needless to say, the different emotions (voiced by Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, and Mindy Kaling) reacted in very different ways. Watch the Inside Out Puppy Bowl trailer after the jump.

Inside Out opens June 19.

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

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Jurassic World got our attention with a new Super Bowl spot today, and the film looks significantly different now than it did a couple months ago. We often wonder if effects from early trailers will be significantly changed between that trailer and the full movie. It’s rare that we get to see as quick a change as we do from the original Jurassic World theatrical trailer and this new Super Bowl spot.

Quite a few shots appear in both trailers, but more than half a dozen look at least a bit different. Some are massively changed. Check out side-by-side comparison of old and updated Jurassic World effects below.

In each pair of images below, the original is on the left and the updated is on the right. In the gallery view, each is also marked new, or original. These shots are all taken from the YouTube postings of each trailer on Universal’s official YouTube account. They are as close to exact frame to frame comparisons as possible, though with YouTube it is sometimes difficult to grab exact 1:1 comparison shots.

Click the shots for enlarged gallery views.

OK, first pair doesn’t have huge differences, but you’ll see some lighting tweaks, and better details.

But this second pair is hugely different, with a totally re-composed background that alters the park’s geography and architecture, altered water effects, and more subtle lighting.

This shot is a good callback to the original film. In the new version, there are more dinos, and the lighting is slightly softened.

These two shots are very similar from old trailer to new, but you’ll notice some lighting tweaks.

Remember this shot from the first trailer? Now we know what the people were running from. The pterodactyl attack is one of the big moments in the new trailer, but surprise! It was in the first trailer, in very unfinished form.

The primary difference here is lighting, which you’ll notice is softer, revealing more detail in the velociraptors.

But the lighting changes in previous shots are nothing compared to this. There’s far more light in this shot now, revealing more of the velociraptors and also Chris Pratt’s character.

And, once again, a huge lighting change, and there’s also far less foliage in the way of the shot. Presumably the raptors are more finished, and can be shown in better light.

Of course, there are also many new shots in the Super Bowl trailer, which you can see here. What else did we miss in the updated effects? And if these changes have been made in the past few weeks, how much more can we expect to see between now and the final release?

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After a brief Sundance break, the Bits are back! Which other Marvel film has Joss Whedon thought about directing? Is there another character Terry Crews wants to play? Did an Ant-Man Lego set reveal a massive spoiler? Where can you see Agent Carter interacting with Hank Pym? What’s shown in a new preview for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? How many scenes does Lois Lane have with Batman in Batman v Superman? Read about all this and more in the return of Superhero Bits. 

A Lego Avengers video game is on the way, via The Brick Fan.

In his latest Reddit AMA, Terry Crews says he wants to play Silver Surfer.

Please RT: An 11 year old girl writes to @DCComics – Girls read comics too, and they care. http://t.co/P6fhuHPDYa pic.twitter.com/gxqUDGlEBm

— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) January 28, 2015

This is so super cool.

A description of an Ant-Man Lego set may have revealed a massive spoiler.

Check out this Nerf Thor Hammer.

Deadpool will most likely be rated PG-13, and that’s okay.

Reed Pop is offering some last chance deals on a ton of super cool Marvel merchandise.

Joss Whedon won’t rule out possibly directing Captain Marvel, but more than likely wants to create his own thing first.

Continue Reading Superhero Bits >>

Due to the amount of graphics and images included in Superhero Bits, we have to split this post over THREE pages. Click the link above to continue to the second page of Superhero Bits.

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Friday night in Los Angeles, the Hero Complex Gallery is doing a show called Young Guns. It’s comprised solely of “emerging & rising artists,” each of whom did a series of at least three images all themed together. We’ve already shown you Tracie Ching’s Quentin Tarantino pieces and now, we wanted to give you a quick preview of the remainder of the show. It’s a huge, impressive collection of work that will be on display beginning January 30 in Los Angeles. Check out some previews below.

The Young Guns show will be on display Friday, January 30th, 7 – 10pm. Online Sales will begin Saturday, January 31st at about 1 p.m. at this link: http://hcgart.com/collections/youngguns2. It’ll remain on display for a few weeks from Wednesday through Sunday, 11am – 6pm.

This is just a small preview. Mouse over each for more info.

Young Guns Art Show

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J.C. Chandor, who raced from Margin Call to All Is Lost to A Most Violent Year, has left the director’s chair of the upcoming film Deepwater Horizon. The reason? Our old friend “creative differences,” at least as far as the official knowledge base goes. Now, coming in to replace him, is Peter Berg, whose most recent film was Lone Survivor. The link to the new Deepwater Horizon director may be Mark Wahlberg, who is set to star in the film, and was also the lead in Lone Survivor.

The Wrap reports; Lionsgate and Participant Media are backing the film, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing.

The film is based on the New York Times article ‘Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hour’ by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul, which chronicled how the explosion on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig in 2010 killed 11 people, injured 17 more, and spilled oil into the gulf for months.

Liam Neeson and Michael Keaton may also end up co-starring in the new movie, which follows the events of the 2010 BP oil spill. Mark Wahlberg will play Mike Williams, who was the supervisor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, after which the movie is obviously named. We don’t know what the roles for Neeson and Keaton might be.

Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote Berg’s film The Kingdom, is scripting.

Deepwater Horizon is set for release on September 30, 2016.

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Many people today don’t realize it, but much of modern comedy was born at the National Lampoon. John Hughes, Al Jean, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Landis, Ivan Reitman and John Belushi are just some of the famous names who got their start through something related to the once-popular humor magazine, created in 1970.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, directed by Douglas Tirola, tells the complete history of this incredible brand. Simultaneously, the film documents much of the humor we love today: Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, and more. Below, read the rest of our Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead review.

The best thing Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead has going for it is the energy and humor of the National Lampoon. The film moves along at an MTV pace, bombarding the viewer with hilarious images, headlines and articles from the decades of the magazine. The talking heads are equally impressive: names like Chase, Landis, Reitman, Belushi’s widow Judy Belushi Pisano, Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon, Tim Matheson, Billy Bob Thornton and many more. There’s always something funny on the screen, even if it doesn’t quite mesh with the story being told.

That story follows Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard, the two friends who started the National Lampoon after attending Harvard and built it into a massive empire. Each man was a brilliant talent, but they were very different from one another, and their personalities are sort of the backbone of the film. Kenney provides the wild, over-the-top energy. Beard is the more organized and quiet rock of the organization. Those two tones pretty much sum up the movie, very serious on one hand, but also crazy.

The film then gets into the massively influential National Lampoon radio show, stage plays, and eventually Animal House and Caddyshack, which kind of changed everything in different ways. Along the way, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead also takes time to step back and reveal how the humor in the Lampoon was perfect for its time. It’s very thorough.

If you know anything about the National Lampoon, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, probably won’t blow you away. But I didn’t, so it did, and no matter what, the film is a must-watch for anyone interested in the history of pop culture.

/Film rating: 8 of 10

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When it comes to superhero movies, fans are sticklers. They don’t want the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films to link to the Tobey Maguire films. That wouldn’t make sense. They get angry when a studio casts the Human Torch as Captain America. How can one actor be both? The lone exception in all of this might be J. Jonah Jameson, played by J.K. Simmons. There’s no other character and actor pair that fans are not only willing to accept crossing film “universes” — they demand it.

The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb got around this by not including the character in his films at all, but in a new interview, Simmons said he’s heard Spider-Man might be coming back. And he’d love to return, too. Read and listen to the J.K. Simmons Spider Man quotes below.

Simmons appeared on the January 28th episode of Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show. At the very end, he was asked about Spider-Man. You can hear the interview at this link, but here’s the conversation:

Stern: Hey, we doing another [Spider-Man] or what?

Simmons: I just heard that we…that’s a possibility.

Stern: Would you do it?

Simmons: Absolutely.

The fact Simmons is interested in reprising the character isn’t that big of a deal. What is a big deal is he said he heard it’s a possibility that there’s another Spider-Man movie. Here’s the issue though. Is he just referring to what we’ve all heard about some kind of new film coming out, be it Amazing Spider-Man 3, an animated version, Sinister Six or something else? Or is Simmons talking about something behind the scenes we don’t know about? Something that he’d be a part of? It’s not 100% clear but is open to both interpretations for sure.

In the case of Spider-Man, where the main character himself is up in the air, I tend to believe Simmons is talking in more general terms. J. Jonah Jameson would probably not be the first person to hear about a new Spider-Man movie. Unless, because he’s on the Oscar tour, he’s spoken to some Sony/Marvel bigwigs.

What do you think Simmons is referring to here?

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