X-Men: Apocalypse stars build their ideal mutant garage band

X-Men: Apocalypse stars build their ideal mutant garage band.

The mutants of X-Men: Apocalypse may make a great crime-fighting team, but according to the cast, they might make an even better band. Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Lana Condor, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, and writer Simon Kinberg sat down with EW to pick which of the X-Men they’d want by their side as a presidential running mate, as a partner on The Amazing Race, and as a brunch companion. But the question that sparked the most discussion? Which mutant they’d want to form a band with.

“If I were going to be in a garage band with anyone, I’m gonna get Sophie [Turner], because Sophie is on them vocals,” Shipp said. “I’d go for Evan because I feel like he kind of plays the bass. I would also, finally, go with Michael [Fassbender] because Michael has the voice of a frickin’ angel.” “Like a male siren,” Peters added. “Lures you in.”

source: www.ew.com

'Alice Through the Looking Glass' is more blunder than wonder

'Alice Through the Looking Glass' is more blunder than wonder.

Alice Through the Looking Glass.

“Alice Through the Looking Glass” is a movie for anyone who ever skimmed a passage of Lewis Carroll and thought, “This is great, but it could use a bit more ‘Terminator.’”

In Disney’s crass, pointless sequel to its similarly crass, pointless “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), our heroine doesn’t just tumble down a rabbit hole or step through a magic mirror. Availing herself of an early DeLorean prototype called the Chronosphere, Alice (played again by Mia Wasikowska) goes careening back and forth through time, embarking on a frenzied quest to save her friend the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) by plumbing his messy family history and correcting the mistakes of the past.

It’s a pity she doesn’t set the device for 2007: Perhaps she might have retroactively persuaded the director Tim Burton and the decision-makers at Disney to spare us the further desecration of a literary classic. Their live-action “Alice in Wonderland” was less an adaptation of its source material — which included both Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” (1871) — than an exercise in what the Mock Turtle memorably termed “Uglification.” A gloppy-looking 3-D eyesore weighed down by noisy action sequences and other soul-deadening focus-group notions of what kids want from their fantasy entertainment, the movie reproduced none of Carroll’s cleverness, imagination or mastery of language, or even the easygoing charm of Disney’s 1951 animated version.

Still, it was enough of a box-office hit to garner a follow-up, this time under the direction of James Bobin (who directed the two most recent “Muppets” movies). Burton's devotees will be relieved to learn that, even in his absence, “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is a feast of garishly overwrought, effects-encrusted production design. Meanwhile, the returning screenwriter Linda Woolverton (best remembered for “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King”) has again plundered elements from Carroll’s books and reshuffled them into a pedestrian narrative, replacing his sui generis nonsense with her own strenuously unimaginative and literal-minded storytelling.

Picking up more or less where its predecessor left off — and no, I couldn’t remember where, either — the film begins with Alice on the high seas, captaining her late father’s ship, the Wonder, through perilous waters in search of trade routes to China (reintroducing a perhaps unintended metaphor for the global challenges presently facing the movie industry). As played by Wasikowska with grown-up, no-nonsense seriousness, Alice is a trailblazing explorer and a Victorian-era role model: Decked out in the latest in 19th century Sino chic, she is beset on all sides by sneering men who want to either marry her or see her fail.

From there, the story quickly whisks Alice through the proverbial looking glass and back to Wonderland — or Underland, as it is inconsistently referred to here. Before long she is reunited with the ethereally ditzy White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) and the imperious butterfly Absolem (occasioning a few poignant final line readings from Alan Rickman). Her old friends are happy to see her, as it seems only Alice can cure the Mad Hatter of his recent descent into catatonic depression.

As a rule, unless you’re Spike Jonze adapting Maurice Sendak, it’s not a great idea to turn your fantasy-world characters into moody therapy cases. “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is rarely more tiresome than when it’s probing the Hatter’s deep-seated daddy issues, which can’t help but feel like a tired holdover from familiar Burtonian territory (see, if you must: “Big Fish,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”). Depp, again sporting multihued makeup and a Carrot Top wig, isn't playing Mad so much as Morose as he tries — with simpering, sometimes nauseating results — to unlock the tragic clown within.

The Hatter isn’t the only one suffering the effects of some distant family trauma. There’s also the head-hungry Red Queen, played once more by Helena Bonham Carter with a witchy cackle and a severe case of computer-generated macrocephaly. We learn exactly how she and her younger sister, the White Queen, became lifelong enemies, in flashbacks to their checkered past that play like outtakes from “What Ever Happened to Baby Queen?” Of all the ways to bring Carroll’s characters to life on screen, is there anything more tedious one could do than try to explain them — to subject them to the tenets of modern-day psychoanalysis? What’s next? Humpty-Dumpty’s secret history of sexual deviance? “Tweedledum and Tweedledee: A Study in Codependency”?

The inconvenient truth of the original books is that they have never been particularly well suited to cinematic adaptation. As anyone who has spent hours poring over Martin Gardner’s marvelous “The Annotated Alice” knows, the two-part Alice narrative is less a traditional story than a brainy free-associative labyrinth — densely packed with puns, poems, parodies, allusions and riddles, and assembled with an almost architectural rigor and complexity (Carroll was, among other things, an accomplished mathematician).

Understandably, filmmakers have tended to seize on the fabulous images offered up by the author’s work, but the truest version of “Alice” would be a verbal achievement first and foremost, not a visual one. But even allowing for a less faithful, more free-form adaptation, “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” like “Alice in Wonderland” before it, represents a profound failure of imagination and a betrayal of the material’s spirit.

At every turn the filmmakers have simplified, banalized and sentimentalized Alice and her psychological landscape in ways that reek of ignorance at best and cynicism at worst. Watching these movies, you would never guess the Jabberwocky was the subject of one of the most linguistically inventive poems ever written; he’s just another forgettable, fire-breathing CGI beastie. And while it’s never unpleasant to spend time in Wasikowska’s company, the actress doesn’t seem to be playing a strong fantasy heroine so much as some vague, derivative concept of what a strong fantasy heroine should be.

As Alice flies between past and present, her chief nemesis — and eventually, her ally — is Time itself, played here as a sort of tyrannical, Teutonic-accented man-clock by Sacha Baron Cohen (who previously worked with Bobin on “Da Ali G Show”). The jab at German efficiency elicits a small chuckle, and your jaw might drop at the sight of Time’s castle — a massive mechanical enclave that brings the gears and pulleys of Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” to mind and serves as a nicely gothic contrast to the film’s bright, gaudy colors. For a brief moment, time really does seem to stand still, and you may stop begrudging this misbegotten movie for wasting yours.

sourcce: www.latimes.com

What Hollywood Has in Store in Upcoming Months

Romance to Fantasy Fiction: Watch What Hollywood Has in Store in Upcoming Months.

Hollywood is all geared up for an incredible superhero year with movies of DC and Marvel Universe lined up in advance. However, there is a lot more to the year than just masked evil and good action. Horror genre is getting revived with indie and popular production houses investing in bone-chilling storylines, alike. Romance is getting a new flavour and Disney practically owns the remaining year with a release or two every month.
Spy action is going for a touchdown, promising action Hollywood is known for. While there is a long list of films to be released, News18 brings to you the much talked about top 10 'to-be releases'. Get ready to experience love, fantasy, drama and action in the Summer and Fall.

Have a look at the trailers that promise a great Hollywood-filled year:

Me Before You 

Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin and a popular novel-romance. Do we need anything else?

Alice Through The Looking Glass 

Alice is back and this time racing against the time! Johnny Depp is ack as Mad Hatter and so are the advanced graphics. Seriously looking through time for this!

Legend of Tarzan 

If you thought 'The Jungle Book' is going to be the only wildlife experience of this year, you were wrong. Tarzan is all set for a return and the canvas this time is much larger!

Pete's Dragon 

Disney never cease to amaze us! This beautiful, another fantasy fiction trailer is going to leave you intrigued!

The BFG

Another one from the magical closet of Disney. This Roald Dahl adaptation of 'The Big Friendly Giant' has all the elements to give a surreal experience.

The Swiss Army Man

This peculiar film's trailer says a lot and confuse us in a good way. Award winner at major film festivals. 

The Conjuring 2

 

The evil spirit is back and this time the saviours need the saving. Already booking the darkest theater near home.

Light's Out 

Based on an equally scary short story, the trailer is going to send a chill down the spine. Watching this one with Light's on!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

If you were a 90's kid, and green turtles were your best evening company, you are going to love the trailer. Full of swag and action!

Jason Bourne

 

Bourne series is back and it is more mysterious, gritty, dark and action-filled than before! On a mission to watch it first day first show, sir!

source: www.news18.com

Questions I Still Have About ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in This Year of Our Lord 2016

Questions I Still Have About ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in This Year of Our Lord 2016.

“Look at me! I’m better than you because I’m a 20-year-old reading a kid’s book!” YouTube

The new teaser trailer for Beauty and the Beast has officially hit the Internet, and so far, the only new information we know is that Ewan McGregor can’t really do a French accent.
But until a full trailer drops and we get to see how an anthropomorphic candelabra will look in a non-animated film, I’m going to use that time to discuss every single problem I have with the 1993 Beauty and the Beast in the hopes that somehow, this new movie will give me some of the answers I’ve been waiting for.

Did the Beast actually deserve to be turned into a beast?

“Of course!” you’re probably thinking. “He was selfish and greedy, and cared too much about appearances! The hag offered him a rose to spend the night in his castle, and he refused her!”

Beauty and the Beast trailer

Beauty and the Beast trailer: Disney's live-action remake debuts first teaser.

How much do the folks at Disney want you to be their guest — or, at least, an extremely welcome paying audience member — when Beauty and the Beast is released on March 17, 2017? This morning, a teaser trailer was unveiled on Good Morning America for the live-action remake of the beloved animated film almost 10 months ahead of the film’s release.

The teaser gives the first look at Emma Watson as Belle, showing her arrival at the Beast’s castle. The castle’s famous residents can also be heard (“Look, it’s a girl!…What if she’s the one?”), as well as a piano version of the movie’s iconic theme.

Directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2), Beauty and the Beast stars Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Josh Gad as Le Fou, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, Stanley Tucci as Cadenza, Kevin Kline as Maurice, and Audra McDonald as Garderobe.

source: www.ew.com

Vin Diesel Talks Beginning Filming on Fast 8

Vin Diesel Talks Beginning Filming on Fast 8: 'Paul Would Be Proud'.

Filming on Fast 8 has begun, and the cast is keeping the late Paul Walker in their hearts.

Vin Diesel, Walker's costar for seven The Fast and the Furious movies, shared a photo of himself with Walker as he gave an update after the first week on set of the new film, the first without Walker.

"Many of the crew members who have worked on several of the past Fast films are here again to help us make something special," Diesel captioned the photo that showed both actors smiling.
He continued, "One of them at the end of the week came up to me and said wow what we are capturing on film is excellent ... And then looked at me and said Paul would be proud."

Ludacris spoke to PEOPLE earlier this month about his memories of Walker.

"He was my brother. We had a shared bond over our birthdays, which are both in September," he said at a supporting Make-A-Wish Georgia event. "When you lose a family member, you lose a part of yourself."

Walker died in a November 2013 car accident at the age of 40. His daughter, 17-year-old Meadow, is currently involved in a lawsuit that alleges the Porsche the driver who caused the crash was driving was lacking basic safety features.


source: www.people.com

The Angry Birds Movie Flocks to First Place

The Angry Birds Movie Flocks to First Place.

Angry Birds The Movie

Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation‘s The Angry Birds Movie opened to a strong $94
million at the worldwide box office this weekend. Animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, the 3D-animated film earned an estimated $39 million in its opening weekend in 3,932 North American theaters, for an average of $9,919 per theater. The film started its international rollout on May 11 and its worldwide total is now $150 million.

Featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage, The Angry Birds Movie was directed by Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis from a script by Jon Vitti. The adaptation of the popular games cost about $73 million and was fully financed by Rovio. The Angry Birds Movie received a B+ CinemaScore from audiences.

Despite dropping to second place, Marvel Studios‘ Captain America: Civil War added another $33.1 million domestically and $30.7 million internationally for a global weekend of $63.8 million. The Anthony and Joe Russo-directed blockbuster has now earned $347.4 million in North America and $706.1 million overseas for a worldwide total of $1.053 billion. On Friday, Captain America: Civil War became the fourth Marvel Cinematic Universe film to surpass the $1 billion threshold, joining The Avengers ($1.518 billion), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.405 billion), and Iron Man 3 ($1.215 billion). The film is Disney’s 10th billion-dollar release out of the 25 films that have reached this milestone in the history of the industry. Made for $250 million, Captain America: Civil War has now passed The Dark Knight, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Alice in Wonderland, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to become the 19th highest-grossing movie of all-time to date worldwide.

Universal Pictures sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising debuted in third place with an estimated $21.8 million from 3,384 theaters, for an average of $6,439 per theater. Internationally, the comedy added $6 million this weekend for an overseas total of $30 million and global sum of $51.8 million so far. Receiving a B CinemaScore, Neighbors 2 opened with less than half of the original, with Neighbors taking in over $49 million domestically its first weekend in 2014. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, the R-rated film stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dave Franco, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kiersey Clemons, Beanie Feldstein, Selena Gomez, and Lisa Kudrow.

As far as the newcomers, The Nice Guys finished last, with the Shane Black-directed film earning $11.3 million in the fourth spot. Starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, the Warner Bros. release opened in 2,865 theaters and averaged $3,934 per theater. The film received a CinemaScore of B- from audiences.

Rounding out the top five was Disney’s The Jungle Book, which added $11 million its sixth weekend to bring its domestic total to $327.5 million. Internationally, the Jon Favreau-directed hit earned $7.4 million to take its overseas total to $530.2 million and worldwide total to $857.7 million. Staying with Disney, the studio’s Zootopia has now earned $981.8 million globally, meaning it has overtaken Despicable Me 2 ($970.8 million) to become the fourth highest-grossing animated release of all-time.

Also, in sixth place domestically, TriStar Pictures’ Money Monster earned $7.1 million its second weekend for a total of $27.1 million after two weeks. Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell, the thriller was made for $27 million.


Source: www.comingsoon.net