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Joss Whedon Leaves “Batgirl” Movie

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Almost a year after it was announced that Joss Whedon was nearing a deal to write, direct and produce a Batgirl movie, the director is now bowing out of the project, per Hollywood Reporter.

“Batgirl is such an exciting project, and Warners/DC such collaborative and supportive partners, that it took me months to realize I really didn’t have a story. I’m grateful to Geoff and Toby and everyone who was so welcoming when I arrived, and so understanding when I…uh, is there a sexier word for ‘failed’?,” Whedon said in a statement.

Whedon previously wrote and directed The Avengers (2012) and its sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also co-wrote the script for last year’s Justice League (2017) for the DC Extended Universe. Batgirl was supposedly Whedon’s official leap from Marvel to DC .

Batgirl is the alter ego of Barbara Gordon. In the 1960s, she was portrayed by Yvonne Craig in the Batman TV series and then decades later by Alicia Silverstone in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin as a variation of the character, Barbara Wilson, Alfred Pennyworth’s niece. She was also in The Lego Batman Movie as voiced by Rosario Dawson.

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“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Blu-ray Includes 14 Deleted Scenes

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Disney and Lucasfilm have officially announced the release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. The company dated the releases on March 13 for digital, and March 27 for Blu-ray.

Today, the Star Wars Twitter account gave us a trailer (which contains a few spoilers if you have not seen the film) as well as some details of on starwars.com, and it’s packed with a lot of bonus features to excite fans, all 14 of them.

Here is the list of bonus features:

The Director and the Jedi – Go deep behind the scenes with writer-director Rian Johnson on an intimate and personal journey through the production of the movie—and experience what it’s like to helm a global franchise and cultural phenomenon.

Balance of the Force – Explore the mythology of the Force and why Rian Johnson chose to interpret its role in such a unique way.

Scene Breakdowns

  • Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle – Get a close-up look at the epic space battle, from the sounds that help propel the action, through the practical and visual effects, to the characters who bring it all to life.
  • Snoke and Mirrors – Motion capture and Star Wars collide as the filmmakers take us through the detailed process of creating the movie’s malevolent master villain.
  • Showdown on Crait – Break down everything that went into creating the stunning world seen in the movie’s final confrontation, including the interplay between real-word locations and visual effects, reimagining the walkers, designing the crystal foxes, and much more.

Andy Serkis Live! (One Night Only) – Writer-director Rian Johnson presents two exclusive sequences from the movie featuring Andy Serkis’ riveting, raw on-set performance before his digital makeover into Snoke.

Deleted Scenes – With an introduction and optional commentary by writer-director Rian Johnson.

Audio Commentary – View the movie with in-depth feature audio commentary by writer-director Rian Johnson.

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“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Wins BAFTA

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri took top honors at BAFTAs, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, winning 5 awards including best film, best actress for its lead Frances McDormand, and best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell.

The Shape Of Water, which led the night with 12 nominations, won three including for director Guillermo del Toro.

Gary Oldman, the sole British actor to win an acting award, took home best actor for Darkest Hour and hailed the late prime minister: “Winston Churchill, the man himself, in those dark uncertain days in 1940 held the line for honour, for integrity and freedom, for his nation. I thank you, Sir Winston, I thank you the Churchill family and once again Bafta, I am so grateful and incredibly honoured.”

Below is a partial list of winners. For the full list of winners, go to Bafta.org:

BEST FILM
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

DIRECTOR
“The Shape of Water,” Guillermo Del Toro

LEADING ACTOR
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”

LEADING ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

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New “Ready Player One” Trailer Jumps Into Near-Future Dystopia

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“An Adventure Too Big For The Real World” is exactly what the latest trailer is.

True to the book its based on, Steven Spielberg’s latest science fiction action film “Ready Player One” is full of nostalgia, adventure, and social commentary and its latest trailer certainly shows a lot of it.

Set to Merethe Soltvedt’s cover of “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” there’s of course plenty of popular culture references here as seen in earlier footages.

This time though, we also see one from Spielberg’s own “Jurassic Park.” Yep, for a quick few seconds we have a T-Rex in “Ready Player One” chasing a truck through the city streets.

Also released this week are new character posters for the film (below) featuring Parzival/Wade Watts (Tyler Sheridan), Aech/Helen Harris (Lena Waithe), Art3mis/Samantha Evelyn Cook (Olivia Cooke), Daito / Toshiro Yoshiaki (Win Morisaki), Shoto / Akihide Karatsu (Philip Zhao), Anorak / James Donovan Halliday (Mark Rylance) and Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn).

Based on Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, “Ready Player One” arrives in theaters on March 30, 2018.

Here is the official synopsis for “Ready Player One”:

The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
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“Solo: A Star Wars Story” New Poster Revealed

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It looks like Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios is gearing up with its film’s promo.

After last week’s Super Bowl teaser trailer spot comes the poster reveal of the upcoming summer tentpole “Solo: A Star Wars Story”.

Also on Wednesday, director Ron Howard announced that actor and filmmaker Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Jungle Book) is voicing a very cool & important alien character for #HanSolo. “Flattered & fortunate I could pull him away from his #LionKing directing duties,” announced by Howard on Twitter.

Produced by Lucasfilm from a screenplay by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan, the film is an origin story of the iconic character which focuses on his adventures, with lden Ehrenreich playing the younger version of the title character. Also in the film are Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Joonas Suotamo.

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ is slated for release on May 25, 2018.

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‘Incredibles 2’ Trailer And Posters Revealed

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The first footage released months ago teased that Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) will be at home raising the kids, and that looks to be the case for our beloved superhero as shown on the latest trailer for “Incredibles 2”. “I’ll watch the kids. No problem,” he says.

Here we see Mr. Incredible grappling with the daily home routines and parenting issues. The film’s hilarious new posters definitely drive that message as well, which shows Mr. Incredible ironing on one, and their costumes on a basket of laundry on another.

Bob also have to deal with Jack-Jack’s developing powers and ability to transform into a somewhat menacing creature. “Done properly, parenting is a heroic act,” says Brad Bird’s Edna Mode.

Meanwhile, a new villain with a sinister plot is out, and it looks like it will be Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) who will be busy fighting crime.

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Joining the couple are returning characters Sarah Vowell (Violet), Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone), and Brad Bird (Edna Mode).

Also voicing characters are Huck Milner (Dash), Bob Odenkirk (Winston Deavor), Jonathan Banks (Rick Dicker), Catherine Keener (Evelyn Deavor), Sophia Bush (Voyd), Isabella Rossellini (Ambassador), and John Ratzenberger as new villain The Underminer who appeared at the end of the first film.

The original film grossed $633 million worldwide in 2004 and received the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. The Incredibles also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Just like the original, Brad Bird wrote the screenplay and is directing, while John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle are the producers. Disney-Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” will hit cinemas on June 15, 2018.

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Wim Wenders’ Documentary Feature Release Date Announced

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Wim Wenders’ Pope Francis documentary “A Man of His Word” is set for release domestically in the U.S. on May 18, 2018, Focus Features announced. The announcement coincides with Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent for Christians around the world.

The documentary is written and directed by Wim Wenders, who was previously nominated for documentaries The Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and Salt of the Earth (2014).

Here’s a partial synopsis of “A Man of His Word” courtesy of Focus Features:

Pope Francis – A Man of His Word is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him. The pope’s ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today’s global questions.

The film’s direct-to-camera visual and narrative concepts engage the audience face-to-face with the pope, creating a dialogue between him and, literally, the world. Taking questions from people of all walks of life, Pope Francis responds to farmers and workers, refugees, children and the elderly, prison inmates, and those who live in favelas and migrant camps. All of these voices and faces are a cross section of humanity that join in a conversation with Pope Francis.

While this “symphony of questions” provides the backbone for the film, it also shows the pope on his many journeys around the world, with footage of him speaking at the United Nations, addressing the Congress of the United States, mourning with those gathered at Ground Zero and at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. He speaks to prisoners in correctional facilities and to refugees in Mediterranean camps. We see him travel to the Holy Land (Palestine and Israel) as well as to Africa, South America and Asia.

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James Hetfield Joins Cast Of Ted Bundy Movie

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Metallica frontman James Hetfield will soon make his big-screen acting debut as he joins the cast of “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” an upcoming thriller film from Voltage Pictures, Variety reports.

The film will focus on notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer. Currently in production, the film will be shown from the perspective of Elizabeth. It was unveiled at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and features Zac Efron as Bundy with Lily Collins playing his girlfriend.

Hetfield is set to play Officer Bob Hayward, “a no-nonsense Utah highway patrol veteran who was the first law enforcement officer to arrest Bundy in 1975 after pulling the killer over and discovering burglary tools in his car, but wisely suspecting much worse.”

Joe Berlinger is helming “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” He was nominated in 2012 for an Oscar Best Documentary Feature in 2012 with the late Bruce Sinofsky for helming “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.”

Hetfield’s casting might seem to come out of left field, but Hetfield and Berlinger had actually collaborated previously when Berlinger and Sinofsky directed and produced “Some Kind of Monster,” the 2004 rock documentary which follows Metallica throughout studio rehearsals and features various concert footage of the band. Later that year, Berlinger released a book “Metallica: This Monster Lives,” which chronicled his experiences during the creation of the documentary.

Other previously announced cast of “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” were John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Jim Parsons, Kaya Scodelario, Angela Sarafyan, Jeffrey Donovan Terry Kinney and Dylan Baker.

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“Get Out” Take Top Award At Writers Guild Awards

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“Get Out” and “Call Me by Your Name” were the top winners on Sunday night’s 70th annual Writers Guild Awards, consolidating both film’s chances at next month’s academy awards.

Jordan Peele won the best original screenplay for “Get Out,” beating another awards favorite Greta Gerwig who wrote “Lady Bird“. 89 year old filmmaker James Ivory picked up best adapted screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name.”

“This was a passion project. It was something I put my love into. I put my soul into. So getting this from you means so much. I started writing it in 2008 and there were a lot of ups and downs,” writer-director Peele said after his win.

WGA members vote for the best of film and TV writing of the past year and is one of the strong harbingers for the oscars. Last year’s WGA best original screenplay winner “Moonlight” went on to a surprising Best Picture win at the Academy Awards.

Here’s a partial list of winners:

Original Screenplay: Get Out
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name
Documentary Screenplay: Jane, National Geographic
Drama Series: The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu
Comedy Series: Veep, HBO
New Series: The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu

For the full list of winners, go to awards.wga.org.

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Bringing Sound to the Screen: An Interview with Film Composer Alex Geringas

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When talking about his work, Alex Geringas can’t help but excitedly chuckle. The Moscow born, German-raised, and LA-dwelling musician has had a steady rise to success from penning failed pop singles back in the 90’s to writing big screen movie scores, and collaborating with pop legends like Cher and Kelly Clarkson.

During my chat with Geringas I had the opportunity to speak with an idiosyncratic man dedicated to both his family and craft. In his latest project, writing the score for Netflix’s Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Geringas channels his inner Wagner; infusing hilariously overdramatic tones to one of the most charming, quirkiest kids shows on TV today. The juxtaposition fits his personality perfectly; a man of the dignified arts not afraid to join in on the fun.

Other scores to Geringas’ credit includes Pitch Perfect 3, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, Ice Age: Collision Course, and The LEGO Ninjago Movie.

How did you first break into the music industry?

It was back in 1998, I was living in Germany and a friend of mine told me, ‘Hey man, let’s write a hit!’ At the time I knew nothing about writing for artists and then he told me lets write about something everybody likes and bring it to a publisher. I thought it was all talk. We wrote a song about a topic we both thought everybody liked, vacation. We played it to the publisher, who liked it, then the record label sent it to a radio station, and then we had our first release.

But this also has to be the biggest flop in my career to date because nobody bought the single. There was a producer though that heard our song and reached out to me to write one with him for a rap group. That first single would become my first Top Ten hit in Germany. Our second release together became the theme song for the first episode of Big Brother in Germany.

As a composer and songwriter, which comes first, the lyrics or the melody?

I am and always will be a melody guy. I love working with lyricists, but I also love setting a concept with them and developing that idea.

Who are some of your musical inspirations?

One of my biggest musical inspirations is John Williams, the film composer. I love the variety of styles that he has composed. And of course, there is Alexandre Desplat who is just phenomenal in how he found a dialogue where no words are spoken in, The Shape of Water. Absolutely fantastic. That is where I would like to be someday.
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