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- Tim Burton Gives Update on 'Beetlejuice 2': 'There's Nothing Concrete Yet'
- Prince Vetoed a Kardashians Cameo on His 'New Girl' Episode
- Clark Gregg Talks 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.', 'Civil War' Ties, and His Epic 'Lip-Sync Battle'
- Why Kristen Stewart Turned Down the 'Snow White and the Huntsman' Sequel
- 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Clips: What's the Matter With the Mad Hatter?
- Johnny Depp and His Daughter Fight Sausage Nazis in 'Yoga Hosers' Trailer
- Prison's No Joke in 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 4 Trailer
- 'Empire Strikes Back' Gets Bond Treatment in Fan-Made Opening Credits
- 'Twister': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Summer Blockbuster
| Tim Burton Gives Update on 'Beetlejuice 2': 'There's Nothing Concrete Yet' Posted:  It seems that every year there's renewed hope that a "Beetlejuice" sequel will finally get off the ground, but as more and more time passes, the prospect of the follow-up actually materializing looks grimmer and grimmer. Now, director Tim Burton has given an update on the proposed project, and while he's still interested in making it happen one day, he has some sobering news for fans: It's not happening yet.That was the gist of Burton's response when asked about "Beetlejuice 2" by Collider in a recent interview. While the director told the site that he has the support of his original stars, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, all the stories that have churned through Hollywood's rumor mill over the years about the sequel's many alleged stops and starts are just not true. (And no, he isn't trading in Keaton for frequent collaborator Johnny Depp, either.) "This is the thing, it's something that I'm interested in," Burton told Collider, bashing incorrect reports like the aforementioned switcheroo. " ... [T]he fact of it is I have talked to Michael and I have talked to Winona, I've talked to a few people. It's something that I really would like to do in the right circumstances, but it's one of those films where it has to be right. It's not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel], it's not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it's something that if the elements are right—because I do love the character and Michael's amazing as that character, so yeah we'll see. But there's nothing concrete yet." That's a bit disappointing, especially in light of the news that "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" scribe (and Burton's "Dark Shadows" screenwriter) Seth Grahame-Smith had agreed to take a pass at a "Beetlejuice 2" script just last year. But apparently, nothing ever came of that collaboration, and perhaps that's for the best -- if it wasn't right, there's no use is resurrecting a beloved character like Beetlejuice if the project won't be on par with the original product. So will "Beetlejuice 2" ever actually happen? At this point, it looks like it may not. But never say never -- or at least make sure Burton, the true authority on the subject, is the one who's saying it. [via: Collider] Photo credit: Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Prince Vetoed a Kardashians Cameo on His 'New Girl' Episode Posted:
Prince is a known perfectionist, so it makes sense that he'd want to control every aspect of his "New Girl" appearance. Apparently The Purple One's powers include continually throwing shade on the Kardashians, even from the grave. [via: Team Coco] Photo credit: Getty Images This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Clark Gregg Talks 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.', 'Civil War' Ties, and His Epic 'Lip-Sync Battle' Posted:  Now that the world's seen "Captain America: Civil War" and the nature of the Superhuman Registration Act has been revealed, fans of the extended Marvel Cinematic Universe are anticipating the repercussions to play out on television on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." And nobody's better schooled on the inside secrets of the MCU than Director Phil Coulson himself: Clark Gregg.As the series heads into its season-ending episodes, Gregg reveals how the "Civil War" plot twists turn up the temperature on an already heated season of conflict within the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, and he provided a glimpse into his own recent personal showdown, when he faced off against "Marvel's Agent Carter" star Hayley Atwell in an epic episode of "Lip Sync Battle." Moviefone: What's the fun for you and the team on the show, knowing that these big Marvel movies are coming each year that will have some kind of element that you can incorporate in your story? Clark Gregg: From my vantage point, it's a world I love. I've been involved in the earlier phase of the building of the Cinematic Universe, and I've gotten to watch the way that Jeph Loeb and everybody else has built the television part of the universe and all its different portions, whether it's Hell's Kitchen, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D," or "Agent Carter" in the '40s. So to just see this one story be told across all these chapters, and too see the way the little ripples happen -- I mean, it was more terrifying when you realized that maybe, after "Winter Soldier," the organization that Coulson works for doesn't exist anymore. Nothing's quite that extreme, but certainly everything that happens in "Civil War" shows up on our show with this episode, and within seconds, there's my pal General Talbot there to start registering Inhumans, some of whom are my very close friends. What was intriguing about the timing of everything this season? To be able to incorporate that Superhuman Registration Act into the plotline, right at that moment when things are heating up in your season with dividing lines amongst your characters? Well, certainly that idea of what it means to be an Inhuman. The alienation of someone who feels like "the other" has been something that's been going on in our show for quite some time, and something we've been exploring. So when "Civil War" takes it to the point where there's a Registration Act and that's dividing the Avengers, it just takes everything we've been doing and setting up and cranks it up to a new level, right when we're going into our last three episodes -- two of which are our own version of a Marvel movie, a two-hour finale. What have you loved about this particular season? I love the way the writers have taken this idea of the Inhumans, and from the capsules that we saw being harvested at the end of last season to a global outbreak where suddenly people are evolving differently -- and some of them are within our own team and some of them become members of our team, and others would like to destroy our team. It creates a problem where there's no easy answers. Though Coulson probably imagined when he was main director of S.H.I.E.L.D. that his job was really going to be about rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. before HYDRA could destroy it, suddenly his job very much becomes about Inhumans and Secret Warriors, and feeling the way those divisions play out on his own team. How has the proliferation of superpowers on the show sort of changed everything thematically as you put the show together each week? At the start of the show, it was very clear that Joss and Jed [Whedon], and Maurissa [Tancharoen], and Jeph and Jeff [Bell] were committed to making a show that was different than what you were seeing in the Marvel movies. The most prominent difference was the fact that it was centered around someone that the fans had responded to because he was very normal and didn't have any powers. He was the audience's avatar, in a way. An Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. A very good agent, and even though he didn't know it, an agent who had been brought back from the dead using Kree powers, which would become very important to people who were learning about Inhumans. What they did in this season, and with the outbreak of Inhumans, is they started to have powered people that are part of our show, and yet still have them be about S.H.I.E.L.D. I like that it's become its own very different thing within the Marvel Universe that feels totally and logistically appropriate for television. It pushes the envelope as fast as Mark Kolpack and as his brilliant VFX team, and the technology can evolve. And I just was watching some of the shots that are from our finale, and as I say every year -- and it's true every year -- I just saw stuff I've never seen on TV again, because they pushed the envelope further. Coulson has really had his feet held to the fire toward the end of second season and all through this season. What's been fun for you about playing him in this sustained distress? Well, the episode where everything's good and there are no problems -- I don't know, maybe an episode of that might be interesting. Who knows? We'd probably cook up some giant dilemma just so we wouldn't be bored. A cop drama in a city where everyone gets along is probably not a good show. I love that they seem to constantly take him from one frying pan to another, global, interplanetary Inhuman fire. This year they even had him on a foreign planet hunting down his adversary. Come on, that's fun! I sit there on the foreign planet and I go, "This is the best job anyone ever had." I have to ask you about your bravest performance yet: on "Lip Sync Battle." Yeah, I temporarily lost my mind for a second there.  You looked like you were having a blast.It was really fun. I love Hayley Atwell. She is really the one who made that Dubsmash part of our world last year at Comic-Con, and we had a blast fighting it out with them. It was painful to lose the Dubsmash war. So it was thoroughly to kind of even it out a little bit with the wonderful lip sync battle. Although, when I saw her spectacular Lady Gaga performance in the head-to-toe neoprene with the giant crown, I thought it was all over. I guess I didn't give enough credit to the shock value of my 50-something self in the Britney [Spears] costume. How did that concept come together, including your wife Jennifer [Grey] and all that? I don't know how it happens for everybody else, but for me, it was very, very sudden. Maybe somebody fell out or something, but it was a call on Thursday that this was an option, and an ask and request for some songs that I liked and a list of songs presented to me. I didn't know that particular Britney song that well, but I was assured by Constance Zimmer and Shay Sanford-Fong, one of our brilliantly talented hair people that it was something I should explore. Especially when I saw the video and explored the possibility of the androgynous flight attendant. Just hours later, I was there rehearsing with this spectacular dance team, Danielle Flora, the dance goddess there. And choreographing this crazy number, which all seemed great because I didn't really imagine myself in quite that costume. They pointed out that in the video, there was a male passenger that Britney had made out with. I said, "I can think of a good passenger," because my wife is so game. She agreed to be the mysterious passenger in scene 3B. As much as I love Coulson, it's maybe my favorite performance of yours, Clark. Oh bless you, thank you so much. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Why Kristen Stewart Turned Down the 'Snow White and the Huntsman' Sequel Posted:  The "Snow White and the Huntsman" prequel "The Huntsman: Winter's War" bombed at the box office and with critics last month, and now, "Snow White" star Kristen Stewart is opening up about her dismissal from the series -- and how she's glad she turned down a chance to cameo in the disappointing follow-up.In an interview with Variety, Stewart explained that she was in talks with studio Universal about a possible "Snow White" sequel after the first flick was a hit back in 2012. "I read a few scripts," the actress told Variety -- but she wasn't impressed. "None of them were good," she continued. "None of them were greenlight-able." Stewart told the trade that she met with Universal to discuss the future of the franchise, but that those talks never materialized into anything. And then, she found out about the existence of "Winter's War" via a press release. Here's how Variety reports Stewart responded: That's not even subtle shade -- that's just straight-up shade. But who can blame her? After all, she helped launch the would-be franchise, and then Universal continued the series without even telling her. (Though Stewart claimed in her Variety interview that that decision had nothing to do with her affair with married "Snow White" director Rupert Sanders; she and the studio had been in talks for months after that scandal blew over, she said.) And then the movie was a flop, with critics and audiences alike. Thank God, indeed, that she dodged that bullet. [via: Variety] Photo credit: Getty Images for People.com This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Clips: What's the Matter With the Mad Hatter? Posted:  What's the matter with the Mad Hatter?That's the riddle that bedevils the characters of "Alice Through the Looking Glass," the follow-up to 2010's smash hit "Alice in Wonderland." When Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the fantastical realm, she learns her old friend Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is not himself. He's losing his Muchness, due to machinations of Time (Sacha Baron Cohen), and only Alice can save him by turning back the clock. Two new clips have been released from the upcoming movie. In the first, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum give her the news about the Hatter's condition:In the second clip, Alice reunites with the Hatter, only to discover he doesn't remember her — because they haven't met yet: The movie looks as gloriously psychedelic as ever, and Depp looks like he's having a fabulous time hamming it up as the Hatter again. "Alice Through the Looking Glass" opens in theaters May 27. Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Johnny Depp and His Daughter Fight Sausage Nazis in 'Yoga Hosers' Trailer Posted:  Kevin Smith has made some weird movies, but "Yoga Hosers" might take top prize.The first trailer for the movie, which debuted at Sundance, is here, and introduces the Colleens, two teen girls played by Lily-Rose Depp (daughter of Johnny) and Harley Quinn Smith (daughter of Kevin). They're working at a convenience store when Johnny Depp's Guy Lapointe — his detective character from Smith's movie "Tusk" — shows up needing their help to defeat a bunch of Nazis made out of sausages. Yeah, sausages. They're dubbed "Bratzis." Judging by the trailer, the movie feels very much like a stoner comedy, as the bored Colleens mess around, slack off, do yoga, and freak out when hot senior boys invite them to a party. "Yoga Hosers" also stars Austin Butler, Tony Hale, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Brody, Justin Long, and Genesis Rodriguez, and opens in theaters July 29. Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Prison's No Joke in 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 4 Trailer Posted:  "Orange Is the New Black" has always mined the comedy out of life in a women's prison, but in season 4, it seems things are taking a darker turn.Netflix released the trailer for season 4, and changes are afoot: Litchfield is a for-profit prison now, there are 100 new inmates, scary new COs, and new beefs among the prisoners. Piper (Taylor Schilling) says she feels unsafe, a SWAT team looks like it's storming Litchfield, and Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba) cries in pain on a hospital bed. And Red (Kate Mulgrew) appears to be locked in some kind of battle with one of those new COs. The show isn't all-dark, of course — this is still a comedy. Taystee (Danielle Brooks) is a hilariously bad secretary for Caputo, while new addition "Orange is the New Black" season 4 debuts on Netflix June 17. Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Empire Strikes Back' Gets Bond Treatment in Fan-Made Opening Credits Posted:  Here's Vader, Darth Vader -- and he likes his martinis shaken, not stirred.Designer Kurt Rauffer reimagined the opening credits for "The Empire Strikes Back" in the style of a James Bond film. It was his senior year project at the New York School of Visual Arts, and video marries "Star Wars" themes with the moody music and mesmerizing graphics of Bond movies. "The style and tone of the animation was inspired by the James Bond title sequences. The music was a rejected song from the newest Bond film, 'Spectre,' sung by Radiohead," Rauffer wrote. "I really wanted to play on the concept of Luke trying to find himself and true purpose, so the music and inspiration felt fitting." Star Wars - Episode V "The Empire Strikes Back" Homage (Title Sequence) from KROFL on Vimeo. It's a fun mashup of two iconic franchises, but we doubt director Rian Johnson will copy it for "Episode VIII." After all, "Star Wars" wouldn't be "Star Wars" without that distinctive title crawl.Want more stuff like this? Like us on Facebook. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Twister': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Summer Blockbuster Posted:  Released 20 years ago this week (on May 10, 1996), "Twister" wasn't just a blockbuster special-effects spectacle that made viable movie stars out of Helen Hunt an Bill Paxton.It was also the "Apocalypse Now" of weather-themed disaster movies. The film's production was marked by severe injuries to the stars and crew, a runaway budget, and the cinematographers openly rebelling against the director. Here are the real-life twists you didn't hear about from the tornado drama's tempestuous shoot.  1. The "Twister" screenplay is credited to "Jurassic Park" novelist Michael Crichton and his wife, Anne-Marie Martin, but it was revised by such celebrated script doctors as Joss Whedon (who dropped out of the project because he contracted bronchitis), Steven Zaillian (who dropped out because he was leaving for his honeymoon), and Jeff Nathanson, who was on the set and kept rewriting the script until the end of the shoot.2. Helen Hunt was director Jan de Bont's only choice for the role of tormented storm chaser Jo. She was surprised to be asked to carry the expensive blockbuster, since she had to be back on the set of her hit sitcom, "Mad About You," before the end of August 1995. Fortunately, "Mad" producer/co-star Paul Reiser offered to push back the start of the show's production by two and a half weeks to accommodate "Twister" overruns.  3. Jami Gertz won the role of Paxton's hapless fiancée because Mira Sorvino (soon to win an Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite") refused to go brunette.4. Plagued by sunny weather, the production used bright lamps to reduce the exposure and make the skies look dark and stormy. But the lamps blinded Paxton and Hunt ("These things literally sunburned our eyeballs," Paxton recalled), and they had to wear dark glasses and take eye drops for several days until they recovered. Paxton and Hunt also took lumps from being pelted with ice chunks in the hailstorm scene. The two leads had to take hepatitis shots after their scene wallowing in a filthy ditch. In that same sequence, Hunt kept banging her head on a low bridge because she would stand up too quickly, and she also was hit in the head by a truck's open passenger door in the cornfield sequence. De Bont told Entertainment Weekly, "I love Helen to death, but you know, she can be also a little bit clumsy." Hunt, who blamed her accidents on exhaustion from the difficult shoot, replied, "Clumsy? The guy burned my retinas, but I'm clumsy."  5. Tensions flared between de Bont and cinematographer Don Burgess's camera crew. They complained that de Bont would get upset when they couldn't turn on a dime and set up new shots on a moment's notice; he countered that the unpredictable weather meant the shooting schedule had to be flexible. The crew considered getting T-shirts made emblazoned with de Bont's favorite curse-word phrase, "F---ing Hell S---." The breaking point came when a camera assistant walked into the frame and ruined a complicated shot involving noisy wind machines, leading de Bont to shove the man into a mud puddle. Burgess and 20 crew members walked. The film was only five weeks into production.6. De Bont replaced Burgess with veteran cinematographer Jack N. Green. Unfortunately, Green was hospitalized with a back injury when a house rigged to collapse did so while Green was still inside it. With two days left to shoot, de Bont took over camera duties himself.  7. Much of the film was shot in Wakita, Oklahoma, where producers purchased and then leveled eight blocks of existing houses, as well as flattening 30 homes built for the shoot. According to the Twister Museum in Wakita (which contains props and memorabilia from the movie), the filmmakers' destruction of the town was so convincing that a third-party video crew flying overhead saw the fake devastation from the air and landed their helicopter to investigate.8. With the lengthy and tumultuous shoot, the need for twice as many effects shots as anticipated (because of the uncommonly clear skies), and late re-shoots that added the prologue about Jo's childhood, the budget swelled from $70 million to a reported $92 million. But "Twister" grossed $242 million in North America, becoming the second biggest movie of 1996 (only "Independence Day" earned more). Worldwide, the tornado tale sucked up a total of $494 million.  9. "Twister" was nominated for two Oscars, for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound. It was also nominated for two Razzies, including Worst Supporting Actress (for Gertz, pictured). The Crichtons won the Razzie for Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million.10. "Twister" was the first mainstream Hollywood movie released on the then-new home video medium of DVD. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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