Features / Interviews
Director Marc Webb talks about putting his own stamp on Peter Parker’s story with The Amazing Spider-Man.
By James White
Jumping aboard the latest instalment of a franchise spawning two and a half billion dollars and featuring a legendary, beloved comic book character would be daunting enough on its own, but setting out to make a film grounded in the real world, one featuring a someone who puts the hero back in superhero? That takes real guts. Read more...
By James White
Jumping aboard the latest instalment of a franchise spawning two and a half billion dollars and featuring a legendary, beloved comic book character would be daunting enough on its own, but setting out to make a film grounded in the real world, one featuring a someone who puts the hero back in superhero? That takes real guts. Read more...
Leading the Prometheus expedition is the character of Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace. From director Ridley Scott, who delivered the likes of Thelma & Louise and Alien, we can immediately expect a strong character to inhabit Shaw's spacesuit. And at the hands of Rapace, best known for her work in the tremendously-popular Swedish Millennium series, she comes alive as a new action heroine for the 21st Century.
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Rick Baker, who did the alien make-up effects on Men In Black 3, takes us through the process of creating non-human lifeforms.
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From early films like Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern to recent efforts like Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou has consistently proved himself as China’s most outstanding director of the past 25 years. Yet even by the high standards he sets himself, his latest project The Flowers of War is remarkable.
Uniting for the first time with British actor Christian Bale, star of The Dark Knight, American Psycho and The New World, Zhang adapts Yan Geling’s novel, the story of an American citizen named John Miller, who arrives in China during the 1937 rape of Nanking, when the city was overrun by invading Japanese troops. Seeking shelter in a nearby cathedral, Miller becomes the unwitting protector of a group of schoolgirls who live in the building, a situation that gets even more complicated when a handful of local prostitutes – also desperate to survive – arrive at the church.
Below Zhang talks about what drew him to this particularly part of Chinese history, how it felt to helm the most expensive film ever made in his country and what it was like to collaborate with the explosives team that worked on Saving Private Ryan. Zhang is joined in the discussion by his star, Christian Bale, who gives an insight into what it was like to work in China – and be accompanied by his own personal bodyguard. Read more...
Uniting for the first time with British actor Christian Bale, star of The Dark Knight, American Psycho and The New World, Zhang adapts Yan Geling’s novel, the story of an American citizen named John Miller, who arrives in China during the 1937 rape of Nanking, when the city was overrun by invading Japanese troops. Seeking shelter in a nearby cathedral, Miller becomes the unwitting protector of a group of schoolgirls who live in the building, a situation that gets even more complicated when a handful of local prostitutes – also desperate to survive – arrive at the church.
Below Zhang talks about what drew him to this particularly part of Chinese history, how it felt to helm the most expensive film ever made in his country and what it was like to collaborate with the explosives team that worked on Saving Private Ryan. Zhang is joined in the discussion by his star, Christian Bale, who gives an insight into what it was like to work in China – and be accompanied by his own personal bodyguard. Read more...
From the minds of the deranged geniuses who decided that Jane Austen and zombies would be a good mix comes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a film that re-imagines the 16th president of America as a guy who not only has the emancipation of slaves on his resume, but also moonlighted as a killer of bloodsuckers.
Check out our exclusive video chat (embedded below) with film director Timur Bekmambetov, leading man Benjamin Walker, arch villain Rufus Sewell and writer/producer Seth Grahame-Smithe - scribe of the original novel - as they talk about character origins, Tim Burton's influence on the work, and the process of shooting the film. Read more...
Check out our exclusive video chat (embedded below) with film director Timur Bekmambetov, leading man Benjamin Walker, arch villain Rufus Sewell and writer/producer Seth Grahame-Smithe - scribe of the original novel - as they talk about character origins, Tim Burton's influence on the work, and the process of shooting the film. Read more...
Transformers Mania Hits Town!
Are you ready for the first ever Transformers Cybertron Con in Southeast Asia?
Whether you're a recent convert to the series thanks to the Michael Bay films, or a long-time fan of the franchise, the Transformers Cyberton Con is expected to churn Transformers mania in Southeast Asia to a fever pitch. The first ever Transformers Cybertron Con in Southeast Asia is to be held at the Resorts World Convention Centre from 11-14 March 2012, and will feature a gamut of exhibits and activities to sate the appetites of everyone from neophytes to the most avid of fanatics. Read more...
Are you ready for the first ever Transformers Cybertron Con in Southeast Asia?
Whether you're a recent convert to the series thanks to the Michael Bay films, or a long-time fan of the franchise, the Transformers Cyberton Con is expected to churn Transformers mania in Southeast Asia to a fever pitch. The first ever Transformers Cybertron Con in Southeast Asia is to be held at the Resorts World Convention Centre from 11-14 March 2012, and will feature a gamut of exhibits and activities to sate the appetites of everyone from neophytes to the most avid of fanatics. Read more...
