Four (Theo James) and Tris (Shailene Woodley) in ‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’ (Photo Credit: Andrew Cooper)
Shailene Woodley has been named the recipient of this year’s MTV Trailblazer Award and will pick up the honor during the MTV Movie Awards. Woodley’s The Divergent Series: Insurgent is currently sitting at the top of the box office chart and one of her co-star’s from that film franchise, Miles Teller, will have the honor of presenting the Trailblazer Awardd during the live broadcast on April 12th.
Amy Schumer’s hosting the awards show which celebrates overlooked accomplishments in films including Best Kiss, Best WTF Moment, and Best Shirtless Performance.
Past Trailblazer Award winners include Channing Tatum, Emma Watson, and Emma Stone. Commenting on why Woodley was chosen, President of MTV Stephen Friedman said, “Shailene Woodley is one of the most talented actresses of this generation. Whether baring her soul in emotionally charged roles in The Descendents and The Fault In Our Stars or igniting our imagination in sci-fi blockbusters like Insurgent, Shailene has raised the bar for actresses navigating diverse and challenging roles professionally, while personally remaining down-to-earth and accessible to her fans.”
Woodley’s other credits include The Spectacular Now, White Bird in a Blizzard, and the upcoming Edward Snowden film directed by Oliver Stone.
Chris Tucker (Photo Courtesy Netflix / Chris Tucker Entertainment)
Rush Hour‘s Chris Tucker is headlining his first full length stand-up comedy special, Chris Tucker Live, on Netflix. The special will debut on July 10, 2015 and will feature Tucker sharing his experiences as well as impersonating some of his famous friends. Chris Tucker Live was shot in Atlanta, Georgia at the Fox Theatre and directed by Phil Joanou.
“Chris Tucker is a true global movie star and a one-of-a-kind talent whose remarkable energy, delivery and original style make him one of the funniest comedians of our time,” stated Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer. “We cannot wait to share his distinct and hilarious voice with our members across the globe.”
“I’m thrilled to be partnering with Netflix, one of the true global leaders in entertainment, on my first comedy special,” said Chris Tucker. “Before people started seeing me in movies, I was doing standup. It’s always been a part of me, and now I’m excited to share it with my fans around the world.”
Bones will finally be back for the second half of season 10 with the March 26, 2015 episode titled “The Psychic in the Soup.” And although it’s been a long while since the 200th episode aired on December 11, 2014, executive producer Stephen Nathan promises the wait will be worthwhile.
“We’re going from death row to miniature golf to Tehran to yoga studios and I would strongly recommend you get a seat on the bus because it’s been a terrific year,” said Nathan during a conference call with the media in support of the spring premiere. “We left off with the 200th episode. We’ve been gone for a long time, but we have been packing little surprises away in our little sack for you, and we’re really looking forward to the second half of this year and I can promise you won’t be disappointed.”
Bones star Emily Deschanel joined Stephen Nathan to discuss the upcoming episodes, the pregnancy, and Booth and Brennan’s relationship.
Emily Deschanel and Stephen Nathan Interview
Can you talk about how Brennan’s pregnancy is going to be handled this season on the show?
Stephen Nathan: “Really, the pregnancy is just going to have a little bit more impact on them this season I think because Brennan now realizes what it is to have a child, having the family expand and grow and now she knows the tremendous risk that she and Booth’s job have in terms of how it affects their family. So, she’s going to have to deal with that, something that I think she was a bit oblivious to before, because she didn’t have the experience, so there are emotional considerations that surprise Brennan and will affect the pregnancy for the rest of the season.”
Emily Deschanel: “Yes, you’ll see Brennan going through a whole thing. She doesn’t really accept her pregnancy for a period of time. I think that having a second pregnancy is different than having a first pregnancy and each one is different. Brennan is experiencing that, and like Stephen said she realizes what it means.
When you’re working in this kind of world, crime, putting yourself in danger what that is, so she’s out of the field a little bit more this time and you’ll see there’s a lot of emotional things that happen for Brennan because of this pregnancy. It’s been different for me, Emily too, the second time around let me tell you, so it’s interesting. Probably my naiveté was helpful last time, too, from Emily as well as Brennan.”
Stephen Nathan: “I have three kids, so I know the second one is not double. It’s usually quadruple or ten times the amount of children.”
Emily Deschanel: “I thought it was smooth sailing after one. No one told me…”
Stephen Nathan: “But it’s smooth sailing when they’re all out of the house.”
Emily Deschanel: “Then you got the grandkids in your house.”
Stephen Nathan: “That’s right. But really Brennan’s pregnancy will have a tremendous impact on this series, certainly, giving us a season finale that is deeply affected by it.”
Is there a scene in this second half of the season that stands out as one of your favorites?
Emily Deschanel: “That would require us remembering what we’ve done. We’ve done 11 episodes since that last one aired, so we’ve done so many. We’re even trying to remember what we’ve done. Stephen, do you have a favorite?”
Stephen Nathan: “You know it’s always hard for me to pick favorites, but I think the storyline that is kind of the most emotionally rich for us is Booth’s relapse into gambling and how it affects Brennan, the family, and it just has the ripples go out from that and cause a lot of changes not only for Brennan and Booth but for the other characters as well. But, there are so many really. There’s great stuff between Cam and Arastoo, Arastoo going off to Iran and their relationship being in jeopardy and his life being in jeopardy. It’s hard to pick favorites. And, of course, there’s always all of the revolting bodies that delight us.”
There have been mentions of “complications” in the upcoming episodes. Can we expect some medical complications or bed rest or perhaps a multiple pregnancy? What kind of things are we going to get to see this time around that we didn’t last time?
Emily Deschanel: “There’s not anything so big medically that’s a huge problem or something. It’s more the emotional repercussions and the realization of Brennan having another child and then of course coupled with Booth’s relapse into gambling that makes things ‘complicated’, I guess. I guess that’s why we’re using that word. At the same time it seems like Brennan is a little more delicate this pregnancy, but there’s nothing major that that she’s on bed rest necessarily or that she’s having many babies that we know of yet. Hey, I haven’t read the last episode yet, so…”
Stephen Nathan: “The baby/babies will not — possible babies – will not appear this year. I know everyone kind of expects it, but we’ve had a lot of births on the show and we kind of know how.”
Emily Deschanel: “I told them I’m not giving birth again…”
Stephen Nathan: “That’s right. Brennan will be four years pregnant.”
Emily Deschanel: “…until we finish the show.”
Stephen Nathan: “That’s right.”
Emily Deschanel: “And the series is done.”
Stephen Nathan: “But we’re just kind of trying to approach the whole thing a bit differently to see the emotional complications rather than the physical complications of this pregnancy. Because as we’ve said, this pregnancy is much more fraught emotionally for both of them for many, many reasons.
There’s also the preponderance of cases that have affected their lives over the past 10 years of working together and how that affects their perception of their situation and their perception of the world and the world they want to bring their new child into and raise their family, so all of this has a tremendous impact on them. Do they want to keep getting shot at? That’s a real question.”
Emily Deschanel: “They had their house blown up last season. It’s big risks in this job. Booth is in prison or jail, it’s a really dangerous, risky job to have especially the way they do it, so it’s something that they’re considering heavily.”
Stephen Nathan: “And we’ve never even seen them take a break. When they separated before, Booth went to war, so we’re going to be treading some new ground.”
After ten seasons and ten years, is there anything the characters haven’t gotten to do that you want them to do?
Stephen Nathan: “Yes, absolutely, many, many things. I think in the same way that everyone’s life becomes surprising as they move through it and events change, the people’s reactions to those events evolve, so everything has the potential to always be new and surprising. Don’t you think, Emily?”
Emily Deschanel: “Yes.”
Stephen Nathan: “I have to say the fact that Emily comes to work every day and her work is always so incredibly fresh and surprising and new and is a testament to the longevity of the show, and it just seems like it could go on forever because of that.”
Emily Deschanel: “That’s very, very kind, Stephen. I would argue that you guys keep it so interesting that it’s always, as an actor you can see other shows… I’m not going to name anything, but you could see how people could get bored after several years. But when I think about all the different things that I’ve been able to do on the show, it just keeps it so interesting. And between character dynamics, but also just working with snakes or working in the Everglades with an alligator right there and scuba diving into a tank in an aquarium and being weightless in the vomit comet at one point and tightrope walking and all the…”
Stephen Nathan: “You really have done a lot.”
Emily Deschanel: “..the martial arts that I’ve done, I’m sure there’s something that’s going to happen and you’re like that’s awesome I get to do that now in my job. This is so fun.”
Stephen Nathan: “The show is easy for us to write tightrope walking. Emily has to do it.”
Emily Deschanel: “I will give credit, I had a double who actually did a tightrope walk high up, but I did get to learn how to do it lower to the ground so that they could film me closer up actually tightrope walking, which was a lot of fun. You go to circus school for an hour or whatever, whatever time was permitted for me to do that and things like that are just a lot of fun. That’s why the writers are writers and they get to think of these amazing things and we just get to come to work and have so much fun doing them.”
Stephen Nathan: “You could bring back Circus of the Stars.”
Emily Deschanel: “I don’t think I could do it now pregnant. My center of gravity is a little different.”
Stephen Nathan: “Your center of gravity is little off, but it makes it that much more interesting.”
Is there a new big bad or a recurring villain that we can look forward to in addition to a lot of the emotional things that are going on for the rest of the season?
Stephen Nathan: “Yes, we’re going to be dealing with more than one. We have an interesting new serial killer who appears and gets somewhat resolved in the second half of the season and is resolved when someone is on death row about to be executed. But at the very end, someone resurfaces from beyond the grave and comes back to alter everybody’s life yet again.”
Emily Deschanel: “A ghost?”
Stephen Nathan: “No ghosts, but I would imagine people who have been committed to the show will know that our favorite serial killer was Pelant, and although Pelant is in fact dead – Pelant himself does not resurface – the effects of Pelant’s life have not gone away.”
It’s pretty impressive that you’ve been able to play Brennan in such a way that you’ve maintained how she’s been in season one with her kind of standoffish and scientific talk and being very specific and yet over the years kind of opened up emotionally. How have you accomplished that?
Emily Deschanel: “I think that’s one of the beautiful things about doing a television show for a long period of time, you really get to see people change slowly in a lot of ways. It’s something that even from the beginning Hart [Hanson], who originally created the show, and I talked about from season one about how the character would be changing and taking down the walls that she’s built up.
I always looked at it as people change when somebody comes into their life that is important and meant to be there and a good match for you is that they help you be the best person you can be, not that Brennan wasn’t the best person, but she’s opened up emotionally over the period of time. So, I think that Booth has opened her up a lot or she’s opened herself up as a result of being involved with Booth in her life. It’s been a really lovely thing to explore this character in different ways and see how she is still her same self, but she is able to be more vulnerable and open. At the same time, she’ll say some things that are very kind of insensitive to people sometimes still and all of that, which is fun to play.”
Stephen Nathan: “We can’t have that go away. But anything we write, Emily can do and it’s always remarkable to us. But the advantage of having a show go on for so long is that the changes that occur in the characters almost occur in real-time as they do in life. Relationships between people in real life evolve slowly and incrementally and you become closer to those people through those changes. You go through it with them almost in real-time.
When you go to a movie in two hours somebody changes dramatically, you’re a bit outside of that story. But with a series with, I think we’re on our episode 799 or something, you have felt the evolution of these characters. It seems natural, hopefully, if we have done our job properly. And the joy to us is seeing, honest to God, there’s nothing we can’t throw Emily and David that they can’t work with and make better than we ever thought possible on the page.”
Emily Deschanel: “I don’t think that’s true, but that’s very nice.”
Stephen Nathan: “No, no, it’s true I got the research back. We did some tests. We did tests. We got it from a medical lab that said that you can make anything better than we write.”
How is Cyndi Lauper to work with and what went into casting her?
Emily Deschanel: “Cyndi, that’s like a dream come true. Just growing up I’ve always been a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper, so she’s a dream to work with. She’s such an interesting, eccentric, lovely, talented person, so much fun and she does a good job as an actress as well. Obviously, she’s an amazing singer, so we’re already fans of hers in that way and we loved having her on set. She brings such surprises; she’ll surprise you with choices she makes and just she’s so interesting to work with. She’s such a unique human being.”
Stephen Nathan: “I second that. She’s just fabulous to have around. She’s so much fun and it’s just such a wonderful character.”
Emily Deschanel: “Very funny, too, she’s just a really funny person. She’s great. I’d have her all the time if we could have her.”
Stephen Nathan: “And she’s Cyndi Lauper!”
Emily Deschanel: “And she’s Cyndi Lauper for God’s sake.”
Outlander stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe read (and commented on) a handful of Outlander fan tweets and the resulting funny video is about as adorable as you’d expect it to be. Among the tweets read were comments on the desire to take a look at what’s under Jamie’s kilt, Claire’s newfound bad-ass fighting skills, and the discovery that clavicles can be sexy.
Paramount Pictures’ fifth film of the Mission: Impossible franchise is now officially titled Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The latest Mission: Impossible movie has Tom Cruice back in the starring as Ethan Hunt and Jeremy Renner returning as William Brandt, with Simon Pegg reprising his role as Benji Dunn. Christopher McQuarrie, writer/director of Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher, helms this fifth film of the action series.
The official full length trailer will be released on March 23, 2015. Paramount will be releasing Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in theaters on July 31st.
The Plot:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Here’s a bit of news for those who say they’d listen to Tom Hiddleston read the phone book. Not only is Hiddleston starring in the film adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, he also narrated Audible’s audiobook< version of the bestselling sci-fi book. The audiobook will be available on March 26, 2015.
In addition to Hiddleston, High-Rise the movie’s cast includes Elisabeth Moss, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, and Sienna Miller. Ben Wheatley (Kill List) directed the dystopian tale based on the 1975 novel, with Amy Jump adapting Ballard’s book for the screen.
“I spent last summer holed up as Dr. Laing on the 25th floor of the High-Rise, as brought to life on film by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump. The book was always, necessarily, our corner-stone. Ahead of the release of the film, it was great to go back to J. G. Ballard’s original text and to read it aloud. Ballard was prescient about so many things: our seduction by (and reliance on) technology; our attempted colonization of the sky; and his particular, distinguishing implication that modern civilisation is perhaps only a few neighbourly disagreements away from collapse and chaos,” said Hiddleston.
The Plot:
High-Rise imagines an idyllic world gone awry. Set in a London apartment complex furnished with luxurious amenities and cutting-edge technology, the living situation may seem ideal, but petty disagreements between neighbors escalate into full-throttled violence as the residents of the complex completely isolate themselves from the outside world. The building becomes a microcosm of society, with the poorest residents on the lower floors, the middle class occupying the middle floors and the wealthiest living on the top floors. The tension between the groups runs high.
Freddie Highmore stars in A&E’s ‘Bates Motel’ (Photo by Cate Cameron Copyright 2015)
Season three of A&E’s popular drama Bates Motel finds Norman Bates, played by Freddie Highmore, continuing down the road to becoming the serial killer portrayed by Anthony Perkins in Psycho. Even more twisted than seasons one and two, season three kicked off on March 9, 2015 with new episodes airing on Monday nights at 9pm ET/PT.
As the new season gets underway, Freddie Highmore and executive producer/writer Kerry Ehrin took part in a conference call to discuss what fans of the addictive series can expect from season three.
Freddie Highmore and Kerry Ehrin Interview:
How difficult is it to get into character?
Freddie Highmore: “I don’t consider myself to be very similar to Norman. […] This season was more changing him and making him a bit more mature with the self-awareness that he gained at the end of the second season, and so perhaps it’s trickier than giving a look or finding out who Norman was in this third season. It was more about discovering in what ways he would change and grow up.”
Kerry Ehrin: “It’s definitely an evolution where Carlton [Cuse] and I began with the character in the first season. It’s a very different person at this point – and a lot of that has to do with self-awareness and also the natural development of teenagers to start seeing their parents as real people as opposed to gods or goddesses in their universe. I think there’s a bit of that in it as well. And, also, this season we’re very much playing with the game of control between him and Norma and the power struggle which is really delicious.”
At this point, how much influence does the original Anthony Perkins performance have on your performance and how much are you trying to just sort of completely make it your own?
Freddie Highmore: “I guess potentially now they are less comparisons that are made to it because people see the Norman on Bates Motel as being his own entity as opposed to necessarily the precursor to Anthony Perkins’ version. But at the same time I’ve re-watched Psycho before every season and in some ways tried implementing what Anthony Perkins brought to the role, especially as the show continues, because I’ve always seen that the end of Bates Motel not necessarily as the end of Psycho but the end of Norman is a lot closer to Anthony Perkins’ version than the boy that we saw at the start. But certainly I don’t think any of us feel tied constrainingly to Psycho or to any performance that came before.”
The motel itself is new version built in Canada but does working around that atmosphere add to the creepy feeling, both as an actor and as a writer?
Freddie Highmore: “Yes, it does. I think the first time I stepped on the set, it kind of has this weight already behind it when you look up and you see a very similar version of the house and the motel to the one that was in the original. And then over time it seems to come into view with your own memories and events that took place in Bates Motel. Like from the set, for example, leading up, there’s still the blood stain or whatever they used to pretend to be blood from Deputy Shelby’s death in last season. So there are little reminders to us all of how far he’s come.”
Kerry Ehrin: “There’s definitely a texture to that set that is emotional and you feel it when you’re there. It’s very cool.”
Now that Norma knows about Norman’s blackouts, do you think she’s going to ever let him back out on her own? Is she going to try and keep him more under control?
Kerry Ehrin: “Yes, it’s sort of like any mother. If your child had something wrong with him, especially something you couldn’t control, your instinct would be to literally tie them to your ankle. I mean, you would want to be in as close proximity to them at all times as you possibly could be. And then you add to that all the dark undercurrents and suspicions and that’s a terrifying ordeal for Norma. And, yes, her instinct is to keep him as close as possible.”
The shower scene of Norma looking in on Annika (played by Tracy Spiridakos) looked very familiar. Can we expect any other shower or bathroom-related scenes this season?
Freddie Highmore: “Definitely. There’s definitely another occurrence. [It’s a] really interesting bathroom season in many ways.”
Kelly Ehrin: It is a different bathroom, though. We got a new bathroom set this year, which is amazing. I know it sounds stupid to say that we’re excited about a bathroom set but it’s such an amazing design and we got to film some really pivotal scenes in it. It’s inside the Bates house. And there’s some huge scenes in it, yes.”
Was there a moment or a scene where you really felt like Norman clicked for you and you really just got him as a character?
Freddie Highmore: “No, I wouldn’t say that there was one particular scene that has defined him. I guess the scene in the woods just right at the end when Norman kind of looks up and looks into the camera. That’s the kind of two sides of Norman, really.”
Kerry Ehrin: “When you were doing the evil face, you mean?”
Freddie Highmore: “The evil face…but that build-up of him with mother Norma appearing and helping him to pass the test because I think really you need to do two things in order to know who Norman is because there’s this bifurcating of his personality that continues in the third season even more and so you need to understand that.”
Kerry Ehrin: “I mean, literally the first day of filming it felt like they were completely inside embodying the characters in such a true way. It was kind of amazing.”
Can you preview what’s to come for Dylan and Norman’s relationship?
Freddie Highmore: “I guess you see in the first episode how Dylan starts to get in between Norma and Norman. And I think that previously they have both shared this unbreakable bond and no one could come between them. I think for the first time in the third season Dylan starts to breech that a little bit and Norma will start to confide in Dylan things that she can’t say to Norman. So that’s kind of where their threesome is headed to some extent.”
Kerry Ehrin: “It definitely heats up.”
Can you talk a little bit about the evolution of Norman and Emma’s relationship and where we’re going to see that go this season?
Freddie Highmore: “I guess we’ve seen in the first episode how Norman wants to try and date Emma [Olivia Cooke]. I guess the reasons behind that become clearer as the season goes on and it is entirely, it is purely out of the feelings that he has for her but a lot of it is also out of feelings for his mother in the way that he feels like he should feel dating Emma. And not only does he on some level want to, he also feels like he’s doing the right thing by asking her out.”
Kerry Ehrin: “Emma in general has done some growing up as Norman has and when Norman first met her she was very much in many ways still kind of a little girl, very idealistic. I think lonely. And she was really grateful to have this friend who was Norman Bates. I think as she grows older and she has to deal with the reality of her health, which clarifies a lot of things in life when you have a crisis like that, she starts to mature. Part of her story this year is her starting to understand things about Norman that are concerning to her.”
Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore in ‘Bates Motel’ (Photo by James Dittiger)
It’s very hard to have a likeable anti-hero as your main character. It was done successfully with Dexter. How are you doing that with Bates Motel to make sure that people still feel connected with Norman?
Kerry Ehrin: “Well first of all you cast Freddie Highmore…”
Freddie Highmore: “And then you have Kerry writing…”
Kerry Ehrin: “…who is incredibly likeable. When you write these things, we love the characters and, in a way, actors have to love the character they portray in a way because they have to do the best version of it from that person’s point of view. I think the writing is kind of similar. If you’re going to take on a bad guy, you have to get inside of them and feel the world through them. No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘Hey, I’m a bad guy. I’m going to go out today and do bad things.’ Everyone wakes up in the morning and lies to themselves, so Norman is no different.
He’s been through a lot. He’s been through a lot that people would have a lot of sympathy for, empathy for. You know, a tough, very violent childhood home life and dysfunctional family. No father figure present. A mother who loves him to pieces but is very emotionally needy. He’s been through a lot of terrifying things and he’s very endearing because he always tries to do the best that he can. And I think that we love him for that. He doesn’t want to be a bad guy.”
Freddie Highmore: “And at the same time, it’s one thing to be a bad guy. He does become, in spite of his best intentions, I think he does become one over the course of the entire show but moving towards that in the third season. So I feel it was especially important to set Norman up in the first two seasons as someone we supported and whose side we were on so as now we can start to make us challenge whether we were right to get on his side and to start supporting him in the first place.”
Given that we know a lot of things about where he ends up in Psycho, would you say things like learning taxidermy were very significant in establishing Norman’s character also?
Freddie Highmore: “Yes, taxidermy is every more important as the season goes on and we’ll have to see what he ends up taxidermying by the end. But I don’t know. It’s the trick I think, as Kerry’s spoken about in the past, is in not making those moments that are present in Psycho seem really noticeable when you’re watching it. And of course part of the joy like when we see Norman as Norma is knowing, ‘Oh, we know that this is also [from the film].’ It has an extra creepy value because it will reappear in Psycho the film.
But at the same time, it should never be sort of gratuitous or simply put in, in order to cause that little wink to the audience. So I think what Kerry sort of balances so well is never making those sort of moments in Norman’s progression seem out of place within our show. But, at the same time, allowing them to have the power that comes from referencing Psycho.”
What can you tease about what’s going to happen for the rest of this intense season?
Freddie Highmore: “There’s this power, there’s this struggle for power between Norma and Norman in their relationship that will start to become ever more important. And whereas Norman has always been very much the son or the younger person in the relationship before, that dynamic is starting to shift and even in the shots that we see in the first episodes, it’s much more set up as these two equals are either lying in bed together or on some level equal. But it won’t stay that way. Norman will seek to take more and more of a control in their relationship and become the person who’s more dominant by the end of the season. I think that’s interesting. He’s become slightly more manipulative and capable of toying with Norma and using his knowledge about what he’s capable of to gain things from her.”
Kerry Ehrin: “He’s starting to understand the kinks in her emotional armor very well.”
Universal Studios Hollywood is opening its Fast & Furious-Supercharged ride to park visitors on June 25, 2015, and they’re teasing its upcoming opening with behind the scenes footage of the Fast and Furious movie-themed thrill ride. In the new video, cast members Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, and Dwayne Johnson talk about the ride and what guests of the park can expect when they get on the tram and check out the Fast and Furious Supercharged ride.
The ride will feature cast members Vin Diesel, Luke Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, and Tyrese Gibson in a “harrowing escapade – at perceived speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour – to save one of their own from an international crime cartel.” Discussing his participation in the ride, Johnson said, “I get a chance to become Luke Hobbs and kick-ass…all in 3D.”
Michelle Rodriguez added, “It’s really a sensory-driven experience, and I can’t wait to see what happens.”
Details on Fast & Furious—Supercharged, Courtesy of Universal Studios Hollywood:
Fast & Furious—Supercharged is a high-octane, adrenaline-fueled thrill ride and new grand finale to the world-famous Studio Tour. The dynamic hydraulic motion-based ride will tell an original Fast & Furious story that fuses sophisticated hyper-realistic special effects with a state-of-the-art 3D audio system and 3D-HD imagery projected onto the world’s longest and most expansive 360-degree screen. Spanning nearly 400 feet in length to encircle Studio Tour guests within a newly constructed 65,000-square-foot structure on the legendary backlot, the sprawling custom-built screen will employ 34, 4K projectors and a sophisticated projection configuration system to envelop guests in unprecedented realism.
Coupled with an intense blend of thrilling visceral effects, Fast & Furious—Supercharged will take guests on a wild ride that begins the moment they board the Studio Tour. Exclusive interstitial content – that was filmed with the cast members – will be featured on the tram monitors, highlighting interactions as they engage guests en route to the ride’s climatic scenes. Along the tram route and featured on the ride, sightings of numerous prop cars from the Fast & Furious series, including Dom’s iconic Dodge Charger, will enhance the story.
A new behind the scenes featurette on The Age of Adaline provides a look at the process of getting the costumes just right in a film that takes place over 100 years. Stars Blake Lively and Harrison Ford discuss the look of the film along with costume designer Angus Strathie in this short featurette.
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger, the cast also includes Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, and Ellen Burstyn. Lionsgate’s releasing the film in theaters on April 25, 2015.
The Plot:
After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman (Lively) has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones (Huisman) reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents (Ford and Baker) threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever.
Poster for ‘Guys and Dolls’ starring Frank Sinatra
HBO will premiere the Frank Sinatra documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All part one on April 5, 2015. Part two will follow on April 6th, with both airing 8-10pm ET/PT. Directed by Alex Gibney, (Taxi to the Dark Side), Sinatra: All or Nothing at All includes rarely scene footage as well as interviews with family members and close friends.
Gibney, Frank Marshall, Blair Foster, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, and Sharon Hall executive produced the four-hour documentary.
The Plot, Courtesy of HBO:
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All is an up-close and personal examination of the life, music, and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra’s life together with rarely seen footage of Sinatra’s famous 1971 “Retirement Concert” in Los Angeles. The film’s narrative is shaped by Sinatra’s song choices for that concert, which Gibney interprets as the singer’s personal guide through his own life.
Focusing on Sinatra’s first 60 years – beginning with his birth in Hoboken, New Jersey and meteoric rise in his 20s – and drawing on comments from friends and family, as well as never-before-seen footage from home movies and concert performances, this unprecedented tribute to the beloved showman follows Sinatra’s growth from roadhouse performer to global singing sensation.
With the participation of the Frank Sinatra Estate, family members, and archivists, Sinatra: All or Nothing at All is an intimate portrait of the singer, actor, father, husband and philanthropist.
