Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film Interstellar and it still doesn’t really give away anything about the plot. Hot off his Oscar win, Matthew McConaughey stars in this sci-fi drama about wormholes and interstellar travel.
In addition to Matthew McConaughey, the cast also includes Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, John Lithgow, Casey Affleck, David Gyasi, Wes Bentley, Mackenzie Foy, Timothée Chalamet, Topher Grace, David Oyelowo, and Ellen Burstyn. Christopher Nolan directs from a script he co-wrote with his brother, Jonathan.
Paramount will release Interstellar in November 2014.
The Plot:
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Sir Ben Kingsley made his very first trip to the San Diego Comic Con in support of The Boxtrolls, a gorgeous animated film from the creators of ParaNorman and Coraline that Kingsley says he’s proud to promote. Although the Oscar-winning actor hasn’t yet seen the finished film, he loves the look of The Boxtrolls as well as the film’s message. “It explores vulnerability, it explores separation, it explores triumph, it explores absurdity, vanity, ambition. It’s very human. It has loads of human layers to it that so many people can engage with and study, and be amused by. I was very, very impressed with the detail of the animation and the psychological layers of the character.”
Kingsley’s had only minor roles in animated movies before, but he finds the experience very freeing. In order to echo the movements of his character (‘Archibald Snatcher’) on screen, Kingsley played with his voice, starting from a very relaxed starting point. “I actually was lying down for most of my recordings,” revealed Kingsley during our interview at Comic Con. “I know the recording studio quite well and I’ve got some good mates who work there, and they rigged me up this sort of reclining chair that was almost horizontal. I would do all my recording like that because I wanted to come from a very relaxed part of me.”
During our extensive interview, Sir Ben Kingsley also talked about his career choices, Gandhi, and what family audiences will get out of checking out The Boxtrolls.
Focus Features and LAIKA will release The Boxtrolls in theaters on September 26, 2014.
The Plot:
The Boxtrolls is a family event movie that introduces audiences to a new breed of family – The Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, “into the light,” where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie (Elle Fanning). Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs’ family.
Rachel Boston and Eric Winter star in ‘Witches of East End’ (Photo by James Dittiger/Copyright 2014 Lifetime
Witches of East End star Eric Winter says he’s happy with the direction his character, Dash Gardiner, has taken in season two of the popular Lifetime series. And in San Diego for the 2014 Comic-Con, Winter also said he felt right at home among comic book fans, and we quickly found out why as we sat down in the Tipsy Crow bar to chat about the second season of Witches.
Eric Winter Witches of East End Interview
Are you accustomed to Comic Con or interested in it?
Eric Winter: “You know, I was just saying to somebody else, I was here as a comic book fan probably 25 years ago before it was all this and it was just a comic book convention. You go, you buy, trade and sell comic books. It was a much different experience. I enjoyed it. This is now the Hollywood spectacle so it’s interesting.”
What were your comic books?
Eric Winter: “I used to have all the Batman: Year One, Two, I had Killing Joke. I traded them all for a Joe Montana rookie card. I had Akira, I had so many frickin’ great comics. I was just discussing this on the flight down, all the Wolverines.”
How do you live with yourself after making a trade like that?
Eric Winter: “It’s really hard, really hard. I still have that rookie card that’s not worth half as much as that collection would’ve been. I had a really solid collection.”
This season is darker, the tone’s different. How are you enjoying it?
Eric Winter: “I’m loving it.”
Is Dash better to play in this second season?
Eric Winter: “Much better. For me in particular, my character, it’s been huge and really, really an amazing jump for me to explore what Dash is going through emotionally. I’m trying to walk this line of being good and not so good, having these powers and not always having the intention to use them for the right reasons. It was so much more of just a soft, nicer, more pushed-over guy last season. He really has come into his own. I much prefer this version.”
The brothers are discovering powers without a support system or teachers.
Eric Winter: “And it’s led to me developing this relationship even with Ingrid, just to come to her and ask because we share this similar brain map. It’s been something that was a bond for us and a connection and it’s helped guide Dash.”
But she’s still a novice too. What trouble will come up?
Eric Winter: “That’s the fun that’s going to come. That’s the fun that’s about to ensue. It’s definitely a bumpy road and Dash might not be the best listener. She might give him advice but he has different intentions, so it also complicates things.”
Are we going to find out their real connection this season?
Eric Winter: “I think you’ll learn more about it. Their true connection is the similarity of obviously being witches together. I think the type of knowledge that they have within that witch spectrum or world. And they tend to bond. It’s as if you found somebody that’s like a lost soulmate in a way that you find a connection with as a friend. It escalates into an interesting story.”
Considering Dash’s history with the Beauchamp women, how will his history complicate things with Freya?
Eric Winter: “I think it’s definitely going to complicate and it does to a degree right away. Even if Freya, her feelings are always for Killian, I think no matter what, you’ve still got the whole ‘it’s my ex-fiance thing’ so it’s still awkward, right? And now you’re hanging out with my sister all the time and you’re not such a good energy in general around them in what my real intention might be, so she’s protective of Ingrid and really wants to keep her safe. But Ingrid’s a good girl and thinks she can handle herself, and that’s also a dynamic that plays out.”
How do you fit your masculine energy into the female energy?
Eric Winter: “As a character, they’ve done a really great job integrating us a lot stronger into the show which I think a lot of fans were asking for, at least fans of mine and fans following Dash and Killian wanted to see that storyline and wanted to see strong women deal with strong men and have them come together as a unified or non unified group, one way or the other. So I think that’s been fun. And then as an actor, these girls are all strong but they’re all softies so it’s easy to get in there, play with them and have some fun. They all like to laugh.”
Do you have any idea what’s coming up next season?
Eric Winter: “No idea. No idea. I know there’s a big cliffhanger that they’re tossing around, at least regarding Dash and Killian for this season. It’s a big, big twist that would lead to a very interesting start to next year.”
Are there any other powers Dash will have?
Eric Winter: “Right now, it’s his powers that we’ve displayed and everything comes from an anger, comes from a rage kind of a place at times, but now he starts learning how to harness it. But yeah, his power stems in the form of electricity.”
Is there any connection to Norse mythology?
Eric Winter: “I’d like to know that myself. That’d be a good writers question, but I love his choice of power. I think it’s really cool so I’m all about it.”
As a comic book fan, how deeply have you delved into the mythology of the show?
Eric Winter: “I did at the beginning. I got into it quite a bit at the beginning and then they really tried to make it clear, ‘You guys aren’t gods like the book. It’s going to be different.’ So I dove in a little bit to understand the books, but at the same time you have to pull back a little bit and follow what they’re writing for you and create your own character within that world. So there are some parallels and with the guys there are some hints, but it’s still all food for thought that you can use to process the journey.”
Why are people fascinated by stories about witches?
Eric Winter:You know, I think because they just played out through time so well. Not only that, there are the natural true beliefs in witches that existed through time. Are they real? Aren’t they real? Is magic real? Is it not real? It’s like aliens. Everybody always wonders. Can you do something like that or do they exist? I think with that hope or that idea of it all keeps you invested. If it’s told correctly and told in an interesting way and we try and keep it clever, it’s a fun ride.”
How has Witches changed your relationship with fans?
Eric Winter: “I mean, I’ve been involved with a few genre things that affect you in the same kind of way. Genre fans are the best. They stick to their stuff.”
Poster for ‘The Strain’ (Copyright 2014, FX Networks)
Writer/executive producer Chuck Hogan admitted that he was so used to the way the worms looked in The Strain that he wasn’t actually prepared for the reaction they got from viewers. At the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, Hogan said, “I got so used to the prosthetic and how scary the creatures look as we go along, I’d forgotten about the worms, which are largely VFX stuff. But what we’re hearing is the pilot and the first episode people are really freaked out by those worms. It came out so great, so it’s fun. The reaction stuff is great.”
The Strain airs on FX on Sunday nights at 10pm ET/PT and as season one continues, Hogan talked about what viewers can expect.
Chuck Hogan The Strain Interview
How close does this season follow the book?
Chuck Hogan: “Actually, the pilot I feel takes up almost half of the book, really. Not everything. We go back into some things but we really chewed up a lot of book in the pilot. That was good too because it really challenged us to come up with some different things and to create some things going ahead. But essentially, the first season is the first book in the sense that it starts and ends in a very similar fashion, but in the middle, especially towards the end of the season, we were able to do a lot of new stuff that was really fun.
I think we got a few episodes in and the actors and the locations were really informing us. We were sort of writing to that and it changed in a really fun way. It became something, I don’t know, it just felt bigger and better, frankly, the more that we went with it. That was exciting.”
Is there anything you had to tone down for FX?
Chuck Hogan: “No. No, that’s why, in many ways, they’re great partners with us but their whole thing is make it weirder, bigger, scarier which is no problem at all. So no, really other than just very sensible things that we wouldn’t really consider doing, in fact we have just sort of toned stuff down ourselves. It had nothing to do with the network, just maybe that’s a little too much. We would pull back a little bit. We don’t want people to really be grossed out, so it’s fun. It’s fun trying to gauge people’s responses.”
Was it planned as a TV series and it fell through, so you made the books and comic books?
Chuck Hogan: “My understanding is that Guillermo has always seen this as a longform narrative and his thinking was television. He went in…this was before we’d ever met, and people weren’t really getting it…and I think he had the idea to do it his own way and to have something that he could then show to people and say, ‘This is what I’m talking about.’
So when we met, we just talked about the books and we wrote the three novels and that was it. He and I both wanted to make sure that we wrote the books and they were finished, and then tried to do something else with it. That’s why we didn’t go to the networks until we were done writing it and stuff.
He definitely had this idea. He always thought of it as an eventual TV show way before TV was cool. We started in 2006 and I was kind of hoping for a movie. This would make a great movie, but he’s absolutely right. It’s so much more fun to be able to take characters in and out, have them in jeopardy, lose some, gain some. This is a much better way to tell the story.”
Who was hardest to cast?
Chuck Hogan: “Hardest to cast? It’s hard to say. We had a lot of good choices. It was hard in a good way which is we can’t go wrong, which actor or actress will be better. But the chemistry’s been fantastic. You notice, we have almost everybody here, we were able to get together and hang out last night. It’s just a really, really good group. Everyone is phenomenal. I honestly can’t think of many bumps in the road. We’ve been really lucky, really lucky.”
How do you balance the tone between humor and horror?
Chuck Hogan: “I love it. I think that’s fun. It’s fun that our show isn’t just one thing. It’s sort of an easy pitch. It’s a vampire show, great. But we go to some really weird places. We do some really crazy stuff. There’s some funny stuff, but not as much. There may be more coming but yeah, it’s really an entertaining show in every aspect. It’s entertaining scary, it’s entertaining weird, it’s entertaining fun.
It was the same thing writing the books. It was so great to be able to go to different places and to play something really gory and play something really mythical. The variety is really what excites me and hopefully the viewer too. There’s a lot of different looks.”
Having his name attached to a TV series automatically draws in viewers who’ve followed Ronald D. Moore over the course of his career, from his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Roswell, Carnivale, to Battlestar Galactica and Caprica. Moore deserves the street cred he’s earned among science fiction fans, and Syfy’s new series Helix lives up to Moore’s reputation for producing sci-fi projects of quality and depth.
Syfy brought the cast and Moore to the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con to discuss season one of the series, and I was fortunate enough to be able to spend time picking executive producer Ronald D. Moore’s brain about what makes the series work and what viewers who are caught up in the world of Helix can expect from season two. Among the tidbits Moore shared are that there will be a time jump and the setting will be completely different, however the tone will remain the same.
The Plot:
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to the high-tech research facility, Arctic Biosystems, to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. However, the lethal threat is just the tip of the iceberg, and as the virus evolves, the chilling truth begins to unravel.
Billy Campbell stars as Dr. Alan Farragut, leader of the Centers for Disease Control outbreak field team called upon to investigate and control a potential outbreak. Hiroyuki Sanada stars as Dr. Hiroshi Hatake, director of Arctic Biosystems and its mysterious viral research program. Helix also stars Kyra Zagorsky as Dr. Julia Walker; Mark Ghanimé as Major Sergio Balleseros; Jordan Hayes as Dr. Sarah Jordan; Meegwun Fairbrother as Daniel Aerov; Catherine Lemieux as Dr. Doreen Boyle, and Neil Napier as Dr. Peter Farragut.
Starz’s Outlander, based on the bestselling book series by Diana Gabaldon, is packed with interesting characters two of whom are played by Lotte Verbeek and Graham McTavish. Verbeek takes on the role of Geillis Duncan, a time-traveler considered a witch back in the 1700s and who uses unsavory methods to pass from century to century. McTavish tackles the role of Dougal MacKenzie, War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie and the right-hand man of his brother, Colum, leader of the clan.
For those who haven’t read the books, these are two complicated characters hiding major secrets. Together at the San Diego Comic-Con to talk about Outlander and their characters, McTavish and Verbeek discussed how they approached their roles and what life was like on the set of this epic drama.
Lotte Verbeek and Graham McTavish Outlander Interview
You play two characters who are going to be hard to trust. How much fun is it to have that duplicity?
Graham McTavish: “I suppose I don’t see so much duplicity as complication, really. With my character, I believe he has personal interest and personal ambitions which collide and conflict with other people, but he also has responsibilities that he takes very seriously. The responsibility he has towards the clan, but also the responsibility he feels towards the country. I think that’s his overarching guide as a character. And other stuff gets in the way which trips him up, character flaws, ambition, all of those things, impatience. So I guess I’m biased. I don’t see him necessarily as duplicitous as more he’s practical. That’s how he sees it anyway. That’s I guess how I see it.”
Lotte Verbeek: “Yeah, I really like playing Geillis because there are so many different sides to her and it’s not black and white. To even answer the question, is she good or bad, she’s so driven by something she really believes in. She’s a believer basically, and I think that’s something beautiful.
On her past she does do some stuff that might not be as correct, but you don’t really know her instantly. You might think you know her, but then you get to know her more and better or, you know, see things of her. That’s always going to go on I feel like, so there’s always surprises.”
How far into the books did you read, or do you not want to know what happens?
Graham McTavish: “I’m kind of the ‘don’t want to know too far in.’ I mean, people keep telling me, which is very annoying.”
Lotte Verbeek: “Stop!”
Graham McTavish: “Yes, but I’ve read the first book and so I left it at that for now. I want to read the second book but I like to primarily work from the material that we’re being given as actors, which is the script and what Ron and Diana together guide us through. Yeah, I haven’t read more than the first one.”
Lotte Verbeek: “Me neither. Yeah, we’re on the same page. There are so many books and there might be many more years to come. Who knows? So we’ll have time I guess.”
You can’t go online and look for Outlander without learning what happens with Geillis.
Lotte Verbeek: “Yeah, there’s this whole fan base online and stuff so people are hinting at it or just blatantly telling me what’s going to happen. But then, because there’s time travel, you don’t know when or how, and we are taking some freedom here and there in the interpretation of the books. So yeah, there’s some room for creativity there.”
Are you bringing any modern sensibilities into the role?
Lotte Verbeek: “I think the way she thinks is naturally she’s ahead of her times. You can say the same thing about Claire. They’re both two ladies in a men’s world in that time and they’re ahead of their times, but they do have to deal with that world. I think, yeah, maybe Geillis even more so than Claire, which I think is really interesting. I guess I bring my own take on things to them. I’m a woman of this day and age and I don’t even think of myself as a feminist or anything because I’m so used to having everything I have and all the freedom I have. So I think we as actors naturally bring stuff to our roles, which is probably also why we’re cast in the role. Because you’re right for it, I guess. And you bring those things.”
Has author Diana Gabaldon filled you in on your characters’ motivations or backstories?
Lotte Verbeek: “Not really. I didn’t meet her before I started doing the part. She always has a lot of interesting backstories about why she wrote a certain passage or a certain relationship. When you ask her questions about the book, she always surprises you with like, ‘Wow, okay, that’s even darker than I thought.’ I don’t know about you, but I have not asked any questions before I started working on it.”
Graham McTavish: “No, and it’s great really. She’s very good that way. I think she’s there if you need her. If you wanted to ask her a question about anything at all, she’d be happy to help but she also recognizes that she needs to provide some kind of distance for you to be able to discover and own those characters yourself. So both her and [Ronald D. Moore] work very well together that way.”
You experienced the world of fandoms with The Hobbit. Do you have advice on to handle fandoms?
Graham McTavish: “All the people I encounter at these sort of events and other conventions that I’ve done or whatever, they’re delightful. They really are. It’s rare that you go to anywhere that’s so full of people that are happy to be there and enjoying themselves. That’s it. There’s nobody here wandering around who doesn’t want to be here and isn’t having a great time. It’s fantastic, so no, I don’t give them advice about any of that. Always just they’ll discover any of that for themselves I’m sure, in their own way.”
What was the most impressive thing you experienced being on the set?
Lotte Verbeek: “Well, I was first really impressed by the sets and just how real everything looked, and even us as actors, you go walking onto set and going, ‘No, but this has got to be,’ you knock on the wall and it’s just made out of…it’s a set. But then after that, I started working on location and Scotland is just so extraordinary, so beautiful and then yesterday when we actually saw the first episode on the big screen, the first image of Scotland, I grabbed my friend and I was like, ‘Look!’ and she’s like, ‘Yeah, I see. It’s beautiful.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, but look how big.’ This is the first time I saw it on a big screen and it’s just so impressive. It’s almost as if I was touching the stones myself and just falling in that world. It was really, really impressive.”
Graham McTavish: “Well, I’ve been really impressed actually how much care they’ve taken over the show photographically. The DPs that we’ve had have just been incredible. They were quite influenced by I think films like Barry Lyndon, using that sort of ambient light feel so that you get that sense of richness of color and light that contrasts with the 1940s. They very much graded the 1940s in a different way to the way they’ve graded the 1740 stuff. That’s what struck me yesterday watching the screen. It was that lush visual texture that you got.”
Lotte Verbeek: “It’s lush, that’s it.”
Graham McTavish: “And it’s fabulous how it translates onto that size of a screen as well. And this is a TV show, and that was on a 50-foot screen.”
Have you watched any other episodes?
Graham McTavish: “Six, I’ve seen six.”
Lotte Verbeek: “Yeah, the first six.”
Graham McTavish: “Great.”
Lotte Verbeek: “And it does leave you wanting more.”
Graham McTavish: “Oh yeah, yeah. I hadn’t seen anything and I watched the first six back to back, and I found myself becoming a fan of it myself and sort of falling into it and almost forgetting that I’m involved with it. It’s a strange sort of Jedi mind trick when you become interested in what all the other people are doing as well, the things you weren’t privy to, the paths that they’re taking. So that was really great.”
How different is costume drama acting?
Lotte Verbeek: “I was really lucky, again. So yeah, the waistline dropped which isn’t always comfortable.”
Graham McTavish: “Is that right?”
Lotte Verbeek: “Yeah, The Borgias was kind of like empire, and this is lower so less space to breathe. But what I really liked about these costumes, they’re extraordinary. Like, they’re pieces of art really. There’s a rawness to it and especially with the Geillis costumes, I like to think of her as a creature and there’s almost something animal-like about her. So in the costumes, there’s always something that’s just a bit weird, a bit off, a bit like a little squirrel perhaps. That’s in the costumes. Terry [Dresbach] and I, he always gave me something to play with in the costumes, like little details or little things to fidget with. That’s just been lovely and very creative working that way together.”
Anything specific we should look out for?
Lotte Verbeek: “Well, there’s one costume and we call it The Monkey Jacket. It’s kind of hairy almost. It’s almost like I’m wearing an animal’s costume. But then she had me try it on. That was when I first arrived in Glasgow and met the producers and she tried it on me. I was just playing with it. I was like, ‘How about if I turn it around?’ She was like, ‘Okay.’ And then from that moment on, every time she gave me something, I was sort of playing with it and just slightly manipulating it. And she goes, ‘Oh God, she’s doing it again.’ But we always found something just a bit off, a bit weird, a bit different. But that was the Monkey Jacket.”
Graham McTavish: “I didn’t get a Monkey Jacket.”
Lotte Verbeek: “Unfortunately.”
What has been the most fun part of your Comic Con experience?
Graham McTavish: “Oh, I just love the freneticism of it. I do, I do. I mean, I couldn’t do it for long but I do love that the shutting and the moving about and the carving your way through crowds to try to get something. I did the Hobbit panel this morning, came from that to do over here. It’s great. Inhabiting those worlds as well simultaneously is interesting, and today was the first time I saw the hall. It’s just extraordinary. I couldn’t believe it. The poor people that are standing there shouting, ‘Keep moving, keep moving…’ They probably go home weeping themselves to sleep at night because it’s like, ‘Nobody listens to me. They’re all standing still.'”
Is there something you wanted to see on the floor?
Graham McTavish: “Oh, well, I really want to go to the WETA stand because I know a lot of the guys there. Apparently today you can’t get near it, so I’m going to go tomorrow morning. But unlike Peter Jackson who went yesterday, he did the floor yesterday wearing a mask, this extraordinary mask, and he stood at the Outlander panel. He showed me the pictures this morning. He had his photo taken with me in the background in his mask. I won’t be doing anything that ridiculous.”
The first teaser trailer for the big screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical by James Lapine, Into the Woods, has been released. Directed by Rob Marshall, Into the Woods will feature songs by Stephen Sondheim including the original musical’s “Children Will Listen,” “Giants in the Sky,” “On the Steps of the Palace,” “No One Is Alone” and “Agony.” The star-studded cast includes Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski and Johnny Depp. Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, Tammy Blanchard, Lucy Punch, Frances de la Tour, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Glover, Joanna Riding, and Annette Crosbie are also part of the huge ensemble cast.
Walt Disney Pictures will release Into the Woods in theaters on December 25, 2014.
The Plot:
Into the Woods is a modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)—all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife (James Corden & Emily Blunt), their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch (Meryl Streep) who has put a curse on them.
Lorde has been tapped to write a new song for the soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 which is heading to theaters on November 21, 2014. The New Zealand native will also ‘curate’ the soundtrack according to an announcement by Lionsgate, hand-picking artists to be included on the soundtrack.
“I sat down with Lorde on the set of Mockingjay this spring and I was immediately struck by how she so innately understood what we, as both fans and filmmakers, were trying to accomplish with the film. Her immense talent and keen understanding of Mockingjay’s characters and themes not only have enabled her to create a song of her own that completely captures the film’s essence, but her insight and passion for our project make her the perfect creative force to assemble the other songs on our soundtrack. I can’t wait to share what she’s done with the fans — it is truly remarkable,” said director Francis Lawrence.
“Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly-anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance,” said Lorde. “The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians participating and, as someone with cinematic leanings, being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people.”
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Plot:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
SpongeBob SquarePants is back on the big screen with a new animated comedy movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, and today Paramount Pictures is showing off the official poster and trailer. Coming to theaters on February 13, 2015, this SpongeBob adventure finds our favorite Sponge out of the water, on the land, and off on his biggest heroic adventure to date.
What’s the one question Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, and Eddie Cahill wouldn’t answer during our interview for Under the Dome at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con? I’ll give you a clue: it’s the source of everything that’s going wrong in the small town of Chester’s Mill.
Koch, Ford, and Cahill wouldn’t reveal their theories as to what the ‘egg’ is, however, they did talk about other Chester’s Mill happenings (without revealing any spoilers).
This season on CBS’s Under the Dome, the death count of key characters has increased but Koch (‘Junior’) doesn’t mind if he’s kept in the dark when it comes to what’s in store for his character. Koch admits he doesn’t think too far ahead as to what’s up with his character as the writers can change their minds, and he’d rather just play what’s in the script he’s presented than to anticipate what could be coming further down the road.
And speaking of those scripts, this season Under the Dome author Stephen King was actually on the set for episode one, which he wrote. “It was really great. Having him lead our first episode of the second season kind of set the tone for the second season, especially with the introduction of new characters,” says Ford. “There’s so many new twists in our story, I think it really helped us get started.”
Cahill didn’t get to work with King much, but he believes if they’d given King the whole season to do it would have gone darker in tone. “I think there was some of that kind of quirk in the first episode that was unique to him,” said Cahill when asked if the series would be different if King wrote every episode.
Watch the full interview (embedded above) for more on what’s to come on Under the Dome.
