Sorry for the lack of updates. We've been trying to figure out what to do with the site and clearly we've decided on turning it into a Tommy Wiseau fan dedication page. Anyway, to anybody still checking in, here's the first teaser trailer for The Disaster Artist, the film chronicling the making of Tommy Wiseau's legendary film The Room. People who have already screened the film have been praising James Franco's portrayal of Tommy Wisseau, so I'm going to assume either they're liars or this clip isn't representative of the whole movie since he doesn't seem to be nailing the essence of Tommy Wiseau here. His accent is too understandable and, honestly, the actual Tommy Wiseau seems like more of a caricature than Franco's caricature of him.
If you ignore the Blade movies (and it seems like a lot of people are), Black Panther will be Marvel's first black superhero film. And just in case you weren't sure of that, they've made sure to push the native African art direction as hard as they're comfortable doing while not scaring away white people. It's a refreshing change from Marvel's standard aesthetic, and they've even gone so far as to switch up their generic superhero trailer score with what is clearly the coolest song ever used in a Marvel trailer.
The trailer looks fine enough, but the music selection is godawful. Does every period piece have to appeal to kids with stupid anachronistic music? This is an adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, not a trailer for Fyre Festival.
Turns out Steven Soderbergh is a liar, because despite claiming he had retired from directing, here's the trailer for his newest film Logan Lucky. It feels like a redneck version of Ocean's 11, which seems fitting since that's basically how Soderbergh described it to EW:
On the most obvious level, it's the complete inversion of an Ocean's movie. It's an anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie. Nobody dresses nice. Nobody has nice stuff. They have no money. They have no technology. It's all rubber band technology, and that's what I thought was fun about it. It seemed familiar to me, but different enough. The landscape, the characters, and the canvass were the complete opposite of an Ocean's film. What was weird is that I was working as a producer on Ocean's Eight while we were shooting Logan, and it was kind of head-spinning. That's like a proper Ocean's film. This is a version of an Ocean's movie that's up on cement blocks in your front yard.
Channing Tatum has this weird knack for getting cast in subversively hilarious movies, especially when paired with Steven Soderbergh. At least that's what I tell people whenever they catch me watching Magic Mike on repeat. Logan Lucky comes out August 8, and it looks pretty good, despite the apparent lack of Channing Tatum's abs.
Director Josh Boone has confirmed that the X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants, will be a horror movie. He told Entertainment Weekly:
"We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We're trying to do something very, very different."
Marvel had pretty great success branching out from the standard superhero models with Deadpool and Logan, so they'll probably find a way to make this work as well. A source close to the project has hinted that they'll be focusing on the mutants' teenage years, so there's also a possibility that their idea of horror is simply having to be around a group of teenagers. *shudder*
CineFix used to be a horrible listacle YouTube channel, but lately they've been pumping out some quality content. Here's part three of their Best Shots of All Time series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. The first two parts focused on people and characters, but this one examines establishing, insert and cutaway shots. Unfortunately, they left out the true greatest shot of all time: the shot that Halle Berry takes while playing basketball in Catwoman.
Here's the final trailer for Luc Besson's comic book-based space epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Although using an orchestral version of Gangster's Paradise in your trailer seems like cheating because any video set to that music will automatically appear epic and amazing. You could film a dirty boot for two minutes while playing orchestral Gangster's Paradise and people will assume it's the next summer blockbuster of 2017.
