Think prison breaks, outrunning bad guys through a jungle, and a particularly lethal dance move.
“It’s what I gravitate towards real character stuff in the midst of funny.”
“I loved it,” Hawn says.
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“I saw Amy’s range and her brilliance.
She’s a funny, smart person who can also make you cry.
I didn’t care about doing something that doesn’t stimulate me.
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But this is Amy.
To be matched with someone so deeply instinctive, naturally funny, and incredibly brilliant?
It’s a great coup.”
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For the audience, too.
Director David Michod (Animal Kingdom) admitsMachineis “tonally schizophrenic,” and that’s the point.
“There was something so wildly crazy-bordering-on-absurd about the machinations of that world,” he says.
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“It’sThe HangovermeetsSex and the City,” explains director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man Holiday).
(Jamal Woolard, reprising his role from the 2009 biopicNotorious).
“He questioned what was going on.”
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Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) stars as Danny’s love interest, and Eva Longoria plays Miguel’s wife.
At least he’s not the dead stripper.
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STARRING:Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr. “We went down and shot one of our projects nearby,” Watts says.
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“It looked pretty well-lit for a student film.”
“To now be on the other side and be the one making aSpider-Manmovie feels pretty surreal.”
Holland (The Impossible), 20, says that his time onCaptain America: Civil Warwas great training.
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With that kind of responsibility comes great power.
“It’s only five steps away from being short of reality,” Ferrell jokes.
“Any parent faced with that circumstance would take desperate measures to achieve things for their kids.
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We just take it to a very exaggerated place.”
Poehler’s Kate is complicit in the action and the humor.
It helped that the two were synced from the first “Action.”
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“We had no rehearsals.
We just started filming,” Ferrell says.
“And we were beautifully in the pocket with each other.
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It didn’t surprise me, but that is so rare.”
“The constant question was: ‘Is it too stupid?'”
Sometimes, you have to roll the dice.
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Part thriller, part emotional whirlwind, the movie walks a tightrope of tone.
Placing cute kids (Jacob Tremblay also stars) in peril keeps audiences on edge.
It’s a smaller story than Trevorrow’s dino epic but still feels like summer entertainment.
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“Not all mythic stories have to span kingdoms and galaxies,” he says.
“They can happen in your own backyard.”
It takes patience, a bit of circumstance, and more than a dash of wisdom.
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“It’s a very powerful moment,” Gadot says.
Executive producer and chief creative officer of DC Entertainment Geoff Johns goes a step further with the Superman analogy.
“But this one is even more visceral.”
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“He’s charming, as in someone who can gain your trust.
He’s not ‘Hey there, I’m great.’
He’s ‘Hey there, you’re great.'”
In other words, he’s slick.
A lot of it was just finding the confidence."
He also has the perfect abs to play an elite lifeguard but he won’t describe those.
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That’s a task for Priyanka Chopra (ABC’sQuantico), who plays the film’s villain Victoria Leeds.
“I didn’t think they were real,” she marvels.
“I was looking at them like, ‘How is that even scientifically possible?’
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But these guys trained for four hours a day.”
“I mean, they were doing a film called Baywatch.”
It turns out the war between Hasbro shapeshifting robots extends all the way back to Arthurian legend.
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So she gets [surprised] in a really funny, dramatic way by this Hot Rod."
With director Michael Bay in charge, her life is about to blow up.
And this is one killer sickness.
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“We took a little bit of every gnarly disease.”
The pair created a look that featured boils and blackened veins.
And for the coup de grace?
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“To be even scarier, we added solid black demonlike eyes,” Grossman says.
“It was a hugely traumatic, life-changing moment in my life,” Shults says.
“I started writing the opening scene and then this whole fictional story burst out of that.”
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“The majority of the movie is us completely freaking out,” Moore says.
“It’s the most terrifying nightmare on the planet.
Certainly, some things haven’t changed.
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It’s not going to be possible.'”
Aye, but we all must take the plunge sometimes.
Now that she’s got her diploma, she’s hitting the big screen.
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She can’t set foot outside her doorstep.
Which is why Stenberg felt like the perfect choice to play her.
“Amandla has a real strength, but she’s optimistic and positive.”
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“Sometimes [escape] can be risky.
Sometimes you learn the most beautiful lessons.”
Fun twist: They’re both already dead!
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“They’re finally face-to-face,” says director Alex Kurtzman (People Like Us).
“He’s realizing that he’s deeply, and desperately, cursed.”
Long ago, Ahmanet’s father reneged on his promise to make her pharaoh after he sired a son.
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“These people never shouted,” she says.
“They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.”
Things don’t stay calm around Ahmanet for long.
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But don’t expectThe Monster Avengersright away.
“The movie’s calledThe Mummy, notThe Mummy Meets 12 Other Monsters,” Kurtzman says.
And this Mummy is more than a pile of decomposing fury.
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Who can’t relate to that?
The film refreshingly forgoes the trappings of period dramas, opting for austerity in design and tone.
“That stillness compounds Katherine’s isolation and drives her newfound freedom.”
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As in Shakespeare’s play, the men don’t stand a chance.
To that end, reformed supervillain Gru is as biologically connected as ever whenDespicable Me 3picks up.
“That was when the U.S. and Russian spacecrafts first docked together,” Besson says.
“We see that in the opening credits ofValerian.
Thus, the “thousand planets” refer to all the extraterrestrials that have linked up with Alpha.
“It is definitely a next-level melting pot,” DeHaan says.
Besson points to a gas bubble.
“Oh, that’s just like Tribeca in lower Manhattan.
It’s just a little area where aliens live.”
“They were all insane and I loved them,” he says, laughing.
It’s cohesive but all meshed together, and Luc always preferred the most fascinating and most cool.”
And the most square footage.
Never contradict the boss whether he be director or president about his real estate claims.
ButAlien: Covenantis much more than a mere frightfest.
Its central mystery is a cerebral puzzle, toying with the ideas of creation and human nature.
“This is Ridley at his best,” Michael Fassbender says.
“I want him more like a blank canvas one can project things upon.”
He’s so convincing!
It felt like time-traveling into the future."
“Prometheusopened that door and now we’re into the corridor,” Scott says.
But even Fassbender hasn’t gotten all the answers.
“I don’t really press Ridley too much,” the actor says.
“He’ll reveal all at the right time.”
Like the Creator himself.
(So easy, right?)
What they ended up with is full-blast swords and sorcery told with a Cockney accent.
We were just doing our best Guy Ritchie impersonations."
“It’s Boyhood, but for apes.
It’s my Apehood!”
“It finally cracks Caesar,” returning director Matt Reeves says.
“It sets him on a revenge mission.
The movie goes from being this grand war movie to an almost Josey Wales-like Western.”
“The Colonel comes across as someone who’s psychotic,” Serkis teases.
“But he is fighting for the survival of humanity, as Caesar is fighting for the apes.”
Expect one loser, but no winners.
“We definitely bought him a lot of massages along the way.”
The shooting style allowed for an intimacy not typically associated with IMAX.
It sounds beyond intense, and for a Christopher Nolan film, that’s saying something.
It’s no longer clear who is friend or foe.
“You threw me into a hornets’ nest,” Broughton says to her superiors.
As Theron and Kono developed the script over the years, that line stuck in Theron’s head.
“How would a woman respond in such a situation?”
“And how do you make it real?”
This is a spy with serious edge.
