It's strange to go to the cinema and come out feeling like you've seen an utterly brilliant film and a truly awful film at the same time - but the new Baywatch really does tick both boxes. There's no getting away from it - the big-screen adaptation of the 1990s TV series is simply two hours of pure entertainment. The action sequences are huge, the soundtrack is awesome, and the […]
Patty Jenkins has never understood why people want to mess with Wonder Woman. To take the glorious Amazonian goddess, with her tiara and bracelets, her breastplate and hot pants, and try to make her modern or human or somehow more “real” simply made no sense. “I always wanted it to stay a very simple origin story,” Jenkins said. “I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, […]
Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is sailing into first place at the domestic box office this weekend, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics. Johnny Depp’s fifth outing as Jack Sparrow is looking at a three-day total of $62.2 million from 4,276 locations, and a four-day holiday weekend sum of $77 million. If not for international appeal, that would be […]
With the prizes given out, the bags packed and the hangovers kicking in, the 70th Cannes Film Festival has drawn to a close. This year's top prize went to surprise winner The Square, a Swedish film about the sometimes bonkers art world and how we can best help others. Cannes has seen dozens of film premieres and parties, and red carpet appearances from the likes of Rihanna, Bella Hadid and […]
Heat Vision went on an early scouting mission to James Cameron's long-awaited attraction, which opens to the public Saturday. If you've passed through the gates of Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom Park, you're familiar with the signposts pointing toward exotic locales like Africa and Asia. Enter the Florida park now, though, and you'll notice those signs have added a new directional arrow, one leading to the fictional land of Pandora. […]
A humanoid Jabba the Hutt? Pink Death Star walls? A galaxy far, far away originally looked just a little different, 40 years ago... as we know, thanks to a Marvel comic. 40 years ago Thursday, Star Wars was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world for the first time. Except, not all of the world was entirely unsuspecting. Indeed, a small number of comic book fans had a good idea of what […]
After a dramatic negotiation session at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix has nabbed a film project pairing Grammy winner Rihanna with Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, in a concept that began as a Twitter sensation. Ava DuVernay (Selma) will direct, and Issa Rae (Insecure) is writing the screenplay. According to sources, Netflix landed the project in a very aggressive bid, beating out multiple other suitors. Netflix had no comment. The project […]
The monsters are back. Astute viewers have known for awhile now that Universal’s upcoming remake of The Mummy could serve as a jumping-off point for a new film franchise featuring Universal’s stable of classic monsters. After all, in addition to Sofia Boutella’s titular monster and Tom Cruise’s intrepid adventurer, Nick Morton, the film also features Russell Crowe as the conspicuously named Dr. Henry Jekyll. Now, with just a few weeks to go […]
After 17 years of playing Marvel’s most popular mutant, Hugh Jackman has revealed an embarrassing secret. When he was cast, Jackman had no idea what a wolverine was. In fact, Jackman had no idea wolverines were even a real animal. For all that he knew he may as well have been playing a character named the Unicorn or the Hippogriff. “I didn’t even know there was a wolverine. I literally, embarrassingly […]
