Rob Leane Dec 27, 2016
Assassin’s Creed’s Justin Kurzel talks PG-13 violence, filming the leap of faith and, um, Step Brothers...
Australian director Justin Kurzel made a big splash on the indie circuit with his based-on-a-true-story murder spree drama Snowtown back in 2011. Michael Fassbender was impressed when he saw it, and ended up working with Kurzel on his 2015 Macbeth movie.
The Fass must’ve been impressed again when they filmed it, as he soon recruited Kurzel to direct Assassin’s Creed, the videogame flick that Fassbender had been producing for years and was set to star in (playing dual roles as modern day death row inmate Cal and his Spanish assassin ancestor Aguilar).
Kurzel and Fassbender also reteamed with their Lady Macbeth, Marion Cotillard, for the game adaptation (she plays an employee of megacorporation Abstergo Industries, the company that sends Cal back into his ancestor's shoes), resulting in an action...
Assassin’s Creed’s Justin Kurzel talks PG-13 violence, filming the leap of faith and, um, Step Brothers...
Australian director Justin Kurzel made a big splash on the indie circuit with his based-on-a-true-story murder spree drama Snowtown back in 2011. Michael Fassbender was impressed when he saw it, and ended up working with Kurzel on his 2015 Macbeth movie.
The Fass must’ve been impressed again when they filmed it, as he soon recruited Kurzel to direct Assassin’s Creed, the videogame flick that Fassbender had been producing for years and was set to star in (playing dual roles as modern day death row inmate Cal and his Spanish assassin ancestor Aguilar).
Kurzel and Fassbender also reteamed with their Lady Macbeth, Marion Cotillard, for the game adaptation (she plays an employee of megacorporation Abstergo Industries, the company that sends Cal back into his ancestor's shoes), resulting in an action...
- 12/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Throughout the filming of his heart-wrenching new film, The Overnighters, director Jesse Moss acted as a sort of cinephilic one man band, shooting the story of Pastor Jay Reinke and the desperate men he’s been helping in the modern oil boom town of Williston, Nd all by his lonesome. Over the course of 18 months, off and on, Moss buckled down and lived amongst the weary men sleeping on the floors of Reinke’s church to observe what exactly was taking place in this over-saturated small town. Just after the film’s premiere, yet before it took home the Special Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival, I sat down (in Park City) with Jesse to discuss how he discovered the situation in Williston, if he felt if the rampant fear within the town was justifiable, what it was like shooting all alone in such a vulnerable situation and much more.
- 10/7/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
NBC Scene from NBC’s “Smash.”
Ivy’s singing happily as she gets ready for the day, until her voice catches! And oh look, there’s Derek in her bed.
Timeline alert: The workshop is a week from Sunday! And everyone is having issues. Julia, Derek and Tom are having issues – Derek is bent out of shape because there’s no discernible story, linear or otherwise, and Julia stresses that it’s a first workshop and she’s been having...
Ivy’s singing happily as she gets ready for the day, until her voice catches! And oh look, there’s Derek in her bed.
Timeline alert: The workshop is a week from Sunday! And everyone is having issues. Julia, Derek and Tom are having issues – Derek is bent out of shape because there’s no discernible story, linear or otherwise, and Julia stresses that it’s a first workshop and she’s been having...
- 3/13/2012
- by Josée Rose
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
A driver/bodyguard, Walid (Yan Feldman) clicks the car alarm and gets blown up when the car explodes. Tony's (Michael Weatherly) on the phone and says Anthony Di Nozzo Jnr is in Washington. Anthony Di Nozzo is in New York City. McGee (Sean Murray) comments on Tony conversing, junior, Senior and asks if the conversation is coherent. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) says Tony's calling his father to straighten things out. (Yeah like Ziva did with her father last season and this season - eventually.) Tony talks about a cruise for Spring Break and when Ziva asks about it, he replies, "none of your business." Gibbs (Mark Harmon) tells them they have a Db at Pax River, a foreign national. Tony refers to the cruise as a 'need to know' and she doesn't need to know. He's not too old for Spring Break. Not Spring Break again, Tony has already been...
- 8/15/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Knowing that this is Steve Carell's last year on "The Office" all this time has made for a different viewing experience this season (at least on this couch).
It's going to take something big -- something more, we suspect, than the return of Holly a little ways down the road -- to get Michael to leave Dunder Mifflin. This is, after all, a guy whose very existence revolves around his job, and so it's going to take something pretty major to shift his worldview to the point where he's comfortable, or at least not petrified of, leaving the Scranton branch.
The events of "Christening" didn't get him there, but they might have started him on the path. It wasn't the fact that he, and then Andy, jumped on the bus to Mexico to join them on their missionary trip; you can chalk that up to a typical Michael scenario...
It's going to take something big -- something more, we suspect, than the return of Holly a little ways down the road -- to get Michael to leave Dunder Mifflin. This is, after all, a guy whose very existence revolves around his job, and so it's going to take something pretty major to shift his worldview to the point where he's comfortable, or at least not petrified of, leaving the Scranton branch.
The events of "Christening" didn't get him there, but they might have started him on the path. It wasn't the fact that he, and then Andy, jumped on the bus to Mexico to join them on their missionary trip; you can chalk that up to a typical Michael scenario...
- 11/5/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
By the end of this episode of Nikita, I’m going to owe someone an apology.
Even after doing an advance review of tonight’s episode, I found myself still thinking on it last night and this morning – the first sign of a good television series. Regular readers are well aware that I’ve been sitting on the fence with this show, torn between appreciation for its effort and disappointment with the final product. However, the promos for this episode promised things I’ve been looking for all along – and with one exception, the hour delivered. I can say without reservation that I’ve come down off the proverbial fence, and on the side of Nikita.
How did that happen, you ask? Let’s get to the action and I’ll show you.
Nikita is at a playground, where she approaches Lisa, the widow of a Homeland Security agent named Victor Han,...
Even after doing an advance review of tonight’s episode, I found myself still thinking on it last night and this morning – the first sign of a good television series. Regular readers are well aware that I’ve been sitting on the fence with this show, torn between appreciation for its effort and disappointment with the final product. However, the promos for this episode promised things I’ve been looking for all along – and with one exception, the hour delivered. I can say without reservation that I’ve come down off the proverbial fence, and on the side of Nikita.
How did that happen, you ask? Let’s get to the action and I’ll show you.
Nikita is at a playground, where she approaches Lisa, the widow of a Homeland Security agent named Victor Han,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Brittany Frederick
- TVovermind.com
The little show that began as a road trip through the demon-filled American back-country is officially 100 episodes in -- and oh, how things have changed since the beginning. Remember when Dean and Sam were two young demon-hunters, off in a sweet ride of a car to search for their father, who taught them all they know about the supernatural? Staring in the devilish face of a fight like they've never seen before, I imagine Dean and Sam are longing for the days when their biggest problem was following dad's trail. Personally, I'm not. That's not to say those days didn't produce quality entertainment.
- 4/16/2010
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW.com - PopWatch
'She had some fun playing, really, the most evil of all the bad guys,' Weitz says of the actress.
By Terri Schwartz
Chris Weitz and Kristen Stewart on the set of "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
Next month's "New Moon" release features a number of changes from its sequel's debut this time last year. There's new director Chris Weitz; a new cast of characters, including bad vampires and a wolf pack; and Taylor's Lautner's 30 pounds of muscle.
But one of the most exciting changes from last year's "Twilight" is purely visual in nature: shooting the third act of the film on location in Italy.
"Wow, am I glad we were able to shoot there," Weitz said with a laugh in a recent phone interview with MTV News. "We went to about 12 different hilltop towns in Tuscany, which was both delightful and exhausting, because it had to be done relatively quickly.
By Terri Schwartz
Chris Weitz and Kristen Stewart on the set of "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
Next month's "New Moon" release features a number of changes from its sequel's debut this time last year. There's new director Chris Weitz; a new cast of characters, including bad vampires and a wolf pack; and Taylor's Lautner's 30 pounds of muscle.
But one of the most exciting changes from last year's "Twilight" is purely visual in nature: shooting the third act of the film on location in Italy.
"Wow, am I glad we were able to shoot there," Weitz said with a laugh in a recent phone interview with MTV News. "We went to about 12 different hilltop towns in Tuscany, which was both delightful and exhausting, because it had to be done relatively quickly.
- 10/27/2009
- MTV Movie News
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