Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is taking secrecy to intense new heights

Posted 7 years ago

Intense security measures are nothing new for major productions, like for Marvel and Star Wars movies and even the series GAME OF THRONES. There are all sorts of matters being taken on the sets and in the offices to keep...

Amazon rolls out a new map for Lord of the Rings series

Posted 7 years ago

Amazon has allocated a lot of money already (think hundreds of millions) to their upcoming LORD OF THE RINGS series, and so far there’s still a ton we don’t know about where they’re taking it. What we need is some...

Steven Knight says an Eastern Promises sequel may start shooting this year

Posted 7 years ago

It may not seem like the most likely film to receive a sequel, but there's been talk of a follow-up to David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES for nearly a decade. The gritty film told the story of a mid-wife (Naomi Watts)...

Review: Green Book

Posted 7 years ago

This is a repost of our TIFF 2018 review.  PLOT: In the early sixties, a famous pianist, Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) agrees to a tour of the Deep South, hiring a loosely connected wiseguy, Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) to be...

Green Book enters Oscar race by winning the People’s Choice Award at TIFF

Posted 8 years ago

While the Oscars may have ditched their Best Popular Movie category, the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Awards is one of the most coveted prizes of the circuit. It’s a great indicator of how the awards season is...

Cast This: Aragorn

Posted 8 years ago

Kevin Throughout THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and THE RETURN OF THE KING, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and the Fellowship sought to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. Aragorn would fight in the Battle...

Viggo Mortensen & Mahershala Ali form an unlikely bond in Green Book trailer

Posted 8 years ago

From the peculiar mind of Peter Farrelly, one-half of the Farrelly brothers duo that brought you such comedic gems as DUMB & DUMBER, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, and KINGPIN, comes GREEN BOOK, a touching drama centered around an unlikely pair who embark...

Star Trek 4 writers hired to develop Lord of the Rings series for Amazon

Posted 8 years ago

Amazon has been sitting on their plans for the Lord of the Rings series for some time, and now they just took their biggest step yet in the journey across Middle-earth. Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke was on the...

Gus Van Sant on how his remake of Psycho came to be

Posted 8 years ago

Over the course of his long career, Alfred Hitchcock made many exceptional films, and PSYCHO is typically included among his very best, so when Gus Van Sant (GOOD WILL HUNTING) released his nearly shot-for-shot remake of PSYCHO in 1998, audiences...

Amazon Studios head says Lord of Rings series could air by 2021

Posted 8 years ago

Amazon Studios had been hoping for their own series which could rival HBO's Game of Thrones, and snagging the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings franchise is certainly a huge step towards that direction. It's still early days...

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