The Doctor Strange trailer has been released. The movie comes out November 4th.
The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender
Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels have put together the largest ever analysis of film dialog by gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines.
But it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion. How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?
To begin answering these questions, we Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character’s lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.
You could spend hours exploring this page; incredible.
‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Trailer
The new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has been released.
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New ‘Suicide Squad’ Trailer Released at MTV Movie Awards
The new trailer for Suicide Squad is out and can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more.
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An ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel in the Works
Deadline is reporting that Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie are working on a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow.
Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse have been tapped to write the sequel to Tom Cruise and Doug Liman’s sci-fi sleeper hit Edge Of Tomorrow. The original film, also starring a buffed-up Emily Blunt, was a surprise and pleasure for many genre fans with its time-bending narrative and stylish chemistry between its leads. Although a slow opener domestically, it eventually hit $100 million in the U.S. More importantly, it was a bone fide smash internationally, grossing a further $270 million or so to make the case for a sequel pretty compelling.
‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer + MCU Supercut
What is probably the final trailer for Captain America: Civil War has been released. Also, if you’re looking to catch up on what’s going on with the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe — this supercut is a nice refresher.
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Trailer for ‘Swiss Army Man’; Scored by Andy Hull & Robert McDowell
The first trailer for Swiss Army Man was released today. This is the movie scored by Manchester Orchestra and the one apparently about a farting corpse.
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Ben Affleck Has Written Script for Batman Film
Graeme McMillan, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, has revealed that Ben Affleck has written a script for a standalone Batman film, but that he is currently only contracted for the next two Justice League movies.
“He’s contracted to do at least Justice League One and Two, so at least three times wearing the cape,” he says, adding, “There’s a script that he’s written that is a really cool [Batman] idea, so that’s out there as an option.”
As we’ve been talking about in the movie thread, I think Affleck was the best part of this ok, but very flawed movie. I am more interested in an Affleck written and directed Batman movie than I am anything Zack Snyder does going forward.
Louis C.K. Responds To Five Dollar Gate
Louis C.K. released a new show on his website last week, he charged five bucks for it, the internet reacted rationally and didn’t get mad at all about this. He’s posted a blog explaining this decision.
Now, I’m not complaining about this at all. I’m just telling you the facts. I charged five dollars because I need to recoup some of the cost in order for us to stay in production.
Also, it’s interesting. The value of any set amount of money is mercurial (I’m showing off because i just learned that word. It means it changes and shifts a lot). Some people say “Five dollars is a cup of coffee”. Some people say “Hey! Five dollars?? What the fuck!” Some people say “What are you guys talking about?” Some people say “Nothing. don’t enter a conversation in the middle”.
Anyway, I’m leaving the first episode at 5 dollars. I’m lowering the next episode to 2 dollars and the rest will be 3 dollars after that. I hope you feel that’s fair. If you don’t, please tell everyone in the world.
‘Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has released a pretty damn awesome trailer.
The Godfather Epic
HBO is currently running a 7-hour long chronological version of The Godfather. You can catch it on their on demand services. If you haven’t seen the movies before this should not be the way you watch them for the first time, but for committed fans this is an interesting cut of the films.