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How Jurassic World‘s Sound Team Created Indominus Rex’s “Annoying” Roar

Part of making the Jurassic Park franchise’s dinosaurs awe-inspiring is the sound design, and Jurassic World had to introduce the roars of a few new dinosaurs. In this video, the movie’s sound designers explain what animals went into Mosasaurus and Apatosaurus voices, and how the Indominus got that horrific screeching. SoundWorks Collection interviewed Sound Designer…

Pixar Has A Brand New Masterpiece: Inside Out Will Make You Smarter

The concept of Inside Out sounds unbearably twee, not to mention borrowed from the sitcom Herman’s Head. We’re seeing inside the head of a young girl, where each of her emotions is a cartoon, voiced by a comedian. But Inside Out is actually a brilliant movie about the beginning of wisdom. What follows contains minor…

Sony and Paramount will join Marvel in skipping Comic Con’s Hall H this year. It seems to be an issue of timing, with neither studio having anything appropriate to promote. A spokesperson told Variety, “It wasn’t a knock against Comic-Con, the film cycles just didn’t allow it.”

This Auction Of Vintage Science Fiction Movie Posters Is A Pulp Goldmine

“What’s beautiful about sci-fi posters from the 1950s and ’60s is that they’re so graphic, and the imagery is so over the top,” says Grey Smith, the director for Heritage Auctions’ new auction of vintage movie posters owned by collector Edward Sommer. Talking to Forbes Life, Smith says the above poster for Doris Wishman’s classic…

First Set Photos Of Female-Led Ghostbusters Show Our Heroines In Costume

Filming has begun for Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters movie, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones as the new proton pack-wielding foursome. And the first photos offer a few clues to what kinds of characters these ladies will be playing. Collider points us to a few set pictures that have gone out…

When Words Come To Life: Some Beautiful Examples Of Kinetic Typography

The best opening titles and other screen titles are beautiful works of art — but sometimes, text can be more than just an ornament. Sometimes, text can spring into action, conveying concepts and delighting the eye with its brilliant action. Welcome to the universe of kinetic typography. Opening titles from North by Northwest (1959) Psycho’s…

The Original Star Wars Is Finally Getting Shown In A Chinese Theater

When Star Wars came out in 1977, China was still in the immediate aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and foreign films were not screened in Chinese theaters. And even in recent years, China has maintained strict quotas for overseas movies. So it’s taken 40 years for Star Wars to reach Chinese movie theaters. According to…

Experience the Jurassic World Ride Narrated By a Jimmy Fallon Cameo

In Jurassic World, the kids Zach and Gray take a ride on the Gyrosphere, which lets them drive through dinosaur habitats at their leisure. The only downside is that the wondrous technology that allows them to do this is explained to them by Jimmy Fallon. As someone who has gone on Universal Studios a lot,…

Matthew Vaughn Hopes to Revitalize Kick-Ass With a Hit Girl Prequel

Matthew Vaughn isn’t done with the characters of Kick-Ass, not by a long shot. He’s not just working on another sequel, but also on a prequel. A Hit Girl and Big Daddy prequel that he hopes will smooth over any lingering bad taste Kick-Ass 2 left. Speaking to Yahoo!, Vaughn said gave his plan for…

Help Turn Brown Girl In The Ring Into A Fantastic, Mind-Blowing Movie

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson is like nothing you’ve read before — it’s an intense tale of Caribbean magic and possession, set in a dystopian near future. It features characters so vivid, they live on in your head. And a story that keeps you frantically reading to see how it turns out.…

Jurassic World: The Spoiler FAQ

Jurassic World is delighting audiences, smashing box office records, and making people excited about dinosaurs again. But did you notice the movie is also sort of terrible? If the new installment of Jurassic Park left you with questions, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you didn’t even know you needed! How would you summarize…

This Artwork Of Dominion’s Angel War Deserves To Be Painted On Your Van

Seriously — this is the angelic flamethrower throwdown that we’ve always wanted to have taped to the ceiling right over our beds. Check out an exclusive look at some new promo art for Dominion season two! Dominion comes back July 9 on Syfy, and it looks like the apocalyptic smackdown is only getting more apocalyptic…

11 Incredible Secrets About The Making Of Back To The Future

Back To The Future turns 30 this year — and this fall, Marty McFly arrives from the past. And a new book travels back and reveals a wealth of info about this legendary film. We read We Don’t Need Roads by Caseen Gaines and dug up 11 things you never knew about Back to the…

Exclusive Featurette: Why “You Can’t Do A Terminator Without Arnold”

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been playing the Terminator for over 30 years now. But he’s clearly still having fun with the role. Just check out our exclusive featurette on the making of Terminator Genisys — including a collection of the T-800’s craziest moments in this movie. Watch for yourself: This is the latest in a series…

Eli Roth May Direct Warner Bros.’ Giant Prehistoric Shark Movie

After being stuck in development purgatory for twenty years, Warner Bros. is finally moving forward with Meg, about a giant prehistoric shark terrorizing the coast. Variety reports that Warner Bros. is in talks to have Eli Roth direct the movie based on the 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. Variety…

Why Elon Musk Loves Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy‘s Heart Of Gold

Asked what his favorite fictional spaceship is, in this new interview, SpaceX founder Elon Musk responds with the Heart of Gold from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. “The one that’s powered by the Improbability Drive,” he says. “It does the most unexpected things.” Back in 2013, Musk told Fresh Dialogues that…

How Pixar Came Up With A Whole New Way Of Showing A Child’s Mind

Even for Pixar, Inside Out is an ambitious film. After all, it’s largely set inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, and tries to metaphorically explain all of the wonderful, frustrating, and confusing things that go on inside the human head while exploring a sort of emotional truth. So how on Earth did it all…

Boaz Yakin Talks About the “Cyberpunk” Batman Beyond Movie He Wrote

For a brief moment after he finished Remember the Titans, director Boaz Yakin was attached to a live-action version of Batman Beyond. Of course, Batman Begins ended up being the Batman project that Warner Bros. made, but Yakin calls Batman Beyond was the “best script I ever wrote that never got made.” Speaking to IGN,…

Disney Gets Started on Maleficent Sequel, All Hope Lost.

As not a single week seems to go by without an announcement like this, I’m envisioning a future where Disney creates an interlocked live-action movie universe of re-imaginings of their animated tales. So, yes, Disney’s already working on a Maleficent sequel by having Linda Woolverton write a script. Maleficent II thus joins Beauty and the…

You Can Now Get Your Waze Directions Directly From The Terminator

Whether you’re casually avoiding T-1000s in the San Fernando Valley or involved in a high-speed chase in the bed of the LA River, your navigation can now be voiced by a Terminator Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, thanks to Terminator Genisys’ new partnership with Waze. And yes, it’s really Arnold telling you where to go. In…