The 88th Academy Awards announced their nominations on Thursday morning to the delight—and dismay—of all actors, directors, producers, writers, and of course, film buffs.
If you haven’t noticed, it’s getting colder. If I had to, I’d rank Monday night’s weather as one of the top five coldest days of 2016.
Tina Fey plays a journalist recounting her time covering war events in Afghanistan and Pakistan in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. And if that sentence did not make you jump out of your seat, then there’s something wrong with you, and the only cure is more cowbell.
The SNL alum will not be starring in a war drama, but rather, and to our relief, a war comedy, which will star a number of comedic actors including Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Margot Robbie, Josh Charles, Alfred Molina, Nicolas Braun, and Sheila Vand.
Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the film was adapted by Robert Carlock based on Kim Barker’s memoir, The Taliban Shuffle, the journalist Fey will be portraying. Slated to have a March 4, 2016 debut, Freeman will star as a Scottish love interest for Fey’s character, both of whom are stuck covering the events unfold during the war.
Lorne Michaels comes in to produce, thus reuniting the Michaels-Fey-Carlock (writer and producer of 30 Rock) union that many have come to enjoy. The project started filming in New Mexico in February and is now in post production, so it should not be that long until we get some stills or teasers from the film.
First, let me say that Blazing Saddles was probably the funniest movie I’ve seen. I first saw it two years ago and now it looks like Blazing Samurai is going to take its place.
In John Krasinski’s second film as a director, The Hollars will revolve around him as he returns home to take care of his mother, who is sick and will need all the help she can get before going into surgery.
Ian McKellen, Wallace Shawn, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Fierstein, Gilbert Gottfried, Danny DeVito.
Ricky Gervais has his directing and writing bug biting him once again, this time with Special Correspondents, a film that will star himself opposite Eric Bana as two people who fake their kidnappings to live on the down low in New York City.
Bruce Willis never leaves his action films behind, and it seems like he’ll finally get to meet Kellan Lutz.
Set to come out on Veteran’s Day of next year, November 11, 2016, we have just less than a year to wait to see Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the next film directed by Ang Lee (Life of Pi) and written by Simon Beaufoy (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Jean Christophe Castelli (who also worked with Lee on Life of Pi).
The film is set to star a number of people as it follows a soldier who tells the story of the last few hours before he was sent back to Iraq with his friends. It stars Kristen Stewart as Kathryn Lynn, Vin Diesel as Shroom, Garett Hedlund as Dime, Steve Martin as Norm Oglesby, Chris Tucker as Albert, Makenzie Leigh as Faison, Tim Blake Nelson as Wayne Foster, Ben Platt as Josh and plenty more.
The film was recently in the news after it was announced that Lee will be filming the movie in a whopping 120 frames per second, making it the first movie to even try that endeavor. It would be important to note that Texas Instruments, maker of our beloved graphing calculators, also supplies digital projectors with cinema chips, and that they recently stated the film might make them upgrade their projectors to accommodate the film. And to add more to the punch, the film will be shot in 3D with Sony F65 4K cameras, meaning it’s going to be like Life of Pi visually on steroids.
What if there was a movie with all of your favorite stars in it?