'Isle Of Dogs' Featurette: See The Work That Goes Into Creating These Very Good Dogs
A new Isle of Dogs featurette shows off the meticulous behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating these very good stop-motion dogs.
Read MoreA new Isle of Dogs featurette shows off the meticulous behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating these very good stop-motion dogs.
Read MoreAn early Isle of Dogs reviews round-up reveals that Wes Anderson has a very good movie about very good dogs on his hands.
Read MoreThe first Isle of Dogs clip shows off Wes Anderson's latest stop-motion animated film, about a pack of wild dogs living in a garbage dump. Isle of Dogs opens March 23, 2018.
Read MoreThe Detective Pikachu cast grows as star Ryan Reynolds is joined by Ken Watanabe in the bizarre live-action adaptation of the video game.
Read MoreBehold the wall of puppers on display in the new Isle of Dogs poster. Wes Anderson's star-studded new stop-motion movie hits theaters in March 2018.
Read MoreA24 will soon release Gus Van Sant's newest film, The Sea of Trees, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe. Watch The Sea of Trees trailer.
Read MoreWritten by Chris Sparling (Buried), Gus Van Sant's drama stars Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, and Naomi Watts. Watch The Sea of Trees trailer now.
Read MoreRoadside Attractions picked up Sea of Trees for distribution, but a domestic release date has yet to be set. Watch a Japanese Sea of Trees trailer now.
Read MoreAfter sitting on the shelf for years, a film starring John Cusack, Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li finally gets US release; here's the Shanghai trailer.
Read MoreThere are a few big characters in Marvel's Doctor Strange, which acts as one of the first salvos in Marvel's big Phase Three story set. The primary is obviously Doctor Strange himself, to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch. There's at least one villain, who may be played by Daniel Bruhl, and may or may not…
Read MoreTwo new voices joined the Transformers Age of Extinction Cast. They are John Goodman and Ken Watanabe as Autoboys Hound and Drift. Read more here.
Read MoreWatch the Godzilla Japanese trailer which focuses on the Japanese backstory of the creature and Ken Watanabe. And check out the cool Godzilla IMAX poster.
Read MoreBriefly: Here's the Japanese trailer for next year's Godzilla, from director Gareth Edwards. This is mostly the same as the trailer debuted yesterday in the US -- the effects shots are all the same, for example. But Japan's own Ken Watanabe gets a better introduction in this trailer. While the domestic trailer showed the actor…
Read MoreMonsters director Gareth Edwards is the man entrusted by Toho, Legendary, and Warner Bros. to revamp Godzilla -- or more properly, to bring him back to speed as the giant nuclear monster that owns the hearts of moviegoers. Edwards said this week, "To me, he’s like a force of nature, like the wrath of God or…
Read MoreHere's the full trailer for a film we've been curious about for a while: the Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Ken Watanabe stars in the role that stands as one of Eastwood's defining moments. There are no subtitles in this trailer, but anyone familiar with Eastwood's original will know all they need to understand…
Read MoreWhat Clark Gregg is to The Avengers, John C. Reilly could soon be to the Guardians of the Galaxy. HitFix is reporting the Oscar-nominated actor known for roles in Boogie Nights, Chicago and Step Brothers has been offered the role of Rhomann Dey in James Gunn's 2014 cosmic Marvel team-up movie. The role is basically…
Read MoreEach time Andrew Garfield's name comes up for a project these days, it's seemingly bigger and more impressive than the last thing. He was crucial to David Fincher's The Social Network, he re-imagined your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and now arguably the greatest living filmmaker has tapped him to star in his new project. Martin Scorsese…
Read MoreGareth Edwards' Godzilla reboot has been kept under very tight wraps through most of its development process, but one aspect of the film that's no secret is its top-notch cast. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, and Juliette Binoche(!) have all boarded over the past few months. Now, with principal photography underway, one…
Read MoreHere's a brief look at footage from Unforgiven (Yurusarezaru mono), aka the Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's 1992 western, here with Ken Watanabe in the lead role. We're given quick glimpses of the scenery, as well as what appears to be the town to which Watanabe's swordsman, newly out of retirement, heads to collect a bounty. We…
Read MoreConan the Barbarian isn't the only guy getting the Unforgiven treatment. The 1991 Clint Eastwood western has become a genre landmark, essentially nailing shut the concept of the anti-hero created when the spaghetti western subgenre flowered with A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. Now Ken Watanabe is playing the Eastwood role in a Japanese-produced remake…
Read MoreThe relationship between samurai films and westerns goes back many years, thanks in large part to remakes of Akria Kurosawa films; his 1954 film Seven Samurai was remade as the western The Magnificent Seven in 1960, and the defining Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars remade Kurosawa's Yojimbo, without explicit credit given to Kurosawa. Now there is a major…
Read MoreSay what you will about Jaume Collet-Serra's live-action Akira, but the casting folks have been making some pretty intriguing choices so far. Okay, so Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart haven't exactly gone over great with the fans. But the first two actors we heard of getting offers were Helena Bonham Carter and Gary Oldman, with…
Read MoreKen Watanabe has worked as an actor in Japan for over twenty years, and since his breakout western role in The Last Samurai, he's become a fan-favorite character actor. Now, as Watanabe is about to be seen in Christopher Nolan's Inception, there is word that the actor is in talks to make the leap to…
Read MoreYou'd think an epic WWII espionage thriller set in Shanghai, starring John Cusack and directed by Mikael "1408" Håfström would be an easy sell. But maybe not, if it's really just a trip to dullsville. Shanghai was pushed around on the Weinstein Company schedule for a while last year before being pushed off indefinitely. We've…
Read MoreThe shroud of mystery around Christopher Nolan's new film Inception is beginning to dissolve. That was inevitable. As the film gets closer to release, the previously well-concealed plot has to be revealed. So now we know for certain -- confirming many rumored explanations of the film's story -- that Leonardo DiCaprio is "a specialist in…
Read MoreWhen the trailer for Christopher Nolan's new film Inception began to screen attached to early press screenings of Sherlock Holmes, movie bloggers around the internet (including our own David Chen) attempted, from memory, to recall the imagery from the new teaser. It wasn't an easy task considering all the craziness that happens in the new…
Read MoreWe've heard recently that the budget for Christopher Nolan's Inception might be sky-high, as in north of $150m, and now we know that the film has begun shooting in Tokyo. Cue eager photographers trying to get a glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as they move from trailer to set to shoot…
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