This month will see the launch of Focus Features Movie Mondays, where the studio will stream a new movie each week to help pass the self-quarantine time.
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In this edition, see how Adam Savage made his incredible Star-Lord cosplay, check out Wes Anderson's visual toolbox in Moonrise Kingdom, and more.
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Find out about the TV shows and movies leaving Netflix in September of 2018, including favorites like The Dark Knight and Ghostbusters.
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Watch the Wes Anderson Honest Trailer, which takes shots at the filmmaker's overall style and direction rather than taking aim at one specific film Since Wes Anderson has plenty of signature traits, it works pretty well this way.
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Earlier this month, we wrote about Matt Zoller Seitz's new book The Wes Anderson Collection, a book examining the work of writer/director Wes Anderson. The Pulitzer Prize finalist has been following Anderson's career since the very beginning, and has teamed up with editor Steven Santos to bring the book to the web in a documentary/video essay format. A couple weeks back…
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Oscar campaigning used to be so easy. Take out a few trade adds, approach a number of key voters, do a few rounds of dinners and drinks, done. Now there are far more outlets to get out info about a movie. The internet allows distributors to make all manner of materials available to promote their films…
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With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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We're already at the point in the award season where a few films have been solidified as the big winners and prime Oscar candidates. Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, and Lincoln have been awards frontrunners for weeks, and will likely continue to dominate slates of official accolades until the season ends with…
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2012 was an incredibly good year at the movies. Looking back at the almost 200 films I saw that were released this calendar year, many were in contention for this list. But in the end, there can be only 10. These ten films, ranked in reverse order, are the ones that most stuck with me…
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The Alamo Drafthouse brand is beloved among moviegoers for their plush theaters, but it's revered for their impeccable taste in movies. Whether programming a film festival or picking up indies for distribution, they've demonstrated an eye for films that aren't just good, but unique. With 2012 on its way out, the company has just released its list…
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Around this time every year, for as far back as I can remember, I pick and write about the ten movies I'm most looking forward in the coming year. Here on /Film I did it for the movies of 2011 as well as the movies of 2012 and, in the coming days, I'll do it…
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This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor -- if there's an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with,…
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One of the first big award season nomination sets went out this morning: the Independent Spirit Awards, which highlight achievement in (obviously) independent productions. The big films in this year's nominations were Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom; David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, and newcomer Benh Zeitlin's Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild. Here are…
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For the third straight year, the films of Wes Anderson have been framed. Spoke Art, San Francisco's pre-eminent pop art gallery, has just opened their third annual Bad Dads show featuring works of art inspired by the films of the fantastic filmmaker. It's a show Anderson himself is aware of and a fan of. In our…
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New York Comic-Con starts Thursday and while it hasn't quite reached the insane heights of San Diego, it's getting there. One company that's certainly helping is Spoke Art, who'll have a massive booth at the Con with no less than eight exclusive prints, previously sold out editions and much more. The bulk of the exclusives…
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Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom is playing now, and in a meta-twist, it is playing even in the campground of the scout troop that features in the movie. In a new promo short written and directed by Anderson, Jason Schwartzman's character from the film presents a screening of the movie to his young charges.…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam highlight some of the best films at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, praise the prolific nature of Mark Duplass, and respond to your feedback for our Prometheus review. Plus, Adam's "Shit Movie of the Week" returns with a vengeance. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and…
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Wes Anderson sits on a short list of filmmakers who, no matter what they put in theaters, we'll go see it. His latest, Moonrise Kingdom, is only his seventh feature film but with each and every movie, Anderson's unique vision evolves and focuses telling original, beautiful stories that are wholly his own, even when they're…
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As promised last week, Wes Anderson has released a short companion piece to his latest film, Moonrise Kingdom. It's a series of six animated sequences from the fictional books Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) reads in the film, which is now playing in NY and LA and will open wider throughout the month. After the jump,…
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In its first weekend, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom set a new record for per-screen average, grossing $171,545 per theaters in just four theaters. The tally was a testament not only to the quality of the film and its impressive cast but Anderson's reputation as well. After seven quality films, Anderson has easily cemented himself up as one…
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So many movies are about a loss of innocence. A main character faces trials and tribulations, and their eyes are opened to the cruelty of the world before they overcome it. Moonrise Kingdom, the seventh movie by director Wes Anderson, is definitely not that sort of story. The film teaches a lesson through the positives in…
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Wes Anderson fans get a lot this week: his new film Moonrise Kingdom premiered recently at Cannes, and the film starts to hit theaters on Friday. (Some markets have to wait a week or two, however.) Along with the debut of the new movie we've had loads of interviews with the director, and some very…
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Wes Anderson fans eagerly awaiting Moonrise Kingdom -- his first directorial effort since 2009's Fantastic Mr. Fox, and his first live-action feature since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited -- can officially banish any worries that the hipster-prep auteur has lost his touch. Following the film's world premiere at Cannes, the vast majority of reviews have been somewhere…
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The four latest featurettes for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom don't reveal much more about the actual movie than that last behind-the-scenes video did, but it's still a pleasure to watch the cast and crew coming together. Especially when all the proceedings are narrated by Bob Balaban, in typically wry, gentle Anderson style. The four videos…
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There isn't a lot of new footage from Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom in the behind the scenes featurette that arrived today (there is some new stuff) but there are some really lovely shots of the director and crew at work. Various participants in the film, including co-writer Roman Coppola and actors Jason Schwartzman,…
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If you've been reading /Film for even a few minutes, then you know that I love watching ans posting fly-on-the-wall footage from the making of films, especially when it comes to projects from my favorite auteurs. Most of the behind the scenes documentaries included on DVD/Blu-ray fail to provide anything more than a glossy advertisement-style…
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With Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom to premiere soon at the Cannes Film Festival, we're going to start seeing a lot more materials from the strange little tale in the coming weeks. Already this week we've seen a set of character posters, and now we've got the first clip from the film that tells…
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