‘R.I.P.D.’ Director Eyed For Disney’s Coast Guard Adventure-Drama ‘The Finest...
Director Robert Schwentke scored something of a surprise hit with 2010’s stylish action-comedy RED, and his upcoming summer release, R.I.P.D. looks to have a similar tone (albeit with a plot involving...
View ArticleMovie News Wrap Up: ‘Hail, Caesar!’, ‘The Finest Hours’& More
This Week: The Signal director takes on a new project; Keanu Reeves to lead Replicas; new release dates for Hail, Caesar! and The Finest Hours; A Man in the Dark gets a director; and Something Wicked...
View Article‘Ghost in the Shell’, ‘Jungle Book’, and More Get New Release Dates
2015 is shaping up to be a fruitful year for the Walt Disney Company at the box office, what with new Marvel films, a Star Wars movie, two Pixar features, and promising tentpoles (such as Brad Bird’s...
View Article‘The Finest Hours’ Trailer: Chris Pine To The Rescue
Walt Disney Pictures seem to have had mixed fortunes with their live-action films. While Maleficent and Cinderella fared well for them, the recent George Clooney led Tomorrowland was a complete...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Trailer #2 & Poster: Chris Pine’s On a Rescue Mission
With out-of-this world superhero movies all the rage right now, Disney will be hoping to pull viewers into a different superhero film altogether; one featuring real-life heroes at the heart of a most...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Set Visit Report: Disney’s Old-Fashioned Tale of Bravery
If you’ve never hunkered down in your den, hot cocoa in hand, ready to wait out the gusting winds and extensive precipitation that come packaged in a nor’easter, then count yourself lucky. A...
View Article10 Movies We’re Looking Forward To: January 2016
All things considered, 2015 was jam-packed full of great films, and the last month of the year was no exception. From the box office behemoth that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens to intriguing new...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Interview: Ben Foster On Filming A Disaster
For an actor spending their days getting tossed around a gimbal while waves of frigid water smack them in the face, a few minutes’ reprieve in a nice, warm press tent sounds like heaven. But when a...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Interview: Kyle Gallner On Playing Real People
Eric Bana as Warrant Officer Daniel Cluff, Chris Pine as Bernie Webber and Kyle Gallner as Andy Fitzgerald in ‘The Finest Hours.’ Playing a real person in a movie sounds like it should make an actor’s...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours: Bringing The Story Of The SS Pendleton To Life
If adapting the tale of the 1952 SS Pendleton rescue – in which officers in the Coast Guard rescued the crew of the SS Pendleton and the SS Mercer off the coast of Massachusetts during a vicious...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Interview: Producer Jim Whitaker Talks Authenticity
Talking to actors and filmmakers on a set visit is tons of fun, but here’s the truth: you only get so much time with them, because while you’re sitting pretty in a tent taking notes and making small...
View ArticleChris Pine & Ben Foster On Why The Finest Hours is Special
In February 1952, Bernie Webber assembled a crew to head out to sea in the midst of catastrophic storm in the hopes of saving a group of men that were stranded on a ship-wrecked tanker. The mission...
View ArticleCasey Affleck On Why The Finest Hours Should Be Seen In Theaters
When you ask Casey Affleck about his toughest scene to film in The Finest Hours, you’d think it would be something that involved him climbing through frigid water, lifting heavy beams in the bow of a...
View ArticleHolliday Grainger on the Sweet Romance of The Finest Hours
It’s not a bad gig when you are cast to play the on-screen love interest of Chris Pine. Just ask Holliday Grainger who portrays Miriam, the fiancé of real-life Coast Guard hero Bernie Webber, in...
View ArticleThe Finest Hours Review
The Finest Hours is a respectful dramatization of the real-life events that inspired it, but is too by the numbers to leave a strong impression. The Finest Hours largely takes place in February of...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Wrap-up: January 31, 2016
There was an undisputed champion at the box office this weekend, as many of the newcomers failed to impress moviegoers. At #1 is Kung Fu Panda 3 (read our review), which made $41 million in its first...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office Wrap-up: February 7, 2016
Newcomers largely disappointed at the box office this week, paving the way for a repeat from a certain kung fu master. At #1 again is Kung Fu Panda 3, making $21 million in its second weekend. That’s...
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