As if people needed another excuse to re-watch the barnstorming Barnum biopic, The Greatest Showman, it has now been revealed that there’s a Wolverine Easter egg to be found amongst the chorus and choreography of last years blockbuster hit. This Wolverine Easter egg in the opening credits border of The Greatest Showman byu/irie_feeling inMovieDetails Reddit […]
Exclusive interview with the VFX studio behind Hulu’s The Looming Tower
Tai Freligh interviews Phosphene FX… Phosphene FX is the visual effects team behind The Looming Tower, Hulu’s 10-episode adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s 2006 book that tells the controversial story of the rivalry between the CIA and FBI during the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda that inadvertently might have set the stage for […]
Fox wanted The Greatest Showman to be a jukebox musical
After close to a decade in development, the Hugh Jackman-headlined musical The Greatest Showman finally made it to the screen this month. One big selling point of the film was its original music numbers, but director Michael Gracey has revealed to Den of Geek that 20th Century Fox was originally pushing for a ‘jukebox musical’, […]
Logan director James Mangold oversaw reshoots and post-production on The Greatest Showman
According to Variety, Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox enlisted the aid of The Wolverine and Logan director James Mangold to help oversee reshoots and post-production on the newly-released musical The Greatest Showman. The site reports that the studio became concerned that original director Michael Gracey – who was making his feature debut on the […]
Movie Review – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS: We meet a young Phineas Taylor Barnum, whose father is a tailor. Barnum and his father visit rich people’s houses, where Barnum becomes enamoured with Charity, the […]
Movie Review – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Keala Settle, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Sam Humphrey, Eric Anderson, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the […]
Second Opinion – The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Greatest Showman, 2017. Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ziv Zaifman, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. SYNOPSIS The Greatest Showman is the tale of entertainment revolutionary P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and the extraordinary lengths he went to bring spectacle to […]
The Greatest Showman gets a new trailer
With a little over five weeks to go until The Greatest Showman arrives in US cinemas, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming biographical musical drama which stars Hugh Jackman in the lead role as showman and founder the Barnum & Bailey Travelling Circus, P.T. Barnum; watch it below… “The Greatest Showman” is […]
The Oscars: Does the Academy know better than the fans?
George Chrysostomou on the Academy Awards… The yearly debate has reared its head again as to whether the Oscars truly capture the feelings that audiences had towards films in 2017. Whilst there is always the ongoing issue of the ever increasing divide between fans and the critics, as evidenced by recent pickings such as Star Wars: […]
Why Do Blockbusters Rarely Win Awards?
Neil Calloway looks at the divide between box office hits and critical acclaim… Seven. That’s the number of Oscar nominations that the top ten films at last year’s worldwide box office received. It might not seem like a bad haul, but when you realise they’re all technical nominations and four of them are for Star […]
