Jack Black and Jenny Slate Interview by Tim Nasson at the 2018 Palm Springs Film Festival. Is polka making a comeback? Jack Black thinks so, and he hopes it will even end up back in the American Top 40. Wild About Movies had the chance to speak with the two leads of the Netflix original […]
Amy Pascal interview with Tim Nasson for the movie The Post. Publisher of Wild About Movies, Tim Nasson, spoke with Amy Pascal, president of Pascal Pictures, and producer of the movie The Post, at the 29th Annual Palm Springs Film Festival. In addition, Nasson chatted with co-producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, and the film’s two writers, […]
Tim Nasson and Dylan Tracy bring you the 2017 Napa Valley Film Festival Wrap Up. Be sure to check out dozens of our exclusive photos from the festival below. In just seven short years the Napa Valley Film Festival, (the brainchild of husband and wife team Brenda and Marc Lhormer), has become one of the preeminent […]
By: Dylan Tracy Napa Valley, CA – Alex Wolff. The name doesn’t roll off the tip of the tongue unless you’re of a certain age, say, perhaps, 17 to 24. As a ten year old, the now twenty-year-old Alex and his older brother, Nat, starred in the hit Nickelodeon TV series The Naked Brothers Band. The […]
Celebrity Deaths 2017 We weed out the nonsensical names included in much of the media for our Celebrity Deaths 2017 page. We only include A-list celebrities who have passed away on our Celebrity Deaths 2017 page. August 26, 2017 – Tobe Hooper, 74, director, natural causes. Tobe Hooper was best known for directing the original […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expelled disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein from its ranks. The Academy’s 54-member board of governors — which includes such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Kathleen Kennedy — held an emergency meeting at the organization’s Beverly Hills headquarters today and voted to strip […]
Harkins Theaters Classic Movies Series is ongoing. Harkins Theaters presents special limited engagements of classic movies. Relive your favorite films on the big screen all year long, every Tuesday night at 7:00PM for only $5 per ticket. Among the holiday themed movies playing at select Harkins Theaters through Christmas Day: Halloween, (the original, starring Jamie Lee Curtis). Planes, […]
Scott Hicks, the Oscar nominated director of the 1996 movie Shine, is back with the big screen adaptation of the Kathryn Price young adult novel Fallen, (now on DVD and various streaming channels). I had a chance to speak with Kathryn Price, the author of Fallen, as well as two of the stars from the […]
At first glance, the animated movie Deep, (now in select theaters and available on Amazon for rental), looks like a spin-off of Finding Dory. But, if you thought that, you’d be completely wrong. I had the chance to speak to the film’s writer and director, Julio Soto Gurpide, a native of Spain. “I’ve been a […]
Warner Bros. is developing an animated Wizard of Oz retelling. They are adapting Toto, a children’s book by War Horse writer Michael Morpurgo, which tells the story of Dorothy’s trip through Oz from her faithful dog’s perspective. Mark Burton, who is writing the screenplay, often works with the U.K.’s Aardman Studios, having written the studio’s […]
Amy Pascal and Sony Pictures are putting together some Oscar favorites for the latest adaption to Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic novel, Little Women. Greta Gerwig, who received critical acclaim for her directorial debut feature, Lady Bird, including an Oscar nomintation for Best Picture and Directing, is adapting and directing Little Women. Oscar winners Meryl […]
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By Tim Nasson Merchant/Ivory. These two legendary names emblazoned on a movie poster or trailer instantly lit fires of anticipation inside any cinephiles of the 1980s and early 1990s, myself included. This label was always good news, for it heralded a new offering in the works by the master producer/director team; Ismail Merchant and James […]
With iconic titles that span five decades, the Fathom Events and TCM Big Screen Classics Series has something for everyone! An unmissable lineup continues monthly throughout 2017 as Fathom Events and TCM bring some of the greatest titles ever back into movie theaters, each for just four showings on Sundays and Wednesdays at 2:00pm and […]
Universal Pictures’ relaunches its classic monster movie characters, with the moniker Universal Dark Universe, starting with the Tom Cruise reboot The Mummy, in theaters June 9, 2017. In addition, the studio confirmed that Beauty and the Beast’s Bill Condon is locked in to direct Bride of Frankenstein, which will be the next Dark Universe title […]
To say that MTV And Emma Watson Go Off The Deep End is an understatement. MTV has been irrelevant for more than a decade. Trying to drum up publicity for their failing cable channels they dumped the categories featuring sexes from their barely watched 2017 MTV Movie Awards show the other night, an awards show […]
Chris Pratt is the hottest actor in the world right now, headlining two of the biggest film franchises in history; Guardians Of The Galaxy and Jurassic Park. With Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 in theaters he is now hard at work on Jurassic World 2 In Theaters 2018. The Spanish director J.A. Bayona of The […]
Walt Disney Pictures has pushed the fifth, untitled film in the Indiana Jones franchise to the year 2020. Originally slated for release on July 19, 2019, Indiana Jones 5 will now open on July 10, 2020. Steven Spielberg is set to return to direct leading man Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford, who is currently 74, will […]
Jonathan Demme Dead at 73. Film director Jonathan Demme, whose Oscar-winning thriller “The Silence of the Lambs” terrified audiences and introduced one of the most indelible villains in movie history, died Wednesday morning in New York. He was 73. He died of complications from esophageal cancer, according to a statement from his publicist, Leslee Dart. […]
The unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust continue to be the topic of films decades after the event took place. However despite its age as an event in history, many stories of courage in such a frightening time continue to come to light, making for some of the best films. It is also a constant reminder […]
The 2017 Phoenix Film Festival arrives at Harkins 101 beginning on April 6, 2017. The opening night film for the film festival will be the comedy/drama release of HERO starring Sam Elliott, as a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories […]
The live action version of the tale as old as time has been on my watch list ever since news first broke of its creation. I mean, Emma Watson starring as Belle (totally fitting character for her to play), Josh Gad as LeFou, the anticipation of how Disney will make this version stand alone from […]
The 89th Oscars were held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and were televised live on ABC. La La Land took home half (actually 6, when the real Best Picture Oscar winner was announced) of the 14 Oscars it was nominated for. In addition to winning […]
I’ll admit right off the bat, I am not a big M. Night Shyamalan fan. He hasn’t had a film that has caught my attention since The Sixth Sense in 1999, and in my opinion hasn’t had a hit film since then. Yet he still churns out bomb after bomb, despite much negative criticism of his films. […]
Fantastic Beasts Sparks Magic on Screen Fifteen years ago, J.K. Rowling first introduced us to the wizarding world of Harry Potter, opening the floodgate for a billion dollar movie franchise. As the world of Harry Potter came to an end, die-hard fans found themselves in mourning over the conclusion of their beloved franchise that they’ve come to […]