It’s that time of year again! That time when kids ride their brooms across the sky above Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a large and furry green guy gets all grumpy, then learns the magic of Christmas. Yes, I’m talking about Universal Studios Hollywood and the holiday festivities. I got a chance to …
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No one can deny that music is the beating heart of Disney animated films. Ever since Disney’s first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, music has been incorporated into their films to reveal characters’ inner thoughts, propel storylines forward, and — ultimately — win our hearts over with memorable impactful lyricism and melodies. …
Netflix provided Vital Thrills with the chance to speak with Scott Pilgrim Takes Off creators Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski about the anime series coming to the streaming service on November 17, 2023. O’Malley is the writer/artist of the original six-part Scott Pilgrim comic series from 2004-2010 on which the new series is based, …
This past, weekend Focus Features launched the new Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) comedy The Holdovers on six screens in New York and Los Angeles, where it took in an impressive $200,000 ($33K average), not to mention its current Rotten Tomatoes score of 96%. If that isn’t enough to convince you to see the film, Vital …
EXCLUSIVE: Director Neil Burger is part of a dying breed of filmmakers who still get to make mid-budget, smaller scale human dramas with movie stars as they used to make on-the-reg in decades prior. Films like The Illusionist, Limitless and The Upside put him on the map and kept him there, while the first Divergent …
Felicia Day (The Guild, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Eureka) has a new Audible series called Third Eye. In the story, a young woman named Laurel Pettigrew (Day) is the Chosen One, set to defeat the villain Tybus (Christopher Judge). However, during the battle, she fails and magic is taken from the supernatural creatures of the …
EXCLUSIVE: While attending New York Comic Con, Universal Pictures invited Vital Thrills to speak with Jason Blum, the prolific horror producer and Blumhouse impresario who brought us Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and now the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie hitting theaters and streaming on Peacock this October 27. This adaptation of the popular horror …
EXCLUSIVE: While attending New York Comic Con, Vital Thrills was invited by Universal Pictures to speak with talented young filmmaker Bryce McGuire, who is making his feature directorial debut with Night Swim. The new supernatural thriller is coming to theaters on January 5, 2024. The movie, which comes from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse (the producers …
EXCLUSIVE: While attending New York Comic Con, Universal Pictures invited Vital Thrills to speak with Emma Tammi, the director of the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie hitting theaters and streaming on Peacock this October 27. An adaptation of the popular horror game series, the film has been in development for eight years. During out exclusive …
EXCLUSIVE: With his new meta action-comedy Argylle set to hit theaters on February 2, 2024, filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) was at New York Comic Con recently where he not only talked up his new flick but also told us about the wild plans for his (now-cancelled) Flash Gordon movie. Alex Raymond’s comic strip sci-fi …
EXCLUSIVE: Henry Cavill rocked the internet with his spiky new hairdo in the first trailer for Argylle. While the suave star is not available to promote the film right now, Universal Pictures invited Vital Thrills to have an exclusive chat at New York Comic Con with the action comedy’s esteemed director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman)! …
The purveyors of terror at Blumhouse are known for such blood-curdling franchises as Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Halloween, and most recently The Exorcist: Believer. Now they are attempting to launch several new potential cash machines with the comedic Totally Killer, the eerie Night Swim, and the video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s. This …
Did you know that Walt Disney Animation Studios is turning 100 this year? To celebrate, Vital Thrills took part in a special presentation surrounding Disney Animation’s latest short film, Once Upon a Studio. Directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy, who most may know from their Disney short film, Once Upon a Snowman, featuring Frozen‘s …
A dream is a wish the heart makes, and with Walt Disney Animation Studios’ rapidly-approaching 100th Anniversary, it was time to dream big when it came to the studio’s next animated feature. After Vital Thrills took part in a special presentation surrounding the upcoming release of Wish, we can tell you that the team is …
Vital Thrills recently got a chance to attend a press conference with filmmaker Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla) to learn more about his new sci-fi action thriller, The Creator. From 20th Century Studios, New Regency and Entertainment One, The Creator opens in theaters on September 29. The film is rated PG-13 for violence, some bloody …
Vital Thrills has your exclusive first look at a clip from the new season of National Geographic‘s Life Below Zero, which premieres on Monday, September 4. The clip, which you can watch using the player below, features new cast member Cole Sturgis, who lives in Thorne Bay, Alaska. This season follows Cole as he teaches …
Vital Thrills recently got a chance to chat with Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan, the stars of the TBS’ Miracle Workers: End Times. The fourth season of the anthology series is set in a post-apocalyptic future and will premiere on July 10, 2023. In Miracle Workers: End Times, a wasteland warrior (Daniel Radcliffe) and a …
Vital Thrills recently got a chance to attend a press conference with the cast and crew of Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, the new series on Disney+. In the show, debuting on June 21, Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls. Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, …
Vital Thrills recently got a chance to attend the press conference for Disney and Pixar’s Elemental and talked to stars Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie, as well as director Peter Sohn, producer Denise Ream, and singer/songwriter Ari Leff (Lauv). Now playing in theaters, Pixar’s Elemental is set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and …
For nearly three decades, writer/director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) has been cutting his movies from his own peculiar cloth. His latest sojourn into his uniquely stylized blend of comedy and cartoonish art direction is Asteroid City, a Russian-doll narrative of a group of a disparate eccentrics dropped into a desert …