EMPIRE: Danny Strong gives the Scoop on Season 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/31/2016
Terrence Howard stars in the Fox drama EMPIRE | © 2016 Chuck Hodes/FOX

At Fox Network’s party for the Television Critics Association, Danny Strong is mulling over the dessert options. Strong is at a place in his life where most of the choices are sweet. The California native co-created Fox’s epic musical drama hit EMPIRE. Strong got an Emmy nomination for his first produced script, HBO’s RECOUNT, about the 2000 U.S. presidential election, and won an Emmy for his second, HBO’s GAME CHANGE, which starred Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. Strong wrote LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER, about the intersection of civil rights and the U.S. presidency, which Daniels directed. That collaboration led to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/24/2014
X-MEN - DAYS OF FUTURE PAST poster | ©2014 Fox/Marvel

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage, Shawn Ashmore. Omar Sy, Evan Peters Writer: Simon Kinberg, story by Jane Goldman & Simon Kinberg & Matthew Vaughn Director: Bryan Singer Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 23, 2014 If you’re going to make an installment of a film franchise that potentially erases the continuity of previous endeavors, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST demonstrates how to do it with not only style but real urgency. Don’t just randomly drop time travelers into the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with DA VINCI’S DEMONS Tom Riley – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/09/2014
Tom Riley as Leonardo Da Vinci in DA VINCI'S DEMONS | © 2014 Starz

In Part Two of Assignment X’s exclusive interview with DA VINCI’S DEMONS star Tom Riley, he talks more about portraying Leonardo da Vinci in the second season of the Starz series, as well as how working on Broadway emboldened him as an actor – and what he thinks of SHARKNADO. AX: You were on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s play ARCADIA. Did that help you in any way anchor into the American entertainment industry? TOM RILEY: Well, it’s a very British play, and Tom Stoppard, and it was directed by a Brit [David Leveaux]. Broadway’s a different beast [to television]. I […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the JACK THE GIANT SLAYER Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 03/07/2013
Stanley Tucci, Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Bill Nighy at the Los Angeles premiere of JACK THE GIANT SLAYER | ©2013 Sue Schneider

New Line Cinema in association with Legendary Pictures An original Film, Big Kid Pictures, A Bad Hat Harry Production of a Bryan Singer Film held the Los Angeles Premiere of JACK THE GIANT SLAYER on February 26th at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The story is about a young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), who opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. It’s been centuries since the long-banished giants roamed our world and now the battle is on as Jack fights for his people, the love of a brave princess, Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) as he […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/02/2013
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER movie review | ©2013 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Ewan McGregor Writers: Darren Lemke and Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney, story by Darren Lemke & David Dobkin Director: Bryan Singer Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: February 28, 2013 First of all, let’s clear up one misconception that may or may not be popular: JACK THE GIANT SLAYER isn’t a hyperactive attempt to soup up the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk (at least, not wholly), but rather a marriage that familiar myth with a slightly less well-known but still famed folktale from Cornwall. In the lore, […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the WARM BODIES Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 02/13/2013
Nicholas Hoult at the Los Angeles Premiere of WARM BODIES | ©2013 Sue Schneider

Summit Entertainment held the Los Angeles Premiere of WARM BODIES recently at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. WARM BODIES is a comedy besides a love story. After a zombie epidemic, R (Nicholas Hoult) encounters Julie (Teresa Palmer), and rescues her from a zombie attack. This forms a special relationship between the two of them resulting that R is becoming more human and this sets off a romantic and often comical chain of events that begins to affect the other zombies. WARM BODIES is based on the novel by Isaac Marion. Walking the carpet, besides Zombies, were the stars of […]Read On »


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Composer Interview: Henry Jackman marks the spot for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 06/14/2011
Composer Henry Jackman | ©2011 Henry Jackman

As cool as it is to have your music pumping the extra kick-ass mile into the hugely enjoyable antics of non-powered, wannabe superheroes, there’s nothing quite like getting your musical mutant on by graduating to the big leagues of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, a score that marks a huge evolution for composer Henry Jackman. Starting his career as an innovator in England’s electronica world, Jackman’s equally impressive string arrangements for album producer Trevor Horn drew the attention of Hans Zimmer, a composer with the Magneto-like powers of irresistibly pulling in promising talent to his lair at Remote Control. It wasn’t long […]Read On »


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Comics Vs. Movies: Riptide of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS – Things You Need to Know

By SEAN ELLIOTT 06/10/2011
Alex Gonzalez in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS | ©2011 20th Century Fox

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is now in theaters! Many of you might read this series of editorials before you see the movie, and some after, but be warned there are some spoilerish elements in play. Basically, our idea was to create a series of character guides to the main players of FIRST CLASS, to give people a bit of a working knowledge of where the characters in the movie have their comic book origins, and how those origins compare to their big screen counterparts. This is a taste of the comics for those who haven’t spent their lives reading and archiving […]Read On »


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Comics Vs. Movies: Moira MacTaggert of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS – Things You Need to Know

By SEAN ELLIOTT 06/09/2011
Rose Byrne in X-MEN FIRST CLASS | ©2011 20th Century Fox

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is now in theatres! Many of you might read this series of editorials before you see the movie, and some after, but be warned there are some spoilerish elements in play. Basically, our idea was to create a series of character guides to the main players of FIRST CLASS, to give people a bit of a working knowledge of where the characters in the movie have their comic book origins, and how those origins compare to their big screen counterparts. This is a taste of the comics for those who haven’t spent their lives reading and archiving […]Read On »


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Comics Vs. Movies: Darwin of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS – Things You Need to Know

By SEAN ELLIOTT 06/08/2011
Edi Gathegi in X-MEN FIRST CLASS | ©2011 20th Century Fox

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is now in theatres! Many of you might read this series of editorials before you see the movie, and some after, but be warned there are some spoilerish elements in play. Basically, our idea was to create a series of character guides to the main players of FIRST CLASS, to give people a bit of a working knowledge of where the characters in the movie have their comic book origins, and how those origins compare to their big screen counterparts. This is a taste of the comics for those who haven’t spent their lives reading and archiving […]Read On »


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