30Ninjas Roundtable Interview — Kate Bosworth and Danny Huston Weave the Violent Yarn of The Warrior’s Way

posted 11-29-10 by Max Tedaldi

If there is one question that has plagued my wandering thoughts, burrowing deep within the recesses of my most poignant dreams, it is question of gun vs sword. Which is better? Sure a gun can decimate in quick efficiency, but for pure primitive satisfaction it’s difficult to top the slice of a sword. Nowhere is [...]

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Hanna Interview With Eric Bana, Joe Wright and Saoirse Ronan: Does Old Boy + Being There + Blue Velvet + Child Assassin = An Original Action Thriller?

posted 11-08-10 by Julina Tatlock

While at Comic Con, I got the opportunity to participate in a small press conference with director Joe Wright, and actors Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana and talk about their upcoming film Hanna.

Exclusive Tron: Evolution Interview with Design Director Chris Whiteside — The Art, The Combat and the Transmedia Extravaganza that is Tron

posted 10-28-10 by Julina Tatlock

On the NYCC convention floor, hidden behind the giant Red Dead Redemption booth, tucked behind a large screen for Epic Mickey, was a single screen with the Tron: Evolution demo. It was there that I met and spoke with both Chris Whiteside, Design Director, and John Vignocchi, Development Director of Propaganda Games to talk about [...]

Trespass Exclusive Photos and On Set Interview: Joel Schumacher Talks About the Universal Fear of Home Invasion, The Luck Virus of Success and Chasing Demi Moore

posted 10-28-10 by Max Tedaldi

Trespass Exclusive Photos and On Set Interview: Joel Schumacher Talks About the Universal Fear of Home Invasion, The Luck Virus of Success and Chasing Demi Moore.

Exclusive Monsters Interview: Director Gareth Edwards Talks VFX, Guerilla Filmmaking and Details on How He Made His Monsters Move

posted 10-15-10 by Julina Tatlock

While I was at NYCC I spoke to Gareth Edwards about his film Monsters, a new sci-fi film that releases on October 29th

Doug Liman and Wuershan, the Director of The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman Talk Action, Popularity, Drinking and Genghis Khan

posted 09-15-10 by Doug Liman

Monday night I had the pleasure of talking on the phone with Wuershan, the man who directed The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman. Scheduling the call was slightly complicated by the fact that Wuershan is in Beijing and I’m in NY, plus I had an evening of re-shoots for our MTV pilot Pants, but [...]

Exclusive Expendables: Stunt Coordinator Stahelski on Stallone’s Voracious Appetite for Action and the Importance of How Jet Li Kicks a Submachine Gun

posted 07-30-10 by Julina Tatlock

Exclusive with Stunt Coordinator Chad Stahelski on working with all-star action greats: Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews and the king himself, Sly Stallone on The Expendables.

Green Lantern Comic-Con Posters

posted 07-26-10 by Max Tedaldi

Hot on the heels of the Thor and Captain America poster reveals we have the first look at four of the new Green Lantern posters. The posters use the credo of the Green Lantern as the tag-line of the film, which makes sense (it’s a pretty epic credo if you ask me), and use the [...]

E3 First Look at Supremacy MMA — Taking the Sport Back to Its Underground Roots With Cock Fights and Bone Breaks

posted 06-22-10 by Max Tedaldi

Compared to the gigantic releases from EA (EA Sports MMA) and THQ (UFC Undisputed 2010), 505 Games’ entry into the MMA arena with Supremacy MMA is relatively small. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Supremacy will be drowned out by its massively sponsored and promoted brethren. I got a chance to preview all three games [...]

30 Ninjas Talks to Avatar Editor Steve Rivkin On What Was Hardest About Cutting Avatar

posted 06-11-10 by Julina Tatlock

Some of the most creative and important people in the film industry are getting together this weekend in NY but there’s a good chance (unless you’re a industry insider) that you’ve never heard of any of them. These people sit, often isolated, in dark rooms cutting together the movies we love to watch — yep, [...]

It’s All Geek To Me — Mandvi on Fire — Part Two: Exclusive Interview with Aasif Mandvi from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender

posted 06-10-10 by Dan Kaufman

We are now only a few weeks out from the opening of The Last Airbender, and anticipation is running high, as is trepidation, with a side order of controversy. Soon we’ll all be able to see if M. Night Shyamalan is truly up to the task of satisfying the passionate fanbase for the show, and [...]

It’s All Geek To Me — Mandvi on Fire — An Exclusive Interview with Aasif Mandvi from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender

posted 06-02-10 by Dan Kaufman

Aasif Mandvi is doing it all wrong. Yes, he’s spent the last four years earning laughs as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the hot-button political and social zeitgeist prism that has also helped launch the careers of Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Rob Corddry, and Ed Helms. But before that he was [...]

Exclusive M. Night Shyamalan Interview: An Admitted “Control Freak” Opens Up About How He Lost Control of The Last Airbender — Then Found It Again

posted 05-21-10 by Julina Tatlock

Exclusive M. Night Shyamalan Interview: An Admitted Control Freak Opens Up About How He Lost Control of The Last Airbender — Then Found It Again

Exclusive Last Airbender Interview: How Filmbender M. Night Shyamalan Mastered CGI and Indulged His “Secret Passion” for Martial Arts

posted 05-14-10 by Julina Tatlock

When I spoke with M. Night Shyamalan the other day he was on a land-line phone, far away from Hollywood at his home in Pennsylvania. Night, it seems to me, does an excellent job of removing himself from the showbiz fray, bringing to his work a single-minded concentration worthy of a director who might just turn out to be Hollywood Nation’s first filmbender.

Exclusive Prince of Persia Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal on How His Face Nearly Got Chopped Off With an Ax During Shooting — and the Inspired Insanity of Training With Parkour Legend David Belle

posted 05-05-10 by Julina Tatlock

There’s been a lively back and forth on message boards about whether Jake Gyllenhaal can make the difference in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time by transforming it into that rarest of cinematic phenomena: a great action film based on a video game (cough — Uwe Boll — cough). And while I agree that one [...]