Rob Leane Jul 4, 2017
Jon Watts chats to us about Spider-Man: Homecoming, sequels, Vulture, Tony Stark, Venom, Stan Lee, Marc Webb and more...
Back in 2015, I spoke to Jon Watts via an international phone line. I was at home, and he was deeply entrenched in Marvel Studios, beginning work on the film we later came to know as Spider-Man: Homecoming. The main topic of discussion back then was his Kevin Bacon-featuring micro budget thriller, Cop Car.
A year and bit later, on a blisteringly hot June day, Watts and I met for real in a swanky London hotel. He was just as lovely in real life as he was on the blower, enthusiastically chatting about Homecoming, the future of Spidey at the cinema, and a number of other projects. Here’s the transcript...
[Nb: this interview took place before all the 'Venom is in the McU'/'no it isn't' hoohah.]
In the press notes, one thing jumped out at me: apparently you made stick-figure videos while Marvel...
Jon Watts chats to us about Spider-Man: Homecoming, sequels, Vulture, Tony Stark, Venom, Stan Lee, Marc Webb and more...
Back in 2015, I spoke to Jon Watts via an international phone line. I was at home, and he was deeply entrenched in Marvel Studios, beginning work on the film we later came to know as Spider-Man: Homecoming. The main topic of discussion back then was his Kevin Bacon-featuring micro budget thriller, Cop Car.
A year and bit later, on a blisteringly hot June day, Watts and I met for real in a swanky London hotel. He was just as lovely in real life as he was on the blower, enthusiastically chatting about Homecoming, the future of Spidey at the cinema, and a number of other projects. Here’s the transcript...
[Nb: this interview took place before all the 'Venom is in the McU'/'no it isn't' hoohah.]
In the press notes, one thing jumped out at me: apparently you made stick-figure videos while Marvel...
- 6/28/2017
- Den of Geek
Jonathan Corwin, the Marine whose wife Erin Corwin was murdered by her lover in 2014, is speaking out for the first time on television in a Dateline network exclusive special, “The Last Day.”
Opening up about the June day that Erin, 19, disappeared after leaving their home at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California, Jonathan speaks somberly as he details what would be their final goodbye.
“She had woke up and gotten dressed and gave me a kiss goodbye,” he reveals in the exclusive clip.
“ said, ‘Hey, I’m heading out for the day and I love you,’ ” he recalls. “I told her,...
Opening up about the June day that Erin, 19, disappeared after leaving their home at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California, Jonathan speaks somberly as he details what would be their final goodbye.
“She had woke up and gotten dressed and gave me a kiss goodbye,” he reveals in the exclusive clip.
“ said, ‘Hey, I’m heading out for the day and I love you,’ ” he recalls. “I told her,...
- 12/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
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The last moments of Cooper Harris’ life were excruciating.
The 22-month old toddler was left for hours in a hot car in June 2014 while his father, Justin Ross Harris, went to work. Prosecutors say he intentionally left the boy in the car. Harris maintains it was an accident.
In court on Wednesday, during Harris’ murder trial in Cooper’s death in Brunswick, Georgia, engineer David Brani testified that he had done several tests on Harris’s SUV. He determined that the temperature in Cooper’s car seat was more than 125 degrees...
The last moments of Cooper Harris’ life were excruciating.
The 22-month old toddler was left for hours in a hot car in June 2014 while his father, Justin Ross Harris, went to work. Prosecutors say he intentionally left the boy in the car. Harris maintains it was an accident.
In court on Wednesday, during Harris’ murder trial in Cooper’s death in Brunswick, Georgia, engineer David Brani testified that he had done several tests on Harris’s SUV. He determined that the temperature in Cooper’s car seat was more than 125 degrees...
- 10/20/2016
- by skhelling
- PEOPLE.com
It's been more than 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in a bathtub of her suburban home in Houston, Texas. And now, as Yates spends her days in a Texas mental health facility, her attorney says she "grieves for her children." "There's not a day that goes by where she doesn't care for, talk about, is happy about her children's lives before June the 20 and grieves for her children," Yates' defense attorney, George Parnham, told NBC News' Janet Shamlian in an interview aired Thursday, looking back at the case. On that fateful June day in 2001 - June the 20 - Yates drowned John,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
It's been more than 15 years since Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in the bathtub of her suburban home in Houston, Texas. And now, as Yates spends her days in a Texas mental health facility, her attorney says she "grieves for her children." "There's not a day that goes by where she doesn't care for, talk about, is happy about her children's lives before June the 20 and grieves for her children," Yates' defense attorney, George Parnham, told NBC News' Janet Shamlian in an interview aired Thursday, looking back at the case. On that fateful June day in 2001 - June the 20 - Yates drowned John,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
When you possess the world's most incredible jewelry box, the accessory choices are limitless - especially when grand occasions like the State Opening of Parliament make your annual to-do list. So it goes for Queen Elizabeth, who dutifully fulfilled her role at Parliament in London on Wednesday morning. And yet for all her jewels, the 90-year-old monarch sticks to a tried-and-true headpiece for this particular occasion: the 3-lb. Imperial State Crown. (Yes, that is more than the weight of two Chipotle burritos!) This year she paired it with a white state dress by her main dressmaker Angela Kelly, Queen Victoria...
- 5/18/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SperryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Spoiler Alert: The Barden Bellas have split up. But before you scream “A ca-scuse me?!” it’s just a temporary separation. On this muggy June day in Baton Rouge, La., the cast of Pitch Perfect 2, the sequel to Universal’s sleeper about a college a cappella group, is pulling double duty. Rebel Wilson (returning as blunt bombshell Fat Amy) and Brittany Snow (back as dim bulb Chloe) are cloistered in the production offices, recording and preparing for dance rehearsal. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Anna Kendrick and Skylar Astin, reprising their roles as vocal power couple Beca and Jesse,...
- 11/19/2014
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
On Nov. 22, America and the world mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most momentous events of the 20th century, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
As it did last year with "Killing Lincoln," National Geographic Channel has turned to another best-seller by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard to dramatize the occasion.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 10, the docudrama version of "Killing Kennedy" follows the twin trajectories of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald until they meet on that fateful day in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
Directed by Nelson McCormick from a script by Kelly Masterson, "Killing Kennedy" stars Rob Lowe as JFK, Ginnifer Goodwin as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald, Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald, Jack Noseworthy as Bobby Kennedy, Casey Siemaszko as Jack Ruby, Francis Guinan as Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Flood as Kennedy insider Kenneth O'Donnell.
On this bright mid-June day in Richmond,...
As it did last year with "Killing Lincoln," National Geographic Channel has turned to another best-seller by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard to dramatize the occasion.
Premiering Sunday, Nov. 10, the docudrama version of "Killing Kennedy" follows the twin trajectories of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald until they meet on that fateful day in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
Directed by Nelson McCormick from a script by Kelly Masterson, "Killing Kennedy" stars Rob Lowe as JFK, Ginnifer Goodwin as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald, Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald, Jack Noseworthy as Bobby Kennedy, Casey Siemaszko as Jack Ruby, Francis Guinan as Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Flood as Kennedy insider Kenneth O'Donnell.
On this bright mid-June day in Richmond,...
- 11/10/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
It's a beautiful June day in Richmond, Va., and Dublin-born actor Richard Flood is hard at work, playing Kenneth O'Donnell, boyhood friend of President John F. Kennedy (Rob Lowe) in National Geographic Channel's "Killing Kennedy," airing in November.
But American audiences haven't had to wait that long to get a look at the dark-haired, blue-eyed Flood, since he's one of the ensemble cast of the NBC's "Crossing Lines" starring Donald Sutherland.
Flood plays Tommy McConnel in the Sunday drama about an elite international team of crime fighters going after transnational bad guys.
"He's Northern Irish," Flood tells Zap2it during a break in filming on the grounds of the Virginia governor's mansion, "but his background is he's a Traveler. The nature of their lives is they travel all over.
"He's interesting because he's a bare-knuckle boxer. He's run into a lot of trouble and ended up being coaxed to join the police.
But American audiences haven't had to wait that long to get a look at the dark-haired, blue-eyed Flood, since he's one of the ensemble cast of the NBC's "Crossing Lines" starring Donald Sutherland.
Flood plays Tommy McConnel in the Sunday drama about an elite international team of crime fighters going after transnational bad guys.
"He's Northern Irish," Flood tells Zap2it during a break in filming on the grounds of the Virginia governor's mansion, "but his background is he's a Traveler. The nature of their lives is they travel all over.
"He's interesting because he's a bare-knuckle boxer. He's run into a lot of trouble and ended up being coaxed to join the police.
- 7/14/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Great Caesar’s bust is on the shelf
And I don’t feel so well myself.
– Arthur Guiterman
I guess they’re not kidding about this “dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return” business. After 1,699 issues and 42 years of publication, what began as the brainchild of 17-year-old Alan Light and, after a few earlier names was finally and best known as The Comics Buyer’s Guide – Cbg for short – has reached its end.
I don’t think I ever paid for an issue of the paper but, thanks to the generosity of its publishers, I read a lot of them. When I was sitting behind various editorial desks Cbg would appear in the mail once a week and when I had some spare time I’d page through it, reading this and that. It wasn’t a big part of my professional life, but it was nice.
Eventually,...
And I don’t feel so well myself.
– Arthur Guiterman
I guess they’re not kidding about this “dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return” business. After 1,699 issues and 42 years of publication, what began as the brainchild of 17-year-old Alan Light and, after a few earlier names was finally and best known as The Comics Buyer’s Guide – Cbg for short – has reached its end.
I don’t think I ever paid for an issue of the paper but, thanks to the generosity of its publishers, I read a lot of them. When I was sitting behind various editorial desks Cbg would appear in the mail once a week and when I had some spare time I’d page through it, reading this and that. It wasn’t a big part of my professional life, but it was nice.
Eventually,...
- 1/24/2013
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
On the last day of seventh grade, I left my middle school into a baking-hot late June day to go see Jurassic Park with my Great Uncle Frank. I would miss Heather Nunn's pizza party—where everybody would be—to the detriment of my 12-year-old social life, but Jurassic Park was one of those massive summer movies that defined the 90's cinematically. Another in a long line of special effects-riddled thrill rides that allowed for an escape from the oppressiveness of the sweltering sun and the mundane months of rural Connecticut summers, Jurassic Park was 120-plus minutes of old-school movie magic in a cool, dark room with your heart pounding due to both the onscreen thrills and the sugar rush of Reese's...
- 11/29/2011
- FEARnet
He always had the right words when he stood in front of an audience, eager and energized to detail the ins and outs of the latest Apple product. But it was a rarer occasion when Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56 after battling pancreatic cancer since 2004, would talk with the same vigor about his own life. And as those he touched - those who caught wind of his passing on their iPhones, those who own a Mac or an iPod - mourn the loss of the technology world's revered visionary, his words of wisdom about life, death and success from...
- 10/6/2011
- by Alison Schwartz
- PEOPLE.com
He always had the right words when he stood in front of an audience, eager and energized to detail the ins and outs of the latest Apple product. But it was a rarer occasion when Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56 after battling pancreatic cancer since 2004, would talk with the same vigor about his own life. And as those he touched - those who caught wind of his passing on their iPhones, those who own a Mac or an iPod - mourn the loss of the technology world's revered visionary, his words of wisdom about life, death and success from...
- 10/6/2011
- by Alison Schwartz
- PEOPLE.com
Convento and the uncoventional
Convento was one of the surprising documentary gems at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. Though running at just less than an hour (a runtime that is "definitely what felt right"), it has a contemplative attitude to its subject matter - kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and his family - that makes it feel like an enjoyable, meditative walk with a friend rather than a fact-crunching gallop.
I catch up with director Jarred Alterman and Zwanikken on the wettest Edinburgh June day I can ever remember, but...
Convento was one of the surprising documentary gems at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. Though running at just less than an hour (a runtime that is "definitely what felt right"), it has a contemplative attitude to its subject matter - kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and his family - that makes it feel like an enjoyable, meditative walk with a friend rather than a fact-crunching gallop.
I catch up with director Jarred Alterman and Zwanikken on the wettest Edinburgh June day I can ever remember, but...
- 6/29/2011
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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It's a few hours into a June day of shooting on the New York set of AMC's Rubicon. The set is breathlessly quiet, and the show's star, James Badge Dale, is staring at a photograph.
The quiet is finally broken when Dale's character, Will Travers, begins jotting down notes on index cards with a Sharpie. That's right: With four episodes of the conspiracy thriller's first season left to shoot, there are no car bombs, no sniper fire, no creepy phone calls — just the squeak of the marker moving over paper.
Rubicon's James Badge Dale: "Our show is not for everybody"
"We're spinning a yarn. We're trying to do something different than what's normally done on television, and it's not going to be for everybody," Dale tells TVGuide.com during a break. "We want to do something subtle. ... We're asking people...
It's a few hours into a June day of shooting on the New York set of AMC's Rubicon. The set is breathlessly quiet, and the show's star, James Badge Dale, is staring at a photograph.
The quiet is finally broken when Dale's character, Will Travers, begins jotting down notes on index cards with a Sharpie. That's right: With four episodes of the conspiracy thriller's first season left to shoot, there are no car bombs, no sniper fire, no creepy phone calls — just the squeak of the marker moving over paper.
Rubicon's James Badge Dale: "Our show is not for everybody"
"We're spinning a yarn. We're trying to do something different than what's normally done on television, and it's not going to be for everybody," Dale tells TVGuide.com during a break. "We want to do something subtle. ... We're asking people...
- 8/15/2010
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide.com - Features
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It's a few hours into a June day of shooting on the New York set of AMC's Rubicon. The set is breathlessly quiet, and the show's star, James Badge Dale, is staring at a photograph.
The quiet is finally broken when Dale's character, Will Travers, begins jotting down notes on index cards with a Sharpie. That's right: With four episodes of the conspiracy thriller's first season left to shoot, there are no car bombs, no sniper fire, no creepy phone calls — just the squeak of the marker moving over paper.
Rubicon's James Badge Dale: "Our show is not for everybody"
"We're spinning a yarn. We're trying to do something different than what's normally done on television, and it's not going to be for everybody," Dale tells TVGuide.com during a break. "We want to do something subtle. ... We're asking people...
It's a few hours into a June day of shooting on the New York set of AMC's Rubicon. The set is breathlessly quiet, and the show's star, James Badge Dale, is staring at a photograph.
The quiet is finally broken when Dale's character, Will Travers, begins jotting down notes on index cards with a Sharpie. That's right: With four episodes of the conspiracy thriller's first season left to shoot, there are no car bombs, no sniper fire, no creepy phone calls — just the squeak of the marker moving over paper.
Rubicon's James Badge Dale: "Our show is not for everybody"
"We're spinning a yarn. We're trying to do something different than what's normally done on television, and it's not going to be for everybody," Dale tells TVGuide.com during a break. "We want to do something subtle. ... We're asking people...
- 8/15/2010
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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