Opening in theaters on January 20th is the new action-packed spy/revenge film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion) called Haywire. The movie marks the feature film debut of women's MMA fighter Gina Carano, and also boasts an impressive cast of all-star actors that includes Ewan McGregor (Beginners), Channing Tatum (The Son of No One), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Antonio Banderas (The Skin I Live In), and Oscar-winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Haywire also reunites Soderbergh with screenwriter Lem Dobbs for the first time since their work together on the seminal revenge film The Limey. 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with Channing Tatum to talk about his work on Haywire. The actor discussed the new film, his character, joining the Soderbergh alumni of actors, his love for The Limey, special forces training, and going toe-to-toe with Carano in their fight scenes.

Opening in theaters on January 20th is the new action-packed spy/revenge film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion) called Haywire. The movie marks the feature film debut of women's MMA fighter Gina Carano, and also boasts an impressive cast of all-star actors that includes Ewan McGregor (Beginners), Channing Tatum (The Son of No One), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Antonio Banderas (The Skin I Live In), and Oscar-winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Haywire also reunites Soderbergh with screenwriter Lem Dobbs for the first time since their work together on the seminal revenge film The Limey. 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the immense pleasure of sitting down with the beautiful, yet dangerous, MMA fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano to talk about Haywire. Carano discussed the new film, acting opposite Douglas and Banderas, fighting Tatum, Fassbender, and McGregor, working with director Steven Soderbergh, choreographing her own fight scenes, and whether or not she'd like to do more acting in the future. 

Opening in theaters on January 20th is the new action-packed spy/revenge film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion) called Haywire. The movie marks the feature film debut of women's MMA fighter Gina Carano, and also boasts an impressive cast of all-star actors that includes Ewan McGregor (Beginners), Channing Tatum (The Son of No One), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), and Oscar-winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Haywire also reunites Soderbergh with screenwriter Lem Dobbs for the first time since their work together on the seminal revenge film The Limey. 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with actor Antonio Banderas to talk about Haywire. Banderas discussed the new movie, his character's unique beard, how he became the film's villain, why the sequel might begin with a scene featuring him fighting Carano, and working with Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh. 

Opening in theaters on January 20^th is Haywire, a new espionage film helmed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion). The movie centers on a female covert operative that must now unravel the reasons why she has become the target of those who were once part of her team. The result pays homage to classic spy flicks, in every sense of the word, reminiscent of old-school thrillers in visuals, story and music.

It was important to Soderbergh to revisit that genre of cinema, and possibly update its conventions. To that end, he employed his former colleague Lem Dobbs (The Limey) for a script; Ewan McGregor (Beginners), Channing Tatum (The Son of No One), Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class), Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), Bill Paxton (Aliens), and Oscar-winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) for a supporting cast, and for his muse - Soderbergh turned to MMA champion fighter Gina Carano.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Haywire Press Conference held at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, which was filled with members of the press eager to hear Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum and Gina Carano talk about the action-packed new film.

Straight talk from the Straight Talk Highway: Prometheus is at least a little bit of a prequel to Alien, in that explores the mysteries of the big dead Space Jockey and the derelict spacecraft where the crew of the Nostromo encountered the xenomorph eggs in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic.  We know this based on many things, including the teaser trailer and a new image that shows star Noomi Rapace in yet another exceedingly H.R. Giger-esque setting that includes not one, but two Space Jockeys making like sentries or maybe empty suits of armor.  So why, then, have Fox and the filmmakers distanced Prometheus from Alien?  Probably because, unlike most of the prequels we're used to, this one won't go out of its way to very specifically link up to the first film, showing how Ripley got her job at Weyland Yutani and whatnot.

With just days to go before the Oscar nominations are announced on January 24th, it is now time to narrow down the predictions to 5 in each category. Rather than list each name alphabetically, the contenders have been listed in the order of their likelihood of receiving the nomination. In each category, the 5th slot could possibly go to a “dark horse” instead…

Hey, here's a treat: Two official images, one each from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Prometheus, two of the biggest, most anticipated event pictures of 2012.  The images are all kinds of different, with Noomi Rapace wearing her stylish spacesuit in a dark, Giger-y set, and Martin Freeman in full Bilbo Baggins mode on a sunny day in Middle Earth. 

Prometheus and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have a lot in common, though.  Both are technically prequels to beloved, hugely successful properties, both find crazy-popular directors returning to the properties with which they're most associated, and both see those directors filming features in 3D for the first time in their long careers (Get your Rogue 3D Eyewear right here, folks).  So hey, check out the image from the new movies directed by Ridley Scott and Peter Jackson.

Synopsis: Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

As a three-day countdown featuring teasers for a teaser trailer have promised, the first trailer for Prometheus is now online.  In a week stuffed to the gills with excellent, high-profile trailers, this one is probably the best of the bunch.  For the last year or so, Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox have played awfully coy about the extent to which Prometheus is a prequel to Scott's seminal 1979 hit Alien, but this teaser makes it abundantly clear how how much this is stylistically and spiritually connected to its predecessor.  It's designed just like a trailer for that film, and even includes a space jockey shot.

There's very little indication of plot and even less of character.  Instead, the trailer maintains the mystery that has so far defined the film and ladles on thick spoonfuls of dread.  While we've all been excited to see Scott return to science fiction after a three decade break, Scott apparently remembered to make Prometheus scary as hell.  So that's good.

This week has basically been the trailer-pocalypse, with a cavalcade of them arriving one on top of the other starting Monday, and it's not over yet.  Fox is counting down Thursday's reveal of the first trailer for Prometheus in style.  On Monday, the studio released two trailers for the trailer, little thirty-second teases featuring footage from the film, behind the scenes snippets, and director Ridley Scott loquaciously discussing his return to science fiction for the first time since 1982's Blade Runner.  With one day to go until the trailer arrives online to what should be the delight of many, Fox has eschewed the teases and instead debuted a new image from Prometheus.