Beautiful Creatures Reviews, Interviews & More
This week offers a number of this year’s earlier films, most of which failed to make much of an impression at the box office. This was sad for Arnold Schwarzenegger, and for Warner Brothers, who thought they might have the next Twilight/Harry Potter on their hands. There’s also a ton of cool older titles hitting DVD and Blu-ray this week....
Well, it's no surprise that A Good Day to Die Hard ended up on top, but was it a quick victory, or signs of new life in a quarter-century old franchise? We'll know next week. And as for Beautiful Creatures this weekend... well, it does not portend well for future young adult fiction. All that and more...
Originally, the first two Die Hard films were set on Christmas (even though both were summer movies). By the third film, there was no set holiday (school was still in session, that much is sure), while the fourth film played up it's Independence Day release date. As A Good Day to Die Hard is coming out for Valentine's Day, we would hope - but...
Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich weren't interested in doing a fantasy movie that would turn into a Twilight-like franchise. They were looking for films that told personal stories. Beautiful Creatures director Richard LaGravenese was attracted to their apprehension and persuaded them to...
Beautiful Creatures writer/director Richard LaGravenese went the extra mile when he assembled the cast of his romantic fantasy film. His young leads are unknowns, with very little on their resume, but his supporting cast is filled with respected actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis. In the film, Irons plays a dapper, over-protective uncle, and Davis is a...
Emmy Rossum is happy to play the bad girl. Her character in Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures is a wickedly attractive, but dangerous gal from the South who's inspired by actresses like Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. She makes a striking grand entrance, and steals every scene she's in. ScreenCrave...
