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To help launch the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (officially next October), the feature-length documentary Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music from Oscar- and Grammy-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Summer of Soul) and produced by Oz Rodriguez will premiere Jan. 27, 2025, on NBC.

Thompson is also among the doc’s bevy of executive producers along with SNL creator Lorne Michaels.

The three-hour special promises to feature the untold stories behind the musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past half-century. Fifty musical artists, cast members, writers, and producers from throughout SNL’s colorful history dating back to the mid-1970s were interviewed for the film — including Bad Bunny, DJ Breakout, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish & Finneas, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Mick Jagger, Dua Lipa, Darryl Dmc McDaniels, Tom Morello, Kacey Musgraves, Olivia Rodrigo, Mc Sha-Rock, Paul Simon, Chris Stapleton, Justin Timberlake, Lee Ving, and Jack White.

The MTV Video Music Awards have been celebrated for 40 years, acting as a time capsule for pop culture in the modern era. From Michael Jackson and Madonna to Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, music’s biggest stars have been celebrated for the year’s most visually captivating achievements since 1984. Gold Derby senior editor Denton Davidson and contributing editor Charles Bright recently sat down for a retrospective on the award show’s most memorable performances, biggest winners, egregious snubs and shocking moments. Watch as we dive into four decades of VMA history above and add your own favorite moments in the comments.

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Did you know that The Cars won the very first Video of the Year prize for “You Might Think,” taking down Mj’s “Thriller” (!!), “Rockit” by Herbie Hancock, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper and “Every Breath You Take...

Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi is chock full of surprises. From carefully placed Easter Eggs to near-impossible to find cameos, the movie has a lot going on. So, it's inevitable that you may have missed some of the all-star cameos placed in The Last Jedi while taking in all of the plot twists and surprises being thrown on the screen. Thankfully, we've collected 13 of the best cameos in the movie, warranting a second viewing of the movie trying to spot all of the blink-and-you-miss them moments. It must be noted that there are major Spoilers ahead for The Last Jedi, so read on at your own risk.

One cameo, or two, depending how you look at it was hyped before the movie came out, especially in England. It had been revealed that Prince Harry and Prince William portrayed Stormtroopers in The Last Jedi and they were really excited about it.

One of the most unexpected projects was reported this week, as news broke that Quentin Tarantino had conceived of an idea for a “Star Trek” movie that impressed Hollywood heavyweight J.J. Abrams. Tarantino is allegedly sharing the idea with a group of writers and may direct the project. Considering the filmmaker’s long-standing independence from the studio system and especially franchises, IndieWire’s staff debated the prospects of this sudden mid-career twist.

Eric Kohn: No major American filmmaker has flaunted his autonomy from the Hollywood system more than Quentin Tarantino, whose characters speak and whose movies move in ways that are forever connected to his name. So the idea of Tarantino — who flirted with studio projects early in his success before paving his own path — could have anything to do with a “Star Trek” movie is a bit baffling. Although I love the idea of a Qt/Jj combo, the suggestion that Tarantino’s energetic,...

Award-winning playwright, author, and the founding artistic director of the Gloucester Stage Company, Israel Horovitz, has been accused of sexual assault by 9 women and his son, Beastie Boys rapper and musician Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, has spoken out to say that he believes the allegations and stands behind the women. The stories range from the mid-1980s all the way up to last year and range from sexual abuse to inappropriate touching, with one of the women stating that she had known the elder Horovitz since she was 11-years old and considered him to be an honorary grandfather while another was Adam Horovitz's high school girlfriend. Israel Horovitz has released a statement claiming to have a "different memory" of the events.

The 78-year old Israel Horovitz responded to the allegations by saying that he had "a different memory of some of these events" and apologizing, "with all my heart...

Adam Horovitz, a member of the Beastie Boys and son to famed playwright Israel Horovitz, has supported the nine women accusing his father of sexual misconduct. “I believe the allegations against my father are true, and I stand behind the women that made them,” Horovitz, also known as Ad-Rock, said in a statement to the New York Times. A spokesperson for Ad-Rock has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment. In the New York Times report, nine women came forward to accuse the playwright of sexual misconduct. One woman said she was 16 when he pressed her against a wall.

"It's time to bring out the big guns." Time for something a bit different than the movie trailers we normally see, but still totally fun. Filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts (director of Kong: Skull Island and The Kings of Summer) has made a live-action trailer for the new video game Destiny 2 from Bungie. Sometimes we'll post one of these game trailers because it's live-action and because it's directed by a talented filmmaker who usually makes movies. That's certainly the case with this, and it's a very amusing trailer set to Beastie Boys "Sabotage". Vogt-Roberts has also been posting some behind-the-scenes footage and photos on his Twitter recently, to give us an inside look at the process of making this trailer. If you want to pick up a copy of the video game, it's already available now. Fire it up. And then back to our regularly scheduled movie coverage. Check out Jordan Vogt-Roberts...

Everybody loves 1987's Predator and a lot of people enjoy the Nintendo game Contra. So, why not put the two of them together? That's exactly what the RetroSFX YouTube channel wondered and so they actually did it and it's exactly what we need in our lives right now. Mashups are nothing new, but sometimes they work together just perfectly. We've seen the Muppets singing Beastie Boys songs all the way to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mixed with Reservoir Dogs to amazing results, but somehow Predator and Contra are just meant to be together in way that you just have to see to believe.

The crew over at RetroSFX specialize in doing mashups with beloved movies and typically Nintendo Entertainment System games with varying results, but Contra and Predator work together way better than they should. The video starts with some of the theme to Contra while Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer...

Watch Destiny 2's Beastie Boys-Infused Live-Action Trailer...

Eric Zumbrunnen, film editor and longtime Spike Jonze collaborator, has died at age 52 following a battle with cancer. The editor worked on every Spike Jonze feature, either by himself or with co-editor Jeff Buchanan, and he won the Ace Award for Best Edited Feature Film for “Being John Malkovich.”

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Zumbrunnen was born in November, 1964 and graduated from USC with a degree in Journalism. His career in post-production began in music videos, where he edited classic clips for Weezer (“Buddy Holly”), Smashing Pumpkins (“Tonight, Tonight”), Beck (“Where It’s At”), and Bjork (“It Oh So Quiet”), among others.

Zumbrunnen’s work with Jonze extended from his feature films, including “Malkovich,” “Adaptation,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” and “Her,” to the director’s acclaimed Kenzo ad “My Mutant Brain.” The latter won him a Bronze...

The wait for a new project from Spike Jonze might be over sometime soon. The Oscar winner was spotted at Fyf Fest in Los Angeles over the weekend filming portions of Frank Ocean’s appearance.

The R&B singer performed covers of Carpenters’ “Close to You” (as done by Stevie Wonder) and the Jackson 5’s “Never Can Say Goodbye.” Brad Pitt appeared just off stage and was filmed miming a telephone conversation. The live shoot is the second time Jonze has appeared filming Frank Ocean this month. He was at the Lovebox festival in London two weekends ago.

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Jonze has not announced any official new project in the works, but clearly him and Frank Ocean are cooking up something. Jonze got his start making music videos for the likes of Beastie Boys, Weezer, and Sonic Youth,...

Have you ever wondered what a Beastie Boys song might sound like when paired with footage from Sesame Street? No? Well, even if you were never curious, Adam Schleichkorn, a mash-up master, recently recreated the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” music video using footage from a Sesame Street special titled Follow That Bird. The result has gone viral. While the original video for […]

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If you thought the original Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” music video couldn’t be any more cinematic, try adding Sesame Street characters from the 1985 film Follow that Bird. A fan has combined the iconic ’90s vid with your favorite Muppets, and the result—featuring Big Bird and Cookie Monster—might have topped the Spike Jonze-directed original.

Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. Mylo the Cat) posted the mashup on his YouTube channel isthishowyougoviral. The YouTuber explained how the original video was “one of the greatest of all time” and he therefore “couldn’t do a regular old lip sync video.” Other...

No, it’s not a promo for the all puppet Beastie Boys cover band, The Beastie Birds, but the latest Sesame Street mashup is just as much fun. From the Webby Award-winning genius who set “Rick and Morty” to the mellifluous tunes of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank),” comes yet another highly entertaining remake — this time to Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”

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The original video was directed by none other than Spike Jonze, and this cheeky update follows that one pretty faithfully. Opening with Big Bird on the run in a cornfield, and ending with him lost in a parade, Big Bird’s round eyes and bumbling gait fit fit perfectly with the song’s distorted guitar riffs. Jonze’s original video payed homage to the television crime dramas of the 1970s,...

We never knew that we needed this Beastie Boys and “Sesame Street” mashup until now. A YouTube user who goes by the username “isthishowyougoviral” mashed together the famous children’s characters with the iconic Beastie Boys song “Sabotage”. Related: ‘Sesame Street’ Afghanistan Promotes Gender Equality With New Muppet In the mash-up, the cast of “Sesame Street”, including Big […]...

If you're a kid of the 80s, chances are you're going to absolutely love this. Then again, I'm not sure there's many people who wouldn't think a mashup of The Beastie Boys "Sabotage," and Sesame Street is anything less than spectacular. See the two collide beautifully in the video below. ...

Ayana Fite threatens Reginae Carter on tonight’s Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta, telling her: “I’ll knock your ass out.” The row comes after Reginae’s altercation with Ayana’s cousin Brandon Barnes, a vocal coach and son of hip-hop manager Ms. Deb, on last week’s episode. It came after Brandon made reference to Lil’ Wayne needing help with his career, and his comments about Black Lives Matter — saying it had “nothing to do with” him — which some said belittled the movement. Reginae, Lil’ Wayne’s daughter, ended up having a full-blown confrontation with him, while Ayana, daughter of The Beastie Boys’ DJ Hurricane,...read more...

Holly Maniatty, a certifed sign language interpreter upstaged hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg with her enthusiasm during his concert at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans. The Good Life Radio Show shared a video on Facebook of Holly slaying the hip-hop sign language craft as Snoop performs “P.I.M.P.”— a song by rapper 50 Cent.

The video has generated over 13 million views becoming a viral hit on social media. Maniatty has worked numerous festivals and concerts with well-known rappers including Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan and Killer Mike and this isn’t the first time that she has stolen the show with her major skills.

Tabbert Fiiller on John Lydon: "I never thought about that in relation to Annalisa. There's also, like, he was very shy as a child and then, certainly after or during the Sex Pistols…" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Following the world première at the Tribeca Film Festival of The Public Image Is Rotten, shot by Yamit Shimonovitz, director Tabbert Fiiller went with me into the John Lydon style that took us to Comme des Garçons, Julian Schnabel and pajamas, Muriel Spark's The Public Image, John Waters at a PiL concert, and wildlife. Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Moby count PiL as an influence.

John Lydon: "John is so good with words. I was just trying to keep up. We shot every day."

John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. started out as Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, and Jim Walker,...

With only a couple of days left until South by Southwest Film Festival officially kicks off, the Austin fest and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories have announced the creation of the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award to be presented on an annual basis starting this year. The award, named after Oscilloscope founder and erstwhile Beastie Boys memeber Adam Yauch (a.k.a Nathanial Hörnblowér), will be given to a winner chosen from the Visions section…...

The SXSW Film Festival and Oscilloscope Laboratories have announced the creation of a new award being presented at this year’s ceremony, called the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award.

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The award will be given to a winner chosen from the Visions section — a previously noncompetitive section — and awarded “in honor of a filmmaker whose work strives to be wholly its own, without regard for norms or desire to conform.” The winner will be chosen by a committee selected by SXSW programmers.

Adam Yauch, a member of the Beastie Boys, founded his film production and distribution company, Oscilloscope Laboratories, in 2008. The company, which has released films such as “We Need to Talk About Kevin” and “The Fits,” will sponsor the award in recognition of Yauch.

Read More: SXSW 2017 Episodic Lineup to Include ‘Dear White People,’ ‘American Gods’

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In the most recent episode of Star Wars Rebels, "Through Imperial Eyes," fans got a close look at Grand Admiral Thrawn's office in his Star Destroyer, and you might have missed some pretty cool little Easter eggs.

Thanks to a recent episode of Rebels Recon, those Easter eggs were officially pointed out by Art Director Kilian Plunkett. Those Easter eggs include the Holy Grail from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; the helmet of the Clone Trooper that Yoda decapitated in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; a painting of Lothal on the wall that is actual concept art from legendary Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie; and a bust of an Abednedo, which is the same species as the pilot Ello Asty in The Force Awakens. I don't know if you remember or not, but the Abednedo were named after Beastie Boys songs and albums by J.J. Abrams including...

Mark Harrison Feb 27, 2017

Alfonso Cuaron's Children Of Men is a film from a decade ago that very much stands the test of time...

“Last one to die, please turn out the light.”

The tenth anniversary of Children Of Men came at the end of a tumultuous year in politics. You don't have to look far on the web for thinkpieces about how the results of the Brexit referendum or the election of Donald Trump as Us President have brought us closer to the grim forecast of Alfonso Cuarón's superb dystopian thriller, but rewatching it now, the film feels a triumph of preparation rather than prescience.

Based on Pd James' novel, the film takes place in the year 2027, in the midst of a global epidemic of infertility. Britain has closed its doors to immigrants and refuses to acknowledge the status of 'fugees' as human beings. The day after the...

“Star Wars” will soon be taken to another galaxy far, far away by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the duo known for the “Scary Movie” franchise and “Epic Movie.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two will write and direct a parody film titled, “Star Worlds Episode Xxxive=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue,” a spoof on the George Lucas-created universe.

No additional plot details or cast members were announced, but the film is expected to begin shooting in the fall.

“Jason and Aaron are a powerhouse duo who have proven time and time again that they are fully tapped into the what audiences love,” said Covert Media’s CEO Paul Hanson. “Their fearless take on pop culture has us beyond thrilled to tackle the world’s most popular franchise with the two of them leading us into a galaxy far, far away.”

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A Malibu beach house with “a lawn that stretched out to a fruit orchard bordered by a neighbor’s horse pasture” is not likely atop the list of places Beastie Boys fans would expect to find New York-bred rapper Mike D.

But that’s exactly where the Mc (born Michael Diamond), 51, has decamped to with his wife, Tamra, and teenage sons Davis and Skyler. (Before you call the No Sleep Till Brooklyn auteur a traitor to his coast, note he’s also had a series of townhouses in the borough as well as previous L.A. properties.)

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I love Mike Judge. I mean, Beavis And Butt-head was my childhood. I remember staying up late at night watching them riff on 90s music videos (my favorites being the time they reminisced about the fake cop show in Beastie Boys' Sabotage video, or the time Beavis freaked out about that weird "The Bubblemen are Coming" video). I then continued with King Of The Hill when it was on... Read More...

The horror is literally bone-chilling in The Dark Below, Douglas Schulze's thriller set on—and beneath—a frozen lake, and viewers will have a chance to see the movie in select theaters this March courtesy of Parade Deck Films.

Press Release: Parade Deck Films to release Survival Thriller The Dark Below. In Select Theaters March 10, 2017

Parade Deck Films is excited to announce the upcoming theatrical release of festival favorite The Dark Below.

For his fourth and most daring film, director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) brings us The Dark Below. This tense, fear driven film utilizes minimal dialog, portrays a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface.

“I got involved with this project because Doug Schulze knows genre and he knows film. In todays environment, The Dark Below is different. It is a...

Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Sofia Boutella, Idris Elba | Written by Simon Pegg, Doug Jung | Directed by Justin Lin

The latest film in the J.J. Abrams produced Trek universe, Star Trek Beyond sees USS Enterprise crew sent to Starbase Yorktown, an outpost on the edge of Federation eplored space. Their misson this time? To explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space – however uncharted space means uncharted aliens and, of course, the crew of the Enterprise encounter a mysterious new enemy, Krall, who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

The third film in the rebooted cinematic franchise, Star Trek Beyond has been said to be the first in the series to stand on its own merits: it certainly relies less on what has come before than either of the two previous films. There’s no Ambassador Spock,...

The Roland Tr-808 drum machine is responsible for some of the most influential music from the 1980s through the present day, from artists as diverse as Phil Collins and Lil Wayne. The new documentary “808” chronicles the story of the drum machine that changed the course of music. Narrated by Beats 1’s Zane Lowe, the film features commentary and interviews from Pharrell Williams, Afrika Bambaataa, Questlove, the Beastie Boys, Damon Albarn and more. It also features a journey to Japan where Roland found Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi reveals the untold reason for the machine’s mysterious early discontinuation just as it was turning up on more hit records than any other drum machine. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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The film is directed by Alexander Dunn and co-written by him and Luke Bainbridge. Dunn previously...

Krush Groove screens Wednesday, December 7th at 8pm Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series.

You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143).

I’ve never seen this month’s Strange Brew pick, Krush Groove, a movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, but apparently it’s a must see for all Hip Hop historians.

Krush Groove (1985) is a movie about the struggles of early rap groups trying to make it big in the 80’s when rap...

Documentaries about JonBenet Ramsey, Hulk Hogan, Isis and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri lead 2017's lineup at the Sundance Film Festival, taking place in and around Park City, Utah from January 19th through 29th.

On the heels of an avalanche of TV specials this year dedicated to the unsolved 1996 murder, Casting JonBenet will focus on the impact the Ramsey murder had on the girl's community.

Other notable documentaries include Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press, a film about the First Amendment court case between the...

There is no place for neo-Nazi white nationalism in the realm of the Beastie Boys. Adam Horovitz a.k.a. Ad-Rock spoke Sunday at an anti-hate rally held at a Brooklyn park that is named in memory of the late Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch after it was defaced with swastikas on Friday. The playground at Adam Yauch Park was spray-painted with swastikas along with the message “Go Trump.” Also Read: Stephen Colbert Predicts Coal for Christmas from Trump: 'We Are Screwed' Hundreds of people, including families with children, showed up to the event as Horowitz and community leaders spoke out against racism and intolerance.

A Brooklyn playground dedicated to the memory of late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch was vandalized with some disturbing imagery, with New York City Council Member Brad Lander sharing a photo on Twitter of Adam Yauch Park, which has been defaced by swastikas and “Go Trump” written in spray paint. The park was dedicated to Yauch […]...

The mystery of the anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Donald Trump vandals who continued to deface a beautiful children’s mural took a while to solve.

Power Stretch Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, had suffered a fire in September, and its windows and door was boarded up. Two days after the Nov. 8 presidential election, someone wrote on the boards: “Lock her up,” a popular refrain against Clinton amongst Trump supporters during his campaign. A studio employee painted over it, but the vandals returned, writing ”America Has Spoken” with Trump’s face drawn next to it.

Gina Shaw, a friend of studio owner Hakika DuBose,...

Everyone loves a good mashup. Whether it’s Danger Mouse’s landmark Grey Album or Carly Rae Jepsen versus Nine Inch Nails, it’s a unique art form that re-contextualizes both included works — and gives us some new bangers.

All of which is to say, this two-year old Daft Punk and Beastie Boys mashup is getting passed around this week thanks to a Reddit post, and we couldn’t be happier to have it in the world.

Toronto producer Coins created the album Daft Science by intricately layering the finest of Beastie verses over Daft Punk’s indelible, futuristic beats.

If you're a fan of the Beastie Boys and Daft Punk, you are going to absolutely love these remixed Beastie Boys songs. They were created by a Canadian music producer who goes by the name of Coins. He takes a few classic Beastie Boys tracks that are entirely composed of Daft Punk samples. The end result is eight tracks on an album he calls Daft Science, and I think it'll blow your mind!

I've included all of the songs on the album below, which include "Alive/Intergalactic," "Root Down," "Body Movin," "Pass the Mic," "Check it Out," "Sure Shot," "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," and "Disco Breakin." 

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The average person has probably never heard of the Roland Tr-808 (a.k.a. the “808”) drum machine, but they have almost certainly heard it.

Drum machines have played a crucial role in the history and development of hip-hop music. In the golden age of the genre, they were relatively inexpensive and could simulate various drum sounds. The 808 was unique in that it provided a very low-frequency bass that has become synonymous with hip-hop.

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Alex Dunn’s new documentary “808” delves into the history of this influential device. It features interviews from a bevy of beloved artists, including Rick Rubin, the Beastie Boys, Questlove, Pharrell, Diplo, and many more. After appearing at numerous festivals, it will finally be available for streaming on December 9 on Apple Music.

You can watch the trailer below.

Here’s an epic cinephile gift being released just in time for the 2016 holiday season. Mondo has announced it is bringing the Dust Brothers’ “Fight Club” original score back to vinyl for the first time in 15 years. The release, which includes two LPs pressed on 180-gram “Pink Soap” vinyl, will be available for purchase starting this Wednesday, November 16.

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Released in 1999, “Fight Club” has emerged as one of the most popular cult films over the last decade. It singlehandedly turned David Fincher into an auteur filmmaker even fanboys could love, and that epic twist still registers disbelief even 17 years later. To this day, the psycho-thriller is the only film score the Dust Brothers have ever made, and they were approached personally by Fincher to make the music since he preferred hiring...

Among the many spinoffs that will be released in the coming months, none are as anticipated as “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” The first “Star Wars” standalone film promises to take fans on an all-new epic adventure, and if it’s anything like what we see in the new trailer, sign us up!

The Gareth Edwards-directed action film centers around Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), leader of a group of unlikely heroes who band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star. The story takes place shortly before the events of “A New Hope” and is a key event in the “Star Wars” timeline.

The movie features an all-star cast including Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker.

Read More: ‘Rogue One’ Trailer: A New Team (And An Old Foe) Assemble In New Look at...

You'd think I'd be tired of seeing other films parodied to resemble the Star Trek: Beyond trailer...but I'm not. Also this isn't a trailer, this is a full-out compilation of every badass moment in the Harry Potter films accompanied by The Beastie Boys! It seems like "Sabotage" is the perfect song for any movie compilation.

Great work by Alex Perez. ...

Buzzard, Joel Potrykus’ idiosyncratic and darkly funny portrait of an increasingly paranoid and psychotic Midwestern slacker, established the director as a talent to watch. And in keeping with the underground ethos on display in all of Potrykus’ films, his follow-up, The Alchemist Cookbook, is being released as a “pay what you want” download through BitTorrent Now.

This isn’t unusual for a micro-budget indie, but the kicker here is that The Alchemist Cookbook isn’t self-distributed. In fact, the whole thing is being handled by Oscilloscope, the respected indie distributor co-founded by late Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys fame. While same-day releases to VOD or digital platforms like iTunes have become popular among the indie and arthouse distributors, the choice of delivery and pricing model represents a step in a different direction.

Potrykus has written about the plan in a post for Bundle.Media that addresses his own feelings about...

James Hunt Sep 16, 2016

Witch hunts, interrogation and paranoia feature in fairly straightforward space-court Star Trek: Tng episode The Drumhead...

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Sabotage! On board the Enterprise! D! Cue up the Beastie Boys! (Actually don’t, we’ve all seen Star Trek Beyond and the last thing we need is that being taken literally again.)

But regardless, a Klingon Exchange officer – J’Dan the Exobiologist – stands (well, sits) accused of trying to blow up the Enterprise’s engines and funnelling secrets to the Romulans. In an attempt to establish his innocence he tries to bribe Worf, who gives him the full Space Rodney King treatment in a scene which I can’t decide if I’m supposed to feel uncomfortable with or not.

Luckily, one of Starfleet’s meddling Admirals is around to help investigate this potential espionage onboard the Enterprise. Not only that, Admiral Satie has...

After watching the first teaser for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” audiences were pretty pumped for the spin-off action film. Then the first trailer arrived and all hell broke loose (in a good way). But now, excitement for the film is on another level, all thanks to the Beastie Boys.

Video editor and YouTuber Matthew Longua made a killer new remix trailer for “Rogue One,” but instead of using composer Alexandre Desplat’s music, he swapped it out for the song “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys. The result is amazing!

The song cues in after Jyn Erso’s (Felicity Jones) line “I rebel,” and instantly kicks the video into high gear, making the footage look even more badass, all while elevating the action sequences.

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The film has been generating...

YouTube user Darth Blender has released an updated fan trailer for the original 1960s Star Trek series in the style of Star Trek Beyond. That means that you’re going to here the classic Beastie Boys song “Sabotage” one more time. "Sabotage" is one of my favorite songs ever, so I never get tired of listening to it. The trailer is cut together incredibly well, and if you’re a fan of the original series, you’re gonna enjoy this.

Matt Edwards Aug 30, 2016

From Captain America: Civil War through to Ghostbusters, what did we learn from summer blockbuster season 2016?

If it wasn’t for summer blockbuster season it would be a nightmare for Den of Geek to maintain our chic pale complexions. We’ve seen so many films this summer that we look like porcelain dolls (the shine comes from popcorn grease).

It was never our intention to learn anything other than imperative information about Jason Bourne’s backstory. None the less, 2016 had proven to be such an interesting year for cinema that we couldn’t help but be struck by the following observations.

A quick note before we dig in. We’re counting summer blockbuster season as March to the end of August. We know that’s not how seasons work, but that feels like a tidy set of dates to use to capture the films that are part of the mid-year blockbuster flurry.

Here's another reason to love Zoe Saldana.  The Star Trek star shared a Dubsmash video that she made with her husband Marco Perego and their twin boys Cy and Bowie. The actress and her hubby sing along to the Beastie Boys' "So What Cha Want," as their sons are snuggled in baby carriers.  "I'm only posting this dubsmash because Simon Pegg insisted. He reminded me how much the crew laughed when I sent this video. It was over a weekend while we were shooting Star Trek in Vancouver last summer," she captioned the video. "Every time I see all the videos we all did it makes me think of Anton. We hope you get a laugh out of this. #startrek...

We've had a few trailers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and we're getting to that point where fans are starting to do fun things with them. For your consideration, two such fan works - Rogue One as Friends and Rogue One as a Beastie Boys music video. CineMash's Bobby Burns put together a version of the Rogue One trailer to the Friends theme song by The Rembrandts, complete with title card and credits. The concept didn't really make sense to me (I know stuff has been put to Friends before) but it still kinda works. There's also this other fan edit by Matthew Longua. I'm of the mind that Beastie Boys "Sabotage" is way overused in everything but I guess there's a reason for that. Give it a watch. I'm still waiting for a fan (or, you know, Disney/Lucasfilm) to make a trailer that explains to more...

Yesterday, we showed you a fan-made trailer remix for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which features the iconic Beastie Boys song "Sabotage." It seems that another artist decided to pay tribute to this Star Wars spinoff as well, with two new posters surfacing from artist Orlando Arocena. While these posters aren't official, they have quickly gone viral, since this poster is essentially a tribute to the poster for Stanely Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

Orlando Arocena first debuted these posters on Twitter, and they have quickly spread throughout the Internet, with many fans praising these designs. Instead of the standard military helmet from the Full Metal Jacket poster, this artist offers two different variations, one with a Rebel pilot helmet and another helmet worn by Felicity Jones' Jyn Erso. Here's what the artist had to say on a statement from his Behance gallery website.

"Back in 2015 i was excited...

Are you ready to get pumped for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story? Editor Matthew Longua has cobbled together a new Rogue One trailer that is entirely set to the Beastie Boys classic Sabotage. Sure, the song has been used to great effect in the new Star Trek movies, but this is pretty cool in its own right.

This new trailer actually takes all the footage released thus far, setting it to the rock rap tune. It even culls some cool behind-the-scenes footage from the Star Wars Celebration sizzle reel, incorporating it in a new way that makes this movie look like a lot of fun. Maybe Star Wars and the Beastie Boys shouldn't mix so well. But it certainly does.

What's perhaps quite funny about this new version of the Rogue One trailer is that Paramount actually released an official Star Trek Beyond trailer set to the same tune.

Star Trek Beyond certainly got a decent amount of hate when it released its first trailer around eight months ago. It was a movie that had undergone quite a shake-up early on in its development. J.J. Abrams left the director's chair to go on to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, leaving a void that took some time to fill. Roberto Orci was the man who many thought would be his successor, but soon enough, he was quickly ushered off the project altogether, and instead, Fast & Furious director Justin Lin was brought on board to helm the threequel.

None of the news really seemed to inspire confidence for Trek fans who were holding out hope that the series may have a return to form -- to a slower-paced, more meditative style that the original series was better known for. Instead, when the first trailer came out, they were treated to a...