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What I Learned On The Set Of ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2014 9:00 am EST On October 25th 2012 I found myself sitting in The White Horse pub watching a monitor showing Chris Pine run through the misty rain into a financial building. While the sequence in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is supposed to take place in the brand-new financial center in Moscow, Russia (a clue to the film’s antagonist) it was being filmed in Liverpool, England....

What Lightsaber Colors Can Teach Us About The ‘Star Wars’ Universe By Allyson Gronowitz/Jan. 16, 2018 9:00 am EST Whether you were six or 26-years-old, you probably remember the feeling when you first picked up a lightsaber.My family recently acquired the Jedi Challenges AR set, and I cannot stop gawking at the lightsaber that came with the package – a near-perfect replica of the historic lightsaber Rey uses in The Last Jedi, the lightsaber that belonged to Luke and to his father before him....

Why There Are So Few Thanksgiving Horror Movies, According To Horror Actors And Filmmakers By Matt Donato/Nov. 30, 2017 11:30 am EST Being a holiday horror fan requires some patience. Every October and December is ripe with sinister offerings like poison apples for the picking, while other months – this very November – lack thematic genre representation despite playing host to one of the United States’ biggest calendar celebrations: Thanksgiving. Why is that?...

‘Jessica Jones’ Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg On The Internal Struggles And New Foes Of Season 2 [Interview] By Fred Topel/March 9, 2018 11:00 am EST Jessica Jones is back. After defeating Kilgrave by outsmarting his mind control and teaming up with The Defenders, Jessica (Krysten Ritter) is back in the city and taking P.I. cases. The notoriety of her previous exploits brings in new customers, but also customers who expect her to use her super strength for petty revenge....

/Response: Your Favorite Movie Musicals Of All Time By Jacob Hall/March 17, 2017 10:00 am EST (Welcome to /Responses, the companion piece to our /Answers series and a space where /Film readers can chime in and offer their two cents on a particular question.) Earlier this week, the /Film team celebrated the arrival of Beauty and the Beast by writing about our all-time favorite movie musicals. We then opened the floor to our readers: what is your favorite movie musical?...

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Will Feature A Retro Ship Based On Classic Concept Art By Ben Pearson/Feb. 21, 2018 12:30 pm EST During production of Solo: A Star Wars Story, director Ron Howard wasn’t shy about sharing images from the set – including one particular easter egg that was a shout-out to the work of famed Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. But now we know Solo will put another concept artist’s work from the original movie to good use in the form of a retro spaceship....

‘The Leftovers’ Finale Review: An Emotionally Satisfying Goodbye By Jack Giroux/June 6, 2017 10:00 am EST At the end of The Leftovers, almost all the questions and answers don’t matter. They never really did. In the final minutes, all that matters are the two people sitting across from each other. As far out as Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s HBO series got, it became increasingly more intimate over the course of three seasons....

Apple Is In Discussions To Offer $50 Home Movie Rentals Of Big Theatrical Releases [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 18, 2017 11:15 am EST Update: Apple has now entered discussions to make major Hollywood releases available for home rentals only two weeks after they debut theatrically. Get the latest information below. One of the most intense business challenges Hollywood has faced during the past few years is dealing with the way the home video market has evolved....

Batman V The Golden Age: How Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight Compares To The Original Character By Jacob Hall/April 5, 2016 11:00 am EST Last week, I wrote about how the Superman of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice compared to the original incarnation of the character who was introduced in the pages of Action Comics in 1938. In a nutshell, neither version lined up with the popular vision of the character....

Box Office Tracking: Twilight Could Suck $65 Million From Moviegoers This Weekend By Steve Mason/Nov. 20, 2008 12:59 am EST It’s not really proportional to compare Twilight author Stephenie Meyer to Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, especially since Meyer’s success might not have been possible without Rowling before her. Both authors are moms who had never written anything prior to selling millions of novels with series that are widely read by teen and ’tweens....

Cool Stuff: All Star Wars Edition By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2017 7:00 am EST Cool Stuff is your geeky holiday shopping guide published all year round. It is true that each edition of Cool Stuff likely includes at least one Star Wars item. Yes, I love the franchise and the selection in these columns are very subjective based on my tastes. But it is also true that Disney liceses the Star Wars brand for a lot of products, so there is just a lot of cool collectibles, toys, books, t-shirts, prints…etc to choose from....

Early Buzz: Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ Thrills Critics In Toronto By Angie Han/Sept. 4, 2013 1:30 pm EST Ron Howard is by no means critically reviled, but as a director he hasn’t had the sort of career that gets hardcore cinephiles all hot and bothered, either. So while we’ve been curious about Rush, his Formula 1 racing drama, it’d be a stretch to say it was one of our most anticipated releases of the year....

By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2011 7:00 am EST Opening next week at the Bold Hype Gallery in New York, Spoke Art’s Quentin vs. Coens art show is shaping up nicely. We’re already showed you one batch of images and premiered an awesome Pulp Fiction poster but now we’ve got an exclusive set of seven images by one of our favorite artists, Tim Doyle. He’s recreated an iconic image from each of Tarantino’s films and, today, we reveal the first four....

Genndy Tartakovsky Won’t Direct ‘Hotel Transylvania 3,’ Still Wants A ‘Samurai Jack’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 30, 2015 12:00 pm EST Last weekend, the animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 topped the box office, and it actually broke the record for biggest September opening. That basically makes Hotel Transylvania 3 inevitable, but it will be missing one key element from the first two movies. Director Genndy Tartakovsky, the animation mastermind behind Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, has confirmed that he won’t return for Hotel Transylvania 3....

Germain’s Top 10 Movies Of 2010 (And Top 5 Of 2011 So Far) By Germain Lussier/Jan. 3, 2011 9:00 am EST Looking back, 2010 is not going to be remembered as a particularly good year for movies. In my mind, most of the 150 or so new films I saw from January to December are all muddled together in a big pile of mediocrity. When that happens though, it’s so much easier to pick out the truly great ones....

Interview: ‘I Saw The Light’ Star Tom Hiddleston On The Joys Of Acting And Playing Hank Williams By Jack Giroux/April 6, 2016 8:00 am EST Tom Hiddleston has called the role of Hank Williams one of the hardest jobs he’s ever done. The I Saw the Light star had to completely transform himself, physically and vocally, sometimes in the subtlest of ways, to play the iconic folk singer. All of that hard work led to a performance that’s more akin to embodiment than impersonation — a tough tightrope to walk for any actor starring in a biopic....

It’s Turbo Time: Get Your Own Turbo Man From ‘Jingle All The Way’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2016 6:00 am EST It’s the Christmas season, which means you either love or hate the presence of the holiday comedy Jingle All the Way playing all over TV. The crass, commercial comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad desperately trying to get their hands on the popular fictional toy known as Turbo Man is goofy, slapsticky and just plain bad....

New ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Images Reveal New Characters And More Plot Details By Jacob Hall/Feb. 7, 2018 7:45 am EST After months of waiting around for the first Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer, it finally arrived this week. And now, the deluge has begun. A slew of new Solo images have arrived online, along with new details about the characters and plot points involved in this origin story....

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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2010 12:25 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on IGN. The new trailer incorporates some of the new special effects footage from the Superbowl spot and new “Creating of an Epic” featurette, as well as a lot of never before seen sequences. I’m still not digging the over-the-top voice over from Gemma Arterton, and am a bit worried about the story....