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‘Star Trek 2’: Shooting Begins In LA, Plus: Damon Lindelof, Bruce Greenwood, And Benedict Cumberbatch Talk By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 10:00 am EST Well, it’s about time. Two and a half years after the release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, cameras are finally rolling on Star Trek 2, which is due out May 17, 2013. Returning cast and crew members reconvened and welcomed new stars last week as principal photography began in Los Angeles, kicking off several months of shooting in various locations around the county....

A Horror Newbie Watches ‘The Exorcist’ For The First Time By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 19, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Final Girl, a regular feature from someone who has steered clear of horror and is ready to finally embrace the genre that goes bump in the night. Next on the list: William Friedkin’s seminal Oscar-nominated horror film The Exorcist.) I’ve passed by the Exorcist staircase more than a dozen times....

Cool Stuff: Laurent Durieux’s Beautiful 2015 Telluride Film Festival Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2015 7:00 am EST Each year the Telluride Film Festival commissions an artist to create a poster for the event. We usually don’t feature the posters on the site because often they are more on the experimental side of things (although, Pixar’s Ralph Eggleston created the fantastic 2010 poster). But we are featuring the 2015 Telluride Film Festival poster because its beautiful, and it was created by Belgian artist Laurent Durieux, an artist we’ve featured many times over the years on /Film....

Disney Announces ‘Gigantic’, Based On ‘Jack And The Beanstalk’ [D23 Expo 2015] By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2015 4:32 pm EST “When Disney does a fairy tale, it becomes the definitive version of that story,” said John Lasseter. “One that doesn’t have a definitive version is Jack and the Beanstalk.” So began Disney’s announcement of their next animated fairy tale movie, Gigantic, at D23. Disney is already in production on the feature, which has assembled a top-notch team: Nathan Greno (Tangled) is directing, Dorothy McKim (Get a Horse!...

Early Buzz: Todd Phillips-Produced Comedy ‘Project X’ Could Be “The New Superbad” Or “American Pie On Steroids” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2011 1:00 pm EST For a while now we’ve been hearing about Todd Phillips and Joel Silver-produced low-budget hard-R comedy film Project X. The project was set-up at Warner Bros with a $12 million budget, with Phillips serving as producer and creative godfather’ for commercial turned first time feature film director Nima Nourizade....

Exclusive: Adam Warlock Was Originally A Major Character In ‘Guardians Vol. 2’; Will Be In ‘Guardians 3’ By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2017 1:00 pm EST When I was on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, director James Gunn mentioned that his original treatment for the sequel featured another major character. Today, during my interview with Gunn, the filmmaker finally revealed that his sequel originally had a major role for Adam Warlock, strongly indicating that Warlock will appear in Guardians of the Galaxy 3....

Exclusive Interview: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Director Jon Chu On Why You Should Give The Sequel A Chance By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2012 7:00 am EST While in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, I got the opportunity to sit down with director Jon Chu and chat about G.I. Joe: Retaliation. We talk about why people who didn’t like the first Stephen Sommers film Rise of Cobra should give the sequel a chance, how his vision of a GI Joe movie is more rooted in the cartoons and toys of his (and my) childhood, reinventing Cobra Commander, how he got the job, what Paramount saw in films like the Step Up series and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never to earn him a chance at a Summer action film, demystifying the movie pitching presentation process and more....

Exploring ‘Blindspotting’ And Its Harrowing, Sobering Portrait Of Privilege By Trey Mangum/Aug. 15, 2018 2:00 pm EST When watching Blindspotting, it’s hard to tell that it is the first major film from co-writers/co-stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal and the feature directorial debut for director Carlos Lopez Estrada – because it’s just that good. It has rightly received tons of critical acclaim for its portrayal of Oakland, police relations, race relations and even gentrification....

How ‘Hoosiers’ Helped Alden Ehrenreich Relax After Being Cast As Han Solo In ‘A Star Wars Story’ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2016 10:10 am EST Star Wars fans are some of the most rabid in pop culture. The most hardcore of them know each and every detail of a lightsaber, they can name dozens of planets in the galaxy, they know the names of the most obscure characters with the smallest amount of screentime, and they’re also the most critical of every single decision made as a movie crawls through development....

John Lasseter Reveals ‘The Good Dinosaur’ And ‘Finding Dory’ Clips At Cannes By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2015 2:30 pm EST Pixar premiered its new film Inside Out at Cannes, and along with that finished debut the studio showed off footage from two other upcoming films, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory. The former film, about a dinosaur who befriends a human boy, represents the culmination of a long and ultimately revamped story development cycle....

Netflix Stock Down 7 Percent Following Qwikster Announcement By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2011 10:00 am EST The company that once seemed like it could do no wrong as of late seems like it can do no right. In a blog post published Sunday night, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized to customers for “lack[ing] respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes,” and revealed that the company would now be splitting off its DVDs-by-mail service completely into a new service called Qwikster....

Page 3 By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 6, 2009 3:32 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Vulture have been given a preview of Tim Burton’s MoMA retrospective exhibition. Two of their 33 gallery images are above. Page 3 is the eccentric little brother of Page 2 and compiles even more stories which, for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. There’s a whole heap of different items after the break – video clips, posters, pictures, odd snippets of news....

Peter Jackson Announces ‘The Hobbit’ Cast By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2010 6:16 pm EST Peter Jackson has, at long last, made an official announcement about who will appear in The Hobbit. He has confirmed Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, taking over the role originated by Ian Holm in The Lord of the Rings. A great many other names were released as well, almost all of whom make up the large company of Dwarves that hires Bilbo to be their ‘burgler’ before setting out to kill the dragon Smaug and recover the dwarven treasure the dragon uses as a bed....

Rob Zombie Interview Part 2: H2 (Halloween 2), Tyrannosaurus Rex, El Superbeasto, And Dumb Teens By Hunter Stephenson/May 15, 2009 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the second installment of /Film’s in-depth chat with Rob Zombie, we discuss the limp yet horny state of the American horror film. Zombie also rants on why getting original projects made in Hollywood has become a lamer development hell....

Sequel Bits: ‘Fast & Furious 7’, ‘Raid 3’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Insidious 3’, ‘Frozen 2’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2014 6:00 am EST Whether you like family-friendly animated adventures or hard-R action thrillers, someone out there is trying to make a sequel for you. After the jump: Kristen Bell would do Frozen 2 “in a heartbeat” Sullivan Stapleton really wants there to be another 300 Jean Claude Van Damme would like to be in Expendables 4 The Raid 3 won’t get going “for a couple of years” Fast & Furious 7 is heading to Abu Dhabi to shoot Leigh Whannell doesn’t know anything about Saw 8 … but does have a few details to share about Insidious 3 Transformers 4 reveals a bunch of (human) character posters The GNN staff goes wild in a deleted scene from Anchorman 2 But don’t get too excited just yet....

Sequel Bits: ‘Mad Max,’ ‘Maze Runner,’ ‘Wolverine,’ James Bond By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2015 7:00 am EST We’ll lead off this edition of Sequel Bits with a clip from a Mad Max: Fury Road special feature that focuses on the creation of one of the most attention-getting aspects of the film: the Doof Wagon and its accompanying rider/musician/standard bearer, Coma the Doof Warrior. In addition to that footage, we’ve got the following: There’s a new clip from Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, And one from Hotel Transylvania 2, New reports arrive of a Wreck-It-Ralph sequel, Talk about the next James Bond is heating up, Sabertooth is probably not in Wolverine 3, Sony may already be developing a Goosebumps sequel....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Dumb And Dumber To’, ‘Ghostbusters 3’, ‘Hellboy 3’ By Angie Han/June 26, 2013 4:30 pm EST Rick Moranis isn’t locked in for Ghostbusters 3 yet, but if you’re curious where he thinks his character Louis Tully would’ve ended up, he has some ideas. Also after the jump: Peter Jackson discusses the extended cut An Unexpected Journey … and you can check out new behind-the-scenes pic from Desolation of Smaug Jack Horner says the most recent Jurassic Park 4 plot “didn’t pass muster” Lorenzo di Bonaventura has been in touch with actors about Red 3 Aussie electronic duo Empire of the Sun will score Dumb and Dumber To Benjamin Bratt talks about replacing Al Pacino in Despicable Me 2 Doug Jones is still holding out hope for a third Hellboy Val Kilmer’s Heat sequel idea involves being married to Natalie Portman See a poster for Warwick Davis’ (fake) proposed Willow sequel “There’s a few scenes that are quite good,” he said....

Star Wars Bits: See Rian Johnson’s Script, Force Awakens Trailer, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Shipper And More By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2015 2:00 pm EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits, we take a look at the following: Star Wars 8 director Rian Johnson tweets out a photo of his screenplay. The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is supposedly edited and making the corporate rounds. When is the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer getting released?...

The 10 Best Netflix Original True Crime Documentaries By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2018 8:00 am EST Netflix has turned true crime documentaries into must-binge-TV. With a series of films and docu-series, the streaming service rejuvenated the somewhat stale sub-genre, churning out stunning, shocking works that resonate in ways many past true crime docs haven’t. This week, Netflix has revived a classic true crime docu-series – The Staircase – adding new episodes to the previously-completed show....

This Week In Trailers: Nestor, Asperger’s Are Us, Hunter Gatherer, Magnus, Machine Of Human Dreams, L7: Pretend We’re Dead By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 5, 2016 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...