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Box Office: National Treasure 2 Is Cage’s Biggest Opening Ever With $59.2M By Steve Mason/Dec. 22, 2007 11:28 am EST t’s been a good year for Cage with both Ghost Rider and Treasure 2 (although his April film Next was a monstrous flop with a cume of just $18M domestic). Today’s performance eclipses his previous single day best of $17.3M on February 17 of this year with Ghost Rider. ALL-TIME TOP 5 BOX OFFICE DAYS FOR NICOLAS CAGE...

Dan Aykroyd Blames Paul Feig For ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Troubles By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2017 11:00 am EST It’s been almost a year since the Ghostbusters reboot hit theaters, and even though it garnered solid reviews (landing a 73% at Rotten Tomatoes and a little less impressive score of 60 at Metacritic), it only pulled in $229 million on a budget of $144 million, making it far from a big enough hit to warrant a sequel....

Exclusive: Katherine Sarafian, Producer Of Pixar’s ‘Brave,’ Talks Director Controversy, Pixar’s Reaction To The Chilly ‘Cars 2’ Reception And More By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2012 2:00 pm EST Save for a few of the original directors, few people can give you a better snapshot of what’s going on at Pixar than Katherine Sarafian. The production coordinator turned director of marketing and now producer has been with the company since 1994 and their first film, Toy Story....

Fan Creates Chronological Edit Of ‘Arrested Development’ 4th Season By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2013 9:39 am EST The highly anticipated fourth season of Arrested Development hasn’t even been in the world for two weeks and already fans have made it their own. We’re quoting it, meming it, creating merchandise based on it and now… completely altering it. Creator Mitchell Hurwitz created a complex, labyrinthine story for the fourth season. It is told largely out of order to keep the audience guessing, and because he could rarely get his full cast together at the same time....

First Look At Charlie Cox As ‘Daredevil,’ Rosario Dawson’s Role Revealed [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2014 8:45 am EST Marvel brought the cast of Daredevil to the New York Comic Con today. Along with the debut of some Con-only footage, they offered up the first official photos of Charlie Cox as Daredevil. One (above) shows him in Matt Murdock mode, while the other shows a first-gen Daredevil costume. While we can’t show you any footage just yet, there’s a lot of other info from the panel to pass along....

Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment Developing Giant Robot Property ‘Gaiking’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2012 5:13 pm EST With Guillermo Del Toro’s giant robot vs. giant monster film Pacific Rim on its way to theaters, one of its most famous anchestors is now set to follow. Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment, the team behind The Walking Dead, is teaming up with All Nippon Entertainment Works to develop a film of Toei Animation’s giant robot anime, Gaiking....

Hatin’ On Heroes: Directors Who Turn Down Superhero Flicks By Brendon Connelly/April 14, 2009 10:32 am EST What’d be wrong with a nice, well-paid gig on a superhero picture? It turns out that not only has Shawn Levy, director of Night at the Museum and the upcoming Date Night, vowed never to make a superhero film but that Ron Howard turned down to opportunity to direct both a Spider-Man and a Batman picture....

Hot Take: ‘Olaf’s Frozen Adventure’ Should Not Have Debuted Before ‘Coco’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 28, 2017 9:00 am EST If you saw Coco in theaters this past weekend and were expecting a pleasant Pixar short film like Piper, La Luna, or Presto, you were in for a rude awakening: instead of a short that lasted only a few minutes, audiences were forced to sit through Walt Disney Animation’s Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, a 21-minute long featurette about Olaf and his friends discovering the true meaning of the holidays....

’90s Crime Movies One of the things that makes certain Marvel movies so good is the way they play with sub-genre. Rather than be straight-up superhero yarns, the best Marvel movies borrow elements from other types of film. The best example of this is one of the very best MCU films – Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There, the Russo brothers borrowed from paranoid espionage thrillers like Three Days of the Condor to craft a truly memorable film....

How Kevin Smith Almost Directed Ben Affleck In A Disney Movie And Why ‘Fletch Won’ Never Happened By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2012 9:30 am EST Over the holidays, it’s easy to lose track of what’s going on on Twitter. Many of us are too busy sitting around with our families, eating big meals or maybe going to the movies. If you fall into that category, you probably missed Kevin Smith’s tell-all tweet marathon revealing an interesting story of how Ben Affleck asked him to direct a non-Miramax movie, why Fletch Won never happened, and more....

How The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Might Change Television By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 29, 2018 9:30 am EST Roseanne is shaking up Hollywood. The Roseanne reboot premiered to massive ratings Tuesday night, drawing more viewers than any network sitcom has in four years. Not only that, the premiere snagged more viewers than its 1997 finale 21 years ago. So what does that mean for the TV landscape? First of all, you can count on the revival phenomenon to keep going strong....

Interview: Director F. Gary Gray On ‘The Fate Of The Furious,’ Shooting Car Chases On Melting Ice, And More By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2017 7:00 am EST The Fast and Furious franchise is known for its crazy action scenes and bombastic explosions, but the core of the saga has always been about one thing: family. Sixteen years after the original movie hit theaters, The Fate of the Furious comes roaring into theaters this Friday, and while it does feature a hefty number of explosions, the most important thing the film blows up is the series’ central thesis....

MoviePass Posts Huge Quarterly Losses As Shareholders Sue By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 15, 2018 7:30 am EST Karmic retribution comes fast for MoviePass soon after the ticket-buying service prevented its subscribers from cancelling their subscription plans. The service’s parent company Helios and Matheson revealed its MoviePass losses to be an at all-time high, ballooning from less than $3 million this quarter last year to $126.6 million. To add onto that, MoviePass is also facing potential lawsuits from its frustrated shareholders, who are accusing the company of fraud and misinformation....

On Set Interview: Directors Joe And Anthony Russo Talk ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2014 2:30 pm EST While visiting the set of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in July 2013, we got a chance to sit down and chat with brother directing team Joe and Anthony Russo. We talked about how they got involved with the project, working as a directing team, planting easter eggs, their action movie fandom, cinematic influences on this film, suit changes, ramping up the action, researching the story, developing the screenplay and much more....

Page 2: Star Trek, Iron Giant, Muppets, Alien, Harry Potter, Tim Curry, Star Wars, Transformers, Blues Brothers, Community, Michael Bay, Spaceballs By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Sequel Bits: ‘Transformers 5,’ ‘London Has Fallen,’ ‘The Legend Of Conan,’ ’ XXX 3: The Return Of Xander Cage’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 24, 2016 9:00 am EST Welcome back to Sequel Bits, the irregular feature covering all of the sequel news you could possibly desire. In today’s edition: London Has Fallen unveils a new poster. XXX 3: The Return of Xander Cage casts Jet Li and Tony Jaa. No, Michael Bay will not talk about Transformers 5....

Sofia Coppola And Kirsten Dunst May Reteam For A New Movie In 2016 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2015 1:30 pm EST Since directing the teenage thieving romp The Bling Ring, director Sofia Coppola has been pretty low key on the filmmaking front. While she was initially slated to direct an adaptation of The Little Mermaid at Universal, she fell away from the project back in June this summer. And the only definitely project she has coming up is a Netflix Christmas special starring her Lost in Translation lead Bill Murray....

Sony’s ‘Silver And Black’ Is Two Separate Movies Now, Marvel Character Jackpot May Also Get Her Own Movie By Ben Pearson/Aug. 9, 2018 11:59 am EST What is happening with Sony’s Spider-Man adjacent Marvel movie universe? Tom Hardy’s Venom looks like a disaster, and the studio’s planned female-fronted Silver and Black movie, which would have followed the comic book characters of Black Cat and Silver Sable, was taken off the release calendar earlier this summer....

Star Wars Bits: Oscar Isaac Talks ‘Force Awakens’ Prep; Andy Serkis’ Character, George Lucas, Star Wars #1 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2014 3:00 pm EST Oscar Isaac continues to offer up awesome stories from The Force Awakens. Below, read about those as well as these interesting Star Wars Bits. Oscar Isaac talks flying an X-Wing, practical effects and more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. New details surface about Andy Serkis’ Force Awakens’ character....

Sundance Review/Video Blog: Nowhere Boy By David Chen/Jan. 23, 2010 1:24 am EST The first film I saw on Day 2 of the Sundance Film Festival was Nowhere Boy, the feature-film directorial debut of Sam Taylor Wood. Nowhere Boy depicts a brief portion of John Lennon’s life, as he struggles to define his relationships with his estranged mother and his domineering aunt. The film stars Aaron Johnson (who’ll light up the screens later this year in Kick Ass) as John Lennon and also features Kristen Scott Thomas as Lennon’s aunt Mimi and Anne-Marie Duff as Lennon’s estranged mother....