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Showtime Has New Shows Coming From Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller, Michel Gondry & More [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 7, 2018 3:00 pm EST At the cable networks Television Critics Association panel this weekend, Showtime detailed their upcoming slate of original shows, including new vehicles for stars like Jim Carrey, Catherine Keener, Benicio del Toro, and Kevin Bacon, coming from filmmakers like Michel Gondry, Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg and Matt Damon & Ben Afleck....

Star Wars Bits: ‘LEGO Star Wars’, ‘1313’, ‘Saber III’, Daisy Ridley By Angie Han/May 2, 2014 4:30 pm EST Happy (upcoming) Star Wars Day to one and all! After the jump: Carrie Fisher’s mom and Daisy Ridley’s dad comment on casting EW’s Anthony Breznican reveals what he knows about the script Here’s another look at that 1313 game you’ll never get to play Star Wars Day brings some special discounts on games that do exist Watch a trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles D23 brings you a special Star Wars Day message from R2-D2 Wonder what the folks at Lucasfilm are eating for Star Wars Day?...

Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ Feature Trilogy And TV Series Moving Forward With Ron Howard At The Helm By Adam Quigley/Sept. 8, 2010 3:02 pm EST A movie version of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series has been in the works for a few years now, and for most of that time, it was expected that J.J. Abrams would be directing. Those plans fell through though, and the rights to the project were handed off to Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman....

This Week In Trailers: Studio 54, Home Shopper, Believer, Nossa Chape, Apostasy, Between Land And Sea By Christopher Stipp/May 26, 2018 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?...

Untitled ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel Pushed Back To April 2018 By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 2, 2018 4:34 pm EST The new Cloverfield sequel, tentatively titled God Particle, was set to hit theaters next month, February 2018, but now it looks like the next entry in the secretive Cloverfield franchise will be arriving in April 2018. More details on the Cloverfield sequel release date are below. The Untitled Cloverfield Movie, which for a while was going under the name God Particle, has had its release date pushed yet again....

VOTD: Edgar Wright’s 1993 Mash-Up ‘Gun Fetish’ By Angie Han/April 6, 2011 8:02 am EST We post a fair amount of montages here on /Film, but this one’s extra special. Back in 1993, well before the days of Final Cut Pro, a 19-year-old Edgar Wright holed himself up in an editing suite for several weekends to put together this montage, “Gun Fetish.” The clips are pulled from VHS tapes, which explains the low quality....

2015 Super Bowl Commercials Directors Carnival’s “Come Back To The Sea” was directed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister, who has worked on many of Christopher Nolan’s films such as Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy, and recently made his feature directing debut with Transcendence. Bud Light’s Real Life PacMan #UpForWhatever was directed by Fredrik Bond (Charlie Countryman, Hovercar). Kim Kardashian’s Help Save The Data T-Mobile Commercial was directed by Paul Hunter, noted music video director who also helmed 2003’s Bulletproof Monk....

‘Disenchantment’ Early Buzz: Matt Groening’s Fantasy Send-Up Lacks Magic But Has Potential By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2018 8:30 am EST After diving into suburban family life and the distant future with The Simpsons and Futurama, animation icon Matt Groening is bringing his trademark humor into the distant past with his fantasy comedy series Disenchantment on Netflix. But does Groening, whose shows have lost their bite in later seasons, even for longtime fans, have what it takes to head into new territory and create something refreshing?...

‘Game Of Thrones’ Fans Have Already Deciphered Littlefinger’s Letter From ‘Eastwatch’ By Jacob Hall/Aug. 14, 2017 2:30 pm EST Last night’s Game of Thrones was a “breather” episode, but it was also a belter, bringing unlikely characters together for a death-defying mission and threatening to drive wedges between others. One of those wedges involved a secret letter obtained by Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish – a letter that was found by Arya Stark and whose contents remain a mystery....

‘Gotham’ Synopsis And Logo Revealed For Fox’s Batman Prequel By Angie Han/March 11, 2014 2:30 pm EST Batman won’t return to the big screen until Man of Steel 2, or whatever it winds up being called, in 2016. But sometime before that, we’ll get to meet him all over again in Gotham, Fox’s prequel series about a young Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie). We know plenty about the drama already thanks to all those casting reports, but today we have an even more detailed Gotham synopsis and logo to share....

‘Rampage’ Photos: Don’t Get In Dwayne Johnson’s Way By Jack Giroux/June 16, 2017 2:00 pm EST Dwayne Johnson is on the hunt for one big silverback gorilla. The nearly nonexistent story of Midway’s classic arcade game, Rampage, has been adapted into a story about primatologist Davis Okoye and his best friend, a gorilla named George. Brad Peyton’s (San Andreas) film is all about one beefy animal lover trying to save the day and his closest pal....

‘Star Wars The Force Awakens’ Trailer Arrives Friday; Full Theater List Here By Germain Lussier/Nov. 24, 2014 12:46 pm EST UPDATE: StarWars.com has revealed the full list of theaters that will be playing the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer starting Friday. Find it below. This morning, our scoop about the Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer hitting select theaters this Friday was confirmed. Regal Cinemas mistakenly jumped the gun and revealed which of their theaters were among the few chosen....

‘The Avengers,’ ‘Brave,’ ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ And ‘Monsters University’ Among Confirmed D23 Attendees By Germain Lussier/Aug. 9, 2011 1:15 pm EST In recent years, Comic-Con has been criticized for becoming too Hollywood as all the major studios would come down to San Diego and woo fans with their upcoming projects. This year, Disney — which owns both Marvel and Pixar — didn’t have a big presence there. Most surmised that was because Disney has its own version of Comic-Con, The D23 Expo, a few weeks later....

‘The Thing’ And ‘Hostel’ To Have Themed Mazes At Universal Studios Hollywood This Halloween By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 1:30 pm EST As we get older, Halloween becomes less about candy and more about being scared. When I was a kid, there was nothing better than walking around my neighborhood and getting as many sweets as possible but, in recent years, that tradition has been replaced with finding haunted attractions to attend with friends....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Early Buzz: The Most Fun You’ll Have At A Marvel Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 9, 2017 6:30 am EST Marvel directors have had a tough time nailing a tone down for Thor. Is he a self-serious Norse god with a tragic Shakespearean background? Or is he comedic relief, obtusely stumbling over human courtesies? Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi asks: Why can’t we have both? But mostly the latter....

A Modern Horror Master: The Career Of ‘Gerald’s Game’ Director Mike Flanagan By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 29, 2017 9:00 am EST How do you adapt an unadaptable Stephen King novel into a movie? The answer, apparently, is to hire Mike Flanagan.Flanagan may not be the type of household name horror director the way John Carpenter, Wes Craven and George Romero once and still are, but over the last several years, he’s been quietly rising to prominence as one of the most efficient craftsmen in the horror genre....

The Petition Yehl is circulating a Change.org petition to get an LGBTQ character inspired by Leinonen into an upcoming film. You can read his full letter over at that site, but we’ve excerpted a bit of it below. You can also spread the word by using #PutDrewInStarWars on social media. On June 12, 2016, the world lost one of its most passionate Star Wars fans. On that day, 49 voices cried out and were silenced by hate....

George Lucas Promises ‘Crystal Skulls’ Will Be As Good As ‘Lost Ark’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2007 1:30 pm EST Indiana Jones creator/producer George Lucas is finally talking about those pesky Crystal Skulls. “We did ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’, and in the process of that, one of the scripts we were working on was about a crystal skull. I became fascinated with it there,” Lucas revealed to MTV News on the red carpet for the American Film Institute’s 40th anniversary at the ArcLight....

How The Family In ‘Coco’ Reminded Me Of Mine By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 24, 2017 9:00 am EST “This place runs on memories,” Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal) informs an awed Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) as they wander the land of the dead in Pixar’s newest film, Coco. Preserved through the memories of their family, people are kept alive, as jubilant in the afterlife as they were in life — sometimes even more so....

Marvel Casts Rosario Dawson In ‘Daredevil’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2014 12:30 pm EST The third major role in Daredevil has been cast; we just don’t know what the role is. Charlie Cox is the blind attorney Matt Murdock, who is also the crime-fighting Daredevil. And Vincent D’Onofrio is Wilson Fisk, known in comics circles as the Kingpin of Crime. Now Marvel has cast Rosario Dawson in Daredevil, giving her a major role that will see her appearing in multiple episodes....