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Interview: Diane Disney Miller Talks About Growing Up As Walt Disney’s Daughter, Inside Walt’s Disneyland Apartment And The Walt Disney Family Museum By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2012 3:00 pm EST The following report was filed by /Film guest writer Reza Lackey: When you’re growing up, there is always something you would look forward to. The holidays, your birthday, the start of summer etc. When I was younger, there was one event I looked forward too more than any other; My yearly family vacation to southern California where I’d spend an entire day at Disneyland....

Interview: John Malkovich By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 3:54 am EST Last week we got the chance to sit down and talk with Beowulf star John Malkovich. You can read the round table interview below. Question: Is that one of your own outfits that you’re wearing today? You’ve got a clothing line don’t you?John Malkovich: I did. I don’t anymore.Q: I could never find it.John Malkovich: You and everyone else. Q: This was kind of amazing because we do recognize you in this movie even under the wig and the whatever....

Mitch Hurwitz Used Green Screen To Edit ‘Arrested Development’ Cast Together By Angie Han/May 21, 2013 9:00 am EST So far we’ve had plenty of reasons to look forward to seeing the Bluths get back together for Season 4 of Arrested Development. But now it turns out that the long-awaited reunion wasn’t actually much of a reunion at all. Due to scheduling issues, Mitch Hurwitz admits, some scenes featuring multiple characters were actually shot at totally different times, with the actors’ performances edited together in post-production....

Mortdecai Weeps: Johnny Depp Is The Most Overpaid Actor Of 2015 By Jacob Hall/Dec. 23, 2015 2:30 pm EST In news that should come as no surprise the millions of people who went out of their way to avoid Mortdecai and Transcendence, Forbes has compiled its annual list of the most overpaid actors in Hollywood and Johnny Depp is sitting not-so-pretty at number one. And when you look at the raw numbers, no one else is even close....

Movie Posters: The Wolfman, The Book Of Eli, Greenberg, Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2009 5:57 pm EST A bunch of new movie posters have been released in time for the Thanksgiving holiday theater rush, so I thought we’d do a round up of some of the one-sheets we’ve missed. After the jump you can find new posters for The Wolfman, The Book of Eli, Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, and James Cameron’s Avatar....

Page 2: E.T. 2, James Franco, Wonder Woman, Natalie Portman, The Myspace Movie, The Walking Dead, Troll 2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2011 8:00 pm 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 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Ridley Scott Is Bringing Dan Simmons’ ‘The Terror’ To AMC By Jacob Hall/March 2, 2016 2:00 pm EST The good news: AMC has greenlit a television series based on Dan Simmons’ The Terror, an acclaimed historical horror novel that could make for thrilling TV. The weird news: it is reportedly an “anthology series” and I literally have no idea what that could possibly mean in this context. Seriously. The news comes our way courtesy of Variety, who say that AMC has ordered ten episodes that will premiere in 2017....

Teaser Trailer: ‘Heroes’ To Return To Television With ‘Heroes Reborn’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2014 10:36 pm EST HBC canceled Heroes in 2010, but if you read comic books, you know that superheroes are never dead. They always return somehow, usually as part of a event series which is marketed to make a few extra bucks. And this is no different. NBC and Tim Kring have announced a new 13 episode miniseries called Heroes Reborn coming in 2015....

The Best & Worst Sketches From Margot Robbie’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2016 12:30 pm EST Last night brought the return of Saturday Night Live for their 42nd season. Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie made her hosting debut for the season premiere, which brought a slew of changes to the late night sketch comedy show. Alec Baldwin made his debut as Donald Trump in a spoof of the presidential debate in the cold open, all three new cast members got some screentime (one significantly more than the others), and the result was a solid season premiere with plenty of laughs to be had....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Incredible Summer’ Begins, Pixar Pier Reveals Neighborhoods, Chewbacca Flies Star Tours By Joshua Meyer/May 29, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: There’s a new Incredibles character coming to Disney parks on both coasts. Watch an Imagineer-led tour of the scale model and concept art for Pixar Pier. Find out what the names and themes of Pixar Pier’s four neighborhoods will be. Chewbacca flew a Star Tours mission at Hollywood Studios this week....

This Week In Trailers: Lessons From A School Shooting: Notes From Dunblane, El Angel, Heavy Trip, Somm 3, Nigerian Prince By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 22, 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?...

This Week In Trailers: The Lottery, Harjunpää (Priest Of Evil), Great Directors, The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Phil Spector By Christopher Stipp/June 18, 2010 3:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Tribeca Film Festival Review: Straight Outta L.A. (A Doc On The L.A. Raiders And N.W.A.) By Hunter Stephenson/April 26, 2010 10:19 am EST The ESPN documentary series, 30 for 30, continues a phenomenal and original run at uniting fans of sports history and cinema with Straight Outta L.A. Directed and narrated by Ice Cube, in O.G. gruff mode, the doc examines the stylistic endorsement of the Los Angeles Raiders in the mid-to-late ’80s by West Coast gangsta rap pioneers N....

Watch A Clip Of A ‘Rogue One’ Character On ‘Star Wars Rebels’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2016 9:30 am EST Rogue One: A Star Wars Story introduces us to a whole new roster of characters who are key to the rebellion against the Empire. And while we know that those characters don’t have a role in the original trilogy that follows Rogue One’s storyline, that doesn’t mean we won’t see them pop up elsewhere....

Weekend Weirdness: The Birdemic Craze Continues By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 28, 2010 4:26 pm EST It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. Man, how about the Birdemic craze that rollicked across the internet last week and continues to tremor in comedy-nerd circles?...

‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Trailer: Robert Rodriguez And James Cameron Make A Cyborg Movie By Jacob Hall/Dec. 8, 2017 11:40 am EST James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez make very different kinds of movies, which makes their collaboration on Alita: Battle Angel all the more intriguing. After years of delays, Cameron left the director’s chair on this big-budget adaptation of the Japanese manga, opting instead to produce while Rodriguez stepped behind the camera....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Trailer Breakdown: Sizeable Action, A Mysterious Ghost And A Drumming Ant By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2018 11:30 am EST A new Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer debuted today, and for those still reeling from the heavy events of Avengers: Infinity War, it appears this Marvel Studios sequel will do exactly what the first film did following Avengers: Age of Ultron: allow some levity and fun to permeate the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Review Round-Up: A Dazzling Sci-Fi Spectacle That May Be Better Than The Original By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 29, 2017 9:15 am EST The wait was long but the reviews are in, and it’s official: Blade Runner 2049 was worth the wait. Critics have heaped effusive praise onto Denis Villeneuve’s visually stunning sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner, calling it enthralling, profound, moody, and (gulp) better than the original....

/Film Video Interview: ‘This Is The End’ Directors Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2013 11:00 am EST Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg had a very tough task at WonderCon 2013. Their star-studded apocalyptic comedy This Is The End was the anchor on a three-film panel that included two franchises with a rabid fan base: The Mortal Instruments and Evil Dead. Both of those films electrified the crowd....

‘Justice League’ Comic-Con Footage Breakdown By Jacob Hall/July 25, 2016 7:00 am EST On Saturday, Warner Bros. revealed the first footage from the upcoming Justice League to a packed audience at Comic-Con. And then it arrived online. It would be unfair to call this a trailer – it’s obviously been put together from a movie that isn’t close to being finished, focusing on simple dialogue scenes instead of the VFX shots and action beats you’d expect from this sort of thing....