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More ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Cast Revealed: Matthew Modine, Tom Conti, Joey King By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2011 3:52 pm EST When Warner Bros. released a press release featuring the cast of Christopher Nolan’s currently in production The Dark Knight Rises, we were all disappointed that no new names were included. Well just a day later, on the day that we’ve seen our first image from the film, three new cast members have emerged....

Movie Theater Chain Tests Higher Prices For Middle Section Seats By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2014 12:00 pm EST One major movie theater chain plans to begin testing a surcharge on middle seats in their movie theaters. Would you pay more for premium seating at the multiplex? I use to be super obsessive about sitting in the most perfect seat in the movie theater. Before the days of online ticketing, I would make my friends wait in line for the Friday night showings just so that we could have dibs on the perfect seats in the perfect rows of whichever auditorium that week’s big release was screening....

Page 2: Transformers, Totoro, Finding Nemo, Star Wars, Rian Johnson, Indiana Jones, Big Lebowski, Black Swan, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Jaws, Voltron By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2012 8:00 am EST 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. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

San Diego Comic-Con Friday Schedule Highlights Include ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ ‘The Adventures Of Tintin’ By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 12:30 pm EST Though The Avengers, Batman and Superman are more than likely not going to be swinging into San Diego Comic-Con this year, Spider-Man will be out in force. The schedule for Friday July 22 has been released and the highlights include that Legendary Panel we wrote about a few days ago (though it’s not in Hall H), a panel on Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin and a Sony Pictures panel that includes Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Total Recall and, yes, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man....

Showtime Trailers: ‘The Chi’ And ‘Our Cartoon President’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 8, 2018 1:00 pm EST New year, new TV shows! Showtime, home of Twin Peaks, and also some other shows that aren’t Twin Peaks, has released two trailers for two very different new series: The Chi, a new drama from Master of None break-out Lena Waithe; and Our Cartoon President, an animated look at the cataclysmic Trump White House, from executive producer Stephen Colbert....

Starz’ ‘American Gods’ Will Tackle “Race, Gun Control, Gender, And Jesus Christ” [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 1, 2016 2:00 pm EST Starz presented a panel on their 2017 series American Gods, based on Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel. Co-showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green were in attendance and screened a trailer first. The clips showed Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) released early from prison for his wife’s funeral. He throws a gold coin on her grave and it sinks into the dirt....

The /Film Movie Club: Why ‘Suspiria’ Is The Craziest, Most Colorful Bad Dream You’ll Ever Watch By Jacob Hall/Feb. 4, 2016 9:00 am EST (Welcome to the /Film Movie Club, a new semi-regular feature where we delve into some of our favorite movies, focusing on films that lie a little off the beaten path. Today: Dario Argento’s Suspiria.) Some movies benefit from being watched at a particular time, in a particular place, while you are in a particular mood....

The 25 Best Movie Posters Of 2016 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 28, 2016 9:00 am EST We’re coming down to the end of 2016, and even though we’ve been starting to look forward to the movies of 2017 since as early as this past summer, it’s about time we started to look back at the good stuff this year had to offer. We’ll each be bringing you our personal Top 10 Films of 2016 leading up to a cumulative Top 15 (just like last year), but before that, we’ve got something else to kick off our look back at 2016....

This Week In Trailers: Teenage, Particle Fever, The Love Punch, K2: Siren Of The Himalayas, Evergreen: The Road To Legalization In Washington By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 15, 2014 10:00 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 Ardennes, This Was The XFL, The Family, Thank You Del: The Story Of The Del Close Marathon, State Of Play By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 24, 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?...

Warners Wants Brad Pitt For Time-Looping Video Game-Inspired ‘All You Need Is Kill’? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2011 6:16 pm EST Is this the Akira situation all over again? You might remember that a few months ago, when Warner Bros. was really trying to get the live-action version of Akira going under the direction of Albert Hughes, there were a great many stories about how the studio wanted to cast the film....

Watchmen: Test Screening In Portland And New Footage At Scream 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 2:12 am EST Collider is reporting that Warner Bros is doing a test screening of Watchmen at the Regal Lloyd Center 10 Theater in Portland Oregon this Thursday, October 16th at 7:00pm. Apparently this is a “blind screening” so they are recruiting people who don’t know anything about the comic book world. So if you run into one of the recruiters, play dumb, and pretend to like Wild Hogs and Beverly Hills Chihuahua...

What A ‘TRON: Legacy’ Failure Would Prove By David Chen/Dec. 3, 2010 1:56 pm EST The other day, we discussed the fact that TRON: Legacy was tracking below expectations and that it could earn as low as $35 million during its opening weekend (in line with that, HitFix delivered a devastating review to the film this morning). Such an event would be a box office catastrophe that would consign Legacy to the same category of flops such as Ishtar, The Postman or the more recent Speed Racer....

/Answers: Our Favorite Movie And TV Parents By /Film Staff/May 9, 2017 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition, tying in with this weekend’s Snatched and last weekend’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, asks “Who are your favorite film or television parents?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team....

/Answers: The Best Movie Gunfights Of All Time By /Film Staff/April 25, 2017 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition asks “What is your favorite movie gunfight of all time?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. If you’d like to share your favorite movie gunfight, please send your thoughts to slashfilmpitches@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the site....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Director Joe Russo Sheds Light On Thanos And His Black Order Henchmen By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2017 10:30 am EST You can’t talk about Avengers: Infinity War — and its exciting, exclusive first footage shown to the folks at the D23 Expo and this weekend’s San Diego Comic Con — without going into its Big Bad, Thanos. The purple galactic warlord has sown death and destruction across the universe, though, apart from a brief role in Guardians of the Galaxy, it’s been mostly offscreen....

‘Bill And Ted 3’ Script Resurrects William Sadler’s Death By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 20, 2018 8:30 am EST Death becomes Bill and Ted 3 — but not in the way you expect. No, the movie is still alive and kickin’ and in development for now, though that much can’t be said for a certain Bill and Ted character set to return to the sequel. That’s right, it’s William Sadler as Death....

‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Early Buzz: 120 FPS Ruins An Average War Drama By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2016 11:00 am EST Last night brought the world premiere of Ang Lee’s latest film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Yesterday we happened to run a featurette exploring director Ang Lee’s use of new technology that allowed the film to be shot at 120 frames per second (FPS). That’s a significantly higher frame rate than Peter Jackson’s experimental use of 48 FPS for The Hobbit trilogy, and it sounds like the reaction to this format from the first reviews of the movie is even more resistant than to that previous effort....

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Has More Animatronic Dinosaurs Than Any ‘Jurassic Park’ Sequel By Ethan Anderton/April 23, 2018 10:00 am EST As Jurassic Park has become a modern classic over the years, one of the constant compliments paid to the film is how the special effects used to bring the dinosaurs to life have aged surprisingly well. There are digital effects and animatronics that look more realistic than any of the digital dinosaurs we’ve seen in any of the Jurassic Park sequels....

‘Rampage’ Review: A Big, Dumb, Not-So-Fun Cartoon By Karen Han/April 12, 2018 7:00 am EST I can’t tell whether there’s too much rampaging in Rampage, or not enough. The only thing I am sure about is that it takes too long to get to the rampaging. Rampaging is, after all, the number one thing that Rampage has going for it — exposition and set-up aren’t exactly the draw of a movie like this....