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This Week In Trailers: Hal, Alt-Right: Age Of Rage, Big Brother, Anchor And Hope, Cardinals By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 25, 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?...

What’s The Story With A Third ‘Hobbit’ Film, As Peter Jackson Wants To Shoot More Footage? By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2012 5:30 pm EST Right at the beginning of Comic Con, Variety issued a report that talk of a third Hobbit film from director Peter Jackson was just that: talk. And it was talk that not even many people had heard yet. There was much scoffing: “of course it is just two films!...

Why ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Cast Johnny Depp As Grindelwald By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 8, 2016 4:30 pm EST We’re still over a week out from seeing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hit theaters, but we already know that Johnny Depp will be playing the pivotal role of the villain Grindelwald, a dark wizard whom Harry Potter fans will be very familiar with. In fact, he’ll be making a brief appearance in the first movie, and his conflict with Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore will be a key part of the sequel with casting for the latter role currently underway....

‘Chronicle’ Star Dane DeHaan Is Harry Osborn In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 11:31 am EST Briefly: He was a marginalized kid who had trouble controlling his newfound power in Chronicle, and now Dane DeHaan is going to menace Spider-Man. Marc Webb, director of The Amazing Spider-Man and the upcoming sequel, tweeted today that DeHaan had been cast as Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The character was played by James Franco in Sam Raimi’s series of films, and we’d expect him to end up being the villain of Webb’s planned third Spider-Man film....

‘Coco’ Interview: Co-Director Adrian Molina On The Music, Influences, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 27, 2018 7:30 am EST I’d never conducted an interview at a UNESCO World Heritage site before a couple of weeks ago. But after speaking with Adrian Molina, the co-director of Pixar’s Coco, at the ancient ruins of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico, I can cross that very specific thing off my bucket list. In honor of the movie’s home video release (and before this weekend’s Academy Awards, where it’s nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film’s music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie’s screenplay, and much more....

/Film Featured In The New York Times By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2007 3:51 am EST The Wednesday edition of The New York Times has an article by David Halbfinger on the MPAA and the “racy or graphic” red band movie trailer, which includes two paragraphs about /Film. We’re extremely honored to be mentioned in the Nation’s newspaper of record! I highly recommend reading Halbfinger’s article at this link, but here is the gist and then our story....

Alex Garland And Oscar Isaac On ‘Annihilation,’ The Film’s Behind-The-Scenes Clashes, And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Feb. 22, 2018 7:00 am EST Not long ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Garland and actor Oscar Isaac, who plays a key role in the film, to talk to them about bringing this story to the big screen. We touched on the film’s behind-the-scenes clashes, whether or not Garland was concerned with audiences being able to keep up with what he’s doing in this movie, Isaac’s approach to his troubled character, and much more....

Casting Bits: Benicio Del Toro, Mark Hamill, Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Remake, Roland Emmerich’s ‘Midway,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of Casting Bits: Benicio del Toro is set to star in Oliver Stone’s next drama, White Lies. Mark Hamill joins Knightfall as it’s renewed for season 2. Disney’s live-action Mulan remake adds Jimmy Wong and Doua Moua. Roland Emmerich’s Midway enlists Patrick Wilson, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Tadanobu Asano, and Keean Johnson....

Christopher Nolan’s Longstanding Practice Of “Fridging” Female Characters By Adam Quigley/Aug. 31, 2010 4:00 pm EST With Inception, The Prestige and each of his Batman films, Christopher Nolan has firmly established himself as one of the rare filmmakers working today who can not only produce complex, character-driven entertainment on the studio’s dime, but can command an audience while doing it. Women viewers, though, would be forgiven for dismissing themselves from that audience, for reasons that likely hadn’t even occurred to Nolan’s male fanbase....

Conan O’Brien Goes To TBS By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 10:03 am EST When Conan O’Brien left/got pushed out of The Tonight Show spot, everyone assumed the he would be relocating to FOX. Wrong. Turns out that Coco’s new show will be on TBS. TBS is likely gambling a lot of money that Conan will bring over millions of viewers. This is no late April fools day joke. TBS has even released a teaser video and press release, both of which you can see after the jump....

Remembering David Bowie As a Movie Soundtrack I feel almost guilty that the first example that comes to my mind of Bowie’s music in the movies isn’t some obscure film or left field choice – it’s the use of “Cat People” in Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino’s World War II announces itself as a fantasy early on, but the anachronistic use of an ’80s pop song during its final chapter seals the deal....

Exclusive: Troma To Make ‘Occupy Cannes,’ A Documentary About True Independent Cinema; Find Out How To Contribute By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2013 6:00 am EST Troma has a plan to give the biggest film festival in the world a huge middle finger and you can be a part of it. We’re proud to exclusively announce that the independent film studio, which has been in business for 40 years, is going to make a brand new documentary called Occupy Cannes....

Interview: Director Jason Bateman On ‘The Family Fang’, Carter Burwell, And Commerce By Jack Giroux/April 29, 2016 8:00 am EST Actor Jason Bateman made his feature directorial debut with the 2013 comedy, Bad Words. Bateman’s sophomore effort, The Family Fang, is a slightly less aggressive film. Bateman’s adaptation of Kevin Wilson’s novel, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole), simply called for a more reserved approach than his first film –although The Family Fang isn’t without its comedic moments, like when Bateman’s character gets beamed in the head by a potato gun....

Joaquin Phoenix In Talks To Play The Joker In Todd Phillips’s Standalone DC Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 8, 2018 10:47 am EST Joaquin Phoenix is reportedly in negotiations to play the Clown Prince of Crime in Todd Phillips’ standalone Joker movie.Variety reports that Phillips met with Phoenix to play the lead character in his untitled Joker origin movie for Warner Bros. Studio negotiations are not yet underway, but sources tell the outlet that Phoenix is Phillips’ top choice for the role, and that Phoenix has agreed to take the part....

Lars Von Trier Bonanza: ‘Melancholia’ Buzz; Nazi Controversy; ‘The Five Obstructions’ Goes To Magnolia By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2011 2:30 pm EST You can say this for Lars Von Trier: he doesn’t believe in treading lightly. If today wasn’t so busy I’d spend a few hours digging up the director’s old comments from Cannes press conferences and correlating their level of pseudo-outrage to the quality of the film he’s promoting. His latest movie, Melancholia, premiered at Cannes today and the reviews are (perhaps predictably) mixed, with some of the most telling comments coming in the form of negative reviews from normally sympathetic fans....

Moana Streaming on Netflix June 20 It feels like Moana should’ve been a bigger deal. Sure, it did well at the box office, but a lot of Moana’s limelight was stolen by the other big Disney animated film of 2016, Zooptopia. Zootopia is a very good animated film, but Moana outshines it in every respect. The story of a teenager who dares to venture beyond the shores of her island in search of a demigod, Moana bursts will color and features a rather uplifting message along the way....

Rumor: Multiple Obi-Wan Kenobi Stand-Alone Films In The Works [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2014 5:05 pm EST UPDATE 10/6/14: A few weeks back, we ran the below story about a possible Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars spin-off being in the works. Now, that rumor has expanded to not only give an idea of what the story could be, it might even be more than one movie. The update is after the jump....

Sequel Bits: ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ ‘xXx 3,’ ‘X-Men: First Class 2,’ ‘Iron Man 3’ By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2012 4:00 pm EST You want sequels? Hollywood has them, of course. Or plans for them, at least. After the break, we’ll address the following: Will the character Mother Russia find her way into Kick-Ass 2? Is a xXx sequel actually happening? (Probably not.) In lieu of that, how about a (very, very) vague Fast Six teaser image?...

Sony CinemaCon 2017 Presentation: ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ ‘The Dark Tower,’ ‘Jumanji,’ ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ & More By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2017 7:30 am EST Every year in March, movie theater exhibitors gather in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, a convention spotlighting the newest advances in multiplex technologies and presentations from most of the major movie studios showcasing their film slates for the next year and beyond. Tonight, CinemaCon kicked off with a presentation from Sony Pictures, showing off new footage and trailers for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Blade Runner 2049, The Dark Tower, Jumanji, Baby Driver, Flatliners, Cadavers and Rough Night....

Star Wars Bits: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Judi Dench, Boba Fett, ‘Star Wars Rebels’ By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2014 10:08 am EST Mark Hamill still won’t confirm his Star Wars Episode VII casting, but he doesn’t have to because Carrie Fisher has already done it for him. Also after the jump: Judi Dench is the latest actor hit with Episode VII rumors The Boba Fett spinoff may change a few things from Episode II Animation on the first episode of Star Wars Rebels is complete Disney doesn’t have the Star Wars 1313 trademark anymore Here’s how to win a trip Skywalker Ranch and help Make-A-Wish In fact, she already has some ideas about her character’s look....