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Sequel Bits: ‘22 Jump Street’, ‘Jack Ryan’, ‘The Raid 2’, ‘Friday 4’ By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2014 5:00 am EST It’s cold and icy and generally miserable outside right now in most of the U.S., which means now is the perfect time to pour yourself a cup of tea, bundle up in a cozy blanket, and dive into Sequel Bits. After the jump: The Raid 3 will pick up before The Raid 2 leaves off Friday 4 is stuck in development hell, says Ice Cube Jennifer Saunders is working on the Ab Fab movie Who’s making a surprise cameo in 22 Jump Street?...

Sequel Bits: ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Insidious 2’, ‘Despicable Me 2’, ‘Dolphin Tale 2’ By Angie Han/May 28, 2013 12:25 pm EST Today’s Sequel Bits are ordered from least to most family-friendly, just because. After the jump: Casting call reveals Human Centipede 3 plot details Take a first peek at Chucky in Curse of Chucky First teaser photo from Insidious Chapter 2 revealed Set photos from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes show a run-down San Francisco Evangeline Lilly chats about her new Hobbit character Tauriel You’ll be able to watch Despicable Me 2 with special minion-inspired 3D glasses Another Dolphin Tale is shooting this fall Even by horror movie standards, the protagonist of Human Centipede 3 will be faced with a fairly unusual question: Just where does one find enough people to build a 500-person mouth-to-anus chain?...

The First ‘A Christmas Story Live’ Trailer Is Ready For The Holidays By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 1, 2017 8:30 am EST A Christmas Story LIVE!, the latest title to join the live TV musical craze, will sing and dance its way onto TV screens in December. With the cast now firmly in place, FOX just released a brief teaser to get you into the holiday spirit. There’s no actual footage of the musical here (since it’s supposed to be live and all), but if you want to get an idea of what to expect from the broadcast, this teaser will give you a hint....

This Week In Trailers: Killing Them Safely, Rolling Papers, Starship Christmas, In Jackson Heights, Snervous By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 30, 2015 4:00 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Delayed, ‘American Horror Story’ Renewed, ‘Archer’ Sets Premiere Date & More By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2017 3:00 pm EST It’s the TCAs this week, and that means we’ve got lots of big TV news coming our way right now. So let’s get them all taken care of right now, shall we? After the jump: FX’s Atlanta won’t return until 2018. FX’s American Crime Story also won’t return until 2018....

‘Jack The Giant Slayer’ Could Cost Warner Bros. Over $100m By Russ Fischer/April 3, 2013 4:00 pm EST The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That’s a concept that relates directly to Jack the Giant Slayer, in more ways than one. Bryan Singer’s film, delayed from 2012 to 2013 for effects tinkering and (hopefully) a better release opportunity, opened to shrugs from audiences. Now the film is looking like it’ll be a big write-down for Warner Bros....

‘Sin City’ Sequel ‘A Dame To Kill For’ Officially Announced By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2012 3:37 pm EST Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have been talking about doing a Sin City sequel for seven years now. It seems like every interview they have given since the release of the 2005 graphic novel adaptation, they’ve teased that the project is almost ready to go. They’ve been doing this so long now that most film journalists have stopped reporting on the quotes....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: What Did You Think? By Chris Evangelista/May 25, 2018 6:00 pm EST After an infamously troubled production, Solo: A Star Wars Story is here. The overall critical opinion? It’s good, not great. But we want to hear from you. Did you love it? Did you hate it? Did you spend the whole time wishing they had just made a Lando movie instead? Tell us your Solo reactions below....

‘The BFG’ Early Buzz: Mixed Reviews Find Charm But Maybe Not Enough Spielberg Magic By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2016 12:00 pm EST The 2016 Cannes Film Festival is in full swing, and some of the year’s biggest films are premiering there. One of the more anticipated titles is The BFG, marking the return of Steven Spielberg to family film territory. The movie reunites Spielberg with his Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies star Mark Rylance and newcomer Ruby Barnhill for an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic novel about a young girl who befriends a “big friendly giant....

‘The Flash’ Introduced A DC Villain You Never Thought You’d See On Screen By Jacob Hall/Oct. 28, 2015 9:00 am EST If you haven’t caught up with last night’s episode of The Flash, look away right now. There will be spoilers in the rest of this post and you may want to see this for yourself. Still here? Okay. The latest episode of the well-liked CW series featured a brief cameo from a character that no one ever expected to see show up on a live-action TV series....

‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Early Buzz: What Are The Critics Saying About Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Epic? By Jacob Hall/June 28, 2017 9:11 pm EST Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets may prove to be a tough sell for audiences unfamiliar with the source material: the French comic book series Valérian and Laureline by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. However, those eye-popping trailers should grab the attention of regular moviegoers and the involvement of Leon, The Fifth Element, and Lucy director Luc Besson should ensure the attention of cinephiles....

Assessing The Themes Of Tropic Thunder By David Chen/Aug. 19, 2008 7:56 am EST [THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS FOR TROPIC THUNDER. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED] One of my favorite films this summer is Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder. While it didn’t do as well at the box office as I might’ve hoped, I think the film is hilarious and pitch-perfect in the way it ridicules Hollywood excess. Furthermore, this movie is the Hot Fuzz of Hollywood war films; where the former was a parody of the best action films ever made, Tropic Thunder takes elements of war films and turns them on their head, from the grizzled veteran, to the skinny and green straight man, all the way to the brutal and revered enemy leader (in this case potrayed by the simultaneously adorable and terrifying Brandon Soo Hoo)....

Construction To Begin This Summer On Hollywood ‘Wizarding World Of Harry Potter’ By Angie Han/April 24, 2013 11:00 am EST Harry Potter is making his way to sunny Southern California. In a unanimous vote, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has given the go-ahead to NBCUniversal’s plans to build a Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Hollywood. The attraction is part of a $500 million plan from the company which also includes upgrades to the studio backlot’s office space, TV production facilities, and other infrastructure....

Cool Stuff: ‘Batman: Gotham City Chronicles’ Board Game Available Now On Kickstarter By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2018 10:30 am EST From time to time we like to cover tabletop games on this site, especially when they are pop culture related. Part of the reason is that I’m a huge tabletop gamer, and so is /Film managing editor Jacob Hall (who is out on vacation this week, probably playing board games). On Tuesday, Monolith Board Games launched a Kickstarter for their newest miniature game based on the Batman comic book universe....

Could Comic-Con Leave San Diego? By Angie Han/Jan. 22, 2015 12:00 pm EST Comic-Con and San Diego go hand-in-hand, and have ever since Comic-Con was founded in San Diego in 1970. But Comic-Con has expanded much faster than San Diego has. As anyone who’s waited overnight for a Hall H spot or spent 10 minutes trying to cross Harbor Drive can attest, it feels at times like Comic-Con has outgrown San Diego altogether....

Early Buzz: Terrence Malick’s ‘Knight Of Cups’ Provokes Divided Reactions In Berlin By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2015 5:02 pm EST Terrence Malick’s new film Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and Antonio Banderas, premiered last night in Berlin, and as you might expect from a new Malick movie, reactions are fairly divided. That didn’t stop distributors from showing interest, however, and Broad Green Pictures — the relatively new outfit backed by hedge fund manager Gabriel Hammond and his younger brother Daniel Hammond — picked up US rights to both Knight of Cups and the currently untitled Austin-set film which will be Malick’s next release....

Early Buzz And Clips From Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2011 12:00 pm EST Another of our most-anticipated Cannes premieres was shown to press early today, Cannes time, and reviews are hitting the web. Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In represents his first collaboration with actor Antonio Banderas in twenty years, and also marks a break in subject matter for the director. Based on Thierry Jonquet’s novel Tarantula (aka Mygale), the story follows an ambitious plastic surgeon (Banderas) whose wife was burned in an accident, leading him to attempt to synthesize a new, superior form of human skin....

Exclusive Interview: Tami Stronach, Childlike Empress From ‘The Never-Ending Story’ By Fred Topel/May 25, 2016 2:30 pm EST When I saw the Spotify ad with all grown up Atreyu flying around on Falcor listening to Limahl’s theme song to The Neverending Story, I tweeted about it. This caught the attention of Tami Stronach, who when she was 11 played the Childlike Empress in the film. She’s been engaging fans with Falcor drawing contests and news about her current activities, so I arranged an interview with Stronach by phone out of New York....

GeekBomb: A History Of Friday The 13th, Real And Fictional By Kevin Kelly/Feb. 13, 2009 4:50 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/13/geekbomb-a-history-friday-the-13th-real-and-fictional/'; // –> It’s been Friday the 13th all day, can you tell? Here in Los Angeles, it’s pouring down rain and the forecast is calling for it to continue doing that for several days. I’ve seen two black cats this morning, narrowly avoided walking under a ladder, and nearly dropped my shaving mirror....

Jon Turteltaub Talks Cinematic Inspirations For ‘The Meg’, How He Helped Taika Waititi, And Possible Sequels [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2018 10:00 am EST A couple of weeks back, I sat down with filmmaker Jon Turteltaub to talk about his new movie, The Meg. In the discussion, we talk about how the filmmaker earned a credit on one of Taika Waititi’s early films, his ambitions to make a Marvel or Star Wars movie, transitioning into making a horror movie with jump scares, cinematic inspirations for The Meg, the existence of the real Megladon, the possibility of Meg sequels, where to draw the line between logic and fun in a big blockbuster, the possibility of National Treasure 3, and the It’s A Small World movie he’s developing....