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Everything We Learned About ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ At Star Wars Celebration By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2017 10:21 am EST Star Wars Celebration had their panel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi this morning, and as expected, it delivered the first teaser trailer for the sequel, along with an awesome teaser poster. But along with the goods that fans have been waiting months to see, there were some interesting details about the film that came out during the discussion with director Rian Johnson, producer Kathleen Kennedy and stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Mark Hamill....

Exclusive Interview: Paul Scheer On Piranha 3-D, Its Surprising Jaws Connection, “Rambo-Level Gore,” And Nude Wild Wild Girls By Hunter Stephenson/June 26, 2009 8:13 am EST This summer, /Film considered traveling to the set of Piranha 3-D. Witnessing unlikely co-stars Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Adam Scott, and completely naked bimbos battling (or getting devoured by) killer fish at the command of horror director Alex Aja is what the season is all about, no?...

Frank Miller Can’t Even Watch Batman Movies By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2014 1:00 pm EST For better or worse, Frank Miller helped define superheroes in the ’80s with his grim and often violent stories featuring Marvel’s Daredevil and DC’s Batman. His work on those books had an influence that is felt in comics and film today, 30 years after the publication of some of Miller’s work. The most recent run of Batman films, directed by Christopher Nolan, bore significant Miller influence, not least being the title The Dark Knight....

Germain’s Top Ten Films Of 2013 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2013 11:00 am EST Looking back on 2013, it’s hard to spot one overriding trend other than “great.” Like any other year, the superhero movies, sequels, adaptations and remakes were present, but most of them were disposable and forgettable. The greatness in 2013, not surprisingly, was from the original and unexpected movies. Films born out of the mind of talented, creative people which were executed to delightful and sometimes heartbreaking perfection....

How Steven Spielberg Filmed The ‘Ready Player One’ Oasis Scenes [Updated] By Ben Pearson/March 16, 2018 11:30 am EST In Ready Player One, much of the action takes place inside a virtual universe called the Oasis – a vast collection of digital planets where people can be whoever they want to be and basically do whatever they want. We know director Steven Spielberg put his actors in performance capture suits to film those sequences, but what did their physical set actually look like during production?...

Interview: J.J. Abrams Talks About Abandoning George Lucas’ Treatments And Lessons Of The Star Wars Prequels By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2015 9:00 am EST Since it was announced that J.J. Abrams was going to direct Episode 7 of the Star Wars saga, he hasn’t talked too deeply about the process of developing the new film. So when I had the opportunity to talk to Abrams at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens press junket, I was filled with questions about how his vision of the next episode of Star Wars came about....

Kevin Feige Explains How ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Plays With The Rules Of The Quantum Realm By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2018 11:00 am EST Many fans believe that the Quantum Realm may be the key to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At the core of Ant-Man and the Wasp is a rescue mission to the Quantum Realm. The advertising has shown us that Michelle Pfeiffer’s character Janet Van Dyne has aged while living in this sub-atomic world....

Movies Sold At Sundance 2015: A Complete & Updated Guide By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2015 1:55 pm EST These are the movies sold at Sundance 2015. Many of the films that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival are hoping to attract a distributor and find a bigger audience, be it in theaters around the country or distributed through digital VOD. Throughout the festival we will be reporting on all of the movies sold at Sundance 2015....

Oliver Stone Interviewed Vladimir Putin For A New Showtime Documentary; Watch The Teaser By Ben Pearson/May 3, 2017 12:00 pm EST Here’s something I didn’t see coming: director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street) sat down with Russian president Vladimir Putin to interview him for a documentary called The Putin Interviews, which will air on Showtime as a four-hour, four-night event. Watch the first teaser trailer and read all about the new doc below....

Oscar Nomination Predictions: Dark Knight Seems Certain To Challenge Slumdog And Benjamin Button By Steve Mason/Jan. 21, 2009 9:46 am EST Thursday morning at 5:30am pacific, the Academy Award nominations will be announced. For a movie junkie like me, this is one of the highlights of the year. I have diligently seen every major awards contender and informally surveyed Academy voters in order to divine which five will be nominated in each category, and I’m ready to reveal my predix now....

Peter Jackson And Guillermo Del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions By Peter Sciretta/May 24, 2008 4:21 pm EST Guillermo has already begun sketching design ideas in his notebook. The plan is to write and start early conceptual designs for the rest of the year. 2009 will be dedicated to pre-production on both movies and 2010 will be the year the films are shot back to back “with a small break to breathe and to reconstruct certain sets and have time to reassess”...

Sequel Bits: ‘Blade Runner 2’, ‘Prometheus 2’, ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Catching Fire’, ‘Grown Ups 2’, ‘Piranha 3DD’, ‘Men In Black 3’ By Angie Han/May 17, 2012 1:30 pm EST After years away from sci-fi, director Ridley Scott is returning to the genre in a big way this summer with Prometheus, and he aims to stick around for a while. Scott already has hopes of working on Prometheus 2 sooner rather than later, and is currently in the middle of developing some kind of sequel to Blade Runner....

Spacey, Creepy, Female-Led Comics You Should Read After Revisiting ‘Alien’ By /Film Staff/Sept. 19, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Comic Book Drive-In, a series where comic and movie fans Jazmine Joyner and Rosie Knight recommend brand new, ongoing, and completed comic book series that tie into classic films and new releases.) Alien is undoubtedly one of the best films ever made and it has been terrifying audiences for nearly 40 years now....

The 20 Best Movie Posters Of 2017 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2017 11:00 am EST We’re close to the end of 2017, and as we rush to catch up on some of the awards season contenders in order to finalize our lists of the Top 10 Movies of 2017 (coming next week), it’s time to take a look back at the year in cinema. Before we ever see a trailer for a movie, we’ll often see a teaser poster that tries to set the stage for what’s to come on the big screen....

The Best Movies Leaving Netflix In September 2016 By Jacob Hall/Aug. 29, 2016 12:00 pm EST While next month will see a number of great movies arriving on Netflix, it will also see more than a few must-see films vanish. Here are the movies leaving Netflix in September 2016 that you need to catch before they’re gone. The Bridge on the River Kwai Nobody wants to admit it, but let’s face it: sometimes you look at older movies, at undisputed classics, and see them as homework....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In May 2018 By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2018 3:30 pm EST April showers bring May flowers, and also, new TV shows and movies on Netflix. Next month brings more great movies to Netflix, including Pixar’s latest, a misunderstood Ryan Gosling movie, a superior superhero sequel, a Bourne movie, and more. Check out the best new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in May 2018 below....

The Strange Case Of ‘Lady Bird’ And Rotten Tomatoes (Or: Why We Should All Just Calm Down) By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 13, 2017 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: why we should all step back and take a deep breath before we continue talking about the Lady Bird Rotten Tomatoes score.) Welcome to another day of Rotten Tomatoes scandal!...

This Week In Trailers: Cool It, Boxing Gym, Marwencol, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Dead Set By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 22, 2010 5:00 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?...

This Week In Trailers: North Face, Bushido 16, Jerry Cotton, The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers, Red Riding By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 1, 2010 8:00 am EST Director Philipp Stölzl is the modern equivalent, in my eyes, of a video director who dreams of doing something more than just blocking lip-synching bands where to thrust their crotch. Some video directors ought to stay video directors while some, from time to time, surprise you with what they are able to produce with a full-length feature....

This Week In Trailers: Ready, Set, Bag!, The Socalled Movie, I Am Worthless, Prince Of Broadway By Christopher Stipp/July 30, 2010 1:00 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?...