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Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Talks For Rian Johnson’s Looper And David Koepp’s Premium Rush By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 8:24 pm EST Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to star in two upcoming action films: Possibly reuniting with Brick director Rian Johnson for his third film, a sci-fi thriller titled Looper. And a on-the-run chase thriller directed by David Koepp titled Premium Rush. More information on both projects, after the jump. Johnson has described Looper as being “really violent and dark”, frequently comparing it to the work of Phillip K Dick and the first Terminator film....

Kevin Feige On Spider-Man’s MCU Future, Joss Whedon’s ‘Batgirl’, Josh Brolin In ‘Deadpool’ & More By Ben Pearson/April 18, 2017 1:00 pm EST Last night, Marvel Studios opened its doors to the press for the first time on the Disney lot and studio president Kevin Feige provided a number of quotes about a myriad of topics, including former Marvel stalwart Joss Whedon’s move to Warner Bros. and DC with Batgirl, Feige’s plans for Spider-Man’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a lot more....

Rumor: Will DJ Caruso Direct ‘Preacher’? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2011 4:00 pm EST [Update: Kevin Smith has corrected some of our history regarding Preacher’s development. See below for details. Original article follows.] It has been a while since we’ve gotten a solid update on the big screen adaptation of the beloved Vertigo comic book series Preacher. A couple years back, Columbia Pictures picked up the rights and hired American Beauty/Road to Perdition director Sam Mendes to helm the project, but the filmmaker dropped out to pursue Bond....

Small-Screen Stream: ‘Succession,’ ‘Dark Tourist,’ And Other Great Streaming Shows To Fall Into This Week By Lindsey Romain/Aug. 22, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Small-Screen Stream, a feature where we share the best television shows streaming and where you can watch them.) As promised in my last column, I’m back to a totally random assortment of streaming TV shows this week. There’s no real through-line to any of these – with one exception, which you’ll see below – as it’s really just a sampling of everything I’m watching (and you should be watching) as summer comes to a close....

Sundance Hit ‘Being Elmo’ Will Hit Theaters In October 2011 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 9, 2011 7:00 am EST Coming out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of the stories people seemed most eager to tell was how they cried their little hearts out after seeing Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. The documentary, directed by Constance Marks, is about Kevin Clash, the man behind the famous Sesame Street character Elmo. It simultaneously tells the tale of how he was able to turn his unique dream – to be a puppeteer – into reality while also chronicling the rise of Jim Henson and the Muppets....

Superhero Bits: Kevin Smith Returns To Supergirl, Hawkeye May Get A Mohawk & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2017 5:00 pm EST Want to see a fanmade trailer for Man of Steel 2 with Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam? Do Nightwing and Harley Quinn have sex in the Batman and Harley Quinn animated movie? Was Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition getting an IMAX release at one point? Does Jeremy Renner have a mohawk in Avengers: Infinity War?...

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s New K-Pop Superhero, Suicide Squad Animated Movie Voice Cast & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2018 6:00 pm EST Are you ready for Marvel’s new K-Pop superhero? Did you know Loki almost got a totally new haircut in Thor: Ragnarok? Who is voicing Deadshot in the Suicide Squad animated movie? Would Guardians of the Galaxy have gotten made if Marvel Studios had the rights to X-Men? Will there be any new Marvel shows coming to ABC this year?...

Caleb Landry Jones In just a few short years, Caleb Landry Jones has established himself as one of the squirreliest, most intense, and most unpredictable young actors of his generation. A decade ago, he made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it debut in the Coens’ masterpiece No Country for Old Men as one of the boys who help Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh after a car accident. Since then, Jones has had roles on two of the best modern TV dramas (Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad), played a young mutant in X-Men: First Class, and co-starred in indie films directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brandon Cronenberg, and others....

The Best Summer Sports Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/July 27, 2012 10:00 am EST The 2012 Summer Olympics are in full swing and you know what that means: once again you are looking up the definition of the word “dressage.” The sports film, when done right, can be one of the most exhilarating genres of all. And once you get past The Fighter, The Sandlot and Hoosiers you’ll find that there are more and more treasures out there....

The Rise And Fall And Rise Again Of Shark Week (And Thoughts On The 2017 Edition) By Vanessa Bogart/Aug. 3, 2017 2:00 pm EST When Jaws premiered in 1975, it created panic. Even for new viewers, seeing those soulless black eyes and hearing that music it changes you. Slasher movies made you weary of what could be hiding behind the shower curtain – Jaws made you afraid of any body of water....

What Is ‘Altered Carbon’? Everything You Need To Know About Netflix’s New Cyberpunk Show By Alex Riviello/Jan. 31, 2018 10:00 am EST Altered Carbon has finally been adapted for television and the entire first season hits Netflix this Friday. It’s impossible for many folks to watch the trailers, which depict a colorful, futuristic cyberpunk adventure, and not immediately think of Blade Runner, but this show is based on a novel and that novel is very much its own beast....

Why does everyone want to go back to Jakku?! As reactions to The Last Jedi filtered in, it became clear that the film was flipping a narrative off-screen as well as on-screen: usually, highly anticipated blockbusters receive a snooty thumbs down from critics and an enthusiastic thumbs up from audiences (see: Batman v. Superman). But The Last Jedi has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and surprisingly negative responses from audiences....

Why J.J. Abrams Believes The Force Is More Inclusive Than Midi-Chlorians And Bloodlines By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2015 11:30 am EST Over the weekend I talked exclusively to J.J. Abrams about his new film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That whole conversation will be posted at a later time, but I thought I’d share one answer that I personally found very interesting. Its no secret that George Lucas based a lot of the Star Wars saga on Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, and over the past four decades we’ve seen a lot of films employing the “Chosen One” trope....

/Answers: The Movies That Define Our Childhood By /Film Staff/March 30, 2018 12:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we answer a new pop culture-related question. In this edition, tying in with the release of Ready Player One, we ask “What movie defines your childhood? What nostalgic favorite floats to the top of your brain whenever your think back on your early film fandom?” Vanessa Bogart: Labyrinth My dad was a music fanatic and indoctrinated us into the gospel of David Bowie at a young age....

‘Doctor Who’ To Feature Its First Openly Gay Companion By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 3, 2017 1:30 pm EST Doctor Who may go down in history as the longest-running British sci-fi show, but it will make history again in its upcoming 10th season of the new Who franchise that began in 2005. The Doctor’s newest companion (the designated title for his permanent sidekick) played by Pearl Mackie, will be the first openly gay one in the show’s 50-plus year run....

/Film Interview: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Directors Joe And Anthony Russo By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2014 2:15 pm EST When Marvel announced Joe and Anthony Russo would be directing Captain America: The Winter Soldier, reactions were mixed. Sure the pair had worked on some awesome TV shows like Arrested Development and Community, but movie-wise Welcome to Colinwood and You, Me and Dupree didn’t exactly scream “superhero.” Then we saw the new movie....

‘Iron Man 3’ Proved That Marvel Works, Even When It Doesn’t By Siddhant Adlakha/April 10, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask “How did we get here?” In this edition: Iron Man 3 brings a personal new style to the MCU, even as it stumbles in the homestretch.) Marvel needed to prove exactly one thing after The Avengers, and that was the possibility of different kinds of stories....

‘Jaws’ Blu-Ray Details Announced By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2012 11:00 am EST Universal Home Video has announced that Steven Spielberg’s JAWS will finally be released on Blu-ray on August 14th, 2012. The blu-ray release will include an all-new, digitally remastered and fully restored picture, as well as 7.1 surround sound. The film is one of 13 classic films that Universal has selected to be digitally remastered and fully restored from 35mm original film elements as part of Universal’s ongoing 100th Anniversary celebration....

‘The Mummy’ Featurette: Tom Cruise Gets The Crap Kicked Out Of Him By Jack Giroux/Dec. 5, 2016 3:00 pm EST Tom Cruise brings a lot of respectability to The Mummy. More than one would maybe expect from the first entry in the potential Universal Monster Movie Universe, partly because it’s following up the disastrous Van Helsing, The Wolfman, and, a movie erased from the new world of monsters, Dracula Untold. Universal has struggled to bring their iconic monsters back to the big screen in the past, but Cruise’s involvement in this universe, especially after seeing him in the solid trailer, inspires some confidence — and maybe because you know you’re usually in for a fun time with most movies starring Tom Cruise....

‘Tully’ Early Buzz: Charlize Theron Stuns In Another Stellar Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody Collaboration By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2018 8:00 am EST Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman are something of an indie dream team. The duo’s first collaboration produced the sharply funny Juno, which became one of the most over-quoted films in the last decade, and helped catapult Cody and stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera to fame. While their second film together, the bleak and sardonic Young Adult, didn’t quite permeate pop culture like Juno, it established the duo’s easy, whip-smart rapport....