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James Cameron Still Pushing Film Industry To Project Movies At 60 Frames Per Second By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2011 9:53 am EST Where would James Cameron be without a new technological crusade? And where would cinema be without his techie goals? The director was at the forefront of the adoption of digital effects, and that worked out pretty well for movies. He was the standard-bearer in the new push for 3D, and that hasn’t been such a great thing so far....

James Franco Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ Does Not Impress Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill Or Steve Martin By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2017 9:00 am EST James Franco returned to host Saturday Night Live for his fourth time last night, and while the Christmas episode of the season is still a week away, the writers couldn’t help but dig into the holidays a bit for a satisfying episode overall. Perhaps the reason this episode was mostly a success was because they chose to tackle politics in a way that didn’t require actually portraying any of the sleazeball politicians from both sides of the aisle and figured out a clever way to deal with the horrors of everyday’s news headlines....

Louis C.K. Accused Of Sexual Misconduct; ‘I Love You, Daddy’ Release Officially Canceled [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Nov. 10, 2017 6:50 am EST Update 3: Louis C.K. has issued a statement where he says “These stories are true” and “I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.” You can read the full statement here....

Movie Posters: Battle: Los Angeles, The Smurfs, The Fighter, The Green Hornet By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2010 2:30 pm EST A few new movie posters have hit the multiplex today, and are online for all the enjoy. Hit the jump to check out the first one-sheets for The Smurfs, Battle: Los Angeles, The Green Hornet, and a better poster for The Fighter. The Smurfs (via: Ropeofsilicon): Official Info: Audiences everywhere are in for a Smurfy good time as the Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen....

Movie Review: ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part I’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2010 4:00 pm EST It’s the beginning of the end for Harry Potter. The seventh film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, breaks half of JK Rowling’s final Potter novel into a film of its own. The result is rather unlike anything else in the series, and, despite the not-quite cliffhanger structure that results, one of the most satisfying Potter films....

NYCC: The First 45 Minutes Of Pixar’s Up By David Chen/Feb. 8, 2009 12:21 pm EST Last night at the New York Comic-Con, the IGN Theater was cleared for a special screening of the first 45 minutes of Pixar’s new film, Up. Only the first 300 people in line (plus a few dozen people approved by the studio) were allowed access to the footage. Director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera took to the stage beforehand to let us know that the footage we were about to see was slightly incomplete, with music still yet to be done, sound effects yet to be recorded, and some CGI still missing [For the record, they could have fooled me: The footage we saw looked great and didn’t have any placeholder storyboards or animatics....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 2:27 am EST Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Orlando United has photos of the exterior and queue area of Disney’s new Toy Story Mania. I love the mini-replica of Pixar Studios.David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” has signed on to write, direct and produce his first feature film for Paramount Pictures....

Page 2: Firefly, Terminator, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Up, Rushmore, Will Smith, Transformers, David Lynch, Big Trouble In Little China, Seth Macfarlane, Iron Giant, Arnold Schwarzenegger By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Sundance 2012 Announces Feature And Documentary Premieres By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2011 2:00 pm EST As potentially exciting as the in competition and out of competition films that will play the 2012 Sundance Film Festival are, the fact is most people haven’t heard of them yet. The Premiere category, though, that’s where the big movies are. Or, at least, the movies with the big names. This year’s line up with is no exception with stand-outs including Spike Lee’s latest Red Hook Summer, Stephen Frears’ gambling film Lay the Favorite with Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rebecca Hall, Josh Radnor’s sophomore effort, Liberal Arts with Elizabeth Olson and Joe Berlinger’s latest documentary focusing on Paul Simon....

Super Nintendo World Concept Art Reveals Zelda’s Kingdom, Donkey Kong Country & More By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2017 10:00 am EST Some new Super Nintendo World concept art has appeared online, giving us a much clearer idea of what to expect from Universal Studios upcoming Nintendo-themed land. The images also reveal where the first United States version of the theme park land will be constructed. Hit the jump to find out....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Avengers 2, Amazing Spider-Man, Flash, Dark Knight Returns, Wonder Woman By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2013 12:29 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to see more concept art from the above Flash video game, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Avengers? How is Joss Whedon balancing Avengers 2 and S.H.I.E.L.D.? Is David Goyer proud of Man of Steel? Does Famke Janssen think she’ll be in X-Men: Days of Future Past?...

Superhero Bits: Nebula’s New BFF, Wonder Woman Passes $400 Million, Deadpool 2 Set Photos & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2017 5:00 pm EST How did Gal Gadot celebrate Wonder Woman hitting $400 million at the domestic box office? Is John Ridley still working on a TV series for Marvel? Which member of the Guardians of the Galaxy is getting a new BFF in Avengers: Infinity War? What did Captain Marvel star Brie Larson think of Wonder Woman?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Man Of Steel, Dark Knight Rises, Stan Lee, Aquaman, Catwoman By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 11:00 am EST Has a toy revealed a huge action beat of The Dark Knight Rises? What present did Henry Cavill buy his crew from Man of Steel? Want to listen to the entire soundtrack from The Avengers? When might we see the Civil War storyline appear in the Marvel universe? If Christopher Nolan’s Batman showed up at your birthday party, would it be a good thing?...

The Best Movies Leaving Netflix In August 2016 By Jacob Hall/July 29, 2016 12:00 pm EST It’s that time again. Netflix has released the list of every movie and television show departing the service next month, so it’s time to program a marathon if you want to catch up on everything you want to see. And if you need some suggestions on what to cram in this weekend before the changeover, we’ve got you covered....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In January By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 14, 2017 10:30 am EST Believe it or not, 2017 is almost over. This long, strange year is at an end, and we’re about to jump into 2018. With a new month and year comes a whole new list of streaming titles on Netflix. So as you drift through the holidays and look to the future, you can also look forward to all these upcoming titles....

The New ‘The Purge’ TV Series Aims To Be As Morally Ambiguous As Its Characters [Set Visit] By Candice Frederick/Aug. 15, 2018 8:00 am EST If there’s one thing The Purge movies have taught us, it’s that there’s no telling how someone will react when presented with criminal impunity. Throughout the films, we’ve seen everyone from the poor to the rich, the white to the black, grapple with the spaces they occupy in a capitalist and white supremacist society, and how that motivates them on the night of the Purge — when all crime, especially murder, is completely legal....

Theme Park Bits: Hall Of Presidents Gets Trumped, Inside Club 33 At Shanghai Disneyland, And Visit Gotham City And Metropolis By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 23, 2017 11:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Get details on the new Up show coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom for its 20th anniversary. More exciting news on the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge development at Disney parks. See surreal video of Trump sharing the stage with Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents....

This Week In Trailers: Hierro, This Movie Is Broken, Notre Jour Viendra (Our Day Will Come), London River By Christopher Stipp/June 4, 2010 3:00 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?...

Truth, Kindness And The American Way: A Non-American Perspective On ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ By Siddhant Adlakha/June 8, 2018 10:00 am EST We’ve grown to detest sincerity, haven’t we? Or at the very least, we as a culture have grown suspicious of it. We have a need to see even the purest of kindness through a lens of the pain and suffering that drive it – friendly, neighborhood Paddington, like the friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man, was an orphan who subsequently lost his uncle – and we view kindness this way only if we aren’t first investigating the potential selfishness driving what we think is pretense....

Video: How Real Is ‘Mindhunter’? And What’s The Deal With That Cat Subplot? By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 25, 2017 11:30 am EST Mindhunter, the new Netflix show from producer David Fincher, continues to have life long after its premiere date. While most Netflix shows have a tendency to fade from the zeitgeist after their initial binge-filled weekend, Mindhunter lingers, with more and more people discovering the serial killer drama every day. With these discovers often comes a question: just how accurate is this show?...