2012: A Year In Movie Mistakes By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2012 2:59 pm EST At their core, all narrative features are lies. We can will ourselves to believe we’re watching superheroes save Manhattan, but we know deep down that what we’re really seeing is costumed actors zipping around on wires and jumping in front of green screens. And like all great, big whoppers, the more moving parts there are, the more difficult it gets to keep everything straight....
Actors’ Unions Tell Members Not To Work On ‘The Hobbit’; Peter Jackson Threatens To Shoot In Eastern Europe By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2010 12:03 pm EST It’s getting ugly in Middle-Earth. Despite the fact that the future status of The Hobbit has not yet been determined as MGM struggles back to solvency, work on the film has moved forward. But an actors’ organization in New Zealand is pressuring Peter Jackson and the production to draw up a new contract “providing minimum guarantees on wages and working conditions, residual payments, and cancellation payments to actors engaged on the production....
Darth Maul Voice Actor Sam Witwer On Returning To The Galaxy With ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ [Interview] By Bryan Young/Sept. 13, 2018 2:00 pm EST Darth Maul has been in the collective conscious for 20 years. His debut was in 1998 with the release of the first trailer for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. That film is aging better than anyone expected, and one of the key ingredients in that mix was this enigmatic villain....
Idris Elba Talks ‘The Dark Tower,’ Playing Roland Deschain, And The Reaction To His Casting By Jacob Hall/July 14, 2016 9:30 am EST It’s hard to imagine a more perfect actor for the role of Roland Deschain than Idris Elba, a man who contains all of the swagger and weariness you’d want from a knight-cowboy wandering a fantastical post-apocalypse in pursuit of the warlock who destroyed his world and plans to end existence as we know it....
James Gunn Answers All Of Your Frequently Asked Guardians Vol 2 Questions By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2016 11:00 am EST One of the many things I love about James Gunn is how available he makes himself to the fans and how honest and communicative he is in these interactions. Yesterday the Guardians of the Galaxy writer/director took to Facebook to post a long list of answers to your most frequently asked questions about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2....
Let’s Talk About That ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Credits Scene By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2017 6:00 pm EST Kong: Skull Island isn’t just a new take on the classic movie monster that originated on the big screen back in 1933. It’s also the second film in the new cinematic universe that launched with Gareth Edwards’ new take on Godzilla in 2014. Though Kong: Skull Island takes place all the way back in 1973, it prominently features the government organization Monarch, the same department that kept the existence of Godzilla and other monsters under wraps in Edwards’ film....
Margot Robbie Pitched The Harley Quinn Movie As An “R-Rated Girl Gang Film” By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 9, 2018 12:30 pm EST Harley Quinn has had a meteoric rise to the front of Warner Bros.’ DC film slate, becoming the focus of three potential movie projects. And that’s based solely off of Margot Robbie’s splashy appearance in 2016’s Suicide Squad — and the marketability of the character’s striking costume to the Hot Topic crowd....
Meet The New Toy Story 3 Characters: Trixie And Stretch By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2010 10:00 am EST As you may have noticed over the past weeks, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar’s Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. A couple weeks ago, we premiered an exclusive look at one of the new toys from the daycare center – Twitch....
MondoCon 2015 Posters: A Complete Gallery Of All The New Art By Jacob Hall/Oct. 6, 2015 7:00 am EST Once upon a time, Mondo sold T-shirts in a tiny shop in the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Austin, Texas. Now, they’re one of the most popular purveyors of high-end pop culture art on the internet, with their posters and collectibles literally selling out within seconds of going on sale. The company had grown big enough to host its own convention, so lo and behold, MondoCon made its debut in 2014....
These Movies Sold at Sundance 2016 We will be updating this post with 2016 Sundance Film Festival acquisitions throughout the festival. The post is organized from newest to oldest, with the latest acquisitions on the top. Belgica Acquired: February 17By: NetflixPurchase Price:Director: Felix van GroeningenStarring: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène DevosOther Info: Global exclusive SVOD rightsPlot Synopsis: Belgica is the story of two brothers: charismatic and temperamental Frank—a husband, father, and an incurable womanizer—and his ambitious-but-green, one-eyed younger brother Jo, who owns a dive bar called Belgica....
Page 2: Die Hard, Steve Jobs, The Walking Dead, Rose McGowan, The Transporter, Zooey Deschanel, Splash, Game Of Thrones, Terminator, Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2011 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 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....
Paramount Projects Revealed: Kathryn Bigelow To Direct Will Smith?, Movement On Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 17, 2010 10:00 pm EST Assuming that the majority of this information is valid, there are going to be about two dozen worth of news stories crammed in one here, so brace yourselves. According to a leaked email exposing Paramount’s upcoming movie slate, they’re going to be pretty busy over the next few years, working on a slew of potentially promising projects that are either set to go ahead or awaiting further script developments....
Sequel Bits: ‘It: Chapter 2’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘The Nun’, And More By Ben Pearson/July 18, 2018 3:30 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Jessica Chastain shares a new photo from It: Chapter 2 The Shape towers over a victim in an awesome new Comic-Con exclusive Halloween poster Christopher Lloyd gives an update about Back to the Future 4 New books and comics are coming that will be set in the Blade Runner universe And more!...
Superhero Bits: Cute Kid Reenacts Black Panther Challenge Scene, New Shazam Set Photos & More By Ethan Anderton/March 6, 2018 5:00 pm EST How is the Helboy reboot more loyal to the comics than Guillermo del Toro’s films? Did you hear Henry Cavill was wrongly believed to be dead a few days ago? Are you ready for an adorable kid to reenact the Black Panther challenge scene and make your day better?...
Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Man Of Steel, Iron Man, Dark Knight Rises, Kick-Ass By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 1:30 pm EST Want to see a half-naked girl driving the Batmobile? What’s the latest on the Amazing Spider-Man viral? Has Edward Norton seen The Avengers yet? Should Joss Whedon direct The Avengers 2? Which Dark Knight Rises commercial tie in qualifies as the saddest ever? What would it look like if Tony Stark created his Iron Man suit in 1984?...
The 10 Best Television Spin-Offs Of All Time By Alex Riviello/April 10, 2017 9:00 am EST The successful television spin-off has a high wire act to maintain. It has to differentiate itself from its source material while maintaining enough of what fans love so they’ll come along with it in the first place. But for every Better Call Saul there are a dozen Joeys – spin-offs that fail right from the start....
The Monday Morning ‘Deadpool’ Review: A Spoiler-Filled Dive Into The Surprising Smash Hit By Jacob Hall/Feb. 15, 2016 9:00 am EST If we’re going to be entirely honest with one another, I was kind of dreading Deadpool. I love superhero movies and I have often enjoyed the character of Deadpool in the pages of Marvel comic books, but I had so little faith in any attempt to bring him to the screen....
The Water Cooler: Theme Park Vloggers, Reading ‘The Dark Tower’ For The First Time, And ‘Hedwig And The Angry Inch’ On Stage By /Film Staff/June 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: a very entertaining videoblogger who regularly gives theme park updates, revisiting the 2013 Tomb Raiderr video game, reading Stephen King’s The Gunslinger for the first time, witnessing The Infinite Wrench, exploring Wellington, New Zealand, and seeing Hedwig and the Angry Inch live on stage....
This Week In Trailers: Espérance, Meet Me There, For No Good Reason, Maidentrip, $50K And A Call Girl By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 4, 2014 10:00 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?...
Universal May Not Be Holding Up Marvel’s Future Plans For Hulk After All By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 2015 1:00 pm EST Back in April, during publicity rounds for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, some new information surfaced regarding the future of The Incredible Hulk, and whether or not Marvel Studios had plans for Mark Ruffalo to get his own solo Hulk movie. A somewhat surprising reason surfaced as to why a new Hulk movie wasn’t in the works....
