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Fantastic Fest Day 2: ‘Border’ Is A Beautifully Executed Bad Idea, ‘Apostle’ Delivers Vicious Thrills, And ‘One Cut Of The Dead’ Is The Best Zombie Comedy In Years By Jacob Hall/Sept. 22, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest, day two. In this diary entry: a deranged stop-motion allegory, an unpredictable thriller from the writer of Let the Right One In, a new horror movie from The Raid director Gareth Evans, quite possibly the best comedy of 2018, and a horror movie with an auspicious title....

Full ‘Black Panther’ Cast Revealed As Film Goes Into Production By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2017 12:56 pm EST Marvel Studios have officially begun production on Black Panther, and Disney has released a press release announcing the full cast of the upcoming 2018 superhero movie. Who has joined the Black Panther cast? Find out after the jump and read a new plot synopsis for the movie. Disney confirms previously announced actors: Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, Michael B....

Interview: ‘The Invitation’ Director Karyn Kusama On Crafting Her Unsettling Thriller By Jack Giroux/April 8, 2016 9:00 am EST Director Karyn Kusama made her directorial debut in 2000 with the critically acclaimed Girlfight. Her sophomore effort was the 2005 adaptation Æon Flux, which she didn’t have enough creative control over. Kusama’s third feature, 2009’s Jennifer’s Body, while divisive, isn’t without its fans. Since making that horror-comedy, Kusama has directed episodes for Halt and Catch Fire and The Man in the High Castle, but after a six-year wait, the director’s newest film, The Invitation, is now opening in theaters....

Movie Review: State Of Play, Or Why Newspapers Are Still Important By David Chen/April 17, 2009 4:36 am EST As recently as January 2009, industry observers speculated that The New York Times might go out of business before the end of the year, crushed under the weight of insurmountable debt. In the January/February 2009 issue of The Atlantic, Michael Hirschorn asked, “Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print…But what if the old media dies much more quickly?...

New ‘Ready Player One’ Images Released Ahead Of The Trailer On Sunday By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 8, 2017 11:30 am EST Are you ready for a new Ready Player One trailer? If not, you can prepare yourself with a few new images from Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi movie. Several new images from the virtual reality movie Ready Player One have been released in advance of the second trailer for the film, which arrives on Sunday....

Page 2: Avatar, Shaun Of The Dead, Star Wars, Monty Python, Pixar, Michael Giacchino, Exorcist, Game Of Thrones, Drive, Community, Simpsons, The Shining, Hunger Games, Spirited Away, Sons Of Anarchy By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 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 68 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Rumor Mill: Is Disney Planning A Marvel Animated Movie? By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2012 12:30 pm EST When it was announced in 2009 that Disney had purchased Marvel, many wondered if the mouse house would adapt any of the superhero stories into animated features. When the deal was announced, CEO Bob Iger mentioned that they “talked about this internally” and that Pixar head John Lasseter had already “talked to the Marvel guys” about possibilities “and they all got excited about it....

Screenwriter Talks Rushed Production Of Tarsem Singh’s ‘Comedic Adventure’ ‘Snow White’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2011 7:00 am EST Unless you’ve been staring into your mirror, mirror on the wall for the past year, you know there are two competing Snow White films being released in 2012. There’s Universal’s dark, epic action film Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by Rupert Sanders, starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron and then there’s Relativity’s lighter, family-oriented Snow White, directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Lily Collins (above), Armie Hammer and Julia Roberts....

See Guardians Of The Galaxy And The Avengers Team Up Before ‘Infinity War’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 24, 2017 10:30 am EST Marvel Studios provided confirmation that the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers would meet on the big screen in Avengers: Infinity War when they released a video after the first day of shooting had commenced. We still have over a year to wait before that epic, live-action team-up takes place, but both of those heroic groups will actually meet much sooner…in cartoon form....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Spider-Man, Robin, Ryan Gosling, DC, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2011 12:00 pm EST Want to see Spider-Man being a real-life menace on two continents? How about a Chinese interpretation of the Batman origin story? Is Ryan Gosling a real life superhero? What does Loki look like in the streets of Cleveland on the set of The Avengers and what epic shot did he reveal in an interview?...

Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell By Hunter Stephenson/March 7, 2010 12:36 am EST Weekend Weirdness’ favorite J.C. directed a nearly three hour epic about The King starring his main man Snake Plissken, and yet the film was at risk of being forgotten by younger generations. How could this occur when the movie in question, John Carpenter’s Elvis, is arguably a better country music biopic than Walk the Line, and exudes an unpretentious but fetching style reminiscent of Hal Ashby’s Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory?...

What If Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher Didn’t Want To Return For ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 2, 2016 11:30 am EST Last night the Salt Lake Comic-Con kicked off over in Utah, and one of the first guests of honor was Star Wars saga star Mark Hamill. The actor took the stage for a panel that he wanted to be “more like an intimate conversation.” As Hamill said to kick off the panel, “I want to talk to you like you are sitting in my living room....

You’re All Doomed! The Friday The 13th Movies Ranked From Worst To Best By Jacob Hall/Jan. 13, 2017 10:00 am EST Over the past week, I’ve been revisiting the Friday the 13th series with one simple, stupid goal: I was going to rank every single person killed by Jason Voorhees (and his fellow murderers) in the entire series. There turned out to be 181 of them and I ranked them here and here....

‘Bumblebee’ Gives Original ‘Transformers’ Fans The Correction They’ve Been Waiting For [Comic-Con 2018] By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2018 9:00 am EST Even though the fan presence for Transformers is high at San Diego Comic-Con, the Paramount Pictures film franchise mostly stayed away from the convention center itself when it comes to promoting its upcoming would-be blockbuster. But it sounds like the studio might have something to prove with their first Transformers spin-off focusing on Optimus Prime’s right-hand Autobot....

Hidden Figures Sneak Peek Recap Hidden Figures follows the stories of three women who worked in the “Colored Computers” department (distinct from the all-white “East Computers” department). Mathematician Katherine Johnson (Henson), acting division head Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer), and engineer Mary Jackson (Monáe). The scenes we saw were unfinished, with temporary sound and music, picture, effects, etc., but all together, they suggested a moving film anchored by the friendship between the women, and smart about the countless ways, their race and gender have stacked the deck against them....

‘Justice League’ Actor Joe Morton Shot More Cyborg Scenes That Could End Up In Solo ‘Cyborg Movie [Exclusive] By Fred Topel/Aug. 6, 2018 6:30 am EST Terminator 2: Judgment Day star Joe Morton was on a Television Critics Association panel for his new CBS show God Friended Me. He plays the estranged father of an atheist podcaster (Brandon Michael Hall) who begins getting Facebook requests from God. The father/son relationship is further complicated because Morton’s character is a preacher, but there’s a different father/son relationship that you likely want to know more about from a certain DC Comics movie....

‘Mile 22’ Star Lauren Cohan On Training With Navy SEALs And The Peter Berg Experience [Set Visit Interview] By Jack Giroux/June 6, 2018 7:00 am EST Curt is a part of Jimmy Silva’s (Mark Wahlberg) team trying to get a corrupt cop (Iko Uwais) with valuable info out of Southeast Asia, but along the 22-mile journey of gunfire and explosions, everything goes sideways. While filming an action movie sometimes sounds like a rigid experience, that’s not the case for a Peter Berg movie....

‘Mr Robot’ Season 3 Finale: What The Twists Mean For Season 4 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 15, 2017 7:30 am EST The Mr. Robot season 3 finale may have tied up plenty of loose ends, but it left us with even more questions. Where will Elliot go now? What will Angela do with that earth-shattering revelation from Philip Price? And just what is up with that end credits scene? The third season of Sam Esmail’s dark hacker series hurdled toward its finale earlier this week, only to quietly wrap up with a return to the beginning....

‘Sky Ladder’ Trailer: “Cai Guo-Qiang’s Next Creation Will Ignite The World” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2016 12:37 pm EST Next month, Netflix will be releasing a new documentary film titled Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang. The film takes a look at a revolutionary new contemporary artist who creates art that is beautiful, explosive, and can only be experienced in a singular moment. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Touching the Void) film chronicle’s Cai’s journey to create his most ambitious piece yet, a 1,650 foot ladder of fire that will connect Earth with the universe....

7 Lesser Known Stephen King Works That Would Make Great Movies By Chris Evangelista/April 7, 2017 9:30 am EST Film adaptations of Stephen King novels are experiencing a popular resurgence. Recently, the trailer for the new take on King’s It (opening on September 8, 2017) set a new record for the most trailer views in 24 hours. On the horizon, there are theatrical takes on The Dark Tower and 1922 (based on a novella in King’s Full Dark, No Stars), a Netflix adaptation of King’s 1992 novel Gerald’s Game, a TV series remake of The Mist, a series based on King’s 2014 novel Mr....