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A Teenage Superman Will Be Coming To ‘Supergirl’ On CBS By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 25, 2015 1:00 pm EST The new DC Comics TV series Supergirl had some strong opening ratings when it debuted, making it the most watched new series premiere of the fall. However, ratings have fallen since then, though not drastically enough for it to be canceled, at least not yet. Now Supergirl may spend some time with her Kryptonian cousin in a future episode, but not exactly how you think....

Alamo Drafthouse Launches VHStival, Celebrating The Glory Days Of VHS By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 18, 2018 2:30 pm EST Many years ago, human beings inserted black rectangles into giant whirring boxes, all for the sake of entertainment. Those were the days of VHS, a format that’s essentially extinct now thanks to the advent of DVD and Blu-ray. While the quality of those later mediums is far superior, a certain nostalgia still swirls around VHS....

Ben Schwartz Will Voice ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’, But Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik Will Be Live-Action By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2018 5:30 am EST Sonic the Hedgehog was a giant hit after debuting on the SEGA Genesis in 1991. Since then, Sonic has spawned endless video games, cartoons, and even the longest running comic book based on a video game. And now he’s getting his own movie, and the actor who will voice the speedy, blue hero has been revealed....

Blumhouse Would Love To Raise The Dark Universe From The Grave By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2018 3:00 pm EST Universal’s Dark Universe tripped over its own feet right out of the gate, and the general assumption is that the planned horror cinematic universe is dead and buried. But should the Dark Universe crawl its way out of the grave, Blumhouse would like to take the reigns. During a Q&A session, Blumhouse head honcho Jason Blum expressed great interest in taking control of Universal’s monsters....

Charlie Hunnam Won’t Be Back For ‘Pacific Rim 2’ But A Lot Of The Original Cast Will Be By Jack Giroux/July 25, 2016 2:15 pm EST UPDATE: Charlie Hunnam is not coming back for Pacific Rim 2. Over the weekend, he spoke to Yahoo Movies and said that he “was forced to exit the production at an early stage due to scheduling conflicts.” So his character Raleigh Becket will not be in the sequel, though Hunnam says he’s still excited to see what they do with the follow-up....

Early Buzz: First Reviews Of Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ From The Cannes Film Festival By Angie Han/May 16, 2012 4:30 pm EST Wes Anderson fans eagerly awaiting Moonrise Kingdom — his first directorial effort since 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and his first live-action feature since 2007’s The Darjeeling Limited — can officially banish any worries that the hipster-prep auteur has lost his touch. Following the film’s world premiere at Cannes, the vast majority of reviews have been somewhere between “mostly positive” and “utterly glowing....

Captain Underpants First off, Peter was not a fan of what he saw from Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s long-running children’s book series. However, he later admitted that he enjoyed the basic look of the animation and the character designs. Captain Underpants looks extremely stupid, if you like paying money for that sort of thing. #CinemaCon2017 — /Film (@slashfilm) March 30, 2017...

How ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is Like ‘Nashville’ And ‘Game Of Thrones’ By Ben Pearson/March 21, 2018 9:30 am EST When looking at a mega-budget blockbuster like Avengers: Infinity War, it’s not much of a stretch to put it in the same relative ballpark as HBO’s super expensive fantasy series Game of Thrones. But while that comparison seems somewhat appropriate in terms of scale, I wouldn’t necessarily think Infinity War has anything in common with director Robert Altman’s 1975 drama Nashville....

How ‘The Purge’ Became The Most Unexpectedly Important Horror Franchise Of The Decade By Candice Frederick/July 4, 2018 8:00 am EST The greatest trick The Purge (2013) ever pulled was convincing us at first that it is your run-of-the-mill home invasion thriller, directing us to think that the protagonists are the typical wealthy white family in the suburbs and the villains are the hoodlums in the streets who’ve waited all year to terrorize them without consequences....

Interview: ‘Logan’ Co-Writer Scott Frank Brings A Superhero Back To Reality By Jack Giroux/March 9, 2017 7:00 am EST Right from the start of Logan, it’s obvious James Mangold’s film isn’t your average superhero movie. Putting aside the R-rating the filmmaker doesn’t waste, there’s also the fact that comic book heroes rarely look as broken and feel as real as Hugh Jackman does in his final outing as the beloved mutant....

James Gunn Defends Superhero Movies Following Awards Season Slams By Angie Han/Feb. 24, 2015 7:00 am EST While indies like Birdman and Whiplash were being feted this weekend, superhero movies were taking a verbal drubbing. On Saturday, Dan Gilroy blasted the “tsunami of superhero movies” while accepting an Independent Spirit Award for Nightcrawler. One day later, Jack Black ranted about “Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Jediman, Sequelman, Prequelman — formulaic scripts!” in the opening number at the Oscars....

James Gunn Guardians 2 Interview: Making A More Personal Comic Book Movie By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2017 10:30 am EST In April 2016, I traveled to Atlanta to visit the set of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. While on set, a group of journalists including myself, sat down with writer/director James Gunn to talk about the highly anticipated Marvel sequel. During the conversation, Gunn tries to clear up Kurt Russell’s role in the film which they were being very vague about during our visit, talks about the 64-page treatment he wrote for the film and how that is different from the shooting draft, Nebula and Gamora’s relationship, shooting scenes in full screen IMAX, explaining Mantis’ role in this story, having no plan-B for Ego, his choice of songs for Awesome Mix Tape #2, the idea to feature Baby Groot in the movie instead of a fully regrown Groot, more information about the film’s villain Ayesha and her alien race....

James Gunn May Break His Own MCU Canon In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’ By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2017 1:00 pm EST Even though Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 just hit theaters over a month ago, James Gunn is already hard at work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Just recently, the director’s brother Sean Gunn said that development isn’t moving as quickly as it otherwise would since part of what happens in the sequel depends on what the Guardians deal with in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4....

Martin Scorsese And Cameron Crowe Remember Their Time With David Bowie By Jack Giroux/Jan. 15, 2016 5:00 am EST This week we lost two great artists far too soon. On Sunday night, we were saddened by the loss of actor and musician David Bowie. Today, we heard about Alan Rickman’s passing. The two men were beloved, and so far we’ve seen nothing but an outpouring of passionate responses to the legacies they leave behind....

Page 2: BTTF, GoT, Doctor Who, LEGO, Star Wars, Robocop, Frozen, Fight Club By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2014 1:00 pm EST 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 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Peter Jackson Answers High Frame Rate ‘Hobbit’ Questions; Plus Animal Controversy And A New Sculpture By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 1:02 pm EST Advance tickets for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are now on sale, and anyone buying has a big question to answer: how do we want to see Peter Jackson’s latest J.R.R. Tolkien film? The choices are plentiful: 2D, 3D, IMAX 3D or HFR 3D. Then you have a preview of Star Trek Into Darkness to factor in, too....

Sequel Bits: ‘Friday The 13th Part 13,’ ‘Mission: Impossible 6,’ ‘Jurassic World 2,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ By Jacob Hall/Feb. 3, 2017 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: The new Friday the 13th is still on and it’s apparently titled Friday the 13th Part 13. Mission: Impossible 6 is looking to film in Paris. Bryce Dallas Howard says Jurassic World 2 is about to begin filming. Escape Plan 2 is still happening and it will be a Chinese co-production....

Sequel Bits: ‘Smurfs 3,’ ‘Hancock 2,’ ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘56 Up,’ ‘MIB 3,’ ‘The Shining,’ ‘Contagion 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2012 8:00 am EST When it comes to news about sequels, you really can’t get more varied than the news you’re about to read in this column. We’ve got documentary sequel news, news on a sequel to a sequel that isn’t even out yet, news on a sequel that will likely never happen, news on a sequel to a movie that shouldn’t have a sequel and more....

Sight & Sound’s Top 20 Films Of The Year: How Can One List Contain Hou Hsiao-Hsien And George Miller And Pixar? By Jacob Hall/Nov. 27, 2015 12:00 pm EST Of the hundreds of “best of the year” lists assembled by various publications around the world, Sight & Sound magazine’s top 20 always tends to be the most fascinating. This year is no different. It’s hard to argue with any list that finds room to contain brutal holocaust immersions and artful LGBT romances and post-apocalyptic action adventures and tear-jerking animated family movies and stirring stop-motion animated dramas and high-concept horror movies and unrelenting documentaries about genocide and stoner film noir....

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Smallville, Daredevil, Venom, Justice League Doom By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 1:00 pm EST Want to watch an epic video interview with The Amazing Spider-Man himself, Andrew Garfield? Where can you see the next season of Smallville? What gift did Gary Oldman get when he wrapped on The Dark Knight Rises? Will Mark Millar be buying Beyond Watchmen? And is a woman out there giving birth to Venom?...