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Creepy, Witchy Comics To Read After Revisiting ‘Suspiria’ By /Film Staff/Sept. 7, 2018 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Comic Book Drive-In, a series where comic and movie fans Jazmine Joyner and Rosie Knight recommend brand new, ongoing, and completed comic book series that tie into classic films and new releases.)This week’s Comic Book Drive-In is about one of our favorite horror movies: Dario Argento’s iconic Suspiria, which has been scaring audiences and inspiring women for decades....

David Goyer’s Superman Story Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2010 8:13 pm EST Yesterday the news broke that Zack Snyder will direct the Christopher Nolan-produced David Goyer-scripted Superman movie for Warner Bros. But what is David Goyer’s pitch on the project?The answer might possibly be revealed, after the jump. Okay, so first a bit of the backstory. Four years ago Goyer was quoted as saying that he doesn’t think he’d “ever be good to write Superman because it is the opposite… [the interviewer says “he’s angst free”] Yeah....

How Penn Jillette Of Penn & Teller Ended Up In ‘Toy Story’ By Angie Han/March 18, 2015 7:00 am EST Everyone knows Toy Story has a very recognizable cast under all that colorful CG — Tom Hanks and Tim Allen voice the leads, and Don Rickles and Wallace Shawn help fill out the supporting cast. But one of the very first actors cast for the groundbreaking project was actually Penn Jillette, of the magician duo Penn & Teller....

Indiana Jones 4 Set Report By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 29, 2008 5:54 pm EST /Film Reader Cinemalad sent us a report from just outside the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in Pasadena. /Film was actually the site that broke the news that Spielberg had decided to shoot some additional photography in Pasadena. We posted that report questioning if this was just a simple routine pick-up shot, or part of a set of reshoots....

Interview: ‘Big Eyes’ Star Jason Schwartzman On Margaret Keane, ‘Star Wars’, And ‘Bored To Death’ By Angie Han/Dec. 26, 2014 9:00 am EST But for all of Schwartzman’s experiences playing pompous types onscreen, Schwartzman stresses he’s not one in person. “If I could say what’s my least favorite quality in someone, it’s when they make you feel dumb,” he told me. “I just feel like that’s bullshit.” Nor is Schwartzman particularly interested in staying in his niche as an indie actor....

Interview With ‘Wrong’ Director Quentin Dupieux: “Almost Every Movie Makes Too Much Sense” By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2013 5:03 pm EST There’s a quality to the most recent films from Quentin Dupieux, Rubber and Wrong, that I find approachable and endearing, even comforting. Dupieux rejects standard storytelling rules and structure, but follows a perceptible internal logic that holds his tales together. He injects stories with seemingly meaningless elements, but there is a method by which they are then incorporated into the world....

Joss Whedon Says ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Will Rewrite Ultron’s Origin [Video] By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2013 7:05 pm EST Yesterday Joss Whedon introduced a short video at San Diego Comic Con that announced the full title for the Avengers sequel. Avengers: Age of Ultron will be released in 2015, and the name tells us that the malicious adamantium robot Ultron — a longtime Marvel Universe nemesis with many different incarnations — will play a major role....

Kevin Feige Teases What To Expect In ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ By Jack Giroux/April 12, 2016 7:00 am EST We’re trying to tread carefully while writing about Captain America: Civil War. There’s plenty of story in the Marvel project that the trailers and TV spots have yet to spoil. If you’re excited for the film and want to know absolutely nothing else about the story until it hits theaters, then be careful what you read over the next few weeks....

Kevin Smith Brings Back More Actors For ‘Mallrats 2’ By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2015 10:00 am EST Kevin Smith’s Mallrats 2 is a long way away, but the director is already having a ton of fun with it. Over the past few weeks, he’s been in contact with the bulk of his original cast and tweeting images announcing they’ll be back for the sequel. At first, his tweets suggested he was trying to get 12 members of the original cast back but recently that number ballooned to 15....

Lawrence Kasdan Says ‘Star Wars Episode 8’ Will Be “Some Weird Thing” By Jacob Hall/Dec. 4, 2015 12:00 pm EST The great thing about Lawrence Kasdan is that he’s critically bulletproof. No matter how many bad movies he makes (and he’s the main guy responsible for Dreamcatcher), he’s still the man who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark, Body Heat, and The Big Chill. And he’s allowed to say whatever the hell he wants about Star Wars because he wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi....

Matt Reeves Wants To Make A ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Sequel And Has Ideas For What It Would Be About By Ben Pearson/July 12, 2017 12:00 pm EST While The Batman is clearly the next priority for director Matt Reeves, the filmmaker behind Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the upcoming War For the Planet of the Apes isn’t ready to leave that franchise behind. He wants to make more movies set in that universe and already has ideas for what they’d be about....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch After ‘Logan Lucky’ By Scott Beggs/Aug. 17, 2017 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: Logan Lucky.)Steven Soderbergh is back from an inactive hiatus where he limited his filmmaking involvement to Ocean’s Eight, the TV movie Mosaic, The Girlfriend Experience, Godless, Red Oaks, Magic Mike XXL, Citizenfour, and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus....

Nintendo Worlds Coming To Three Universal Studios Theme Parks By Jacob Hall/Nov. 29, 2016 10:00 am EST Back in 2015, we first learned that Universal Studios was teaming up with Nintendo to bring the video game company’s iconic characters and games into their theme parks. Details were scarce – which parks would feature Nintendo characters and how they’d be utilized remained unknown. Today, the first official details have been revealed. Entire Nintendo-themed lands are being planned for Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Orlando, and Universal Studios Japan and adjectives like “expansive,” “immersive” and “interactive are being tossed around....

Page 2: Doctor Who, Kevin Smith, Drag Me To Hell, Wizard Of Oz, Wes Anderson, Disneyland, Academy Awards, Youngblood, The Kids Are Alright By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2011 7:00 pm 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 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Sequel Bits: ‘Goosebumps 2’, ‘The Nun’, ‘Alien’, ‘Jurassic World’, ‘World War Z 2’, ‘Deadpool 2’ By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of sequel bits: Goosebumps 2 adds a new cast member A scary-as-hell first look at The Nun Alien has a new VR experience Bryce Dallas Howard is wearing heels again for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, so brace yourselves for more hot takes World War Z 2 is on hold If you want more Deadpool, IMAX will screen a double-feature Goosebumps 2, which is officially called Goosebumps: Slappy Halloween, has added a new cast member: Stranger Things and Mr....

Sequel Bits: ‘Independence Day: Resurgence,’ ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Transformers: The Last Knight,’ ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ By Jacob Hall/June 10, 2016 2:00 pm EST In today’s edition of Sequel Bits: Liam Hemsworth battles aliens in a new Independence Day: Resurgence clip. A new Autobot has been spotted as Transformers: The Last Knight heads to Arizona. Michael Giacchino teases the Star Trek Beyond score. Chris Hemsworth talks about his Ghostbusters character. Outfest will screen Ghostbusters before it opens in theaters....

Sequel Bits: Cobra Commander In ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation;’ Plus ‘Rambo 5,’ ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ ‘This Is 40’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 6:30 pm EST Let’s kick off another sequel news roundup with some info on a film that will be out soon. Jon M. Chu directed G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and the trailers released so far have generated a good level of interest in the film. In an interview with Moviefone, Chu talks about enthusiasm for various Joe characters and the difficulty his team had with creating a linear follow-up to the first Joe film, The Rise of Cobra....

Big Hero 6 Questions Answered Beware of major spoilers for the rest of this article. Since the villain, Callahan, didn’t know about Hiro’s Microbots until the science fair, how did he develop his devious plan so incredibly quickly? Chris Williams: Well you never want that stuff to supersede the emotional story. You know what I mean? Like the bot mechanics. You never want to come at the expense of the actual throughline of the story....

The New ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Trailer Is A Total Bummer For Many ‘Harry Potter’ Fans By Lindsey Romain/March 14, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: why the new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer made one writer so angry.) When I was a kid, the image of Hogwarts conjured magical surreality; a cognitive awareness that this place wasn’t real in the technical sense, but alive somewhere in the crook of a collective imagination....

‘Annie Hall’ Tops The WGA’s List Of The 101 Funniest Screenplays Ever By Jacob Hall/Nov. 12, 2015 9:30 am EST Comedy is no laughing matter, especially when you’re ranking some of the most hilarious movies of all time. The Writer’s Guild of America has released a list of the 101 funniest screenplays ever written, and like any list on the internet, there are plenty of obvious picks, more than a few surprise choices, and handful of selections that are a little baffling....