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Best Stories Of The Week: Spectre, The Revenant, Watchmen TV Series, Terminator And More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 5, 2015 4:00 am EST Best Stories of the Week is a round-up of the previous week’s best and biggest stories, from news to editorials to trailers. This edition we’ve got pieces on the Kingsman: The Secret Service sequel, the future of the Terminator franchise, a Watchmen TV series at HBO, some news on the potential director of Furious 8, and another Ghostbusters movie in development....

Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron, Rupert Wyatt And David Yates In Talks To Enter ‘The Twilight Zone’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2011 2:38 pm EST Now, the time has finally arrived that you might actually be excited about a Twilight movie… Warner Bros is in talks with Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and David Yates (Harry Potter films) for a new movie adaptation of The Twilight Zone....

Comic-Con 2018 Schedule For July 20 Includes ‘Glass’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Bumblebee’, ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ And More By Chris Evangelista/July 6, 2018 2:30 pm EST The San Diego Comic-Con schedule continues to take shape. Yesterday, the schedule for July 19 arrived. Now, the schedule for Friday, July 20 is here, and there is plenty to get excited about. You can officially expect panels for Halloween, Glass, Bumblebee, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Walking Dead, Castle Rock, and more....

Force Awakens Bits: Unused Concept Art, Record Opening Box Office, Harrison Ford On Spoilers, False Rumors By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2015 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Force has awakened, have you felt it? I’m sure many of you have already seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens last night or early this morning, with some of you holding desperately to tickets for screenings this weekend....

Guardians Of The Galaxy Taking Over Tower Of Terror? Disneyland Getting FastPass+? By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2016 10:00 am EST Last month a rumor began to circulate that Disney was considering re-theming Disney California Adventure’s The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride into a Guardians of the Galaxy attraction. When the rumor hit, even though it was from a source that had been right many times in the past, I commented on Twitter that I just didn’t buy it....

Interview: ‘The People V. O.J. Simpson’ Writer Scott Alexander On The Juror Shenanigans That Didn’t Make It In By Fred Topel/Aug. 18, 2016 9:00 am EST FX’s miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story was such a sensation, they presented a second panel on it for the Television Critics Association. Now all ten episodes have aired, more than reporters got to see in advance of the premiere, and it is nominated for Emmys, so the creators and stars came back to discuss it....

James Gunn On That Incredible ‘Guardians 2’ One-Take, Post-Credit Scenes & His ‘Guardians 3’ Return By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2017 8:00 am EST Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theaters in the US this week, after making it’s international debut last week. I sat down with writer/director James Gunn to talk about the challenges of the sequel, including the incredible one-take opening sequence, how he filmed Kraglin and Rocket in the same scene when they are played by the same actor on set, why he decided to return for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

New Details Behind ‘Solo’ Reshoots Revealed By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2018 8:30 am EST Solo: A Star Wars Story shook up the Star Wars universe when original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from the project due to creative differences. The directors were quickly replaced with old school pro Ron Howard. Now, after months of behind-the-scenes rumors and concerns, Solo is just about ready to hit theaters. Ahead of the film’s release, a source inside the production has revealed several new pieces of info about the troubled film....

Page 2: Die Hard, Pacific Rim, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2013 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....

Pete Docter And Jonas Rivera Talk ‘Inside Out’ Struggles, Score, Parks And Pixar Pressures By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2015 1:00 pm EST Pete Docter has been making movies for almost thirty years. In that time, he’s directed three features. Two of those have been produced by Jonas Rivera. One of those films won the Oscar for Best Animated Film. The latest one might do the same. That latest film is Inside Out, Pixar’s 15th creation, which is now in theaters....

Rumor: Is Deranged Genius Ben Wheatley Making A Marvel Movie? By Ben Pearson/April 30, 2018 3:00 pm EST Marvel Studios is keeping things very close to the vest when it comes to their plans beyond Avengers 4. We know of a few projects that have been given the go-ahead already – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, another Spider-Man sequel, etc. – but now a new rumor has us wondering if the studio is planning something bizarre as well....

Sequel Bits: Billy Bob Thornton On ‘Bad Santa 2;’ Plot Details For ‘Zoolander 2;’ Plus Talk Of ‘Transformers 4’ And ‘Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 6:00 am EST We’ve got a lot of small sequel talk this week, for films from Bad Santa 2 to Zoolander 2, Transformers 4 and Prometheus, aka the Alien prequel. None of it is massively substantial, but for the fans of each film there are nuggets of info that are worth a look....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Last Jedi’ Costumes, Han Solo Characters, Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson & More By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2017 1:30 pm EST In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits, we take a look at new images showing off Rey and Kylo Ren’s costumes from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, video footage from the largest gathering of Star Wars droids that I’ve ever seen, the names of two major characters from Han Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rian Johnson talks about the pressures of following up Force Awakens and his approach to The Last Jedi, a closer look at Johnson’s Millennium Falcon graffiti, how Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy discovered Star Wars in film school, A new theory which suggests that Rey’s parents were shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens but are no one you might suspect, get a first look at the blockbuster Star Wars comics crossover with Doctor Aphra in Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel, Kathleen Kennedy talks about the progress of future Star Wars spin-offs, a new video explains how Grand Admiral Thrawn was able to rise to one of the most powerful positions in the Galactic Empire despite being a nonhuman in an alien-hating military, Han Solo is shooting for a few weeks on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura but what planet is it?...

Star Wars Bits: Rumors, Posters, Comics, And A Request From A Guardian Of The Galaxy By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2015 3:30 pm EST There’s a big spoiler news report floating around for The Force Awakens. We won’t tell you the details specifically, because we don’t want to spoil the film for anyone, but we’ll let you in on the basics of the talk for those who are very curious. Along with that info, we’ve got the following in this edition of Star Wars bits:...

Stephen King’s ‘It’ Early Buzz: A Terrifying Movie With Heart, True To The Spirit Of The Book By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 26, 2017 10:00 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s It won’t hit theaters until September 8th. But in an effort to kick off positive word of mouth, some critics have already seen the film from director Andy Muschietti, and the first reactions have started to hit the web....

Steven Knight Talks ‘Taboo’ TV Series: “I Don’t Think Anything Has Ever Been Like It” By Jack Giroux/Nov. 12, 2016 12:00 pm EST Taboo marks another collaboration between Steven Knight and actor Tom Hardy. The BBC and FX series follows up their work together on Peaky Blinders season two and Knight’s spellbinding second feature, Locke. The dark and atmospheric trailer for their series made it look unlike any show coming out....

Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Avengers, Green Lantern, Amazing Spider-Man, Disney World By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2012 12:01 pm EST How is The Amazing Spider-Man like an internet troll? What are the Civil War seeds buried in The Avengers? Want to see The Avengers Monorail at Walt Disney World? Why are there Green Lantern toys coming to McDonalds? Who does Agent Coulson have a man-crush on in The Avengers? Interested in seeing a behind the scenes clip at an extra from The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray?...

SXSW Film Festival Adds 500 Days Of Summer, Treevenge And More By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2009 8:30 pm EST SXSW FILM ANNOUNCES SHORTS LINEUP, ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR 2009 FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE LIVE AT SXSW.COM/FILM ON MONDAY Austin, Texas – February 13, 2008 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is pleased to announce the short film lineup for this year’s Festival, March 13 – 21, 2009 in Austin, Texas....

They’re Making A ‘The Settlers Of Catan’ Movie And That’s Kind Of Weird By Jacob Hall/Oct. 12, 2017 2:00 pm EST (Welcome to Cardboard Cinema, an irregular feature that explores the intersection between movies and tabletop gaming. This column is sponsored by Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy in Austin, Texas.) For years, Hollywood threatened to make a Monopoly movie. They were taking it seriously, too. Ridley Scott was going to direct it at one point....

This Week In Trailers: American Anarchist, Lost In France, A New High, Chef’s Table, Wild Mouse By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 11, 2017 8:00 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?...