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Diagon Alley Tour Part 2: The Leaky Cauldron, Knockturn Alley, Borgin And Burkes By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2014 8:00 am EST Yesterday we published part one of our indepth tour of Universal Orlando’s new Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley expansion, giving you a preview of the London Waterfront, Diagon Alley Entrance and Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. Today we walk further down the street, eating in The Leaky Cauldron, taking a dark arts turn down Knockturn Alley where we visited Borgin and Burkes....

Director Jon Watts On How ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Is Different [Interview] By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2017 10:00 am EST When filmmaker Jon Watts premiered his independent film Cop Car at the Sundance Film Festival, there is no way he could have anticipated that it would lead to him directing Spider-Man’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But after talking to the Spider-Man: Homecoming director on the set of Peter Parker’s first MCU solo film, it is easy to see why he got the job....

Early Buzz: Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ By Angie Han/Sept. 10, 2012 2:56 pm EST Joss Whedon’s already two for two this year, earning critical raves for The Cabin in the Woods (which he co-wrote with Drew Goddard) and then knocking it out of the park on every level with The Avengers. But he’s not finished: His third film of the year, the black-and-white William Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing, just premiered at TIFF....

Exclusive: Chuck Klosterman Updates On Film Adaptations Of His Books Fargo Rock City And Killing Yourself To Live By Hunter Stephenson/Dec. 3, 2009 4:00 pm EST Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing author and renown pop culture critic, Chuck Klosterman, for /Film on subjects ranging from whether or not Avatar will be the cinematic equivalent of Chinese Democracy to the abstract theory that our society is unconsciously working for Don Draper....

HBO Shuts Down ‘Westworld’ Production, Possibly To Deal With Robots Running Amuck By Jacob Hall/Jan. 18, 2016 7:30 am EST HBO has temporarily halted production on its long-gestating television adaptation of Westworld, claiming that executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy need more time to fine tune the final four scripts for the show’s first season. If you read between the lines, that’s obviously B.S. It’s clear to anyone who really thinks about it that the network is currently dealing with a robot uprising and that they’ve had to lock down the sets until they know how to deal with the cowboy androids currently racking up a body count of helpless production assistants and interns....

Interview: Spike Jonze Talks About His New Short Film We Were Once A Fairytale By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2009 10:15 am EST It was only a few weeks ago that I flew out to Los Angeles to talk with filmmaker Spike Jonze about his adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. I really wasn’t expecting to hear back from Spike until the next film, probably a couple years down the line....

MondoCon 2017: Unused And Abandoned Art For ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘La La Land’ And More By Jacob Hall/Nov. 9, 2017 2:30 pm EST MondoCon is one of the best places on the planet to check out and purchase pop culture art. However, it is also a destination for those interested in pop culture art that never actually made it to the printer. At the annual Mondo Talk panel, the Mondo brain trust revealed posters and art for movies like Doctor Strange and TV shows like Stranger Things that never came to fruition....

MoviePass Accounted For Over 10% Of Opening Weekend Ticket Sales For Some Movies By Ben Pearson/Dec. 11, 2017 3:30 pm EST We’ve written a lot about MoviePass over the past few months, and for good reason: despite a questionable customer service track record, some scare tactics, and what appears to have been an underestimation of consumers’ desire for its own product, the service provides a solid value to movie lovers who want to see a movie every day for a cheap price....

New ‘Black Panther’ Trailer Coming Next Week, Full Runtime Possibly Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2018 10:30 am EST Now that it’s officially 2018, the arrival of Black Panther is imminent. The superhero movie will be the first of three Marvel Studios titles hitting theaters this year, and it’s easily one of the most anticipated movies of the entire year, This movie looks vastly different from any Marvel Cinematic Universe title that has come before it, and not only because it’s the first time a black superhero is being given the spotlight with their own movie with a predominantly black cast behind them....

Page 2: The Princess Bride, Banksy, Jaws, Christina Hendricks, Eerie Indiana, Tree Of Life, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, Ghostbusters 3, Ashton Kutcher, Clueless, Stan Winston By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2011 7:00 pm EST The Sandlot’s Marty “Yeah-Yeah” York and Patrick “Ham” Renna reunite at LA Fitness in Hollywood where York is a personal trainer. [tmz via tdw]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....

Sequel Bits: ‘John Wick 3,’ ‘Edge Of Tomorrow 2,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ ‘Mission: Impossible 6’ And More By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 15, 2018 4:30 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits John Wick 3 has a working title! Stallone teases Expendables 4 yet again. Tom Cruise shows off some more crazy Mission: Impossible stunts! A new Fantastic Beasts sequel photo! Doug Liman might make Edge of Tomorrow 2 next! John Wick: Chapter 3 is moving along nicely....

Superhero Bits: Kevin Conroy’s Problem With Batman V Superman, Aquaman Has A Guitar & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 12, 2016 5:30 pm EST What other actor has thrown their hat in the ring to play Black Manta in Aquaman? What’s the status of Ant-Man and The Wasp? Which Rocky star will be playing a villain in the fifth season of Arrow? What was Kevin Conroy’s problem with Batman in Batman v Superman?...

The Best Creepy Clown Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen By Rob Hunter/Sept. 6, 2017 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition we take a look at some of the best creepy clown movies you’ve probably never seen. Clowns are terrifying, even when they pretend otherwise....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Star Wars’ Construction Updates, New Waterpark Patents, And Ride Refurbishments By Jacob Hall/Dec. 29, 2016 11:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: An updated look at Star Wars land at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Universal Studios files some very interesting waterpark patents. Disneyland Paris’ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad reopens following a lengthy refurbishment. Universal Studios’ Waterworld show is undergoing some renovations. How the Grinch stole the Universal Studios backlot tour....

This Week In Trailers: Gnarr, Douchebag, Client 9, Who Is Harry Nilsson?, Billie & Theodore By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 24, 2010 2:00 pm EST I fell hard for The Neistat Brothers on HBO when it appeared out of the blue this year. That program was an explosion of creative minds meeting creative filmmaking that, at its core, was an explosion of cinéma vérité which really hit me at my core. The programs mixed fantastic thoughts and experiences that didn’t seem to have any thread running beneath them but the brilliance was that it was the filmmakers own presence and experience in the stories themselves that made this television worth watching....

Watch Trailers For ABC’s New 2017-2018 Shows: ‘Roseanne’ Returns, Zach Braff Forms ‘Alex, Inc.’ & More By Ethan Anderton/May 17, 2017 8:30 am EST Another day, another set of trailers from the upfronts presentations that networks are giving over in Hollywood. This time, it’s ABC coming out of the gate with trailers for all of their shows debuting this fall, as well as the midseason. There are seven new dramas, including a Lost-style mystery sci-fi series called The Crossing with Steve Zahn and a potentially compelling medical drama called The Good Doctor starring Freddie Highmore....

/Film Boston: They Came To Play By David Chen/May 23, 2010 8:51 am EST Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video content from film-related events around the Boston area....

‘Full Metal Jacket’ Actor R. Lee Ermey Dead At 74 By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2018 6:01 pm EST R. Lee Ermey, the gruff character actor probably most remembered for his scene-stealing, vulgar-laced turn in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, has died at age 74. Ermey was a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and drill instructor who broke into acting, and spent a long career playing authority figures. The official R....

‘Ghost Stories’ Review: A Bonkers And Bloody Brilliant Existential Mystery [SXSW] By Matt Donato/March 12, 2018 6:00 am EST Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s remarkably ambiguous Ghost Stories is unconventional, structurally bonkers and bloody-freakin’-brilliant. As an adaptation of their widely-popular West End theater fixture, both men translate stage cues to fainthearted filmmaking in ways that never feel stuffy or overproduced (something like Miss Julie). Tear-away backgrounds that connect wholly different locations are just as astounding cinematic tricks as they’d be in person if only to ensure this daring blend of dread and inquisition be that much more an unsolvable puzzle....

‘Incredibles 2’: Who Are The New “Wannabe” Supers On The Scene? By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2018 9:15 am EST While the most recent trailer for Incredibles 2 revealed plenty that we hadn’t previously seen from Pixar’s anticipated superhero sequence, there’s still a lot that we haven’t heard about. While the villain remains mostly shrouded in secrecy, only recently revealed at the end of the aforementioned trailer, there’s a whole crew of heroes that we haven’t seen in any footage from Incredibles 2 yet....