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‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’: 9 Things We Learned At Star Wars Celebration By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2016 8:57 am EST This morning Star Wars Celebration held a pretty important panel that wasn’t live streamed to fans around the world. This panel concerned the future of Star Wars, and with Disney and Lucasfilm planning to release a feature film every year, not to mention continuing TV shows, likely creating new ones, and much more, there was a lot to talk about....

A Guide To Cinema’s 10 Greatest Spooky Romances By Dalin Rowell/Oct. 27, 2017 12:30 pm EST When people are looking for movies to watch during the Halloween season, their eyes are often turned to the Horror genre. But what about the other emotional aspects of what many (including yours truly) considers “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? And more importantly, what about…love? That’s right, All Hallow’s Eve can be quite the time for some romance to be in the air!...

Cannes: Tim Burton, XpanD’s Universal 3D Glasses, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2010 1:00 am EST It’s been a couple days since my last long Cannes update. Once the first weekend hit, things got really crazy at the festival. It is becoming clearer to me that this year’s theme at Cannes is about death, dying, mortality and legacy. In my last Cannes blog, I wrote about Mike Leigh’s new film Another Year, which is essentially a character piece which tackles all of the above issues....

CBS 2017-2018 Trailers: Bobby Moynihan’s ‘Me, Myself & I’, ‘S.W.A.T.’ Remake & More By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2017 2:30 pm EST CBS is the latest network to debut their trailers for the 2017-2018 season. We’ve already highlighted the preview for The Big Bang Theory prequel series Young Sheldon, but there are five other shows coming to the network this fall and two more arriving for the midseason in 2018. David Boreanaz joins the Navy SEALs in Seal Team, officially departed Saturday Night Live cast member Bobby Moynihan tells a story across fifty years, S....

Director Seeks Fake Date For Real Movie Premeire? By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2007 3:01 pm EST We usually try not to focus on the personal lives of actors or directors, but this caught our eye. Someone has posted on craigslist claiming to be a director looking for a date to a big hollywood movie premiere which is happening the last week of June. You can read the posting below followed by our thoughts on which director it could be (if this is in fact real):...

Fantastic Fest Blog: Day 1 - Let Me In And Mother’s Day By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2010 11:47 pm EST Fantastic Fest 2010 began with a bang. Matt Reeves’ Let Me In served as the opening night film at the Paramount theatre in downtown Austin. You can watch my previously recorded review/reaction to the film here. In his opening night introduction, Fantastic Fest founder Tim League ripped off a velcro-suit to reveal a “not-so-modest Viking battle gear” outfit....

How Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Shape Of Water’ Creature Was Created By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 17, 2017 6:00 am EST Until The Shape of Water begins floating into theaters next month, the details of the mysterious fish creature and romantic interest at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s film will remain mostly in the depths of the acclaimed filmmaker’s mind. But the sexy fish man played by Doug Jones is steadily emerging from the black lagoon of del Toro’s imagination in the form of the filmmaker’s tweets, where he explained (in amazing detail) how this creature was designed....

Interview With Charlie Kaufman By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 8:00 pm EST In September, I had the opportunity to sit down with Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine and his directorial debut – Synecdoche, New York. Interviewing Charlie Kaufman is like playing a tennis match that you just can’t win. I went into the interview with questions about symbolism and themes, but one of the first things he said was that he doesn’t want to talk about the meaning of the film....

Is ‘Wonder Woman’ A Victory For All Women…or Just Some Of Them? By Candice Frederick/May 30, 2017 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: will the existence of Wonder Woman count as a victory for all female filmmakers and fans…or just some of them?) We’re less than a week away from one of the most important theatrical releases this year, Wonder Woman, and the excitement for it just shows the staggering level of dedication for the decades-old brand and the power of women audiences....

Producer’s Guild Of America Best Of 2012 Nominations Include ‘Argo,’ ‘Django Unchained,’ ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2013 3:30 pm EST The Best Picture category in the Oscars is based around the efforts of producers, and so the Producer’s Guild of America nominations are a pretty good indicator of what we’re likely to see as a nomination slate for the Best Picture Oscar when AMPAS announces noms next week....

Quentin Tarantino Will Write And Direct ‘The Hateful Eight’ Stage Play By Jack Giroux/Jan. 11, 2016 4:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is now in theaters. While the film has been a tad divisive amongst the filmmaker’s fans and critics, both Jacob Hall and I absolutely adore the film. In fact, I’m seeing it for a third time tonight, and I can’t wait to once again unravel Tarantino’s rewarding narrative....

Rumored ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer #2 Description [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2015 7:54 am EST Everything in the universe points towards J.J. Abrams and Disney releasing a second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens fairly soon. Most likely it’ll be at Star Wars Celebration for a legion of fans, then online in the week before Avengers: Age of Ultron. The first trailer, which basically only contained seven shots, was viewed hundreds of millions of times around the world and spawned infinite speculation and visual reference....

Saying Goodbye To Johnny Depp: How To Let Go Of One Of Your Former Favorite Actors By Monique Jones/Sept. 13, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: a former Johnny Depp fan struggles to let go.) Who would have thought that, one day, the name “Johnny Depp” would become a dirty word?...

Spider-Man Will Be Like A John Hughes Coming Of Age Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2015 5:00 am EST At the Ant-Man junket over the weekend, I had the opportunity to chat with Marvel head Kevin Feige. One of the questions I asked was about the Marvel Studios-produced upcoming Spider-Man reboot. If Captain America: The Winter Solider was a conspiracy thriller, and Ant-Man is a heist film, what can we expect for Spider-Man?...

Star Wars Land: All Your Questions Answered And Everything We Know So Far By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2015 12:01 pm EST Over the weekend at D23 Expo 2015 in Anaheim, Bob Iger made the huge announcement that Star Wars Land would be coming to Disneyland in California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando Florida. The announcement was filled with a bunch of juicy details, but raised just as many questions....

Stephen King’s ‘Revival’ Looking To Cast Samuel L. Jackson As An Evil Preacher, So Get In Line Right Now By Jacob Hall/Feb. 11, 2016 6:30 am EST A few days ago, we learned that The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone was temporarily putting his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand on the back burner so he could work on a completely different Stephen King adaptation that wouldn’t make a movie studio’s accounting department weep....

Steven Spielberg: Netflix Movies ‘Deserve An Emmy, But Not An Oscar’; Here’s Why He’s Wrong By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2018 1:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg has some thoughts on Netflix movies, and they’re not exactly kind. Specifically, Mr. Spielberg feels that Netflix (and movies for streaming services in general) shouldn’t qualify for Academy Awards. In his eyes, movies made for Netflix should qualify as “TV movies.” Spielberg has never been one to shy away from innovation when it comes to his films....

Superhero Bits: Winter Soldier Shield, Infinity War Extras Casting, Spider-Man Performance Capture & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 30, 2016 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What are the best superhero movie performances of 2016? What is Sebastian Stan doing carrying around a shield modeled after the Winter Soldier’s arm? Want to see a couple amusing Batman v Superman easter eggs in Teen Titans Go?...

Terminator Salvation - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2009 8:32 pm EST McG’s Terminator Salvation hits theaters tomorrow, and so far it seems like the reaction is violently mixed. I screened the film earlier this week, and hope to write a review over the weekend, or maybe even appear on the /Filmcast, but here are my quick thoughts. If you’re expecting the movie to reach the bar set by Terminator and T2, you need to lower your expectations....

The Good, The Bad, And The Weird Of The 2017 SXSW Film Festival By Jacob Hall/March 20, 2017 11:30 am EST The 2017 SXSW Film Festival is over, and it was an exceptional year for an always exceptional film festival. It’s rare to attend a movie fest and leave every single screening with something to talk about, but even the movies that I didn’t love have stuck with me in some way or another....