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Emilia Clarke And Jai Courtney Talk Terminator: Genisys [Set Interview] By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2015 8:35 am EST In July I visited the set of Terminator: Genisys, you can hear what I learned while on set here. While on set, we talked to the cast and crew of the new film. Over the next few days we’ll be running transcripts of these on set interviews. Wednesday we posted our interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger who again plays a T-800 in the new film....

Every Upcoming Stephen King Adaptation In The Works, From Sure Things To The Movies That’ll Never Get Made By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 26, 2017 8:00 am EST Stephen King has been terrifying audiences since the 1970s, penning one best-selling horror novel after another, his name becoming synonymous with horror fiction in the process. Film and TV adaptations of King’s work have been prevalent just as long as he’s been publishing it, but recently there seems to be a Stephen King boom....

Interview: Corey Haim Talks Crank 2: High Voltage, Corey-Isms, Lost Boys 3, Twitter, And Directing Dramedy! By Hunter Stephenson/April 14, 2009 11:12 am EST The clock is ticking. In minutes, I am scheduled to interview Corey Haim. But I need more time to: find my good sunglasses, make a margarita, and hook up my interview shit poolside at a friend’s house. The publicist agrees to push the interview back half-an-hour. The power of /Film....

J.J. Abrams Explains Rey’s “Forceback” In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Commentary Clip By Jacob Hall/Oct. 20, 2016 8:30 am EST Like any movie with the words “star” and “wars” in the title, Star Wars: The Force Awakens ignited all kinds of conversations when it was released last year. Fans picked apart every scene in the movie, but no moment was more throughly dissected than Rey’s “Forceback,” where Daisy Ridley’s Jedi-to-be touches Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber and finds herself propelled into a wild flashback involving Cloud City, the Knights of Ren, and her own abandonment on Jakku....

Making A Movie: My First Day On Set By David Chen/March 7, 2014 12:00 pm EST “Making a Movie” is a series of columns that chronicles our attempt to make, market, and distribute a film with Stephen Tobolowsky in 2014. Our Kickstarter is still live and you can support our film project by going here. On Wednesday, I woke up at 5:30 AM and spent the whole day shooting test footage for the film I’m working on with Stephen Tobolowsky....

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island Japanese Poster And Early Reader Review By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2009 1:33 am EST Check out the new Japanese poster for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island thanks to kino-govno, which once again proves that everything from Japan looks a tad bit cooler (click here to see the previously released American one-sheet). You can see the full poster after the jump. Also, after the jump we have a reader submitted review of Scorsese’s latest....

New Details On ‘Rogue One’ Opening Crawl Emerge Even Though Gary Whitta Forgot About It By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2017 12:00 pm EST One of the biggest departures from Star Wars tradition that was taken by Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the lack of an opening crawl to set the stage for the movie to come. However, even though we didn’t see one in the final movie, we did find out that there was once an opening crawl that was part of the original draft of the script....

New Set Photos: Cowboys And Aliens And Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 1:30 am EST Back in the old days, people would sneak onto the side of a movie set and snap unwanted photos, and send them to a movie news website for us and other to post. Now it seems like all the set photos are coming from the filmmakers themselves. This morning we have new set photos from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Cowboys and Aliens, taken not by a tourist on the sidelines or paparazi, but by director Jon Favreau and Producer Jerry Bruckheimer....

New Trailer For Parallel Lines, Five Short Films From Carl Erik Rinsch, Jake Scott, Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, And Hi-Sim By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2010 9:00 am EST A few weeks ago we wrote a piece about an upcoming collaboration between Philips and five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. RSA was asked to create a series of groundbreaking short films in a genre of their choice, using “the same unifying theme....

Soundtracks: Listen To A Clint Mansell Track From ‘Stoker,’ Watch Members Of M83 Perform A Drum Battle For ‘Oblivion’ Score By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2013 8:43 am EST Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook makes his English-language debut with the thriller Stoker, featuring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, and Mia Wasikowska. The Hitchcockian film seems to illustrated a creepy triangle of infatuation and manipulation that develops in the Stoker family when a mother (Kidman) and daughter (Wasikowska) are caught in the thrall of Uncle Charlie (Goode), who arrives in town in the wake of the death of his brother, the Stoker patriarch....

Superhero Bits: Rumored Justice League Roster, Plus Amazing Spider-Man, Nemesis, Dark Knight Rises, S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor: The Dark World By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2013 12:30 pm EST Welcome to the first Superhero Bits of 2013! Want to read a possible roster for Justice League? How is Joe Carnanan’s Nemesis coming along? Does Marc Webb have some Amazing Spider-Man regrets? Is Alan Taylor doing something different with Thor: The Dark World? Where can you see dozens and dozens of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Rises storyboards?...

Syfy Adapting Stephen King’s ‘The Eyes Of The Dragon;’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ And ‘Booster Gold’ Also In Development By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2012 7:00 am EST There are more Stephen King film and TV adaptations than most people could count — only the most die-hard fan or serious film and TV trainspotter would be likely to remember them all. But there is a small subset of King’s fiction that has remained largely untapped: fantasy....

The 15 Best Horror Remakes Ever Made By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 29, 2017 7:00 am EST Recently, I highlighted what I believed to be the worst horror remakes ever made in honor of this week’s release of Flatliners. But enough negativity! Let’s look at some good horror remakes, which do indeed exist! Every once in awhile, a filmmaker will come along, take an original film, and find a creative, exciting way to remake it....

The Awesome Storytelling Of Disney California Adventure’s New Buena Vista Street By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2012 10:30 am EST As many of you know, I’m a big theme park fanatic. I’m not a huge fan of Pixar’s Cars, but yet I’ve been eagerly awaiting (for the last few years) the addition of Cars Land to Disneyland’s offerings. And while Cars Land is gearing up to open on June 15th, I’m equally as excited to see the launch of Buena Vista Street, Disney’s new opening to California Adventure....

The Best Train Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen By Rob Hunter/Nov. 15, 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 train movies you’ve probably never seen.) Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is back on the big screen again, and while Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation has received something of a mixed response, it’s a reminder that some of us just love a good train-set movie....

The Good: The Movies You Need to See Blade Runner Based on: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Perhaps the best-known Philip K. Dick adaptation is Ridley Scott’s trend-setting future noir Blade Runner, which gave way to the brand-new Blade Runner 2049. Based on Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Scott’s film takes most of its concept from Dick’s story – a character named Rick Deckard hunting down and killing escaped androids....

This Disliked ‘Solo’ Scene Is What Convinced Disney To Make The Movie By Chris Evangelista/May 29, 2018 8:30 am EST Solo: A Star Wars Story is a mostly enjoyable piece of entertainment, but there are a few moments that might give you pause. One controversial scene in particular comes early in the film, and has been singled-out by many as an all-together bad idea. Yet, interestingly enough, this disliked scene is one of the main things that convinced Disney to make the film....

TV Bits: ‘Fringe’ Has Shot Two Potential Endings Depending On Series’ Fate, Plus: Ellen Burstyn, Mitt Romney, ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Girls’, ‘True Blood’, ‘The Newsroom’ By Angie Han/April 17, 2012 7:00 am EST Ellen Burstyn gets political, while Mitt Romney goes Hollywood. After the jump: Ellen Burstyn is Sigourney Weaver’s mom in Politcal Animals Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney could cameo on SNL Relax: Maggie Smith is not leaving Downton Abbey yet DirecTV and Starz renew their distribution deal A first look at the cast of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom… … the premiere of which will feature Jesse Eisenberg’s voice The first episode of HBO’s new comedy Girls is now online True Blood unveils a playful new teaser for Season 5 Fringe has shot two different endings, in case it gets cancelled Political Animals is scheduled to enter production later this month for a summer debut....

Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights In Review: A Dream/Nightmare Come True For Scary Movie Fans By Matt Donato/Sept. 18, 2018 11:00 am EST Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights brings the party hard to Orlando, Florida in 2018. Welcome to the ’80s, where extraterrestrial invaders suck out townspeople’s insides and material-girl vamps celebrate New Year’s Eve in glitter-bomb fashion. It’s not a hard-set theme, but with mazes and scare zones honoring Stranger Things, Child’s Play, Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and other “old-school” riot material, there’s no escape from titillating terrors of yesteryear’s most amusement-filled classics....

What Does The ‘Power Rangers’ Credits Scene Mean For The Future Of The Franchise? By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2017 11:00 am EST Power Rangers debuted in theaters this past weekend, and while it wasn’t able to topple the box office giant that is Beauty and the Beast, it still ended up with a solid estimated debut of $40.5 million in second place. There’s a good chance that this will put the movie in a prime position to warrant a sequel, which is good news for Lionsgate because Power Rangers producer Haim Saban says there’s a six-movie arc planned as long as the audience is interested....