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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2’ Clip & Interview: Stephen Amell Puts A Fresh Spin On Casey Jones By Angie Han/May 12, 2016 9:00 am EST Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows brings back all the heroes in a half shell from the last film, but it also introduces a brand-new hero into this world: Casey Jones, played by Stephen Amell. And although the hockey-stick wielding vigilante has been a part of the Turtles mythology since the ’80s, Amell gets to build the character from the ground up, and bring some new twists to him in the process....

‘Westworld’ Review: ‘Phase Space’ Says Hello To An Old Friend By Chris Evangelista/May 28, 2018 9:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of HBO’s Westworld. This Westworld review takes a look at the sixth episode of season 2, “Phase Space”. Be warned: spoilers follow. Dolores After a few back-to-back episodes where Dolores’ plotline felt like it was going nowhere fast, Westworld finally decides to kick things up a notch. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) has retrofitted the Sweetwater train into her own personal weapon, and she sends it barrelling right into the Westworld command center....

40 Things I Learned On The Set Of ‘Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction’ By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2014 9:00 am EST Transformers 4 planned to shoot for under 100 days. Michael Bay doesn’t have a second unit, instead shooting everything himself on an insane schedule. Bay captures 50 to 60 shots every day, and filmed Transformers 4 in half the time of other big blockbusters. The whole film will be completed in under 18 months....

Adam’s ‘Magic Mike’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Knows How To Please The Ladies By Adam Quigley/June 30, 2012 10:00 am EST For another perspective on Magic Mike, check out Angie’s review. There is no need to see Magic Mike for its plot. The moment things start to spiral out of control, it becomes quickly apparent that you already know how this cautionary tale of glitz and glamour ends. Boy meets world. World enraptures boy....

All Of Your ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale Questions Answered By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2016 1:00 pm EST Mr. Robot Season 2 has come to a close, leaving us with a couple of cliffhangers and many questions. Thankfully Mr. Robot showrunner Sam Esmail and some of the cast have answered some of your burning questions, or at very least, providing insight into the choices that were made in this finale. What is going to happen to Phase 2 of F Society’s plans?...

Box Office Tracking: Hollywood’s Worst Release Date By Steve Mason/April 23, 2009 7:02 pm EST The final weekend of April has never been Hollywood’s favorite release date. In fact, it is generally considered to be among the worst release dates on the calendar. Whatever opens on the final weekend of April gets absolutely crushed by the official start of the summer blockbuster season on the first weekend of May. The 3 new wide releases and 1 major specialty release set to debut this weekend will face an onslaught of mega-hits over the next month....

Cardboard Cinema: ‘Game Of Thrones: The Trivia Game’ Is A Breath Of Fresh Air For A Tired Genre By Jacob Hall/June 8, 2016 9:00 am EST Fantasy Flight Games has held the Game of Thrones license since before HBO brought George R.R. Martin’s beloved and bloody fantasy series to the masses. They’ve done well by the novels, producing a great card game and an even better strategy board game that capture the betrayal and the brutality of Westeros and its always-scheming, generally murderous citizens....

DC Comics TV Shows ‘Constantine,’ ‘The Flash’ And ‘iZombie’ All Officially Picked Up By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2014 2:00 pm EST It’s that time of year when the TV networks clear the crap off their channel and fill it up with new crap. The hope, of course, is the new crap sticks around and gains an audience. While we don’t follow a lot of TV here on /Film, we do follow big comic book shows and three new DC Comics TV shows just got picked up....

Do Filmgoers Really Want Metal Detectors At Movie Theaters? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2015 4:00 pm EST There have been two notable mass shootings at movie theaters since 2012, leading some to call for more protective measures at the multiplex. A new study apparently shows that 34% of filmgoers want metal detectors at the multiplex…. really?! The new study from research firm C4 shows (via: Variety): Three quarters of moviegoers say they feel extremely or very safe in a theater....

How ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Might Change Kylo Ren’s Costume To Reflect His Darth Vader Obsession By Jacob Hall/Nov. 2, 2016 11:30 am EST There is a palpable sense of history in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that goes beyond nostalgia. It can be seen in the aged faces of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, but it can also be sensed in the way Rey and Finn treat the events of the original trilogy....

How The 1999 Version Of ‘The Mummy’ Changed My Life By Vanessa Bogart/June 7, 2017 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Nostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: Stephen Sommers’ 1999 blockbuster The Mummy goes under the microscope.) Romance! Adventure! Mythology! Monsters! Oh my! In 1999, I was the ripe old age of eight....

How Twilight Is Destroying America And Harming Our Nation’s Youth By David Chen/Dec. 5, 2008 6:05 am EST When I discovered the vice-like grip that Twilight has on the popular imagination of this nation’s tween and middle-aged female demographic, I was content to just ignore it. After all, there are so many movies that come out which cater to my demographic that a bunch of people going insane over what I thought was a mediocre-flick at best shouldn’t affect me....

Kevin Feige Suggests Phase 2 Will Have ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Ramifications, Plus Non-Network TV Shows & Secret Identity Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 31, 2013 12:15 pm EST Yup, more quotes from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. But when the man in charge of such an exciting slate of films actually comes out and talks to the press (a rarity in the business in general – do you see Kathleen Kennedy doing as much press?...

Misery And Laughs: Ranking The Narrative Films Of David Gordon Green By Jack Giroux/Oct. 28, 2015 8:00 am EST David Gordon Green’s career really isn’t that odd. He began his journey as an indie darling, directing intimate dramas with a slightly off-kilter tone. When Pineapple Express came out in 2008, his career took a turn, not a detour. But the director’s two major studio comedies that followed the success of his stoner action-comedy divided his fans....

Page 2: Pacific Rim, Star Wars, Firefly, Twilight, Home Alone, Walt Disney, Hobbit By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2013 2:00 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....

Page 2: Star Wars, Matrix, Girls, Big Hero 6, Wes Anderson, MacGyver, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Fifth Element, Orphan Black, 2001, Pacific Rim By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2015 3:00 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 Explains The Journey To Understand Sadness In ‘Inside Out’ By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2015 8:00 am EST That image control is part of storytelling guidance, too, and often a cover for the real heart of the matter. Pixar’s films use big concepts — toys that have their own lives we never see, a rat who loves to cook, an adventure in a flying house — as a portal to concepts that are much more difficult to capture in a single image or marketing push....

Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek Beyond’, ‘Die Hard 6’, ‘Aliens’, ‘Cursed Child’, ‘Jack Reacher’ By Angie Han/Nov. 17, 2015 4:30 pm EST We’ve got a couple of casting updates, a seemingly cancelled project, and much more. After the jump: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back adds Robert Catrini. Social Network’s Abhi Sinha joins Conjuring 2. Warner Bros. pulls Project XX from its schedule. Peyton Reed imagines a Bring It On sequel. Simon Pegg talks about writing Star Trek Beyond....

Sequel Bits: ‘Suicide Squad 2’, ‘It: Chapter Two’, ‘Avatar 2’, And More By Ben Pearson/Oct. 17, 2017 6:30 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Jared Leto talks more about Tron 3 and whether he’ll appear in Suicide Squad 2 Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard explains his desires for It: Chapter Two Blade Runner 2049’s director talks about the film’s marketing campaign Watch the kids from the Avatar sequels hang out at Pandora – The World of Avatar in Disney’s Animal Kingdom And More!...

The Predator Reshoots Explained Shane Black starts talking about reshoots around the 1:20 mark in the video above from Collider, but for those of you don’t have time for that, here’s what he had to say about part of The Predator reshoots: “Part of it was we were trying to jam a lot into a five-pound bag. So we had a big appetite. One of the things about that was if you want to do all of this stuff with this much money, you probably need to shoot during the day because during the night would be prohibitive....