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Interview: Director Peter Sohn Talks ‘The Good Dinosaur’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2015 1:00 pm EST Last month I had the opportunity to visit Pixar Animation Studios and preview the company’s next film The Good Dinosaur. You can read what I learned about the making of The Good Dinosaur here. While at Pixar, I had that opportunity to sit down with a bunch of the creatives behind the film. After the jump you will find my interview with director Peter Sohn, who I’ve talked to a few times over the years and seems like a great and talented guy....

Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director Of A Nightmare On Elm Street By David Chen/March 3, 2010 1:11 pm EST I’ll be honest and say that when I first heard a music video director would be doing a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the most beloved horror franchises of all time, I wasn’t too crazy about the idea. Sure, we’ve seen brilliant music video directors such as Fincher and Jonze go on to have very successful film careers, but just as often, we get overstylized filmmaking with no sense of how to make a 90-minute film cohere as a whole....

James Mangold Explains The Pain Underlying Events In ‘The Wolverine’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2013 4:53 pm EST We’re still waiting for a trailer for James Mangold’s The Wolverine, which brings Hugh Jackman back to his signature role as the rapid-healing mutant augmented with unbreakable razor-sharp claws. You’d think that guy would be impossible to defeat, but X-Men Origins: Wolverine nearly managed the trick. This film basically ignores Origins, and takes its biggest cues from the early ’80s Wolverine mini-series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller that helped define the character in the first place....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ Script Becomes Comic, Announces History Of SNL And Miramax Podcasts By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 10:30 am EST I wonder what’s been happening with Kevin Smith lately. The filmmaker hasn’t been in the news at all. There’s that small instance of deciding to self-distribute his latest film Red State and take it out on the road, there-by reinventing himself as both a filmmaker and a person....

Marketing Up’s Asian-American Lead Character By David Chen/May 28, 2009 7:25 am EST As an Asian-American, I have occasionally lamented the status (or lack thereof) of Asian-Americans in American cinema. Often, Asian-Americans actors are relegated to secondary characters, or worse, see roles ostensibly intended for them being whitewashed when they hit the big screen. That’s why I was surprised to learn that this summer, Disney/Pixar is releasing a film with an Asian-American as one of its lead characters....

Martin Scorsese Pens Essay Calling Rotten Tomatoes ‘Hostile To Serious Filmmakers’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 11, 2017 12:00 pm EST The animosity between the film industry and internet “aggregators” has been simmering since the summer, but it’s just kicked up a notch with the introduction of legendary director Martin Scorsese into the fray. Scorsese penned an excoriating essay against Rotten Tomatoes, Cinemascore, and other digital aggregation sites, calling them “hostile to serious filmmakers,” and a bane on the film criticism community....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch With ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ By Scott Beggs/June 21, 2017 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: Transformers: The Last Knight.) After hundreds and hundreds of years, and a detour into Guy Ritchie’s clutches, King Arthur is finally in a Transformers movie....

Page 2: Star Wars, J.J. Abrams, Titanic, Back To The Future, Doctor Who, Jetsons, Hobbit, Ghostbusters, WALL-E, Labyrinth, Anne Hathaway, Die Hard With A Vengeance By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2013 12:00 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 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Rhys Ifans Cast As ‘Spider-Man’ Villain By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2010 9:57 am EST Columbia Pictures has just announced that BAFTA Film Award-nominated actor Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) has been cast as the villain in Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man reboot. No word on which villain Ifans might play. Have any ideas? Leave them in the comments below. Read the full press release after the jump....

Sequel Bits: ‘Tron 3’, ‘TMNT’, ‘22 Jump Street’, ‘Dumb And Dumber To’, ‘Transformers 4’ By Angie Han/Oct. 15, 2013 9:00 am EST Welcome back from the long weekend, if you had one. Here’s what you may have missed in the wonderful world of sequel news: Writer Adam Horowitz offers a little Tron 3 update Vanilla Ice really wants to be in the new Ninja Turtles Kevin Smith hopes to release Clerks 3 in November 2014 The Aliens vs....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Green Lantern, Dark Knight Rises, Man Of Steel, Joss Whedon By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2011 11:00 am EST How can you be either on screen or behind the camera for Iron Man 3? What does Henry Cavill have to say about his costume in Man of Steel? Is someone to blame that we never saw George Miller’s Justice League movie? Want to experience more of the New York Dark Knight Rises set?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers 2, Man Of Steel, Iron Man 3, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, The Wolverine By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2013 2:00 pm EST When will we see the trailer for The Wolverine? Will Iron Man 3 have a Super Bowl spot? Want to see a bunch of toys featuring Superman and Zod from Man of Steel? What did Kevin Feige tease about Joss Whedon’s script for The Avengers 2?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Ben Affleck, Iron Man 3, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Wolverine, The Killing Joke By Germain Lussier/Oct. 15, 2012 2:30 pm EST Want to watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray? Does Ben Affleck want to direct a comic book movie? Who is scoring Iron Man 3? What did Joe Queseda have to say about Clark Gregg returning for Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.? Which late night host is lending his voice to The Dark Knight Returns Part 2?...

Theme Park Bits: ‘Skull Island: Reign Of Kong’ And ‘Frozen Ever After’ Reveal New Entrances, Disneyland Announces A Fourth Hotel By Jacob Hall/June 8, 2016 3:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Frozen Ever After reveals a heavily remodeled entrance. New videos show off a hugely impressive entrance and queue for Skull Island: Reign of Kong. Our best look yet at Shanghai Disneyland’s fireworks show. Disneyland announces a new hotel that will open in 2019....

This Week In Trailers: Defamaton, Wonderful World, Gutter King, Tomme Tonner, Police, Adjective By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 27, 2009 11:00 am EST 1. I didn’t, and still, don’t understand why I had to sign in and show my driver’s license at the Valley of The Sun Jewish Community Center here in Scottsdale, Arizona when I was out selling newspaper advertising. One of my contacts said it was because they check my name against terrorist watch lists but I didn’t ever get confirmation whether they were kidding with me....

TV Bits: ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Legned Of Korra’, ‘Falling Skies’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Arrested Development’ By Angie Han/July 13, 2012 11:30 am EST There’s a ton of TV tidbits to plow through today, some of it Con-related and some of it not. After the jump: Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan suggests a Saul Goodman spinoff Nickelodeon orders a second season of The Legend of Korra TNT picks up Falling Skies for a third season Science Channel will shoot a Firefly reunion special at Comic-Con Homeland’s second season will head to the Middle East Watch the first two minutes of Dexter’s seventh season Ron Howard tweets from the writers room of Arrested Development Bryan Cranston suggested recently that a Breaking Bad movie sequel was “not far-fetched,” but it seems creator Vince Gilligan doesn’t feel the same way....

Weinsteins Searching For New Fraggle Rock Screenwriter, Want “More Edgy” Take By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 12:33 am EST Director/Screenwriter Corey Edwards has updated his blog with a note warning Fraggle Rock fans that “there are some dark days ahead, my friends.” As it turns out, The Weinstein Company, who has been working with Edwards on a big screen Fraggle Rock movie, has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard the project after demanding the the script was “not edgy enough....

Why We Go To The Sundance Film Festival By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2015 8:00 am EST NOTE: We ran this article in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and have updated it for 2015. The Sundance Film Festival is the best known film festival in the United States. Say the word “Sundance” to anyone, film lover or not, and chances are they’ve heard of the festival. As a movie blog though, the problem with covering Sundance is that virtually all of the movies are brand new....

‘Animaniacs’ Revival Gets A Two Season Order At Hulu By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2018 2:30 pm EST The original Animaniacs had play or pay contracts, but Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation have just struck a new deal for the Warner brothers Yakko and Wakko and the Warner sister Dot to return on Hulu. A press release has announced that the brand new version of Animaniacs has been give a straight-to-series order for two seasons, marking the first Hulu Original program being geared towards families....

/Film Interview: ‘Project X’ Writer Michael Bacall Talks Development, Controversy, Secrecy And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 1:30 pm EST This March, Michael Bacall could have the best month ever. The screenwriter, probably best known for playing one of the Inglourious Basterds and co-writing Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, has not one but two massive comedies set for release mere weeks apart. He wrote Project X, which is in theaters this Friday, and co-wrote 21 Jump Street, which opens two weeks later....