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Page 2: Totoro, Wes Anderson, Indiana Jones, Lord Of The Rings, Walking Dead, Zoolander, Avatar, Seinfeld, Escape From New York, Game Of Thrones, Halloween, Star Wars, Transformers By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2012 8:00 am 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....

Rumor: Ben Affleck’s ‘The Batman’ Script Is A Mess And Warner Bros Doesn’t Care To Fix It By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2016 4:33 pm EST Despite the fact that we don’t actually know when it’s coming, Ben Affleck’s The Batman has looked like one of the more promising films on Warner Bros.’ DC slate. Not only was Affleck one of the highlights of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but he’s also planning to direct the film himself....

Sequel Bits: ‘Muppets 2’ Will Be A Comedy Caper, Plus: ‘Roger Rabbit 2’, ‘Twilight’, ‘Skyfall’, ‘Prometheus’ By Angie Han/April 16, 2012 1:00 pm EST Edward Cullen, James Bond, and Kermit the Frog are all preparing to return to the big screen, but it looks like Roger Rabbit is not. After the jump: Roger Rabbit 2 is still not moving forward The Twilight gang is heading into reshoots Daniel Craig says 007 is “nicer” in Skyfall Nicholas Stoller has details on The Muppets 2 Prometheus will one hour and fifty-nine minutes “Roger Rabbit, we’ve talked about making for twenty-five years, since the original one came out,” Hahn said....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Hangover Part III’, ‘Cloudy 2’, ‘Fast & Furious 6’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘The Host’, ‘Mama 2’, ‘Riddick’, ‘The Best Man 2’ By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST The Hangover Part III may feature a whole new plotline, but based on these new stills the wolf pack still looks exactly the same. Also after the jump: Dwayne Johnson is pumped for Fast & Furious 6 The latest Star Trek comic drops still more hints The Allspark might resurface in Transformers 4 Stephenie Meyer wants The Host to be a trilogy Producer says there have been no Mama 2 talks The Best Man sequel has a real title now The first Cloudy 2 trailer will debut this week Riddick takes the throne in a new photo Dwayne Johnson is a very recent addition to the Fast and the Furious franchise, having appeared for the first time in Fast Five, but he already feels like an indispensible part of the series....

The /Film Crew’s 2017 Oscar Predictions By Jacob Hall/Feb. 24, 2017 9:00 am EST Predicting the Oscars is an art. You can’t look at the nominees and pick personal favorites. You can’t side with the movies that you think deserve to win. You have to look over those 27 categories and put yourself in the shoes of 6,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and think “What are they going to vote for?...

The Worst Reviewed Highest Grossing Movies Of All-Time By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 6:30 am EST Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has just passed $600 million at the worldwide box office, despite mostly really bad reviews. This is nothing new. Mainstream audiences don’t listen to the critics, and big screen spectacle will almost always win over quality entertainment. Nothing was going to stop me from seeing the movie, not all the bad reviews in the world....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ At Walt Disney World, A New Disney Water Ride, And A Slew Of Disneyland Updates By Jacob Hall/Aug. 3, 2016 10:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disney reveals a new interactive theme park game based on Star Wars Rebels. A new water ride is coming to Walt Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon. Disneyland’s Rivers of America attractions will reopen next summer. Live music is returning to Tomorrowland Terrace....

This Week In Trailers: The Wild Boys, The Last Race, Bad Reputation, When The Beat Drops, Love, Gilda By Christopher Stipp/July 28, 2018 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Vin Diesel Confirms One Final ‘Fast And Furious’ Trilogy By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2015 1:46 pm EST Just last week, a report detailing some trouble behind the scenes of Furious 8 revealed that Universal Pictures was having trouble locking down a director, and there was even some chatter about producer and franchise star Vin Diesel being difficult to work with on set in the recent sequels, being heavily involved in the writing process, almost to a frustrating level....

/Film Interview: Michael Cera And Sebastian Silva Talk ‘Crystal Fairy’ By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2013 2:15 pm EST Is Sebastian Silva’s Crystal Fairy a drug film? A road trip film, or a comedy? Maybe a drama, or an experimental film? In fact, the movie is all of those things. Filmed on a shoestring budget while waiting to make another movie called Magic Magic, Crystal Fairy stars Michael Cera as Jamie, an American traveling in Chile hoping to trip on the psychedelic chemical in the San Pedro cactus....

‘Forces Of Destiny’ To Highlight Female ‘Star Wars’ Heroes In Animation And Toys By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 13, 2017 6:30 am EST Star Wars will address head-on the #WheresRey controversy, in which action figures of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens main character played by Daisy Ridley were nowhere to be found compared to toys of the male characters. Not only will girls get action figures of Rey, Leia Organa, Padme Amidala and all their other favorite female heroes in Star Wars, they’ll be getting female-driven short-form animation, children’s books, and apparel as part of a new multi-part campaign called Star Wars: Forces of Destiny....

‘The Walking Dead’ Hit With Another Lawsuit As Producers Claim AMC Profit Scam By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 15, 2017 1:30 pm EST AMC may be the one soon to be gutted after the network was hit by two subsequent lawsuits by current and former The Walking Dead creatives. The Walking Dead producers Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara, and David Alpert are suing the cable network over profits rights, alleging that AMC has perpetuated a profits scam by underpaying the studio and producers’ for the licensing fee....

‘Wayne’s World 2’ Was Completely Rewritten At The Last Minute, Here’s Why By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2017 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As far as comedy sequels go, Wayne’s World 2 is among the better ones. Even though it’s not nearly as good as the original Wayne’s World, it’s still much better than all but three of the other movies based on Saturday Night Live characters, and even ended up towards the top of our list ranking all of them....

‘Westworld’ Spoiler Review: 10 Questions From ‘‘Trace Decay’’ By Jacob Hall/Nov. 21, 2016 7:31 am EST After the major events of “Trompe L’Oeil,” Westworld shifted into a slower gear with “Trace Decay,” an hour concerned with picking up the pieces after last week’s shattering events and setting the stage for the final two episodes of the show’s first season. As always, each new episode of the series brings up questions of both the literal and rhetorical variety, so let’s dive in and poke around and talk about what we just saw....

Alamo Drafthouse Founder Tim League Returns As New CEO By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2010 8:00 pm EST We’ve called The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema the coolest movie theater in the world. The original Austin-based movie theater was created by an awesome man named Tim League. In July 2004, Tim and Karrie League sold the brand, intellectual property and rights to all future Alamo Drafthouse expansion, but retained ownership of the Austin locations (Village, Lamar, Downtown)....

Cool Stuff: Flux Capacitor Halloween Costume By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2010 7:00 am EST Back to the Future-themed Halloween costumes have been done many times before. I’ve seen many many Marty McFlys, a bunch of Doc Browns, a couple Biffs and Griffs, and even one guy dressed as a DeLorean time machine. But this must be the first time I’ve seen anyone dress as the Flux Capacitor, the device which makes time travel possible....

Dwayne Johnson Announces Presidential Campaign On ‘SNL’, Watch The Best & Worst Sketches By Ethan Anderton/May 21, 2017 11:00 am EST This past weekend the 42nd season finale of Saturday Night Live arrived with host Dwayne Johnson joining the Five Timers Club, just like Melissa McCarthy did last week. Not only did Johnson get his honorary jacket, but he was joined by fellow Five Timers Club members Alec Baldwin and Tom Hanks, and he picked one of them to be his running mate when announcing his candidacy for president in 2020....

The Functional Setpiece Before we get into how the sequence plays out, let’s discuss the function of each sub-sequence. We’ll see that while one overshadows the others in terms of “wow” factor, the sequence as a whole relies on all three working in concert.The most ostentatious throughline here (and possibly in the entire franchise) belongs to Cruise’s alter ego, Ethan Hunt. Hunt takes the task of retrieving the detonator from Walker, which involves boarding a helicopter, flying it in pursuit of Walker’s, crashing both helicopters, fighting Walker on a mountaintop, and finally struggling up a sheer cliff to the detonator....

Interview: ‘Skiptrace’ Director Renny Harlin On Working With Jackie Chan And Chinese Vs. American Filmmaking By Fred Topel/Aug. 29, 2016 7:30 am EST Many of us grew up watching Renny Harlin’s action movies like Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2, and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. It would be several more years before Jackie Chan was properly introduced to America with the U.S. release of Rumble in the Bronx. The two represent quite different approaches to action, with Harlin embodying the explosive bombastic American style and Chan his own unique brand of comedic martial arts....

Kevin Feige Discusses Daredevil, Punisher, Doctor Strange, A Solo Female Character, And Ultron By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2013 1:20 pm EST Marvel has had an impressive run at the box office since the debut of Iron Man in 2008, leading up to the billion-dollar success of The Avengers last year. The company is in its self-defined “phase two” right now, which began with Iron Man 3 earlier this year, and will continue with Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians the Galaxy, and conclude with Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015....