10 Movie And TV Trends We Love By Angie Han/Nov. 20, 2014 8:00 am EST In our line of work, there are days when we get discouraged. Like the ones where yet another studio announces it’s building a Marvel-style universe, or the ones where we spend three hours watching some $200 million movie only to realize it feels exactly like the last three $200 million movies we saw. It starts to feel like there’s nothing new under the sun, and we might as well stop caring....
Academy Award Winner Martin Landau Dead At 89 By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2017 9:00 am EST Martin Landau, the Oscar-winning character actor who has worked with acclaimed directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, and Tim Burton, has died at the age of 89. He is perhaps best known by modern audiences for his role as the down-on-his-luck Bela Lugosi in the black comedy Ed Wood, the Burton-directed biopic of the titular director of cult “bad” movies like Plan 9 from Outer Space....
Bad Robot’s ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Trailer: Is This ‘Cloverfield 2’? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2016 7:32 pm EST Paramount surprised audiences by releasing a new trailer attached to Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The trailer is for a movie that had yet to be officially titled, a new thriller from JJ Abrams’ production company Bad Robot. The trailer is for a film titled 10 Cloverfield Lane. Did JJ Abrams and Bad Robot somehow secretly produce a sequel to Matt Reeves’ found footage sci-fi film Cloverfield?...
Focus Features And LAIKA Now Filming ‘ParaNorman,’ With Voices Of Casey Affleck, Kodi Smit-McPhee And Anna Kendrick By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 11:00 am EST In 2009 Focus Features and LAIKA released Coraline, the great stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s kids’ book of the same name. Now the companies are teaming again for two more stop-motion 3D films. The first is ParaNorman, which will be released on August 17, 2012....
Interview: Andrew Stanton Talks ‘John Carter’ By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2011 8:30 am EST In June, I visited the editing room of John Carter, the big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars (you can watch my video blog here). At the event, director Andrew Stanton and producer Jim Morris gave a presentation explaining how they came to be involved with the project, and described the unique process they took to “shoot” the adaptation....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2008 1:30 pm EST Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! If you weren’t yet convinced that The Scorpion King 2 direct-to-dvd movie is going to suck, check out the film’s cover art. Randy Couture? Are MMA fighters replacing the WWE wrestlers on the big screen? [filmonic] Shock has a first look at the poster for Brad Anderson’s Transsiberian, which stars Emily Mortimer, Woody Harrelson and Ben Kingsley....
Page 2: Pixar, E.T., Battlestar Galactica, Masters Of The Universe, Breaking Bad, Tron, G.I. Joe 2, The Flintstones, Star Trek, Super 8, Lost Boys, John Lasseter By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2011 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? 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....
Sequel Bits: ‘Showgirls 2’, ‘Machete Kills’, ‘Sin City 2’, ‘Bourne’, ‘Transformers 4’ By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2013 5:00 pm EST You know how we’ve all been clamoring for a Showgirls sequel? Well, too bad, because we’re getting one anyway. Kind of. Also after the jump: Watch a clip from the direct-to-DVD sequel Curse of Chucky Paul Greengrass confirms that he has not signed on for more Bourne Lady Gaga will drop by Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Pretty girls and scary weapons abound in new Machete Kills pics See two new stills from the Rurouni Kenshin sequels landing next summer Kelsey Grammer chats Transformers 4, and a new set video surfaces Written by, directed by, and starring original Showgirls actress Rena Riffel, the direct-to-video sequel was first released in 2011....
Star Wars Bits: Madcap Mashups, Mini-Series Mayhem And Carbonite Craziness By Rosie Knight/Sept. 23, 2018 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Kathleen Kennedy is getting a prestigious award from The Academy Check out a new Black Series exclusive figure set coming to European conventions Pick up a cool inflatable Han Solo in carboninte Halloween costume See Star Wars characters turned into Pixar Animation characters Find out about a Star Wars Episode 9 theory involving Ahsoka Tano All that and much more!...
Star Wars Bits: Maz Kanata Revealed In ‘The Force Awakens,’ Plus Lando #1, Billie Lourd And J.J. Abrams By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2015 2:31 pm EST With Force Awakens rumors, social media, spoilers, merchandise, it’s another jam-packed edition of Star Wars Bits. Below, read about the following. Check out our first possible look at Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Disney is deliberately pacing marketing and merchandise for Star Wars: The Force Awakens....
Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Costume Exhibit, John Boyega Talks Episode VII, Rogue One Shoots In Iceland By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2015 7:00 am EST Even as we wait to find out exactly why Episode VII made John Boyega all emotional, production is in full force for Episode VIII and Rogue One. After the jump: R2-D2 tries to find love in an adorable short film A Stormtrooper helmet from A New Hope is up for auction The Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit might hit NYC Are a Clone Wars Legacy story reel and comic coming in 2016?...
Superhero Bits: The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Silver Surfer, More Avengers By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2012 1:30 pm EST Want to watch a video blog review featuring me and Peter, along with Alex from FirstShowing, talking about The Avengers? Why doesn’t anyone say “Avengers Assemble” in the movie? Which superhero has the most screentime? Care to see some of the award winning t-shirts in The Dark Knight Rises contest?...
This Week In Trailers: Kids In The Hall: Death Comes To Town, Contact High, Made For Each Other, Mr. Bjarnfredarson, Waiting For Armageddon By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 4, 2009 12:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...
This Week In Trailers: Tim’s Vermeer, Moving The Sun, Free The Nipple, 24 Exposures By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 21, 2013 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?...
Ubisoft Says The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie Will Be Like ‘Batman Begins’ And ‘Blade Runner’ By Jacob Hall/Oct. 9, 2015 12:00 pm EST The Assassin’s Creed movie has only just started filming and it’s already in the running for the best video game movie of all time. Mainly because there hasn’t been a single genuinely good video game movie adaptation yet. When the high point of your genre is Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat, you have a problem....
Who Is Snoke? How The New ‘Star Wars’ Books May Be Setting Up The Supreme Leader By Lucas Siegel/May 10, 2017 10:00 am EST Star Wars fans are notoriously detail-minded. Just look at the selection of Star Wars-related books that publisher DK releases. There are ultimate guides, visual dictionaries, atlases, blueprints of weapons and ships; it goes beyond the scene-by-scene breakdown and crosses into in-universe knowledge you won’t necessarily find on screen, all to help make the characters, objects, and places of Star Wars all the more real for the die-hard fans....
‘Better Call Saul’ Season 4 Teaser Asks: Whose Paths Will Cross? By Chris Evangelista/July 9, 2018 1:00 pm EST One of the best shows on TV is returning for its fourth season, and here’s the trailer to prove it. Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spin-off that has somehow eclipsed Breaking Bad, will be back for another anxiety-inducing season in which Jimmy McGill continues his transformation into Saul Goodman. Watch the Better Call Saul season 4 teaser below....
‘Black Panther’ Star Andy Serkis Dishes On His “Nihilistic,” “Mercurial” Villain [Set Visit Interview] By Angie Han/Jan. 30, 2018 3:00 pm EST Andy Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue had a bit part to play in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but he’s a more substantial threat in Black Panther. Like with the rest of our set visit interviews, we didn’t learn too many plot details when we sat down with Serkis. But as you’d imagine, the man behind Gollum, Caesar and numerous other digital and non-digital heroes and villains has a lot to say about bringing a character to life, especially one as nasty as Klaue....
/Film UK - Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein, Mesrine, Zach Galligan And More By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 22, 2010 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Be warned that one video file below the break may well begin to autoplay. I have tried to stop it doing such as I realise how annoying this is, but unfortunately, I can’t make it behave. Please accept my apologies, but I think it’s better to include the clip than not feature it at all....
‘Hannibal’ Season 3 Returning Cast Members Might Surprise You [Comic-Con 2014] By Angie Han/July 28, 2014 1:45 pm EST Bryan Fuller may not be quite at George R.R. Martin’s level when it comes to killing off beloved characters, but Hannibal is still a show about a serial killer. It should come as no surprise that from time to time, characters get shot in the face, chopped into pieces, or braised in a nice wine sauce....
