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Carrie Brownstein Adapting Her Memoir As A Hulu Series By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 14, 2018 2:00 pm EST Carrie Brownstein, of Portlandia and Sleater-Kinney fame, will adapt her memoir Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl into a half-hour comedy series for Hulu. Titled Search and Destroy, Brownstein will write and direct the series. This basically means we’re going to be blessed with a Sleater-Kinney TV series, and that’s pretty darn exciting. More info on the Carrie Brownstein TV series below....

Chris Evangelista’s Favorite Movies Of All Time By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 22, 2017 9:00 am EST Hello, /Film readers. It is I, Chris Evangelista. You may (or may not!) be familiar with my writing here, as I’ve been contributing to /Film since April. But now I’m part of the staff, and I’m very excited about that. I’m also very excited to tell you my 15 favorite movies. Some of these movies are downright masterpieces, others are like comforting junk food....

Cool Stuff: Steampunk Star Wars Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2008 2:50 am EST Sillof has created a complete series of Steampunk modified Star Wars action figures. What is Steampunk you say? According to wikipedia, Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century. The stories are often set in Victorian era England-but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H....

Damon Lindelof’s ‘Watchmen’ HBO Series Will Not Be An Adaptation Or A Sequel…and That’s A Good Thing By Jacob Hall/May 22, 2018 12:59 pm EST Adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ bold and brilliant Watchmen is a fool’s errand. And Damon Lindelof, who is spearheading a television version of the iconic comic for HBO, knows this. In a new letter, the divisive writer and producer has revealed that his take on the material will not be a direct adaptation of the comic....

Force Awakens Bits: Abrams On 3D Vs. 2D, Writers Room, George Lucas’ Involvement, NASA Criticizes BB8’s Design And More By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2015 6:00 am EST The awakening is coming, can you feel it? We are now 7 days away from the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Here is a look at what we’ll be talking about in today’s Force Awakens Bits: A look inside the Star Wars writers room....

Gary Whitta On Writing Geek Movies, Sequelitis, Video Games And His Post-Apocalyptic Oliver Twist By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2015 9:33 am EST To promote the pre-order of his first novel, Abomination, screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli, After Earth) sat down with us for an extensive interview spanning his career thus far. Over the course of this week we will be posting all of the parts of this interview broken up into digestible thematic bites — we’re calling it “/Film’s Week Of Whitta”....

How Jordan Vogt-Roberts Rejected Legendary’s Original ‘King Kong’ Pitch So He Could Make His Own By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2017 7:00 am EST While talking to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts about his new film Kong: Skull Island, I learned that the filmmaker was hired for the gig only after he rejected the job and script that Legendary initially pitched to him. Below, read part two of my interview to find out how Jordan went from a first-time director of the Sundance film festival movie The Kings of Summer to this mega-blockbuster (but only after you’ve read part one)....

Interview: USA’s Dawn Olmstead On ‘Mr. Robot’, Shared Universe Shows, And Neil Gaiman Series [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 24, 2016 7:45 am EST We had the chance to meet with Olmstead after the Mr. Robot panel. As EVP of Development, Olmstead took the show to pilot and series and she’s also developed UCP’s current and upcoming slate of shows including 12 Monkeys, Shooter, Falling Water, and recently announced series based on Neil Gaiman’s Interworld, Dark Horse Comics’ Umbrella Academy, Boom Studio’s The Woods and Top Cow’s Bushido....

Midnight Movies Return To San Francisco By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2007 5:26 am EST There is nothing like a Midnight Movie at Landmark’s Clay Theatre in San Francisco, CA. It’s not just a movie screening, it’s a cinematic experience/party. Yesterday this year’s Midnight movie program was announced. Check out the details after the jump. Here’s the press release: Landmark’s Clay Theatre 2261 Fillmore St. SF 94116 Event Site and Online Tickets: www....

Page 2: Star Wars, Alien, Anchorman, Star Trek, Godzilla, Breaking Bad, Scorsese, Hobbit, Evil Dead By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 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 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....

Sequel Bits: Dave Bautista’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Hot Take, Guy Ritchie’s ‘Suicide Squad 2’? & More By Ben Pearson/May 9, 2017 7:30 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: An Alien: Covenant VR experience lets you be birthed as a neomorph Dave Bautista says Blade Runner 2049 will be “better than the first film” Adam Scott doesn’t seem thrilled about the idea of more Big Little Lies Tom Cruise films a motorcycle chase for Mission: Impossible 6 and more!...

Sony Wants Edgar Wright To Make ‘Baby Driver 2’ And He Just Might Do It By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2017 12:30 pm EST This past weekend, Baby Driver exceeded the modest box office forecasts by pulling in $21 million for the regular three day weekend, and a total of $35 million since opening exactly one week ago today (not including whatever business it did on Independence Day yesterday). That already puts it over the $34 million budget, so this movie will certainly turn a profit for Sony, and that has them interested in a sequel, even if it seems Anthony Bourdain may not be....

Star Wars Bits: Oscar Isaac’s Carrie Fisher Tribute, New Easter Eggs, And A Potential ‘Rogue One’ Blu-Ray And DVD Release Date By Jacob Hall/Dec. 30, 2016 10:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Oscar Isaac’s tribute to Carrie Fisher contains a Star Wars: Episode 8 surprise. We may know when Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is hitting Blu-ray and DVD. Ben Mendelsohn discusses the many different versions of Rogue One on the cutting room floor....

Superhero Bits: Justice League In The 1980s, Thanos Leads The Avengers, ‘Titans’ Casts Dick Grayson & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 31, 2017 5:00 pm EST What would the Justice League movie look like if it was made in the 1980s? What is Thanos doing leading The Avengers? Who has been cast to play Dick Grayson on the Titans live-action series? According to tweets, what was the biggest blockbsuter of the summer?...

The Best & Worst Sketches From Drake’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2016 4:36 pm EST In the penultimate episode of the 41st season of Saturday Night Live, recording star Drake returned to Studio 8H as host and musical guest. As expected, Drake was as comfortable as ever with the cast of SNL (after all, he started his career as an actor), and he really put himself into a variety of characters 100%....

This Week In Trailers: Life To Come, Futures Past, Hungry, China’s Van Gogh, The Brand New Testament By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 23, 2016 8:00 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?...

We’ve Heard the ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Theme Music; New Details On The Show’s Serialized Storytelling [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2017 7:15 am EST During the Television Critics Association panel for Star Trek: Discovery, producers played the show’s opening title song by Jeff Russo for the first time. The theme song runs a full minute and a half, and they intend it to play on every episode of the CBS All Access streaming service....

Will The Marvel Restructuring Lead To More Female Superheroes Onscreen? By Angie Han/Sept. 2, 2015 3:15 pm EST To put it mildly, the MCU has not had a great track record with female superheroes. Their idea of “diversity” seems to be offering countless variations on white, male superheroes, and based on the current schedule that won’t change until the release of 2018’s Black Panther and Captain Marvel. (Which are Marvel movies #19 and #20, respectively....

‘Castle Rock’ Easter Eggs: Every Stephen King Reference We’ve Noticed So Far By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 12, 2018 9:00 am EST Hulu’s Castle Rock is now available to stream. As expected, the show, which is set in the Stephen King universe, is loaded with Stephen King references. To honor Stephen King nerds everywhere, we’re compiling a list of every King reference in each episode. We’ll be updating the list every week with new references from new episodes as they become available to stream....

‘Frankenweenie’ Review: Tim Burton’s Fond, Minor Return To Personal And Career Roots [Fantastic Fest 2012] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2012 5:58 pm EST Frankenweenie is an unusual film, which is the sort of thing that people always used to say about Tim Burton movies. In this case it is unusual because unlike Burton films such as Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice, which seemed like uncontrollable explosions of the director’s own childhood impulses, Frankenweenie feels like a very calculated trip back down memory lane....