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How Pixar’s ‘Newt’ Got Flipped ‘Inside Out’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2014 8:00 am EST Pixar works on their films for years; most releases are developed for a good five years. Almost every film they’ve developed has had problems at one point of another. Some, like Ratatouille and Toy Story, were completely reworked when Pixar realized the story wasn’t working. The film newt was announced in 2008 at a Disney presentation, and canceled only two years later, making it the first announced Pixar movie to be canceled....

Interview: Justin Theroux Wanted A Good Reason To Make ‘Zoolander 2’ By Jack Giroux/Feb. 11, 2016 8:30 am EST Justin Theroux was originally going to direct Zoolander 2. The co-writer and co-star of the sequel was attached to the director’s chair for a while, but due to scheduling conflicts with HBO’s The Leftovers, he had to step down. But the actor remained very much involved in the project, as he worked on the script for years, visited the set, and, of course, reprised his role as the infamous Evil DJ....

Interview: Karen Gillan On Going Bald To Play Thanos’ Daughter In ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2014 12:00 pm EST In September 2013, I visited the London-based set of Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy (you can find out more about what we learned and watch a video blog reaction here). While on set, we are able to talk with many of the key cast and crew and will be posting transcripts from those roundtable interviews all this week....

JJ Abrams Talks About The Genesis Of ‘Super 8’ By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2010 10:28 am EST In the middle of the first day of the San Diego Comic Con, Hall H broke from showing thunderously loud movie clips to present a conversation between Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams. The ‘Visionaries’ panel, as it was called, was a low-key talk that was more about the personalities of the two participants than the movies they’ll soon be making....

Mark Hamill Stars In First Scene Of ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service;’ Watch The Full Panel [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2014 10:15 am EST Months of speculation were answered Friday night at Comic-Con when Mark Hamill finally appeared on screen. It was not, however, for that little sci-fi movie he’s making. It was to introduce a new clip from Kingsman: The Secret Service, Matthew Vaughn’s latest film adaptation of a Mark Millar comic book....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch With ‘Jigsaw’ By Scott Beggs/Oct. 25, 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: Jigsaw.) There’s almost nothing like the Saw movies in cinema. Launching 7 movies in 7 years without going the direct-to-video route was an amazing achievement launched by an innovative, thrilling piece of indie horror....

New Season Of ‘Doctor Who’ Will See Lots Of Changes While Honoring The Doctor’s Legacy [Comic-Con 2018] By Vanessa Armstrong/July 19, 2018 3:30 pm EST Comic-Con’s Hall H crowd was buzzing with anticipation in the minutes leading up to the BBC America’s Doctor Who panel this morning. More than a couple of the attendees — both men and women — were dressed up as Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor, and even more were wearing Doctor Who-themed clothing, pins, and other paraphernalia....

Rian Johnson Shares ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Set Photos As Actors Begin To Wrap Filming By Jacob Hall/July 8, 2016 9:30 am EST One of the great pleasures in keeping an eye on the production of Star Wars: Episode 8 over the past few months has been watching director Rian Johnson remain his usual self despite the gargantuan size of his latest film. This may be the biggest film he’s made yet, dwarfing the likes of Looper, Brick, and The Brothers Bloom, but Johnson’s social media presence has stayed on point: he’s smart, funny, informative, and often adorably weird....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Dark Knight Rises, Captain America, Iron Man, Mark Millar By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2011 12:00 pm EST And we’re back! Why is Tom Hardy comparing The Dark Knight Rises to Starbucks? Does Edgar Wright have an actor in mind for the Ant-Man lead? Is Henry Cavill comfortable in his Man of Steel costume yet? What are The Muppets doing to Green Lantern and Captain America now? And what do Conan O’Brien and Kenny Rogers have to do with superheroes?...

Superhero Bits: The Wolverine, The Avengers, Spider-Man, Batman: Arkham City, R.I.P.D. By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2011 10:30 am EST Will The Wolverine be totally set in Japan? Why is The Avengers trailer presented by Paramount when Disney is behind it? What’s it like to voice Cyclops? Did you really see everything there was to see in The Avengers trailer? And, most importantly, what did the final two pages of yesterday’s Superhero Bits have on them in regards to R....

The ‘It’ Preview Playing With ‘Annabelle: Creation’ Is Unsettling, See Some New Photos By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2017 2:00 pm EST Audiences heading to see Annabelle: Creation this weekend (which is surprisingly good) will be treated to a sneak peek of the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s It. The preview consists of an entire scene, one of the most iconic moments of the book, and it sets the stage for what promises to be an unsettling adaptation of the classic horror novel....

The 9 Best And Worst ‘Die Hard’ Knock-Offs By Joshua Meyer/July 11, 2018 8:00 am EST (This week marks the 30th anniversary of Die Hard, arguably the greatest action movie of all time. To celebrate, /Film is exploring the film from every angle with a series of articles. Today: examining the film’s legacy through the numerous rip-offs and knock-offs it inspired in the ’90s.) If you’ve ever seen the Honest Trailer for Die Hard, then you may recall the lightning round of references at the end riffing on how it was “the original masterpiece that inspired countless knockoffs....

The Best & Worst Sketches From Octavia Spencer’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2017 9:00 am EST Saturday Night Live came back this weekend for their first episode of March. Hosting duties fell upon the shoulders of Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. While the actress appeared to be up to the challenge, the writing staff didn’t really seem to meet her in the middle. The result was a mostly mediocre episode with some bumpy and poorly paced sketches....

The Best ‘New Hollywood’ Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/May 11, 2012 10:00 am EST I like the fact that the band is still called Sonic Youth, even though they’re all in their 50s. Similarly, there’s the term New Hollywood, which represents a very specific time in which the studio bosses gave free reign to independent-minded, radical filmmakers looking to push the artistic boundaries of film. It is a cinema movement that came out guns blazing in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde and suffered its first wound from Jaws in 1975, then sank into the mud under its own weight by 1977 with Sorcerer....

The New ‘Heat’ Blu-Ray Is A Reminder That Michael Mann’s 1995 Thriller Is A Masterpiece By /Film Staff/May 11, 2017 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Released in 1995, Michael Mann’s Heat has spent the past 22 years embedding itself into pop culture consciousness. It’s hard to think of a crime movie (or even a crime video game) made in the past two decades that doesn’t owe it some kind of debt....

Theme Park Rumors: ‘Star Wars’ Tomorrowland Plans Put On Hold, ‘Monsters Inc.’ Coaster Cancelled By Germain Lussier/Nov. 26, 2013 11:34 am EST There’s some potentially soul-crushing news for Disney theme park fans in the latest installment of the excellent insider column MiceAge. None of this is officially confirmed by Disney (then again, when is it?) but the latest column claims plans to turn Disneyland’s Tomorrowland in Anaheim into a more Star Wars centric world have been on hold....

This Week In Trailers: We Are Monster, Petting Zoo, Nina Forever, Equal Means Equal, Footprints By Christopher Stipp/March 9, 2015 4:00 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 May Know Who Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Character Is Now By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2017 7:30 am EST Rumors of Sylvester Stallone having a role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 first emerged in March of 2016, but we didn’t get confirmation of his participation in the Marvel Studios sequel until their panel at Comic-Con last summer. But here we are, one month away from release, and we still don’t know who Sylvester Stallone is playing in the cosmic comic book flick....

/Answers: The Best Movie Vehicles By /Film Staff/June 13, 2017 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition, tying in with the release of Cars 3, asks “What is your favorite vehicle from the movies?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. This week, we are also joined by Cars 3 director Brian Fee and writers Kiel Murray, Scott Morse, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Set Visit: Everything We Learned About Marvel’s Upcoming Sequel By Ben Pearson/June 18, 2018 9:00 am EST I’m standing inside Hank Pym’s new high tech laboratory. Pym’s secure room under his house in the first Ant-Man was pretty slick, but this two-story complex puts that place to shame. Banks of computers – some brand new, some decades old – flash as they work side by side. The place has a mixture of analog and modern technology: microphones attached to a tape player, an ancient reel-to-reel machine plopped next to a corrugated cardboard model with Pym Particle receptacles attached....