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‘The Neon Demon’ Early Buzz: Nicholas Winding Refn Polarizes Cannes, As Expected By Jack Giroux/May 19, 2016 4:30 pm EST I don’t think anyone was expecting a unanimous reaction to Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon. Refn’s horror film just screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and the critical response was mixed, to say the least. Some have claimed the reaction was even more divisive than when Only God Forgives debuted at the festival — which likely pleases Refn, who never attempts to satisfy all audiences....

‘Westworld’ Spoiler Review: 10 Questions From “The Stray” By Jacob Hall/Oct. 17, 2016 9:17 am EST Welcome back to our weekly deep dive into HBO’s Westworld, where we ask 10 questions about the latest episode. Some questions are literal and others rhetorical. Some have answers and others do not. A few of them are just excuses to talk about an aspect of the show that demands our attention. This week: “The Stray,” an episode that shed light on Westworld’s past while promising a dark future....

10 Directors Who Should Direct ‘Ant-Man’ Now That Edgar Wright Is Out By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2014 3:30 pm EST Last week, Edgar Wright suddenly departed from Marvel Studio’s big screen adaptation of Ant-Man, with an official statement citing “differences in their vision of the film” as reasons for the “amicable” split. Marvel Studios says they still plan to have Ant-Man in theaters for the announced July 17th 2015 release date, and Marvel has already begun a search for a new director....

Competition Films For The 2012 Sundance Film Festival Announced By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2011 1:20 pm EST Basically, while you probably haven’t heard of these movies yet, you will soon hear a lot about them. Read the full list after the jump. Below are the descriptions from the Sundance press release. U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION The world premieres of 16 American narrative feature films. Beasts of the Southern Wild / U.S.A. (Director: Benh Zeitlin, Screenwriters: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar) — Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world....

Here’s The Anime You Should Watch After ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ By Dalin Rowell/March 26, 2018 12:30 pm EST From the beginning, Pacific Rim has been a franchise built on the hopes and dreams of Japanese Animation and pop culture fanatics. Filled with tributes and references to anime, director Guillermo del Toro took his passion for Gundam and Kaiju films and smashed it all together into an explosion of ridiculous antics, one-liner friendly characters, and tons of pure popcorn fun....

Hot Butterbeer Coming To Hollywood’s The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2016 2:00 pm EST If you’ve ever been to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, then you know that frozen Butter Beer is one of the best drinks of all time. Guests visiting Universal Studios Hollywood will now get the option of a hot version of the beverage to the seasonal menu at the Three Broomsticks....

Interview: Director J.A. Bayona On Exploring Destruction And Storytelling ‘In A Monster Calls’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 9, 2017 8:30 am EST J.A. Bayona’s latest film packs a heavy punch. Bayona’s adaptation of author and screenwriter Patrick Ness’ novel is a pure tearjerker, a movie that mixes the grand with the intimate. The film follows a young boy (Lewis MacDougall) struggling with his mother’s terminal illness. In need of help, he calls upon a monster (Liam Neeson), a talking tree that promises to tell Conor three stories as long as the boy reveals his deepest, darkest secret....

Lesser Known Comic Books That Demand A Movie By Alex Riviello/May 12, 2017 9:00 am EST No one expected one of the biggest comic book movies of all time to be centered around a group of unknown a-holes, but here we are. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 debuted last weekend with $425M Worldwide, making even more of a household name out of former Troma writer James Gunn and the incredible cast....

Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ Casts Billy Magnussen As The Token White Guy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2017 9:46 am EST The live-action Aladdin has been under intense scrutiny by fans who were hoping for it to be an authentic depiction of the Middle Eastern-set story that the 1992 animated classic depicted. Well, as authentic as could be for a movie that mashed together Indian and Middle Eastern imagery spanning hundreds of years....

Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2007 11:51 am EST For once everything in Peter Parker’s life is perfect. Crime is almost nonexistent, Mary Jane is starring in a new musical which is set to open on Broadway, and Spider-Man is finally receiving his due. Bad reviews, genetically engineered Sandmen, a vengeful former best friend, a rival Daily Bugle photographer, a beautiful starry eyed classmate and a black alien symbiote monster are just some of the opposition introduced in the third film....

Now Scream This: The Wildest And Most Surprising Horror Movies Streaming Now By /Film Staff/June 6, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: This week’s theme of “Wild Surprises” is 100% brought to you by Charles Philip Moore’s Demon Wind. As Chris can confirm, there was going to be a Demon Wind sighting on my list no matter what....

One-Week Forrest Gump IMAX Release Announced To Celebrate 20th Anniversary By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2014 11:00 am EST Paramount Pictures has announced they will be releasing Forrest Gump in IMAX theaters for a one-week run to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary. The film has been digitally re-mastered for the IMAX format and released domestically starting September 5th 2014. Later in the month, the film will hit home video in a special Diamond Luxe Blu-ray release from Warner Bros....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2009 10:11 pm EST [No photo]SmokeInTheCity captured this photo of John Noble drinking a Slusho! on the New York City set of the JJ Abrams-produced television show Fringe. [via: CloverfieldClues]Travis Barker, drummer for Blink-182, tweeted that he is working on a song with (or featuring?) Busta Rhymes for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack.Marc Forster will not be directing a biopic about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, as has been rumored....

Russ Fischer’s 10 Most Anticipated Films Of 2012 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 28, 2011 12:00 pm EST Enough about 2011; let’s look ahead to 2012. This past year was good about offering a diverse set of films that catered to many tastes, especially crowds that wanted something out of the range of standard multiplex fare. But 2012 looks like a much stronger year. We can almost always look ahead to a new year and say that there is a great batch of new films from established favorite filmmakers, movies with wonderful casts, giant event movies and promising indies....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Star Wars Rebels’, ‘Star Wars Pinball’, George Lucas’ Museum, Chewbacca By Angie Han/Oct. 4, 2013 3:00 pm EST More people throw their hats into the Episode VII casting ring, some more sincerely than others, while George Lucas tries to get moving on his next, non-Star Wars-related endeavor. After the jump: Could this guy be the new Chewbacca? Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme “auditions” for Star Wars J....

Star Wars Bits: Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Movie Idea; Kevin Smith Talks Over-Saturation; Plus The Kessel Run, Pinball, And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2013 5:00 pm EST Lots of randomness in this edition of Star Wars Bits. We’ve got debate, video games, standalone talk, real science, humor and more. After the jump. Read about the following: Kevin Smith thinks a new Star Wars movie every year is a good thing. Ewan McGregor has an idea for an Obi-Wan Kenobi stand-alone movie....

Superhero Bits: New, Improved And Relaunched! Captain America, The Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2011 12:00 pm EST You all know and love Page 2. It’s /Film’s catch all feature for smaller, quirkier, but still cool and worth mentioning film news. Well, starting today, we’re relaunching the catch all column for the ever expanding world of superhero movies: Superhero Bits. Done in the same quick and easy to read style of Page 2, Superhero Bits will be a daily (or close to it) feature grabbing all the superhero news, tidbits, and cool addendums that might not be worth several hundred words a piece, but we think you’d still like to know about....

Superhero Sequel Bits: ‘Kick-Ass 2’ To Hit Next Spring? Plus: ‘Avengers 2’, ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Captain America 2’, ‘Black Widow’ By Angie Han/May 7, 2012 12:30 pm EST Thanks in a large part to this past weekend’s The Avengers, we’ve got a ton of superhero-related odds and ends for you today. After the jump: Kick-Ass illustrator claims sequel will shoot this summer Scarlett Johansson really wants a Black Widow spinoff Joss Whedon isn’t ready to think about Avengers 2 yet Captain America 2 will be closely linked to Avengers Ben Kingsley is still developing his Iron Man 3 character In a World Record signing session that was broadcast via UStream, Millar revealed that the deals for Kick-Ass 2 have just been done, and that the production is gearing up for a summer start with a targeted May 2013 release....

The 2008 Black List - The Hottest Unproduced Screenplays Of 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 11:44 am EST Started two years ago by a young executive at Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way, who polled 90+ peers to send him their 10 favorite new unproduced screenplays to read over the holidays. The underground list was e-mailed around and quickly became a Hollywood phenomenon. To give you an idea, the top three entries of the 2005 list where Things We Lost in the Fire, Juno, and Lars and the Real Girl....

The Han Solo Movie That Almost Was: How The New Art Book Reveals A Very Different Film By Chris Evangelista/May 30, 2018 7:00 am EST Through multiple screenplay drafts and a troubled production, Solo: A Star Wars story changed significantly from conception to realization. With the help of the newly released art book tracking the film’s development and production, we try to get to the heart of the Solo movie that almost was, but never will be....