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Toy Story 3 Trailer Easter Eggs Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2010 11:00 am EST The new trailer for Toy Story 3 hit the web yesterday. If you haven’t watched it yet, watch it now here! As you probably know, I’m an obsessive Pixar fanatic and love finding all of the little easter eggs that the animators/designers hide in the films. In the past we’ve taken a look at the easter eggs in Pete Docter’s Up, Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E and Brad Bird’s Ratatouille....

Westworld Bits: The Secret Origins Of Westworld, A Super-Sized Finale, And A Strange, Secret Door By Jacob Hall/Nov. 26, 2016 10:00 am EST In this edition of Westworld Bits: It looks like the Westworld season finale may run 90 minutes. A new video explores the secret origins of Westworld. Saturday Night Live manages to parody both CNN and Westworld simultaneously. An interview with series cinematographer Paul Cameron. An interview with series composer Ramin Djawadi....

What Will The R-Rated ‘Batman V Superman’ Cut Have That The PG-13 One Won’t? Jena Malone, For Starters By Angie Han/March 4, 2016 10:00 am EST For months, fans have speculated about whom Jena Malone could be playing in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Could she be the new Barbara Gordon? Or some version of Robin? The one thing we knew we could count on was that all would be revealed once the film hit theaters — but it turns out that may not be the case anymore....

Who Are The Top 15 Best Movie Spies? By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2015 9:00 am EST This weekend Melissa McCarthy enters secret agent territory as the unlikely hero Susan Cooper in the action comedy Spy. And while the trailers seem to indicate that she’s probably not the best woman for the job, she did get us thinking about the best spies in the business. There have been plenty of spies on the big screen, from James Bond to Jason Bourne, and I decided to count down the Top 15 Best Movie Spies that we’ve seen throughout the years....

/Answers: The Scariest Movie Scenes Of All Time By /Film Staff/May 16, 2017 11:30 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 Alien: Covenant, asks “What is the single scariest scene you’ve ever watched in a movie?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. If you’d like to share your pick for the scariest movie scene, please send your thoughts to slashfilmpitches@gmail....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through The New Footage Frame-By-Frame By Jacob Hall/March 10, 2016 12:00 pm EST If you’re the kind of person who clicks on an exhaustive breakdown of the new Captain America: Civil War trailer, then you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need an introduction to Captain America: Civil War. In short: the movie looks fantastic and the trailer is a smorgasbord of goodness. Real catnip for nerds stuff....

‘Green Lantern Corps’ Movie Is “Still In The Works,” But Even Writer David S. Goyer Doesn’t Know When We’ll Hear More About It By Ben Pearson/Jan. 10, 2018 1:30 pm EST A year ago, we learned that Batman Begins and Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer was hired to write the script for DC and Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern Corps movie alongside writer Justin Rhodes. Not long after, there were whispers that Goyer might end up directing the movie as well, but that rumor remains unconfirmed and the movie is still currently without a director....

‘It’ Screenwriter Gary Dauberman On Transforming A 1,000 Page Book Into A Movie [Interview] By Fred Topel/Sept. 4, 2017 12:00 pm EST Screenwriter Gary Dauberman took on the adaptation, which King himself has approved. Dauberman had a hit this summer with Annabelle: Creation and wrote another entry in the ever-expanding The Conjuring universe, The Nun. But even with that much horror movie experience, adapting Stephen King’s massive novel was still a massive undertaking....

‘The Accountant’ Early Buzz: Ben Affleck’s Action Thriller Is Preposterous, Ludicrous & Fun By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 12, 2016 10:00 am EST This weekend brings Gavin O’Connor’s action thriller The Accountant to theaters, giving us a second round of Ben Affleck action following his debut as the Dark Knight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer promised an engaging thriller following an assassin under the guise of an accountant who also happens to fall on the autism spectrum....

67th Golden Globes Nominations Announced By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2009 6:44 am EST One of the few things that can get Justin Timberlake in front of a camera before dawn is a group with, er, enormous power: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Timberlake, John Krasinski and Diane Kruger joined the president of the HFPA this morning to announced the nominations for the 67th Golden Globes. Because the HFPA nominates work split into dramatic and comedy/musical categories, the nods are often spread out over a fairly wide group of films....

Alec Baldwin Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ This Weekend Could Be A Big Deal By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2017 6:30 am EST Last weekend, everyone was talking about Saturday Night Live. The latest episode hosted by Kristen Stewart featured a sketch (the best of the night) which brought in Melissa McCarthy to play White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in a raucously hilarious sketch that pissed off plenty of people in the Trump Administration....

Alive And Kicking: “Fresh” Zombie Movies That Will Resurrect Your Faith In The Undead By Jacob Hall/Feb. 10, 2016 8:00 am EST If you think the zombie movie is dead, you’re not alone. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies opened with a thud this past weekend. The shambling undead have become television fixtures thanks to AMC’s The Walking Dead, which has dominated the zombie conversation for so long that the genre has stopped feeling special....

Box Office: Bucket List Holds Off First Sunday; Golden Globe Predictions By Steve Mason/Jan. 13, 2008 2:47 am EST fter an anticipated 38% Sunday drop, I’m projecting that The Bucket List will finish the weekend with $19.56M, making it Rob Reiner’s best-ever opening, Jack Nicholson’s 4th-best and Morgan Freeman’s 7th-best. (For more details, scroll down and read my Friday Night report). Meanwhile, First Sunday will perform a bit softer on Sunday and finish with a better-than-expected $18....

Casting Bits: Michael Williams In ‘The Suspect;’ Rodrigo Santoro In ‘The Last Stand;’ David Duchovny In ‘Phantom;’ James D’Arcy In ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 4:00 pm EST The Wire’s Michael K. Williams (who, like John Goodman, just guest-appeared on Community) was in the running for the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, and though he lost the part to Jamie Foxx, he may still end up in the film, in a part written just for him....

DreamWorks Animation Schedule Announced; ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ Set For Release June 20, 2014 By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 11:30 am EST Disney and Pixar have always been the undisputed champions of animation but a new contender has been rising in the ranks over the last several years: DreamWorks. The studio that brought us the Shrek films, Antz, Chicken Run, Madagascar, Bee Movie and many others has been fighting the good fight for the better part of a decade and while they have yet to over take Disney and Pixar, their upcoming slate sounds like they’re once again swinging for the fences....

Four Steven Spielberg Movies Coming To Blu-Ray For The First Time By Germain Lussier/July 1, 2014 10:08 am EST Years ago, Steven Spielberg was known for being resistant to Blu-ray. His lesser films got released, but his classics took a long time to make it to the format. Even today, several of Spielberg’s movies aren’t available on Blu-ray. That’ll change in October though when Universal releases the Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection....

GeekBomb: Movies About Fanboys By Kevin Kelly/Feb. 12, 2009 7:00 am EST digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/12/geekbomb-movies-about-fanboys/'; // –> The Merriam-Webster Dictionary added the word “fanboy” last year, and they list its first usage as 1919. Sadly, they don’t provide any examples for that usage. Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers that year in Wisconsin, but I don’t think he had throngs of fanboys around him just yet. For the record, Merriam-Webster defines a fanboy as, “A boy who is an enthusiastic devotee (as of comics or movies)....

Is ‘Skull Island’ Based On A Book Or Theme Park Ride? Could We See A Godzilla Vs. King Kong Movie? By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2014 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Legendary Pictures attempted to surprise the crowd at 2014 Comic Con with a teaser trailer announcing a King Kong-set film project Skull Island. We were given very little information about the project, but Monday we learned more about the writer developing the project and that Legendary has offered the movie to Attack the Block director Joe Cornish....

Jack Black’s ‘Goosebumps’ Movie Trailer And Panel Promises Scares And Laughs [Comic Con 2014] By Germain Lussier/July 24, 2014 2:45 pm EST The Sony Pictures panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 could more appropriately have been titled “Goosebumps.” After a super-short mention of the upcoming Chris Columbus film Pixels, author R.L. Stine popped on screen to tell fans about Goosebumps, which opens in Summer 2015. Director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens) showed up for the panel, along with star Jack Black, a mere two days after they wrapped production....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ - Quick First Reactions By Germain Lussier/Jan. 23, 2011 7:40 pm EST Update: Germain has posted a full review which you can read right now here. The world premiere, first-time-anyone-has-seen-it screening of Kevin Smith’s Red State just ended at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Full reviews, video blogs and a report on the Q&A/auction are coming, but first, as the credits were rolling here at the Eccles Theater, we thought you’d immediately want to know how it was from multiple points of view....