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TV Bits: John Cho And A ‘Deadpool’ Star Join ‘The Exorcist’, How ‘South Park’ Plans To Move On From Last Season, And More By Ben Pearson/July 13, 2017 3:30 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Star Trek’s John Cho and Deadpool’s Brianna Hildebrand join season 2 of Fox’s The Exorcist series Netflix’s BoJack Horseman gets a season 4 premiere date A former Smallville star makes her way to Supergirl South Park’s creators talk about how the show will move beyond the presidential antics of last season American Horror Story season 7 teases the return of a familiar (painted) face New Game of Thrones images from this weekend’s premiere And much more!...

Viewfinder: The Black List For Aspiring Filmmakers By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 6:00 am EST Though it started as a very insider thing, The Black List has recently become more popular and mainstream. For those who may not know, it’s an annual list of the year’s best unproduced screenplays as voted on by about 300 Hollywood development executives and high-level assistants. We recently posted the 2010 list and looking back at some previous years (2007, 2008, 2009), films such as Recount, The Beaver and The Social Network all sat near the top of the list....

Why The ‘Saints Row’ Movie Didn’t Happen By Jack Giroux/Sept. 2, 2016 4:00 pm EST A film based on the Saints Row video game series spent a little while in development. At one point, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was involved in the project, and before that Dwayne Johnson considered starring in the film. Now, a former executive producer on the video game adaptation has written a piece detailing what happened to the R-rated, Escape From New York-inspired movie....

‘Best F(r)iends’ Reunites ‘The Room’ Stars Tommy Wiseau And Greg Sestero For A Bizarre Crime Tale [Beyond Fest] By Ben Pearson/Oct. 2, 2017 7:00 am EST With Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, the stars of Wiseau’s legendarily awful 2oo3 drama The Room, co-starring in a new movie together, comparisons to that original disasterpiece are impossible to avoid. Best F(r)iends, a new buddy crime movie directed by Justin MacGregor and written by Sestero, embraces the inevitable juxtaposition by acknowledging and paying homage to The Room throughout its entire run time: it’s not a sequel, but it’s clearly a spiritual successor and often feels like it could be set in the same cinematic Wiseau-niverse....

Deadpool’s Suicide Montage One of the sequences that will make the Deadpool 2 extended cut is a deleted scene that writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick recently described in a Reddit AMA. It’s a bit dark, but it has the potential to be pretty funny: “One thing we really wanted to see (and actually shot!) was a Deadpool suicide montage, where DP is trying to kill himself over and over in increasingly violent ways (drinking Drano, jumping into a polar bear enclosure), etc....

By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 12, 2010 8:38 am EST Talking of which, here are the details of that Meet-Up again: Unlike in the US where the film has been cut to get a PG-13 rating, Neil Jordan’s Ondine will be hitting UK cinemas intact. Even certificated 12A the sex scene will play undoctored. Here’s the BBFC’s description of said material, as well as their discussion of drugs and ‘improper language’ in the film:...

‘Legion’ Spoiler Review: Thoughts On ‘‘Chapter 4’’ By Jacob Hall/March 2, 2017 9:03 am EST With “Chapter 4,” Legion has reached the halfway point of its first season and delivered its best episode since the pilot. After two episodes of intentional slow burn and uneasy horrors, FX’s offbeat X-Men series has reached full nightmarish boil. Let’s talk about it. Oliver Bird and the Astral Plane If the recorded voice of Summerland’s absent founder sounded familiar last week, that’s because it was the voice of the great Jemaine Clement....

2011 Sundance Film Festival Out Of Competition Films Announced By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2010 12:20 pm EST Wednesday, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival announced the 58 films in four categories that would be eligible for awards. Today, they’ve announced the next slice of their line up – 57 out of competition films in the Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontiers and Midnight categories. This is generally where you get many of the bigger name projects and this year is no exception....

2015 Oscar Winners: The 87th Annual Academy Awards Results By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2015 5:10 pm EST The day is upon us. Oscar Sunday. The finale of the movie season. Our Super Bowl. The day where the best of the previous year’s films are crowned and the collective consciousness switches from looking backwards to forwards. Neil Patrick Harris hosted the 87th Annual Academy Awards live from Hollywood California where the best films of 2014 battle for Oscar gold....

2017 Emmy Nominations Announced: Westworld, Stranger Things, The Night Of, This Is Us & More By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2017 9:00 am EST Today brought the nominations for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, and Westworld came out on top on the drama side of things with a total of 22 nominations across the board. On the comedy side, Veep was the leader with a total of 17 nominations. The miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan also fared well with 18 nominations....

A Look Back At The Music Of ‘Mission: Impossible’ By David Chen/Dec. 16, 2011 2:00 pm EST Composers probably count themselves lucky if, within their lifetime, they can come up with a single piece of music that becomes ingrained enough in popular culture that it is instantly recognizable after only a few notes. Lalo Schifrin is one such composer. While Schifrin’s work spans decades, one of his most well-known pieces is the theme to the Mission: Impossible television series....

Analysts Blame Poor Marketing For ‘Solo’ Box Office Failure By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2018 3:30 pm EST What the heck happened with the Solo box office? Everyone expected the latest Star Wars Story to be another big hit, but the movie has fared rather poorly with audiences. While some point toward Star Wars franchise fatigue, a Wall Street analyst thinks he has the real answer: poor marketing. Solo: A Star Wars Story has “only” garnered $264 million at the box office....

Bad Robot’s ‘Kolma’ Starring Daisy Ridley Might Be ‘Cloverfield 5’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 8, 2018 6:30 am EST Another day, another Cloverfield rumor, this time about Cloverfield 5. We know that the upcoming Overlord will the fourth Cloverfield film. Now, there’s a rumor that Bad Robot’s upcoming Kolma could actually be Cloverfield 5. First announced back in 2016, Kolma is a fantasy thriller starring Daisy Ridley. Everyone has Cloverfield on the brain this week....

Corey Edwards: Weinsteins Want Fraggle Movie To “Connect With An Older, More Sophisticated Audience” By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2010 3:00 pm EST Last month we told you that Fraggle Rock director/screenwriter Corey Edwards had been told that The Weinstein Company has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard the project after demanding the the script was “not edgy enough.” Edwards’ blog post caused a stir in the blogosphere and we now have an update on the situation....

David Chen’s Top 10 Films Of 2016 By David Chen/Dec. 23, 2016 11:00 am EST This is a year where you had to work to see great films. Unlike last year, the vast majority of my favorite movies of 2016 weren’t movies that received wide releases, nor were they films that earned over $50 million at the box office. Instead, they were often quieter releases that I had to read up on in order to make sure I caught them during the 1-2 weeks they were playing in my city....

Featurette: Disney’s Tangled - Creating The Look By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 5:00 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a featurette for their upcoming computer animated film Tangled. The three minute behind the scenes documentary takes a look at the unique look of the new film. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader asdf for the tip. Previously: Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), this new telling of the classic fairy tale Rapunzel (the original title of the film), will transport audiences “to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant hero and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden tresses....

Interview With Grindhouse Star Kurt Russell By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2007 6:03 am EST On March 25th, we had the opportunity to talk with most of the stars of Grindhouse. We will be posting the interviews leading up until the film’s release on April 6th 2007. We sat down with Kurt Russell (The Thing, Tombstone, Esacpe from New York) to talk about his role as Stunt Man Mike in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof....

Joe Carnahan To Write And Direct ‘Death Wish’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 2:00 pm EST I’m not sure what to make of this. Only hours after Joe Carnahan reasserted himself with the release of The Grey (my positive review is here), the director was announced as the writer and director of a remake of Death Wish. Originally released in 1974, Michael Winner’s Death Wish is a pretty slight film that nevertheless hit a nerve as fears of urban crime started to escalate....

Jonah Hill & Emma Stone To Reunite For ‘Maniac’ Comedy Series From Cary Fukunaga [UPDATED] By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2016 7:45 am EST UPDATE: Deadline reports Maniac has been picked up by Netflix for a straight-to-series order with 10 episodes for a first season. Our original story from March 18th follows. About nine years ago, the high school comedy Superbad from director Greg Mottola and writers Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg helped boost the careers of co-stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, and the two have gone on to get nominated for Oscars....

Julie Taymor To Direct Spider-Man Musical By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2007 6:28 pm EST Academy Award nominated director Julie Taymor (Frida, Titus, Across the Universe) will be directing a Spider-Man Musical. That’s right, a musical. According to SHH, the New York City theater production will feature the music and lyrics of Bono and Edge from U2. Tell me the date, and I’ll be there. Taymor received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical for her work on The Lion King, becoming the first woman in Tony Award history to receive the prize....