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Page 2: Star Wars, Game Of Thrones, Wes Anderson, Jaws, Moonrise Kingdom, Tron, Doctor Who, Alien, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Indiana Jones, Will Smith, Joss Whedon, Community, Andy Samberg By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Pixar’s Films Ranked: From The Revolution Of ‘Toy Story’ Through The Adventurous ‘Inside Out’ By Adam Quigley/June 26, 2012 10:00 am EST (This feature contains contributions from Adam Quigley, Germain Lussier, and Ethan Anderton.)15. Cars 2 The struggle between art and commerce rages on, even with Pixar at the wheel. Cars may not have performed nearly as well theatrically as we’ve come to expect from Pixar, but what the film lacked in box office revenue it made up for in billions of dollars in merchandise....

Read Exclusive Stories Behind Art From New ‘Crazy 4 Cult 2’ Book By Germain Lussier/Oct. 10, 2013 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Los Angeles residents are incredibly spoiled when it comes to pop culture art events. Most of that is because Jensen Karp and Katie Cromwell opened not one but two Gallery 1988 locations in the City of Angels. Every few weeks, a new art exhibit goes on the walls celebrating either an artist or subject, usually with a pop culture theme....

Rogue One Bits: The Main Inspiration For Jyn Erso, A Very Cool U-Wing Toy, And Alan Tudyk On Playing A 7-Foot Droid By Jacob Hall/Sept. 15, 2016 7:00 am EST In this edition of Rogue One Bits: Felicity Jones reveals which character was her chief inspiration for Jyn Erso. Alan Tudyk hilariously discusses what it is like to play a hulking droid. A look at the known and unknown history of Mads Mikkelsen’s Galen Erso....

Scott Derrickson And C. Robert Cargill Offer ‘Deus Ex’ Update: “It’s Moving Like A Rocket” By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2013 4:45 pm EST It’s a truism that good video game adaptations are hard to come by, but as long as studios smell franchise potential they’ll keep trying. That’s turning out to be good news for fans, as “trying” in this case means hiring interesting talents to tackle favorite titles. One of the particularly intriguing ones coming up is the Deus Ex movie, which reunites Sinister director Scott Derrickson with writer C....

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Deleted Scenes: 20 Scenes Cut From The Final Film By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 29, 2015 8:00 am EST JJ Abrams’ first cut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was almost two hours and forty minutes in length. Lets be clear, that’s his first cut of the movie, not the assembly edit. The film was chopped down to 2 hours and 16 minutes for the final theatrical release, with a reported 20 minutes of scenes getting axed in the last month of editing alone....

Star Wars Bits: Captain Phasma Toys, Disney’s Star Wars Weekend Cancelled, First Look At Max Von Sydow’s ‘The Force Awakens’ Character By Jacob Hall/Nov. 10, 2015 8:30 am EST Welcome back to Star Wars Bits, the regular feature where we bring you all of the Star Wars news you may have missed. With Star Wars: The Force Awakens a little over a month away, we’ve been keeping very, very busy. In this edition:...

The Han Solo Movie May Reveal That Han Solo’s Name Is Not Han Solo?! By Jacob Hall/March 23, 2017 12:30 pm EST Before today, the only thing we knew for sure about the young Han Solo movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are currently filming is that it will follow the galaxy’s most charming scoundrel in his younger days. Now, thanks to an interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger, a few other details about the film’s scope and plot details have arrived....

This Week In Trailers: As The Palaces Burn, It Felt Like Love, The Retrieval, Skinless, Romeo, Romeo By Christopher Stipp/March 8, 2014 10:00 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?...

Tim Burton Skipping 3D For ‘Dark Shadows’ By Russ Fischer/May 31, 2011 6:00 am EST Tim Burton recently started production on Dark Shadows, his new big-screen version of the ’60s soap opera that is well-known for indulging a good many supernatural characters and storylines. We know the basic plot of the film and we know the cast — Johnny Depp leads the roster as Barnabas Collins, with Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomas McDonell, and Bella Heathcote — but that’s just the beginning....

VOTD: ‘Megaplex’ Is A Frenetic, Funky Mash-Up Of Over 80 Sci-Fi Movies By Ethan Anderton/June 16, 2016 9:00 am EST You may remember last fall we featured the incredibly creative and cleverly edited mash-up called Hell’s Club. The video had the cinematic worlds of Terminator, Scarface, John Wick, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, The Matrix and more collide in a single, dangerous nightclub setting. Now a new mash-up from Smash TV brings together over 80 sci-fi films, from Moonwalker to Akira and more but rather than just being a mash-up of these movies, it’s also an exercise in music remixing that results in a mesmerizing, trippy feature-length music video....

Watch: Scott Glenn As Stick In New ‘Daredevil’ Footage, Plus New Character Posters By Germain Lussier/March 30, 2015 9:30 am EST Two short weeks remain until Marvel comes to Netflix. Daredevil will hit the streaming service at 12:01 a.m. PST on Friday April 10 and the race will begin to see how the Man Without Fear is going to be handled in this new format. With the countdown nearing its end, Netflix has begun to promote the show more aggressively, including this brand new TV spot....

Wes Ball Talks About Blending Books On Set Of ‘The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2015 9:00 am EST Getting time with a director when you visit a set is a privilege. The director is busiest person on set. Their attention is constantly fragmented by a million questions, prepping for the next shot, thinking about the next day, and trying to make the current shot as good as it can be....

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Viral: What’s In The Box? By Jack Giroux/Feb. 19, 2016 1:30 pm EST I’m trying to stay in the dark when it comes to 10 Cloverfield Lane. The teaser showed us pretty much everything we needed to know, but apparently the trailer that premiered the other day on The Walking Dead revealed more information about Dan Trachtenberg’s feature debut. With the film opening in theaters next month, we’ll soon see more from 10 Cloverfield Lane....

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ Is A Supernatural Vision Of Progress [Sundance 2014 Review] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2014 2:30 pm EST There’s an implied threat in the title of the film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Those words together suggest menace and victimization. An image forms, not of a woman out for an enjoyable stroll, but of one who might not make it home. A reversal of that threat is the core of this vampire film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour....

‘Captain Marvel’ Is Taking Cues From ’90s Action Films By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2018 8:30 am EST Black Panther is still the talk of the town, but in less than two months, Avengers: Infinity War will dominate the box office by beginning the culmination of the first 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But that’s just the beginning of this big screen finale. We still have Ant-Man and the Wasp arriving later this year too....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Moving Much Faster Now, But Is That A Good Thing? By /Film Staff/Aug. 1, 2017 7:00 am EST For its first six seasons, HBO’s Game of Thrones was a slow-paced show that took its time moving pieces into place. Those first four episodes or so were all build-up, all simmer. And then things would finally take off, propelling you into a final stretch where everything paid off with a bloody bang....

‘Groundhog Day: The Musical’ Review: A Splendid, High-Spirited Retelling Of A Classic By Jack Giroux/Aug. 24, 2017 11:30 am EST The Groundhog Day musical is a joyful experience about one huge jerk. As Bill Murray’s take on the same character does in the Harold Ramis film classic, Phil eventually learns his lessons, but this stage adaptation from director Matthew Warchus, playwright Danny Rubin, and composer Tim Minchin turn his cantankerousness up a couple of notches before he does....

‘Pledge’ Review: A Lean, Mean Fraternity Murder Convenes In Daniel Robbins’ Thriller [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/Aug. 5, 2018 11:00 am EST As a college attendee who never participated in Greek life myself, fraternal thrillers are always something of an outside-looking-in affair. My behind-closed-doors knowledge comes only from friends who recall their “elephant walks” or 24-hour drinking binges, always uttered with an air of unbelievableness. That’s what makes this subgenre so difficult....

‘Shazam’ Will Cast Two Actors In Its Lead Role (For Obvious, Comic Book-Y Reasons) By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 28, 2017 3:30 pm EST Superheroes often have to balance alter egos — the face they show to the public, and the facade they fight evil with in order to protect their loved ones. It’s a fascinating Jekyll and Hyde dynamic that goes on almost every superhero — except for the majority of the Avengers, who fight with their identities out in broad daylight....