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Superhero Bits: ‘Gotham’ Return Date, ‘Justice League’ Deleted Scene Details & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2018 5:00 pm EST When does the fourth season of Gotham return this spring? Where in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline does Black Panther take place? Who is replacing Charlie Tahan as Scarecrow on Gotham? How much new footage of Superman is on the Justice League home video release? Will Gwyneth Paltrow still have Extremis powers in Avengers: Infinity War?...

Talent Of Color Do Not Need White TV Show And Film Hand-Me-Downs By Candice Frederick/July 23, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: it’s time that talent of color get their own narratives, not white hand-me-downs.) I don’t know why Hollywood continues to ignore us (AKA people of color) whenever we throw free ideas up into the air about great original narratives centering on minority characters that can easily be adapted for TV or film....

This Week In Trailers: Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, Wizard Mode, Ten Inch Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wailing, Gatekeeper By Christopher Stipp/May 7, 2016 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?...

‘American Horror Story: Cult’ Review: ‘Mid-Western Assassin’ Shoots Itself In The Foot By Aaron Pruner/Oct. 11, 2017 7:00 am EST (Every week, we’re going to get the discussion going about American Horror Story: Cult by answering one important question: who is the main villain of the episode?)American Horror Story: Cult took a turn in Episode 6 by giving Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) a nudge away from the victim role she’s been stuck in since the beginning of the season....

‘Mary Shelley’ Review: Elle Fanning Tries To Revive A Lifeless Biopic [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2018 10:00 am EST There’s an imaginative, hugely entertaining movie to be made out of that fated rainy summer day in Geneva that spawned some of the most pivotal horror novels in history. Mary Shelley is not that movie. The lumbering biopic follows the 16-year-old Mary Shelley, played like a willowy naif by Elle Fanning, as she is sent off to Scotland after the tension between her and her stepmother comes to a head....

‘Rick And Morty’ Creators On The Possibility Of More Meeseeks, More Interdimensional Cable [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2016 11:30 am EST Adult Swim’s sci-fi comedy Rick and Morty had a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. We spoke with the show’s creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon along with writer Ryan Ridley in a roundtable interview. In only two seasons, Rick and Morty has established a sub-franchise within the show, with two episodes of “Interdimensional Cable....

‘Super 8’ To Sneak Preview Thursday June 9; Brand New Illustrated Poster By Germain Lussier/June 8, 2011 9:30 am EST Did you get shut out of tonight’s free #Super8Secret screenings? While you are going to miss something very cool, you’ll get a chance to see the movie itself sooner than you think. Paramount has teamed up with Twitter to promote the fact that Super 8 , the Steven Spielberg/J.J. Abrams collaboration will open in several hundred regular and IMAX theaters Thursday at noon in advance of its wide opening on Friday....

‘The Equalizer 2’ Review: More Of That Same Denzel Washington Ultra-Violence By Josh Spiegel/July 18, 2018 8:30 am EST It’s fairly cold comfort that The Equalizer 2 is an improvement on its 2014 predecessor. That film’s director and star, Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington, have returned for this follow-up, which is largely more of the same. The first film was exceedingly dour, grim and gratuitously violent, with Washington’s Robert McCall laying waste to all sorts of faceless baddies....

Breaking Bad Recap: A Look Back At Season 3 Before The Finale (Guest: Sven Barth) By Hunter Stephenson/June 9, 2010 3:00 pm EST /Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. For previous recaps, click here. Note: I skipped over episodes “Fly” and “Abiquiu” due to traveling (one leg of which sent me to Puerto Rico for the return of Kenny Powers)....

Early Buzz: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2010 6:19 pm EST Warner Bros held the first test screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I today in Chicago, and /film reader “Kyle” has sent us his early reader reaction. Hit the jump if you’re curious. Disclaimer: As with any test screening, you should be aware that this version of the film is not final....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Ant-Man’ Wouldn’t Have Fit Into The MCU Says Evangelline Lilly By Germain Lussier/Dec. 3, 2014 2:00 pm EST Certain filmmakers are just always going to do their own thing. Someone like Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino have no interest in making someone else’s vision. They make films to convey their own vision and if someone asks them to do anything else, that’s the end of the conversation....

Fantastic Fest 2011 Recap: The Top Ten Films And Top Five Trends By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2011 11:00 am EST Another Fantastic Fest is in the books and the festival once again lived up to its name. For eight straight days I slept little, met friends, ate, drank and watched an inhuman amount of crazy genre movies. Now that it’s over, it’s time to not only rank the best films I saw at the festival, but point out a few trends that defined Fantastic Fest 2011....

Finally Out Of Ideas, Hollywood Has Decided To Make A ‘Creepy Crawlers’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/May 29, 2018 4:00 pm EST Remember Creepy Crawlers, a product that included a toy oven that enabled children to create Plastigoop bugs? Well, Hollywood remembered them, too. Now, Paramount will develop a Creepy Crawlers movie. Let me set the scene for you: We’re somewhere at the Paramount Pictures offices. Random Paramount executives are sitting around a big conference table, lighting cigars with $100 dollar bills while the Hollywood sign loomed large in the background through a big floor-to-ceiling window....

Jessica Chastain Has Talked To Marvel, Which Role Could She Play? By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2014 7:00 am EST Jessica Chastain is one of the most popular and talented actresses working today. She’s in Interstellar this week, A Most Violent Year after that, then Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak and Ridley Scott’s The Martian next year. And those are just the confirmed ones. When an actress has that much buzz surrounding her, you know the big guns come calling....

Judd Apatow Tests Two Versions Of The Same Film Simultaneously By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2011 2:30 pm EST Though Judd Apatow has only directed three feature films (with a fourth on the way), he’s produced enough hits that his name has become synonymous with a specific type of comedy. If something is hard R-rated, kind of gross but has a heart of gold, it’ll more than likely draw comparisons to Apatow’s work....

Marvel Studios, Pixar And Walt Disney Studios Skipped Comic-Con’s Hall H, But Will Present At The D23 Expo By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2011 3:30 pm EST The Avengers might not be coming to San Diego Comic-Con, but it certainly seems like they’ll be up the street a month later. In June, Marvel Studios announced that they would not be having a panel in Hall H at Comic Con 2011, which was a bummer as their unveiling of The Avengers at Comic Con 2010 was one of the highlights....

Michael Mann Wants To Do 3D, Martin Scorsese Praises Blu-Ray (And Why That Praise Is Short-Lived) By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 3, 2009 11:59 pm EST Two film tech tidbits for you: First up, we’ve caught word from the Italy-based blog screenWEEK that Michael Mann is apparently very interested in doing a 3D feature at some point. In a recent event with Mann regarding Public Enemies, someone in the crowd asks him about shooting in 3D....

Movie Review: Knocked Up By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2007 11:57 pm EST The three funniest movies of the last three years are without a doubt: Borat, 40-Year-Old-Virgin and now Knocked Up. And director Judd Apatow was involved in two of the aforementioned films. And many people do know this, but Judd met with Sacha Baron Cohen several years ago about making a Borat movie. How crazy is that? I first became aware of Apatow’s comedy with the short lived cult television show Freaks & Geeks....

New ‘Annihilation’ Clip Goes Into The Shimmer By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2018 3:30 pm EST We’re less than a month away from the release of Alex Garland’s mysterious new movie Annihilation, and a new clip from the film takes you inside the nightmarish world of The Shimmer – a strange, dangerous area that’s slowly expanding and altering everything in its path. It’s all very weird and intangible, but one thing is for sure: entering The Shimmer isn’t going to be pleasant....

Project Greenlight Season 4: What You Didn’t Know By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2015 8:00 am EST I’m a huge Project Greenlight fanatic. I’ve been watching the HBO series since it first made its debut in 2001. Actually, I even had a submission in for the second season of Project Greenlight (which was just a scene from the feature film I co-directed). This season of the HBO filmmaking “documentary” series was filled with drama, which I chatted about at length during this week’s /Filmcast....