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‘Gilbert’ Trailer: Gilbert Gottfried Is Surprisingly Chill In A New Biographical Documentary By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2017 3:30 pm EST Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is best known by general audiences for being a wholly inappropriate comedian with an extremely grating voice. They may not know his name, but they recognize that signature voice, the same one that brought Jafar’s parrot sidekick Iago to life in Disney’s Aladdin. But they definitely don’t know the real Gilbert Gottfried....

‘Never-Ending Man’ Trailer: Hayao Miyazaki Just Can’t Retire By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2017 2:00 pm EST Hayao Miyazaki is one of the best living filmmakers in the world, in and outside of animation. So it was a loss for us all when he announced he would retire in 2013 — and a perplexing but exciting gain for us when he nixed that retirement and stated that he was coming back to direct a feature-length CGI animated film....

‘The 15:17 To Paris’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Story Of Real-Life Heroes Is A Total Dud By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 9, 2018 7:00 am EST When a new movie based on a true story opens, there is an inevitable debate online over whether what’s documented on screen really happened, or if it really happened in the way it’s presented. Films like Selma, Zero Dark Thirty, Dunkirk, and more get scrutinized for fear that creative license has inexorably shifted true events that may seem dramatic enough on their own....

‘Timeless’ Cancelled At NBC, But Fans Might Get A Movie To Wrap Things Up By Chris Evangelista/June 22, 2018 3:00 pm EST NBC has cancelled Timeless. Again. The network had already cancelled the show once, but fan outcry resulted in a reversal. Sadly, the time has run out once again. The network has pulled the plug for what is likely the final time. But all may not be lost: a Timeless movie could be on the horizon....

All Our Comic-Con 2017 Coverage, From ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ To ‘Justice League’ To ‘Stranger Things’ (And So Much More) By Jacob Hall/July 24, 2017 12:00 pm EST Members of the /Film staff spent much of the past week in San Diego to cover Comic-Con 2017, the enormous convention that explores every single corner of the geek world (and surely you’ve heard of it and already knew that). We saw footage from Marvel’s upcoming movies, including Avengers: Infinity War....

Andy Serkis Talks ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Performance Capture; Is He Playing A Mo-Cap Role? By Germain Lussier/June 29, 2014 9:42 am EST When you’ve hired a person who is the best in the world at doing something, can you actually ask him not to do it? That’s the question raised with respect to Star Wars Episode VII. In a new interview, actor Andy Serkis spoke about the use of motion- and performance-capture in J....

Box Office: Wolverine Claws To $34.75M Friday; Could Scratch Out $86.8M Opening Weekend By Steve Mason/May 2, 2009 12:10 am EST In my Final Weekend Tracking column posted on Wednesday, I predicted that X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Fox) would reach $92M on opening weekend, despite soft reviews (now only 38% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). My first fearless forecast of the 2009 summer blockbuster season appears to be close to dead-on (missed by only 5%)....

Chris Weitz Talks ‘Star Wars’ Standalone For The First Time: “Expect Everything” By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2015 12:10 pm EST On paper, Chris Weitz might seem like an unlikely choice to write a Star Wars movie. As a director, he’s best at realistic fare like About A Boy and A Better Life. He’s done bigger fantasy too, like The Golden Compass and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, but those are based on books....

Cloverfield Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2008 1:44 am EST I saw it! It’s alive! It’s Huge! I just got home from a screening of Cloverfield, the JJ Produced monster film which has hogged the online hype since July. I don’t have the time to do an extensive review of this movie, as I need to catch a plane to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival in just seven hours....

Comic Con: The Expendables Panel By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2010 6:00 am EST Having spent formative years watching films starring Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and more, there’s something a bit awe-inspiring about looking up at a table packed with all those guys. I’m not talking about anything like hero worship. But when you can stare straight at a bunch of performers who have managed to carve out and maintain a very specific type of career, it’s an impressive thing....

How Matt Reeves Completely Changed ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Story Weeks Before Filming By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2014 9:30 am EST Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was originally developed to be a very different movie, and production was set to begin in a matter of only a handful of weeks. Find out the story of how Matt Reeves completely reworked the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes story from the ground up, forming one of the greatest opening sequences you’ll see this year....

Jack’s Top 10 Movies Of 2016: Here Come The Waterworks By Jack Giroux/Jan. 4, 2017 10:00 am EST At times, 2016 was an emotionally exhausting year at the movies. We saw plenty of tearjerkers and great, empathetic filmmaking over the past 12 months. 2016 was a rare time where I could often sense crowds were mostly on the same page. Sitting in a huge audience, and feeling that nearly everyone else is captivated by the same story, is a great experience, one that doesn’t happen frequently — but I think it was something I was lucky enough to see occur more than a few times in 2016, thanks to some emotional movies....

Legendary Poster Artist Drew Struzan Is Coming Out Of Retirement By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2012 10:00 am EST UPDATE: Drew Struzan released a statement. Read it after the jump. In 2008, one of the most prolific poster artists of all-time decided to put down the paintbrush. Drew Struzan, the man who made the iconic posters for the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Shawshank Redemption, Harry Potter and so many more, decided he’d had enough and retired from professional art after 40 years....

Patty Jenkins Talks ‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel Plans And Deleted Scenes By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2017 11:00 am EST Wonder Woman doesn’t hit theaters until the end of the week, but fans are already wondering (no pun intended) if the film will follow suit from the previous DC Extended Universe releases of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad by having alternate cuts available on home video. The good news is, the movie that we’ll see in theaters in under a week is the only cut of the movie that will ever exist, the potential bad news is that means there aren’t really any deleted scenes we’ll be seeing....

Steven Spielberg Thinks VR Technology Could Be “Dangerous” To Filmmaking And Storytelling By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2016 4:00 pm EST Virtual reality technology has been making a comeback in a big way with the Oculus VR hitting shelves along with Samsung and PlayStation creating their own devices for the immersive innovation in entertainment. Slowly but surely, the technology is starting to make its way into filmmaking as VR movies have been playing at various film festivals recently....

The 600th Edition Of Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2013 12:00 pm EST 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 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Header Photo: Google Translate: Star Wars To English Super Bowl XLVII To Air 6 Studio Film Ads Steve Jobs Wasn’t Afraid To Tell Disney’s CEO Their Films Sucked...

The Best & Worst Sketches From Kristen Stewart’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2017 9:00 am EST This weekend, Kristen Stewart hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, and for those who have been skeptical of her talents, this should help clear the air a bit. Stewart was surprisingly engaging and casual. I was expecting her to be more stiff and less engaged in the sketches, something akin to Casey Affleck’s hosting stint, but she did a solid job with the roles she was given....

The Best South Korean Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/April 18, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition, we take a look at the best South Korean horror movies you’ve never seen.)Train to Busan and The Wailing are two of the best horror films in recent years, and they couldn’t be more different....

The Funniest Character From The ‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer Has His Own Twitter Account By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2018 4:00 pm EST The biggest breakout star of the new Deadpool 2 trailer wasn’t Deadpool or Cable. Instead, it was Peter, the average-seeming individual played by Catastrophe star Rob Delaney. If you . need more Peter action, you’re in luck: the character has his own (verified) Twitter account. While I’m a bit of a Deadpool agnostic, I was pleasantly surprised by the new Deadpool 2 trailer....

This Week In Trailers: Blubberella, Neds, Robinson In Ruins, Aftershock, Suck On This Year By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 12, 2010 5:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...