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‘Doctor Strange’ Opens Marvel’s Mind And Expands Its Worldview By Siddhant Adlakha/April 19, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Road to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask “How did we get here?” In this edition: Marvel Studios enters bold new territory with Doctor Strange.) In August of 2014, as Doctor Strange was being written and as Marvel was figuring out where to film it in 15 months time, the studio underwent a significant restructuring....

‘Doctor Who’ Casts Jodie Whittaker As The First Female Doctor By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 17, 2017 6:30 am EST The Doctor is in, and she’s finally a woman. Doctor Who has cast Broadchurch actress Jodie Whittaker as its first female lead, breaking 54 years and 12 (and a half) past incarnations of the Doctor being a white man. Jodie Whittaker will officially play the 13th Doctor, taking over the TARDIS from current Doctor Peter Capaldi after he leaves the staple BBC show in this year’s Christmas special....

‘Hunger’ Director Steve McQueen Making ‘12 Years A Slave’ With Chiwetel Ejiofor By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 1:02 pm EST Steve McQueen followed his debut film Hunger with Shame, which reunites him with actor Michael Fassbender and will premiere shortly at the Venice Film Festival. Now he’s got his post-Shame project set: a film called 12 Years a Slave, in which Chiwetel Ejiofor will star. McQueen wrote the film with Red Tails screenwriter John Ridley, and the story follows Solomon Northrup, born the free son of a manumitted slave and who was living as a free New York citizen when he “was kidnapped in Washington in 1841 and rescued from a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853....

‘The Stand’ Adaptation Now Planned As Four Movies By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2014 4:30 pm EST Warner Bros. has been trying to craft a new film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Stand for several years. The studio has gone through a roster of writers and directors, but last year finally landed on The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone to write and direct. Boone is a life-long fan of Stephen King, and has been pretty forthcoming with some comments about The Stand....

10 Years Later, ‘The Host’ Is Still One Of The Greatest Monster Movies Ever Made By Karen Han/April 28, 2017 9:00 am EST When The Host was first released, it broke box office records in South Korea, and received critical acclaim upon its festival and stateside debut. It’s been a decade since then, and in the intervening years, the movie’s reputation as a masterpiece has only solidified. Directed by Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Mother, and more recently Snowpiercer), the film centers on a family thrown into chaos after a monster emerges from the Han River and kidnaps its youngest member....

Angie’s Top Ten Films Of 2013 By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2013 2:30 pm EST Thanksgiving was over a month ago, but now seems as good a time as any to thank the cinema gods for the fantastic films we got in 2013. With the usual caveats that this is more of a personal “favorites” list than an objective “best of” list, and that there are plenty of great films that weren’t included for the simple and shameful reason that I never got around to seeing them, here are the movies that made me laugh, howl, jump, and/or weep over the last twelve months....

Bryan Singer Reveals Secrets Of ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ [On Set Interview] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2016 6:00 am EST Bryan Singer has shepherded the X-Men franchise from its origin through to this year’s latest installment, X-Men: Apocalypse. Well, there was that little break in there for X-Men: The Last Stand, but with that exception Singer has been intimately involved with the core series films in a major capacity, typically as director....

Chloë Grace Moretz Trashes Awful Marketing Campaign For Her Own Movie By Ben Pearson/June 2, 2017 2:00 pm EST We’re inundated with a constant stream of content from all angles these days, and the law of averages says that a majority of it is going to be crap. But sometimes I’ll see something so baffling, it makes me stop and think about the dozens of meetings that must have taken place before this thing reached audiences, and I’ll wonder how the hell an idea so terrible was ever given approval....

Cool Stuff: The Lost Art Of Inglourious Basterds By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2010 1:32 pm EST Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company have teamed up to present, The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds — a benefit for Haiti this Thurday, February 18th 2010 from 6:00-9:00pm in Downtown Los Angeles. A bunch of artists have created their own posters based on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. You can check out eleven of the thirteen posters after the jump....

David Letterman To Retire In 2015 [Updated With Video] By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2014 1:44 pm EST David Letterman has announced he will retire in 2015. The announcement was made during a taping of The Late Show on Thursday, April 3rd 2014. In October it was announced that Letterman had extended his Late Show hosting contract through 2015, and many suspected that this would be his last run behind the desk....

Director Dean DeBlois Talks ‘How To Train Your Dragon 3’ Ending; Fourth Film Now Rumored By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2014 11:18 am EST As film fanatics, it’s in our nature to want more. It’s not enough to be satisfied How To Train Your Dragon 2 is opening next week. A movie that’s just as wonderful, if not more so, than the original. No, we have to look ahead. We have to look forward to June 17, 2016’s How To Train Your Dragon 3, and maybe beyond....

Does Simon Pegg Have A Point About The “Infantilizing” Effect Of Geek Culture? By Angie Han/May 20, 2015 2:00 pm EST Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Simon Pegg talks to the press, and gets fans bickering about what it all means. In this case, though, Pegg’s controversial comments aren’t about the secret cameos in the next Star Wars movie, or about the true identity of a Star Trek villain, but about the very state of mainstream geek culture....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2017 So Far By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 5, 2017 9:00 am EST (With 2017 halfway over, the /Film staff will be spending this week compiling lists of the best movies they’ve seen this year. In order to be eligible for the list, a film they’ve seen simply has to have a 2017 release date, even if they saw it at a festival or early screening. Here are Hoai-Tran Bui’s top 10 movies of 2017 so far....

How A Canadian Short Film Inspired George Lucas To Make ‘Star Wars’ By Bryan Young/March 20, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired George Lucas’ iconic universe. In this edition: the experimental short film 21-87.) When George Lucas was off at film school at the University of Southern California, he was exposed to all manner of film, from the mainstream to the experimental....

Joss Whedon On ‘Batgirl’ Casting: ‘I Doubt It Will Be A Name’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2017 7:30 am EST Joss Whedon all but confirmed that he is helming Warner Bros.’ Batgirl film, going so far as to humor the inquisitive reporter asking him about casting for Barbara Gordon. In the midst of his media-trained reply, Whedon implied that he won’t be looking at a “name” actress, but rather an unknown actress to embody the police commissioner’s daughter-turned-vigilante....

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo In Talks To Reboot ‘Highlander’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2011 7:38 am EST The reboot of Highlander, which Summit has been working on with various degrees of enthusiasm for the past couple years, is getting a new director. Justin Lin was signed to make the film, but walked not long ago. Now Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who directed 28 Weeks Later and now, four years later, has Intruders opening at TIFF, is in talks with Summit to direct the remake....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2009 8:40 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 25 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Rocky Curby created the custom Freddy Krueger Mighty Mugg photographed above....

Page 2: Star Wars, Futurama, Fifth Element, Planet Of The Apes, WALL-E, Die Hard, Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Twilight, Battlestar Galactica, Johnny Depp, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, The Shining By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2013 8:00 am 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....

Sacha Baron Cohen Explains Why He Left The Freddie Mercury Biopic; David Fincher Wanted To Direct By Jack Giroux/March 9, 2016 7:30 am EST After years of working on the Freddie Mercury biopic, Sacha Baron Cohen parted ways with the project over “creative differences.” Cohen envisioned a warts-and-all, honest bio film, but the remaining members of Queen, unfortunately, were not supportive of that vision. Below, Sacha Baron Cohen discusses what went wrong with the long-awaited Freddie Mercury biopic, which David Fincher wanted to direct at one point....

Six New High Resolution Ratatouille Character Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 1:08 pm EST We have previously posted a bunch of character photos from Disney/Pixar’s upcoming release Ratatouille. Well the studio has sent us a bunch of new photos, this time concentrating on the supporting characters. As always, left click to see a super high resolution version. And with Pixar images, you definitely want to check out the photos in super high res....