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Lucasfilm Officially Addresses Star Wars Expanded Universe And Its Role In The Future By Germain Lussier/April 25, 2014 10:30 am EST Lucasfilm has now finally made official what we’ve all heard for some time. New Star Wars films, games, TV shows and more will not tell the stories of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. That said, new Star Wars projects can draw pieces from existing Expanded Universe stories however they want....

Page 2: Back To The Future, Breaking Bad, Drive, Cloud Atlas, Citizen Kane, Indiana Jones, The Incredibles, Star Wars, Django, Nicolas Winding Refn, Iron Giant, Hitchcock, Syd Mead, John Hughes By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2012 7:00 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....

Page 2: Steven Spielberg, Dumbo, Crow, Hunger Games, Walking Dead, Jason Statham, Indiana Jones, Alfred Hitchcock, Mars Attacks, Nicolas Cage, Robocop By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 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 58 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Paul Thomas Anderson Loves ‘Big Daddy’, And More Facts We Learned From A New Interview By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 1, 2018 4:00 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is now playing in select cities, and pretty soon, it’ll be everywhere. In anticipation of the film’s release, Anderson sat down with The Ringer podcast and took a journey through his career and his approach to filmmaking in general. In the revealing interview, Anderson dishes on his thoughts on trailers, working with actors like Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler, and sets the record straight on some Boogie Nights urban legends....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Force Awakens’ Worldwide Box Office, DVD Release Date, Felicity Jones’ Character, Battlefront Fighter Squadron, Walmart And IMAX Plans By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2015 11:00 am EST In our next edition of Star Wars Bits, you can find information about the following: How much money will Star Wars: The Force Awakens Make at the worldwide box office? Can it beat Avatar or Titanic? Details and aspect ratio comparison for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens IMAX release....

Superhero Bits: Victor Von Doom Is Infamous Iron Man, Comic-Con Collectible Guide & More By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2016 4:30 pm EST Why was Daredevil banned from sleeping with Black Widow in Marvel Comics? Which Marvel villain is now a new Iron Man in the comics? Which Arrow star is now a series regular across all the DC Comics TV shows on The CW? Who are Scott Eastwood and Ike Barinholtz playing in Suicide Squad?...

The Toy Box: Ant-Man, Mallrats, Star Trek, Alien 3, Saga, A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars & More By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2016 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Toy Box is a weekly feature at /Film that will round up some of the newest and coolest collectibles, decorations, gadgets and other memorabilia that you nerds might want for your shelves. As usual, there are some new Star Wars and Star Trek items, a bunch of Funko exclusives coming to Comic-Con this summer, some action figures for A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey, an Evil Dead 2 video game, a special Saga action figure two-pack and much more....

This Week In Trailers: My Life Without Air, Hounds Of Love, Raising Bertie, SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, Machines By Christopher Stipp/April 29, 2017 9:00 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?...

I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts I’ll be completely upfront about this: It’s hard for me to judge Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters as its own film and not compare it to Ivan Reitman’s original 1984 classic. I wouldn’t call myself a Ghostbusters fanatic, but like a lot of you I am a fan of the original, and to a much lesser extent, the still-fun-but-in-a-bad-way sequel Ghostbusters II. But I’m no GhostBro. When it was announced that Paul Feig would be directing a new Ghostbusters film, I was very excited about the idea of a completely different take with an all-female crew, although like many others, I was disappointed that it was a reboot rather than a sequel or spin-off....

‘A Futile And Stupid Gesture’ Review: National Lampoon Gets A Hilarious Meta Biopic [Sundance] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2018 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The rise and fall of the subversive comedians at National Lampoon was already extensively covered in the Sundance selected documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of National Lampoon. But director David Wain (They Came Together, Role Models) has taken a completely different approach in his dramatization of the creation of the humor magazine turned radio show and movie production house....

‘American Gods’ Review: Bow Before Shadow Moon In ‘Head Full Of Snow’ By Vanessa Bogart/May 15, 2017 7:00 am EST (Each week, we’ll kick off our discussion of American Gods by answering one simple question: which character do we worship this week?) The fire and brimstone of last week’s introductions to Anansi and Czernobog was absent in “Head Full of Snow,” but what we lacked in impassioned speeches, we gained in methodical insight into the state of the old gods and Shadow’s continued agnosticism and apprehension to accept what he is seeing as truth....

/Answers: Our Favorite Character Actresses By /Film Staff/Jan. 4, 2018 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. In this week’s edition, we celebrate Insidious: The Last Key and the series’ unlikely star, the great Lin Shaye, by asking “Who is your favorite character actress?” Matt Donato: Lin Shaye Today’s “answer” was an easy one because even though Lin Shaye’s role in Insidious: The Last Key influenced this week’s column, she is an obvious choice....

‘Entourage’ Movie Trailer And Posters: Vinnie Chase And The Boys Are Back By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2014 11:00 am EST Fans of Entourage have been patiently waiting since 2011. Waiting to see if their favorite New York to Los Angeles buddies would be back with their moviemaking and heartbreaking drama. Well, today is the day. The first Entourage movie trailer is finally online. The film brings back the entire original cast (including, but not limited to, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Jeremy Piven) in a story that picks up a little bit after the series left off....

/Film UK: HG Wells, The Coens, Johnny Depp, New Toy Story 2 Trailer And More By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 30, 2009 5:29 am EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday morning – GMT, of course – I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in UK....

/Film Visits The New Orleans Set Of RED: An Interview With Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura By Hunter Stephenson/May 7, 2010 5:01 pm EST On Easter Sunday, I landed in New Orleans to sweat and drop by the set of RED, yet another comic book adaptation, but one packing the following A-list cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren (as a tea-sipping sniper with a 50-cal machine gun), Mary-Louise Parker, Star Trek’s Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Nip/Tuck’s Julian McMahon, and Ernest Borgnine...

‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Admits The ‘Beyond The Wall’ Timeline Wasn’t Realistic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 22, 2017 1:00 pm EST Either Westeros shrank in the past season, or there’s something funny going on with the Game of Thrones timeline. And “Beyond the Wall” director Alan Taylor admits as much. The sixth episode of season 7 of Game of Thrones featured some implausible travel by foot and by raven, in which Gendry runs to Eastwatch from Jon Snow’s little suicide squad battling White Walkers beyond the Wall, and is able to send a raven to Daenerys in Dragonstone on the other side of the country in less than a day....

‘Ghost In The Shell’: Which Storylines Will Be Adapted From The Source Material? By Angie Han/Nov. 2, 2016 2:30 pm EST So far, much of the conversation surrounding Ghost in the Shell has been about the deeply questionable decision to cast white person Scarlett Johansson to lead an adaptation of a Japanese property. But whether you’re on board with that choice or not, the fact remains that this movie is coming out in just a few months....

‘Ready Player One’ Brings The OASIS Home On Digital, Blu-Ray & DVD In July By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2018 9:30 am EST This past March, director Steven Spielberg took us into the world of The OASIS and made overwhelming amounts of nostalgia and video game nerdity palatable on the big screen with the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling book Ready Player One. Now you’ll be able to bring The OASIS home....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Comic-Con Panel: Andrew Garfield Wants To Be Part Of ‘The Avengers,’ Plus Rhino And Electro Details By Germain Lussier/July 20, 2013 10:30 am EST When The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters on May 2, 2014, it will be the fifth straight Spider-Man movie set in New York. Knowing that, a fan at San Diego Comic-Con asked star Andrew Garfield what other famous Spider-Man comic book stories he’d like to see on screen....

20 High Resolution Photos From Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2010 1:30 pm EST Plot Synopsis: “Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow” – T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, and based on the best-selling thriller by Dennis Lehane, comes Shutter Island, a tale of haunting mystery and psychological suspense that unfolds entirely on a fortress-like island housing a hospital for the criminally insane....