Posts

Box Office Tracking: Halloween Headed For Labor Day Record By Steve Mason/Aug. 31, 2007 1:17 am EST Michael Myers is ready to slash his way to an all-time 4-day Labor Day weekend record, and, by Monday, he’ll pass Jigsaw to become the 4th-biggest grossing movie “killer” in modern box office history. The original 1978 John Carpenter film HALLOWEEN is, for my money, the scariest of all scary movies. Donald Pleasance is just over-the-top enough when the nurse says, “Don’t you think it would be better if you referred to ‘it’ as a ‘him’?...

Cool Stuff: Westworld, Star Wars, Gremlins, Game Of Thrones, Spider-Man, Hellboy & More By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2017 8:30 am EST Cool Stuff is your geek-a-rific Holiday shopping guide published all year round. In today’s edition, we take a look at a custom “The Cast of Star Wars Rogue One” action figure from Forces of Dorkness, Glen Brogan’s Gremlins 2 print, Ommegang’s new Game of Thrones beer, Clark Orr’s Pop Culture Postage screenprints, Medicom’s Spider-Man: Homecoming action figure, Hellboy ReAction Figures from Super 7, Kay Jewelers’ replica of Jyn’s necklace from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

Could ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Kick Off A Spy Movie Franchise? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 5:45 pm EST We’ve been very excited to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the new film from Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson that stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong, Svetlana Khodchenko, Toby Jones, John Hurt, Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke.. The film is essentially both a remake of a BBC mini-series that starred Alec Guinness and an adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Le Carré....

Could Olivia Munn Be Wasp In Iron Man 2 / The Avengers? Nope! By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 9:00 pm EST Update: Olivia Munn does not play Janet Van Dyne aka The Wasp in Iron Man 2. Ever since G4’s Attack of the Show co-host and geek diva Olivia Munn was cast in Iron Man 2, geeks around the webosphere have been trying to figure out what role she might play in the upcoming sequel....

Edgar Wright Gushes About 10 Movies That Influenced ‘Baby Driver’ (Part 1) By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2017 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Cinematic Inspirations, a series where filmmakers talk about the movies that inspired their latest release. In this edition: the first of two conversations with Edgar Wright on the movies that inspired Baby Driver.) Leading up to the release of Baby Driver, director Edgar Wright was a guest programmer at the British Film Institute for a series of films under the banner Car Car Land....

First Look: Angelina Jolie Heads To Sea For WWII Survival Drama ‘Unbroken’ By Angie Han/Oct. 31, 2013 3:00 pm EST Our first look at Angelina Jolie’s sophomore directorial effort Unbroken wasn’t really a first look at the film, but a lovely photo of her with its real-life subject Louis Zamperini. But now that production is actually underway, Universal has some more movie-centric pics to offer. The latest set photos from the survival epic show Jolie on the watery Australian set with her cast and crew, including stars Jack O’Connell, Domnhall Gleeson, and Finn Wittrock....

Five Movie Commentaries To Listen To In January By Jack Giroux/Jan. 18, 2017 7:00 am EST While Damien Chazelle’s La La Land wears its fondness for old school Hollywood productions proudly on its sleeve, his portrayal of present-day Los Angeles is hardly unflattering. It’s a movie so appealing to the eye it’s almost impossible to see nothing except beauty in La La Land, but it captures a genuinely lovely part of the city: it’s a place a lot of driven and passionate people move to every day....

Is Disney Planning A Long-Term Cross-Platform Indiana Jones Universe? By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2016 6:01 am EST During the Lucasfilm: The Art of Storytelling presentation at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016, it was quickly and quietly mentioned that the Lucasfilm Story Group is not only working on the future of Star Wars movies, but also the future of the Indiana Jones series. What does this mean for the future of Indiana Jones stories?...

Kevin Feige On ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Black Panther,’ And Rumors About ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2015 2:30 pm EST With Marvel’s Ant-Man hitting theaters soon, the studio kicked the publicity machine into high gear this past weekend with the Ant-Man junket. That means studio president Kevin Feige is out doing interviews, which means we have quite a few bits of new information about upcoming Marvel movies. In addition to talking about the tone of the new Spider-Man film, which Marvel is producing for Sony, and the question of the introduction of LGBT characters to Marvel movies, Feige has dropped comments about Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Civil War, and put to bed one rumor about the Thor: Ragnarok director....

Now Scream This: The Best Of Shudder’s Joe Bob Briggs Marathon By /Film Staff/July 25, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: You know how I keep insisting that Shudder is an essential streaming service for horror fans? If their Joe Bob Briggs marathon doesn’t drive home such thinking, then you’re a lost cause....

Shanghai Disneyland Will Open This June, So Start Saving Your Pennies By Jacob Hall/Jan. 13, 2016 10:00 am EST After more than a decade of planning and a five years of construction, the Walt Disney Company has revealed an opening date for their newest theme park. The Shanghai Disney Resort will open its gates on June 16, 2016, bringing the most popular name in themed entertainment to an audience who is becoming more and more important to every media company’s bottom line....

Sony Launches A ‘Clean Version’ Initiative, But Kids Deserve To See Movies That Are Way Too Old For Them By Ben Pearson/June 6, 2017 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: Sony’s new clean version initiative is a stupid and bad idea.) Sony Pictures has announced a “Clean Version” initiative that will present edited versions of some of the studio’s films for home video purchases....

Star Wars Land Will Have A Cantina, Bringing Alcohol To Disneyland For The First Time Ever Publicly By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2018 1:47 pm EST We’re not even into fall yet, but it’s hard not to look forward to the summer of 2019. Not only will that give Marvel Cinematic Universe fans the answers they’ve been waiting for in Avengers 4, but that’s when Disney theme parks will be opening Star Wars Land....

Stranger Things Season 2: Meet The New Characters By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2016 11:00 am EST Earlier this week it was announced that Netflix would be producing a second season of Stranger Things, to hit your screen in 2017. We got a peek at the episode titles and tried to decipher what they might mean, and The Duffer Brothers provided some details of what we can expect. Among the information was that the second season will take place about a year later (in 1984) and will add four new characters to the story....

Sundance Midnights And Spotlight Programs Feature ‘You’re Next’ Follow-Up And Recent Festival Faves By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2013 3:06 pm EST Today brought a new round of announcements for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and there’s some fun stuff on the list. The films announced today are in the Spolight program, which pulls in films that have played at other festivals; the Park City at Midnight slate, and the few films programmed as part of Sundance Kids....

Terminator Salvation Set Visit Preview By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 10:09 pm EST On July 2nd, 2008, I was lucky enough to visit the set of McG’s Terminator Salvation. Is this James Cameron’s Terminator? No. And it isn’t trying to be. Terminator Salvation is very different animal, far different from the traditional Terminator chase story. In a sense it is a futuristic war film. When I think of Terminator Salvation, I am reminded of the line in Star Wars – A New Hope when Obi-wan tells Luke about how he served beside his father in the clone wars....

The 400th Edition Of Page 2: Dark Shadows, Hunger Games, Godzilla, Studio Ghibli, Muppets, Star Wars, Prometheus, Harry Potter, King Kong, Die Hard, Dragon Tattoo, Terminator By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 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....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Leaving Netflix February 2018 By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2018 6:30 am EST Another month is coming to a close, which means one thing: titles leaving Netflix. Okay, I suppose a new month means other things too, but we’re only going to focus on the TV shows and movies leaving Netflix right now. If the titles below have been sitting in your queue for months (or even years), now is the time to start streaming them, because before you know it, Netflix is going to send them off to live on a farm where all old streaming movies go when they’re run is through....

Theme Park Bits: R.I.P. ‘Jurassic Park:’ The Ride And A Bug’s Land, Halloween Is Here At Disneyland Resort By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 10, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Florida is gearing up for Halloween Horror Nights with some last-minute haunted house previews. Jurassic Park: The Ride and A Bug’s Land have both permanently closed in California. Feast your eyes on this year’s Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house at Disneyland....

There’s ‘Something Beautiful’ About This Week’s ‘Better Call Saul’ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 21, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly review-recaps of Better Call Saul season 4. Each week, we’ll delve deep into the Breaking Bad prequel series, with spoilers galore. This week we examine episode 3 of season 4, “Something Beautiful.” Nacho “Something Beautiful” finds Nacho in a very bad place. Last week, Gus revealed he was well aware Nacho is to blame for Hector’s stroke....