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Fantastic Fest 2014 Announces Films From Studio Ghibli And Sion Sono, And Closing Feature ‘Nightcrawler’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2014 3:00 pm EST This year is the tenth anniversary of Fantastic Fest, and the fest will close with a movie we’ve been anticipating over the past couple months: Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a seedy news reported in Los Angeles. That film was announced today along with a host of other movies, including the new Keanu Reeves film John Wick, for which Reeves will make his second appearance at the fest....

Is Lucasfilm Finally Gearing Up For That Obi-Wan Spin-Off Movie? By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 11, 2018 12:28 pm EST Finally, we may receive the Obi-Wan spin-off movie we were looking for. The long-rumored Star Wars standalone movie centered around the Jedi Master first played by Alec Guinness in A New Hope and Ewan McGregor in the prequel films looked like it was finally getting off the ground last year when news broke that The Hours director Stephen Daldry was in talks with Lucasfilm to direct....

Margot Robbie Is Working On Another ‘Harley Quinn’ Movie – No, Not That One By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 1, 2017 11:00 am EST With Suicide Squad 2, Gotham City Sirens, and a Joker and Harley spin-off in the works, Harley Quinn is about to be all over our big screens. And Margot Robbie says you can add one more Harley-centric project to your bucket list: a solo movie. As one of the breakout characters of David Ayer’s massively uneven Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn has become the other female favorite of Warner Bros....

Molly Ringwald Will Play Archie’s Mom On The CW’s ‘Riverdale’ By Jack Giroux/Dec. 14, 2016 4:30 pm EST Molly Ringwald has signed on to play a recurring role in The CW’s Riverdale, based on the Archie comics. The actress, famous for her work with John Hughes, is going to appear in two episodes as Archie’s mother, Mary Andrews. In the comics, Mary tends to keep order in the family, but the character has undergone some changes for the Greg Berlanti-produced and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa-created Riverdale....

Mr. Robot Season Finale Pushed Back Due To TV News Shootings By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2015 2:50 pm EST The Mr. Robot season one finale was supposed to air tonight, but USA Network has announced that they have decided to postpone the finale episode. The move was made due to the tragic shooting of two Virginia reporters during a live broadcast this morning — the episode apparently featured a very graphic on-camera shooting that might have been too similar to the this morning’s tragedy....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘The Post’, ‘Den Of Thieves’, ‘Paddington 2’, ‘The Commuter’ And More By Chris Evangelista/April 24, 2018 4:30 pm EST (Welcome to Not Dead Yet, a feature dedicated to new Blu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.) It’s that time again: time to round-up the best Blu-rays available right now. This column is for you, physical media fiends....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’, ‘Sin City 2’, ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’, ‘Super Troopers 2’, ‘Expendables 2’, ‘Back To The Future’ By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2012 12:00 pm EST Today’s Sequel Bits is full of fighters, whether they be well-meaning brutes, cuddly panda bears, starving teenagers, or ’80s action stars. After the jump: Jennifer Lawrence will make a whole lot of money for Catching Fire Mickey Rourke is in talks to reprise play Marv again for Sin City 2 DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda 3 will be a Chinese co-production Broken Lizard guy says Super Troopers 2 could shoot this year Expendables 2 brings you a motorcycle crashing into a chopper Frank Marshall still has no plans for more Back to the Future To put things in perspective, though, even Lawrence may fall short of the deal the Twilight trio got for their second film New Moon....

Star Wars Bits: Harrison Ford, Brad Bird, Dwayne Johnson, Dave Filoni, ‘Star Wars: First Assault’, ‘Luke’s Change: An Inside Job’, Disney World, Atlanta Braves, And More By Angie Han/March 19, 2013 3:30 pm EST Jedi may be more comfortable swinging lightsabers than baseball bats, but Mickey-as-Obi-Wan seems to hold his own just fine against the Atlanta Braves in spring training. Check out the photographic evidence after the jump. Also: Harrison Ford is pretty sure he’ll be in Episode VII Rumor has it a Palpatine follower is Episode VII’s villain Here’s what Brad Bird would change about Episode VI Was the destruction of the Death Star an inside job?...

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Informant!, The Box, The Damned United, Dead Snow, And More By Adam Quigley/Feb. 23, 2010 7:29 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The true tale at the core of The Informant! is not one that would appear to lend itself very well to comedy, and yet in taking that approach, director Steven Soderbergh managed to craft a sly, unusual little satire that both amuses and perplexes in all the right ways....

This Week In Trailers: Barbershop Punk, Bhutto, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws, Making The Boys By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 5, 2010 7:00 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?...

Todd McFarlane Says ‘Spawn’ Reboot Will Be “Dark, R-Rated” If It Ever Happens By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 19, 2016 9:00 am EST Todd McFarlane has been talking about rebooting Spawn for the big screen since as far back as 2009. At one time he was touting the attachment of an Oscar-winning actor who kept bugging him about the script, and eventually it was determined that actor was probably Jamie Foxx. At the time, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 star himself said that he was “aggressively pursuing” the lead role in the comic book adaptation, but three more years have gone by and nothing has happened....

Why Did ‘The Meg’ Cut The Two Best (And Craziest) Scenes From The Book? By Andrew Todd/Aug. 17, 2018 7:00 am EST It seems almost unthinkable that The Meg is based on a book. After slews upon slews of terrible mutant-shark movies from the likes of SyFy and The Asylum, the notion of such a film being adapted from a written text – with a high budget! – is quite something....

Why I’m Worried And Excited That Michael Giacchino Is Scoring ‘Rogue One’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2016 8:00 am EST Last night it was revealed that Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino would be replacing Alexandre Desplat to score Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. When I heard the news after arriving at a press screening of The Magnificent Seven, I was met with two conflicting emotions: excitement and dread. Here’s why....

‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Movie Photos: Ava DuVernay Wraps Filming By Jacob Hall/March 13, 2017 2:00 pm EST If you’re not following director Ava DuVernay on Twitter, you’re missing out – few filmmakers are as generous and enlightening on their social media. The extraordinarily talented director of Selma and 13th just wrapped production on her big-budget adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s science fiction adventure A Wrinkle in Time and she took to Twitter to celebrate, honoring her cast and crew while sharing a whole bunch of A Wrinkle In Time movie photos from the set....

/Answers: Great Comic Books That Need To Be TV Shows By /Film Staff/May 2, 2017 10:00 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. This week’s edition asks “What comic book or graphic novel needs to be adapted into a TV series?” As always, we have submissions from the /Film writing crew and podcast team. If you’d like to share a comic that you think would make a great television show, please send your thoughts to slashfilmpitches@gmail....

‘Dead Shack’ Review: Exploding Heads, Zombie Carnage, And Plenty Of Dad Jokes [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/Aug. 3, 2017 4:00 pm EST For fans of chuckle-happy zombie schlock, I present to you Peter Ricq’s Dead Shack, a scrappy Sam-Raimi-esque vision birthed from cabin-in-the-woods campfire stories. Laughs are bloody and sentiments family-driven, but one of the more impressive aspects is a low-budget production that masks shoestring restraints (“shoestring” being relative). Gore effects are squeamish and pulpy, unblemished by budgetary shortcomings – and there’s certainly no shortage of flesh-snacking examples to choose from....

‘Ex Machina’ Early Buzz: Alex Garland’s A.I. Film Shows Real Intelligence By Angie Han/March 16, 2015 8:30 am EST The subject of A.I. (and/or the singularity) is one ripe for cinematic exploration, and explore it we have — in Her, in Transcendence, in Chappie, in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron and Terminator: Genisys. But as that list shows, the actual quality of those films has been all over the map....

/Film Visits The Set Of ‘John Carter’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2012 9:00 am EST I visited Mars almost two years ago. It was April 2010 and the film set was in the middle of nowhere. Finding Nemo/WALL-E director Andrew Stanton was making his live-action debut John Carter, a big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel A Princess of Mars. There had been many failed attempts to bring the material to the big screen, but somehow Stanton was able to convince the studio heads to let him be the one to make the adaptation at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars....

‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Director Milos Forman Has Passed Away At 86 By Ethan Anderton/April 14, 2018 10:00 am EST Sad news arrived late last night with word that Oscar-winning director Milos Forman, the man behind the Best Picture winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, had passed away at age 86. We remember the life and legacy of the filmmaker below. News of Milos Forman dead was reported by The New York Times was confirmed by the director’s agent Dennis Aspland and his hometown representative Vlastislav Malek in Caslav, Czech Republic....

‘Swing Kids’ Revisited: Does The Nazi Jitterbug Drama For Kids Still Hold Up? By Scott Beggs/April 13, 2018 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Nostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: a look back at Swing Kids, the early ’90s drama about dancing in the face of Nazism starring a young Christian Bale)....