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Star Wars Bits: Adam Driver On ‘Episode 8,’ More On Darth Maul’s Comic, And The Meeting Of Two Han Solos By Jacob Hall/Jan. 6, 2017 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Adam Driver talks about the humanity of Star Wars: Episode 8. Harrison Ford and Alden Ehrenreich have officially met. New details revealed about Marvel’s Darth Maul miniseries. A Star Wars regular will voice Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Rebels....

Steven Spielberg Teases ‘Jaws’ Sequel Scene In New Interview By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2011 12:15 pm EST Over the weekend, we ran a story about Steven Spielberg confirming that a Jaws Blu-ray disc is on the way. The news broke in an interview that Quint, aka Eric Vespe, did with the legendary director on Ain’t It Cool News in anticipation of the upcoming anniversary of the film’s 1975 release. He’s now published the full interview and it’s a must read....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, The Avengers, Green Lantern, The Joker By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2011 12:00 pm EST [No photo] It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Henry Cavill sporting his Man of Steel haircut! Want to see another photo? Maybe you want to read how he’s preparing his mind and body for the role of Superman? Curious about a Batman themed fan-film called GCPD? What set from The Avengers could be moving across into Iron Man 3?...

Superhero Bits: R.I.P.D., The Avengers, Man Of Steel, Justice League, Thor & Loki By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2011 11:00 am EST Want to see Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Bacon on the set of R.I.P.D.? How excited is Nestor Carbonell for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises? What did Rhys Ifans have to wear to become the Lizard on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man? How will Stellan Skarsgard’s performance change from Thor to The Avengers?...

The Greatest Music Moments In Edgar Wright’s Filmography By Dalin Rowell/June 28, 2017 9:00 am EST In 2005, I watched a new horror comedy titled Shaun of the Dead. I had not heard of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, or anyone involved with this quirky little piece of entertainment. And something struck me big time about this movie: the incredible editing and music choices. And since Shaun’s release, Wright has proven that he is a master at mixing cinema with the energy of a music video, all the while not losing his grip on the story....

The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Inherent Vice’ Is Top Tier Paul Thomas Anderson By Marshall Shaffer/Dec. 28, 2017 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or sets their sights on a movie seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is one of the writer/director’s very best.) “I never remember plots in movies,” writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson said in 2014....

Video Blog: Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Premiere, Which Airs June 20 [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2015 3:25 pm EST UPDATE: The Star Wars Rebels season 2 premiere described below will premiere June 20. Read more info after our original article. Darth Vader is on the trail of Kanan, Ezra, Hera, Sabine and Zeb in the season 2 premiere of Star Wars Rebels. The hour-long episode won’t be on Disney XD until this summer, but a few hundred lucky fans at Star Wars Celebration were treated to an early sneak peak....

What Does The ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Ending Mean For The Future Of The Trilogy? By Jacob Hall/Dec. 15, 2017 1:30 pm EST Star Wars: The Last Jedi is in theaters now, so you know what that means – it’s time to start thinking about Star Wars: Episode 9, due out in theaters on December 20, 2019! I’m joking, of course. The Last Jedi is a full meal of a movie and one that should keep us talking for a long time to come....

Writers Guild Of America Lists The 101 Best Written TV Shows Of All Time By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2013 10:16 am EST Let the debate begin. Sunday night, the Writers Guild of America revealed its list of the 101 “Best Written TV Series of All Time.” What took the top spot? The HBO drama The Sopranos, followed by Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, All in the Family and MAS*H. Solid choices all, but are they the five best?...

‘Evil Genius’ Review: Another Fascinating True Crime Obsession From Netflix By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2018 11:30 am EST Netflix’s engrossing, captivating, and shocking new true crime series Evil Genius investigates the bizarre “pizza bomber” case. In the process, a tragic, unsettling story unfolds involving a series of manipulative, destructive people with no moral compass to speak of. The Pizza Bomber There’s a haunting moment at the end of the Coen Brothers’ pitch-black comedy Fargo....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Goes Cosmic And Gives Marvel Its Raw, Beating Heart By Siddhant Adlakha/April 13, 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: Guardians of the Galaxy gets weird, and it’s spectacular.) Flashback, Comic Con 2012. Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige announces development on Guardians of the Galaxy, to which even seasoned Marvel readers respond: “Wait… Who?...

‘It’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through The New Footage Frame-By-Frame By Chris Evangelista/March 30, 2017 10:30 am EST Stephen King’s massive tome of terror It is coming to the big screen this September, care of Andrés Muschietti’s adaptation. It previously came to life via a 1990 ABC miniseries, featuring an iconic performance from Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown. It’ll be hard to fill Curry’s clown shoes, but Bill Skarsgård is going to give it a go....

‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ Trailer And Panel [Comic-Con 2012] By Angie Han/July 12, 2012 5:30 pm EST Hall H never has any shortage of cool reveals, and this year’s Disney panel definitely delivered on that front. Among the treats they had to offer was the very first trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. While it’s way too soon to judge the movie as a whole, I can say without hesitation that the footage so far looks utterly gorgeous....

‘Rise Of The Guardians’ Review: Animated Superhero Team Up Exudes Fun And Wonder By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2012 4:00 pm EST Rise of the Guardians is an animated, family-themed version of The Avengers. In both films, a team of superhuman beings join forces to defeat an evil threat (one with a dashing British accent) before it can destroy the world. But rather than featuring superhero characters only some audiences are familiar with, in Guardians the team is made up of mythical beings such as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman....

‘The Vampire Chronicles’ Loses Bryan Fuller, Who Can’t Keep A Job Apparently By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2018 2:30 pm EST Bryan Fuller, wyd? Everybody loves Bryan Fuller, but the man apparently can’t hold down a job. Fuller has just jumped ship on yet another show: The Vampire Chronicles TV series. Bryan Fuller officially joined the Vampire Chronicles TV series back in January, but his time with the show was very short-lived....

2009 Sundance Film Festival Premieres Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 2:38 pm EST The Sundance Institute has just announced the second half of next year’s programing for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Yesterday I took an in-depth look at the out of competition films, but there are just so many cool films in the batch today that I’ve decided not to hand pick through them all. I’m posting the entire Premeire line-up after the jump, complete with photos from some of the more interesting films....

Bide The Time Until ‘Game Of Thrones’ Final Season With A Northern Ireland Set Experience Or A Brand New Funko POP By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2018 2:30 pm EST Winterfell is opening its doors to the masses. Finally, we unwashed peasants can traverse the great halls of Winterfell and the dank hallways of Castle Black with the launch of Game of Thrones Legacy, a tourist experience that opens the Northern Ireland sets of Game of Thrones to tourists....

Cars 2 Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2011 5:30 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Pixar’s Cars 2. They are really playing up the film’s spy storyline, but nothing I’m seeing is making me interested in this sequel. The first film is in all accounts Pixar’s worst movie to date. It wasn’t even very profitable at the box office, but made billions in toy/merchandise sales....

Casting Bits: Thomas Jane Lands Unknown Role In Shane Black’s ‘The Predator’; Daniella Pineda Joins ‘Jurassic World’ By Jack Giroux/Jan. 24, 2017 7:30 am EST Thomas Jane (The Mist) is in final negotiations for Shane Black’s The Predator. Once a deal is made, he’ll join an already impressive cast that includes Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), and Olivia Munn (The Newsroom)....

Jake Scott’s Sundance Guest Blog #2: Runaways, Killer Inside Me, Border Town, Video Interview With Joseph Gordon Levitt And Spencer Susser By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2010 4:55 pm EST Editor’s Note: Last week we were approached by a filmmaker who wanted to guest blog his Sundance experience on /Film. You might not know 42-year-old director Jake Scott yet, but you will. You definitely know his father Ridley, the filmmaker behind such films as Alien, Gladiator, and Blade Runner (Jake worked in the editing room during the school holidays)....