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John Carter Of Mars To Be Pixar’s First Live Action Film, Bryan Cranston Joins Cast By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2010 11:03 pm EST Update: Disney has finally gotten back tyo us and say that the film will not be released as a “Pixar” branded film, but instead a “Walt Disney Picture”. So basically, the trades messed up. When it was announced that Finding Nemo and WALL-E helmer Andrew Stanton would be directing a big screen live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, there was a lot of speculation that the film would be Pixar’s first live-action production....

Joss Whedon: “It Would Be Very Very Hard” To Make A Solo Hulk Movie; ‘Planet Hulk’ Rumors Squashed By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2013 9:00 am EST Despite his status as one of Marvel’s most recognizable superheroes, the Hulk has had some trouble transitioning to the big screen. Ang Lee got some of the limpest reviews of his career when he tried a decade ago with Hulk; Louis Leterrier fared only marginally better in 2008 with The Incredible Hulk....

M. Night Shyamalan Says ‘Unbreakable 2’ Is “Getting Closer” By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2013 9:54 am EST Long before Batman began, The Dark Knight rose or The Avengers assembled, M. Night Shyamalan made Unbreakable. The year was 2000 and, hot on the heels of The Sixth Sense, Hollywood sold the film as just another thriller. It wasn’t until the film began with stats about comic books that we realized the film was a superhero movie....

Page 2: Ferris Bueller, Clerks 2, Dark Shadows, Hitchcock, Royal Tenenbaums, Ender’s Game, Star Wars, Alien, Drive By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2012 10:30 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Page 2: Gremlins, Star Trek, Star Wars, Gravity, American Psycho, Robocop, Critters By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2014 1:00 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 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Superhero Bits: Avengers 3, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-Men: Days Of Future Past By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2014 3:30 pm EST After two days off, Superhero Bits is back with a vengeance! Want to see a new Captain America: The Winter Soldier featurette? How about a new poster? What’s happening on the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron? Is Joss Whedon coming back for Avengers 3?...

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Thor: The Dark World, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Green Hornet, Joss Whedon By Germain Lussier/June 12, 2013 3:30 pm EST Want to hear Jamie Foxx do the Electro voice in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? What advice did Joss Whedon give Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn? Does Seth Rogen focus on a reason The Green Hornet didn’t do well? Does Stan Lee have a problem with Superman?...

That Big ‘This Is Us’ Twist: Lets Talk About It, & What It Will Mean For The Rest Of The Series By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2016 10:30 am EST I hadn’t initially planned on seeing This Is Us, Dan Fogelman’s new NBC drama. The billboards and advertising plastered around Los Angeles made it look uninteresting. I’m not against television dramas, I loved Parenthood and Friday Night Lights (although the advertising for those shows didn’t interest me either, it was the buzz from friends that brought me to them)....

The Best Movies With Ancient Greek Titles You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/June 8, 2012 12:00 pm EST Draw a Venn diagram of film that has both mass appeal and is of interest to movie website editors and, dead center, you’ll have Prometheus. Never in my sixty-eight years of writing professionally online have I banged out so much copy about one title. There is absolutely nothing left to scrutinize – that is, until, the general public sees it and starts floating their own interpretations....

The Best Time Travel Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/Sept. 21, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. This week we go time-hopping with some underappreciated movies about time travel!) Time travel is a peculiar thing. In movies, I mean, not real life where we all do it every single day from one second to the next....

The Force Awakens Bits: Set Stories From A Stormtroopers, Deleted Scenes, And A Bunch Of New Toys By Jacob Hall/Feb. 16, 2016 6:00 am EST It’s no secret that great swaths of Star Wars: The Force Awakens were reshot and that significant story beats were reshaped in post-production. Over the past few months, minor details of scenes that were chopped out of the final cut have begun to emerge, with several of them actually confirming old rumors from early in the film’s production....

The Jody Hill Interview Part 1: Eastbound & Down, Kenny Powers’s Mullet, “Stevie’s Dark Secret,” And Race, Drugs, And Religion In The American South By Hunter Stephenson/June 30, 2009 12:16 pm EST With only two feature films and one TV show to his name, writer/director Jody Hill, is now synonymous with ignoring the boundaries and “genre rules” of modern comedy and creating anti-heroes that laughably burble with nihilistic rage, scary faux pas and hot-air egos....

The Weekend Read: All Things ‘Guardians 2,’ Disturbing ‘Cars’ Questions, And An Amazing Horror Festival By /Film Staff/May 5, 2017 6:00 pm EST In this edition of The Weekend Read, we have movie reviews, interviews, editorials, lists, rankings, and so much more. Here’s every single original feature the /Film wrote in the past week. Movie and TV Reviews Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a soulful superhero movie with a bit of a third act problem, says Jack Giroux....

Theme Park Bits: Ewok Sighting At Disney, Charge Your Lightsaber Wirelessly, ‘Moana’ Show Begins In Hong Kong By Joshua Meyer/June 4, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Take a peek at what’s happening in the Incredible Tomorrowland Expo at the Magic Kingdom. Wireless charging stations for lightsabers might be a thing when Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens. See an Ewok walk around the Ewok Village like he owns the place at Disney’s Hollywood Studios....

This Week In Trailers: Davi’s Way, The Dig, First Light, Swiped: Hooking Up In The Digital Age, The Most Beautiful Couple By Christopher Stipp/Sept. 1, 2018 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Su Qi-Er (True Legend), Wrong Turn At Tahoe, The Missing Person, Endgame, All Tomorrow’s Parties By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 23, 2009 3:02 pm EST This movie is more hip than me, more hip than you, and has a much cooler swagger than any of us will possess this week. For my money, and believe me there isn’t much, films need to say something fresh, be something more than the fat that is clogging the arteries of our nation’s theaters....

Top 20 Stories Of The Week: Doctor Strange, Christopher Nolan And The Force Awakens By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2016 1:00 pm EST The Top 20 Stories of the Week are the stories we think you should check out on /Film from the previous week. This week we’ve got some new photos from Assassin’s Creed, the second season of Daredevil, and a bunch of other movies coming in 2016. We’ve also got a couple great features on The Hateful Eight and the films of Quentin Tarantino, the first official photos of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and tons of Star Wars: The Force Awakens bits about development, theories, deleted scenes and more....

Watch The ABC Fall 2018 Trailers: ‘The Kids Are Alright’, ‘The Rookie’, ‘A Million Little Things’, ‘Whiskey Cavalier’ And More By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2018 12:16 pm EST ABC just unleashed a whole slew of new Fall TV trailers to prepare you for the upcoming TV season. There’s comedy, drama, and even a show from O.J. Simpson trail lawyer Marcia Clark. Below, watch trailers for The Kids Are Alright, The Rookie, A Million Little Things, Whiskey Cavalier, Single Parents, The Fix, and Grand Hotel....

What Does ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’s Box Office Performance Mean For The Franchise’s Future? By Ben Pearson/June 28, 2017 1:00 pm EST Full disclosure: I have not seen Transformers: The Last Knight. (I’m currently listening to the /Filmcast’s highly entertaining review of it.) But just because I haven’t seen the movie yet, that doesn’t preclude me from exploring its box office performance and attempting to draw some conclusions about where the Transformers franchise might go from here....

Why I’m Hopeful About ‘Indiana Jones 5’, And What It Could Be By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2016 1:00 pm EST As Disney announced that Steven Spielberg would be returning to direct Harrison Ford in a new Indiana Jones movie, it seems like the skeptical and cynical comments took over my social media feed. Does no one want an Indiana Jones 5? Why couldn’t a fifth installment of the series actually be good?...