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‘Ninja Assassin’ Scribe To Write Film About BP Oil Rig Disaster By Adam Quigley/March 9, 2011 9:30 am EST Chances are you’re familiar with the Deepwater Horizon, the drilling rig that suffered a blowout and wound up causing the second largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Well, surprise, Hollywood wants to make a movie about it. Learn more after the break. Variety reports that development has launched on a feature centered on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig tragedy that occurred on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers and injuring 16 others....

‘Preacher’ Showrunner Sam Catlin On Season 2’s Crazy New Direction [Interview] By Fred Topel/June 23, 2017 11:00 am EST Preacher is back for a second season on AMC. Jesse (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga) and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) are on the road looking for God but they’re not alone – The Cowboy (Graham McTavish), introduced last season, is on their tail. Showrunner Sam Catlin developed the Preacher series alongside Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and the second season continues to toy with elements of the comic book....

‘Rampage’ Photo: Dwayne Johnson As Animal Lover Davis Okoye By Jack Giroux/May 3, 2017 12:30 pm EST Brad Peyton (San Andreas) has started shooting his adaptation of Rampage, based on Midway’s classic and repetitive 1986 video arcade game. Since the game is only about monsters wreaking havoc on buildings, the movie gives Peyton and the screenwriters, including Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel), the freedom to tell the story they want to tell....

/Response: The Movie Scenes That Scared You The Most By Jacob Hall/May 19, 2017 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to /Response, the companion piece to our /Answers series and a space where /Film readers can chime in and offer their two cents on a particular question.) Earlier this week, the /Film team wrote about the scariest movie scenes of all time. We then opened the floor to our readers: what movie scene scared you more than any other?...

‘They Came Together’ Review: When Too Much Comedy Isn’t Enough By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2014 11:15 am EST They Came Together, directed and co-written by David Wain, is a madcap, off the wall, comedic send-up of the romantic comedy genre that goes so far over the top, you won’t believe it. The cast is a who’s who of comedy, from stars Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler to supporting actors Melanie Lynskey and Jason Mantzoukas, all the way down to scene stealers like Bill Hader and Ellie Kemper....

‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Review: Exploring The Best Moments Of Part 12 By Ben Pearson/July 31, 2017 9:00 am EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Twin Peaks: The Return by answering one question: what was the best scene of the episode?)Twin Peaks fans finally have the answer to a question they’ve been wondering about for 25 years: what happened to Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn)? The Best Scene in Part 12...

2013 Golden Globe Nominations Highlight ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘Django Unchained,’ ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2012 6:01 am EST This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor — if there’s an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with, they’re sure to get a nomination....

Andrew Garfield Pushed For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ To Connect With The Avengers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2015 10:00 am EST It’s no secret that while Andrew Garfield took residence in New York City as The Amazing Spider-Man, he wanted our friendly neighborhood wallcrawler to end up meeting with The Avengers in the Marvel cinematic universe. The actor mentioned as much when asked about the possibility at Comic-Con back in 2013, but sadly his time as Spider-Man has come to an end....

Audience Members Faint At The Premiere Of Horror Film Grace By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 18, 2009 9:43 am EST I know I’ve already said in previous posts that I’d be leaving all of the Sundance updates to Peter seeing as he’s actually there and I’m here, half a world away in Oxford, England, and only dreaming of Skiing, Mormons and four-films-a-day exhaustion, but this one is of particular interest to me so I wanted to chip in on it....

Ava DuVernay Courted For ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ And Colin Trevorrow’s ‘Intelligent Life’ [UPDATED] By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2016 3:30 pm EST With Selma, Ava DuVernay went from a Sundance darling to one of the busiest and most sought-after filmmakers in Hollywood. She flirted with and then turned down Marvel’s Black Panther, she made plans to reunite with Selma star David Oyelowo for a Hurricane Katrina drama, and she got to work developing the drama Queen Sugar for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network....

Early Buzz: Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2009 1:41 pm EST I’ve not yet recovered from Butt-num-a-thon, Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles’ annual birthday bash / 24 hour film marathon in Austin Texas. Every year the line-up remains a surprise mix of old vintage films you’ve probably never seen before (and possibly never heard of) and surprise premieres from some of the most anticipated movies of the next six months....

Germain’s Most Anticipated Films Of 2013 Revisited: Was I Right Or Wrong? By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2014 10:03 am EST As the new year begins, it’s nice to have films to look forward to. Which is why we write lists of our own, personal, most anticipated films. Even more so than a top 10 list, anticipated lists showcase a writer’s personality. In an ideal world, these 10 movies would be 10 of our favorites when the year is over....

Interview: ‘Warcraft’ Actor Toby Kebbell On The Beauty Of Durotan And Motion-Capture By Jack Giroux/June 10, 2016 8:00 am EST Warcraft isn’t actor Toby Kebbell’s first rodeo with motion-capture. Following up his performance in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in which he played Koba, Kebbell stars in director Duncan Jones’ fantasy film as Durotan, a noble orc more interested in peace than war. The Blizzard adaptation shows both sides of a war — and Durotan is unquestionably the moral compass on the orcs’ side....

Interview: Corey Feldman On Lost Boys 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 1:51 am EST At Comic Con, /Film’s Adam Quigley got the chance to sit down one on one with Corey Feldman and talk about the release of The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. /Film: So, what was it like for you to go back to this world a few years later? Corey Feldman: Well, it was fun and scary at the same time....

Is This YouTube Ad For ‘The Nun’ Smart Marketing, Irresponsible, Or Both? [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 16, 2018 11:06 am EST Update: YouTube has officially pulled the ad for violating its “shocking content” policy. We’ve added their response below. I vividly remember being in my college dorm room and being tricked into watching a viral video of a car cruising through a lush, green countryside. Soft flute music plays in the background, and a few seconds in, a guy in zombie makeup bursts up in front of the camera and screams....

James Baxter Knows How To Train Your Dragon By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2009 4:29 pm EST Animator James Baxter has given a great interview to today’s LA Times. Coming under their Working Hollywood umbrella, the piece profiles Baxter, recounts much of his CV from Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Kung Fu Panda and beyond, and allows a peak into some of his personal working practices. For anybody remotely interest in the twin arts of hand drawn and CG rendered animation, I’d think this is a must read....

M. Night Shyamalan Rebooting ‘Tales From The Crypt’ For New Horror Block At TNT By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 7, 2016 10:40 am EST Back in 2011, a reboot of Tales from the Crypt was said to be in development, but hadn’t established a network home yet. Over the past five years, we haven’t heard anything about the project, and it was presumed dead. But today, the Crypt Keeper has life again as TNT has announced a reboot of the horror anthology series that originated on HBO....

Page 2: Special Halloween Costume And Pumpkin Carving Edition By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2011 2:00 pm 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 56 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Peter Sciretta’s Reaction To Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ And Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2015 11:30 am EST The embargo has finally broken for Pixar’s Inside Out and Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland, and you can read the buzz reports compiling the early critical reactions at the links above. I’ve seen both films and have decided to write up my thoughts in a virtually spoiler-free reaction. Hit the jump for my thoughts....

Sally Field Joins Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2011 3:10 pm EST Although we reported it back in September 2007, DreamWorks Studios has just issued a press release announcing that two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States, in Steven Spielberg’s big screen biopic Lincoln. Field joins Daniel Day-Lewis, who has previously been cast to play Abraham Lincoln....