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‘Game Of Thrones’: Sophie Turner Explains Why Sansa Didn’t Tell Jon About You-Know-What [Comic-Con 2016] By Angie Han/July 22, 2016 3:39 pm EST Season 6’s “Battle of the Bastards” was unquestionably one of the most thrilling hours Game of Thrones has ever done, tense and tragic and action-packed, with a dramatic last-minute twist to boot. But it also opened up some questions that still have fans scratching their head – mainly, why Sansa opted to withhold a certain crucial bit of information from a trusted ally....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ - Eight Awesome Facts About The Making Of The Film By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2015 1:30 pm EST Mad Max: Fury Road was over a decade in the making, and hit the screen with a rich backstory. While it’s more fun to let the characters on screen exist with only the information we’re given in the movie, the tales of the creation of Fury Road are so good that we have to dive in....

‘NOS4A2’ TV Series Cast Adds Zachary Quinto And Ashleigh Cummings By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2018 2:30 pm EST Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 (pronounced Nosferatu) is coming to the small screen. AMC will turn Hill’s horror novel into a new TV series, and they’ve added Zachary Quinto and Ashleigh Cummings to the cast. The story concerns a supernatural figure who feeds on the souls of children. More on the NOS4A2 TV series below....

‘The Lion King,’ ‘Bambi’ And Why Disney Movies Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of Death By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 25, 2017 11:30 am EST (Welcome to The Disney Discourse, a recurring feature where Josh Spiegel discusses the latest in Disney news. He goes deep on everything from the animated classics to the theme parks to live-action franchises. In this edition: why Disney movies shouldn’t be afraid of death.) Few moments in American cinema stick with people from their youth through adulthood as much as the death of Bambi’s mother midway through the 1942 Disney animated classic Bambi....

‘Wonder Woman’ Will Be “Pretty Dark,” Says Gal Gadot By Angie Han/April 9, 2016 10:00 am EST Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of the highlights of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, bringing a fresh and unpredictable energy to the grim third-act battle sequence. For fans who felt that the film (and Man of Steel before it) was too damn dark, she was a shining beacon of light, an uncomplicated hero who actually had the audacity to smile while battling a giant monster from another world....

Check Out These Wonderful Richard Linklater Mondo Posters By Jack Giroux/March 16, 2016 6:00 am EST Richard Linklater’s newest film, Everybody Wants Some, recently premiered at the ongoing South by Southwest, and Linklater fans should be pleased to learn the spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused is already a hit with critics. Our own Jacob Hall called Everybody Wants Some “Linklater’s funniest film in years,” and most reviews have echoed that sentiment....

Cloverfield Predicted To Be The Most Profitable Movie Of 2008?! By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 12, 2008 3:47 am EST Over at U.S. News & World Report, assistant managing editor James Pethokoukis has transformed into a sort of hedge fund swami, predicting that next week’s Cloverfield will be the most profitable film of 2008. The key word here is “profitable.” With a reported $30 million budget, average marketing costs and countless months of rabid Internet buzz, the film could be in the black by Sunday of its opening weekend, a feat that Iron Man, with a budget estimated at $200 million and millions in additional marketing costs, simply will not accomplish....

Confirmed: Simon Pegg Is In ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ [Comic-Con 2015] By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2015 6:40 pm EST UPDATE: We can now confirm Simon Pegg will indeed be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — but as we speculated earlier, his face won’t be. A behind-the-scenes reel shown at Comic-Con 2015 showed Pegg on set, and wearing an alien costume without the head. So we’ll definitely see him in the movie, but we likely won’t be able to recognize him....

Details Revealed: Kurtzman And Orci’s El Rey TV Show ‘Matador’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2014 11:30 am EST Robert Rodriguez’s TV channel, the El Rey Network, is kicking off with a bang. It has the new adaptation/remake of From Dusk Till Dawn, for one. It also has a new show from Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the team behind Star Trek and Transformers, in development. Now, the full details on that show have been revealed....

Even More Details About Darth Vader’s Castle In ‘Rogue One’ Have Been Revealed By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 2, 2017 8:00 am EST Not long after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit theaters, many fans had questions about a certain location we see in the movie that isn’t identified with any on-screen text. There’s a certain scene that takes place in a castle inhabited by Darth Vader. We’ve already learned some details about the location, including confirmation that it can be found on the volcanic planet Mustafar and the fact that it’s built on top of a Sith cave....

Interview: Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins By David Chen/Feb. 10, 2011 2:00 pm EST I’ve done a lot of interviews during my time at /Film, but I usually don’t have the opportunity to interview cinematographers. However, when the offer came to chat with Roger Deakins, I jumped at the chance. Deakins has helped to craft some of the most memorable images in the history of cinema. His insanely accomplished filmography includes the likes of The Shawshank Redemption, Revolutionary Road, and A Beautiful Mind, not to mention many of the films of the Coen Brothers....

It’s Got A Death Curse: Ranking All 181 ‘Friday The 13th’ Kills (Part Two) By Jacob Hall/Jan. 13, 2017 8:00 am EST Welcome to the second (and final!) part of my complete ranking of all 181 kills from the Friday the 13th film series. If you’re just joining us, I recommend heading over to part one for the details on how this list came together along with the ranking of kills 181 through 51....

The Script Could Be Done Very Soon Reeves has been talking about The Batman as a hypothetical since he was announced as the director. Now he says he’s honing in on a script. “We are working on getting our draft [in] the next couple weeks,” Reeves said. “Right now, my head is totally into the script. Right now, I’m going to be leaving here to go back to work on the script....

Page 3 By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 19, 2009 6:00 pm EST There’s lots of tiny titbits of movie news that which, for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page coming up after this break. Lorelay Bove has blogged about the Princess and the Frog book she has illustrated, and the booze-themed micro-paintings she has been working on since finishing up with the film’s end credits.The Inglourious Basterds DVDs will feature a 30 minute roundtable discussion between Quentin Tarantino, Elvis Mitchell and Brad Pitt....

Rogue One: Mads Mikkelsen Character Info, Official Film Logo, And A New Kind Of Stormtrooper By Jacob Hall/Feb. 29, 2016 2:00 pm EST Place your bets, folks. Will we see a Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer before Captain America: Civil War? In the meantime, enjoy these Rogue One Bits: A toy package description seemingly confirms another story. Mads Mikkelsen reveals one detail about his Rogue One character. A look at the film’s official logo…on a bunch of crew shirts and bags....

Sequel Bits: ‘Percy Jackson’, ‘Dredd’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, ‘Despicable Me 2’ By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 7:00 am EST Here are some sequel-related odds and ends for the start of the week. After the jump: Transformers 4 scouts the GM plant as a possible location Dredd isn’t getting a sequel, but may get a short film Win one of 50 uniform from Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Into Darkness participates in Earth Hour Universal’s “Despicablimp” embarks on a cross-country tour See the first pics from Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters While he cautions that “Nothing has been committed to on either side,” he acknowledges that “There are some conversations that have taken place....

Sharon Stone Will Appear In A Marvel Movie, And We Hope It’s ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2016 9:00 am EST Due to the ageism that exists for female actresses in Hollywood, we haven’t seen much of Sharon Stone in the more popular movies of the past decade. In the past 10 years she’s had parts in Alpha Dog, Bobby, Lovelace, Fading Gigolo and that awful Basic Instinct sequel in 2006....

Spike Jonze Reveals First Footage From ‘Her;’ Read About Two Scenes From The Film By Germain Lussier/June 23, 2013 10:45 am EST Saturday night at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Spike Jonze unveiled Her. It was the first time the director of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Thing Are showed any footage from his fourth film in public and it was as quirky and interesting as you’ve come to expect from Jonze....

The Best Netflix Originals You Probably Haven’t Seen By Rob Hunter/Feb. 8, 2018 10:00 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. In this edition, we take a look at the best Netflix Originals that have probably slipped past you unnoticed.) Netflix pulled something of a fast one Superbowl weekend by not only confirming that they would be premiering the new Cloverfield film, The Cloverfield Paradox, but that it would actually be dropping later that night....

The Legacy Of Isao Takahata, The Underappreciated Half Of Studio Ghibli By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 6, 2018 11:00 am EST “Why must fireflies die so young?” On April 5, the world lost an animation titan. Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a frequent collaborator with Hayao Miyazaki, and the director of stunning anime films like Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, died at 82. But not many people outside of hardcore Studio Ghibli fans may recognize his name....