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Sequel Bits: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life 2’, ‘G.I. Joe 3’, ‘Expendables 3’, ‘300: Rise Of An Empire’ By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2013 11:00 am EST Despite Paramount’s objections, the producer for It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story is confident his project will go forward. Sorry, haters. Also after the jump: Channing Tatum could still return for G.I. Joe 3… … and Adrianne Palicki is definitely going to be back Kellan Lutz had to get smaller for The Expendables 3 Paramount and MGM team up for Hot Tub Time Machine 2 NBC okays a sequel to The Bible (the show, not the book) Jack O’Connell and Lena Headey get their own 300 posters...

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Fear The Walking Dead,’ ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2015 2:30 pm EST That image above (click to enlarge) is a shot of the back cover of Ian Malcom’s book as seen in Jurassic World, via the film’s official Twitter account. In addition to that, this edition of Sequel Bits features: Jason Clarke talks about his initial reaction to a Terminator Genisys plot twist, A new Fear the Walking Dead teaser has dialogue, but no zombies, Bette Midler stumps for Hocus Pocus 2 during a live show, Marlon Wayans threatens to make White Chicks 2, and there’s a behind the scenes video for Sharknado 3....

SXSW Movie Trailer And Preview: The Ride (An Exclusive Look At VICE Films’ Take On The Modern American Cowboy) By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 17, 2010 12:37 pm EST Premiering at next month’s SXSW Film Festival in the movie mecca of Austin, Texas is The Ride, a thorough and serenely choreographed doc on young professional bull riders, rodeo entertainers, and the lucrative, tradition-heavy subculture that supports them. To some, the flick will appear an unlikely release from VICE Films, part of the media-and-culture empire that has expanded out of flannel-crowded Brooklyn to 15 countries....

The Best Films Of The 2016 Sundance Film Festival By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2016 8:00 am EST After 10 glorious days, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close last night, with awards handed out Saturday night. And now that the festival is officially over and done with, we at /Film have tallied the movies we saw this year, to present to you a list of our favorites. Three writers from /Film attended the festival this year: Peter Sciretta, Angie Han, and Ethan Anderton....

The Definitive Collection Of Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Art From Gallery 1988 By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2014 10:00 am EST 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Ivan Reitman’s comedy classic Ghostbusters. And over the past few months, Gallery 1988 has been presenting a fully authorized art show to celebrate the occasion. It kicked off in New York, is currently in Los Angeles and will make a stop in Chicago on June 20-22 before heading to San Diego Comic-Con....

The Sundance Film Festival Is Once Again Coming To A Theater Near You By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2011 12:30 pm EST Not going to brave the icy roads and chilling winds of Park City, Utah this January for the Sundance Film Festival 2012? No matter. The festival is once again going to bring the films to you if you live in Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Orlando, FL; San Francisco, CA; or Tucson, AZ....

This Week In Trailers: 20 Years Of Madness, Catch Me Daddy, Meru, H., Chorus By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 2, 2015 5:30 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: Pixelschatten, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, Beautiful Boy, The Bully Project, Shakespeare High By Christopher Stipp/April 1, 2011 4:00 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?...

‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Cast Tease Secret Warriors, Simmons Gunplay And More [Wondercon] By Fred Topel/March 29, 2016 6:00 am EST The cast of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were on a panel at WonderCon last weekend and spoke to the press afterwards. The tight-lipped stars of the Marvel show were able to preview some of the upcoming adventures of this corner of the MCU. Daisy Johnson will have some full Secret Warriors action sequences coming up, said actor Chloe Bennet....

‘Minority Report’ Producers On The New Future And Humanizing The Precogs By Fred Topel/Aug. 6, 2015 4:30 pm EST The cast and producers of Fox’s Minority Report TV series gave a panel for the Television Critics Association today. It is the first series ever adapted from a Steven Spielberg-directed movie, and takes place 10 years after the film. Pre-crime has been abolished, per the film, and the movie’s three precog characters now live in hiding....

‘Neuromancer’ Goes Into Pre-Production By David Chen/May 19, 2011 7:00 am EST After years in development, Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 with locations in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London. Neuromancer is an adaptation of William Gibson’s award-winning book of the same name. The book is widely regarded as visionary, foretelling certain aspects of the internet and coining the term “cyberspace....

‘Now You See Me’ Set Visit: Louis Leterrier And An Unlikely Cast Make Magic In Queens By Angie Han/April 15, 2013 10:18 am EST As with movies, the art of magic relies on seamless illusion. Since we know we’re not really seeing the things we think we’re seeing — George Clooney, for instance, isn’t really a casino-robbing mastermind, and David Copperfield didn’t really make an airplane just vanish into thin air — it’s up to the artists to put on such a dazzling show that we can suspend our disbelief, and ooh and ahh just the same....

‘The Front Runner’ Early Buzz: Hugh Jackman Is Oscar Worthy In Robert Altman-Esque Political Drama By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2018 6:59 pm EST This weekend the Telluride Film Festival is getting a sneak peek at some of the movies that will be hitting the festival circuit in the coming weeks. A good amount of them had already debuted at the Venice Film Festival this past week, but one that we hadn’t yet heard anything about yet was the political drama The Front Runner, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Hugh Jackman....

‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’ Review: A Quiet Queer Triumph [Tribeca] By Siddhant Adlakha/April 30, 2018 9:00 am EST A teen fidgets nervously with the pages of a Bible. This is the first image glimpsed in Desiree Akhavan’s sophomore effort, an equal parts melancholy-and-optimistic gay conversion drama. The antsy teen sits alongside several Bible Study peers – including high-schoolers Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Coley (Quinn Shephard), whose budding, secret romance the film keeps flashing back to – as a pastor bellows about the evils lurking within all children their age....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Review: This Is Marvel’s Silliest Movie Yet And That’s Okay By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 3, 2017 8:00 am EST Nearly a decade ago, Marvel’s first entry in their burgeoning Cinematic Universe, Iron Man, proved so successful as to influence and inspire plenty of other studios and filmmakers to build out extended-universe franchises. Now, it’s hard to imagine a more influential Marvel movie than Guardians of the Galaxy, the gleefully anarchic, candy-colored 2014 film that stood apart from the machinations of Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and the rest of the Avengers....

Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ Remake Wants Beyonce For Nala By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 31, 2017 6:30 am EST Who run the Pride Lands? Possibly Beyonce. The R&B singer and diva extraordinaire may be heading to the big screen four years after her last stint with movies (voicing Tara in Epic), as Disney is reportedly eyeing her to play Nala in the upcoming remake of The Lion King. The Lion King director Jon Favreau has reportedly listed Beyonce as his favorite to voice Nala, Simba’s childhood friend and love interest, in the CGI “reimagining” of the beloved 1994 animated film, according to Variety....

Jack White To Score ‘The Lone Ranger;’ Moby Scoring ‘The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman’ By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2012 8:27 pm EST There’s some big movie score news today. Earlier this afternoon Moby was announced as the choice to score The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, which has Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Melissa Leo and Til Schweiger lined up to star in a story about a guy (LaBeouf) who falls for a girl (Wood) in Europe, only to run afoul of her mobster boyfriend (Mikkelsen) even as his dead mother (Leo) occasionally offers him advice....

Page 2: Star Wars, Christopher Nolan, Source Code, Hailee Steinfeld, Smallville, Spike Jonze, The Sunset Limited, Tom Cruise, Time Bandits By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 11:00 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 22 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Pharrell Williams Writing Original Music For Despicable Me, Listen To One Of The Songs Now By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2010 12:47 pm EST Universal Pictures has announced that three-time Grammy Award winner Pharrell Williams will write original music for Despicable Me. This marks the first time Pharrell has composed music for a film. Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira are writing the film’s score. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise as the catchy song at the end of the original teaser trailer was an original composition by Pharrell with MeOh!...

Rumor: The First Stand-Alone ‘Star Wars’ Film Will Center On Yoda By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2013 8:31 pm EST Over the years there has been no shortage of speculation about what characters might end up being the center of a Star Wars film that focused on the history of one character, rather than the big ensemble. Boba Fett was always a fan-favorite choice, before the prequels took some of the air out of the character’s sails....