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Interview: ‘Moonlight’ Star André Holland On Meeting The Kevins, Working With Soderbergh, And The Politics Of Art By Angie Han/Feb. 27, 2017 12:00 pm EST Last night, Moonlight capped off its years-long journey to the big screen by taking home Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards. For those following this year’s race, the film’s win didn’t come as a huge surprise (though the way that win was announced is another story)....

John Stamos And ‘Fuller House’ Cast Tease First Live Audience Taping By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2015 11:30 am EST Fans are getting closer and closer to feeling right at home with the Tanner family again as the Netflix sequel series Fuller House, a continuance of the cheesy 1990s sitcom Full House, officially heads into production. Over the weekend, some of the cast members teased the first live audience taping of the show, and if one thing’s for certain, it’s that John Stamos has aged a day since the original series ended 20 years ago....

Louis Leterrier Says Special Effects In The Incredible Hulk Trailer Unfinished, Describes Film’s Final Battle By Hunter Stephenson/March 17, 2008 6:10 am EST Director Louis Leterrier recently did a shot-for-shot recap of The Incredible Hulk teaser trailer with Empire and if you missed it, there are some tasty chunks of info therein. For instance, Leterrier recognizes how late in the marketing game it is for the June Hulk reboot, but still emphasizes that none of the special effects shots in the teaser were finished but were “decent enough” to put out there for the fans and general audiences alike....

Marvel Studios Passed On A ‘Doctor Strange’ Movie From Neil Gaiman And Guillermo Del Toro By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 28, 2015 11:00 am EST Right now Marvel Studios is in production on an adaptation of their mystical comic book character Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Scott Derrickson (Deliver Us from Evil) behind the camera. But years ago, they could have brought the character to the big screen with Neil Gaiman writing and Guillermo del Toro directing....

Matt Damon Offers An Update On ‘Bourne 5’, Will Be Tearing Things Up In Las Vegas By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2015 9:30 am EST Right now Matt Damon is on a break from shooting Bourne 5, which has reunited the actor with director Paul Greengrass after they both stepped away from the franchise after The Bourne Ultimatum. Originally, Jeremy Renner was going to inherit the mantle with his spin-off franchise The Bourne Legacy, but a follow-up to that film has been put on hold in favor of this new flick....

Michael Bay And ‘Transformers’ Producer On Why Critics Hate Michael Bay By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2014 11:30 am EST While his movies make hundreds of millions of dollars within days of release, their sure seems to be a lot of Michael Bay critics out there. In my opinion, Bay gets way more criticism than is really deserved. Are Bay’s films deep meaningful pieces of art? Not really… But Bay makes some fun action films, each with some especially artful cinematography, visual effects and sound design....

Movie Review: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2009 10:12 am EST It would be easy to say that Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen plays like a movie made by a thirteen year old boy for other thirteen year old boys, but if that were actually the case, it might not be such a wretched experience. Made by a filmmaker who doesn’t seem to be much evolved beyond the mentality of a teenager, yes, Revenge of the Fallen could also probably be characterized as the Hollywood sequel machine run amok....

Mr. Robot - The 3 Things We Expect After “Master/Slave” By Corey Atad/Aug. 11, 2016 7:00 am EST Let’s talk for a moment about expectation. In other eras, television was all about expectation — that is, the expectation that each week, without fail, we’d get a familiar set of characters performing a familiar set of tasks in a familiar way with familiar tone and even familiar dialogue. Expectation; delivery. TV still serves that function....

New Theory About Who Rey’s Father Could Be In ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2017 12:30 pm EST I love film theories, even some of the more crazy ones. And when it comes to a franchise I love like Star Wars or Westworld, I tend to entertain more of these theories than I should. So let me warn you now, if you don’t like this kind of speculation, if you have a “your Snoke theory sucks” sticker on your laptop, turn away now....

A Brief History of Time Now Streaming on FilmStruck Release Date: 1991Genre: DocumentaryDirector: Errol MorrisCast: Stephen Hawking Physicist Stephen Hawking died this week – a brilliant man exiting an increasingly dumbed-down world. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21, and doctors expected him to only live for another 2 years after the diagnosis. He ended up living for 55 years instead. Hawking enjoyed a pop-culture infused popularity, appearing on The Simpsons, Star Trek and more....

Page 2: Breaking Bad, GOT, Pacific Rim, Despicable Me, Memento, Doctor Who, BTTF By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2013 12:30 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....

Sequel Bits: ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’, ‘Willow 2’, ‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 21, 2018 4:30 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Watch an Imagine Dragons music video created for Ralph Breaks the Internet An update to the Monarch website has some news about Godzilla’s activity Get some new details on the possibility of a Willow sequel See a new clip from Johnny English Strikes Again Find out which Muppets characters will be popping up in Wreck-It Ralph 2...

Sony’s Spider-Man Spin-Offs May Feature Tom Holland Despite No Connection To MCU By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2017 10:01 am EST Following the unprecedented collaboration between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios to share Spider-Man, allowing the webslinger to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Avengers, fans were surprised that there were spin-offs being developed featuring ancillary characters like Venom and a team-up movie featuring Silver Sable and Black Cat, especially when Kevin Feige confirmed they wouldn’t be tied to the MCU....

Trailer Roundup: ‘24 Hours To Live’, ‘I Love You America’, ‘The Chi, Miracle On 42nd Street’, ‘Sweet Virginia’, ‘Angelica’, ‘Princess Cyd’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 23, 2017 6:30 am EST Sometimes, there are just too many trailers. It’s difficult to give each one a fair shake, but it’s our duty to report to you, the readers, all the entertainment news we can. And that includes trailers. So when some trailers slip through the crack, we break out the lasso and round them all up in one helpful spot....

‘Big Hero 6’ Directors Don Hall And Chris Williams Talk Pitching And Creating Characters By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2014 8:00 am EST Earlier this summer, a group of journalists was invited to Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, CA to learn about the impressive process that went into their latest film Big Hero 6. Big Hero 6 is based on, but not linked to, a Marvel comic book of the same name....

/Film’s Statement On The Alamo Drafthouse, Harry Knowles, And Harassment In The Film Community By /Film Staff/Sept. 27, 2017 8:00 am EST Over the past few weeks, a number of allegations have rocked the film community in Austin and Los Angeles, and by extension, the online film community as a whole. The /Film staff has been closely following these developments both from afar and on the ground at Fantastic Fest, and we’ve spoken about it on the /Film Daily podcast (here, here, and here)....

/Film’s Top 10 Films Of 2015 So Far By Angie Han/July 2, 2015 9:00 am EST It’s hard to believe, but we’re already halfway through 2015. Which means we’ve already seen about half the films we’re likely to this year. Which, then, means now is as good a time as any to stop and reflect upon some of the big highlights of the year so far. Our entire staff voted on the top 10 list that follows....

‘I, Tonya’ And The Great “Unlikable” Female Characters Of 2017 By Candice Frederick/Dec. 4, 2017 8:00 am EST As far as unlikable characters go, Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding has always been in a league of her own. She’s got a potty mouth. She’s never really cared about making friends. She’s generally just not nice. And oh yeah, she was kinda sorta involved in one of the biggest sports scandals ever — a criminal plot to literally attack the America’s sweetheart of figure skating, Nancy Kerrigan....

‘Kong: Skull Island’ Clips & Featurette: Monsters Exist And They Are Pissed By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 20, 2017 11:30 am EST The onslaught of Kong: Skull Island marketing is underway as Warner Bros. and Legendary throw everything they can at audiences to convince them to see this latest iteration of the classic movie monster. This new King Kong comes with quite an epic promise of having him meet up with Godzilla sometime down the road (and a post-credits scene after Kong: Skull Island may hint at what’s to come in that regard), but the question is whether Kong stands strongly on his own....

‘Ready Player One’ Almost Had Another Classic Movie Reference, But Spielberg Axed It [Updated] By Ben Pearson/March 17, 2018 8:10 pm EST Update: In a new interview, Steven Spielberg clarified his comments about being able to secure rights to Star Wars franchise so he could reference it in Ready Player One. Our original article follows, as well as video of Spielberg explaining how Lucasfilm cooperated after all.Ready Player One is jam-packed with references to the pop culture of yesteryear, but an early version of the script featured a huge shout-out to a certain 1977 sci-fi classic which director Steven Spielberg ended up cutting out....