15 People We’d Love To See Host The 2016 Oscars By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2015 8:00 am EST Hosting the Oscars is no easy task. You have to be entertaining, funny, and upbeat, but not too offensive. Pop culture savvy, smart, engaging, but not off-putting. Plus you have to do it in front of literally the most famous audience of people ever assembled, every single year. Many have tried and succeeded....
Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie ‘jOBS’ Begins Filming In The Original Apple Garage By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2012 9:00 am EST A couple days after Sony announced that Aaron Sorkin would be writing their Steve Jobs biopic, Five Star Feature Films has issued a press release announcing the start of photography on their independently produced Steve Jobs biopic directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas) and starring Ashton Kutcher. And this time around we have a little more information about this competing project....
Disney Is Tweaking The Millennium Falcon Ride At Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge By Ben Pearson/Aug. 27, 2018 10:45 am EST When Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens at Disney theme parks next year, guests are going to be waiting in line for hours to experience the yet-to-be-titled Millennium Falcon ride. It’s a completely interactive motion-simulator attraction in which the ship’s flight is impacted by the riders’ decisions, but a new report suggests that Disney has hit a few snags during the testing phase....
Early Buzz: Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children [TIFF 2014] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2014 11:22 am EST Jason Reitman’s latest film Men, Women & Children has screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and we have compiled the tweets coming out of the first Press & Industry screening. Its a mix of mostly positive (18 people) but also negative (10 people), with some critics like Owen Gleiberman and Ed Douglas touting it as a complex return to form while others like Jeff Wells calling it “soulless” and Ben Lyons leaving the screening tweeting that the film made him “very, very angry…”....
First ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Photo Revealed; New Cast Members Announced [D23 Expo 2015] By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2015 12:30 pm EST Gareth Edwards’ Star Wars: Rogue One is still over a year away, but thanks to D23 we have a tantalizing taste of the upcoming film today. The very first official photo has just been revealed, featuring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, and Donnie Yen (the latter two of whom were recently rumored for the cast)....
HBO Talks ‘True Detective’ Season 3, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Finale, ‘Deadwood’ Movie And More [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2017 9:45 am EST HBO’s executive session for the Television Critics Association was dominated by news for their controversial announcement for Confederate. During the panel with Head of Programming Casey Bloys, the exec also gave updates on some highly anticipated returning and current HBO shows. A third season of True Detective has begun casting and writing....
How ‘The Martian’ Would Have Been Different With Water On Mars By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2015 12:00 pm EST Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Martian sees Matt Damon playing a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars in a story of survival and hopeful escape from the deadly planet. This week NASA revealed new findings that reveals that potentially life-giving water still flows across the planet’s ancient surface. How does this discovery change what you will see on the big screen?...
How Many Seasons Will ‘Stranger Things’ Last? By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2017 3:00 pm EST The first season of Stranger Things got so much buzz and acclaim that a second-season renewal seemed like a foregone conclusion — even if it took Netflix a month and a half to get around to making it official. And based on the hype already building around season two, it seems possible that the next chapter of this story will be an even bigger hit than the last....
Hunter Stephenson’s Movie Review: Cloverfield By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 18, 2008 8:23 pm EST Before I begin, let me say that I am not one who hyperbolizes my thoughts on movies that I like and dislike. I prefer to lurk and watch other people do that. For months, I have purposely avoided the viral marketing for Cloverfield because I didn’t want the campaign to interfere with the actual movie experience. Obviously, after I linked up with /Film this month I tuned in a little bit more, but until last week I had kept my exposure limited to the Transformers trailer....
Interview: Why ‘The Light Between Oceans’ Director Derek Cianfrance Is Obsessed With Longevity And The Passage Of Time By Jack Giroux/Sept. 2, 2016 7:00 am EST With his adaptation of M. L. Stedman’s bestselling novel, writer-director Derek Cianfrance wanted to make The Light Between Oceans a cross between a John Cassavettes movie and a Dean Lean film, a personal tale told against an epic backdrop. Cianfrance, both in his films and in person, proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, but The Light Between Oceans still features staples we’re now coming to expect from the filmmaker behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines....
J.J. Abrams Unloads About ‘The Force Awakens,’ Marketing, Giving Rian Johnson All The Secrets By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2015 9:00 am EST Even though J.J. Abrams has been a fan of Star Wars for a long time, he’s never been more engulfed in the galaxy far, far away than he has for the past two or three years. Given the Herculean task of delivering a new film in the iconic sci-fi saga that will launch a new era of Star Wars for fans both old and new, Abrams has had a lot on his plate, and a new extensive interview with the director gives us a glimpse into his mindset both as a filmmaker and as a fan....
John Lasseter No Longer Directing ‘Toy Story 4’ [D23 Expo 2017] By Ben Pearson/July 14, 2017 4:02 pm EST Here’s something we didn’t see coming: Pixar’s chief creative officer John Lasseter – who directed the first two movies in the Toy Story franchise – just revealed that he is no longer directing Toy Story 4. Read on to find out the latest about Pixar’s departed Toy Story 4 director. On stage at the D23 Expo, Lasseter revealed that he’ll instead work as an executive producer on the movie, where he’ll work very closely with the film’s new director: Josh Cooley, the writer/director of the Pixar short film Riley’s First Date....
Loose Lips Sink Death Stars: ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Character Details, Trailer Rumors, And More By Jacob Hall/Jan. 6, 2016 12:30 pm EST With Star Wars: The Force Awakens currently burning down box office records in theaters, the time has come for us to slowly divert our attention to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. A few new details about the upcoming spin-off film, which follows the men and women who steal the original Death Star plans before the events of the original Star Wars, trickled out earlier this week....
Marc Webb Explains There Aren’t Too Many Villains In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2014 7:00 am EST Are there too many villains in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Director Marc Webb knows you might be concerned that this sequel has too many characters for its own good. A common complaint about Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 was that the film featured too many villains, and was consequently unfocused and unable to do justice to any of them....
Page 2: Roger Ebert, Die Hard, Avatar, Star Trek, Captain EO, Back To The Future, Snow White, Toy Story, Alien By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2013 2:00 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 46 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: Star Wars, Godzilla, BTTF, James Cameron, Gravity, Star Trek, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2013 12:00 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....
Roberto Orci Answers Transformers 2 Questions By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2008 12:31 am EST Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-screenwriter Roberto Orci has been answering questions on the TFW2005 forums, here are some of the highlights:About Writing Shia’s hand injury into the Script: “Luckily nothing has to be reshot. Yes, we were on set last week to write it into the movie, not because it’s absolutely necessary, but more because we want to make sure Shia’s hand is protected for the remainder of the shoot…”...
Sequel Bits: ‘Dumb And Dumber To’, ‘Ted 2’, ‘Equalizer 2’, ‘Star Trek 3’, ‘Transformers 5’ By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2014 4:00 pm EST We present to you some sequel-related odds and ends to take you into the weekend. After the jump: Liam Neeson and John Slattery will also be in Ted 2 Check out the first Dumb and Dumber To TV spot Watch the new extended Alien: Isolation TV spot Lindsay Lohan has an idea for a Mean Girls sequel George Takei is not “lobbying” for a Star Trek 3 role Ryan Hansen talks about his Veronica Mars spinoff Peter Cullen wants Michael Bay for Transformers 5 Denzel Washington isn’t confirmed for Equalizer 2 Jeremy Renner is excited for M:I5 and more Bourne...
Superhero Bits: ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Trailer Coming Soon, ‘Iron Fist’ Season 2 & More By Ethan Anderton/May 29, 2018 6:00 pm EST Did you know Robert Downey Jr. would rewrite some of his Iron Man 3 lines between takes? Want to watch the latest trailer for the Big Hero 6 animated series coming to Disney Channel? Want to find out about how that CG fight sequence with Colossus and a certain X-Men villain came together?...
Superhero Bits: Captain America, Patton Oswalt, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/July 4, 2011 11:00 am EST Want to buy a copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #6 signed by Andrew Garfield? What would a Batman story written by Patton Oswalt be like? Which former Batman actor could cameo in The Dark Knight Rises? What does “The Fire Rises” mean? And would you like to read a ton of Captain America: The First Avenger content while listening to the film’s score?...
