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Mark Hamill Hoped To Play An Evil Luke Skywalker Twin In ‘Star Wars’ Sequels By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2017 11:30 am EST Back in May, there were a slew of new revelations about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, thanks to Vanity Fair’s extensive cover story on the sci-fi sequel from director Rian Johnson. One of the more intriguing pieces of information came from Mark Hamill, who revealed that he fundamentally disagreed with every decision the filmmaker made for his character Luke Skywalker, but he took on his job as an actor to bring Johnson’s vision to life without any further debate....

Michael Moore May Have A Surprise Project Just In Time For The 2016 Election By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2016 10:00 am EST With just a few weeks left until the United States votes for the next President of the United States of America (as well as plenty of other important political offices and issues, the election is really heating up. We’re now in the month where campaigns pull out all the stops and do everything in their power to win the election....

Next ‘Game Of Thrones’ Book Won’t Be Done Before Season Six Starts Spoiling It By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 3, 2016 10:00 am EST For many, the beginning of a New Year brings hope and inspiration to make some improvements and look forward to what the future holds. But author George R.R. Martin made sure that Game of Thrones fans weren’t feeling too good at the start of 2016, because on January 2nd he chose to deliver some bad news to those who have been reading the fantasy books that inspired the HBO TV series....

On Set Interview: Ron Perlman Talks ‘Pacific Rim’ By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2013 1:00 pm EST In March 2012, I visited the Toronto set of Pacific Rim – you can read my full report here. While on set we talked with director Guillermo del Toro and various members of the cast. We posted our interview with Guillermo earlier this week, and today we bring you our on set chat with Ron Perlman, who plays a character named Hannibal Chau, the head of a group of scavengers who get to Kaiju remains first and sell pieces of the corpses on the black market....

Page 2: Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids, Pixar, Nacho Vigalando, WALL-E, Die Hard, Star Wars, Transformers 3, Iron Man By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2011 7:00 am 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 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....

Regal Bringing “Dynamic Pricing” To Theaters – Why This Is A Great Idea By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2017 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: why Regal’s new plan for dynamic movie ticket prices is a great idea.) The Regal Cinemas movie theater chain is planning to test a dynamic pricing concept in movie theaters....

Review: ‘Star Wars’ Villain Adam Driver Will Warm Your Heart In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson’ By Angie Han/Dec. 28, 2016 8:30 am EST Note: With Paterson in limited release starting today, we’re re-running our review from the New York Film Festival. In the past five years, Adam Driver has gone from total obscurity to total ubiquity. Girls was the show that launched him to fame, but his work since then has proven that his breakout role was no fluke....

Rumor: Ben Affleck To Direct Solo Batman Movie For 2018 By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2015 10:30 am EST With the San Diego Comic-Con just a couple weeks away, we’re likely going to get an onslaught of new information and sneak peeks at whatever Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have in store for the DC Comics cinematic universe. The new comic book sandbox won’t kick into full gear until Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice arrives, and then we’ve got a whole slew of DC heroes headed towards the big screen over the next few years....

Sequel Bits: Tim Burton Considering ‘Beetlejuice 2’, Plus: ‘Jurassic Park 4’, ‘Can’t Hardly Wait 2’, ‘The Brothers McMullen 2’ By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 9:00 am EST It’s not so unexpected for a hit movie to get a sequel a year or two out, but it’s also becoming increasingly common for franchises to pick up with the characters again ten or even twenty years after the last installment. In this edition of Sequel Bits, we have a handful of possible upcoming projects that look back to the ’80s and ’90s for inspiration....

Sony Wants An Entire Spider-Man Universe With Marvel; Silver Sable Movie Rumored By Angie Han/June 24, 2016 4:00 pm EST Sony’s first Spider-Man film series petered out after the disappointing Spider-Man 3, and their second ended after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was met with total indifference. But the property finally got the boost he needed when the studio struck a deal to bring the webslinger into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man’s cameo was one of the most buzzed-about moments in Captain America: Civil War, and successfully drummed up excitement for his solo movie Spider-Man: Homecoming, due out next summer....

Star Wars Bits: Disney CEO Confirms Original Cast Is In Talks, Plus: ‘Star Wars: First Assault’, Billy Dee Williams, Warwick Davis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, And More By Angie Han/March 13, 2013 11:00 am EST Now that a director’s been locked in for Episode VII, the big question is who’ll get to star in it. And that’s what today’s Star Wars Bits is all about. After the jump: Disney CEO confirms the original trio is in talks to return Billy Dee Williams has also been asked to come back Warwick Davis is “definitely” looking to do more Star Wars New details revealed for Star Wars: First Assault game Eli Roth, JGL, Mila Kunis, Stanley Tucci and more weigh in...

Superhero Bits: Early ‘Wonder Woman’ Pilot Review, Plus ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ And Kevin Feige By Angie Han/May 10, 2011 11:00 am EST Hey, you know that Wonder Woman series we’ve all been worried about? One lucky comic book fan actually got to watch an early cut of the pilot, and from the sounds of it, most of our fears are totally justified. After the jump, highlights from this first, very early review, plus quotes about The Amazing Spider-Man from Martin Sheen (a....

Watch How ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Transformed Lupita Nyong’o Into Maz Kanata By Jacob Hall/Jan. 25, 2016 12:30 pm EST One of the unfortunate realities of the digital age is that most “How’d they do that?” moments in films have a single, routine answer: computers. Computer generated effects are amazing and the people who craft them are supremely talented artists who deserve your applause and affection, but let’s be honest…green screens aren’t as inherently romantic as matte paintings and movie fans are all romantics at heart....

‘A Fistful Of Fingers’: The Delightfully Goofy Beginning Of Edgar Wright’s Career By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2017 7:00 am EST This week brings Baby Driver to the big screen, the latest film from director Edgar Wright. Leading up to the release of the mesmerizing, meticulously crafted foot-tapping masterpiece of musical action, we wanted to take a look back at the director’s very first film. No, we’re not talking about Shaun of the Dead, because before that, a 20-year old Edgar Wright got behind the camera for a $15,000 movie that was actually a remake of a movie he originally shot on VHS....

‘Kin’ Directors On Expanding Their Short Film And Making Personal Science Fiction [Interview] By Jacob Hall/Aug. 31, 2018 8:00 am EST Summing up the feature debut of directors Jonathan Baker and Josh Baker is a bit tough. It’s a science fiction movie where the genre elements sit at a distance, a movie featuring a powerful (Alien? Experimental? From the future?) laser gun that isn’t actually about the laser gun. It’s just something one of those brothers happened to find....

‘Mr. Robot’ Review: The Tyrell-Centric ‘Legacy’ Fills Gaps, But Spins The Wheels By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 26, 2017 7:00 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of USA’s Mr. Robot season 3 by answering one simple question: who had the biggest mental breakdown in this week’s episode?) What happened to Tyrell? It was a question that we were clamoring for the answer to throughout the last season…but then kind of shrugged off come season 3....

‘Seven Seconds’ Review: Netflix’s Latest Is An Addictive Procedural By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 19, 2018 12:00 pm EST Netflix’s new series Seven Seconds is an addictive procedural drama that starts off as a murder mystery and turns into something else. The show isn’t so much concerned with the crime at hand as it is the fallout – the trauma that befalls relatives, and the way such events can impact several different lives....

‘Skyscraper’ Is A Surprising Mark Of Improvement For Disabled Representation On The Big Screen By Kristen Lopez/July 13, 2018 8:00 am EST I initially had little interest in watching Skyscraper, the new action adventure feature starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I hadn’t watched any of the trailers and knew little more than “It’s Die Hard starring the Rock.” I had even more trepidation upon discovering Johnson’s character, Will Sawyer, is a disabled man with a prosthetic leg....

‘Star Wars: Rogue One’: Everything We Know (So Far) By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2016 8:00 am EST The Force has Awakened, and we won’t find out what happens for another 600 or so days. But another Star Wars movie will be out later this year: Star Wars: Rogue One (or is it Rogue One: A Star Wars Story?) will hit theaters in December 2016, and we’re excited (Peter, Angie, Jacob, Jack and Ethan all listed the film in their most anticipated films of the year)....

‘The Seagull’ Review: Annette Bening Soars In A Stage Adaptation That Can’t Quite Keep Up [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 30, 2018 11:00 am EST Put Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, and Corey Stoll in a room, and you’ve got yourself one of the most talented, charismatic rooms in Hollywood. It’s too bad that The Seagull, Michael Mayer’s plodding, histrionic adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play of the same name, puts that talent to waste....