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YouTube Execs Address Logan Paul Suspension, Future Steps [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 15, 2018 4:00 pm EST Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s Chief Business Officer, took questions from the Television Critics Association on Saturday. Many of those questions were about Logan Paul, the YouTube creator who posted a video featuring him discovering and laughing at a dead body in Japan. YouTube removed Paul from its Google Preferred advertising platform, removed him from the series Foursome, and suspended his future development deal, but had not entirely severed ties....

“Baggage” Is The Cruelest Episode Of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Yet By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2018 8:00 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly The Handmaid’s Tale review by answering one simple question: Who suffered the most?)The Handmaid’s Tale can get bleak, but never has it been so devastatingly cruel as it was in “Baggage.” That’s because the third episode of season 2 offered a resource that is progressively rare in Hulu’s dystopian series: hope....

‘Batman V Superman’ Trailer Breakdown: Every Little Geeky Detail You May Have Missed By Jacob Hall/Dec. 3, 2015 1:00 pm EST So join us after the jump as we take a deep dive into that new trailer. Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne is older, wise, and slightly more grizzled than the rest of his cinematic counterparts. So while Christian Bale’s younger, flashier playboy billionaire drove a flash Lamborghini, Affleck is seen here driving a more classic automobile....

‘T2 Trainspotting’ Early Buzz: Danny Boyle’s Middle-Aged Sequel Is A Worthy Follow-Up To A Classic By Jacob Hall/Jan. 20, 2017 3:30 pm EST T2 Trainspotting (yes, that’s still the title) doesn’t start hitting most theaters until February and March, but it will debut in U.K. theaters on January 27, 2017. With that release date right around the corner, the first wave of reviews for Danny Boyle’s sequel to his 1996 classic have arrived and they’re mixed but mostly positive....

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Will Be The Most “Out There” Of The Marvel Movies, Teases Taika Waititi By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2016 2:00 pm EST It wasn’t the splashiest surprise at this year’s Marvel Comic-Con panel, but the new Thor: Ragnarok logo definitely got some fans talking. As our own Ethan Anderton put it at the time, it looked “very similar to the old logo for the Masters of the Universe cartoon and toy line....

‘Warcraft’ Early Buzz: Too Much Crammed Into Too Little Time By Jack Giroux/May 25, 2016 8:00 am EST Based on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, the multiplayer role-playing game, Warcraft represents a chance to turn the tide for video game adaptations. A lot is riding on the film–this is far from a cheap video game movie–but will audiences unfamiliar with Blizzard’s property flock to director Duncan Jones’ (Moon) fantasy film? We’ll soon find out....

After A Nightmarish Week, ‘Arrival’ May Help Restore Your Faith In Humanity By Jacob Hall/Nov. 11, 2016 8:30 am EST Arrival isn’t a political movie. It is, in so many ways, an apolitical movie, a movie that wants to rise above the muck, cut through the nonsense, and cast a spotlight on concepts that should be universal to every member of the human race. Arrival is a film about patience and restraint, kindness and hope, communication and understanding....

BBC Announce Huge Slate Of Feature Film Projects By Brendon Connelly/May 18, 2009 2:33 pm EST Excuse me if this story reads like little more than a really long list of future films but there are so many new movies on the BBC’s slate, and so many of them sound so good, that I want to give them all a quick shout out. There’s going to be something for everyone (well, nearly everyone) in this selection....

Cool Stuff: The 5th Annual ‘Bad Dads’ Wes Anderson Art Show By Germain Lussier/Nov. 7, 2014 10:00 am EST Hard to believe it’s been five years since Spoke Art kicked off their Wes Anderson inspired art show Bad Dads. In that time, Anderson has made two new films, Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 and The Grand Budapest Hotel earlier this year. That means that more than 80 artists tasked with making art based on any Wes Anderson film had a new option to draw from this year....

DGA Honors ‘The King’s Speech’ Director Tom Hooper As Best Director Of 2010 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2011 12:00 pm EST The Directors Guild of America announced its award winners for achievement in 2010 last night, and the big winner was Tom Hooper, director of The King’s Speech. That, in conjunction with the film’s victory at the Producers Guild awards, puts the movie as the odds-on favorite to win the Best Picture Oscar, and makes Mr....

Directors, Screenwriters And Actors On Twitter By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2009 9:32 am EST tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/06/directors-screenwriters-and-actors-on-twitter/'; tweetmeme_source = ‘slashfilm’; // –> It took being called out by Hairspray director Adam Shankman to remind me that I really need to do a massive update to the Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter list that I created in March, but haven’t updated since April. We’ve added over 50 new names to the list, brining the grand total to over 175 people....

Disney Launches Cloud Movie Service With Free Copy Of ‘The Incredibles’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2014 11:00 am EST Walt Disney Studios has announced a new cloud-based digital movie service, Disney Movies Anywhere. This new service is available in app form on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and also on the Web. The service is set to allow consumers to watch movies from Disney, Pixar, and Marvel at home and on the go....

Early ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Script Featured A Villain From The First Movie And An Unnecessary Romance By Jacob Hall/Nov. 13, 2017 4:00 pm EST The screenwriting process involves long hours, lost sleep and graying hair. It also involves throwing away a hundred pretty good ideas to reach a great idea. And then you throw away a great idea to make sure an even better idea can survive elsewhere. Marvel movies are no different and screenwriter Eric Pearson has revealed that early Thor: Ragnarok drafts featured a cameo from an old Thor movie villain, a wholly unnecessary romance, and even a different background story for Cate Blanchett’s Hela....

How The ‘Roseanne’ Revival Brings John Goodman Back From The Dead [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 9, 2018 8:00 am EST Roseanne is back on the air this March, with the entire cast returning. That includes John Goodman as Roseanne Conner’s husband Dan. The series finale of Roseanne revealed that Dan died of a heart attack, but he is very much alive in the first scene of the new tenth season....

In Short ‘HowardCantour.com’ Shia LaBeouf Dissects The Film Critic [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2013 10:00 pm EST “Most critics will give any movie three and a half stars if it flatters their self-image.” That’s interior monologe from the title character in HowardCantour.com, in which Jim Gaffigan plays schlubby film critic and self-styled “warrior” Howard Cantour. But the guy’s voice is far more confident and confrontational when passed through a keyboard than when uttered in person....

Iron Man 2 Press Conference By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 6:00 am EST I usually don’t post video or footage from these type of events, but Robert Downey Jr was on his game and had some great quips. Unfortunately Paramount decided to cut out the funniest moment of the event: a part at the very end where the Iron Man 2 banner behind them fell down, and Downey decided to try to hold it up behind Scarlett Johansson as she answered the last question....

Living ‘Lost In Translation’ And Examining The Film’s Global Legacy, 15 Years Later By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 12, 2018 12:00 pm EST I used to work in the same building as the hotel where Lost in Translation was filmed. The Park Hyatt Tokyo occupies the upper 14 floors of the 52-story Shinjuku Park Tower. Even before staying at the hotel last month as part of my honeymoon, I had taught a business English course on one of the office floors....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2009 6:30 am EST Vanity Fair has published some beautiful photos of the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which has been confirmed for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Dissecting Fantasies: The Secrets of Guillermo del Toro opened at the Guadalajara Film Festival, and will be traveling (we don’t know where or when, yet). The poster, right, was created by William Stout, and is available to purchase on Del Toro Films....

Page 2: Pulp Fiction, Futurama, Ninja Turtles, Community, Prometheus, Total Recall, Blade Runner, LOST, Game Of Thrones, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Logan’s Run, Edward Scissorhands By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2012 8:00 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Peter Sciretta’s Most Anticipated Movies Of 2015 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 1, 2015 1:30 pm EST Russ Fischer, Germain Lussier and Angie Han have already posted their most anticipated films of 2015 lists, and all three lists are very different. Germain’s list is comprised of mostly mainstream accessible big releases; Russ has a mix of filmmaker-focused picks and big studio tentpoles; and Angie’s list… had The Little Prince in the top five....