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This Week In Trailers: How To Build A Time Machine, Crystal, A Coffee In Berlin, Code Black, The Amazing Catfish By Christopher Stipp/May 10, 2014 9:00 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?...

Tron Legacy To Invade ComicCon By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 4:41 pm EST As if we didn’t see this coming, Disney has announced that Tron Legacy will return to San Diego Comic Con International in 2010 for a panel and showfloor presence. Judging by last year, and WonderCon, I’m sure we’ll also have some viral awesomeness as well. Head after the jump to read the full press release. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “ComiTRON” TAKES OVER COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2010 ON JULY 22 Convention’s Panel Presentation Features Filmmakers and Talent from the Highly Anticipated 3D High-tech Cultural Phenomenon Walt Disney Pictures’ “TRON: Legacy” Opens in US Theaters in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX® 3D on December 17, 2010 BURBANK, Calif....

‘Cleopatra’ Writer Says The Movie Won’t Be A Prestige Picture, Will Instead Be A Visceral Political Thriller By Ben Pearson/Jan. 1, 2018 1:00 pm EST A couple of months ago, we learned that Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve was in talks to direct Sony Pictures’ long-brewing Cleopatra movie about the famed Egyptian queen. Hollywood has been attempting to make a movie about her for the better part of the last decade, with directors like David Fincher and Ang Lee attached, and while Sony was once looking to turn this into the type of big-screen epic that might have rivaled the classic film version of the story from 1963, a new interview with this film’s writer has us rethinking our expectations about this movie....

/Film Previews 18-Minutes Of James Cameron’s Titanic 3D And Why You’ll NEED To See It In IMAX [Video Blog] By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2011 2:20 pm EST This morning, I traveled to the Paramount Pictures lot to view footage from James Cameron’s 3D conversion of Titanic. Regular readers probably know that while I’m a 3D advocate, I absolutely hate post converted 3D. Disney has recently proven to me (and many others) that a well done post conversion can look great in the medium of animation....

/Film Set Interview: ‘The Avengers’ Star Tom Hiddleston By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2012 7:00 am EST In June 2011, Marvel invited a handfull of journalists to the set of The Avengers. /Film was a part of this amazing visit to Albuquerque Studios (which you can read about here). While on set we participated in round table interviews with the cast and crew of the film. After the jump you will be able to read our interview with Tom Hiddleston, who plays Thor’s evil brother Loki in The Avengers...

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through The New Footage Frame-By-Frame By Jacob Hall/Oct. 13, 2016 10:00 am EST The third and final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer arrived this morning, so you know what that means – a third and final trailer breakdown where we go through the whole thing frame-by-frame. Join us, won’t you? And while we can’t directly spoil anything, we can dissect this thing to within an inch of its life and dig up spoilers in the process....

‘Spielberg’ Trailer: A Star-Studded Profile Of One Of Hollywood’s Most Influential Filmmakers By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2017 9:00 am EST There aren’t too many filmmakers who general audiences know by name. But if there’s one name still making movies today that they’ll recognize the most, it’s Steven Spielberg. The man has been behind the movie magic and suspense of Jaws and Jurassic Park, the wonder of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E....

2017 BAFTA Winners: ‘La La Land’ Takes Home Plenty Of British Awards Too By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2017 3:00 pm EST Just in case you thought La La Land was just an obsession of American critics and film industry insiders, the British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just handed out the BAFTAs (which are basically the Oscars across the pond), and the musical from director Damien Chazelle took home plenty of awards with nary a competitor coming close to rivaling it....

2018 Visual Effects Society Awards: ‘Blade Runner 2049’, ‘Planet Of The Apes’, And More By Ben Pearson/Jan. 17, 2018 3:30 pm EST Say what you will about 2017, but last year’s crop of movies was pretty damn good overall, and that high bar of quality is reflected in the nominees for the 16th annual VES Awards. Nearly 3,400 artists, producers, technologists, and entertainment industry workers narrowed down the movies that best represented outstanding achievements in visual effects, and Blade Runner 2049 and War for the Planet of the Apes ended up tying for the highest number of feature film nominations....

AFI Fest Adds ‘Life Of Pi,’ ‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ ‘Room 237,’ ‘The Impossible’ And More By Germain Lussier/Oct. 11, 2012 9:00 am EST Each fall, it seems like there’s a film festival every single week. Toronto, Telluride, Fantastic Fest and New York are just four of the bigger ones we cover on this site. But smaller festivals abound too, each filled with so many movies it’s hard to keep track. Thankfully, in Los Angeles, we have a fantastic fest ourselves that serves both as a wrap up to the Fall and kick off to award season....

Article Round-Up: Thought-Provoking Writing About Avatar By David Chen/Dec. 26, 2009 11:39 am EST I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we here at /Film have been covering James Cameron’s Avatar pretty extensively. An event movie this interesting only comes around once in awhile, so it’s been a blast to participate in the public discussion. You can read my review, Brendon’s review, Russ’s review, Hunter’s review, see Brendon’s interview with Jon Landau, listen/read my interview with James Cameron, listen to our podcast review, or just hit this link to read all our coverage....

Cannes: The Silent House (79 Minute Single Shot Horror Movie) By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 10:37 am EST Gustavo Hernández’s The Silent House is a Uruguayan horror movie which was shot in one long 79-minute continuous take. Got your attention? Ever since I first discovered Goodfellas (scene embedded above), I’ve been fascinated in the long tracking shots of filmmakers such as Scorsese, Kubrick, PT Anderson, De Palma, Altman, Welles, Cuaron and Hitchcock....

Cool Stuff: Back To The Future LEGO Hill Valley 2015, 1955 Clock Tower And Time Train By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2014 7:00 am EST Today I bring you a roundup of a cool Back to the Future LEGO projects up for vote at LEGO Ideas. Hit the jump to check out all three LEGO projects and hopefully help vote them into production. We’ve posted about LEGO Ideas in the past. The platform was most famously responsible for making the Back to the Future Delorean time machine LEGO set that was released last year....

Elisabeth Moss Just Gave An Explosive, Emmy-Worthy Showcase In This Week’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 28, 2018 11:00 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly The Handmaid’s Tale review by answering one simple question: Who suffered the most?) As bleak as this show has gotten, The Handmaid’s Tale will always remind us how impeccably filmed it is, and how stupendously acted. And “Holly” really is the epitome of that....

Everything Steven Soderbergh Watched And Read In 2016 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 4, 2017 2:00 pm EST Steven Soderbergh hasn’t been making as many movies or TV shows as he used to, but he’s still keeping busy watching and reading everything he can get his hands on. It’s become a tradition of the filmmaker to reveal everything that he watched and read the previous year, and his list from 2016 has been posted....

First ‘War Horse’ Reactions Arrive After Sneak Preview Screenings By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 4:15 pm EST Taking a page from Paramount’s campaign for Young Adult and the promo push for other ‘word of mouth’ movies like The Help, DreamWorks has avoided the festival circuit with Steven Spielberg’s War Horse and taken the movie straight to the people. Some of the first screenings for the movie are taking place away from big metro areas in the US, and the first reactions are in....

Peter Quill’s Mother Laura Haddock plays Peter Quill’s terminally ill mother Meredith Quill. But you might also recognize Haddock from a previous Marvel Studios movie. Haddock played a brief role as a woman seeking Captain America’s autograph in Captain America: The First Avenger. You can see her appearance about 2 minutes and 10 seconds into the following clip: Is it possible that Peter Quill’s mother was also in attendance at Steve Rogers’ 1940 show appearance?...

How ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Inverts The Standard Superhero Story By Scott Beggs/July 7, 2017 8:00 am EST It starts with young Bruce Wayne’s parents gunned down in the streets. Or Tony Stark kidnapped by terrorists wielding his own weaponry. Or Doctor Strange destroying his life-saving hands in a car wreck. Or a radioactive spider bite followed by a deadly moment of apathy. Then it’s all about discovery. Awkwardly wielding new powers and new priorities....

Why Designated Survivor Got Canceled Whenever a series on network TV gets canceled, it’s usually because the ratings are too low for the show to be profitable for both the network and the advertisers that keep programming on the air. While ratings certainly played a part in the cancellation of Designated Survivor, it sounds like there are other problems behind the scenes that could still be an issue. First of all, Variety reported the ratings in the second season of the show dropped quite a bit....

Page 2: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Transformers, Gremlins, Terminator 2, Monty Python, Seth MacFarlane, Star Wars, Charlie Sheen, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Final Destination By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2011 11:55 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....