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Steve Rogers Is Officially No Longer Captain America In The Marvel Cinematic Universe By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2016 9:00 am EST The release of Captain America: Civil War on home video is almost upon us. The film will hit Digital HD on September 2nd and Blu-ray and DVD on September 13th, and you can rewatch that airport brawl over and over again. However, one moment in the movie may be a little harder to swallow now that we know what it means for the future of one of the characters....

Telluride Film Festival Announces 2010 Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2010 2:32 pm EST One of the many things that makes the Telluride Film Festival more interesting than most other film festivals is that it doesn’t announce the line-up until 24 hours before the film festival begins. And even then the festival usually packs a few unannounced surprise premieres. This year’s line-up is kind of a let down. A large portion of the 24 feature films were selected from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which was filled with disappointment....

The Case For ‘The Expanse,’ The Cancelled Sci-Fi Show That’s Too Good To Die By Shana Oneil/May 17, 2018 8:01 am EST In December 2015, The Expanse debuted on SYFY and, almost overnight, sparked a loyal and loving fanbase. Based on author James S.A. Corey’s (writing team Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) book series, The Expanse was embraced by fans of the books and viewers who had been looking for a show to love since Battlestar Galactica ended in 2009....

This Week In Trailers: The Strange Case Of Angelica (O Estranho Caso De Angélica), Deadheads, Living For 32, The Day, Otto’s Eleven By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 10, 2010 5:00 pm EST There’s really nothing bad you could say about the opening of this trailer. It does everything it ought to do in order to establish its critical pedigree, its sensibility, and its story. In my mind it’s flawless, actually. The lilting music that plays in the background as we’re introduced to this vibrant world, the DP deserving a lot of the credit for making this world feel clean, sharp in a modern way yet is quite cozy, where a photographer is called to take a picture of a dead girl....

Will Boba Fett Appear In ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 30, 2017 10:00 am EST Solo: A Star Wars Story will hit theaters in May of 2018, but we’ve yet to see a teaser trailer or any official stills from the movie that takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope (though an unofficial promo image recently surfaced online). That’s likely because Disney and Lucasfilm want the focus to be on Star Wars: The Last Jedi for the time being, but fans are still eager to get their first look at the Star Wars origin story of one of the most favorite characters in the entire saga....

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ - What Did You Think? By Jack Giroux/March 11, 2016 5:00 pm EST Two months ago, it was revealed Dan Trachtenberg’s directorial debut was a “spiritual” sequel to Cloverfield. The audience I saw 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi with were left both confused and excited by the trailer’s title card. The question all along — well, actually just for the past two months — has been: how much of a sequel is this movie?...

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Filmmakers Reveal Two Scenes That Didn’t Make The Cut By Jack Giroux/May 6, 2016 6:00 am EST The first cut of Captain America: Civil War was two hours and forty-one minutes long. The final cut is 13 minutes shorter, so don’t expect to see too many deleted scenes on the Captain America: Civil War Blu-ray. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo cut a few minor sequences, but nothing major was tossed aside in the editing room....

‘Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ To Be Released Spring 2012 With Mini-Traveling Comic Con Tour By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 2:00 pm EST Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope was one of Peter’s favorite movies at Toronto and one of my favorite movies of Fantastic Fest. It’s a totally different film for the Super Size Me director as he stays off camera and follows several unique people on their journey to the mecca of pop culture, San Diego Comic-Con....

/Film Interview: Phil Lord And Chris Miller Discuss ‘The Lego Movie’ Spoilers By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2014 2:30 pm EST The Lego Movie is now in theaters and, once you’ve seen it, you’ll probably be buzzing both about how “awesome” it is, and talking about all its surprises. In part two of our interview with the film’s writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, we talked about many of those surprises and more....

‘Preacher’ Teases More Wild Adventures In A New Trailer As Hall H Meets Herr Starr [Comic-Con 2017] By Jacob Hall/July 21, 2017 5:27 pm EST AMC’s Preacher is based on one of the most popular (and controversial) comic books of the past few decades, so it’s right at home at Comic-Con. The blasphemous blend of fantasy, horror, and comedy has showcased some serious momentum in its second season and the series’ panel revealed a new trailer and an extended clip that promise the off-kilter insanity isn’t stopping anytime soon....

‘The Deuce’ Review: ‘Why Me?’ Takes Us To A Not-So-Jolly Christmas By Karen Han/Oct. 16, 2017 9:00 am EST (We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of HBO’s The Deuce by answering one simple question: who or what is the “best bet” in this week’s episode?) The times, they are a-changin’ — in both senses of the phrase. This week’s episode of The Deuce moves us forward to the most wonderful time of the year, as well as giving us a sense of the changing landscape where prostitution and pornography are concerned....

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,’ The New Tina Fey Show, Will Debut On Netflix By Germain Lussier/Nov. 24, 2014 6:00 am EST Tina Fey’s new show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was going to be a mid-season replacement on NBC. That network, of course, is where Fey got her big break on Saturday Night Live; then it became the butt of her jokes on the award-winning sitcom 30 Rock. So it seemed like the perfect fit....

30 Movies We Can’t Wait To See At The 2017 Sundance Film Festival By Angie Han/Jan. 18, 2017 8:00 am EST Team /Film (Peter Sciretta, Ethan Anderton, and myself) is headed up to the Sundance Film Festival this week. As always, we know to expect the unexpected — so often, our favorite films turn out to be ones we’d never even heard of until we arrived — but we can’t help but pick out a few we’re especially dying to see....

9 Things We Learned From The /Filmcast’s Rian Johnson Interview By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 25, 2018 8:00 am EST On Tuesday night, Rian Johnson sat down with the hosts of /Filmcast for an in-depth interview about his polarizing, powerful film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Johnson dished on everything from how he originally pitched The Last Jedi to Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, to the furious backlash the movie received from fans on opening night, and that one striking scene that had theaters scrambling to put up warning signs assuring audiences that they were seeing what they were supposed to be seeing....

Annie Award Nominations Highlight Work In ‘Brave,’ ‘ParaNorman,’ ‘Rise Of The Guardians’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 4:30 pm EST Get the full list below. No nominations Andrew Nawrot, Joe Gorski, Grant Laker – ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Andrew Schneider ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ – Blue Sky Studios Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, David Lipton – Rise of the Guardians – DreamWorks Animation Bill Watral, Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Keith Klohn, Michael K....

David Chen’s Most Anticipated Films Of 2017 [Podcast] By David Chen/Jan. 12, 2017 8:00 am EST Sometimes humans can be terrible at predicting things, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun when we try. My previous attempts to predict my favorite films of the year are often wildly inaccurate — inevitably, my actual favorite films of the year will contain lots of entries that I couldn’t have possibly foreseen....

Early Buzz: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ Proves “The Possibilities Of 3D To Be Something More Than A Novelty” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2011 7:00 am EST Paramount Pictures has begun test screening Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, with screenings in New York City and Chicago. Like many of you, I’ve been anxiously awaiting this film. Not just because its a new Scorsese film, but I’m really interested to see what a master filmmaker can do with the 3D camera....

Elizabeth Banks To Star In ‘Queen For A Day’, About A Woman Who Won A Date With Prince By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 15, 2018 5:00 pm EST Elizabeth Banks is set to bring the true story of Lisa Barber to the big screen in Queen for a Day. In 1986, Barber won a date with Prince – yes, the Prince – via an MTV contest. His Royal Badness swooped into Barber’s home town of Sheridan, Wyoming and whisked her away to a premiere of his new film Under the Cherry Moon....

Here Is Every Movie In Contention For The Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award By Jacob Hall/Oct. 9, 2015 9:30 am EST Complaining about the Academy Awards is the national pastime of many movie fans, but let’s not forget that they can do good. Sometimes. After all, the Foreign Language Film Oscar helps bring international cinema to the attention of casual filmgoers who otherwise wouldn’t venture outside of Hollywood filmmaking. Like with any awards category, great films get snubbed and the lesser entries often triumph over masterpieces (we’re still sore about Ruben Ostlund’s brilliant Force Majeure not even getting a nomination last year), but at least this category represents a window into a much wider world of filmmaking....

Interview: ‘RoboCop’ Director José Padilha On Ethical Issues, Kubrick’s Influence & Reinventing Steadicam By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2013 9:00 am EST When I sat down with director Jose Padilha to talk about his upcoming Robocop reboot at Comic Con, I expected to have a very surface conversation about his first Hollywood blockbuster. But what I got instead with a deep psychological dissection of the characters and story of his film, references to how he was influenced by Stanley Kubrick for a sequence, and interesting details on how they needed to reinvent the Steadicam rig to shoot Point of View sequences from RoboCop’s perspective....