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Mondo Live: How A ‘Beetlejuice’ Poster Was Designed On Stage In One Hour By Jacob Hall/Nov. 8, 2017 1:30 pm EST The artistic process can be painful and awkward. Artists toil away in isolation, working through a hundred bad ideas before settling on something that works. Only after much trial and error, after much experimentation, does something beautiful actually take shape. It’s a private process. A personal process. A mysterious process....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch Before Seeing ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ By Scott Beggs/Sept. 27, 2017 10:00 am EST There is no quintessential tennis movie. Baseball has The Natural. Football has Friday Night Lights. Soccer has the Goal! trilogy. But tennis is woefully underrepresented on the big screen. Are there more golf movies than tennis movies? Maybe. Regardless, the landscape — whether clay or grass — isn’t pretty. But now we’ve got a slew of them cropping up like fuzzy ball-based Armageddons and Deep Impacts....

Oscar Isaac Suggests Poe Dameron’s Backstory Has Ties To ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2015 10:25 am EST Yesterday’s panel from Lucasfilm for Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t bring too much in the vein of revelations, though we did learn that Domhnall Gleeson’s character is named General Hux, and the actor revealed the First Order’s base is called The Starkiller Base, in honor of Luke Skywalker’s original character name in the first draft of Star Wars....

Page 2: BTTF, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, GoT, Indiana Jones, Schwarzenegger, True Blood, Harry Potter, Chronicle, Orson Welles By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2014 1:00 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....

Peter’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Spoiler Free Review By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2015 12:03 am EST On Monday night, I was very fortunate to attend the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Hollywood. To say this film is highly anticipated for me is an understatement. This is without a doubt the most anticipated film of not just the year but of my lifetime. I’m a huge Star Wars fanatic, and I’m a big fan of JJ Abrams (warts and all), so my expectations were already higher than the buildings on Cloud City....

Sequel Bits: ‘Fast 8,’ ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2,’ ‘Star Trek Beyond’ By Jacob Hall/July 12, 2016 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Dwayne Johnson teases a big change for Hobbs in Fast 8. Fast 8 organizes an Omaze campaign to benefit the Paul Walker Foundation. James Gunn counts down to the release date of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. A new featurette explores Idris Elba’s Krall in Star Trek Beyond....

Star Wars Bits: More Han Solo Insight, Finn Teases, Clone Wars Chats, And More By Lucas Siegel/June 7, 2017 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Han Solo set descriptions and new details A horrible theft at Rancho Obi-Wan for Collectors to watch out for A couple of Finn teases from John Boyega New Funko Darth Vader And more! New images from the set of the untitled Han Solo movie continue to rock the heck out of a ’70s aesthetic that should make original trilogy fans excited....

Star Wars Rebels: The Grand Inquisitor’s Backstory Was Seen In ‘The Clone Wars’ By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2016 12:30 pm EST Earlier today we told you how a character created for the Star Wars animated series may have already appeared in one of the original trilogy films. Well, that’s not the only bit of Star Wars canon retcon we have for you today. Did you know that we already saw The Grand Inquisitor during The Clone Wars?...

Superhero Bits: The Avengers 2, Nemesis, Iron Man 3, Dredd 3D, Dark Knight Returns, Nightwing By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2012 11:30 am EST Want to see some behind the scenes images from The Avengers? What does Rebecca Hall have to say about her work in Iron Man 3? How can you see The Dark Knight Returns on the big screen? Are things going bad in an exclusive clip from Dredd 3D?...

Syfy’s ‘Nightflyers’ Will Have A 10-Episode First Season, Says George R.R. Martin By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 28, 2017 4:00 pm EST There are procrastinators, then there’s George R.R. Martin. The Song of Ice and Fire author may have stepped back from his executive producer role in HBO’s Game of Thrones to focus on finishing his long-in-the-works book The Winds of Winter, but another shiny object has caught his eye lately: Syfy’s TV adaptation of Martin’s 1980 sci-fi horror novella, Nightflyers....

The Best & Worst Sketches From Ariana Grande’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2016 11:00 am EST Last night brought chart-topping singer Ariana Grande to Studio 8H again, but this was the first time she pulled double duty as both Saturday Night Live host and musical guest. Adults may not be too familiar with the singer’s acting career, but she found fame with kids on the Nickelodeon show Victorious....

The Best Movies And Shows Leaving Netflix In June By Jacob Hall/May 23, 2016 2:30 pm EST As is so often the case these days, the list of movies and shows departing Netflix next month is full of more quality entertainment than the list of movies and shows arriving on the streaming service. It’s an ongoing problem. Still, at least we have some warning and can plan our movie watching schedule accordingly....

The Streamer’s Guide To The 2018 Toronto International Film Festival: What Non-Festgoers Can Watch At Home By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 5, 2018 9:00 am EST Telluride has wrapped, Venice is heading towards its close and now the fall festival season spotlight moves towards Toronto. Known as “the people’s festival” for its accessibility of its robust programming slate to the public at large, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a cinema lover’s dream....

Theme Park Bits: Spaceship Earth Overhaul Rumored, ‘Snow White’ Characters Coming To Wilderness Lodge By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 3, 2018 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: See concept art for the new Tropical Hideaway area of Adventureland at Disneyland. Are you ready to elbow up to the bar at Oga’s Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge? Epcot’s Spaceship Earth may be gearing up for its first ride scene update in over a decade....

This Week In Trailers: Aroused, The Alan Partridge Movie, Fools Day,The Look Of Love, Don’t Stop Believin' By Christopher Stipp/March 22, 2013 4:00 pm 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Keye Luke, Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap, Here, I Wish, The Angels’ Share By Christopher Stipp/April 20, 2012 3:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared, A Brony Tale, PBS Online Film Festival, Cannibal, The Dark Horse By Christopher Stipp/June 21, 2014 10:00 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?...

Warner Bros. Wants Leonardo DiCaprio To Lead The Joker Origin Movie By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 1, 2017 8:00 am EST The news of Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment planning a spin-off focusing on the origin of The Joker outside of the continuity of the DC Extended Universe where Justice League takes place was crazy enough. But it was made all the more wild by the fact that it was going to be directed by Todd Phillips with none other than cinema legend Martin Scorsese producing....

Zack Snyder Talks ‘Superman’ Realism, Working With Christopher Nolan, And The ‘300’ Prequel ‘Xerxes’ By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2011 2:00 pm EST Zack Snyder has been doing press all week for Sucker Punch, and little bits of conversation about Superman: Man of Steel have been appearing all over the place. None of it is anything substantial, but I think ever clue about how the filmmaker might approach the comic book movie is interesting at this point....