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‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Season 2 Will Bring In Supergirl And Feature Major Historical Figures [Comic-Con 2016] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2016 3:00 pm EST DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returned to San Diego Comic-Con for their second season. We interviewed producers Phil Klemmer and Marc Guggenheim in roundtable interviews, in which Klemmer revealed that season two will portray major historical figures on the time travel show. “We will be doing these iconic historical moments with recognizable historical figures,” Klemmer said....

‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Character Images And Panel: ‘On The Scale Of Lord Of The Rings’ By Germain Lussier/July 24, 2011 3:49 pm EST Even though the film has yet to go into production, Universal decided it would be vital to present Snow White and the Huntsman, their movie competing with Tarsem’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, to the fans at San Diego Comic-Con. They flew in the four main stars (Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin), had director Rupert Sanders shoot a concept reel to give everyone an idea of the scope and look of the film and even made the actors poses for press shots as their characters....

‘Warm Bodies’ Review: Jonathan Levine’s Zom-Rom-Com Shows Sparks Of Life, But Lacks A Heartbeat By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2013 9:33 am EST It’s no coincidence that the official website for author Isaac Marion includes glowing blurbs from both Stephenie Meyer and Simon Pegg. Marion’s novel Warm Bodies, and Jonathan Levine’s film adaptation of same, owes as much to Twilight as it does Shaun of the Dead. It attempts to infuse some self-aware humor into a tale of star-crossed inter-species romance....

Comic-Con: Indepth Wall-E Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2007 8:31 pm EST The following is my transcript from Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E panel at Comic Con 2007. More information than ever before was revealed of Pixar’s next Summer release. But don’t listen to me, here is Andrew talking about the project: There was this one leftover nugget that wasn’t even a full idea. It was just a question. What if mankind had to evacuate earth and someone forgot to turn the last robot off....

Dave Bautista Interview: Five Hours Each Day To Apply ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Make-Up By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2014 12:00 pm EST Last September, I traveled to London to visit the set of Marvel Studios’ upcoming comic book adaptation Guardians of the Galaxy. Throughout the week we’ll be posting interviews with the cast of James Gunn’s latest. You can read our on-set Dave Bautista interview now after the jump. Q: One of my very favorite Comic Con moments ever was you on stage this year, where you seemed so moved by having won the part....

Early Buzz: ‘The Adventures Of Tintin’ Reviews Praise Adventure, Are Cautious About Performance Capture By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2011 2:30 pm EST The first review of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin hit last week, and we offered up a few choice quotes from that generally very positive assessment. Over the weekend quite a few other reviews hit, and we’ve sampled them below. The aggregate impression is generally positive, with a lot of praise aimed at the energy and adventure setpieces....

High Frame Rate And ‘The Hobbit:’ The Allure Of Middle-Earth Is Crystal Clear At 48fps By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2012 7:44 pm EST In the first frames of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the camera briefly lingers on a pair of hands in close-up as they light a candle. As the small flame flares, the camera pulls back to show the aged Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm), and the seemingly mundane sequence concludes with a shot that might be unlike anything else you’ve ever seen in a theater....

How ‘Fuller House’ Will Be Different From ‘Full House’ - And How They’ll Be The Same By Fred Topel/Jan. 18, 2016 1:00 pm EST Netflix presented a panel on Fuller House to the Television Critics Association with returning stars Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, with creators Jeff Franklin and Bob Boyett. Franklin and Boyett spoke with a roundtable of journalists later in the day about the new incarnation of TGIF classic Full House....

How Disney Formed The Oceanic Story Trust To Make ‘Moana’ More Authentic By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2016 9:00 am EST On July 27th, I visited Walt Disney Animation Studios Tujunga Campus to get a sneak preview of the company’s next film Moana. While the movie won’t hit theaters until Thanksgiving weekend this year, the studio was in the closing stretches of the movie with only a couple more weeks of animation on the schedule....

Interview: ‘Westworld’ Creators Jonathan Nolan And Lisa Joy On Building Their Intellectual Lego Set By Jack Giroux/Oct. 3, 2016 7:00 am EST Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are hardly beholden to Michael Crichton’s original 1973 film. With their reimagining, they’re telling a different story in the same location. Crichton’s movie is more of a springboard for this sci-fi drama, which deals with identity, consciousness, the relationship between man and maker, and more....

James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Michael Bay And 20 Others Release Anti Premium Video On Demand Letter By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 9:20 am EST This Thursday, DirecTV is launching a revolutionary new service called Home Premiere which will allow subscribers to view movies just two months after they open in theaters. Not only is the National Association of Theater Owners strongly opposed to this, we recently surmised that it could just be the next step in the total and utter death of movie going as we know it....

Jon Turteltaub Says His ‘It’s A Small World’ Movie Is Not The Ridiculous Concept You Might Imagine By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2018 9:00 am EST I’m a self-described theme park fanatic and a card-carrying Disneyland annual passholder, so when any film property based on a Disney theme park ride or land is announced, I’m usually excited. But the 2014 announcement that they were developing a movie based on one of Walt Disney’s first rides, It’s A Small World, was met with confusion and dread....

Kevin Smith And Greg Grunberg Are ‘Geeking Out’ For AMC By Jack Giroux/Feb. 11, 2016 4:30 pm EST Apparently Kevin Smith has a nice relationship with AMC. Smith’s Comic Book Men has been on the network for around four years now. I’ve never watched it, but it’s done well enough for AMC to give the writer-director another program. Smith and actor Greg Grunberg (Heroes) will co-host a talk show, called Geeking Out (working title)....

MondoCon 2017 In Review: New Location, Same Great Experience By Jacob Hall/Nov. 7, 2017 11:30 am EST Over the past four years, MondoCon has become one of my favorite places to spend money. There. It’s out in the open. To go to MondoCon with an empty wallet is to have a bad time at MondoCon, the Austin-based celebration of pop culture art and collectibles organized by Mondo, the Austin-based celebrators of pop culture art and collectibles....

Movie Review: Up - The Greatest Adventure By David Chen/May 29, 2009 6:16 am EST [This review contains plot details revealed in the first 10 minutes of Pixar’s Up] Pixar’s movies have always depicted fantastical worlds spun out of reams of boundless creativity. A rat who dreamed of becoming a chef, and who lived out that dream through controlling a guy by pulling on his hair. An epic battle between ants and grasshoppers....

Only A Few G.I. Joe Team Members Will Return For The Sequel By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2011 8:00 am EST With Jon Chu on board to direct a sequel to GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, we’re beginning to learn more information about the movie. It had been previously reported that the main cast from the first film were contractually obligated to do the sequel, but that might not be the case after all....

Page 2: Pixar, Star Trek, Guillermo Del Toro, Steve Jobs, Star Wars, Big Lebowski, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2013 2:00 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....

Page 2: Steven Spielberg, Rango, Green Lantern, Battlestar Galactica, X-Men: First Class, Star Wars, The Hobbit, Transformers Twilight, Fight Club, By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2011 8:00 pm 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 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Secret Riot Games Documentary Coming Soon From Leslie Iwerks, But Is It A Puff Piece Or An Expose? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2018 10:30 am EST Leslie Iwerks, the Academy Award and Emmy-nominated filmmaker behind The Pixar Story, has been secretly working on a major documentary about the video game industry. If you looked at Iwerks’ IMDb page over the past 18 months, you’d see an in-development project referred to only as “Untitled Enterprise Documentary....

Sequel Bits: ‘A Good Day To Die Hard,’ ‘Step Up Revolution,’ ‘Zoolander 2’ By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2012 4:00 pm EST Sequels, always sequels! Check out the comments recently made by the director of the latest Die Hard film, and parse them in a way that might tell us whether the film is going to be worth a damn or not. Then stick around for the other items listed below....