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2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominees Announced By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2010 9:17 am EST After Winter’s Bone won Best Feature at the first award ceremony of the season Monday, it kept its momentum up Tuesday by getting seven nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. That’s more nominations than any other film on the list, beating out fellow Best Feature nominees 127 Hours, Black Swan, Greenberg, and The Kids Are All Right....

Disney Is Pushing ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ And ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ For Awards Consideration By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2017 3:00 pm EST We’re heading into the heart of awards season, that time of the year when studios will be releasing the movies that they hope will be nominated for plenty of awards in the coming months. Some will begin with a limited release before rolling out wide in the future, while others have already begun their limited release and are rolling out to more cities in the coming weeks....

Don Cheadle Finally Set To Star In And Direct Miles Davis Biopic ‘Kill The Trumpet Player’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2013 11:15 am EST Miles Davis was among the most spectacular talents of the 20th century, fiery and commanding on stage, and fearless as a songwriter. He pushed jazz forward in ways that are incredible, coming from just one man. Offstage, his life was complicated, as his temper could be just as explosive as his music....

Early Box Office Tracking: American Gangster Almost Certain For $40+ Million By Steve Mason/Oct. 25, 2007 9:23 am EST Yesterday, I reported that the tracking for Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie (Dreamworks/Paramount) suggests a $38M+ opening weekend when it hits the marketplace on November 2. My analysis of the most recent tracking data indicates that there will be a second major blockbuster opening on that same day. Ridley Scott’s long-awaited American Gangster (Universal), starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, has real traction in the marketplace, and it has the look of a “can’t miss hit....

French Actress Astrid Bergès-Frisbey Cast As Syrena The Mermaid In Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 6:05 pm EST French Actress Astrid Bergès-Frisbey has been selected by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall to star in the key role of Syrena, a beautiful and alluring young mermaid, in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. How big of a role will Syrena the Mermaid have in the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise?...

Germain’s 10 Most Anticipated Films Of 2012 Revisited: Was I Right Or Wrong? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 21, 2012 1:00 pm EST Around this time every year, for as far back as I can remember, I pick and write about the ten movies I’m most looking forward in the coming year. Here on /Film I did it for the movies of 2011 as well as the movies of 2012 and, in the coming days, I’ll do it for 2013....

How A Classic Anime Seems To Have Inspired ‘Star Wars Resistance’ By Bryan Young/Aug. 30, 2018 7:30 am EST (Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films and television properties that inspired or in this case help us better understand George Lucas’s iconic universe. In this edition:Robotech) Cobbled together out of three distinct different anime series from Japan, Robotech became a cult phenomenon in the United States and continues to maintain its popularity....

How The Marvel Team Constructed That Massive ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Airport Set Piece By Jack Giroux/May 3, 2016 7:00 am EST Thankfully, the trailers and TV spots for Captain America: Civil War haven’t highlighted too much from the film’s grandest and most intricate set piece. The airport fight sequence is stuffed to the brim with characters and conflicts — but it somehow never manages to feel overstuffed. What could’ve been total superhero chaos is instead a gracefully shot, character and plot-driven showdown....

J.J. Abrams Created An Alternate Scene To Preserve The Secret Of ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2013 10:00 am EST Stardate December 10, 2012. A group of journalists are invited to Bad Robot in Santa Monica, CA to learn a little bit more about J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness. At this time everyone was still unclear who, exactly, Benedict Cumberbatch was playing in the film. Rumors about his character were relentless....

Michael Moore Announces Next Movie ‘Where To Invade Next’, See The First Photo By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2015 11:30 am EST Its been a while since Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has made a film. In fact, he hasn’t had a new film in almost 6 years, with the release of Capitalism: A Love Story in 2009. Over the years Moore has hinted about working on a new film, and has even teased that he might leave documentaries for narrative films....

Page 2: Gremlins, Looper, Transformers, Adrianne Palicki, Toy Story, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back To The Future, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Dexter, Simpsons, Peter Pan By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2012 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 10:30 am EST Lionsgate and Miramax are teaming up to celebrate the first 20 years of Quentin Tarantino’s career with an ten-disc blu-ray box set featuring Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, True Romance, the two Kill Bill films, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, and new supplemental material. The bad news is that, with the exception of the two discs of supplemental material, it looks like this is a collection of the existing catalog releases of each film....

Ronda Rousey On Her Therapeutic Experience Of Making ‘Mile 22’ [Set Visit Interview] By Jack Giroux/June 5, 2018 3:00 pm EST Ronda Rousey signed on to star in Mile 22 over three years ago. The former MMA champion and current WWE star was going to star alongside Iko Uwais (The Raid) in a version of the story that was more of a straight-up martial arts movie, which director Peter Berg was only going to produce....

Sequel Bits: Bret Easton Ellis Considering An ‘American Psycho’ Sequel, Plus: ‘[REC]3: Genesis’ Trailer, ‘X-Men: First Class 2’, ‘The Fighter 2’, ‘Terminator 5’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2012 10:30 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits, it is once again hip to be square. As well as to be mutated, undead, and/or cyborgian. After the jump: Yes, Jennifer Lawrence wants to do X-Men: First Class 2 Bret Easton Ellis says Patrick Bateman would want to get it on with Chris Brown and Rihanna [REC]3: Genesis gets a creepy new trailer Producer Victor Kubicek talks Terminator Salvation, wishes the Terminator 5 folks good luck Lawrence also spoke about how “cool” it was to tackle one of Marvel’s best loved characters....

The Surprising Reason Why ‘Last Action Hero’ Bombed, According To Arnold Schwarzenegger By Jacob Hall/Oct. 23, 2017 1:00 pm EST Remember Last Action Hero? Of course you do. The 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger action/fantasy was one of the biggest critical and financial bombs of its decade before finding a cult following on home video. As a member of that cult following, the film’s initial reception can’t help but feel like a badge of honor 24 years later – they just didn’t get it, man....

Trailer: MTV’s ‘Teen Wolf’ TV Series By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2010 4:30 pm EST MTV’s senior VP of series development has said their “fresh take” “is very different from the original” and “has more of an ‘American Werewolf in London’ feel to it.” Um yeah… “Teen Wolf,” stars Tyler Posey (“Maid in Manhattan,” “Brothers and Sisters”), as the newly bitten werewolf, ‘Scott McCall,’ Dylan O’Brien as his best friend ‘Stiles,’ Crystal Reed as the mysterious new girl in town, ‘Allison,’ and Tyler Hoechlin (“Road to Perdition,” “7th Heaven”) as the older and possibly quite dangerous werewolf, ‘Derek Hale....

TV Bits: ‘Preacher,’ ‘Master Of None,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania,’ And ‘Orphan Black’ By Jack Giroux/May 23, 2017 9:30 am EST In today’s edition of TV Bits: A Preacher season two featurette. The trailer for the final season of Orphan Black. A new look at Fear the Walking Dead. And a quick promo for the Hotel Transylvania series. In a month’s time, Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun), and Tulp O’Hare (Ruth Negga) will happily reenter our lives with season two of Preacher....

What’s Going On With The ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Off Movies? New Development Details Emerge By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2018 12:00 pm EST Last week Star Wars fans heard the worrisome but unsurprising news that any future installments in the Star Wars Story spin-off banner from Lucasfilm were on hold. The news came in the wake of the less than satisfying box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was meant to kick off an entire franchise of movies following young Han Solo....

WTF: Max Landis Wrote A 436-Page ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Script And You Can Read It By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2014 7:30 am EST “This script sucks.” Those three words are emblazoned across a new file screenwriter Max Landis has uploaded to his website. It’s a 436 page script for a movie version of Super Mario World. Yes, the first Super Nintendo entry in the Super Mario Bros. series. Landis uploaded the script as a joke....

‘Anna And The Apocalyse’ Is Getting A Novelization And We Have The First Chapter [Exclusive] By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 26, 2018 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you heard about Anna and the Apocalypse yet? It’s the high school zombie Christmas musical coming to theaters just in time for the holidays this December. But the big screen won’t be the only place you can find the story of Anna as she faces a zombie apocalypse along with all the trials and tribulations of high school....