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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Director George Miller Wants To Make A Smaller Movie Before He Returns To The Wasteland By Jacob Hall/Jan. 8, 2016 9:30 am EST After the success of Mad Max: Fury Road (/Film’s overall favorite movie of the year), director George Miller could’ve decided to take a nice long break and no one would have blamed him. Seriously. After a few years of managing car crashes in the desert, a lengthy vacation to a relaxing place sounds about right....

10 Things We Learned From ‘Breaking Bad’ S5E12 “Rabid Dog” By Joanna Robinson/Sept. 2, 2013 1:45 pm EST As we promised in “The Ones Who Knock” Kickstarter, I will be doing weekly recaps here for each episode of Breaking Bad. For those of you unfamiliar with my recapping style, it’s less of a straightforward plot summary and more a distillation of the most interesting elements of each week’s episode. The recaps will spoil everything up through the current episode (S5E11 “Confessions”), but won’t spoil any future episodes or even scenes from the “Next Time” segment of the show....

Contrary To What The Internet Says, ‘It’ Is A Freakin’ Horror Movie (And A Scary One At That) By Matt Donato/Sept. 12, 2017 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: It is a horror movie, even if the internet insists otherwise.) You’d think that when a horror movie – in this case Andy Muschietti’s It – shatters box office records (to the tune of a $123 million), it’d be a joyous occasion....

How Sony Plans To Handle Its ‘Spider-Man’ Expanded Universe By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2017 11:30 am EST The box office success of Spider-Man: Homecoming is all the proof we need that Sony Pictures will continue their plans to build out their own new Marvel expanded universe that’s adjacent to Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe. But thanks to a new report in Variety, now we know exactly how the studio plans to handle their upcoming superhero projects, including the Venom movie starring Tom Hardy....

James Cameron Says The Next Revolution In Cinema Is… By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2011 8:00 am EST In 2005, James Cameron and George Lucas held a presentation at ShoWest which changed the course of the history of cinema. In a room full or movie theater owners, managers and execs, Cameron and Lucas started their big push to convince the entire industry to invest in new digital cinema equipment for the upcoming 3D revolution....

Marvel Serves Up More ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Stills To Help You Pick A Side By Angie Han/March 1, 2016 8:30 am EST We’ve still got a couple months to go until Iron Man and Captain America face off in Captain America: Civil War, but sooner or later you’re gonna have to pick a side. And to help you do that, Marvel’s just dropped a nice big batch of high-quality photos....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies With Strange Connections To ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ By Scott Beggs/Aug. 31, 2017 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: the re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind....

Movie Playlist: Andrew Stanton By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2008 3:14 am EST Welcome to another edition of Movie Playlist, where we talk to the writers, directors, and stars about their favorite films. I’ve always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business moved to Hollywood after discovering their love of films. And I’ve always love talking to people about their favorite films. So talking to the people who make the movies about their favorite films just seemed like a natural idea....

Page 2: Hobbit, Muppets, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller, Twilight, Django Unchained, James Cameron, Doctor Who, Simpsons, Back To The Future, Doctor Horrible, Game Of Thrones By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2012 8:00 am 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 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Indiana Jones, Fifth Element, Matrix, Frozen, Star Wars, Muppets, Jurassic Park By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 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....

Page 2: Superman, James Cameron, Spider-Man, Tyler Perry, X-Men, Christopher Nolan, The Big Lebowski 2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2011 7:00 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 22 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Star Wars Bits: Force Friday, Amy Schumer, Force Awakens Concept Art, Battlefront And More By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2015 11:30 am EST With your wisdom, I’m sure that we can work out an arrangement which will be mutually beneficial and enable us to avoid any unpleasant confrontation. As a token of my goodwill, I present to you a gift: these Star Wars Bits. This edition of news from a galaxy far, far away includes:...

Star Wars Bits: New ‘The Last Jedi’ Details, Toy Revelations, And Another Death Star?!? By Lucas Siegel/Sept. 12, 2017 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: New official Star Wars: The Last Jedi info revealed! Lots of new Star Wars: The Last Jedi rumors to sort through! Go behind-the-scenes with Grand Admiral Thrawn. Are we really getting another Death Star? And much more! New eps will air on Monday’s at 12:30a, 3:00a, 7:30a, 5:30p and 9p....

Superhero Bits: The Gifted Gets A New Producer, The Runaways Casts A Former Marvel Villain & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2017 5:30 pm EST Where are the stars of the failed Justice League of America TV series at today? Who would Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi want to score the move if they were still alive today? Which former Marvel movie villain has joined the cast of Marvel’s new Hulu series The Runaways?...

Superhero Bits: Wonder Woman, Man Of Steel, R.I.P.D., Thor, Dark Knight Rises By Germain Lussier/Sept. 14, 2011 12:00 pm EST Would Christina Hendricks play Wonder Woman? Want to see the trailer for the next season of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? Does Joseph Gordon-Levitt think you should look at Dark Knight Rises spoilers? What do Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges look like in R.I.P.D.? Does Clark Kent look any different in Man of Steel?...

The Best Canadian Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/June 28, 2018 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. (Welcome to The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition, we look towards our neighbors to the north for some chilly tales of terror.) 2018’s only half over, but it’s already been a pretty fantastic year at the movies for horror fans....

The Best Movie Trailers Of 2017 By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 27, 2017 9:00 am EST As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the best movie marketing of the year. Yes, trailers are literally just commercials for products, but the very best trailers can be an art form unto themselves. When studios and editors buck the trends and set out to create something that truly stands out from the pack, it can make for something worth celebrating....

The Best Movies Coming To Netflix In May 2016 By Jacob Hall/April 25, 2016 10:30 am EST Now that we’ve discussed the best movies leaving Netflix next month, it’s only appropriate that we dive into the best movies arriving in May. If you enjoy revisionist westerns, silly cheerleading comedies, and romantic caper films directed by master filmmakers, this is the line-up for you. Bring It On (2000) Long before he directed Marvel’s Ant-Man, Peyton Reed broke into feature filmmaking with Bring It On, the kind of breezy and silly comedy that is so well assembled that it looks like it was easy....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Has A Serious Romance Problem By Lindsey Romain/May 2, 2018 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: after the release of Avengers: Infinity War, Lindsey Romain takes stock of the MCU’s romance problem.)The Marvel Cinematic Universe is, at best, a series of intricately laced human stories amplified and filtered through the lens of absolute power....

The Reasons Why Sequels Are Failing To Find Audiences This Summer By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2016 8:00 am EST One of the big stories of this summer is what Hollywood is calling “the sequel slump.” The average sequel makes more than eight times the average original release, which explains why we have more of them than ever before. But the sequels of summer 2016 are failing to find audiences. Why aren’t movie theatergoers flocking to sequels as they have in the past?...