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Third ‘Hobbit’ Film Confirmed For 2014; Domain Registrations Reveal Potential Titles [UPDATED] By Angie Han/July 30, 2012 9:30 am EST Just two weeks ago, the idea that Peter Jackson would split The Hobbit into three movies instead of two as originally planned seemed like wild, unfounded speculation. But then Jackson began floating the possibility at Comic-Con, negotiations with Warner Bros. picked up, and now Jackson has confirmed that it’s official: The Hobbit will be a trilogy....

This Week In Trailers: Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, Cut Snake, The Second Mother, Sneakerheadz, Entertainment By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 2, 2015 9:00 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?...

This Week In Trailers: Thale, Ultrasonic, Gangs Of Wassypur, Juko’s Time Machine, Daylight Savings, Ill Manors By Christopher Stipp/May 12, 2012 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: 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Community’, ‘The Colbert Report’, ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’, ‘Grimm’, ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’, 50 Cent, Brad Pitt, Seth MacFarlane By Angie Han/Dec. 3, 2012 6:00 am EST TV-related odds and ends after the jump, including: How will Community handle Chevy Chase’s departure? Who wants to attend the first ever CommuniCon? The Colbert Report is doing a Hobbit theme week 50 Cent is developing a new hourlong drama for Starz Brad Pitt is producing an HBO series about a debt collector BBC One plans a Jonathan Strange & Mr....

WTF: A Big Budget, Sci-Fi Adaptation Of The Card Game ‘Mafia’ Exists, Has A Trailer And Everything By Jacob Hall/Oct. 16, 2015 4:30 pm EST You may know it as Mafia or you may know it as Werewolf, but chances are strong that you’ve played it. It’s one of the simplest and best known card games ever created. A group of people play as the citizens of a city. Most players are innocent bystanders....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Survivors Confirmed To Include A Fan-Favorite Character And A Surprise Cameo By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 2, 2018 1:00 pm EST Avengers: Infinity War has been out in theaters for less than a week, and fans are already buzzing about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Specifically, about which characters we might see in future Marvel films. Now, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have assuaged our fears about the return of one specific fan-favorite character from the MCU, while the actor behind a surprise Infinity War cameo has something to say about future appearances....

/Film Visits The Set Of ‘The Avengers’: Over 60 Things We Learned, Behind The Scenes Photos And Video Blog By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2012 9:02 am EST In June 2011, Marvel invited a handfull of journalists to the set of The Avengers. /Film was lucky to be a part of this amazing 2-day visit to Albuquerque Studios. Over the next week we’ll be publishing transcripts of our full roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of the production....

‘Ghostbusters World’ Mobile Game Evolves Beyond Another ‘Pokémon Go’ Copycat By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2018 8:00 am EST Two years ago, Pokémon Go became all the rage as an augmented reality game that required players to venture out into the real world in an effort to catch the hundreds of little monsters from Nintendo. Recently, Jurassic World Alive jumped into the playing field with a game that shared many similarities to Pokémon Go, but involved the dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchises....

‘Han Solo’ Movie Will Be Complex, Layered And Smart By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2016 12:30 pm EST We know that Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Han Solo movie will tell the origin story our favorite smuggler from a galaxy far far away. We’ll likely see Solo meet his co-pilot Chewbacca for the first time, win the Millenium Falcon from Lando (played by Donald Glover), and maybe even fall in love. But we really have no idea what this Star Wars Story anthology movie will look like....

‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Gives Us An Update By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2017 11:00 am EST It’s been almost three years since it was announced that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts was developing a movie based on the popular Metal Gear Solid video game series. While catching up with Jordan to talk about his new film Kong: Skull Island (finally, a monster movie that delivers on the big monster action!), I got an update on the movie adaptation....

‘Roseanne’ Reboot Trailer: The Connors Are Back For More Laughs By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2018 7:30 am EST Later this month, America’s favorite blue collar family from the ’90s is returning for a new round of episodes. The Connors were a groundbreaking sitcom family going through the trials and tribulations of middle class life in ABC’s series Roseanne. The series became famous for tackling issues that other sitcoms never touched, and they’re about to do it all over again....

‘Suicide Squad’ Is Undergoing Reshoots To Add More Fun By Angie Han/March 31, 2016 12:00 pm EST In contrast to the deathly seriousness of Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the trailers for Suicide Squad have been all about fun. Here, finally, are some characters who aren’t afraid to get sassy and sarcastic, who wear brightly colored outfits, who chug beers and beat up people and blow up stuff instead of gazing off into the distance and wondering what it all means....

‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy:’ New Clip & Posters And Enthusiastic Early Buzz By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 5:00 am EST One of the most anticipated films of the Venice Film Festival was Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which is a new take on John le Carré’s 1974 cold-war thriller novel. The film remakes the well-loved 1979 BBC version starring Alec Guinness as retired MI6 agent George Smiley, called back to action to uncover a mole infesting the agency, aka ’the Circus....

‘Urban Myths’ Trailer: See Joseph Fiennes As Michael Jackson, Rupert Grint As Hitler’s Friend & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 11, 2017 9:15 am EST Almost an entire year ago, you might remember the silly news that Shakespeare in Love star Joseph Fiennes was set to play Michael Jackson in a story that follows an alleged road trip taken by the King of Pop and his famous friends Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando from New York to Ohio in an effort to get home after the terrorist attacks of 9/11....

An Original 35mm Print Of ‘Star Wars’ Found, Cleaned Up, Scanned And It’s Gorgeous By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 19, 2016 3:00 pm EST If there’s one thing that Star Wars fans want more than anything, other than to see Star Wars: Episode VIII right now, it’s untainted versions of the original trilogy without any of the Special Edition additions that came with the re-release of the movies in 1997. Those have pretty much been the only versions available on home video for years now, with the exception of a DVD release that included the original cuts, but there wasn’t much care taken with those versions....

Castle Rock Trailer Breakdown: All The Stephen King References And Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 9, 2017 10:00 am EST The Stephen King boom is continuing onward with Castle Rock, an upcoming Hulu series set within the universe of all-things-King. The show won’t debut until 2018, but a recent NYCC panel produced the show’s first trailer with actual footage, teasing a moody, incredibly well-cast series that looks like it’s practically drowning in dread....

Early Buzz: Surprise Eight Minute Trailer For David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2011 11:04 pm EST I was in line for a movie at the Toronto Film Festival when I recieved a mysterious e-mail with the subject line “GDT”. At first I thought it had something to do with Guillermo Del Toro, but the inside of the email read: “Rumor has it something unusual and interesting is playing before the advance screening of Straw Dogs this Wednesday night....

Frank Oz Directed A Magic Show And Its Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Experienced Before By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2016 12:00 pm EST A couple years ago, two-time Close-Up Magician of the Year Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães broke records at Los Angeles’ Geffen Theatre with their magic show Nothing To Hide. That production was extended to 144 performances, breaking daily and weekly box office sales, and grossing more than $1 million before moving to New York City....

Gary Whitta Talks ‘Akira’, ‘Escape From New York’, ‘Warcraft’ And Rumored ‘Starcraft’ Project By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2015 11:30 am EST This week, we’ve been running portions of our extensive interview with screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli, After Earth) as a five-part feature we’re calling “/Film’s Week Of Whitta.” Promoting the pre-order of his first novel, Abomination, Whitta talked to us not only about his career thus far, but the future and unproduced projects that haven’t happened....

Marvel Studios And ‘Doctor Strange’ Screenwriter Defend Ancient One Casting By Angie Han/April 27, 2016 2:30 pm EST Marvel’s decision to cast Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange was always bound to attract controversy. The character is an Asian man in the comics, so putting a white woman in the role led to complaints about whitewashing. But the Doctor Strange team is standing by its choice. Last week Swinton went on record insisting that there were “very good reasons” for the change, and now Doctor Strange screenwriter C....