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MoviePass Has Changed: See One Movie In Theaters Each Day For Just $10 A Month By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2017 11:00 am EST MoviePass has seen plenty of changes to its subscription service over the years since launching in 2011. For those who don’t know, MoviePass lets users pay a monthly price that allow them to see a single movie each day. Users check into a location-based app, pick the movie they’re seeing, and pay with an official MoviePass debit card....

Page 2: Black Swan, The Hobbit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vertigo, Almost Famous, LeVar Burton, Indiana Jones, The Lion King, Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2011 8:30 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 28 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Star Trek, Blade Runner, DuckTales, Game Of Thrones, Al Pacino, Metropolis, Star Wars, Terminator 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2013 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. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Sequel Bits: ‘Anchorman 2’, ‘Fast & Furious 6’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘X-Men: First Class 2’, ‘Top Gun 2’ By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 5:00 am EST Today’s edition of Sequel Bits is particularly chatty, as everyone has a little something to say about their next big project. After the jump: Adam McKay teases a minor Anchorman 2 detail Steve Carell talks about reprising his role as Brick Fast & Furious 6 gets an early bit of marketing Tom Cruise is still excited to fly jets in Top Gun 2 Lucas Till lobbies for Polaris in X-Men: First Class 2 Simon Pegg promises more of the Enterprise in Star Trek 2 Damon Lindelof discusses the film’s “nuanced” villain Chris Pine thinks Trek 2 is really about the characters In addition, McKay teased one small idea he had for the story:...

Sequel Bits: ‘Piranha 3DD’ Trailer, ‘Men In Black 3’ And ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Posters, ‘The Strangers 2’, ‘Rambo 5’, Lots Of ‘Star Trek 2’ By Angie Han/April 30, 2012 3:00 pm EST J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 2 (or whatever they end up calling it) is really the center of attention in this Sequel Bits, thanks to some fresh set photos, shooting info for the Bay Area, and news about a potential cameo....

Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 2’, ‘Machete Kills’, ‘Beetlejuice 2’, ‘Scary Movie 5’, ‘Men In Black 3’, ‘Breaking Dawn Part 2’ By Angie Han/May 7, 2012 4:00 pm EST Casting on Machete Kills continues to speed ahead, as Modern Family star Sofia Vergara becomes the latest to sign on. Also after the jump: Leonard Nimoy has not confirmed a Star Trek 2 cameo Tim Burton offers a tiny Beetlejuice 2 update Anna Faris probably won’t do Scary Movie 5 Men in Black 3 gets creative with its marketing Kristen Stewart spills about the Breaking Dawn reshoots...

Sequel Bits: Danny DeVito Totally Wants To Do Another ‘Twins’, Plus: ‘Scream 5’, ‘Salt 2’, ‘Friday 4’, ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Men In Black 3’, Jack Ryan By Angie Han/March 5, 2012 4:30 pm EST Seeing as everything else from the ’80s has been dragged back to the movie theater, it probably really is just a matter of time before we get another Twins. Also after the jump: We now know who won’t be writing Scream 5 Paramount’s Jack Ryan film hits money trouble Angelina Jolie rejects the script for Salt 2 Ice Cube’s working on the Friday 4 script Iron Man 3 starts set work, code name revealed MIB3’s massive, ballooning budget partially explained It’s pretty clear that another Twins is still a while off, even if it does happen....

Superhero Bits: S.H.I.E.L.D., Man Of Steel, Iron Man 3, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Dark Knight Rises, The Simpsons By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2013 2:00 pm EST Has Sam Raimi seen The Amazing Spider-Man? How does Joss Whedon describe the tone of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Did San Diego Comic-Con tickets sell out fast? Where did Iron Man join the Guardians of the Galaxy? Want to see some surprising, and spoilerish, Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel toys?...

The ‘Suspiria’ Trailer Reveals Just How Different The Remake Is From Dario Argento’s Masterpiece By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2018 12:30 pm EST The Suspiria remake trailer is here at last. It’s a moody, effective, deliberately vague look at Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming film, which also provides us with our first listen to Thom Yorke’s score. And it’s also worlds removed from Dario Argento’s original. Let’s examine how. In case you missed the Suspiria trailer, here it is in all its glory....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In August 2018 By Chris Evangelista/July 28, 2018 10:00 am EST The summer season is winding down, but please don’t feel the urge to rush outside and take part in outdoor activities. Instead, stay inside and stream all this stuff on Netflix. Next month, Netflix is offering a wide variety of that hot content you crave, including The Aviator, Constantine, The Lord of the Rings, The Informant!...

This Week In Trailers: King Of The Travellers, The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone, Miss Nikki And The Tiger Girls, The Institute, Favor, I Used To Be Darker By Christopher Stipp/April 19, 2013 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Killing’, Dwayne Johnson By Angie Han/April 26, 2013 2:00 pm EST Netflix reveals posters, stills, and a clip from the new season of Arrested Development. Also after the jump: What was the unaired original Game of Thrones pilot like? Yahoo gets exclusive access to the 38-season SNL archive Corey Stoll lands Guillermo del Toro’s FX drama The Strain AMC forays into the science-fiction genre with Line of Sight Hannibal’s unaired episode has been turned into a web series See a new poster and pic from the newly revived The Killing Watch a trailer for The Rock’s new reality competition show Peek behind the scenes of Christopher Guest’s Family Tree Dexter conducts his final symphony in an artsy new trailer io9 got their hands on a script for the original pilot, which featured a slightly different cast, had a totally different credits sequence, focused far less on the Starks, and gave a much nicer wedding to Dany....

Universal Releases Official Synopses For 2010 Slate, Gives Good Look At MacGruber And Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2009 7:39 am EST What follows basically amounts to me copy/pasting an entire press release from Universal, for which I apologize. But this is one of the few times where the action is worthwhile, because the studio has sent out a set of approved synopses for the 2010 slate, and there are details here about films like MacGruber, David Gordon Green’s Your Highness and Ridley Scott’s still-Untitled Robin Hood Adventure that we hadn’t seen assembled all in one place....

Video Blog: The First 46 Minutes Of Pixar’s Up (With Frosty From Collider) By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2009 9:51 pm EST If you couldn’t already tell, I’m a Pixar fanatic. To me there is something so extremely special about the Emeryville-based animation studio’s special brand of storytelling. I remember being in Hall H at the 2007 San Diego Comic Con when Andrew Stanton unveiled the beginning of WALL-E. I was beyond amazed....

/Answers: What Video Game Should Become A Movie? By Ethan Anderton/April 13, 2018 12:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we answer a new pop culture-related question. In this edition, we celebrate the release of Rampage by asking “What video game should become a movie?” Vanessa Bogart: Wolfenstein I have very little love to give when it comes to video game-based movies. I personally don’t want my 50-plus hours of blood, sweat, and tears in a game reduced to two hours of “good, dumb, fun....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: Who Came Out On Top In ‘Slip’? By Karen Han/June 6, 2017 7:00 am EST (Every week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Better Call Saul season 3 by answering one simple question: who came out on top when the credits rolled?)Better Call Saul doesn’t miss a beat. There’s no such thing as a wasted moment, which has never been more evident as it is in “Slip,” the eighth episode of this season....

‘Blade Runner 2’ Director Denis Villeneuve First Thought The Sequel “May Be A Bad Idea” By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2015 12:00 pm EST Whether you like it or not, we’re heading back into the universe of Blade Runner with a sequel to the 1982 sci-fi, film noir classic starring Harrison Ford and directed by Ridley Scott. If the film arrives in 2017 as scheduled, there will have been 35 years between the original and the sequel, and that’s a long stretch of time to let pass before returning to the dark, futuristic version of LA....

‘Cam’ Review: A Sexy And Sinister Thrillride Through The World Of Camgirls [Fantastic Fest] By Marisa Mirabal/Sept. 22, 2018 12:00 pm EST In Nietzsche’s philosophical book, Beyond Good and Evil, he penned the phrase “he who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” He chronicled a critique in favor of the perspectival nature of knowledge, the idea that there is no way of seeing the world as taken definitively as truth since there are many perspectives and conceptual schemes in which the judgement of truth and value can be made....

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Review: This Is The Superhero Movie You’ve Been Waiting For By Ethan Anderton/May 6, 2016 7:00 am EST After the collateral damage caused by the previous efforts of the Avengers proves to be too much for the world’s governments, the United Nations comes together to introduce the Sokovia Accords, a resolution that will turn the superheroes into a task force supervised and directed by the UN itself....

‘Down Under’ Is The Skin-Crawling, Bleakly Hilarious Race Riot Comedy That 2016 Deserves [Fantastic Fest Review] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 29, 2016 6:00 pm EST It’s a shame that Down Under exists in the first place, but because we live in this particular world at this particular time, it can’t help but feel necessary. It’s not a movie we want as much as it is a movie we need, an angry howl of pain and confusion that goes down like a bitter pill....