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Cats And Dogs, Living Together: DC Fans Launch Petition For Zack Snyder To Direct ‘The Batman’ By Jacob Hall/Feb. 3, 2017 8:30 am EST I like Zack Snyder. That needs to be said first. His Dawn of the Dead remake is a superbly constructed, savvy joy. 300 is so much more interesting and beautiful than you remember. Watchmen is flawed but audacious, tackling un-adabtable source material with raw nerve and bravery....

Director Colin Trevorrow Responds To Joss Whedon’s Criticism Of First ‘Jurassic World’ Clip By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2015 11:35 am EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: In April, Universal released the first clip from Jurassic World which had most fans scratching their heads. It seemed like an odd choice. The Avengers director Joss Whedon even commented on the clip calling it " 70’s era sexist". Now Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow finally responds to the criticism....

Eduardo Sanchez Offers Update And Details On ‘The Blair Witch Project 3’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2011 2:00 pm EST No, the guy who co-created Facebook does not have anything to do with The Blair Witch Project. That’s Eduardo Saverin. Eduardo Sanchez is the guy who co-created the horror genre as we know it and the fact that more people today probably know Saverin than Sanchez is kind of insane....

Haunted Mansion Movie Update: Doug Jones Hat Box Ghost And New Writers By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2014 7:00 am EST At Comic Con 2010, Guillermo del Toro surprised the crowd at Disney’s Hall H panel by publicly announcing that he would be producing (and probably directing) a new big screen adaptation of the classic Disneyland attraction The Haunted Mansion. Its been almost four years since that announcement, and development is still on going....

Space is the Place (1974) Oh, life, sweet life. At first, I was only going to choose movies made by black directors, but there’s no way to make a list like this and exclude this trippy bit of Afrofuturism jazz magic. Luckily it also shares some interesting elements with Black Panther – spaceships landing in Oakland, a moral debate on the fate of the black race at its center, and mind-warping costume designs....

Page 2: Back To The Future, Aziz Ansari, Shaun Of The Dead, Rugrats, George Lucas, Batman, John Landis, Planet Of The Apes By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2011 11:00 am EST The Daily What brings us a creepy cosplay photo of the day, featuring Nemo from Finding Nemo (and what is that near his legs?) 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....

Sequel Bits: ‘Fast & Furious 7’, ‘Top Gun 2’, ‘Riddick’, ‘Pirates 5’, Stephen King By Angie Han/June 24, 2013 8:33 am EST Feast your eyes on posters for Riddick, Planes, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters in today’s Sequel Bits. Also after the jump: Brad Pitt thinks a World War Z sequel has potential Jerry Bruckheimer talks Pirates 5 and Top Gun 2 Don’t believe those Transformers 4 title rumors, says Michael Bay Jason Statham is “really excited” about Fast & Furious 7 Stephen King is too scared to write an It sequel … but you can see the book trailer for The Shining sequel now Days after Sin City: A Dame to Kill For got pushed to 2014, Robert Rodriguez’s other upcoming movie, Machete Kills, has been delayed as well....

Star Trek Beyond Set Visit Report: Find Out How Justin Lin’s Sequel Goes Beyond By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2016 9:00 am EST Last Summer, I visited the set of Star Trek Beyond in Vancouver, Canada. Find out what I learned on set, including how over 50 new alien species were created for this film in honor of Trek’s 50th anniversary, how director Justin Lin has put an end to JJ Abrams’ “camera hand jobs” (yes, you just read that right) and much much more....

Star Wars Bits: The Final Ruling On Harrison Ford’s On-Set Injury, New ‘Aftermath’ Details, And Some Jaw-Dropping Cosplay By Jacob Hall/July 27, 2016 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: The U.K. court case surrounding safety regulations on Star Wars: The Force Awakens has reached its conclusion. The next Star Wars: Aftermath book will feature the Battle of Jakku. Conan O’Brien offers up a dead Tauntaun for a cozy place to sleep....

The Best Female Butt-Kickers In Movies You’ve Never Seen By Rob Hunter/May 31, 2017 7:00 am EST (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: the best lead female action stars in movies you may have missed!)Wonder Woman hits the big screen this week, and I’m happy to report that it’s quite good....

The Scarlett Johansson Controversy Reveals Why Trans Artists Should Have Control Of Their Own Stories By Danielle Solzman/July 10, 2018 8:00 am EST Following the announcement that Scarlett Johansson would be taking on the role of transgender man Dante “Tex” Gill in the crime drama Rub and Tug, the actress was met with outrage. Did the actress think she wouldn’t be met with opposition when the trans community learned of Gill’s background?...

The Screening Room Sparks Filmmaker Civil War: Which Side Are You On? [UPDATED] By Ethan Anderton/March 18, 2016 9:15 am EST UPDATE: Now directors M. Night Shyamalan and Brett Ratner have come out against The Screening Room as well. You can read what they had to say on the matter after the jump. Our original story from March 17th, 2016 follows. Just last week, we asked whether or not you would be interested in paying $50 to watch major big screen releases from the comfort of your home at the same time they’re released in theaters, because that’s what The Screening Room initiative wants to make possible....

This Week In Trailers: New Boobs, The Light Of My Eyes, The Honourable Woman, Kidnapped For Christ, To Be Takei By Christopher Stipp/June 29, 2014 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?...

Why Doctor Strange’s Costume Was A Big Challenge To Adapt For The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2016 9:30 am EST Academy Award-winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne has worked on a bunch of the previous Marvel Studio films, but the challenge to adapt Doctor Strange’s costume for the big screen was harder than even she could have imagined. We conclude our on-set coverage from Doctor Strange with a brief chat with Doctor Strange costume designer Alexandra Byrn....

WTF: There’s A New ‘Cop And A Half’ Movie Coming Next Week, Watch The Trailer Right Now By Ethan Anderton/July 29, 2017 10:00 am EST Teaming up two unlikely partners for a buddy cop comedy is a cinematic cliche. That formula gets even more ridiculous when one of those characters is a grizzled, grumpy detective and the other is a precocious, ambitious little kid. We’ve seen this exact scenario play out before in the 1993 family comedy Cop and a Half starring Burt Reynolds, and now that premise is being revived for a reboot....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: Who Came Out On Top In ‘Fall’? By Karen Han/June 13, 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?) “Fall” is the sparsest episode of the season so far, in that our main characters occupy separate spaces as opposed to overlapping in any real capacity....

‘Deadpool 2’ Is Sizing Up Michael Shannon For Cable By Jacob Hall/March 22, 2017 1:30 pm EST When you’re looking for someone to play a grim, muscle-bound, super-powered soldier displaced from his dystopian alternate future timeline, you probably don’t think about Michael Shannon. And yet, according to a new report, the two-time Oscar nominee, who is, you know, just one the finest actors currently drawing breath on the planet, is currently the frontrunner to play the stoic superhero Cable in Deadpool 2....

/Film UK - Britain’s Bigelow, Frankie Boyle Does Superheroes, Reel Music And More By Brendon Connelly/March 19, 2010 1:00 am EST Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never make it to the US at all....

‘Free Fire’ Director Ben Wheatley On The Human Moments In Gun Battles [Interview] By Jack Giroux/April 21, 2017 4:30 pm EST The distinction between heroes and villains isn’t as clear in Free Fire as most action movies. And it’s partly because co-writer/director Ben Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump give all their characters lives outside of the shootout – lives you want to see them find a way to escape back to....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6: Everything We Know So Far By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2015 10:00 am EST There’s still a lot we don’t know about Game of Thrones, but as more and more details leak out it’s getting harder to keep track of what we do know. So we’ve put together a handy guide of everything we know about Game of Thrones Season 6 so far, from casting updates to plot rumors and more....