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Video Essay: Why ‘The Force Awakens’ Is A Better Written Movie Than ‘Rogue One’ By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2017 11:00 am EST When I got out of the premiere for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, one of the first questions I got was: how does the first Star Wars standalone film compare to JJ Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens? And for me the answer was simple, while both movies are good, The Force Awakens is better because it offers better-written characters and a story in which I became more emotionally invested in....

‘Batman V Superman’ Box Office Drops A Record 81% In Second Weekend, But What Does That Mean? By Ethan Anderton/April 2, 2016 12:00 pm EST UPDATE: Variety reports estimates that peg Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice taking in $52.4 million for its second weekend. That’s a 68% drop from its opening $166 million weekend. It’s not an unexpected drop, but the movie may not have long legs at the box office....

‘Game Of Thrones’ – The 10 Most Important Moments In “The Winds Of Winter” By Jacob Hall/June 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST Game of Thrones season six is over and it went out with a few bangs (one of them very literal). “The Winds of Winter” is the finest season finale the series has produced so far and a frontrunner for the shortlist of all-time best episodes. Story threads years in the making come to a head, several characters of tremendous importance meet their maker, and revelations that shake up the entire show as we know it are finally unveiled....

‘It’ Director Andy Muschietti And Star Bill Skarsgard On Creating True Evil [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Sept. 7, 2017 7:00 am EST Bill Skarsgard’s small roles in movies like Allegiant and Atomic Blonde didn’t leave much of an impact on me, but after seeing his terrifying take on Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s It, he certainly has my attention. Director Andy Muschietti saw something in the young actor’s audition that no one else did, and together they crafted a new version of Pennywise that’s frightening, otherworldly, and truly feels as if you’re watching evil incarnated....

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’: New Vulture Details And Spidey’s Cool Little Drone Revealed By Ethan Anderton/March 27, 2017 10:30 am EST A new Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer will debut tomorrow as part of the movie hype that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios will be unveiling at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week. There will likely be plenty of new footage to explore when the trailer debuts, but in the meantime, a tease reveals a certain enhancement to Spider-Man’s suit that is unlike anything the superhero has had before....

‘Stranger Things’ Bits: Behind-The-Scenes Photos, Tangerine Dream, T-Shirts, And More By Jack Giroux/Sept. 17, 2016 10:00 am EST In today’s Stranger Things bits: Behind-the-scenes photos from season one. Pictures of a familiar set being worked on for season two. Covers of the theme song, including one from Tangerine Dream. The kids being adorable on late night television Find all that and more in all the Strangers Things bits after the jump....

‘There Will Be Blood’ At 10: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Monster Movie Masterpiece By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 22, 2017 12:00 pm EST At the height of a certain meme, you could name-drop There Will Be Blood and casual filmgoers would actually scrunch their noses and say, “Is that the milkshake movie?” In the intervening years, however, Daniel Day-Lewis’s powerhouse performance as Daniel Plainview has continued to cast a long shadow over cinema. In many ways, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s oil drama/“milkshake movie” is actually a monster movie, with a dissonant score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and a title that deliberately invokes horror....

2011 Emmy Nominations Announced By Angie Han/July 14, 2011 8:04 am EST The 2011 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced this morning in Los Angeles by hosts Melissa McCarthy and Joshua Jackson. As always, the list contained a few surprises and a few disappointments, as well as many more predictable choices. Among the pleasant surprises were outstanding series nods for Parks & Recreation and Friday Night Lights, both excellent (and personal favorite) series that the Emmy folks have overlooked in the past....

Arcades In Movies: Steven Spielberg’s Arcade Game Collection By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2015 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In honor of the news that Steven Spielberg will be directing a big screen adaptation of Ready Player One, here is our September 2014 posting about Spielberg’s love for video games and specifically his 1980’s arcade game collection. An Arcades in Movies supercut has been posted online chronicling arcade games in cinema from the year 1975 to 1994....

Damon Lindelof Reveals The Origins Of ‘Tomorrowland’, Confirms We Won’t See Disneyland In The Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2013 12:00 pm EST Grantland has an amazing interview with screenwriter/producer Damon Lindelof which you should find the time to read (it is long). He talks about many things in the interview, but I want to focus on his discussion on the origins of Tomorrowland, the upcoming movie directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney....

Edgar Wright Recruits Everyone For A Totally Real, Not A Joke Simon And Garfunkel Song Title Universe By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 29, 2017 4:00 pm EST With the uncanny coincidence of two Simon and Garfunkel-inspired movie titles, Marc Webb’s The Only Boy Living in New York and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, coming out this summer, Wright made a tweet for the asking of others to join this accidental Simon and Garfunkel Song Title Cinematic Universe....

How ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot’ Eschews The Traditional Trappings Of The Biopic By Siddhant Adlakha/July 13, 2018 10:00 am EST Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, the new film from Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting), finds strength in a discombobulated narrative. The tale of late quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, a mean-spirited alcoholic on the road to being better, Van Sant’s biopic hits every beat expected of a based-on-a-true-story story — the tragedies, the triumphs, the moments of realization, even the lofty speeches that tie them together — only it organizes them in a manner that flies in the face of traditional Hollywood storytelling....

J.A. Bayona Was The Original Choice To Direct The First ‘Jurassic World’ By Chris Evangelista/April 23, 2018 9:45 am EST J.A. Bayona makes his Jurassic debut with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but there was a time when the filmmaker could’ve entered the franchise a lot sooner. During our Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom set visit, producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley revealed that Bayona was the original choice for Jurassic World director before Colin Trevorrow got the job....

Netflix Originals Release Dates: A Calendar Of All Original TV Shows And Movies By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2017 11:30 am EST Netflix is producing a ton of original content these days and I’ve been finding it harder and harder to keep track of it all. Netflix will release 1,000 hours of original shows and movies in 2017, spending $6 billion to do so. That’s almost double the amount of original programming they released 2016, which included an estimated 126 TV shows....

Nobody Speak Review: Did ‘‘Hulkamania’’ Kill The Free Press? [Sundance] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2017 9:00 am EST Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday afternoon. From Brian Knappenberger comes a documentary about how the Gawker lawsuit might lead to the loss of free press in the United States. It’s an informative, fascinating, and terrifying look at how people with big pockets and large power can silence media....

Page 2 By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2009 12:39 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 25 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. The folks at ScreenCrave (with guests from Collider and other sites) spent some of Saturday night shooting and editing footage, and the super-secret (ok, not that secret) project is out: Iron Man 2 has been sweded....

Page 2: Harrison Ford, Total Recall, Cowboys & Aliens, George Lucas, E.T., The Muppets, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Simpsons By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2011 8:00 am EST Harrison Ford appeared on the Jon Favreau-directed Jimmy Kimmel Live!, reuniting with his old Millennium Falcon co-pilot Chewbacca. Watch the video after the jump. 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....

Ron Howard’s ‘The Dark Tower’ TV Series Will Be Six Hour Mini-Series; Bardem, Mortensen And Other Actors Are Being Considered By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2011 9:00 am EST Ron Howard appeared on Thursday morning’s Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio to promote his upcoming comedy The Dilemma. And during the appearance, Howard revealed a few tidbits about his big screen and small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower....

Star Wars Bits: An Alternate Ending To ‘The Force Awakens,’ Secrets From The Set Of ‘The Last Jedi,’ And Mark Hamill’s Last Day By Allyson Gronowitz/March 22, 2018 6:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: The difference between J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson An update on the LA-based George Lucas Museum A personal history of Kanan Jarrus Mark Hamill’s emotional last day on the Millennium Falcon And much more!...

Stephen King Suggests That ‘The Dark Tower’ May Be [SPOILER] By Jacob Hall/May 19, 2016 11:30 am EST The film version of The Dark Tower has been filming for a few weeks now and everywhere you look, fans are filled with a strange combination of enthusiasm and dread. Enthusiasm because after years and years of being trapped in development hell, Stephen King’s messy-but-magnificent fantasy/horror/science fiction series is being made into a movie....