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Relative Newcomer Chadwick Boseman To Play Jackie Robinson In ‘42;’ Harrison Ford Confirmed By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2011 4:00 pm EST Briefly: We’ve just heard that Harrison Ford is the latest actor that the producers of Jackie Robinson film 42 have eyed to play Branch Rickey, the LA Dodgers exec who helped break the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson. While we don’t know if Ford will end up playing the role (somehow I expect not) we do know who’ll play Jackie Robinson....

Ryan Coogler Says He Would Love To Make A Female-Led ‘Black Panther’ Spin-Off By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 12, 2018 11:00 am EST Wakanda may be ruled by a king, but Black Panther was ruled by its amazing female characters played by Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, and Letitia Wright. Their characters of Okoye, Nakia, and Shuri, respectively, stole the scenes from under Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa and had many fans buzzing about the possibility of an all-female Black Panther spin-off....

RZA Updates On The Last Dragon, Directorial Debut The Man With The Iron Fist, And ODB Biopic. (Please Cast Tracy Morgan) By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 22, 2009 11:21 am EST In a new interview with The Onion in which he discusses everything from Dawn of the Dead to sperm cells, the RZA let it be known that a biopic on Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the late id of the Wu-Tang Clan, is in early discussion stages....

Star Wars Bits: Greg Grunberg Returns, Episode IX Casting News, And Disney Parks Announce Big Changes For Galaxy’s Edge By Rosie Knight/Sept. 4, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Greg Grunberg will return for another Star Wars movie Find out more details on the Solo: A Star Wars Story expanded novelization Learn about a new Star Wars book coming from Pablo Hidalgo Keri Russell talks about joining Star Wars: Episode IX Rian Johnson is still working on his new Star Wars trilogy All that and more below...

Star Wars Bits: Rogue One, Elizabeth Banks, Alan Tudyk, Rebels, George Lucas Museum, Brie Larson And More By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2015 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits, we take a look at the following stories: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy says a woman will direct a Star Wars movie and Elizabeth Banks says she is ready for that job....

Stephen King’s ‘The Tommyknockers’ Set For New Adaptation From James Wan [UPDATED] By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2018 10:30 am EST UPDATE: After a bidding war erupted, Deadline reports it was Universal Pictures who landed the rights to The Tommyknockers, beating out both Netflix and Sony Pictures for the project. Our original story from March 29, 2018 follows below.The Tommyknockers is the latest work to jump aboard the Stephen King adaptation train....

The One Where We Revisit The Comforting Purgatory Of ‘Friends’ By Kyle Turner/May 4, 2018 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Nostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: grappling with Friends, the classic sitcom that is as comforting, and as frustrating, as home.)I do not know where Friends takes place.After living in New York for a little over a year (albeit in Brooklyn), and having spent several years prior visiting and familiarizing myself with the landscape, I have no idea where Friends, the culturally ubiquitous sitcom that aired for 10 years on NBC from 1994 to 2004, is set....

This Week In Trailers: Foxfire, McCullin, Young And Wild, Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger!, Let Fury Have The Hour, When Santa Fell To Earth By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 7, 2012 4:07 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?...

Top 20 Stories Of The Week: X-Men: Apocalypse, TMNT 2, Golden Globes And More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 12, 2015 7:00 am EST The Top 20 Stories of the Week are the stories we think you should check out on /Film from the previous week. This week includes updates for the revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a surprising choice to play the titular monster in The Mummy, nominations for the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards, trailers for The BFG, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and X-Men: Apocalypse, and much more....

Warner Bros. Creating App Editions Of ‘The Dark Knight’ And ‘Inception’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2011 9:55 am EST Oh, Warner Bros., you are crafty. Instead of just selling plain old DVDs of popular films like The Dark Knight and Inception, the company has now created ‘app’ editions of each film for the iPhone and iPad. There’s a lot of marketing speak that goes along with the apps (" a fully-loaded, connected viewing experience that gives consumers the first five minutes of a feature film and a portion of bonus content that can include games, trivia, soundtracks and soundboards") but what it comes down to is coming up with a new way to sell the same movie to people all over again....

‘Ant-Man’ Viral: Interviews With Scott Lang And Pym Technologies CEO Darren Cross By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2015 12:15 pm EST Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Marvel continues to release clips from the WHIH World News, the latest featuring an interview with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man character Scott Lang. I’ve also included a WiReD Magazine interview with Corey Stoll’s character Darren Cross, who is the CEO of Pym Technologies. Watch the newest video embedded after the jump....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ And The Joys And Frustrations Of Marvel Crossovers By Tre Johnson/April 27, 2018 7:00 am EST Avengers: Infinity War opens today, and with it comes the promise of an epic storyline that not only represents the biggest assemblage of Marvel Cinematic Universe characters in one viewing, but potentially some canvas-cleaning to up the stakes too. Any one of the key Avengers team members — Captain America, Iron Man and Thor, in particular — could be sacrificed in some dramatic storytelling fashion....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is About Emotional Terrorism By Ben Pearson/April 30, 2018 10:00 am EST From the very beginning, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has used terrorism as a plot device. This was always a cinematic world meant to reflect our own, and in the wake of 9/11, terror attacks were – and remain – a very real concern. The Iron Man franchise explicitly includes terrorist acts as plot points – including the truck bombing in the first film’s opening scene, the inciting incident that leads Tony Stark to become Iron Man in the first place....

/Film Interview: Alex Winter Discusses SXSW Napster Doc ‘Downloaded’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2013 2:30 pm EST Think about Facebook, iPods, iTunes — all things you might use every single day. They all have seeds in the “little program that could,” called Napster. Co-created by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in the late 1990s, the file-sharing service/social network was not only ahead of its time technologically and socially, it completely changed how the public consumes media....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Spoiler Review: A Cold, Distant, And Familiar Future By Jack Giroux/April 3, 2017 8:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell.)Ghost in the Shell sometimes feels more preoccupied with how characters are framed than what they’re doing and saying....

‘The Hateful Eight’ Started Out As A ‘Django Unchained’ Sequel; Plus: Wide Release Moved Up One Week By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2015 4:00 pm EST The Weinstein Company is giving cinephiles a chance to start 2016 off right. The Hateful Eight is now set to roll into theaters January 1, a week earlier than its previously announced January 8 wide release date. Of course, that still means much of the country has three weeks until they can see Quentin Tarantino’s latest....

‘The Terror’ Review: ‘We Are Gone’ Brings The Show To A Haunting End By Chris Evangelista/May 22, 2018 8:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of AMC’s historical horror show The Terror. This The Terror review takes a look at the tenth and final episode, “We Are Gone.” Spoilers follow. In this week’s episode: No one here gets out alive. Parting Words And here we are, at the end of it all....

‘Westworld’ Featurette: Our Deepest Fears, Great Passions, And More Get Explored In HBO’s New Series By Jack Giroux/Sept. 19, 2016 12:00 pm EST The Westworld pilot is excellent. Co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy gradually introduce their high-tech theme park, which is home to all sorts of thrills and horrors. Most of the exposition expected from a pilot doesn’t come into play until episode two, and by that point, you’re completely invested in the world and characters, so every piece of information goes down smoothly....

Angie’s Most Anticipated Films Of 2014 By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2013 4:37 pm EST 2013’s given us all it has to offer at this point, but 2014 is just around the corner with a whole new slate of promising films. The movies I’m most looking forward to are all over the map, running the gamut from provocative arthouse flicks to big-budget superhero movies. After the jump, check out the ten titles that have me giddy with anticipation for the next twelve months....

Comic-Con 2015: Everything We Learned From Lucasfilm’s ‘Star Wars’ Comic-Con Panel By Ethan Anderton/July 11, 2015 10:00 am EST After waiting hours in line over the past two days (yes, we have to wait in line just like everyone else), Lucasfilm finally wowed Comic-Con with their panel in Hall H for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it did not disappoint. Although there weren’t any major announcements about forthcoming Star Wars Anthology projects or the next two episodes of the new Star Wars trilogy, fans were still left with the feeling that they could take on the whole Empire (or First Order) themselves....