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‘Game Of Thrones’: Showrunners Tease Season 7, Confirm Roughly 13 Episodes Left By Angie Han/June 28, 2016 2:00 pm EST As they say at the Wall, our watch has ended. Well, at least for the next several months. Game of Thrones concluded its sixth season earlier this week and since then there’s been rampant speculation about what’s coming in season seven. Who’s in power, and who’s on their way down? What does the confirmation of a certain fan theory mean for a certain character, and what other fan theories might come into play next season?...

‘Leave No Trace’ Review: Debra Granik Returns With Another Tale Of Families Living Off-The-Grid [Sundance] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 24, 2018 7:00 am EST It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s been eight years since filmmaker Debra Granik debuted her powerful, atmospheric, four-time-Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and launched the career of Jennifer Lawrence into the stratosphere. While she did follow that up with her exceptional, long-in-the-works 2014 documentary Stray Dog, audiences have had to wait far too long for Granik to once again immerse us in a world that seems millions of miles away, when in fact she places us in long-ignored corners of America that are currently having light shone upon them for a variety of reasons....

‘Mid90s’ Review: Jonah Hill’s Directorial Debut Is A Masterful Coming-Of-Age Tale [TIFF] By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 10, 2018 12:00 pm EST Jonah Hill has struck gold in his first feature film as director. mid90s is a heartfelt coming-of-age story made with real wisdom and insight into what makes young men tick. Though highly specific to Hill’s own milieu growing up in Clinton-era Los Angeles skateboarding culture, his incisive portrayal of how adolescents forge social bonds carries a wide-ranging resonance that transcends the particulars of the situation....

‘Suicide Squad’ Test Screening Buzz: Sounds Like The Hit DC Comics Needs By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2016 10:00 am EST Since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice proved to be a disappointment for Warner Bros. Pictures by not pulling in as much box office as they hoped, the studio is really banking on the success of Suicide Squad to help turn things around. The movie is even anticipated by those who didn’t really enjoy Batman v Superman all that much, and it’ll be the key to keeping audience interest in the rest of the growing DC movie universe....

‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Trailer Gives Adam Sandler An Excuse To Act Again By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 20, 2017 11:00 am EST Every once in a while, Adam Sandler decides to stop making paid vacations disguised as movies and turn in a genuinely good performance. The best example is his work in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love, which proved Sandler could turn his short-tempered man-child routine into something genuinely compelling. Now Sandler is at it again with Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories....

‘The Void’ Is The Best ’80s Horror Throwback In Years [Fantastic Fest Review] By Jacob Hall/Sept. 24, 2016 1:00 pm EST In the eyes of many genre filmmakers, the horror genre peaked in the ’80s and this mindset has informed entire filmographies. To attend any genre film festival is to wade through movies that feel like deliberate riffs on the work of directors like John Carpenter, movies filled with gooey practical effects and set to icy synth soundtracks....

27 People Who Could (Or Should) Direct ‘The Batman’ By Jacob Hall/Jan. 31, 2017 10:00 am EST Yesterday, Ben Affleck stepped down from directing The Batman. One day, someone is going to write a book explaining exactly what was going on behind-the-scenes at Warner Bros. that led to this revolving door of filmmakers on all of their projects. We’ll surely know someday. But not today. So today is a day of speculation....

AMC’s Best Christmas Ever Is Going To War With Freeform’s 25 Days Of Christmas By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2018 4:30 pm EST Sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but cable channels are already looking ahead in the calendar to get ready for Christmas, and AMC is looking to take on Freeform’s popular and long-running 25 Days of Christmas slate of programming with a big holiday line-up of their own. AMC has snagged the broadcast rights to three big holiday movies away from Freeform....

Animated ‘Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors’ Introduces A Completely Diverse Superhero Team By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 7, 2017 4:00 pm EST It’s taken them a long time, but Marvel is finally bringing a fully diverse superhero team to the screen. And though it’s not the big screen, it’s still pretty darn cool. The animated feature film Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors will boast a team of some of the most beloved female characters and heroes of color in the Marvel comics: Captain Marvel, America Chavez, Squirrel Girl, Patriot, Spider-Gwen (going by Ghost Spider here), Quake, Inferno, and Exile....

Gary Whitta On Growing Up With Star Wars, Prequel Disappointment And Writing A Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2015 9:00 am EST Screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli, After Earth) is about to release his first novel, Abomination. To promote the pre-order of the historical fantasy novel, Whitta sat down with us for an extensive interview spanning his career thus far. Over the course of this week we will be posting all of the parts of this interview broken up into digestible thematic bites — we’re calling it “/Film’s Week Of Whitta”....

Morgan Spurlock’s ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ Might Be The Most Meta Movie Ever Made [Sundance Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2011 10:30 am EST Like him, or hate him, Morgan Spurlock has quickly become a staple of the documentary world. It all started with the premiere of Super Size Me at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. His personal adventures have taken us inside of the world of fast food, into the battlefields of the Middle East, and now into the world of product placement....

MoviePass Not Allowing Subscribers In Some Markets To Buy Tickets To ‘Red Sparrow’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2018 1:30 pm EST MoviePass is reportedly “testing” some new and old features that are making its subscribers unhappy. Several users in certain markets noticed that their MoviePass app was barring them from purchasing tickets to Red Sparrow, the spy thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence. And meanwhile, a select few users got notified of an old, unpopular feature that MoviePass may be bringing back....

On Set Interview: Amy Adams Talks ‘The Muppets’ By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2011 9:00 am EST In January, I had the awesome opportunity to visit the set of The Muppets. Over the course of the week, I’ll be posting some of the round table interviews we conducted on set with the cast and crew. Yesterday we posted an interview with Jason Segel, and today we bring you co-star Amy Adams. Here is a short excerpted quote:...

Snoke Has At Least “One Other Apprentice” – What Does This Mean For ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’? [Update] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 21, 2017 12:23 pm EST Update: A very interesting line from another Star Wars book has added another twist to this story. We’ve added the details to the post below. Another twist has been thrown into the Star Wars canon, but not by Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s doing. The latest Star Wars film has made a huge impact on the galaxy far, far away that will echo in the movies to come, but ironically, one of the biggest bombshells was just revealed outside of the film itself....

Spy Movie ‘355’ Will Star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, Lupita Nyong’o By Chris Evangelista/May 1, 2018 1:30 pm EST Put this movie in front of my eyeballs right now. A new female-driven spy movie called 355 is in the works, and it has a killer cast: Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, and Lupita Nyong’o. X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg is set to helm the espionage film....

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ending Details And More Revealed In Official Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 31, 2015 12:33 pm EST Disney has sent out the Star Wars: The Force Awakens screenplay to members of the Writers Guild of America for awards consideration. The screenplay pretty much reflects the final film, including lines improvised or changed during the filming, and excludes any form of deleted scenes that were most definitely in the shooting script....

Superhero Bits: Green Lantern, Action Comics, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2011 3:30 pm EST What did Total Film rank as the Best Superhero Movie of All Time? When and where will Cowboys & Aliens have its world premiere? Did you ever think you’d be able to create energy out of nowhere like Cyclops? How much did Green Lantern cost and what’s it on track to make?...

The Definitive Top 25 Movies Of 2007 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2007 7:18 pm EST This is the time of year when all the critics and websites begin to publish their Top 10 lists for 2007. But every list is different, just like every person is different. Last year I attempted to compile all the lists together, to figure out what movies appear on the most Top 10 lists. But my attempt to create a definitive listing never came to be, due to various reasons – but for the most part because of the extensive hours it required to compile....

The Next Format War: 3D TVs Coming 2010 - Will Avatar Be The Killer App? By Brendon Connelly/March 1, 2009 9:33 pm EST No sooner has Blu-Ray seen off HD-DVD with it’s knobbly knocking stick than another format war starts brewing in, quite literally, the R&D labs. According to a report in Video Business, Panasonic are looking to launch their first 3D-ready HD sets in what they hope will be an industry-wide standard, and will do so as soon as next year....

The Water Cooler: Revisiting ‘A Wrinkle In Time,’ Disney’s New ‘Fantasmic,’ And A Great New RPG By /Film Staff/July 19, 2017 8:00 am EST Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: A Wrinkle in Time revisited, an incredible new RPG, a preview of Disneyland’s new version of Fantasmic, a look at John Mayer’s new album, and a Luc Besson marathon at The Egyptian....