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New Cloverfield/1-18-08 Viral Website: Tagruato.jp? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2007 2:35 am EST A new possible viral website for the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster flick Cloverfield/1-18-08 has appeared online. I must first note, that no one is sure if this is actually a legitimate website created for the Cloverfield online game, or if it is what the people in online reality gaming call a “gamejack”. As you might remember, when the Cloverfield trailer was first released with Transformers, there were a bunch of websites which appeared to be part of the online viral campaign, but were later found to be “gamejacks” (Evan Haas anyone?...

Nicolas Winding Refn And Cliff Martinez Explain The Intersection Of Art And Finance, And ‘Only God Forgives’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2013 2:30 pm EST Celebrate the filmmaker who is able to rip stuff right out of their head and put it on screen. One of the most striking movies of 2013 is Only God Forgives, from Drive and Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn and Drive star Ryan Gosling. Refn’s movie is a hallucinogenic trip through stunted sexual growth, with a manchild (Gosling) defined and constrained by the influence of his domineering mother, played by a fierce Kristin Scott Thomas....

Page 2: Ghostbusters, Star Wars, Breaking Bad, X-Files, Game Of Thrones, Community, Anchorman, Blade Runner, Princess Bride, Serenity By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2012 8:00 am 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 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....

Page 2: Star Wars, Ferris Bueller, Hobbit, Bill Murray, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Terminator, The Wire, Twilight, Wall-E, Goonies, Total Recall, Andrei Tarkovsky By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 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....

Paranormal Activity Director Goes To Area 51 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2009 10:30 am EST Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli’s next film is no secret — he’s been talking about it since Slamdance. We even mentioned it breifly in a previous posting. But now that Paranormal has become a viral box office sensation, the project has been officially announced in the trades. What is it? Peli is going to Area 51....

Rose McGowan Docu-Series ‘Citizen Rose’ Premieres This Month By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 6, 2018 12:00 pm EST A five-part docu-series focused on actress Rose McGowan will debut on E! later this month. McGowan, who appeared in films such as Scream, Jawbreaker and Grindhouse was one of the first actresses to come forward with sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The new series, titled Citizen Rose, will go behind-the-scenes of McGowan’s life. In addition to the new series, McGowan also recently claimed that her Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez used the Weinstein incident to play “mind games” with her on set, contrary to what Rodriguez has claimed in the past....

Science On Screen Program: Dig Into The Science Behind ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’, ‘Space Jam’ And More By Angie Han/March 4, 2015 7:00 am EST It’s usually hard sci-fi pics like Interstellar or Gravity that spark scientific discussion, but in truth you can look at just about any film through a scientific lens. You could consider the cognitive science behind cons while watching American Hustle, or try to sort out archaeology fact from fiction while watching Raiders of the Lost Ark....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Rebels’ Trailer Breakdown, John Williams At Work, And A New Star Wars Book By Allyson Gronowitz/Jan. 26, 2018 3:30 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Dave Filoni breaks down the new trailer for season 4 of Star Wars Rebels The fempire strikes back with a de-meninized edit of The Last Jedi Rian Johnson shares a BTS clip of John Williams conducting The Last Jedi Porg high-tops!...

Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Announced By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2015 11:00 am EST Disney has announced they will be renewing the acclaimed Disney XD animated series Star Wars Rebels for a third season. As someone who never quite got into The Clone Wars, Rebels has been a fun trip back to our favorite galaxy far far away. And what started out as a story about a small ragtag group has grown into something bigger in the second season....

The ‘Justice League’ Batman Will Be Very Different Than The ‘Batman V Superman’ Batman By Jack Giroux/Aug. 16, 2017 1:30 pm EST Ben Affleck’s future as Batman appears uncertain with the rumor mill suggesting he wants out. Just yesterday his own brother said he doesn’t think he’ll star in The Batman. Affleck, however, recently dismissed these rumors at Comic-Con. The Argo director is still Batman until he (or Warner Bros.) says otherwise....

The Water Cooler: ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ Outdoors, An Addictive New Podcast, And The Return Of Pokemon Go By /Film Staff/Aug. 17, 2017 1:30 pm 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: Ben watches a cinematic classic outside, Brad picks up Pokemon Go again, Jacob falls in love with a podcast, Jack checks out Friends From College, Hoai-Tran indulges her K-pop obsession again, and Chris watches Ozark....

Theme Park Bits: Groot Comes To Disney Parks, ‘Guardians’ Ride Updates, And More By Jacob Hall/May 12, 2017 2:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: How you can ride Guardians of the Galaxy Mission: BREAKOUT! early. You’ll soon be able to meet Groot and Baby Groot at Disney parks. The latest on Pandora: The World of Avatar. Hong Kong Disneyland moves forward with its Marvel and Frozen expansions....

Theme Park Bits: Pixar Pier Edition - New Pixar Pier Glimpses, Interactive Pixar Ball, ‘Inside Out’ Candy Apples By Joshua Meyer/June 23, 2018 10:00 am EST In this (mostly Pixar Pier-related) edition of Theme Park Bits: Check out Incredibles Park and Pixar Pier’s interactive Pixar ball. What will the array of colorful billboards inside Pixar Pier look like? Take a gander at Lamplight Lounge and its menu. Are you ready for Inside Out-themed candy apples?...

This Week In Trailers: Fightville, Les émotifs Anonymes, Bill Cunningham New York, The Border, Madea’s Big Happy Family By Christopher Stipp/Feb. 11, 2011 7:00 pm EST When I talked to documentary filmmaker Michael Tucker nearly six years ago we were talking about the war in Iraq. We discussed, among other things, what the experience was doing to the soldiers, how they were getting by once their tour was done. The discussion was thrilling for me as there hadn’t yet been a groundswell of documentaries, fictionalized recreations, Oscar nominated portraits of bomb disposal technicians, or any other aspect of military life, real or imagined....

Trivia: Tom Cruise Could Have Been ‘John Carter’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2012 2:00 pm EST John Carter’s journey to the big screen is, quite possibly, even more interesting than the actual journey the character takes in the story. And that’s saying something when you’re talking about a Civil War hero transported to Mars to fight with nine-foot-tall aliens. The property has gone though dozens of different versions with various stars, filmmakers and even studios hellbent on adapting the influential Edgar Rice Burroughs property for the big screen....

What Kinds Of Rides Is Universal Studios Building For Super Nintendo World? By Jacob Hall/Dec. 14, 2016 12:30 pm EST You can learn a lot about theme park patents. Or nothing at all. Like with any industry, Disney and Universal Studios (as well as their various competitors) tend to file many patents for technology that they don’t even intend to utilize in the near future. They just want to make sure they have a particular ride system or show mechanic or aerial entertainment drone in their library, just in case....

‘American Graffiti’ At 45: Revisiting George Lucas’ Pre-‘Star Wars’ Masterpiece By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 13, 2018 1:00 pm EST In 1971, a young director named George Lucas was coming off the commercial failure of his first feature-length motion picture, THX 1138. While that film has since gone on to achieve cult classic status as a pre-Star Wars curio, it was, at the time, a financial flop that earned mixed reviews. During the film’s production, producer Francis Ford Coppola — who was on the cusp of his own mainstream directorial breakthrough with The Godfather — had issued a challenge to Lucas....

‘Cars 2’ Review: Pixar Cranks Up The Action, Dials Down The Emotion By Germain Lussier/June 22, 2011 10:00 am EST When audiences see Luxo Jr. hop across the screen at the beginning of Pixar movie, we expect pure magic every time out. That’s because the pioneering computer animation company has set the bar incredibly high, consistently making some of the best animated films ever. Talk about pressure. Cars 2 is the latest film to be held to that standard and it actually makes the grade....

‘Devil’s Knot’ Trailer And Poster: Atom Egoyan’s Star-Studded Take On The West Memphis Three By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2013 5:25 pm EST As talented as Atom Egoyan is, he undertook an incredibly difficult task in making a film about the West Memphis Three. The disturbing and fascinating yet ultimately redemptive true story of three young boys convicted of a murder they didn’t commit has already been told near perfectly in no-less-than four documentaries....

/Film UK - The Lovely Bones Red Carpet Video, Sasha Gray Interview And Competition, Duncan Jones And Kevin Spacey Reteamed And Much More By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 27, 2009 2:00 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 news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK....