Louis C.K. Will Star In, Write And Direct ‘I’m A Cop’ By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2015 4:30 pm EST Let’s Be Cops? Forget it. Let’s find out more about I’m a Cop, which is the new film to be written and directed by Louis C.K., who will also star. The comic has been talking about making a new film for a couple years, but the first real details have only recently started to come out....
Superhero Bits: New Spider-Man Suit, Suicide Squad Creator Reviews Movie & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2016 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Was Deadshot supposed to die in the Suicide Squad comics back in 1988? Which villains would you like to see take on The Defenders in Netflix’s forthcoming series? Which Suicide Squad star says the critics can kiss their ass? Want to see Spider-Man’s new suit that he’s sporting alongside Deadpool?...
The Ones Who Knock S2E01 - Switch By David Chen/Feb. 16, 2016 10:15 pm EST The Ones Who Knock is back to discuss this season of Better Call Saul! In this season, David, his brother Michael, and Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair discuss Better Call Saul’s season premiere, “Switch.” If you’d like us to continue recapping every episode, feel free to back our Kickstarter before the next episode of Better Call Saul!...
Watch Director Ryan Coogler Break Down That Fantastic ‘Creed’ Long Shot By Jack Giroux/Dec. 5, 2015 11:00 am EST I don’t know a single person who doesn’t love Creed. Director Ryan Coogler’s (Fruitvale Station) sequel is already a beloved success, which might lead to more sequels and possibly awards nominations (and another big project for the director). One of the film’s most talked about scenes features Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) in his first professional boxing match, depicted in one seamless long take, and now the director himself explains how they pulled it off....
‘DreamWorks Dragons: Race To The Edge’ Trailer: Netflix Flies High With Hiccup And Toothless By Angie Han/June 18, 2015 1:30 pm EST It took four years to get from How to Train Your Dragon to How to Train Your Dragon 2, and it’ll be another three years before How to Train Your Dragon 3 is in theaters. But if you don’t want to wait quite so long for more high-flying dragon action, you can check out DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge in just a few days....
‘Heroes Reborn’: Masi Oka To Return As Hiro Nakamura By Angie Han/March 30, 2015 4:30 am EST Heroes Reborn will welcome back another familiar face. NBC has announced that Masi Oka is set to reprise his role as time-traveler / teleporter Hiro Nakamura on the upcoming limited series. Oka is the second original cast member confirmed to return, after Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet a.k.a. Horn-Rimmed Glasses. More details on the Heroes Reborn Masi Oka casting after the jump....
‘Independence Day 2’ Debuts A Las Vegas Ruins Tourism Video, But Where’s The Early Buzz? By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2016 9:00 am EST In our interview with Roland Emmerich from the set if Independence Day: Resurgence, the director revealed that 2 or 3 billion people had died in the attacks from the first movie. That’s a huge chunk of the world population. And it appears we still have some reminders of the destruction from 20 years ago in the form of the ruins of Las Vegas....
‘Narcos’ Trailer: Wagner Moura Is Netflix’s Pablo Escobar By Angie Han/July 15, 2015 8:00 am EST After a blood-splattered, cocaine-dusted first teaser, Netflix’s Narcos has come back with its first full-on trailer. Wagner Moura plays legendary drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, and Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal the DEA agents who attempt to take him down in the 1980s. Watch the Narcos trailer after the jump. [YouTube] If there’s one major problem with the Narcos trailer, it’s that there isn’t nearly enough Pedro Pascal....
‘Sharknado: The 4th Awakens’ Celebrates Star Wars Day With A ‘Force Awakens’-Inspired Poster By Angie Han/May 4, 2016 4:00 pm EST See the first Sharknado: The 4th Awakens poster, and get the full Sharknado: The 4th Awakens cameo list, after the jump. And here’s that other poster, just for comparison: It’s a cheap, shameless ploy for attention on Syfy’s part, and it is totally freaking working. Because “cheap” and “shameless” is exactly what the surprisingly successful Sharknado franchise is built on....
‘Sherlock’ Actor Jonathan Aris Joins ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2015 10:00 am EST Jonathan Aris might be joining the cast of Gareth Edwards’ Star Wars Anthology film Star Wars: Rogue One. Find out more details from the Star Wars Jonathan Aris report, including the actor’s supposed Star Wars character name, after the jump. The report comes from BBC News, which noticed that Jonathan Aris, who plays Anderson in BBC’s Sherlock and also appeared in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, listed the gig on his Spotlight page....
‘Tale Of Tales’ Trailer: In Which Salma Hayek Eats A Sea Monster’s Heart By Jacob Hall/April 8, 2016 1:30 pm EST You really don’t know what you’re getting when you settle in for a new Matteo Garrone film. The Italian director has been making feature films for twenty years, but he achieved international renown for his stunning and brutal crime film Gomorrah in 2008. He then shifted gears in a major way for Reality, a comic drama about an ordinary man whose life is thrown into chaos after he’s cast on a reality show....
By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2015 2:47 pm EST Quentin Tarantino doesn’t commission original scores for his films. Instead, the writer/director collects a huge amount of music from other films and popular music to assemble idiosyncratic soundtracks that have become as integral to the identity of his films as are the scripts and casts. Tarantino has drawn heavily on the music of Ennio Morricone for many years, using tracks from prior Morricone scores in Kill Bill, Death Proof, and Inglourious Basterds....
‘Valerian’ First Look Photo: Dane DeHaan And Cara Delevingne Suit Up For Luc Besson’s Space Epic By Angie Han/March 24, 2016 9:00 am EST For the past several months Luc Besson has been working on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne as a pair of futuristic agents whose travels take them through space and time. The project looks like a return to the kind of weird, wild, fantastical sci-fi we saw in The Fifth Element — the source material is even co-written by Jean-Claude Mézières, who worked on The Fifth Element — and as such we’ve been waiting eagerly to see what it would look like....
‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Featurette Explains What Apocalypse Is All About (And Why He Wants To Kill You) By Jacob Hall/May 2, 2016 11:00 am EST The featurette contains talking head commentary from director Bryan Singer (relaxed, informative), James McAvoy (enthusiastic, charming), and Michael Fassbender (“please let me be anywhere else in the world right now”), who run down what we can expect from Apocalypse. Strangely absent from the proceedings is Isaac himself....
Bill Hader To Star In David Foster Wallace-Inspired ‘Empress Of Serenity’, From ‘Me And Earl’ Writer By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2015 4:00 pm EST Jesse Andrews recently turned his first novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, into his first screenplay, earning all sorts of praise as a result. Now he’s getting ready for another first: his feature directing debut. Andrews will direct Bill Hader in Empress of Serenity, an indie dramedy inspired by David Foster Wallace’s essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again....
Blizzard’s ‘Overwatch’ Game Trailer Is A Movie Announcement Waiting To Happen By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2014 12:30 pm EST Is the game company Blizzard Entertainment hoping to get in on the success of animated films created by Pixar and Dreamworks? The biggest movie-related announcement to come out of Blizzard’s annual Blizzcon convention was the info about Warcraft, the film directed by Duncan Jones based on Blizzard’s set of strategy and RPG games....
Breaking: ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Is A Halloween Movie, Not A Christmas Movie Says Director By Jacob Hall/Oct. 19, 2015 8:30 am EST It’s one of the greatest cinematic controversies of all time. Since international law allows you to only watch The Nightmare Before Christmas once per year, fans of the 1993 stop-motion animated musical have long debated the more appropriate time to view the film. Is it a weird and creepy Christmas movie, or a Halloween movie with with a peppermint-flavored candy shell?...
Check Out Before And After Shots Of Sharlto Copley Doing Motion-Capture As ‘Chappie’ By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2015 4:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even though this year’s sci-fi flick Chappie may not have been anywhere near as poignant or impressive as director Neill Blomkamp’s previous effort District 9, you can’t deny that the film has some unbelievable special effects. Bringing the titular artificially intelligent robot to life is quite a feat, and it was done with a combination of visual effects and a live-action reference performance by Sharlto Copley....
Christopher Lloyd Says ‘Back To The Future 4’ In Public, So React Accordingly By Jacob Hall/Oct. 15, 2015 10:30 am EST Read what Lloyd has to say about a potential Back to the Future 4 after the jump. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lloyd says that he is totally on board with playing Doc again in a new movie. You know, just as long as it’s good, which is easier said than done:...
Cool Stuff: Toys R Us Unveils Jabba’s Rancor Pit Black Series Action Figure Set For Comic-Con By Ethan Anderton/June 26, 2015 5:00 am EST It’s hard to believe, but San Diego Comic-Con is already less than two weeks away, and all of us here at SlashFilm will be running ourselves ragged to bring you all the latest news straight out of the convention center housing the biggest pop culture gathering in the country....
