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Superhero Bits: Batman: Bad Blood, Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Harley Quinn, Spider-Man By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2015 4:00 pm EST Does the animated Batman: Bad Blood feature look good? What does Firefly look like on the next episode of Gotham? How does Ronda Rousey hope to win the role of Captain Marvel? How did someone create a real Mjolnir that can only be lifted by one person? Get all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Captain America Civil War, Batman, Superman, The Flash, Avengers: Age Of Ultron By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2015 4:00 pm EST So what’s the Super Bowl superhero bet between Captain America and Star Lord? Which Oscar winner might be up for Suicide Squad? Want to watch the Flash’s big fight from earlier this week? What is Suicide Squad star Cara Delevinge up to? Did Scoot McNairy reveal anything about his role in Batman v Superman?...

Tim Doyle Recreates Your Favorite Movie Locations With UnReal Estate Art Show By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2015 4:00 am EST Just because Germain Lussier is no longer part of the SlashFilm crew doesn’t mean we’ve lost interest in awesome artwork inspired by film and television. In fact, one of our favorite artists has an awesome new art show coming up inspired by some of your favorite movie locations. Tim Doyle is unveiling a new show called UnReal Estate at the Spoke Art gallery in San Francisco, California on July 2nd....

VOTD: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Edited Into ‘The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 16, 2015 5:00 am EST Last week’s biggest news, and frankly the biggest news of 2015 so far, was that Spider-Man is coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ll see him in at least one Marvel movie (probably Captain America: Civil War) before a 2017 Sony reboot that ties in to the MCU. All week fans were debating what this meant for superhero movies, who should play the role, and what it might look like....

Watch A 45 Minute ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Power Of Storytelling Q&A By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2015 3:31 pm EST A couple weeks back, the cast and filmmakers behind the new Star Wars film Star Wars: The Force Awakens participated in a Power Of Storytelling Q & A at YouTube Space Los Angeles. Video of the entire 44 minute stage presentation is now online. YouTube executive Danielle Tiedt moderates the question and answer session, which includes Force Awakens director JJ Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Gwendoline Christie....

Watch The First Eight Minutes Of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ By Jack Giroux/July 14, 2016 12:30 pm EST Below, check out the Stranger Things opening and the early buzz. The Duffer Brothers wrote Stranger Things, and except for two episodes directed by executive producer Shawn Levy (Real Steel), they directed most of it. The series takes place in Hawkins, Indiana, where Joyce’s (Winona Ryder) son, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), has gone missing....

WTF: Overstock Launching Its Own Streaming Service By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2015 9:30 am EST CEO Patrick M. Byrne told THR, Many details remain to be revealed but we know a few more things. Overstock’s VOD service will likely be available to customers who use the store’s $20/year loyalty program. A third-party company will run that VOD service, and that’s probably how Overstock will initially go about producing original programming, too....

‘Doctor Strange’ Villain Revealed: Learn More About Mads Mikkelsen’s Kaecilius By Angie Han/July 7, 2016 11:30 am EST Marvel unveiled the first Doctor Strange trailer months ago, but much of the film still remains shrouded in mystery. Like the villain. We know he’s played by Mads Mikkelsen, and we got a quick peek at him in the trailer. If you’ve seen some of the paparazzi shots, you may know he’s got some weird stuff going on around his eyes....

‘Kingsman 2’ Reveals New Title, New Concept Art, And Some Really Weird New Story Details By Angie Han/March 28, 2016 7:00 am EST With a summer 2017 release date already locked in, Kingsman 2 is slowly starting to take shape, and today we have some more details on the upcoming spy sequel. Like, for starters, the title: Kingsman 2 is officially called Kingsman: The Golden Circle. What exactly the Golden Circle is remains mysterious at this point, but you can start piecing together your guesses based on the new concept art and story details that have come along with that new name....

‘Prestige’ Author Thinks Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ Films Are “Boring And Pretentious” By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2014 7:00 am EST For as many fans as Christopher Nolan has, he has plenty of detractors as well. Who knew some were so closely tied into him, though. In a new interview Christopher Priest, who wrote the novel The Prestige which Nolan adapted, had lots to say about the director and his movies. First of all, he does like The Prestige as a movie but admits the two only met when Nolan finished the film....

‘Spectre’ Honest Trailer: Just Watch ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Again By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2016 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Though James Bond fans were excited to see what director Sam Mendes did with Spectre after knocking Skyfall out of the park back in 2012, plenty were disappointed when the film finally hit theaters last fall. While this writer didn’t find the film to be downright terrible, mostly enjoying the throwback elements of the story and villain being utilized, the film certainly lacked the kind of punch you hope to get from a 007 adventure....

‘The Lovers And The Despot’ Trailer: One Of The Most Unbelievable True Stories In Cinema History By Jacob Hall/June 20, 2016 3:30 pm EST The story chronicled in the new documentary The Lovers and the Despot sounds like a joke, which only makes the truth of it feel all the weirder and all the more horrifying. In 1978, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il abducted South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee (who were estranged lovers) and forced them to help revitalize his struggling film industry....

‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Behind-The-Scenes Photos Are Here To Tempt Fate By Jacob Hall/Aug. 2, 2016 5:00 am EST The story of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has evolved over the years to become the horror story parents tell young filmmakers. Gilliam set out to make his fantastical re-imagining of Cervantes’ legendary novel back in 1998, but a series of increasingly insane on-set disasters halted production and the already stretched financing fell apart, forcing the film to shut down early in its shoot....

‘Transformers 5’ Title Revealed In Brief Teaser By Jacob Hall/May 16, 2016 4:36 pm EST Eventually, they’re going to stop making Transformers movies. They have to quit at some some point. All things must pass. However, Paramount is betting big that their lucrative franchise will outlive the interest of director Michael Bay, who is set to helm his fifth entry in the series. After all, they’ve assembled an entire writers room dedicated to hashing out sequels and spin-offs for the next decade or so....

A ‘Back To The Future’ Remake Will Happen Over Robert Zemeckis’ Dead Body By Angie Han/June 29, 2015 5:30 pm EST Don’t expect to go back to Back to the Future anytime soon. Despite the current craze for rebooting ’80s and ’90s hits, Robert Zemeckis has unequivocally shot down any talk of a Back to the Future remake. Read the Back to the Future remake comments after the jump. Zemeckis did not mince words when The Telegraph asked him whether he would ever consider agreeing to a remake:...

Alejandro Jodorowsky Writing And Directing ‘Endless Poetry’ To Follow ‘The Dance Of Reality’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2015 4:00 pm EST We were pleasantly surprised when the last couple years saw the return of Alejandro Jodorowsky both as the subject of a film (Jodovowsky’s Dune) and as writer and director of his own new film, The Dance of Reality. Now there’s a new Jodorowsky film in the works, and it follows directly on the heels of the last, both as a project and a story....

Ben Stiller Will Confront Past Failures In Mike White’s ‘Brad Status’ By Jack Giroux/July 14, 2016 6:30 am EST It’s been almost a decade since we’ve seen Mike White direct a feature film. Of course, the screenwriter behind The Good Girl and School of Rock has been busy since Year of the Dog. Most notably, he created and wrote HBO’s Enlightened, a beautiful, often heartbreaking show that didn’t last long enough....

HBO Bites The Bullet, Cancels ‘Vinyl’ After Announcing A Second Season By Jacob Hall/June 22, 2016 1:00 pm EST Vinyl should have been on huge. On paper, it feels like a surefire hit and another jewel in HBO’s crown of all-time great shows. A drama series set in the music industry circa 1973, produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, run by the great Terence Winter, and starring fine actors like Bobby Cannavale, Ray Romano, and Olivia Wilde sounds like a list of things that should have made this whole thing soar....

James Cameron Told ‘Terminator Genisys’ Producers How To Fit In Arnold Schwarzenegger By Germain Lussier/Oct. 20, 2014 12:30 pm EST On paper, James Cameron has nothing to do with 2015’s Terminator Genisys. It’s a film based on characters he created, starring an actor he cast, but that’s about it. A few months ago, he did reveal he was “loosely attached” in an advisory role, but wouldn’t be credited. He said his biggest contribution was in regards to the role of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 5 character....

Louis Leterrier Circling Shark Movie ‘In The Deep’ By Angie Han/March 23, 2015 5:00 pm EST Following the halftime shenanigans of Left Shark and the over-the-top silliness of Syfy’s Sharknado series, Louis Leterrier will try to make sharks scary again with In the Deep. The Black List script by Tony Jaswinski centers on a lone surfer facing a shark attack. Get all the details on the Louis Leterrier In the Deep project after the jump....