Check Your Hype: Watch Fans React To ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ Back In 1999 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2015 4:00 am EST While we’re obviously more than a little excited for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens next week, it’s important to remember that this movie could be a disappointment. Obviously we are all about Star Wars here at /Film, but we really are trying to keep our expectations in check....
Cool Stuff: Marko Manev’s ‘Star Wars’ Prints By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2015 7:00 am EST The Star Wars original trilogy gets an elegant makeover courtesy of artist Marko Manev in a new series of prints. His take on the universe is crisp, clean, even minimalist. Because when you’re working with characters as iconic as Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, C3PO, R2D2, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, you don’t need a lot of messy detail to cut an arrested figure....
DJ Caruso In Talks To Direct ‘G.I. Joe 3’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2015 4:30 pm EST The third G.I. Joe movie is moving forward, and Paramount and producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura are in the process of hiring yet another new director for the movie. This time DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) is in talks to be the GI Joe 3 director, and if things go well he’ll direct a returning Dwayne Johnson and possibly a new crew of recruits....
EL James Wants More Control Over ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2015 2:30 pm EST Fifty Shades of Grey is exactly the box-office powerhouse Universal and Focus hoped it might be, with a $300m global take so far, and few signs of slowing down as the film goes into its second weekend. (That’s despite a low CinemaScore of C+, which would generally suggest a huge drop-off is on the way....
First Look: Tyler Hoechlin Suits Up As Superman For ‘Supergirl’ By Angie Han/July 28, 2016 2:30 pm EST In the first season of Supergirl, Superman was more an idea than an actual character. Oh, sure, Kara’s more famous cousin figures prominently in her backstory, and she and others talk about him all the time. And yes, he was even seen on the show on a few occasions. But it was always as a blur, or from a distance, or as a small child....
How Long Is The Current Cut Of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’? By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2015 2:30 pm EST Yesterday there were plenty of huge Star Wars updates from Disney’s D23 Expo 2015 in Anaheim. Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow was confirmed to direct Star Wars: Episode IX; the first look at Star Wars: Rogue One was revealed along with the official primary cast; and a whole Star Wars section was confirmed to be on the way for Disney theme parks....
Listen To Paul Thomas Anderson Narrate An ‘Inherent Vice’ Scene By Russ Fischer/Dec. 11, 2014 3:30 pm EST Inherent Vice begins its limited rollout tomorrow, and the excellent and unusual film should be on your must-see list for the end of the year. (Or for early January, if you’re in a market that doesn’t get it this month.) As prep for that release there has been a new trailer, a handful of clips, and now writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken a minute to talk the New York Times through one scene in the film....
Neve Campbell Joins ‘House Of Cards’ Season 4 By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2015 5:00 pm EST Netflix and creator Beau Willimon are powering forward with House of Cards season 4, however, and the show has just added Neve Campbell as a regular. Deadline reports Cambell’s casting, but doesn’t have any details to divulge on her role. That said, there is mention of the fact that the show’s fourth year will see Frank and Claire Underwood dealing with an election, mimicking the upcoming political situation in the US, and that talk suggests a young rival couple could emerge to oppose the Underwoods....
Star Wars Bits: Maker Studios To Do ‘Star Wars’ YouTube Videos; Plus Warwick Davis & Millennium Falcon By Germain Lussier/Dec. 31, 2014 12:00 pm EST This is final Star Wars Bits published in a year where a Star Wars movie isn’t being released. It’s kind of a big deal. Below, read about the following: Warwick Davis is looking forward to the new poster. The Jedi Academy is coming to Disneyland Paris....
The ‘Outcast’ Trailer Promises Demonic Possession And Small Town Mayhem By Jacob Hall/May 9, 2016 4:30 pm EST I’ve been reading Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta’s Outcast since its first issue and it’s a rock-solid horror comic, a character-driven, beautifully illustrated tale of two men doing battle with the devil himself when a series demonic possessions begin to plague their community. However, the series also feels like it was carefully conceived to double as a perfectly packaged television pitch....
Victorian ‘Sherlock’ Special Is A Ghost Story By Fred Topel/Aug. 2, 2015 2:00 pm EST Steven Moffat returned to the Television Critics Association summer press tour, this time for the upcoming Sherlock special, which takes their modern day Sherlock Holmes back to the original Victorian era. Details are sparse, as even the release date for the latest Sherlock hasn’t been set yet, but Moffat did reveal that the Victorian setting made it more aesthetically appropriate to do an Arthur Conan Doyle ghost story....
‘24’: Kiefer Sutherland Is Done With Jack Bauer For Good By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2015 9:00 am EST Jack Bauer has bounced back from many things, but it seems we’ve finally seen the last of him. 24 star Kiefer Sutherland, who played the beleaguered counter-terrorism agent across eight seasons, a TV movie, and a miniseries, has confirmed he’s “definitely” not returning to the role. Read the 24 Kiefer Sutherland quotes after the jump....
‘Alien: Covenant’ Will Be “Much Scarier” Than ‘Prometheus’, Promises Michael Fassbender By Jacob Hall/July 26, 2016 10:00 am EST And while Prometheus was bold and bizarre, it was never especially frightening, at least not in the ways that the original films were frightening. Star Michael Fassbender says that Alien: Covenant will correct that. Speaking with Collider, Fassbender (who returns as the morally ambiguous android David in the film) explained that Covenant will be a scarier movie than its predecessor without sacrificing any of that sweeping (and expensive) scope:...
‘Arrow’ Star Stephen Amell Is Casey Jones In ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2’ By Germain Lussier/March 31, 2015 3:57 pm EST Variety broke the news of Amell playing Casey Jones. According to their report, he was one of a half a dozen actors who tested for the role over the weekend and landed it because of a chemistry with Megan Fox. Somebody find me a hockey mask!!! #TMNT2 pic.twitter.com/V9bw4ok3VB — Stephen Amell (@StephenAmell) April 1, 2015...
‘Central Intelligence’ Trailer: Dwayne Johnson Is A Jason Bourne In Jorts By Angie Han/March 16, 2016 10:30 am EST In real life, it’s hard to imagine anyone disliking Dwayne Johnson, much less wanting to pick on him. He’s the kind of star everyone loves, from your mom to your best friend to your kid brother. But in the new trailer for Central Intelligence, he’s a former outcast named Bob who was bullied in high school....
‘Neon Demon’ First Look: Nicolas Winding Refn Bloodies Up Elle Fanning By Angie Han/May 13, 2015 7:10 am EST As Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, described as “a horror film about vicious beauty,” nears the end of shooting in Los Angeles, the first images have been released. Elle Fanning leads the cast as Jesse, an aspiring model who moves to LA and finds herself surrounded by beauty-obsessed women who’d kill for what she has....
Armie Hammer Joining Jake Gyllenhaal And Amy Adams In ‘Nocturnal Animals’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 29, 2015 9:00 am EST After becoming a 1960s Russian spy in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this year, Armie Hammer joining Nocturnal Animals, a dramatic tale of a story within a story that is the next film from A Single Man director Tom Ford. Focus Features is behind the production based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan, and Hammer has a key role in the that focuses on a woman (Amy Adams) who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion....
Director Christopher McQuarrie Offers ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ Update By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2015 8:30 am EST Paramount pulled the release of Mission: Impossible 5 up from Christmas of this year to July, and the studio has done such a good job keeping a lid on the film that we don’t don’t really know anything about it. Tom Cruise returns to the lead role of Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt, and Cruise’s Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie is in the director’s chair here, too....
Don’t Expect Chris Pine Back For A ‘Jack Ryan’ Sequel By Angie Han/Dec. 29, 2014 7:00 am EST Chris Pine has been all over the map in 2014. He showed off his comedy chops in Horrible Bosses 2, his wild side in Stretch, and most recently, his musical talents in Into the Woods. But the one thing we can definitely expect him not to do is return to his first movie of the year, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit....
Genndy Tartakovsky Returning For ‘Hotel Transylvania 3’; TV Series To Air On Disney Channel In 2017 By Jack Giroux/June 21, 2016 8:00 am EST Hotel Transylvania 2 was another hit for Sony Animation, raking in over $100M more than the first film. Despite the success of the sequel, director Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) wasn’t interested in making another installment. Tartakovsky was ready to move on from the series, to try new things....
