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Superhero Bits: Viola Davis Wanted To Pepper Spray Jared Leto, Elizabeth Banks Too Old For Mary Jane & More By Ethan Anderton/June 23, 2016 4:00 pm EST Will The Flash’s use of the Flashpoint storyline have an impact on the next season of Arrow? Is Ghost Rider coming to Agents of SHIELD next season? Why did Viola Davis want to pepper spray Jared Leto on the Suicide Squad set? What does the Doctor Strange comic character think of Benedict Cumberbatch playing him?...

These ‘High-Rise’ Posters Are Your Latest Reminder To Find Time To See ‘High-Rise’ By Jacob Hall/March 2, 2016 5:30 am EST Because the film itself has proven so divisive, much of the marketing has focused on the one thing everyone can agree on: the stellar cast. A new batch of posters have arrived, showing off stars Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Jeremy Irons. But since this is High-Rise, these character posters are just a little skewed....

Watch An Awesome Video About Matte Paintings In Star Wars And Indiana Jones By Germain Lussier/Dec. 31, 2014 5:30 am EST With the invention of computers, it’s almost comical to think about filmmakers using paintings to fill in the backgrounds of their movies. These days, you slap a green screen in back of the action and fill it in digitally. But for the majority of the history of filmmaking, that obviously wasn’t the practice....

Watch Joseph Kosinski’s Live-Action ‘Doom’ Trailer, Chock Full Of Gunfire And Monsters By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2016 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Director Joseph Kosinski did a decent enough job bringing to life the virtual world of TRON for the once long-awaited sequel TRON Legacy. However, Joseph Kosinski is no stranger to bringing video games to life in a very cinematic way having directed outstanding commercials for video games like Halo 3 and Gears of War....

Winona Ryder To Lead Netflix Drama Formerly Known As ‘Montauk’ By Angie Han/June 16, 2015 8:31 am EST The untitled series begins with the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy in 1980 Montauk, Long Island. When his family, friends, and local police set out to find him, they get wrapped up in a larger plot involving “top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.” Ryder will play the boy’s single mother, Joyce....

‘24X36’ Trailer: A Preview For A Movie About Movie Posters By Jacob Hall/Aug. 4, 2016 5:30 am EST We live in an interesting age for movie posters. While actual film studios and the marketing people they employ continue to line multiplex walls with generic, heavily photoshopped work that generally relies on giant floating heads and/or random debris particles filling in every inch of negative space, pop culture art has undergone a revolution....

‘Deadpool’, ‘Wolverine’, And More Headed To IMAX By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2015 9:30 am EST The companies confirmed the pact, which also covers Wolverine and Maze Runner: The Death Cure, this morning. Neither Deadpool nor Independence Day: Resurgence was shot in IMAX, and will be digitally remastered to bring the sound and images in line with the IMAX format. Wolverine and Maze Runner: The Death Cure have not begun filming, so there’s still a chance they’ll shoot some footage in IMAX....

‘Deadpool’ Creator Rob Liefeld Praises Movie As Merc With A Mouth Celebrates Australia Day By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 22, 2016 12:00 pm EST It’s hard to believe, but we’re just a little under three weeks away from finally see the Deadpool movie that fans were hoping to get for years. Ryan Reynolds is playing the version of the Merc with the Mouth that he should have been in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and fans who attended a couple of advanced screenings a few days ago had a lot of good things to say....

‘Dope’ Director Rick Famuyiwa Talks Music, Filmmaking, Inspirations And Impact By Germain Lussier/June 18, 2015 3:00 pm EST However, looking as Famuyiwa’s resume, odds are you didn’t know any of that. Before making Dope, he directed The Wood, Brown Sugar and Our Family Wedding. Three financially successful films, yes, but none of which are known for Dope’s sense of youthful exuberance. It feels like, after that formidable foray into filmmaking, Famuyiwa is finally hitting his stride....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Is The Best Reviewed Movie Of 2015 By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2016 1:00 pm EST Mad Max: Fury Road basically dominated our top 10 lists for 2015, and we at /Film were hardly alone in loving it. The National Board of Review deemed it the best film of the year, and filmmakers as different as Quentin Tarantino and John Waters named it one of their favorites, too....

‘Pay The Ghost’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Uncovers A Halloween Mystery By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2015 8:30 am EST Nicolas Cage’s child goes missing on Halloween night despite the dad’s attentive devotion to the kid’s well-being, but the good news is it isn’t his fault. As it turns out, Cage is stuck in a story in which a whole bunch of missing kids are stolen away on Halloween night thanks to the machinery of… well, something....

‘Project Almanac’ Director In Talks For ‘Power Rangers’ By Russ Fischer/April 10, 2015 3:30 pm EST When Saban and Lionsgate announced development of a Power Rangers movie it was a notable bit of development, as the property has plenty of active fans. But that was before Joseph Kahn’s short film Power/Rangers went online. That short blew the ’90s TV property (which has enjoyed continuous production through to the present) into the stratosphere....

‘Ready Player One’ Contest: Your Own 3D Avatar Could Appear In Steven Spielberg’s Adaptation By Jack Giroux/May 20, 2016 2:30 pm EST Director Steven Spielberg will begin shooting Ready Player One this summer. The adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel will star Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse), Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), Simon Pegg (Star Trek Beyond), and recent Academy Award winner, Mark Rylance (The BFG). We’ll hear more casting news soon, but in the meantime, it’s possible for anyone of you to appear in Spielberg’s “big rockin’ adventure movie....

‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ Tracks Down A New Writer In James Coyne By Jacob Hall/April 26, 2016 12:00 pm EST Just last week, Robert Downey Jr. offered an update on the next Sherlock Holmes movie, suggesting that a third film in the series could start filming later this year. Considering the apparent lack of momentum on the project, it sounded unlikely. If nothing else, it sounded like Downey trying to keep people interested in a project that was still nowhere close to existing....

‘The Legend Of Tarzan’ Final Trailer: Alexander Skarsgård Reunites With His Ape Family By Angie Han/June 20, 2016 7:30 am EST With The Legend of Tarzan set to swing into theaters July 1, Warner Bros. is making one final push to get you into theaters. An extremely buff Alexander Skarsgård stars as iconic hero, who’s since left his jungle roots behind to settle down as John Clayton III, Lord Greystroke, in 19th century England....

‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Reuniting With Ridley Scott For New Project At Fox By Angie Han/May 18, 2016 1:00 pm EST It’s the second The Martian reunion we’ve heard about this month. Last week we got word Scott was re-teaming with The Martian screenwriter Drew Goddard (who’s not involved in the new Weir movie) for Wraiths of the Broken Land.

By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2016 11:00 am EST If you didn’t go out of your way to watch Chris Rock’s 2014 comedy Top Five, you’re missing out on the comedian’s own Annie Hall, an outstanding romantic comedy that isn’t chock full of cliché and actually delivers some pretty potent laughs. And if you haven’t seen that movie, that means you missed the joke which names Boo! A Madea Halloween as a fake sequel Tyler Perry made for his old woman alter ego....

‘Westworld’ Teaser: HBO Goes For Hardcore Science Fiction By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2015 4:00 am EST HBO debuted the first Westworld teaser to coincide with the season finale of True Detective. The brief tease for the series-length remake and expansion of Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi film is certainly eye-catching and intriguing. We don’t know much about the show. Westworld comes from exec producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and J.J. Abrams, and has been called “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin....

Angelina Jolie Could Board Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Remake By Angie Han/June 10, 2016 1:30 pm EST According to The Daily Mail (via Variety), Jolie is circling the role of widowed socialite Harriet Hubbard, portrayed by Bacall in the earlier film. As previously reported, Branagh will play detective Hercule Poirot. Based on the 1934 novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express unfolds on a train that gets caught in a heavy snowstorm overnight....

Cool Stuff: ‘Ratatouille’ LEGO Creation Needs Your Help To Become An Official Set By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2016 5:00 am EST Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of Pixar’s delicious Ratatouille, and one fan wants to get a head start on celebrating by getting a custom LEGO set for the Pixar Animation movie to become official. LEGO Ideas user Carlierti has created a LEGO version of the Bistrot chez Remy, the French restaurant from the end of Ratatouille that gives the brilliant little rodent chef the perfect outlet for his wonderful culinary skills....