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Kung Fu Panda’s Jennifer Yuh Will Direct Live-Action ‘Darkest Minds’ Movie Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2016 4:00 pm EST Yuh started as an assistant on a a bunch of direct-to-video animated movies for Goodtimes, before becoming a Character Designer on animated television shows like The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and HBO’s Spicy City. She landed at DreamWorks Animation around the turn of the century and worked her way up the ladder....

Marvel Announces ‘Captain America’ Movie Marathon For This Thursday By Jacob Hall/May 3, 2016 7:30 am EST Last year, Marvel Studios tested the mettle of comic book movie fans with “The Ultimate Marvel Marathon,” a 28-hour marathon consisting of 11 movies, climaxing with the brand new Avengers: Age of Ultron. I didn’t attend this event, but I know people who did. They have war stories. Their posteriors (and their sanity) never returned to full working order....

Marvel Comic Con 2016 Television Presentations And Signings Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2016 2:00 pm EST The full Marvel Television Comic Con 2016 schedule has been revealed. Netflix is bringing a sneak preview of Luke Cage and ABC is bringing back Agents of SHIELD. Learn more after the jump. On Thursday, July 21st, Marvel and Netflix will present their first-ever San Diego Comic-Con panel session together. Moderated by Marvel’s Head of Television and Executive Producer Jeph Loeb, the Marvel’s Luke Cage panel will feature the show’s cast including Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali, Theo Rossi, Simone Missick, Frank Whaley alongside showrunner and executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker....

New ‘Fantastic Four’ Poster Has A Vague Display Of Power By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2015 10:15 am EST There’s a new Fantastic Four poster from Fox, and while it doesn’t reveal much that is new, this one-sheet does display something that we didn’t really see in the trailer: the invisibility power of Sue Storm, played by Kate Mara. Trouble is, the display is via an image we’ve seen before, and looks more like a deployment of a photoshop effect than an actual superpower....

New Muppets TV Show Will Explore Their Personal Lives In ‘Office’ Style Mockumentary By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2015 2:15 pm EST If The Muppets make the transition back to TV, it’ll be in a way we’ve never seen them before. New details have surfaced about the upcoming ABC pilot starring Jim Henson’s famous characters and it seems this version will have a more adult feel. It’ll be shot as a mock-documentary, like The Office, centered on the behind-the-scenes antics of making a new TV show....

POTD: Benedict Cumberbatch Visits Comic Book Store In Full ‘Doctor Strange’ Wardrobe By Ethan Anderton/April 4, 2016 9:00 am EST Over the weekend, production wrapped on Marvel’s forthcoming mystic comic book flick Doctor Strange. There have been some set photos making the rounds, but since copyrights can be tricky for those kind of images we won’t post them here. But what we can post are some images that a comic book store manager posted when Benedict Cumberbatch decided to pay a visit while still in his full Doctor Strange wardrobe....

Sex Criminals TV Series: Matt Fraction Adapting Comic For Universal By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2015 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my current favorite comic book writers is Matt Fraction, and his Sex Criminals is one of my favorite on-going comic book series of the moment. I once half seriously joked on Twitter that David Fincher should direct the live action adaptation based on a screenplay adaptation from Chuck Palahniuk and John August....

Simon Pegg And Edgar Wright Approve ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Stage Show; See A Trailer By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2014 3:00 pm EST We’re still waiting to hear what film director Edgar Wright is doing next, but we know the next step for his first feature. Wright’s Shaun of the Dead has been turned into a live stage production by Almost Legal Productions. It premiered in late October of this year but is coming back in the next few months....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Gotham, SHIELD, Batman V Superman, Arkham Knight By Angie Han/June 25, 2015 4:00 pm EST Is Ant-Man complete? When does Gotham return? What can Clark Gregg say about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3? Does William Hurt want to play Red Hulk? Will the Collector return in Guardians of the Galaxy 2? Did you catch all the Superman Easter eggs in Batman: Arkham Knight? Which Iron Man star is returning for Captain America: Civil War?...

Superhero Bits: Supergirl, Batman, Spider-Gwen, Storm, The Flash, The Worst X-Man Ever By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2015 5:00 pm EST Who is the Worst X-Man Ever? Which Marvel superhero did Beyoncé dress up as at a recent party? What would it take for Alan Tudyk to play Blue Beetle? Who has Robert Downey Jr. invited to the Captain America: Civil War premiere? Why did the Batman v Superman script change after Jesse Eisenberg joined the cast?...

Teaser Trailer For ‘Back To The Future’ Reboot Starring Vin Diesel By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2015 11:00 am EST We used to post an April Fools Day story each year on /Film, but I became annoyed by all the uncreative unfunny fake stories which infest this day. So we haven’t really participated in April Fools Day in a few years, and thats not changing this year — all the news you see on our front page is real news we believe to be true (hey, there’s always the chance that we’ll get fooled)....

Watch A Trailer For ‘Kevin Hart: What Now?’, Universal’s Third Kevin Hart Movie Of The Year By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2016 2:30 pm EST Universal Pictures will be all about Kevin Hart in 2016. The studio kicks off the Year of Hart with Ride Along 2 this weekend, keeps it rolling with The Secret Life of Pets this summer, and will finish this fall with his new standup special, Kevin Hart: What Now?...

By Angie Han/Jan. 14, 2015 7:05 am EST Cameron revealed the release date shift to the AP (via Variety). As of now, the plans is still to shoot all 3 Avatar sequels simultaneously — and that’s part of the issue. We’re writing three simultaneously. And we’ve done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We’re not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Rehearsal Photos Revealed; Which Comedian Has Joined The Cast? By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2016 2:30 pm EST Director James Gunn and the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy are already back at work down in Atlanta, preparing to shoot Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. However, it doesn’t look like shooting has begun just yet, because Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Michael Rooker are still on the rehearsal stage in some photos that Gunn posted to social media....

‘London Road’ Trailer: Tom Hardy Joins An Ensemble Musical Cast By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2015 4:30 pm EST Here’s the first trailer for an unusual film musical. London Road is an adaptation of the stage musical that used real interviews with Ipswich townspeople as the basis for songs telling the story of community reaction to the actions Steve Wright, known as the Suffolk Strangler, who murdered five prostitutes in 2006. In other words, this is really heavy stuff, but told in a way that initially seems to contradict the weighty material....

‘Neighbors’ Writers Plan ‘Scream’-Like Horror Comedy ‘Thrill Ride’ By Angie Han/Oct. 9, 2014 8:30 am EST After scripting and producing some of the biggest comedy hits of the past few years, Andrew Jay Cohen is ready to try helming one. He’s set to make his feature directing debut on Thrill Ride, a horror comedy described as being “in the vein of This Is The End and Scream.” Hit the jump for Thrill Ride plot details and more....

‘Spectre’ Rome Filming Details; See Daniel Craig And Monica Belucci’s Photoshoot By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2015 11:30 am EST The globe-trotting shoot for the 24th James Bond movie, Spectre, continues. Director Sam Mendes is currently in Rome for a five week shoot, and to mark the occasion several photos have been shot featuring stars Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci. See those below, as well as read some details of what exactly is happening during the Spectre Rome filming....

‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Trailer: Henry Cavill And Armie Hammer Are ’60s Spies By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2015 5:09 pm EST Henry Cavill took a break from being Superman to be The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for Warner Bros. and Guy Ritchie, and now you can see the first footage of him in action. The film features Cavill and Armie Hammer as a pair of unlikely American and Russian spies who work together in the swinging ’60s and the Cold War....

‘The Primary Instinct’ Trailer: Stephen Tobolowsky On Life, Love And Entertainment By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 25, 2015 9:30 am EST If you’re a loyal reader of SlashFilm, then you’re likely already very well acquainted with Stephen Tobolowsky. He’s a very gifted character actor who has been in over 200 movies and TV shows, with some of his recognizable roles being Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and Sammy Jankis in Memento, not to mention recurring roles on Deadwood, Glee, The Goldbergs and more....

‘Visions’ Trailer: Sanity Frays For Isla Fisher And Jim Parsons By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2015 4:00 pm EST Blumhouse Productions has two great films out this summer: Creep, with Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, and this week’s The Gift, with Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, and Rebecca Hall. Now add Visions to the list of Blumhouse films with great if somewhat unlikely casts. The movie features Isla Fisher, Gillian Jacobs and Jim Parsons, and the first international Visions trailer will show you some of the particular horrors created for this film as the characters deal with pregnancy and a new house that seems to have echoes of really bad old stuff....