VOTD: How Hot Toys Makes Their Stupendous, Incredibly Detailed Collectible Figures By Ethan Anderton/July 29, 2015 6:00 am EST Obviously we’re big movie fans here at SlashFilm. And some of us like to show our passion by having cool stuff on our shelves. Whether it’s prop replicas, LEGO sets, action figures or a piece of art on the wall, we like to show how much we love what we love....
Watch A 3-Minute Breakdown Of How The Oscars Work By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2015 6:00 am EST The 2015 Oscar nominations are out and, as usual, they created lots of conversation. Where’s the diversity? Why is this film missing? How did that movie get nominated? There are long, complicated answers to all of those questions but we found a fun video that sums up everything rather succinctly. In under three minutes, this video explains how Oscar nominations work, how the winners are chosen and why the “least disagreeable film” often wins everything....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 5 Deleted Scene Features Some Serious Tension At The Wall By Jacob Hall/March 4, 2016 1:30 pm EST When you’re adapting a series as large in scope and detail as George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, you have to be very picky about choosing what makes it to the screen and what gets cut. And then you have to find a way to contort the most vital information into hour-long chunks suitable for a television time slot....
‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Roland Emmerich On Nastier Aliens And The Death Toll [Interview] By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 8, 2016 7:00 am EST Yesterday the Super Bowl spot for Independence Day: Resurgence teased destruction on what seems to somehow be a larger scale than the first film from 20 years ago. Today begins the first of our series of interviews from the set of the sci-fi sequel, talking about what we can expect 20 years after what has been dubbed the War of 1996, and kicking things off is director Roland Emmerich....
‘Neuromancer’ Gains Funding, Loses Vincenzo Natali By Angie Han/May 21, 2015 9:00 am EST After many years in development, the Neuromancer movie has taken a big step forward by securing new funding. At the same time, though, it has lost director Vincenzo Natali, who’s been attached for the past five years. Get all the details on the Neuromancer Vincenzo Natali news after the jump. Screen Daily reports Chinese company C2M Media Group has stepped up to co-develop and co-finance Neuromancer with the UK-based GFM Films....
‘Preacher’ Casts The Vampire Cassidy By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2015 4:30 pm EST The producers of AMC’s Preacher pilot seemingly haven’t fully locked the actor who’ll play Jesse Custer, the title character, but the rest of the major cast is slowly being shown to the public. Ian Colletti plays the disfigured young man Eugene Root, aka Arseface, while Ruth Negga plays Tulip, the woman whose fierce love for Jesse is matched only by the ferocity she unleashes on anyone who crosses her....
‘The Benefactor’ Trailer: Do Richard Gere A Favor And Get Drunk With Him By Jack Giroux/Nov. 19, 2015 2:00 pm EST Richard Gere is one of those movies stars who’s probably slightly undervalued as an actor because of his stardom. But for the past decade, aside from the occasional hokey romance or two, he’s been doing some of his most thoughtful work as a performer. He’s taken on smaller and more intimate projects, frequently playing some wonderfully unlikable and deeply human characters (see The Hoax or The Hunting Party, if you haven’t already)....
By Fred Topel/Aug. 8, 2016 12:08 pm EST “We would obviously love to do another season,” Madden said. “There are significant talks going on with all three of the principals. Schedules are hard but we’re working hard to get this done.” After the panel, Walden spoke more about her hopes for a longer run of X-Files. There were only six episodes this year. “We would have liked to have done more in the first place,” Walden said....
‘Wayward Pines’ Trailer: This Town Is Watching And Listening By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2015 10:30 am EST M. Night Shyamalan produces the show Wayward Pines, based on the novel Pines by Blake Crouch, and the show really looks like some bizarre combination of Twin Peaks and The Prisoner. I’ve made that comparison before, but this new Wayward Pines trailer really hammers it home. Matt Dillon is a Secret Service agent investigating the disappearance of two other agents, when he finds himself trapped in a small town that seems friendly enough, but is actually far more sinister than its outward appearance suggests....
A Cast Of Kings S1E05 - The Wolf And The Lion By David Chen/Nov. 5, 2015 6:30 pm EST In this episode of “A Cast of Kings,” Joanna and David discuss fifth episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, “The Wolf and the Lion.” Use this chart to follow along with your own book-reading. Thanks to our sponsor for this ep, Audible. Go to audible.com/acastofkings to get a free audiobook download....
A Cast Of Kings S6E03 - Oathbreaker By David Chen/May 9, 2016 10:14 pm EST In this episode of “A Cast of Kings,” Joanna and David discuss third episode of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, “Oathbreaker.” Thanks to Audible for sponsoring us this week! Go to audible.com/acastofkings to get a free thirty-day trial. Thanks to Adam Wells from the Beyond The Shield podcast for his help in putting this ep together....
Andy Serkis To Give Rumpelstiltskin Fairy Tale A Makeover With ‘Steelskin’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 13, 2015 11:00 am EST The actor who brought characters such as King Kong and Gollum to life will direct, produce and star in Steelskin, an update of the classic fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin that has been set up at 20th Century Fox. Find out more about the project below. For those who don’t know, the story of Rumpelstiltskin comes from The Grimm Brothers’ famous tales, with this one following a woman who has the ability to spin straw into gold, or at least that’s what her father tells the king....
Chris Pine, Ben Foster, And Jeff Bridges Starring In ‘Comancheria’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2015 1:30 pm EST Would you see a western-tinged heist movie starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges? What if it was written by the guy who scripted Sicario, Taylor Sheridan, and directed by David Mackenzie, who made Starred Up? You’ll get a chance, as the film Comancheria is now rolling with that team behind the camera....
Christian Bale Will Be Enzo Ferrari For Michael Mann By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2015 2:00 pm EST This film is based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, but this isn’t the first Ferrari movie Mann has developed. The last one he was attached to was called Go Like Hell, which focused on Ferrari’s rivalry with Henry Ford II, but it seems to have gone away....
Daisy Ridley Suggests Rey’s Mother Is Probably Not Jyn Erso From ‘Rogue One’ So Keep Guessing By Ethan Anderton/April 11, 2016 2:30 pm EST After the pure excitement from the debut of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer died down, people started picking apart the trailer frame by frame (and that includes us). One of the more popular theories about what we saw in the trailer was that Jyn Erso, the lead rebel character played by Felicity Jones, might be the mother of our new favorite future Jedi, Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens....
David Gordon Green To Direct Boston Marathon Bombing Drama ‘Stronger’ By Angie Han/July 17, 2015 1:15 pm EST Learn all about the David Gordon Green Stronger movie after the jump. THR reports Stronger will be based on the memoir by Jeff Bauman with help from Bret Witter. Bauman was waiting for his girlfriend at the Boston Marathon finish line when the bombs went off, killing three people. Bauman was one of the 260 injured, losing both his legs....
First Look: Tom Hanks On The Set Of Steven Spielberg’s Cold War Thriller By Russ Fischer/Dec. 18, 2014 1:30 pm EST I called the upcoming Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg collaboration — currently referred to as the director’s Untitled Cold War Thriller — one of my most anticipated films of 2015. The movie sees Spielberg reunited with Hanks for a fourth big-screen collaboration, with a script polished by Ethan and Joel Coen and a cast that also includes Amy Ryan and Mark Rylance....
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James Wan’s ‘Aquaman’ Reels In ‘Conjuring 2’ Writer By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2015 5:00 am EST James Wan’s Aquaman went fishing and caught itself another new writer. David Leslie Johnson has been brought on board to pen the DC superhero movie, which already has Jason Momoa attached to play the lead. Johnson recently worked with Wan on The Conjuring 2: The Entfield Poltergeist, which is shooting now. More on the new Aquaman writer after the jump....
Japanese ‘Inside Out’ Trailer Features New Footage By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2015 12:00 pm EST There’s a ton of new footage in this Japanese Inside Out trailer, including the clearest shots yet of Riley’s imaginary friend, who has so far been minimized in the US marketing in order to emphasize the emotions. There’s other new footage, too, showing Riley’s life, with many ups and downs, and Joy’s journey to the center of Riley’s mind as she tries to find and restore the young girl’s core memories....
