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Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ Gets One Last Extended Trailer By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2013 2:50 pm EST With Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad hitting theaters today, Warner Bros. is squeezing in one last extended trailer. Based on true events, the drama follows a special force of LAPD officers who are tasked with breaking the mob’s iron grip on the city of Los Angeles. The new three-minute promo offers looks at Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling’s incorruptible cops, but it mostly highlights Sean Penn’s scenery-chewing performance as gangster king Mickey Cohen....

Rumor: Christopher Nolan To Watch Over ‘Justice League,’ With Bale Returning As Batman By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2013 8:02 am EST Furthermore, if the Superman relaunch Man of Steel does as well as early reports suggest it might, Zack Snyder could direct the team effort. Latino Review has the report, which counters enough previous reports that it is worth breaking down. Tracking previous Justice League comments and rumors we can recall that Nolan said consistently that he was done with Batman, and that while he was producing Man of Steel, he didn’t have any plans for Justice League....

Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury Will Not Appear In Iron Man After All? By Hunter Stephenson/March 17, 2008 3:51 pm EST Buried in this report covering yesterday’s Wizard World convention in L.A. is the news via a panel that Samuel L. Jackson may not have a cameo as Marvel character Nick Fury in Iron Man after all. Nearly a year ago AICN reported the casting news as a definite for the summer blockbuster, and since then everyone from Avi Arad to Jackson to director Jon Favreau has reluctantly nodded “yes....

See Multiple ‘Transformers 4’ Posters Before New Trailer Thursday By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2014 5:20 pm EST A new trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction hits the web early Thursday morning. In preparation for that launch, director Michael Bay has uploaded some new posters. Four, in fact. Three international and one domestic images have hit the net for the fourth Transformers film that opens June 27 here in the U.S....

The 500th Edition Of Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 61 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!...

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 30 - Plan B By David Chen/June 4, 2010 11:30 am EST Don’t look at Plan B as a setback – it’s just taking the scenic route. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can always e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or you can e-mail David at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com....

Video: Recreating Up’s Flying House In Real Life By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2011 4:00 am EST National Geographic’s upcoming television series How Hard Can It Be? sent Scientists, engineers and pilots from Southern California into the Mojave Desert to try to recreate Carl Fredricksen’s flying house from the Pixar computer animated movie Up. They attempted to lift a lightweight 16 x 16ft yellow house construction with 300 colored helium-filled balloons. Did it work?...

Watch A Short Scene From ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 5 By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2014 6:30 am EST Briefly: AMC has already released a few briefs teases from the set of The Walking Dead season 5 but now they’ve gone one step further. Almost like you’re visiting the set yourself, they’ve premiered a short scene from the new season. Emphasis on the “short,” in that it’s 30 seconds and feels like an assembly made very quickly by an editor to show the actors what they just shot....

What Was Really Going On In ‘The Fountain,’ Anyway? By David Chen/Dec. 6, 2013 10:00 am EST When Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain was released in 2006, didn’t perform very well commercially or critically. But in the intervening years, the film has become somewhat of a cult hit, thriving on DVD and online streaming as more people have discovered it and attempted to plumb its depths. I remember my first experience seeing the film in theaters....

‘Arrested Development’ Movie Would Be Family Reunion, Plus New Info On The Story And Structure Of Season Four By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2013 9:00 am EST The information comes from a USA Today article about the viability of Netflix’s effort to create original content. (A summary – it’s a major player.) Netflix’s chief content creator, Ted Sarandos, says that knowing the episodes will be presented all at once, and fans can watch them all together in one huge marathon totally changes how they were written and structured:...

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Will Have Biggest Death Count Yet By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2013 11:30 am EST Anyone who has read George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels likely laughs whenever people who haven’t, like myself, get excited about what’s to come on the HBO adaptation Game of Thrones. Fans of the TV show speculate and discuss who’ll die next, which battles will be won, all while the answers are sitting there, incredibly easy to find....

‘Independence Day’ Sequel Scripted In Two Versions, Only One Features Will Smith By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2013 1:45 pm EST Given the choice between making a movie with Will Smith and making one without him, a major studio will almost always choose Smith. That’s especially the case for a film with a major budget, and if the film in question is one which is a sequel to another Smith film, then it really isn’t even a question any longer....

‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Trailer Description; Will Premiere On ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Germain Lussier/June 24, 2011 3:30 pm EST [No photo] As usual, December brings audiences a bunch of potentially exciting Oscar contenders and popcorn movies. One of the most highly anticipated in the latter category is Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Oscar-winning director Brad Bird’s first live action film and the fourth in the massive Mission: Impossible series....

‘Nymphomaniac’ Red-Band Trailer: “We Say Sex Addict” By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2013 8:37 am EST After several tantalizing “appetizers,” including one deemed too hot for YouTube, the first full-length trailer has arrived for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. And yes, it’s everything we’ve come to expect: beautiful, unsettling, explosive, steamy, chaotic, and wildly NSFW. (Like, really, super, completely not safe for work.) Charlotte Gainsbourg stars as Joe, who is beaten and left for dead on a cold evening....

‘Short Term 12’ Director To Team With Jennifer Lawrence For Next Film By Germain Lussier/Oct. 10, 2013 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jennifer Lawrence is currently rivaling Guillermo del Toro in the “projects in development” department. Seemingly every month, the most recent Best Actress Oscar-winner lines up a few new books or scripts she’ll hopefully make in the future. Now, one of the many just jumped ahead of the pack with a new director....

‘Top Gun’ Gets IMAX 3D Re-Release In February By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2012 11:00 am EST The danger zone will be located right in your local IMAX theater. Looks like Paramount has come up with a plan for the 3D version of Tony Scott’s classic 1986 action film, Top Gun after reportedly being uncertain about how and when to release it. Top Gun is getting an IMAX 3D re-release on February 8, 2013, in advance of its 2D and 3D Blu-ray debut on February 19....

‘Transcendence’ Scribe In Line To Script ‘Prometheus 2’ By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2013 4:57 pm EST Jon Spaihts wrote the script that became Prometheus, with Damon Lindelof doing a rewrite under the scrutiny of Scott. Presumably Scott would direct the sequel, but as always with him, it’s difficult to say for certain until he announces a deal.

‘Trust Me’ Trailer: Here’s What Clark Gregg Does When He’s Not Being Phil Coulson By Angie Han/April 25, 2014 4:15 pm EST These days, we mostly know Clark Gregg as the unflappable Agent Coulson from The Avengers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. But during his downtime from battling superpowered baddies, he’s also been building up an interesting career as a filmmaker. He made his directing debut in 2008 with Choke, and today we have a trailer for his sophomore effort Trust Me....

‘Writers’ Trailer: Greg Kinnear Knows What Makes A Great Writer By Angie Han/Feb. 12, 2013 6:00 am EST If Girls seems to chalk up Hannah’s bad ideas to her relative youth, the first trailer for Writers suggests such misguidedness may simply be an occupational hazard. In the directorial debut by Josh Boone, Greg Kinnear plays an acclaimed novelist who deals with his divorce by alternately spying on his ex-wife (Jennifer Connelly) and screwing his married neighbor (Kristen Bell)....

Cool Stuff: The ‘Quentin Vs Coen’ Art Show In San Francisco By Germain Lussier/July 4, 2014 11:31 am EST In 2011, the Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, CA came up with the great, simple idea for an art show. Take the wildly varied films of two of the most eclectic and revered filmmakers out there, and mash them together. The result, Quentin vs Coen, opens yet again Saturday July 5....