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Help Make This Awesome ‘Jaws’ LEGO Set Happen By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2014 12:30 pm EST How can you help make this awesome Jaws LEGO Set a reality? We’ve posted about LEGO Cuusoo in the past. The platform, now renamed LEGO Ideas, was most famously responsible for making the Back to the Future Delorean time machine LEGO set that was released last year. The way it works, LEGO fanatics submit their LEGO creations and the LEGO Ideas community can support an idea....

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amélie’ Being Adapted For Broadway By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2013 2:00 pm EST Broadway is about to get a dose of French whimsy. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 romantic comedy Amélie is coming to the stage, as revealed by composer Dan Messé (of the Brooklyn-based folk group Hem). Playwright Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss) and co-lyricist Nathan Tysen (The Burnt Part Boys) are also working on the project. While the film featured a memorable score by Yann Tiersen, Messé says the play will feature new music with a different sound....

Jon Hamm Joins Sandra Bullock In ‘Despicable Me’ Spin-Off ‘Minions’ By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2013 4:21 pm EST Despicable Me was a hit, and this summer’s Despicable Me 2 is sure to be a hit as well. So Universal is well on their way to production on next year’s spinoff, Minions. They’ve already landed Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock as Scarlet Overkill, an evil woman attempting world domination, and now they’ve added an Emmy-winner to her ranks....

Margot Robbie In Talks For Live-Action ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2014 6:30 pm EST Anime classic Ghost in the Shell is being developed as a live-action English-language film, with Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) directing. Now Margot Robbie, who rocketed to the top of casting lists thanks to her work in The Wolf of Wall Street (above), is in early talks to star....

Martin Scorsese Finally Set To Make ‘Silence’ By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2013 12:54 pm EST For quite a few years we’ve heard about Martin Scorsese’s desire to adapt the Shusaku Endo novel Silence, about Jesuits who attempt to spread Christianity in 17th century Japan. For various reasons the project has never quite come to fruition. Once nearly set to shoot with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead, the film fell behind many of the director’s other projects when it came time to set up the financing and scheduling films....

Page 2: Back To The Future, Joss Whedon, Game Of Thrones, Star Wars, Disneyland, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Fifth Element, Doctor Who, Mad Men, Django Unchained, John Hughes, Alien By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2012 8:00 am EST The unkindest cut: 13-plus movies weakened by directors’ cuts Boba Fett painting by Kai Lim. Best Space Mission Movies: From Planetary Demolition Crews to Hellish Black Holes and BeyondJoss Whedon HeroClix5 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan’Video: Game Of Thrones Theme Performed On Squeaky Toys20 Facts About Serenity That Might Make You Crave a Fruity Oaty BarStar Wars: The Old Republic official art by Paul Adam10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Silence of the LambsSnow White and the Huntsman concept art4 Reasons Why Khan Should Not Be Star Trek 2 Villain...

Page 2: BTTF, GoT, Breaking Bad, Hunger Games, Aliens, Star Wars, Jimmy Kimmel, Hobbit By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2013 1:00 pm EST 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 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

POTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Aging Makeup Vs. 30 Years Of Actual Aging By Germain Lussier/Aug. 8, 2013 12:45 pm EST Robert Zemeckis’ classic 1985 film Back to the Future is almost 30 years old. That is, the same amount of time that passed in the time travel period in the movie, from 1955 to 1985. To make the jump believable, makeup was used to add thirty years to actors like Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas Wilson as they played their characters in 1985....

POTD: 470 Feet Of Dolly Track On The Set Of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2013 6:00 am EST Earlier this week, Paul Thomas Anderson completed production on his seventh film, Inherent Vice. That means the excruciating wait now begins for Anderson to complete the film and get it in front of our eyes. Based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon, the film follows a pothead detective (Joaquin Phoenix) who gets drawn into a complex crime plot when his ex-girlfriend comes back into his live....

See Posters For The 2014 Best Picture Nominees Redone In LEGO By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2014 9:45 am EST Even before we found out “everything is awesome” in The LEGO Movie, LEGO movie stuff was pretty “awesome” on the internet. The LEGO video games made new fans, and reimagined posters using the construction toys are fairly common place. Huge trailers are regularly adapted into stop motion LEGO versions. Even so, those adaptations are usually for “blockbuster” cinema, big summer and superhero movies....

Spoilers: More Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Epilogue Photos By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 2:30 pm EST Last week we posted the first photos from the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows showing what happened to the surviving characters in the decades following the events of the books. Many of you have probably already read the book, and know that David Yates is filming the scenes for the last movie, employing make-up and wigs to make the actors look older....

Star-Lord Stars In New ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Photos By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2014 2:30 pm EST Briefly: As we patiently wait for a new, longer and more revealing trailer for James Gunn’s Phase Two Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, we’ll have to settle for a couple still images. Two new ones have just hit the web, both featuring Chris Pratt as James Quill, also known as Star Lord....

Studio Ghibli Doc ‘The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness’ Will Get US Release By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2014 8:00 am EST We’ve told you about The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, the documentary about Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Now we get to tell you that GKIDS, the US distributor which has taken up distribution of some Ghibli titles in the States, will bring the doc to US theaters this year....

Toy List Reveals Character Names In ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2013 7:00 am EST Transformers: Age of Extinction is obviously bringing back all of your favorite robot characters like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. But the fun of each new movie in Michael Bay’s series are the new additions. If things pan out, this fourth film – which is simultaneously a sequel and reboot – will have more than any other Transformers sequel yet....

VOTD: Every Word In Star Wars Sorted Alphabetically By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2014 10:30 am EST The internet has allowed fans to distribute a wealth of videos dissecting their favorite films that otherwise wouldn’t exist. Sometimes the OCD of obsessive fandom results in something so insane that you just need to see it just to know someone spent the time to create it. YouTube user suckerpinch decided to take Star Wars Episode VI: A New Hope and reedit the movie sorted by alphabetically by word....

VOTD: Pearl Jam Covers ‘Let It Go’ From ‘Frozen’ By Angie Han/June 23, 2014 5:00 pm EST Not long after Frozen was released, Disney put out a video of Elsa’s signature theme “Let It Go” being sung in 25 different languages. And that was only the beginning of the Frozen interpretations and reinterpretations. Since then, we’ve seen a Mr. Freeze version, a Game of Thrones version, a Jimmy Fallon and the Roots version, a Stormtrooper version — you name it....

Watching Horror Movies Can Help You Lose Weight? Sure, Why Not By Angie Han/Oct. 29, 2012 4:45 pm EST The horror genre is obviously great for instilling lifelong phobias in little kids or giving your date an excuse to snuggle in closer during the scary bits. But did you know that all that terror can also do wonders for your waistline? So claims one recent study, which found that 90 minutes of a scary movie could burn as many calories as a half-hour walk....

‘A Field In England’ Trailer: From The Prolific Director Of ‘Kill List’ And ‘Sightseers’ By Angie Han/May 21, 2013 8:00 am EST Ben Wheatley hasn’t been making features for very long, but he’s sure good at making his time count. In the four years since his first, Down Terrace, he’s managed to direct three more, each one wonderfully dark and twisted in its own special way. His black romantic comedy Sightseers is still in theaters over here in the U....

‘Automata’ Trailer: Antonio Banderas Grapples With Robot Sentience By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2014 9:00 am EST The film Automata seems to have come out of nowhere, and it appears to have just the sort of vibe that fans of Neill Blomkamp’s film District 9 will love. Antonio Banderas stars in and produces a story that bears a distinct conceptual influence from Isaac Asimov, but which looks a lot more like Blade Runner and the films from Blomkamp....

‘Bond 24’ Update: New Film Might Miss 2014 Release, New Director Announced Soon By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2013 9:07 am EST Well before the unprecedented international success of James Bond’s 23rd adventure, Skyfall, MGM was looking ahead to his 24th film and beyond. Sam Mendes then delivered a tour-de-force entry into the franchise which almost doubled the gross of the series’ previous highest grossing film. Even before its release, screenwriter John Logan began working on the sequel....