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LOL: The Asylum’s ‘Age Of The Hobbits’ “Mockbuster” Slapped With A Restraining Order; Watch The Trailer Here By Angie Han/Dec. 11, 2012 9:00 am EST What if, then, you could capitalize on recognizable names without actually paying for any rights? That’s what an outfit called The Asylum is doing. Their newest direct-to-DVD “mockbuster” is Age of the Hobbits, a hilariously low-rent affair that has nothing whatsoever to do with Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey....

By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2014 1:15 pm EST In the history of movies, the list of films with essential, iconic and influential looks is short. Films like Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and 2001: A Space Odyssey all instantly come to mind. On that list, too, is Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. The “future noir” aesthetic it helped pioneer over thirty years ago remains a standard in science fiction to this day....

Mondo’s Godzilla Teaser Poster Unleashed [Updated With Variant Poster] By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2013 3:17 pm EST Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. have released a new Mondo poster for Godzilla, just in time for San Diego Comic Con this week where the big monster reboot will be further previewed. The following teaser poster premiered on IGN: Godzilla by Phantom City Creative 24? x 36? Edition of 275 $45 Godzilla (Variant) by Phantom City Creative 24?...

New Photo: Tom Cruise In ‘Oblivion’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2013 10:00 am EST Universal Pictures has released this new photo of Tom Cruise in Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion. Hit the jump to see the full image. Photo found via SHH: OBLIVION exclusively in IMAX® April 12, in theaters everywhere April 19 Genre: Action-adventure Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo Directed by: Joseph Kosinski Screenplay by: Karl Gajdusek and Michael Debruyn Based on the Graphic Novel Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes....

Page 2: Godzilla, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Transformers, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2014 12:00 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....

Pixar Skips 2014 As ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Shifts To 2015 And ‘Finding Dory’ To 2016 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 18, 2013 11:15 am EST There will be no new Pixar movie in 2014. The highly decorated computer animation company, which is owned by Disney, has pushed the release of The Good Dinosaur from June 2014 to November 25, 2015. But wait, wasn’t Finding Dory scheduled for that date? It was, but now the underwater sequel will open June 17, 2016....

Ron Howard May Direct ‘The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair’ Movie By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2014 5:00 am EST The basics of the story almost sound like Nabokov filtered through Stephen King. (To me, at least. If someone who has read the novel says that impression is wildly off-base, I can accept it.) Deadline gives this description: “a young superstar novelist who finds himself embroiled in a sensationalized murder mystery when his mentor, an icon of American literature, is implicated in the crime of a missing 15-year-old girl who turns up dead in the author’s backyard....

Scott C’s The Great, Great Showdowns Hunt - Day 1 By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2014 9:58 am EST UPDATE: Painting 1 is gone. Los Angeles: the hunt is on for free original paintings like the one above, by the one and only Scott Campbell. In fact, exactly like the one above. But you’re going to have to be quick, smart and pop culture-savvy. Starting right now, and repeating each day until the Friday opening of his latest exhibit at Gallery 1988, Campbell is hiding an original painting from a famous film at the location where the scene was shot....

Sony Commissions Two-Hour ‘Breaking Bad’ Documentary By Angie Han/July 29, 2013 9:00 am EST We’ve yet to see the last eight episodes of Breaking Bad, but having seen the first 54 it seems a safe bet that this show will be remembered as one of the greatest of our time. Series creator Vince Gilligan caught lightning in a bottle with this one, and while it remains to be seen whether he can possibly top it with his next endeavor, Sony wants to make sure we remember just how he made the magic happen this time around....

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 61 - Prehistoric Britain By David Chen/Dec. 20, 2013 4:00 pm EST There are a lot worse things than traveling to Europe with a girl you don’t really know. On second thought…. 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. Follow us on Facebook!...

VOTD: J.J. Abrams And Jon Stewart Discuss ‘Star Wars’ Versus ‘Star Trek’ By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2013 9:03 am EST “Star Trek or Star Wars?” is a question that’s been debated by sci-fi fans since Star Wars exploded onto the scene in 1977. At that time Star Trek had already been around for a decade, but some would argue the success of Star Wars helped reinvigorate the series. Others may say George Lucas would never have travelled to a galaxy far, far away had it not been for the ideas and vision of Gene Roddenberry....

VOTD: The Sound Of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2014 11:00 am EST The Soundworks Collection has released a 10 minute behind the scenes documentary on the sound of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. In this SoundWorks Collection sound profile we visit Park Road Post Studios in Wellington, New Zealand to talk with the sound team of Director Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”....

Wait, How Expensive Is The Average Movie Ticket Now? By Germain Lussier/July 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST Call it inflation, call it the cost of helping pay for $200 million movies, but the average price of a movie ticket raises every single year. Every single year the record for most expensive average movie ticket is broken and 2013 follows the trend. What separates this year from others is that we’ve finally crossed the $8 threshold....

Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Play Stephen Hawking In 2004 Biopic By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2014 3:30 pm EST Two big awards season films just bowed at TIFF: The Theory of Everything, in which Eddie Redmayne plays a young Stephen Hawking, and The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as British mathematician Alan Turing. In a not-entirely-strange turn of events however, there’s another film that brings these two buzzy performances together, as Benedict Cumberbatch once played Stephen Hawking in the 2004 UK telefilm Hawking....

World’s Most Famous Movie Theater, Grauman’s Chinese In Hollywood, Changes Its Name By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2013 9:07 am EST Briefly: The most famous movie theater in the world is changing its name. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, located on Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA has been host to major movie premieres since the late 1920s. It used to be the venue of the Academy Awards and to this day it’s still a major tourist attraction because of its recognizable facade and courtyard filled with the hand and footprints of the biggest movie stars in the world....

‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ Teaser Trailer: Sex, Smirks, And ‘Splosions By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2012 9:42 am EST I’ll give it to Fox’s marketing people: this first teaser trailer for the fifth John McClane outing, A Good Day to Die Hard, is zippy and fun. What happens in the movie? Who is McClane fighting, and why? Who’s the guy with him? Why did that woman even bother wearing a bra if she wasn’t going to wear a shirt under the leather?...

‘American Sniper’ Could Lead Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis To ‘Thank You For Your Service’ By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2013 3:45 pm EST At times when you can watch a nucleus of interest form in Hollywood, and it is happening right now around screenwriter Jason Dean Hall. His script for American Sniper, based on the life of the late Chris Kyle, has been in development with Bradley Cooper, and it attracted Steven Spielberg, who now plans to direct the film....

‘Warcraft’ Teaser Trailer Premieres At Comic Con 2014 By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2014 1:39 pm EST Saturday afternoon during the Warner Bros presentation in Hall H at 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, Duncan Jones came out to premiere his upcoming film, Warcraft. That’s, of course, the big screen adaptation of the popular massive multiplayer online video game. Jones is still over a year from release, but he explained a bit about the premise of the movie – an origin story of the conflict in Azeroth – and debuted a short teaser trailer....

‘Wetlands’ Wraps A Terrific Lead Performance In A Messy Story [Sundance 2014 Review] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2014 5:00 pm EST Wetlands, based on a book that tore up sales charts in Germany, is directed by David Wnendt, whose last film was the Fantastic Fest entry Combat Girls. So it’s no surprise that he’s pretty good at giving Juri a framework in which to create an exaggerated and unusually self-actualized character....

Avi Arad Says A Spider-Man Crossover Film Will Only Happen When They’re Out Of Ideas By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2014 11:30 am EST Read Arad’s quotes, and watch a video of the interview, below. Speaking to IGN, Arad talked about the potential for a crossover film: This is the guy who turned the new Spider-Man series into a reboot — the same sort of reboot that has fans saying Sony is already out of ideas for the series....