Anthony Mackie Joins Seth Rogen In Christmas Comedy By Angie Han/May 13, 2014 3:00 pm EST Jonathan Levine’s upcoming Christmas movie is shaping up to be a 50/50 reunion, with Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt once again starring as BFFs. But now the trio are extending a warm welcome to a new friend.Anthony Mackie has just joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled comedy. It’ll be his first time working with any of them....
Constantin Films Pressing Ahead With ‘The Mortal Instruments’ Sequel By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2013 1:45 pm EST Constantin Films was confident enough in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones that it started planning for the sequel, City of Ashes, before the first film even opened. However, when City of Bones proved a big disappointment at the box office, City of Ashes was delayed indefinitely, and we figured it was that was it for the would-be franchise....
First Look: Lucy Lawless In Marvel’s ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2014 3:00 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: ABC has revealed the first photo of Lucy Lawless from Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 2. Hit the jump to see the Lucy Lawless Agents of SHIELD image now. Here is a first look at Lucy Lawless as Agent Isabelle Hartley in Agents of SHIELD season 2 which premieres Tuesday, September 23 at 9:00 p....
J.J. Abrams Wants To Shoot ‘Star Trek 3’ Next Year, Says Zachary Quinto By Angie Han/July 16, 2013 9:00 am EST J.J. Abrams’ decision to take the Star Wars Episode VII helming gig seemed to leave Paramount’s Star Trek franchise with a pretty significant gap. Someone has to direct Star Trek 3, after all, and with Abrams off exploring the further adventures of Luke, Han, and Leia, it didn’t seem like he’d have much time left over for Kirk and Spock....
Johnny Depp Is In Kevin Smith’s ‘Tusk’, According To Justin Long By Angie Han/April 11, 2014 2:45 pm EST Kevin Smith has worked with some pretty big-name actors in his time, and it looks like he’s booked the A-list-iest of them all for his next film Tusk. According to star Justin Long, Johnny Depp has signed on for a supporting character in the offbeat monster movie.Tusk will be Depp’s first movie with Smith, and it seems like the perfect place to launch their professional relationship....
Kevin Smith, Damon Lindelof And James Franco Review ‘Man Of Steel’ By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2013 11:30 am EST Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been in theaters for just about a week, which means almost anyone excited to see it has caught it in theaters. As a result, discussions about the film’s content and potential follow-ups have been non-stop all week. Next, we’ll find out what some famous geeks thought of the movie....
Liam Neeson, Will Ferrell, Alison Brie, And Nick Offerman Join ‘Lego: The Piece Of Resistance’ By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2012 11:30 am EST It’s no great surprise that Phil Lord and Chris Miller are luring in some excellent talent for Lego: The Piece of Resistance, but it’s cheerful news all the same. Chris Pratt and Will Arnett were among the first actors announced over the summer, followed by Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks a couple of months later....
LOL: Elastigirl’s Face Falls Off At Disney World’s The Incredibles Show By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2014 5:00 am EST A tourist shot footage of Elastigirl tripping and suffering the mishap of having her costume face fall off in front of a crowd of children at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom The Incredibles Super Dance Party Show. Instead of being shocked, onlooking kids laughed at the accident. I’m sure these kind of accidents happen all the time around the Disney theme parks (as with any time of regular show)....
LOL: Seth Rogen And James Franco Parody Kanye West’s ‘Bound 2’ Video With Shot-For-Shot Remake By Germain Lussier/Nov. 25, 2013 11:15 am EST Weeks back, Kanye West publicly blasted Jimmy Kimmel when the late night host reenacted one of West’s interviews with children. If that made the rapper/producer mad, he might explode once he sees Seth Rogen and James Franco’s latest stunt. The pair, who are currently shooting The Interview, took a break from filming to do a shot by shot remake of West’s video Bound 2, which has become a punchline for its low-production values and Kim Kardashian’s “nudity....
Matt Damon, Peter Stormare, And Sanjeev Bhaskar Join Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Zero Theorem’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2012 3:00 pm EST Matt Damon did a movie with Terry Gilliam once, and sadly, it… was not very good. At all. But despite all the evident problems with The Brothers Grimm, there is no bad blood between actor and director. In fact, Damon is now set to go back to work with Gilliam....
Page 2: Star Wars, Shatner, The Simpsons, Futurama, Spirited Away, Firefly, Battlestar By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2014 11:30 am 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 Will Scale Back On Sequels, Doing One Every Other Year By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2013 9:30 am EST From 2001 to 2009, Pixar released original films almost every year. And they were all great. Then they did Toy Story 3, followed by Cars 2 and with this year’s Monsters University, some fans have began to complain the company is relying too heavily on older material. Others argued that out of 14 films, there are only four sequels and only one of those wasn’t legitimately fantastic....
Seth MacFarlane Asked To Return As Oscar Host? By Angie Han/April 19, 2013 9:00 am EST The 2013 Oscar ceremony had plenty of fans and detractors alike, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has firmly aligned themselves with the former camp. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have already been set to return, in an unusually early decision, and now the word is they’re eager to get host Seth MacFarlane back as well....
Watch 12 Sundance Short Films Now On YouTube By Angie Han/Jan. 18, 2013 4:00 pm EST This year, however, the programmers are kindly throwing us non-attendees a bone by allowing us to watch some of this year’s short film debuts from home. The Sundance Institute has posted twelve shorts from the festival in their entirety, and you can watch them for free right now. Hit the jump to find out more....
Wolverine Recasting Is “Inevitable,” Says Hugh Jackman By Angie Han/March 4, 2014 10:57 am EST Of all the actors who’ve made their name playing comic book superheroes, Hugh Jackman has stuck with his role the longest. During his now fourteen-year tenure as Wolverine, we’ve gone through two Spider-Men, two Supermen, and two entirely different sets of (non-Wolverine) X-Men. However, there’s only so long a mortal man can play an ageless mutant, and Jackman is well aware of that fact....
‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Teaser Trailer Turns Johnny Cash Into The New Trailer Voice Guy By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 8:25 am EST Here’s the trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The film features Benjamin Walker as Lincoln, but this is no stodgy biopic. Rather, it supposes that the 16th President was really driven by a hatred for the undead. Indeed, this footage shows the Railsplitter earning his name as he wields an axe with supernatural strength, plowing through vampires and trees alike with the common tool....
By Germain Lussier/Sept. 30, 2013 12:00 pm EST Just two years ago, AMC was thinking about letting Breaking Bad go. Despite critical acclaim, they deemed the show too expensive with less than impressive ratings and looked at options to move the show somewhere else. My how times have changed. After deciding against this and renewing the show for its two-part final season, the show picked up incredible momentum. The explosive (get it?...
‘Deadpool’ Writers Have Spoken To Mark Millar; Know Script Is Online; Have Tricks Up Their Sleeve By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2013 12:00 pm EST Every few weeks we hear the same thing about the hypothetical Deadpool movie. We hear the script is great, but incredibly hard-R, and no one is willing to move ahead because of that. The script in question is the work of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, writers who exploded on the scene with the 2009 film Zombieland and penned this week’s G....
‘Homeland’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Who Do You Trust? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2013 10:30 am EST We’ve been waiting since December to find out what happens to Nicholas Brody in Season 3 of Homeland. Showtime has dropped another short teaser trailer, that doesn’t give us much, but hey, thats why its a teaser trailer. The teaser, titled “Who Do You Trust?,” shows us three sides of the story — but which one do you trust to be true?...
‘Les Misérables’ UK Trailer Lets The Audience Hear Russell Crowe’s Voice In Song By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2012 9:13 am EST While we’ve seen a teaser and extended production trailer for Tom Hooper’s new adaptation of Les Miserables, this UK trailer is the fullest, most traditional look at the film to date. It has a lot of footage we haven’t previously seen, and introduces most of the primary cast, including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Eddie Redmayne....
