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Mondo’s Comic-Con Posters Include Tons Of ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy,’ ‘Batman,’ And Video Games By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2014 10:30 am EST We would’ve loved to see everything Mondo had in store for San Diego Comic-Con 2014 last week when it was still available, but that’s not how Mondo works. Besides that one piece we showed, almost none of what the company had planned was revealed until they wanted it to be....

New ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Clip Stops Time With Electro And Spidey By Germain Lussier/April 14, 2014 9:45 am EST The Wachowski Siblings will be among the fans of this latest clip from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In it, Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) and Electro (Jamie Foxx) have a Times Square showdown. However, when Electro finally unleashes his powers on Spider-Man, we see Marc Webb’s version of bullet-time. It’s a slow motion, spinning, digital tracking shot meant to duplicate Spider-Sense....

New ‘Man Of Steel’ Set Photos Feature A Different Looking Henry Cavill As Clark Kent By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2011 9:30 am EST After shooting all across the great state of Illinois, Zack Snyder is now in Vancouver filming his new Superman film Man of Steel. Since production moved North of the border, spy photos have to hard to come by because most of the filming has been on closed sets and those sets, according to co-star Michael Shannon, are like walking onto another world....

Page 2: BTTF, Star Trek, Frozen, 47 Roni, Jumanji, Gremlins, Star Wars, Big By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Back to the Portal t-shirt ‘47 Ronin’: The Inside Story of Universal’s Samurai Disaster Vince McMahon and WWE Have Just Given Big Media a Blueprint For the Future Rabid ‘Star Trek’ Fan Converts House Into the Enterprise [Gallery] IFC Now Means The Same Thing As KFC The 20 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2014A map that shows the most popular movie set in each U....

Page 2: Roger Ebert, Star Wars, Simpsons, Apes, Spurlock, GoT, Walhberg, Doctor Who, Purge, Up, ID4, Transformers By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2014 2:30 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....

Page 2: Star Wars, Alien, Wreck It Ralph, Human Centipede, Star Trek, Saul Bass, Fraggle Rock, Pacific Rim By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2013 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: The Last HopeRay Harryhausen: Pixar’s Pete Docter on the monster kingThe Story of How ‘Sesame Street’ Got Its Name Chest-burster pendant Did You Know: This ‘Indiana Jones’ Movie Was Supposed to Feature Dinosaurs?Why ‘Speed Racer’ Is Way Better Than You RememberFix-It Felix CakeBaz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’: The 7 Biggest Differences From the Book5 Monster Movie Ideas Hollywood Should Be Making NextHow two ‘Star Trek’ fans are restoring original series shuttlecraftThe 20 Best Fantasy Films You Should Watch...

Richard Linklater Leaves ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpet’ To Focus On ‘That’s What I’m Talking About’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2014 5:00 pm EST For the past few years Richard Linklater has been attached to direct The Incredible Mr. Limpet for Warner Bros. That’s the remake of the 1964 film (or a re-adaptation of the source novel by Theodore Pratt) in which a man turns into a fish… which then helps the Navy find and sink German U-Boats....

Rosemarie DeWitt Moves In To New Version Of ‘Poltergeist’ By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2013 1:47 pm EST Briefly: The new version of Poltergeist, to be directed by Gil Kenan (Monster House) has found its first victim, er, resident. Rosemarie DeWitt (Mad Men, United States of Tara) will take the lead female role. David Lindsay-Abaire scripted, and we’ve heard the film might be a semi-remake/semi-sequel, vaguely in the vein of the recent Evil Dead re-do....

See The Reunited Palmer Family From ‘Twin Peaks’ By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2014 9:45 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are other bonus features in the set, too, and one of the most highly anticipated is Between Two Worlds. The segment features David Lynch talking with the actors who played the Palmer family — Ray Wise, who was father Leland, Grace Zabriske, who played mother Sarah, and Sheryl Lee, who played Laura Palmer....

Star Wars On Yellow By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 9:23 pm EST WiReD has 20 photos from The Making of Star Wars by J. W. Rinzler, which comes out on April 24 in both a hardcover ($75) and trade paperback. Peter Jackson wrote the foreword. I might have to pick this one up. Am I the only one who wishes they kept track of the total amount of money they’ve given to George Lucas over the years....

Star Wars Rebels “Art Attack” Short Film Introduces Sabine By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2014 9:00 am EST Last Week, Disney XD released the first Star Wars Rebels short film “Ghost in the Machine” which focused on the animated series’ new astromech droid Chopper. This week Disney has released another Star Wars Rebels short film titled “Art Attack” which focuses on Sabine Wren, the Mandalorian Human female weapons expert who is part of the new series....

Superhero Bits: Agents Of SHIELD, Batman, Ant-Man, X-Men, Sin City 2, Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2014 6:00 am EST Want to see that Batman timeline much larger? How will Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2 play into Avengers: Age of Ultron? Want to catch up on the whole first season in 60 seconds? Who does the creator of Cable think should play him in an X-Force movie? Does The Mountain on Game of Thrones have a superhero link?...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Planet Hulk, Gotham, Comic-Con, Batman V Superman, Ant-Man By Germain Lussier/June 30, 2014 4:20 pm EST Want to see a bunch of new merchandise and marketing materials for Guardians of the Galaxy? Has James Gunn revealed Yondu? Does Mark Ruffalo think Planet Hulk is a good story for a Hulk standalone film? Can you see the Gotham and Flash pilots at Comic-Con? Are there new images from the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?...

The Men Who Stare At Goats Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2009 7:48 pm EST Overture Films has released a trailer for Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare At Goats. Based on Jon Ronson’s 2004 book, Ewan McGregor stars in this so-unbelievable-yet-true story of a reporter who is chasing after a crazy story. U.S. Army First Earth Battalion unit member Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) claims to be part of an experimental U....

This Week In Trailers: 100 Bloody Acres, Finders Keepers, Satellite Boy, Accused, Off Label By Christopher Stipp/June 28, 2013 3:00 pm EST Well, that was unexpected. I wasn’t sure what directors Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes wanted me to feel after seeing this trailer but I’m exasperated. Part comedy, part horror, complete farce, there’s just a nice tone this trailer strikes with the way it is selling itself. From establishing quickly that this is going down a dark road to making sure to interweave some of the more silly bits, we get a fairly accurate representation of the way things are going to play out....

Ti West Recruits John Travolta And Ethan Hawke For ‘In A Valley Of Violence’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2014 4:32 pm EST Ti West (The Innkeepers, House of the Devil) is moving into new territory with his excellently-titled new western, In a Valley of Violence. The writer/director has been known for horror in the past, but he’s following his cult movie The Sacrament with this project, which exists thanks to backing from producer Jason Blum and his company Blumhouse....

Universal Wins Rights To ‘Section 6,’ About Creation Of MI6 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2013 9:10 am EST Hollywood had a minor flashback to the Eighties and Nineties this weekend as studios fought tooth and nail over the rights to a high-concept spec script by a first-time writer. In the end, Universal outbid Sony and paid $1.2 million for the rights to Section 6 by Aaron Berg. The script is period spy thriller set during World War I, focusing on the formation of the intelligence agency MI6....

Vin Diesel Continues To Toy With Marvel Fans, Vaguely Teasing Possible Roles By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2013 4:32 pm EST This is more a “don’t get your hopes up” piece than anything else. Vin Diesel is happy to use Facebook and Twitter to issue missives to his fans. Some of these feature concrete info about films like the Fast and the Furious sequels and Riddick. Others are more cryptic, as when he recently talked about setting up a meeting with Marvel Studios....

Watch The New Pixar Short Film For Free: Cars’ ‘The Radiator Springs 500 1/2’ By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2014 3:30 pm EST Does this summer movie season feel a little light on the animation? That’s because Pixar pulled out of 2014 entirely, leaving us without a film from the award-winning animation house for the first time since 2005. But the work never stops at Pixar Animation Studios. Besides the six movies scheduled over the next four years, Pixar is constantly producing shorts....

You Can Get An Uber Ride From Optimus Prime By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2014 3:30 pm EST This is just about the coolest movie tie-in in recent memory. This week, you can go on the popular taxi cab app Uber and request a ride from the real Optimus Prime from Transformers: Age of Extinction. The Optimus Prime Uber is in Dallas Monday, Phoenix Thursday and Los Angeles Saturday. Read more details below....