David Lowery’s ‘Pete’s Dragon’ Reboot Finds Its Pete By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2014 12:30 pm EST David Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon reboot is expected to depart from the original in some significant ways, but at the end of the day it’s still Pete’s Dragon. It needs a Pete and a dragon, and now it’s found the first of those.Oakes Fegley is set to play the little boy who befriends the dragon Elliot....
First ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Posters Feature Channing Tatum And Mila Kunis By Germain Lussier/March 26, 2014 10:45 am EST The first Jupiter Ascending posters have been revealed mere hours before the second trailer. The posters feature Channing Tatum as as alien wolfman hybrid who is tasked with Earth to retrieving a cleaning lady from Earth, ignorant of the fact she’s a space princess. She’s played by Mila Kunis. Written and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski, the team behind The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending opens July 18....
Iain M. Banks Sci-Fi Phenomenon The Culture Headed To The Big Screen By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 22, 2009 12:15 am EST Move over Dune, your time is up. Iain M. Banks’ The Culture is finally coming to the big screen. The first of Banks’ science fiction novels to portray ‘The Culture’ was Consider Phlebas, published back in 1987. That was when I was a young teenager and always keen to find the next big thing in genre literature, so having loved Banks’ The Wasp Factory, I scooped it up hungrily and was almost instantly sucked into something so much bigger, more complex and awesome than I had dared to expect....
James Franco Offers Update On ‘SNL’ Documentary ‘Saturday Night:’ “It Will Come Out” By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2013 11:28 am EST Franco has finally given us that update, and the news is encouraging. Though the film was wrapped up in some rights issues, it has a new distributor and they’re currently figuring out how to release it. “It will come out,” said Franco. Franco spoke to The Huffington Post about the film:...
John C. Reilly Could Be Joining The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2013 1:00 pm EST What Clark Gregg is to The Avengers, John C. Reilly could soon be to the Guardians of the Galaxy. HitFix is reporting the Oscar-nominated actor known for roles in Boogie Nights, Chicago and Step Brothers has been offered the role of Rhomann Dey in James Gunn’s 2014 cosmic Marvel team-up movie. The role is basically a human go-between for the Guardians (Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana and more to be announced) and S....
Lego Does ‘The Simpsons;’ Plus ‘Jurassic Park’ And ‘Back To The Future’ Cuusoo Projects By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2013 11:00 am EST Purchasing the Back to the Future Delorean Lego earlier this month made me feel 12 years old again. All of a sudden, I want to buy all these Legos. It’s not a good thing. Especially when Lego is more than happy to release an increasing number of awesome sets....
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Atlanta Olympics Bombing Movie Gets A Writer By Angie Han/March 6, 2014 11:00 am EST After securing an Oscar nomination for his work on Captain Phillips, writer Billy Ray has booked himself another fact-based drama. Ray is teaming with fellow 2014 Academy Award nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill for The Ballad of Richard Jewell, about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Get all the latest details after the jump....
Michael Bay’s ‘Ninja Turtles’ Pushed Back To June 2014 By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2013 10:00 am EST Last summer, we got word that Paramount’s Michael Bay-produced, Jonathan Liebesman-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot had been delayed by a whole six months to retool the script, perhaps in reaction to some of the fan outrage over changes to the turtles’ origin story. Now it’s being pushed back yet again, though not by nearly as much....
Mondo Unveils Three Posters For Marvel’s ‘Iron Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2013 9:45 am EST Mondo has already done posters for Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, so it was inevitable we’d soon find out what they had in store for Iron Man 3. The answer consists of three posters by two different artists, Martin Ansin and Phantom City Creative. They’ll go on sale Friday and you can see them in full below....
Page 2: Friday The 13th Edition By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2013 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: Pure Evel! t-shirt Indiana Jones is Not James BondWhy The Harry Potter Spinoff Is A Fantastic Idea Yip-Yip-Yip leggings Wes Anderson: Most Divisive Director Ever or Celebrate His Whole Catalogue?10 Terrible Ideas for TV Spinoffs of Popular Movies ‘Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection’ Blu-ray Box Set Available Now Star Trek is not brokenRay Dolby, Founder of Dolby Labs, Dead at 80...
Page 2: GoT, Star Wars, Maze Runner, Veep, Alien, Indiana Jones, BTTF, Frozen, Firefly, Godzilla By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2014 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....
Page 2: Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Indiana Jones, Alien, Harrison Ford, Avatar, Donald Glover By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2013 1:30 pm EST Header Photo: Walnut That Looks Like Chewbacca From ‘Star Wars’ The case against Breaking Bad When a Woman on TV Is in Distress, She Cuts Her Hair Off Terminally Ill Breaking Bad Superfan Turned Down Vince Gilligan’s Offer To Spoil The Ending 10 Questions Every Filmmaker Should Ask Themselves5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Movie Locations...
See The Real Version Of The Deserted Urban Island In ‘Skyfall’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2012 4:45 pm EST Part way into the new James Bond film, Skyfall, 007 is led to a deserted island, wherein waits the film’s villain, Silva. But this isn’t your typical deserted island — it’s no sandy outcrop with a couple palm trees and a few buried, empty bottles of rum. No, this is a portrait of urban blight in miniature, a place where everyone’s luck ran out, but the city-like structures they built still stand....
Star Wars Rebels: Meet David Oyelowo’s ‘Rebel Hunter’ Agent Kallus By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2014 9:15 am EST Just when you thought we’d met all of the major characters in Star Wars Rebels, there’s another bad guy to introduce. His name is Agent Kallus and he’s voiced by David Oyelowo. Kallus is described as a “Rebel Hunter,” a member of an internal group whose only purpose is to find and exterminate enemies of the Empire....
Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Avengers, Ninja Turtles, Wonder Woman, Bane, Captain America By Germain Lussier/March 23, 2012 11:01 am EST Want to cry while watching Captain America come home from war? What’s the latest on the Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark lawsuits? Does the original creator of Bane like the character’s look in The Dark Knight Rises? Which Fringe actor auditioned for Batman and would do it again? Did Conan O’Brien have anything to say about the Michael Bay/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles controversy?...
Trivia: Marvel Wouldn’t Cast Mark Ruffalo For ‘The Incredible Hulk’ By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2013 6:00 am EST The big guy in green is having a big day. Just as Joss Whedon and Mark Ruffalo, the two current carriers of the Hulk torch, commented on the character’s future, one of his previous directors has made a very interesting claim. Louis Leterrier, the director of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, revealed he spoke with Mark Ruffalo about playing Bruce Banner in his film, but Marvel didn’t think he was right for the role....
Warner Bros. Puts Jon Favreau’s ‘Jersey Boys’ In Turnaround; Musical Being Shopped To Other Studios By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST Much as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons had a difficult road to the top, so too is the film adaptation of their Broadway musical Jersey Boys facing a tough trek to the screen. Purchased by GK Films for a hefty sum in 2010, Jersey Boys soon had director Jon Favreau prepping the John Logan-penned film at Warner Bros....
Watch Henry Cavill Take The Ice Bucket Challenge In His Superman Suit By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2014 12:00 pm EST Okay, so as I said yesterday, we usually try to focus on entertainment news and avoid celebrity stories, but the Star Wars Episode 7 cast and crew taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge felt entertainment news-worthy enough to feature on the site. I honestly thought that was the last of those videos we’d feature on /Film but now the comic book superheroes are taking the challenge in full costume: Henry Cavill and Amy Adams both took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on the set of Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice in their film costumes....
Watch Josh Trank’s Early ‘Star Wars’ Short Film By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2014 9:47 am EST Josh Trank is best known for directing the sort-of-superhero film Chronicle — or that’s what he has been best known for. He’s also about to direct The Fantastic Four, and after that will make a Star Wars spin-off film. And so now is a good time to revisit his first short film, Stabbing at Leia’s....
Watch Twenty Years Of Quentin Tarantino’s Pop-Culture References In Five Minutes By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2013 3:53 pm EST When many of us speak in casual conversation, we drop in references to things that we like and that we know other people will appreciate, but that’s not how movies were always written. Quentin Tarantino is one of the people who helped make pop-culture reference a constant element of movie dialogue, and he’s become known for peppering his movies with explicit verbal references to his own favorite stuff....
