Cool Stuff: The Wes Anderson Collection (Watch The Trailer) By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2013 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Zoller Seitz’s The Wes Anderson Collection is a book examining the work of writer/director Wes Anderson. Matt has been working on the collection for twenty years, and the result is sure to be something that any fan of the director must own....
Eddie Redmayne May Play Stephen Hawking In ‘Theory Of Everything’ By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2013 9:05 am EST Briefly: James Marsh, director of Man on Wire and Project Nim, is putting together Theory of Everything, a dramatized biography of physicist Stephen Hawking. To play the scientist, Marsh is reportedly looking to Eddie Redmayne, of Les Miserables, and My Week With Marilyn. If the deal happens, Marsh will still need an actress to play Hawking’s wife; the film focuses on their relationship....
Emma Stone In Talks For Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2013 5:53 pm EST Guillermo del Toro is finally back to directing, with his film Pacific Rim deep in post-prodution and moving quickly towards a summer release. He’s already lined up his next directorial project, too: a big haunted house movie called Crimson Peak. And now he’s got rapid rising star Emma Stone (Easy A, The Amazing Spider-Man, Gangster Squad) in talks to star....
Exclusive: TCL Chinese Theater IMAX To Install 70mm Projector For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2014 12:45 pm EST Christopher Nolan is such a big draw and an advocate for IMAX, the company is going above and beyond for his latest feature. /Film has exclusively learned IMAX will be specially installing a 15perf/70mm film projection system inside the company’s flagship TCL Chinese Theater IMAX in Hollywood, CA, just for Interstellar....
Geoffrey Rush Will Be One Of Alex Proyas’s ‘Gods Of Egypt’ By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST After spending much of the past decade with Jack Sparrow on the high seas, Geoffrey Rush is headed to warmer, drier climates in Gods of Egypt. The Oscar-winning actor will join Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the Alex Proyas-directed fantasy, which follows a mortal who gets caught up in a dispute between deities....
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 7:14 pm EST TMNT hits theaters this Friday. From what we’ve heard, it’s tracking pretty highly with kids. Jared Moshe reminds us what happened last time the Turtles made a hit movie. Check out the blast from the past below. I can’t believe it ever came to THAT. [youtube]GFLGRidfFo4[/youtube] It’s really too bad this song wasn’t remade for TMNT. Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!...
Gwyneth Paltrow And Ewan McGregor Join Johnny Depp In ‘Mortdecai’ By Angie Han/July 26, 2013 7:00 am EST The Lone Ranger was a low point for Johnny Depp, but the actor’s already brushed himself off and moved on. Wally Pfister’s Transcendence is shooting now, Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods enters production later this year, and he’s got David Koepp’s Mortdecai coming together after that. The last film on that list got a nice shove forward last month when Depp started closing in on a formal deal after years of development....
How Are The Original ‘X-Men’ Stars Being Used In ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 5, 2012 3:14 pm EST Fox, producer Bryan Singer, and the writing and directing team that included Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn did some deep playing around with the onscreen X-Men franchise in X-Men: First Class. The film recast several primary characters, as it told a story from their youth, but also did a few things that contradicted the existing X-Men movies in a notable way....
Jay Baruchel Talks About ‘This Is The End’s’ Big Surprise Appearance By Germain Lussier/June 17, 2013 3:00 pm EST This Is The End is one of those comedies you can watch again and again. Each scene is filled with so much madness you’re bound to find new nuance each time you revisit it. But a few of the film’s surprises will play best the first time. One in particular is so out of left field, it’s almost unbelievable when you see it....
Jeremy Piven’s Fat Paycheck Is Behind The ‘Entourage’ Delay By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2013 1:30 pm EST Whether the world will even still want an Entourage movie by the time it gets made is up for debate, but the reason it hasn’t gotten one yet is pretty clear. Although Warner Bros. greenlit the project back in January, report after report has indicated that the cast isn’t so thrilled with the salaries being offered....
Kurt Russell’s Dad Buys A Baseball Team And Changes History In ‘The Battered Bastards Of Baseball’ [Sundance 2014 Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2014 3:00 pm EST Everyone knows Kurt Russell as one of his generation’s most recognizable and badass actors. Some might even know that he was once a professional athlete. What most people don’t know, however, is that Russell’s father, Bing Russell, was even more eclectic. A famous actor in his own right, the elder Russell eventually used his Hollywood fame to start an independent minor league baseball team called the Portland Mavericks....
Page 2: Godzilla, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Breaking Bad, Bob’s Burgers, Transformers By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 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: Immortals, Twilight, Gangster Squad, Wizard Of Oz, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Tom Selleck, Star Wars, Fresh Prince, Harry Potter, Tron: Legacy, Michael Bay, The Shining, IT, Family Guy By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2011 8:00 am EST Author Ernie Cline (Fanboys) has published a soundtrack listing for his geek novel Ready Player One, with links to all of the songs on Spotify and Youtube. Watch a new extended TV Spot for Immortals....
Page 2: Iron Giant, Pee Wee, Muppets, GoT, True Detective, Star Trek, 24, Ghostbusters By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2014 3:30 pm EST Header Photo: Iron Prime t-shirt 10 pilot season trends for fall 10 Movies ‘300’ Made Possible ‘Pee Wee’s Big Adventure’ Bike for Sale on Ebay Can ‘Divergent’ Really Become the Next ‘Hunger Games’?5 Theories About the New Season of American Horror StoryJames Bond & Spy Thriller Parody Posters for ‘Muppets Most Wanted’THE TOP 10 UNDISCOVERED TV GEMS TO WATCH...
Page 2: Star Wars, Robocop, Robert De Niro, Hunger Games, Alfonso Cuarón, GoT, House Of Lies, 47 Ronin, Pixar By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2013 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Today’s t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Star Wars-inspired design “Best Buddies Strikes Back” In Defense of the Offense of RemakesHow The Hobbit Crew Helped Ian McKellen Get Through Green Screen Misery 3x Evil T-Shirt The 10 Highest Grossing Black Directors of All Time, and the Little-Known Highest Grossing Black Female DirectorAsk a Law Professor Your Questions about Fan Fiction and Mash-upsThese Tiles Let You Do The Death Star Trench Run Up A WallA Hierarchy of Crying at the Movies...
Paul Thomas Anderson Talks Adapting ‘Inherent Vice’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2012 3:45 pm EST With the best filmmakers, the instant their latest movie arrives at your local theater, it’s easy to begin looking forward to the next one. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is now playing and though it was five years between that and his last film, he’s had his follow-up in mind for sometime. It’s an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, “which follows a burnt-out detective who gets roped into a caper revolving around a real estate mogul....
Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Has Been “Completely Reimagined” By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2014 5:30 pm EST Until a year ago, Pixar’s film The Good Dinosaur was planned as the studio’s big offering for 2014. But in late August 2013 original director Bob Peterson exited the production, and the Pixar Brain Trust stepped in as “interim co-director.” The Good Dinosaur moved to November 2015, leaving Pixar without a film this year....
R-Rated Animated Film ‘Sausage Party’ Gets June 2016 Release; Paul Rudd And Danny McBride Join By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2014 3:35 pm EST These days, everything Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg touches turns to gold. This is the End and Neighbors were both massive hits and we’ll see a trailer for The Interview in a week or two. The other film they’re working on is a much bigger gamble though. It’s an R-rated animated film, a genre that rarely gets a mainstream release....
See The Gremlins Theme Park Ride We Never Knew Existed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2014 10:30 am EST In the early 1990s, Warner Bros actually built a Gremlins theme park ride called Gremlins Invasion. The attraction was built in two Warner Bros. Movie World theme parks, one in Bottrop-Kirchhellen Germany and the other in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. While the dark ride was open for almost ten years, I had not heard of its existence until this year....
Shocker: Kevin Feige Won’t Confirm Joss Whedon As Phase Three Godfather By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2013 11:45 am EST A bit of advice when asking questions that are years out from having an answer: don’t take whatever non-answer comes too seriously. There’re a few rounds of early questions going around this week, whether it’s a WB exec being asked about Wonder Woman appearing in Batman Vs. Superman, or Kevin Feige fielding questions about all corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
