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No Marvel One-Shot On ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Blu-Ray By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2014 11:30 am EST Marvel Studios has an incredible streak of critical and financial success going. However, recent developments have fans discussing what happens when that streak ends. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but another streak just ended for sure. The Captain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray, which will be released September 9, will not have a Marvel One-Shot on it....

Page 2: Indiana Jones, Transformers, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Aladdin, The Killing, Goonies By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2014 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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....

Read Donald Glover’s Letter To Fans Explaining Why He’s Leaving ‘Community’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2013 10:32 am EST Donald Glover posted a series of letters on Instagram which explain to fans why he’s leaving NBC’s Community, among other musings. In the letters, Glover explains that he didn’t leave the sitcom to pursue a musical career (he raps under the name Childish Gambino) but because he “wanted to be on my own....

Russell Brand And Luis Guzman As Batman And Robin In Arthur By Adam Quigley/July 19, 2010 12:00 pm EST NO PHOTOS A little over a week ago, set photos were leaked online revealing that the Batmobile would be making an appearance in Arthur, the remake of the fan-favorite ’80s comedy. At the time it seemed likely that the car’s presence in the film wouldn’t amount to anything more than a quick gag, but now more set photos have arrived to arouse further speculation....

Sequel Bits: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’, ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’, ‘Puss In Boots 2’, ‘Bridget Jones 3’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2’ By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2012 3:19 pm EST @Target @RichardWozniak Yes. Bigger eyes. Gnarly web shooters. — Marc Webb (@MarcW) November 8, 2012 For now, however, the focus seems to be on getting the screenplay nailed down with writers Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Jeff Pinkner:...

Studio Ghibli Officially Announces Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Is Rising’ And Isao Takahata’s ‘The Tale Of Princess Kaguya’ For 2013 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2012 2:17 pm EST Not long ago, domain name registrations all but confirmed that Studio Ghibli will release two films in 2013: The Wind is Rising (Kaze Tachinu) from director Hayao Miyazaki, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya (aka The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, or Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) from Grave of the Fireflies director Isao Takahata....

TV Trailers: John Goodman On ‘Community’, Plus ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘House’, And ‘How To Make It In America’ By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2011 2:30 pm EST September’s almost upon us, which of course means it’s time to get psyched for the fall premiere season. After the jump, we’ve got trailers for: Community Season 3, featuring recurring guest star John Goodman Boardwalk Empire Season 2 House Season 8 How to Make It in America Season 2 Community returns to NBC Thursday, September 22 at 8 PM....

Vince Gilligan Speculates On Jesse Pinkman’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Fate By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2013 12:26 pm EST (Major spoilers for Breaking Bad follow.) Breaking Bad is over for good, but not every character closed out the series with a definitive ending. One whose fate was left open-ended was Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), the gentle soul who had the spectacular misfortune to fall under the sway of Mr. White. The last we saw of him, he was driving off into the distance....

VOTD: The Cast Of ‘Now You See Me’ Performs Magic Tricks By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2013 10:00 am EST Few things are better than well-done magic, but celebrities doing magic is pretty good. Not celebrity magicians, mind you, but actual celebrities learning and performing magic. For the upcoming thriller Now You See Me, stars like Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo and Mélanie Laurent all had to learn a bit of magic for their roles....

Warner Archive Instant Launches, Offers Streaming For Classic Movies And Shows By Angie Han/April 3, 2013 9:42 am EST The service isn’t for everyone, and its limited range makes it more of a complement to than a replacement for any of the other major streaming services. But for fans of classic film, it’s a great way to discover or rediscover older works that are otherwise tough to find online. Learn more after the jump....

Watch A Five-Minute Clip Of TNT’s ‘Falling Skies’ By Angie Han/April 19, 2011 9:00 am EST Earlier this month, Peter reported from WonderCon that he was “very impressed” by the clips he’d seen of Falling Skies, praising the show for its “very high budget and cinematic” look. Now that TNT’s released the first five minutes of the Steven Spielberg-produced alien invasion series, we can judge for ourselves — and I’m with Peter....

Will Ferrell Joins ’70s Tennis Drama ‘Match Maker’ By Angie Han/April 3, 2014 11:30 am EST Anchorman star Will Ferrell is going back to the ’70s — but this time, he’ll be the guy making the news, not reporting it. Ferrell is attached to star in Match Maker, a drama about the legendary 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King.Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) is adapting the script from a 2013 ESPN article by Don Van Natta Jr....

‘All The Boys Love Mandy Lane’ Trailer: Closure At Last For Jonathan Levine’s Debut Thriller By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2013 10:12 am EST This weekend marks the release of You’re Next, which made its festival debut in 2011 and has had horror fans waiting for two years. But there’s also new materials for a delayed festival horror fave that has been waiting even longer for release. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was the feature debut of Jonathan Levine, who has gone on to make The Wackness, 50/50, and Warm Bodies....

‘Computer Chess’ Teaser: Preview One Of Sundance’s Weirdest Films By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2013 1:15 pm EST I saw three films at Sundance this year that I would characterize as incredibly specific, because they dedicate themselves so thoroughly to a premise and aesthetic that they exist as their own one-film subgenres. All three were so distinct that there’s really nothing else like them. One was the “shot in Disneyland” breakdown Escape From Tomorrow (coverage here); another was Charlie Victor Romeo (review), sourced from flight recorder transcripts of cockpit conversations in flights that ended in disaster....

‘Dark Invasion’ Being Developed For Bradley Cooper By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2013 10:00 am EST Warner Bros. has purchased the rights to the new book Dark Invasion by Howard Blum, to be developed for as a star vehicle for Cooper. The book centers on a New York Police Captain tasked with stopping German Secret Service agents who came to the United States in 1915 to covertly stop us from joining the War....

‘Devil’s Due’ Trailer: What To Expect When You’re Expecting A Demon Spawn By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2013 4:30 pm EST As a Friday Night Lights fan, I want nothing more than for Zach Gilford to live happily ever after. And for a while the Devil’s Due trailer makes it look like that’s exactly where he’s headed. He’s just gotten hitched to a beautiful woman (Terra Nova’s Allison Miller), and she’s just gotten pregnant, and Etta James’ “At Last” is playing, and everything’s great....

‘Everything Must Go’ Trailer And Poster: Will Ferrell Gets Serious By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2011 4:00 pm EST In late 2009 Dan Rush started turning Raymond Carver’s short story Why Don’t You Dance? into a film called Everything Must Go, starring Will Farrell in a very rare dramatic turn. He plays an alcoholic who, in the same day, loses his job and is thrown out by his wife. With his possessions scattered on the lawn of his former home, he spends a week living out in the open and confronting his problems....

‘Last Night’ Trailer: Will Sam Worthington And Keira Knightley Cheat, Or Won’t They? By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 6:00 pm EST Tribeca Film is teaming with Miramax to release some of the films that were left in the Miramax library when Disney closed the label a while back; one of them is Last Night, in which Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington play a married couple who, when separated for a night, end up confronting temptation....

‘Life After Beth’ Is A Scattered, Emotionally Gross Zombie Breakup Fable [Sundance 2014 Review] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2014 10:00 am EST Most everyone has been through a breakup that took place for a reason, but still left at least one person pining for a chance to do things over. Life After Beth seems as if it wants to be a zombie-filled fable exploring that situation. Dane DeHaan is Zach, whose relationship with Beth (Aubrey Plaza) dies along with her....

‘Monsters University’ Trailer And Clip: Ain’t No Party Like A Scarer Party By Angie Han/May 23, 2013 4:00 pm EST Odds are, your college experience didn’t involve two-headed frat boys or courses about scaring. In most other respects, though, Mike and Sulley’s first days on campus should look pretty familiar to anyone who’s ever logged time in a dorm room. In a new clip from Monsters University, the pair have a little roommate spat, because learning to live with other people is never easy....