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Charlize Theron To Walk The Road With Viggo Mortensen By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 15, 2008 3:22 pm EST In what is shaping up to be one divine sledgehammer of a cannibal flick, Charlize Theron has signed up to star in The Road, based on the Pulitzer-winning apocalyptic novel by No Country For Old Men’s Cormac McCarthy. Theron will star as the wife of lead actor Viggo Mortensen, a smallish yet vital role that will require her to appear mostly in flashback....

Cool Stuff: ‘Oz The Great And Powerful’ And Product Placement Art Shows By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2013 10:49 am EST We’ve got two art shows to tell you about today. One is movie specific, second is more subtle and pop culture centric, both are very cool. First, tied in with this weekend’s huge new release, Disney is releasing some Oz the Great and Powerful art by Joey Chou at their WonderGround Gallery at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, CA....

Coolest Movie Advertisement EVER By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2007 7:59 pm EST Our friends at Movie Marketing Madness have pointed us to what we believe to be the coolest movie advertisement EVER. A photo of the cool elevator advertisement can be seen above. Click on the picture to see a bigger version (thanks to advertising for peanuts). Coolest Movie Advertisement EVER By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2007 7:59 pm EST Our friends at Movie Marketing Madness have pointed us to what we believe to be the coolest movie advertisement EVER....

Disney Studios Chairman Offers ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Updates By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2014 8:28 am EST UPDATE: Now with video. Someone gets to fly to London this week and talk to J.J. Abrams about Star Wars Episode VII. Unfortunately, it’s not someone you know. It’s Alan Horn, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Horn offered that piece of news, as well as a few others, in a new interview....

By Angie Han/April 2, 2014 4:00 pm EST Once they get there, though, they get caught up in more violence, peril, and depravity than they could have imagined. To give you an idea of just how disturbing that world is, Sicario has been described as being in the vein of No Country for Old Men. Not that that should be a problem for Blunt. She got to show off her tough side in 2012’s Looper, and will get even more badass this summer in Doug Liman’s sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow....

Gulliver’s Travels Set Photos By Brendon Connelly/May 5, 2009 11:09 am EST [No photo] The latest of Gulliver’s travels has brought him here to Oxford, my hometown. Or near enough – the film shoot has set up for a couple of weeks of on-location work at Blenheim Palace, just a few miles down the road from the University town I call home. From the various pap snaps of the shooting taking place, it looks like most of the main Gulliver’s Travels cast are on hand – Jack Black, Emily Blunt and Catherine Tate as well as James Corden and Billy Connolly who I did not previously know to be involved....

Indiana Jones 5 Is Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski’s Next Project? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2014 10:42 am EST Is cinematographer Janusz Kaminski working on Indiana Jones 5 next? Yesterday in Page 2 I dropped a link to a Variety article titled Top Cinematographers Offer Online Course on Filmmaking. Like many of the articles I include in Page 2, I didn’t get a chance to read the whole thing as that would then extend the handful of hours I work on Page 2 to a whole working day....

J.K. Rowling Releases ‘History Of The Quidditch World Cup’ By Angie Han/March 14, 2014 11:27 am EST We don’t usually report on sports here at /Film, but for Quidditch we’ll make an exception. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has posted the first part of her History of the Quidditch World Cup on Pottermore.com, her interactive website for Potterheads. While Rowling has put up several pieces of original content on the site, the 2,400-word essay is one of her longest yet....

Legal Troubles Could Complicate Disney’s 3D Post-Conversion Plans By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2013 2:00 pm EST When people talk about 3D movies, the debate is typically oriented around the divide between native 3D and 3D post-conversion. Native 3D is believed to be better, but conversion gives the filmmakers more options on set. The problem is that conversion can be a more complicated, time consuming process. If done poorly, it can really be distracting and awful....

M. Night Shyamalan Currently Making Microbudget Film Called ‘Sundowning’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2014 6:00 am EST After some big budget missteps, M. Night Shyamalan is dialing things back for his next movie. The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable director is currently filming a small film called Sundowning, which reportedly only has a cast and crew of 10. Shyamalan is revealing small details about the film on his Twitter, where he posted this image of the title:...

Megan Gale Is Wonder Woman By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2007 2:48 am EST Australian Who Magazine is reporting that 32-year-old Australian Supermodel Megan Gale has been cast as Wonder Woman in George Miller’s Justice League of America. AICN has confirmed the report with multiple sources, so this looks to be legit, and not just another one of the countless internet casting rumors. Megan has only appeared in two films thus far: the 2001 Italian film Stregati dalla luna, and the 2005 Rob Cohen movie Stealth....

Miles Teller And Emma Watson In Talks For ‘La La Land’ With ‘Whiplash’ Director By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2014 4:30 pm EST Miles Teller and Emma Watson are in talks to co-star in a modern-day Los Angeles musical from the red-hot director of Whiplash. That’s a cool sentence. The film is called La La Land and Damien Chazelle will write and direct with Lionsgate attached to distribute. It’ll follow two artistic, romantic Los Angeles residents who fall in love but find the cutthroat nature of the city so brutal on their relationship, they’re pushed into song....

New Action Packed ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser Trailer Now Online By Germain Lussier/March 9, 2013 9:59 am EST The latest trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness isn’t exactly long, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. Running just over a minute long, the trailer features a fair amount of new footage with a strong focus on action. It also shows more of the rebellious nature of newly minted Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) as he and the crew of the Enterprise go off on yet another adventure....

Page 2: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Star Wars, Frankenweenie, Predator, Doctor Who, He-Man, Firefly, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Hunger Games, Scott Pilgrim, Homeland, Cloud Atlas By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2012 8:00 am EST The 10 Best Episodes of the 1980s Twilight Zone TV Series Denny’s hopes to woo geeks with a Hobbit-themed menu, will probably be successful Allergy To Originality: A New York Times Op-Doc from Drew Christie on Vimeo. Allergy To Originality: A New York Times Op-Doc...

Page 2: Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Star Wars, Mad Men, Oz, Iron Giant, Maleficent, Critters, Jaws By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2014 2:30 pm EST Header Photo: When Koopas Ruled the Land t-shirt Why Jack Bauer is Hurting America30 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ Turn Yourself Into Godzilla With This Costume Hoodie The 10 Biggest Cannes Palme d’Or Blunders13 MOST DISGUSTING HORROR MOVIE MOMENTSJames Hance’s original painting Space Ventura Fett Detective....

Page 2: Star Wars, Alien, Toy Story, Maleficent, LEGO, The Strain, Dwayne Johnson By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2014 12:00 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....

Roland Emmerich Could Reboot ‘Stargate’ As A Trilogy By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2013 11:00 am EST Roland Emmerich was in a scoop-giving mood recently when talking to the UK site The Digital Spy. First up, he revealed while Will Smith was not originally going to come back for the upcoming sequel to Independence Day, the actor might have changed his mind. He then admitted that film could potentially get pushed back to 2016 (despite having a 2015 release date) and finally, he dropped a bomb for Stargate fans....

Scott Z. Burns Attached To Direct ‘The Professor And The Bikini Model’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2014 2:45 pm EST Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns is responsible for scripts such as Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Bourne Ultimatum, but it may be his “trilogy” of films with Steven Soderbergh that really stand out: The Informant!, Side Effects, and Contagion developed a vision of modern communication that is pessimistic, to say the least....

See How Marvel Is Out-Earning DC At The Box Office [Graphic] By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2013 3:30 pm EST Below, check out a chart that graphs the global box-office performance of major features by Marvel Studios and DC movies produced through Warner Bros. over the past decade. While it isn’t included below, the most interesting number might be the per-film average: $365m for DC pictures and $620m for Marvel. DC has many more films on the chart, but each studio has two big earners that make up for some of the smaller movies....

Three Character Trailers For ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Revealed By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2013 10:30 am EST With games like Grand Theft Auto V, the line between video game and movie get more and more blurred. Rockstar Games long ago mastered blending cinematic storytelling with an immersive, interactive experience and their latest opus looks like it enhances the company’s approach. The game is set for release on September 17. Check out three new trailers, focused on characters named Michael, Franklin and Trevor, below....