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The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 60 - Another Second Chance By David Chen/Nov. 21, 2013 6:45 pm EST Education is a tricky thing. I learned a lot when I became a father–so who was the teacher? The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com....

The Weinstein Co. Cutting ‘Snowpiercer’ Because Americans Are Stupid By Angie Han/Aug. 6, 2013 8:07 am EST Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer opened in the director’s native South Korea last week, and will continue to roll out around the world for the next couple of months. It has broken box-office records at home and is very well-reviewed across the board. But despite having a distributor in The Weinstein Co., the film has yet to announce a U....

Tom Cruise Has Begun To Think About ‘Mission: Impossible 5’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2012 9:30 am EST While opinions vary greatly on the first three Mission: Impossible films, almost everyone agrees on the fourth one. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol was by far the biggest international hit of the series and expertly continued the story of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as it also set up the franchise to continue down the road....

TV Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 2 Promo, AMC Extends ‘Mad Men’ Running Time By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2011 9:03 am EST Now that we’re past all that drama surrounding AMC’s very public fights with its esteemed showrunners, we can turn our attention to simply looking forward to new installments of some of the network’s most beloved series. After the jump, check out a violent new promo for Season 2 of The Walking Dead, which returns this fall, and read about the extended running time for Season 5 of Mad Men, which returns in the spring....

Watch Teasers For New Seasons Of ‘Girls’ And ‘Eastbound And Down’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2013 8:41 am EST HBO is well-known for original dramas, but HBO comedies are pretty good too. Two of the more popular ones are returning soon, and new videos have been posted to tease the new seasons. First up is Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s Eastbound and Down which will begin its fourth and final season on September 29....

Watch The Opening For The ‘Boy Meets World’ Sequel ‘Girl Meets World’ By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2014 9:30 am EST As you know, Disney Channel is brining back Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel) for a Boy Meets World television series sequel Girl Meets World. The series follows the further adventures of the two, now proud parents to a 12-year-old of their own (played by Rowan Blanchard). After the jump you can watch the Girl Meets World opening sequence and compare it to the old Boy Meets World openings....

William Hurt Cast In The Incredible Hulk By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2007 3:31 am EST Academy Award winning actor William Hurt (Dark City, The Village) has joined the cast of The Incredible Hulk. Louis Leterrier (Transporter) plans to star shooting this summer in Toronto with Ed Norton as Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into a monster....

‘Cheap Thrills’ Red-Band Trailer: Meet The Leanest, Meanest Thriller Of 2014 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2013 4:45 pm EST Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite movies of 2013. It’s a genre fan’s paradise: one messed-up idea, explored to the limit of its potential, with some supremely squirm-inducing moments. It is also a damn good movie, period — a killer directorial debut from E.L. Katz, with good performances all around, and work from Pat Healy and David Koechner that you won’t forget....

‘Joe’ Domestic Trailer: Nicolas Cage Unleashes His Powerful Dramatic Instincts By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2014 11:30 am EST Here’s a new trailer for Joe, which teams director David Gordon Green with Nicolas Cage. Both men have started to be known more for their broad comic and genre work, but this movie shows that both can really deliver on the dramatic front when they have a mind to. Here Cage is paired with Tye Sheridan, the young actor who was so good in Mud, playing a young man with a tousled family, who develops a surrogate father/son relationship with Cage’s character Joe....

‘Seventh Son’ Trailer: Jeff Bridges’ Medieval Fantasy Is Finally Coming To Theaters By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2014 1:30 pm EST Seventh Son has been coming for so long at this point, it’s almost surprising to realize it hasn’t actually arrived yet. But it will be here soon. Universal and Legendary have the fantasy adventure slated for release early next year, and today the first Seventh Son trailer has finally surfaced....

‘Tracks’ Trailer: Mia Wasikowska Goes On Walkabout By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2013 1:30 pm EST In 1977 a young woman walked across nearly 2000 miles of Australian outback, accompanied only by her dog and four camels, mostly because she wanted to. Naturally people said she was crazy, and failed to understand what she was trying to accomplish. Now her story has been adapted to film, with Mia Wasikowska starring. John Curran (Stone, The Painted Veil) directed Tracks, and the footage at least looks just as beautiful and austere as the depths of the desert can be....

An Uncredited Rewrite Made Hit-Girl Less Masculine For ‘Kick-Ass 2’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2013 10:11 am EST While Kick-Ass and Red Mist haven’t really changed a lot between Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, Hit-Girl is like a whole new person. In the first film, she’s a foul-mouthed killing machine who loves nothing more than her father and justice. In Kick-Ass 2, she’s forced to bury that spirit to assimilate to the social life of high school....

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Will Be Released November 7, 2014 In IMAX By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 9:23 am EST Christopher Nolan’s new film, Interstellar, will be released in theaters and IMAX on November 7, 2014. Yes, Nolan’s new movie is coming next year in IMAX. As originally rumored, it’ll be joint distributed by two competing studios: Paramount and Warner Bros. Paramount will handle domestic distribution and Warner Bros. will handle international....

Cool Stuff: Real Life ‘Hobbit’ Pub Opens In New Zealand, Harry Potter Shop Comes To Platform 9 3/4 By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2012 10:00 am EST It’s a sad fact for geeks that there’s still no way to actually become a hobbit or a wizard. But thanks to two new spots, we can at least pretend for a little while. The King’s Cross station in London has opened a new souvenir shop at Platform 9 3/4, which Harry Potter fans know is where Hogwarts students catch the train to school....

Cool Stuff: Robert Shane’s ‘Star Wars’ Vs. ‘Aliens’ Art Trilogy By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2013 6:00 am EST Robert Shane is a UK-based artist probably best known for his awesome Star Wars mash-up paintings. While I havent featured Shane’s work on /Film in the past, I’ve admired his work from afar on his DeviantArt page. His latest series is a mash-up of the Star Wars and Aliens franchises, imagining what might happen if the Galactic Empire were to encounter a ship full of Aliens....

First Look: Adam Sandler In Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Cobbler’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2014 3:00 pm EST Many audiences probably feel like they’ve got a pretty good lock on what an Adam Sandler film will offer, and for the most part they’re right. But every once in a while the comedian goes for something a little more serious — films like Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, and Funny People aren’t all that plentiful on his resume, but they are there....

Five-Minute ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Preview Will Play With ‘Thor: The Dark World’ In 3D By Germain Lussier/Oct. 30, 2013 11:45 am EST Having seen and really enjoyed Thor: The Dark World, I can safely say I don’t remember one single 3D element. And I saw it in 3D. The glasses didn’t hurt or enhance the experience, and maybe Marvel knows that. So to get fans to pony up the extra few bucks for the 3D screenings of the film, out November 8, they’re attaching a five minute preview of next year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier to 3D screenings only....

Keanu Reeves Starring In ‘Knock Knock’ Thriller For Eli Roth By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2014 2:17 pm EST Eli Roth made a return to directing with last year’s The Green Inferno, which will be released in the US on September 5. He’s quickly following that film with a new horror/thriller called Knock Knock, and has just set Keanu Reeves to star. This film sounds like it will be a bit different than Roth’s other directorial efforts, however, as he describes it as the result of an ambition to make “a classic psychosexual thriller....

LOL: “Reporter” Asks Alfonso Cuarón About Difficulties Of Shooting ‘Gravity’ In Space By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2013 1:30 pm EST Neil deGrasse Tyson’s complaints notwithstanding, Gravity has been hailed by most moviegoers as being one of the most realistic depictions of space travel ever put to film. It’s so realistic, in fact, that one reporter seemed fooled entirely. At a recent press conference for the film, a journalist asked director Alfonso Cuarón about the challenges of shooting in space....

New ‘24: Live Another Day’ Trailer And Poster: Jack Is Back By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2014 3:16 pm EST 24: Live Another Day premieres May 5, check out the second trailer (and a new poster) below. Here’s the second 24 Live Another Day trailer via Fox’s YouTube. And here’s the new poster: With another few weeks until 24: Live Another Day premieres, expect to see a lot more footage and promotion....