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HBO Considering Cable-Less HBO Go Option For Broadband Subscribers By Angie Han/March 22, 2013 9:00 am EST HBO Go is pretty sweet if you’re already an HBO subscriber. The streaming service gives users access to HBO’s entire catalog of films and TV shows — everything from Girls to The Sopranos — from any computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android phone. Earlier this year, the company further sweetened the deal by enabling AirPlay, allowing customers to play video on their Apple TVs....

Hugh Jackman In Talks To Play Blackbeard In Joe Wright’s ‘Pan’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 18, 2013 3:30 pm EST Javier Bardem’s loss is Hugh Jackman’s gain. After the Oscar winner passed on playing the lead villain Blackbeard in the upcoming Joe Wright Peter Pan film, Pan, Jackman is now in talks to play the role. Warner Bros. recently gave the film a June 2015 release date. Variety broke the casting news....

Jeffrey Katzenberg Offered $75 Million For Three More ‘Breaking Bad’ Episodes By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2013 9:40 am EST Think you’re a big fan of Breaking Bad? Jeffrey Katzenberg has you beat. The current CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who also helped Disney return to animated glory in the Nineties, reportedly offered $75 million to the show’s creators for three more episodes of the hit TV show. He wanted to release additional episodes, in segments, online over the course of a month and make people pay for each one....

LOL: Batman Fights For Family And Lives For Love, According To ABC Family By Angie Han/April 12, 2013 8:00 am EST Movie promos aren’t always as honest as we’d like, but even the more misleading ones are generally more fact than fiction. At the very least, they look like they were crafted by folks with a passing familiarity with the film in question. But I’m not so sure that’s the case for this TV spot promoting the ABC Family premiere of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins....

Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba And Sam Worthington To Star In ‘Alive Alone’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 10:27 am EST Briefly: The odds of a Prometheus sequel seemingly dwindle by the day, but two of its stars are set to team up for a Black List script and are bringing Jake Sully alone for the ride. Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Sam Worthington are set to star in Alive Alone, written and directed by Khurram Longi....

Page 2: Muppets, Paranorman, Star Wars, Hunger Games, Robocop, Fifth Element, Brave, Chris Nolan, Terminator 2, Firefly, Prometheus By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Richard Linklater To Direct ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpet’? By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 2:30 pm EST Could we see The Incredible Mr. Limpet filtered through Waking Life? Two years ago Warner Bros put a remake of the old Don Knotts live-action/animated film into motion. Enchanted director Kevin Lima was attached, and there was word that Zach Galifianakis was in talks to take the lead role. But things stalled, Kevin Lima moved to other things, and Mr....

Sandra Bullock To Star In Tupperware Origin Story For Tate Taylor By Angie Han/July 22, 2014 5:00 am EST Origin stories are all the rage these days, to the extent where even common housewares are getting them now. Jennifer Lawrence is helping chronicle the birth of the Miracle Mop for David O. Russell, and now Sandra Bullock will depict the rise of Tupperware for Tate Taylor. Bullock is attached to lead Taylor’s untitled drama as Brownie Wise, the marketing exec who popularized the plastic containers by coming up with the idea for Tupperware parties....

Sequel To Frank Capra’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Aiming For 2015 Release [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2013 12:00 pm EST UPDATE: A pitch trailer for this film was found on YouTube. Check it out below. That rumbling you feel is the rising tempers of film fans all over the globe. But the holidays are approaching, and maybe we should learn to forgive. That’s the only way to process the wild news that a sequel to Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is now in the works....

Study Finds Twitter Not Relevant In TV Marketing #StopTheHashtagsOnMyTV By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2014 11:00 am EST You’re watching your favorite television show and an annoying hashtag pops up in the right hand corner. As they go to commercial, a promo reminds you to use a certain hashtag when discussing the episode on the microblogging service. How many times does this happen to you? Its a daily annoyance during my television viewing, which most of the time is time shifted making hashtags for live social discussion rather pointless....

Superhero Bits: Batman Vs. Superman, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, X-Men By Germain Lussier/Jan. 29, 2014 2:30 pm EST What’s the first rumor in regards to Marvel’s Phase Four? Want to see more images from X-Men: Days of Future Past? Why is Henry Cavill already in Michigan? Has Avengers: Age of Ultron added a new cast member? Did Emma Stone spill the beans on The Amazing Spider-Man 2?...

Thirteenth ‘Friday The 13th’ To Stalk Audiences In 2015 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2013 7:00 pm EST You may remember that Warner Bros. and Paramount did a little horse trading earlier this year, with Paramount giving up some Interstellar rights to Warner Bros. in return for the rights to South Park and, more importantly at the moment, Friday the 13th, which are now all in the hands of Paramount, rather than being controlled in part by New Line....

Universal Is Dumb Enough To Make ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2013 5:06 pm EST Just last week it was revealed that Warner Bros had dropped the Peter and Bobby Farrelly-directed sequel Dumb and Dumber To. Rumor had it that the Burbank-based studio saw a very limited upside in a follow-up and was unwilling to bet a low $30 million on the film. At the time it was reported that the Farrelly Brothers planned to shop the film to other studios, and it looks like they have gotten a bite....

Weinsteins Working On ‘Sin City’ And ‘The Mist’ TV Shows By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2013 3:50 pm EST The new film Sin City: A Dame to Die For won’t be the only project to transfer Frank Miller’s stark noir tales from the comic page to the screen. In fact, that film may be swiftly followed by a new Sin City TV show. Harvey Weinstein, like many other producers, has started to see TV as the safest medium in which to earn a few bucks....

‘ABCs Of Death 2’ Reveals Full Director List And Search For Director Number 26 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2013 5:00 pm EST The ABCs of Death film concept is back with 26 more ways to die based on letters of the alphabet. A sequel to the 2012/2013 release is well under way aiming at a 2014 release. Much like the approach taken with the first film, the producers are now in search of an unknown filmmaker to fill the 26th spot....

‘Clash Of The Titans’ Director Louis Leterrier Slags The Film’s Post-Converted 3D By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2013 11:36 am EST When Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans hit theaters in 2010, it was marred by a relatively early attempt at post-converted 3D. The effect was bad, with the sense of depth inconsistent from shot to shot, and some stereoscopic effects that mocked the actors by poorly sculpting their faces in three dimensions....

‘Green Lantern’ Honest Trailer: The Almost First Film In The DC Universe By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2014 7:00 am EST The DC movie universe should already be three years old. We all thought, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy aside, that Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern was going to kick things off. It was a no-brainer. Much like Iron Man before him, Green Lantern was a very successful and popular comic character who was fairly well-known to the general public....

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Still Has Shooting To Complete By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2013 8:40 am EST A quick glance at the /Film archives reveals the fourth Mad Max movie, Mad Max: Fury Road, has been in the public eye since early 2009. Four years is a normal amount of time for fans to be aware of a movie’s existence (we sometimes hear about movies before scripts exist, for example) but what makes Fury Road so unique is it was supposed to shoot in 2010, then was delayed to a 2012 shoot, and now it’s 2013....

‘Movie: The Movie V2’ And ‘Life Of Psy’: Jimmy Kimmel And His Famous Friends Are At It Again By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2013 9:00 am EST There’s no better place than the Oscars to see all your favorite movie stars assembled in one place, but the trailer for Jimmy Kimmel’s Movie: The Movie V2 might be a close second. In his post-Oscars show last year, Kimmel debuted an epic, star-studded 9-minute trailer poking fun at every obnoxious movie trope under the sun....

‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Sequel Will Fall In Fall 2015 By Angie Han/May 1, 2014 3:38 pm EST Olympus Has Fallen did so well in America last year that its sequel is going across the pond next year. Focus Features has acquired U.S. rights to London Has Fallen and set it for a fall 2015 release date. The action-packed follow-up brings back Gerard Butler as hyper-competent Secret Service head Mike Banning. Hit the jump for new plot details and more....