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Kanye West Still Creative Director Of ‘The Jetsons’ Movie, Says Kanye West By Germain Lussier/June 26, 2013 8:58 am EST Back in January, a weird news story broke saying rapper/producer Kanye West was taking meetings to be the creative director on a movie adaptation of the sci-fi sitcom cartoon The Jetsons. At the time, the news came from West’s personal Twitter account, but was quickly deleted. That was the last we heard of it....

Lupita Nyong’o And Gwendoline Christie Join ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2014 9:12 am EST Those who were upset that the first big wave of Star Wars Episode VII casting did not include more women can breathe a bit easier. Lupita Nyong’o (Non-Stop, and winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave) and Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) have just been added to the cast....

New ‘Lone Survivor’ Trailer Arrives As Oscar Momentum Builds By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2013 5:30 pm EST Here’s the second full trailer for the true war story Lone Survivor, which is based on the book by Navy SEAL Marcus Littrell, who was part of a small group of SEALs that found itself ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Peter Berg directs stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster & Eric Bana....

Page 2: Akira, Toy Story, Totoro, Pinocchio, Scarface, Labyrinth, Breaking Bad, Aronofsky, Stanley Kubrick By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 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: GoT, Frozen, Star Wars, Bob’s Burgers, Star Trek, Terminator, Bryan Cranston, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: The Iron Throne Gets Frozen The hidden meanings of LEGO’s Lord Business’s costumeAcademy: We Will Get Visual Effects Oscar Presentation Right This Year Today’s t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Frozen-inspired design The Ugly Behind-the-Scenes History of Video Game Movies 12 Fascinating Frozen Facts And Trivia We Learned From The Reddit AMA...

Page 2: Indiana Jones, Hook, Monsters Inc, Frozen, Star Wars, Last Of Us, Doctor Who, ET, LEGO, Neil Patrick Harris By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2014 2:00 pm EST Header Photo: JC Richard’s “The Map Room” print Five Returning Shows to Watch This Fall Comparing Lena Dunham to Woody Allen Is Unfair — to Lena Dunham Dustin Hoffman, Dante Basco and Robin Williams on the set of Hook.The best and worst of TIFF ‘1410 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias IgnoreRidge’s Off Duty: Sulley & Mike in “Scary Movie"10 Great TV Shows That Should Be Streaming On Netflix...

Page 2: Lost Boys, Die Hard, Breaking Bad, Rosemary’s Baby, Game Of Thrones, Paranorman, WarGames, Star Trek, Jurassic Park, Doctor Who, Hugo By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2012 8:00 am EST Millennials seem to have little use for old movies The Lost Boys poster by Betty Silburn for Cult Cinema SundayRichard Jenkins joins ‘White House Down’Supercut: every gunshot in the Die Hard4 Reasons Why The Hobbit Shouldn’t Become A TrilogyGallery1988 to release a variant print for Mark Englert’s “You Are My Lucky Star?...

Page 2: Shaun Of The Dead, Star Wars, Bill Murray, Cowboys & Aliens, The Simpsons, Harry Potter, Peter Jackson, Fright Night By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2011 7:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A little girl named Sariah Gallego decided to join the darkside during Jedi Training Academy at Disneyland. Eric D. Snider has written an article titled “Leaving in a Huff”, which chronicles AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post, and the death of the movie website Cinematical from an insider’s perspective....

Seth Rogen Wants Duncan Jones To Direct Some ‘Preacher,’ Director Agrees…On Twitter By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2014 8:00 am EST Twitter can be a magical place. A place where connections are made in front of your eyes. Usually in Hollywood, when a producer wants to hire a director, that person has to go through an agent, who then assesses the opportunity, then contacts the manager who discusses it with the director and a decision is made....

Simon Kinberg Says An ‘X-Men’ TV Show “Makes Sense” By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2014 10:36 am EST Indeed, big-screen X-Men screenwriter and producer Simon Kinberg says the studio is figuring things out. And, yeah, it’s the availability and affordability of effects that, in part, makes such an idea feasible: We’re still in this place of figuring out what the future of the franchise will be, but when you look at S....

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Man Of Steel, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Batman Vs. Superman, Thor: The Dark World By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2013 4:00 pm EST What excites Vin Diesel about playing Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy? How is Trask Industries continuing their mutant search for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Are the people of Boston behind Ben Affleck playing Batman? Which Man of Steel character is about to get a Hot Toys figure?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Dredd, Hellboy By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2012 11:30 am EST Want to watch a new featurette on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance? How did Tom Hardy feel about wearing the Bane mask in The Dark Knight Rises? Does Marion Cotillard have double duty in The Dark Knight Rises after all? Which actress has now revealed she auditioned for Catwoman and how can you get a replica of Thor’s hammer?...

Watch The Best Scene In The New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie By Germain Lussier/Aug. 6, 2014 5:30 pm EST In my recent review of Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I said the following: There’s one fantastic scene of the four Turtles. Together in an elevator, they start beat-boxing. It’s dumb, but also funny and charming. That’s what this movie is missing. And I’d like to think Paramount listened to me, because that scene is now online....

Why ‘Iron Man 3’ Is A Christmas Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2013 11:13 am EST Going into the junket for Iron Man 3, one of the things I wanted to talk to writer/director Shane Black about is the film’s Christmas setting. Many of the films Black has been involved with have been set during Christmas: Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang....

‘Ant-Man’: ‘Bring It On’ And ‘Yes Man’ Director Peyton Reed Emerges As Frontrunner [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 6, 2014 3:00 pm EST Peyton Reed (Yes Man) is reportedly the new frontrunner for the job, although Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors) and Michael Dowse (Goon) may still be in play as well. Hit the jump for all the latest details.UPDATE: THR adds that David Wain is also in consideration. Wain already has a strong relationship with star Paul Rudd, having directed him in Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten, Role Models, Wanderlust, and, most recently, They Came Together....

‘Bad Country’ Trailer: The Real Killer Is Willem Dafoe’s Amazing Mustache By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2014 4:30 pm EST Films can get financing based on the attachment of a recognizable cast, and when a film’s director has previous credits producing known films, it makes it easier to bring elements together, whether or not the script is any good. Chris Brinker makes his directorial debut with Bad Country, but he’s got producer credits going back to The Boondock Saints....

‘End Of Love’ Trailer: Mark Webber’s 2-Year-Old Son And Famous Friends Guide Him Through Bereavement By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2012 12:04 pm EST It can be tough to wrangle a truly good performance out of a child actor, for pretty obvious reasons. So it may help if the kid in question has no idea he’s even acting. For his sophomore directorial effort End of Love, actor/filmmaker Mark Webber (you may recognize him as Stephen Stills from Scott Pilgrim) cast his two-year-old son Isaac without explaining to the boy that they were making a movie, and then hired some of his better known actor pals to improvise around Isaac’s blissfully oblivious “performance....

‘The Heat’ Is Getting A Spinoff By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2013 1:45 pm EST Despite Fox’s optimistic preparations for The Heat 2, and despite the first film’s nearly $230 million box office take, Sandra Bullock basically squashed all hope of it ever getting off the ground when she stated in no uncertain terms that she wasn’t interested in returning. So Paul Feig has decided to revisit Shannon Mullins’ Boston in a different way....

‘The Wolverine’ Clip: See The Bullet Train Sequence Early By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2013 11:11 am EST The footage is more glossy and colorful than that story origin might suggest. But this is a studio summer film that has to be sold to as many people as possible. It can’t be that weird. And so there’s a fight scene on a bullet train — one of many additions to the story, and one of the big ones that looks least like the original source story....

‘Willow Creek’ Trailer: Bobcat Goldthwait And The Search For Bigfoot By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2013 12:45 pm EST For his latest film as a director, Bobcat Goldthwait goes micro-budget with a found-footage story of the search for Bigfoot. That is, Willow Creek follows a couple as they trek out into the woods where Bigfoot was first caught on film, in order to satisfy the guy’s interest in the story of the monster....