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First Look: Zach Braff Is The New John Cusack In Broadway’s ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ By Angie Han/Jan. 6, 2014 6:00 am EST In an entirely appropriate twist, Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway is now itself headed to Broadway. At the helm of the new show is Susan Stroman, who just so happens to have previous experience directing Broadway plays about Broadway plays — she previously directed and choreographed The Producers and picked up a couple of Tonys for her trouble....

Five And A Half Hour ‘Nymphomaniac’ Director’s Cut Lands In October By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2014 8:30 am EST We saw the two theatrical releases of Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 and 2 earlier this year from Lars von Trier, and you can watch them on Netflix now, too. But the “hardcore” and extended director’s cut of the full assembly is still to come, and now we’ve got an October date for the full five and a half hour version....

Guillermo Del Toro Confirms ‘Pacific Rim 2’ Is Still Alive And Being Written Now By Germain Lussier/Oct. 16, 2013 10:45 am EST Pacific Rim 2 exists on a hard drive in Hollywood. For some time now, screenwriter Travis Beacham has been writing a sequel to this summer’s Pacific Rim with the knowledge it might never get made. Guillermo del Toro’s film recently squeaked by to $100 million in the United States, but grossed three times that internationally, earning record numbers in China....

Harrison Ford Joins Romantic Drama ‘The Age Of Adaline’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2014 3:30 pm EST Briefly: Harrison Ford hasn’t done a straight drama in a couple years, but now he’s going to take a major role in The Age of Adaline. The film is actually perhaps more in the “magical realism” category — think of it like a female-led version of Forrest Gump, or Benjamin Button, as the story features a light fantasy element, and harbors epic ambitions....

How Did Wolverine Become A Time Traveler? ‘Days Of Future Past’ Writer Explains By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2013 7:00 am EST Those who’ve read the original issues that make up the Days of Future Past storyline know that, among the many apparent differences between the comic and film tellings of the tale, there’s one huge change that fundamentally changes the story. In the comic version, it is the young Kitty Pryde who goes back in time in an attempt to prevent the development of a dystopian future in which mutants are savagely hunted....

Infographic: Almost Every Sci-Fi Starship Ever In One Comparison Chart By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2013 10:30 am EST DeviantArt user Dirk Loechel created this amazing and massive infographic showing a size comparison of probably every single sci-fi starship ever, from Star Wars to Halo and everything in-between. Check out the whole image after the jump, and let me know if you can find any starships that weren’t included. Image found via Kotaku...

Lionsgate In Early Talks To Fund Hillary Clinton Biopic ‘Rodham’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2013 5:30 pm EST Briefly: Lionsgate may be the studio to make a Hillary Clinton film. James Ponsoldt could direct as his follow-up to The Spectacular Now. The script, called Rodham, was written by Young Il Kim, and ended up on the Black List of popular unproduced screenplays in 2012.Deadline reports that the script “covers Hillary when she was a hotshot young lawyer in D....

LOL: ‘Sesame Street’ Takes On ‘Star Wars’ By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2014 5:05 am EST There are about eighty million Star Wars parodies on the Internet, roughly five thousand of which we’ve featured here on /Film. But leave it to Sesame Street to come up with the sweetest of them all. And we do mean “sweetest” — this one is called “Star S’Mores” and takes place “a long time ago, in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away....

Potential ‘Transformers 4’ Leads Include Stars Of ‘Last Airbender’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘Weeds’, ‘Maleficent’ By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2012 7:00 am EST Who wants to be the next Shia LaBeouf? Love him or hate him, it’s tough to deny that he’s got the kind of career most aspiring actors would kill for. No surprise, then, that Transformers 4 is one of the hottest projects currently casting. Michael Bay is getting ready to test actors for the male and female leads, and his appointment book includes slots for several up and comers including stars from The Last Airbender, Carrie, Taken 2, Terra Nova, Weeds, and Maleficent....

Secret Legendary Pictures Event Movie Claims Release Date Next To Harry Potter Spin-Off By Germain Lussier/May 14, 2014 3:30 pm EST When this week began, the only specific movie scheduled for the far-off month of November 2016 was Fox’s animated Trolls adaptation. There was also, however, an untitled Disney animated film set to arrive that month. Then Warner Bros. added the Harry Potter spinoff, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, to the mix on November 18, 2016....

See The R2-D2 Cameo In ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2013 3:00 pm EST Episode VII will be J.J. Abrams’ first time directing a Star Wars movie, but technically it won’t be his first time working with a Star Wars character. The self-admitted Star Wars fanboy slipped an R2-D2 cameo into 2009’s Star Trek, and we’ve now learned that the droid made a return appearance in Star Trek Into Darkness....

Superhero Bits: Nemesis, Dark Knight, Man Of Steel, Thor: The Dark World, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2013 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Warner Bros. released the first trailer for the Man of Steel Blu-ray. Scarlett Johansson told Superhero Hype that any glances she shared with Captain America in The Avengers were not a hint at their relationship in Captain America: The Winter Soldier....

Tom Hiddleston Starring In ‘Skull Island,’ Jordan Vogt-Roberts Directing By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2014 9:26 am EST We’ve got some more details on Legendary and Universal’s new film Skull Island, and they’re awesome. Legendary made the surprise announcement at Comic Con, promising a film that delves into the location of King Kong’s origin. Now Tom Hiddleston is in talks to star in the picture, which will be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer, You’re the Worst)....

Two New ‘Nymphomaniac’ Posters Get Symbolic By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2013 4:00 pm EST That first big batch of orgasmic Nymphomaniac posters was eye-catching for obvious reasons, and appropriate as the first public face for a movie that is probably going to me the most explicit non-porno most people see in the next year. But they were so over the top as to be almost comic. (See any of the many Brady Bunch photoshops to make the point....

VOTD: Christoph Waltz In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Djesus Uncrossed’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2013 11:00 am EST Academy-Award winner and current nominee Christoph Waltz hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend and used the occasion to poke fun at his two-time collaborator, Quentin Tarantino. The SNL team created a sketched called Djesus Uncrossed starring Waltz as Jesus, back from the dead and hell bent on revenge. It features obvious and hilarious references to Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds and, of course, Django Unchained....

‘A Night In Old Mexico’ Trailer: Robert Duvall Finds Bad Money By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 9:30 am EST In A Night in Old Mexico there’s a mini-Lonesome Dove reunion of sorts, as the film has Robert Duvall working with a script by Lonesome Dove scribe William T. Wittliff. This is a very different sort of project, however. Duvall plays an old rancher who has lost his land, and heads down to Mexico for one last drunken night out with his estranged grandson....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Synopsis Hints At Vision’s Origin By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2014 5:45 pm EST Very few people have seen footage from Avengers: Age of Ultron, but there has, of course, been rampant speculation about what the film entails. Even a trailer won’t give away the full picture, so we’ll wait until May of next year for all the details. A new official Age of Ultron synopsis, however, now sums up the story nicely without giving too much away....

‘Black Rock’ Trailer: Mumblecore Stars Katie Aselton And Mark Duplass Make A Generic Horror Thriller By Angie Han/Nov. 28, 2012 4:30 pm EST Married couple Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass have worked together on a range of projects, including The Puffy Chair and The League, but their latest collaboration looks like a pretty sharp change of pace. Unfortunately for them, different doesn’t always mean better. Directed by Aselton (The Freebie) from a script by Duplass, Black Rock centers around three women (Aselton, Kate Bosworth, and Lake Bell) on a camping trip on a remote island....

‘Cheap Thrills’ Behind The Scenes Clip: See The Creation Of A Sick Scene By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2014 10:00 am EST Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite films of the year so far — a simple, tightly contained and very vicious punch to the gut. Now we’d like to show you a clip from the making-of documentary that is on the new Blu-ray release. The film stars Pat Healy and Ethan Embry as two not-quite-friends who are down on their luck....

‘Hours’ Trailer: Paul Walker Races Against Hurricane Katrina By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2013 11:00 am EST We’re used to seeing Paul Walker drive really fast — across Brazil, across Europe, across South Africa — but Hours has him engaged in a very different kind of race. Against Hurricane Katrina. Yup. Walker stars as Nolan, a new dad who finds himself trapped in the ultimate worst-case scenario. His wife (Genesis Rodriguez) goes into labor weeks early, dying while giving birth to a tiny baby girl who can’t even breathe without the aid of machines....