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Page 2: Ghostbusters, Frozen, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Disney, ET, Aronofsky By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2014 12:00 pm EST Header Photo: Here’s A Stay Puft Marshmallow Man To Go With Your Ghostbusters LEGO Set Movie Ticket Prices Slid Almost 5% to $7.96 These Disney Easter Eggs Are Incredible Apple TV Adds Channels for A&E, History and Lifetime, But It’s Just a Taste for Most Explore the bridge of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ through Oculus RiftConcept art for Wildstyle from The Lego Movie...

Page 2: World’s End, Star Wars, Gremlins, Jerry Seinfeld, Star Trek, Lone Ranger, Hobbit By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2013 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: Wreck It Ralph, Transformers, Muppets, Indiana Jones, Spike Lee, Gremlins, Hobbit, Game Of Thrones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Walking Dead, Fringe, Star Trek, The Prestige, Big Lebowski, Totoro By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: “I’m Gonna Wreck It” T-shirt The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why 48 FPS Fails How Social Media and Viral Marketing are Saving the Film Industry Today’s t-shirt of RIPT Apparel is a Transformers/80’s movies and tv-inspired design “8Dtron”...

Patton Oswalt Cast In A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas? First Set Photos Online By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 7:00 am EST Production began today in Michigan on the stoner-sequel A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, as screenwriter Jon Hurwitz announced on Twitter. Also on Twitter, star John Cho revealed that Patton Oswalt was on set “in my vicinity, holding a sketch pad, duct tape, and a reel to reel audio recorder....

Paul Verhoeven And Gaspar Noé Selling New Projects At Cannes By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2014 1:30 pm EST It’s Cannes time, which means the marketplace is opening in France, and producers, sales agents, distributors, and other money-traders are converging to make deals to produce and exhibit new films. Two of the first big filmmakers who will be selling their new projects at the festival are Paul Verhoeven and Gaspar Noé. We’ve got what little info is available on their new projects, after the break....

POTD: Joshua Budich’s Empire Cover Featuring Steven Spielberg, Joss Whedon, Francis Ford Coppola And More By Germain Lussier/July 1, 2014 7:00 am EST You may have noticed the upcoming issue of Empire Magazine Australia has a pretty unique and awesome cover. It’s an illustration of several popular and influential filmmakers, next to images from their films, all to commemorate a special “Director’s Cut” issue. Filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Joss Whedon, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, David Lynch, John Woo, Danny Boyle, Guillermo del Toro and others contributed content to the issue, so a special cover was made....

Ruben Fleischer Working On New Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film At Sony By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2013 12:21 pm EST Briefly: Ruben Fleischer launched his feature career in a big way with Zombieland, made a quick left turn into bitter comedy for 30 Minutes or Less, and then hit a big bump with Gangster Squad. The problems with that last film are many (beginning with a terrible script) and so here’s hoping that his next film starts on better footing, and has a much better fate....

Scott C’s The Great, Great Showdowns Hunt - Day 2 [Updated With Winner] By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2014 8:30 am EST Los Angeles, the hunt is on for free, original paintings like the one above by the one and only Scott Campbell. In fact, exactly like the one above. But you’re going to have to be quick, smart and pop culture savvy. Starting right now, and repeating each day until the Friday opening of his latest exhibit at Gallery 1988, Campbell is hiding an original painting from a famous film at the location where the scene was shot....

Sigourney Weaver Joins Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Chappie’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2013 12:00 pm EST Briefly: Neill Blomkamp is following Elysium with the film Chappie, in which a couple of gangster steal a robot named Chappie, which ends up adopted into “a very strange and dysfunctional family.” Sharlto Copley is providing the voice of Chappie, and Hugh Jackman and Dev Patel are cast as well. Now Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of the film....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Fantastic Four, Hulk TV Show, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Amazing Spider-Man 2 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2013 1:00 pm EST Is Marvel delaying the development of Guillermo del Toro’s Hulk TV show? Does Mark Millar think Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four is going to be special? Want to watch another video of Emma Stone talking The Amazing Spider-Man 2? How can you own Tony Stark’s TV from Iron Man 3?...

The Newsroom Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Preparing For “Action” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2014 11:00 am EST HBO released a second teaser trailer for season 3 of The Newsroom attached to season the series finale of True Blood. The new teaser shows the cast and crew setting up in front of the camera right before “action” is called and the cameras begin to roll. Watch The Newsroom Season 3 teaser trailer now embedded after the jump....

By David Chen/April 16, 2010 11:00 am EST Stephen imagines describing himself to a group of strangers. The Tobolowsky Files is a new 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 always e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or you can e-mail David at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com. You can also follow Stephen on Twitter or follow David on Twitter....

This Week In Trailers: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Oslo, August 31st, Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway, Wreckers, Special Forces, Holy Rollers: The True Story Of Card Counting Christians By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 11, 2011 5:00 am EST Director Lynne Ramsay certainly has a distinct way of telling a story if you have seen 2002’s Morvern Callar and had some kind of reaction to it. Both written and directed by Ramsay, Callar still stands as one of those rare delights where art was able to trump commercialism....

Tina Fey Teaming With ‘Pitch Perfect’ Director Jason Moore And ‘SNL’ Writer Paula Pell For ‘The Nest’ By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2013 2:30 pm EST 30 Rock’s seven-season run on NBC has come to an end, but creator/star Tina Fey’s big screen career is just heating up. She has Admission with Paul Rudd lined up for release in March, and is now headed to shoot The Muppets… Again in London....

VOTD: Lee Hardcastle’s Horror Animation Short ‘Ghost Burger’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2013 3:00 pm EST Lee Hardcastle does some great things with clay, and has used the pliable stuff to animate some great movie homages (his remakes of The Raid and The Thing quickly come to mind) and some memorable comedy as well as a few gross-out gags. His most notable bit of nastiness might be T Is for Toilet, which was Hardcastle’s submission in the ABCs of Death director contest, and which won the open spot in the film....

Will Frank Grillo Play Crossbones In ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier?’ [Update: Yes!] By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2012 2:30 pm EST Character actor and all around bad ass Frank Grillo (The Grey, Warrior) might have inadvertently let the news slip that he’s soon to be part of the Marvel Universe. (NOTE: THE TWEET HAS BEEN DELETED. It said something along the lines of “Nice Trip LA, Everyone at Marvel is great, hope it works out #captainamerica”)...

‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Trailer: No Regrets, No Future By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2013 11:45 am EST David Lowery’s film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints was among the best debuts at Sundance this past January, and it quickly found a release deal with IFC. (My glowing review is here.) The first trailer is here, opening with a slow, hazy expression of love which is soon overshadowed by the dark current that runs through the film....

‘Chronicle’ Scribe Max Landis To Rewrite Sony’s ‘Houdini’ By Angie Han/Jan. 14, 2014 6:00 am EST Harry Houdini has the subject of much interest in Hollywood for the past couple of years, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at your local theater listings. We’ve barely heard a peep about Summit’s Houdini spy film since Dean Parisot entered talks to direct last summer, and DreamWorks doesn’t seem to have done much with Voices From the Dead since buying it in 2011....

‘Empires Of The Deep’ Trailer: Here’s What Three Years, $130 Million, And Olga Kurylenko Gets You By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2012 3:00 pm EST Remember way back before Avatar came out, when news of its behind-the-scenes woes, budget headaches, and unoriginal plotline had some commentators predicting one of the most expensive flops in cinema history? And then how when it actually came out, audiences were so dazzled by the gorgeous world of Pandora that it actually went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time?...

‘Planes: Fire And Rescue’ Trailer #3 Plus New Characters And Voices Revealed By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2014 10:34 am EST Below, check out a brand new Planes Fire and Rescue trailer, some new characters (who are Cars, not Planes) as well as a list of new cast members including Ed Harris, Wes Studi, Fred Willard, Jerry Stiller, Erik Estrada, John Michael Higgins, Hal Holbrook, Kevin Richardson and Patrick Warburton. It opens July 18....