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Paul Feig Did Some Writing On ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2012 7:00 am EST Before Paul Feig directed Bridesmaids and became a mainstay on Hollywood’s comedy director go-to list, he’d made a fantastic career working in TV. Along with Judd Apatow, he co-created the seminal show Freaks and Geeks which launched the careers of some of the biggest movie stars in the world (Rogen, Franco, Segel, etc.). The show wasn’t a hit with audiences when it first aired but its frank and funny take on high school continues to resonate with audiences who discover it today....

Rumor: George Lucas Plotting More ‘Star Wars’ Movies By Germain Lussier/Oct. 23, 2010 4:38 pm EST So, be sure to file this rumor under “just in case,” but IESB – who has been known to have connections at Lucasfilm in the past – is currently reporting that Lucas is “plotting to create” new Star Wars movies which would be released after the six three 3D re-releases and would take place far in the future, not relating to the Skywalkers....

See Toby Jones And In Sienna Miller As Hitch And Hedren In ‘The Girl’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2012 2:30 pm EST There are two Alfred Hitchcock films in production right now. One, Hitchcock, features Anthony Hopkins as the droll, rotund Master of Suspense, and focuses on the time Hitch spent making Psycho. We’ve seen some impressive looks at the makeup used to transform Hopkins into his subject, but we have yet to hear and see him in action....

Sequel Updates: Tony Scott On ‘Top Gun 2’ And Robert Zemeckis On ‘Roger Rabbit 2’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2010 9:40 am EST Even as a kid, two films I never thought I’d see sequels to were Top Gun and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Both Eighties hits certainly could have continued with their storylines but there wasn’t a need because each wrapped up in a cohesive and satisfying way. In fact, if it wasn’t for each film working so well, neither would have reached the “New Classic” status they currently enjoy....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, Man Of Steel, The Avengers, X-Men By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2012 1:00 pm EST The art of John Aslarona is remarkable. Head to his site or Geek Art for more. Collider posted the above video featuring The Dark Knight Rises San Diego Comic Con exclusive from MattyCollector. Very awesome. Speaking to Empire (via CBM), Christopher Nolan spoke about Man of Steel:...

The 5 Movies I’m Most Looking Forward To At The Independent Film Festival Of Boston 2012 By David Chen/April 22, 2012 9:00 am EST The Independent Film Festival of Boston gets under way this week, and as I’ve mentioned in my past coverage, it’s probably my favorite film-related event of the year. Given that I’m moving out to Seattle within two weeks, this’ll probably be my last IFFB for awhile, but it looks like it will not disappoint....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Kick-Ass, The Ghost Writer, A Prophet, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 3, 2010 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Kick-Ass has no meaningful substance to be gleaned from it, and no thoughtful social commentary to be analyzed. You can try to justify that it does, whether it’s through its depiction of the effect of the media/internet or the way it contrasts the peppy, light-hearted tone of comic books with a more realistically obscene presentation of the horrific violence that occurs in them, but ultimately, it’s a movie defined entirely by fist-pumping energy and a ‘fuck you’ attitude....

Trailer And Clips For ‘Revolution,’ The New NBC Series From J.J. Abrams, Jon Favreau & Eric Kripke By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2012 12:30 pm EST In Lost, producer J.J. Abrams helped create a story set outside many modern technological bounds by enabling a tale stranding characters on a remote island. His new show, Revolution, goes a lot father, by positing a world in which all technology and electrical power dies. Anything that uses power simply dies one night, plunging the world into a state that is part dark age, part wild west....

Trailers For Trailers: ‘Skyfall’ And ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2012 12:00 pm EST What do the new James Bond film and an upcoming low-budget supernatural thriller have in common? Not much, except that both have new trailers coming this week, and both have just released trailers for those new trailers. There isn’t too much to say about either one of these clips, other than that fans of each series will find something to enjoy here....

University Admission Comedy ‘Crazy U’ Being Developed For Will Ferrell By Russ Fischer/March 26, 2012 2:00 pm EST Reading the headline above you might think Will Ferrell and Todd Phillips finally came up with a movie to follow Old School. But this is something different. New Line has picked up the screen rights to Andrew Ferguson’s book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, and will develop the Crazy U script as a potential star turn for Ferrell....

Video Blog: Reader Questions Answered #1 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 9:14 pm EST As you know by now, I regularly record video blogs with Steve from Collider. This past weekend, we found ourselves at the New Orleans airport hours before our flight home, and decided it would be a perfect time to record a bonus video blog. But we didn’t have a topic in mind, so we reached out to our twitter followers and asked for some ideas....

VOTD: Characters From Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Watch ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 10:00 am EST Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom is playing now, and in a meta-twist, it is playing even in the campground of the scout troop that features in the movie. In a new promo short written and directed by Anderson, Jason Schwartzman’s character from the film presents a screening of the movie to his young charges....

When Robert Downey, Jr. Moves On, Will Marvel Just Put A New Actor In Iron Man’s Armor? By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2012 9:30 am EST How long is Robert Downey, Jr. willing to play Iron Man? He’s going to be in the armor for at least four films, once the three Iron Man movies and The Avengers are tallied, and perhaps Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige can come to a deal for Downey to appear, in some measure, in The Avengers 2....

‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Red-Band Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 2:05 pm EST I think this is a much more successful trailer than the last one we saw. There is a lot more comedy here, and a sense of ridiculous, over the top antics that I liked. It looks a bit like PIneapple Express, but hopefully more successful as a whole. 30 Minutes or Less opens August 12....

‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Co-Director Brian Taylor Clarifies Rumors About The Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 9:30 am EST Earlier this week Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance co-director Brian Taylor caused a bit of confusion when he said via Twitter that “The dual role of blaze/zarathos will be a nic cage classic.” Cue minor consternation and/or excitement. Suddenly Nicolas Cage is playing two roles? Where did this come from?...

‘Just Like Being There’ Trailer - Gig Poster Documentary Premieres At SXSW 2012 By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 4:30 pm EST Maybe you’ve noticed over the past few years, but we here at /Film are fans of limited edition, pop culture art. This is evidenced by the copious amounts of posts we write on the subject, be it Mondo, Gallery 1988, Spoke Art or just some talented artist who does work portraying TV, movies or comics....

‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Is The First Film In Envisioned Trilogy By Germain Lussier/Aug. 12, 2011 1:30 pm EST Jaffa and Silver spoke to Entertainment Weekly about this and though they were quick to say nothing is certain yet, they let it be known the film is specifically structured to – possibly – be the first in a brand new Apes trilogy. Read the quotes and some speculation after the break....

‘The Avengers’ Put Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ On Hold; Film Is Still A Possibility By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2011 6:00 am EST As Disney has penciled in dates for new Marvel Studios films in 2014, one of the films that has been on the shortlist of suspected possible occupying projects has been Runaways. That’s a project that Marvel has had at the script stage for some time, based on a comic about five LA teens who forms their own fringe super-team when they discover their parents are actually members of a big-time supervillain cadre called The Pride....

‘The Master’ Clip Ponders Pleasure And Pain; Watch In 70mm Tonight In Chicago By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2012 10:00 am EST We got our first teaser clip from Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master in May, followed by a second in June, and then the full-length trailer in July. In other words, we’ve been getting video about once a month all summer. Which means, yes, it’s time for one more now that we’ve hit mid-August....

‘Tron 3’ Teaser Details Emerge By Russ Fischer/Jan. 22, 2011 5:43 pm EST Yep, you read that right. For the last few weeks there has been a persistent rumor going around that the Tron Legacy DVD and Blu-ray release would feature a teaser for Tron 3. We haven’t run much because we couldn’t confirm it 100%, but someone else got some pretty detailed information that suggests the rumor was true. The info, which is obviously spoilerish if you don’t want to know anything at all, is after the break....