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Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen’s ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’ Prints Are Golden & Colorful By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2017 5:30 am EST This year doesn’t mark a special anniversary for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but that doesn’t mean the 1971 musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book doesn’t deserve to be celebrated, and that’s exactly what Dark Hall Mansion is doing with their latest limited edition fine art print release....

Denzel Washington Circling ‘Inner City’, From ‘Nightcrawler’ Director Dan Gilroy By Jack Giroux/Aug. 26, 2016 8:00 am EST Has anyone else been anxiously awaiting the news of Dan Gilroy’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker? The screenwriter, who wrote Two for the Money and worked on the script for Tarsem’s The Fall, made his directorial debut with Nightcrawler, a darkly funny thriller that feels made by an old pro behind the camera....

Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Don’t Breathe 2,’ Confirms Involvement In ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2016 10:30 am EST 2016 has been a banner year for awful things happening to the world in general, so maybe it’s appropriate that it’s been a banner year for horror cinema. After all, this is a genre that takes great pleasure in chewing up our miseries and spitting them out, allowing us to cackle at our misfortunes or comprehend our personal dread....

Four New Illumination Entertainment Release Dates Announced, What Movies Could They Be? By Jack Giroux/Feb. 2, 2017 3:00 pm EST Illumination and Universal Pictures have the next six years covered. The production company, founded in 2007, has made some monster hits with Despicable Me, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, and most recently, Sing, which is getting a sequel. Today, Illumination announced four new release dates. Below, learn more about the Illumination Entertainment release dates just announced....

James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Sequels Bring Back Another Familiar Actress By Ben Pearson/July 27, 2017 6:30 am EST Remember the character Mo’at from James Cameron’s Avatar? Of course you do! It’s Mo’at! You know, that one character…who does that thing…Okay, so I don’t remember Mo’at at all. But maybe some super fans will recall that Mo’at is a Na’vi spiritual leader and the mother of Zoe Saldana’s character, Neytiri. Why does this matter?...

Mahershala Ali Joins The Voice Cast Of Lord And Miller’s Animated ‘Spider-Man’ Movie By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2017 3:30 pm EST Amid all the hubbub about Phil Lord and Chris Miller leaving the Han Solo movie, I’d completely forgotten that they were involved with an animated Spider-Man film across town at Sony Pictures Animation. That project just scored a couple of solid additions to its voice cast, as Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) and actor Brian Tyree Henry (who plays rapper Paper Boi on Donald Glover’s FX series Atlanta) have officially come on board....

Neill Blomkamp Embarks On Experimental Film Project Oats Studios; Watch The Trailer By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 30, 2017 10:00 am EST After making the modestly-to-poorly received sci-fi films Elysium and Chappie, Blomkamp may be stepping away from trying to live up to early praise of him as the next exciting sci-fi director, and going back to his roots: short films. Blomkamp has been teasing his mysterious Oats Studios project for a while, but a new teaser reveals a hint of what the director’s experimental short film initiative will look like....

New Details On Luke Skywalker’s ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Costume Revealed By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2016 12:30 pm EST Earlier this year, a description of the outfit Luke Skywalker would wear throughout Star Wars: Episode 8 arrived online, revealing that the exiled Jedi master has at least one other set of clothing in his wardrobe besides that white and grey get-up seen at the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Overall ‘Star Wars’ Production Is Slowing Down As Lucasfilm And Disney Regroup By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2018 8:30 am EST Back in June, news surfaced that Disney and Lucasfilm were regrouping following the less than stellar box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which included rethinking how to move forward with any other spin-offs in the Star Wars franchise. Initial reports said several spin-offs were indefinitely on hold, but further details indicated Lucasfilm was merely changing their approach and expectations for what those movies needed to be....

Superhero Bits: Civil War On Netflix, Rocket Boomerang, Cyborg Origins & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2016 5:00 pm EST How does Gal Gadot describe the first time she put on the Wonder Woman outfit? Which Marvel characters does Dave Bautista want to have the Guardians of the Galaxy meet in the Marvel cinematic universe? When is Captain America: Civil War coming to Netflix? Who does Kevin Smith think should direct The Flash?...

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s Secret Empire, Thor Feasts With Mjolnir, Professor X Solo Movie & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 13, 2017 5:00 pm EST What is Marvel’s Secret Empire? What does James McAvoy have to say about the potential for a solo movie for Professor Charles Xavier? What’s one priority that Ben Affleck has for The Batman? How would Duncan Jones approach a Green Lantern movie? What character could Peter Dinklage be playing in The Avengers: Infinity War?...

The Morning Watch: Behind The Scenes Of ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’, ‘Krypton’ And Netflix’s ‘Lost In Space’ By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a batch of featurettes take us behind the scenes of the upcoming sci-fi sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, SyFy’s brand new Superman prequel series Krypton, and Netflix’s reboot of the classic space adventure series Lost in Space....

The Morning Watch: Honest Trailers Tackles Christopher Nolan, Honoring Comedy Store Owner Mitzi Shore & More By Ethan Anderton/May 30, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, Honest Trailers takes aim at the films of Christopher Nolan after fans unlocked the reward through a Screen Junkies charity fundraiser....

The Morning Watch: How ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Changed Animation, The Science Of Ants & More By Ethan Anderton/June 28, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, go behind the sciences of Marvel’s Ant-Man, specifically the little insect buddies who help him pull of his heroics....

The Morning Watch: The Making Of HBO’s Feature Presentation, A Special ‘Coco’ Performance & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 9, 2018 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, Coco star Anthony Gonzalez gives a live performance of one of the best songs in the Pixar Animation movie....

Third ‘Cloverfield’ Movie Pushed Back To 2018 By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 24, 2017 7:30 am EST The third Cloverfield film, tentatively titled 2017 Cloverfield Movie, may have to change its working title. The release date for the sequel to 2008’s Cloverfield and 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane has been pushed back to 2018. This makes it the second delay for the sci-fi movie originally titled The God Particle. The film is the third set in the Cloverfield universe, which has acted as a sort of connective tissue between original genre films that have been picked up by Paramount and J....

This One Scene Was Reshot For ‘Wonder Woman’; Zack Snyder’s Cameo Revealed By Jack Giroux/June 5, 2017 1:30 pm EST Three weeks ago, Wonder Woman was projected to make $65 million its opening weekend. Patty Jenkins’ already beloved comic book movie surpassed early box-office expectations by over $35 million, making it the highest domestic opening for a female director. She knocked the DCEU movie out of the park. Jenkins didn’t leave any scenes on the cutting room floor, either, and only did reshoots for one scene, which built up to one the movie’s most inspiring, action-heavy sequences....

By Abby Olcese/Sept. 18, 2018 10:00 am EST At this year’s TIFF, those themes center around ideas of inclusion and identity, both in the films and as part of events outside the theaters. Those events include the Share Her Journey rally for women in film, and the TIFF Industry conference, which this year featured speakers like #oscarssowhite creator April Reign, and Annenberg Inclusion Initiative founder Dr. Stacy L. Smith. Films at the festival have asked audiences to step into the shoes of a black family in 1960s New York (If Beale Street Could Talk), families dealing with addicted children (Beautiful Boy and Ben is Back) and a young gay man undergoing conversion therapy (Boy Erased), among many other characters....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Godzilla’ Anime, ‘Rememory,’ ‘Tiger Hunter,’ ‘The Star,’ ‘May It Last’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 18, 2017 3:00 pm EST Studios drop countless trailers each week, so there will inevitably be many that fall through the cracks. While we at /Film cover all manner of trailers every week, from indie films to sci-fi B-movies and Netflix films, here are a few that we missed. Godzilla While the U.S. gets their own Godzilla to pit against Kong and the rest of the kaiju monsters in Warner Bros....

Watch: Pixar-Themed Parade And Fireworks At Disneyland’s Pixar Fest, ‘Up’ Show At Animal Kingdom By Ben Pearson/April 20, 2018 5:00 pm EST Pixar is one of Disney’s greatest assets, but thus far, the animation giant hasn’t had much of a significant presence in the company’s theme parks. Sure, there’s an occasional attraction here and there (Toy Story Mania, etc.) and even a section devoted to Cars at Disneyland’s California Adventure, but Pixar is about to become a much bigger player there with the upcoming Pixar Pier....