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Amy Seimetz Joins ‘Pet Sematary’ Remake Cast By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2018 4:00 pm EST Amy Seimetz is the latest exciting actor to join the Pet Sematary remake cast. Seimetz will play Rachel Creed, wife of Dr. Louis Creed, played by Jason Clarke. Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer helm the Stephen King adaptation. We’ve entered some sort of golden age of Stephen King movie casting. While the early days of King adaptations landed stars like Jack Nicholson, there was a time not too long ago when King movies would primarily be populated with little-known B-movie stars....

Ben Affleck May Make A War Film With ‘Red Platoon’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 30, 2017 12:00 pm EST Director Ben Affleck has made a gangster film, a detective movie, and a heist film. Now, he’s in talks to add a war movie to that list with a Sony project, Red Platoon, based on Clinton Romesha’s best-selling memoir. George Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing the film, which is about a firefight that lasted 14 hours at the Battle of Kamdesh....

By Chris Evangelista/March 1, 2018 4:00 pm EST Disney CEO Bob Iger has said in the past, ““We certainly would be looking forward to the opportunity to have Sky be part of our company,” but it’s not clear if the House of Mouse wants to be partners with Comcast. As the Times puts it:

Confirmed: Ed Harris Will Return For ‘Westworld’ Season 2 By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2016 4:30 pm EST Westworld has a lot of questions to answer before season one wraps up, and now that we’ve heard the show’s been renewed, we can be sure there will be even more mysteries to come next year. But we can put one big question about season two to rest right now. Yes, Ed Harris has confirmed that he will be back for Westworld season two....

Here’s Our First Look At The Wasp In ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ By Jacob Hall/July 11, 2017 2:00 pm EST If you stuck around during the credits of Ant-Man (and of course you did), you were treated to (spoiler alert) an additional scene where Michael Douglas’ Hank Pym gifts his daughter, Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne, with her own superhero suit. The suggestion was that she would suit up alongside Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang in the sequel, a suggestion that was confirmed when Ant-Man and the Wasp was scheduled for a July 6, 2018 release date....

Jackie Chan And Owen Wilson Are Returning For ‘Shanghai Dawn’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 6, 2016 2:30 pm EST Jackie Chan quickly rose to fame in the United States in the late 1990s thanks to his co-starring turn alongside Chris Tucker in the action comedy Rush Hour, which turned into a franchise. But let’s not forget about the other buddy comedy that Hollywood brought Jackie Chan into alongside Owen Wilson.Shanghai Noon followed Jackie Chan working as an Imperial guard in the Forbidden City of China and is sent into action when Princess Pei Pei is taken hostage to the western frontiers of Nevada....

Johnny Depp’s Biggie Smalls Movie ‘City Of Lies’ Pulled From Release Calendar By Ben Pearson/Aug. 7, 2018 11:30 am EST I’m not a statistician, but I’m guessing there are at least a few of you who were excited to see City of Lies, a film that stars Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker as they try to crack the case of who murdered iconic rapper Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) in a 1997 drive-by shooting....

Kenny Baker, The Man Inside R2-D2, Has Died At 81 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2016 9:52 am EST This weekend brings some sad news for Star Wars fans. One of the most beloved characters in the entire sci-fi saga is R2-D2, the astromech droid who has been the longtime counterpart of C-3PO. Though the character is a droid who can easily be brought to life with the magic of visual effects today, in the days of the original Star Wars trilogy, he was controlled by the 3 foot 8 inch tall actor Kenny Baker....

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Vivo’ Coming From Sony Animation By Angie Han/Dec. 14, 2016 1:00 pm EST It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Lin-Manuel Miranda doesn’t just write like he’s running out of time — he works at a pace that’d make Alexander Hamilton himself implore Miranda to take a break. With Disney’s Moana still in theaters, Sony has set a date for Vivo, its own animated film featuring songs by Miranda. Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) is directing, and Miranda’s In the Heights collaborator Quiara Alegría Hudes will write the script....

Listen To The ‘Ready Player One’ Title Theme From ‘Back To The Future’ Composer Alan Silvestri By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 16, 2018 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Alan Silvestri was behind the theme for one of the most iconic ’80s films of all time, so it’s fitting that he would be recruited to compose the Ready Player One title theme. The composer of Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit has teamed up with Steven Spielberg to score the director’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s love letter to 1980s pop culture, Ready Player One....

LOL: ‘The First Pitch’ Imagines How The Second Ever Blockbuster Was Sold By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2017 5:00 am EST In 1903, Edwin S. Porter’s short film The Great Train Robbery became one of the first blockbuster films. At just 12 minutes long, it was still a milestone achievement in American filmmaking as it employed production and editing techniques previously unheard of in filmmaking. It’s considered the first ever American action film, and one of the earliest westerns to have a recognizable form to it....

Martin Scorsese Loves Raymond: Ray Romano Joins ‘The Irishman’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 14, 2017 4:30 pm EST Ray Romano, fresh off the success of the critically acclaimed The Big Sick, will be reteaming with Martin Scorsese to join the cast of Netflix’s much-anticipated film, The Irishman.Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, and Bobby Cannavale are all set, or in talks, to appear in the adaptation of Charles Brandt’s mob book, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Final Ride by Jimmy Hoffa....

New ‘Darkest Hour’ Trailer: Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill Faces Dunkirk By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 28, 2017 8:00 am EST Dunkirk will soon be back on the big screen, but not as Christopher Nolan’s expansive battle movie. This time we’ll be seeing it on the other side of the English Channel in Darkest Hour, the tense Winston Churchill biopic starring an unrecognizable Gary Oldman. The newest Darkest Hour trailer has Churchill beaten back by detractors and critics who don’t think he’s right for the job of prime minister as an onslaught of German troops beat back weary British soldiers in World War II....

New ‘Power Rangers’ TV Spots Unleash Elizabeth Banks As Rita Replusa By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 2017 6:00 am EST We’re not even halfway through March, and we’ve already had a good month of blockbusters. Logan blew fans away to kick off the month right, Kong: Skull Island delivered some big monster movie fun, and Disney fans will enjoy themselves this week with the box office monster that will be Beauty and the Beast....

Russo Brothers Try To Convince You ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Takes Place Before ‘Infinity War’ By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2018 3:30 pm EST Following the big cliffhanger ending of Avengers: Infinity War, the future productions of Marvel Studios that feature characters who met a grisly end face an interesting challenge. Knowing which characters have a movie coming out after Avengers 4 has the potential to ruin some of the suspense that comes from not knowing who is going to survive....

See The Beautiful Unreleased Harry Potter Cover Art From Olly Moss By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 26, 2017 12:00 pm EST Harry Potter has gone through several rounds of book covers, each of them more stylized than the last. But what about the cover art that didn’t make the cut? Olly Moss, one of /Film’s favorite pop culture artists, has revealed several sets of book covers that never officially made it onto the front of one of the new Harry Potter editions....

The Morning Watch: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ IMAX Featurette, ‘Dumb & Dumber’ Reunion On ‘Conan’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 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 new IMAX featurette for Avengers: Infinity War shows the difference between the giant screen and your traditional movie theater....

The Morning Watch: Deconstructing ‘The LEGO Movie’, ‘Black Mirror’ VFX Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 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, Phil Lord & Chris Miller break down a “lost clip” from The LEGO Movie for a screenwriting lecture....

The Weekend Read: Every /Film Original From The Past Week By Jacob Hall/March 31, 2017 6:00 pm EST If you’re looking for something to read over the weekend, we’ve got you covered. Here’s every review, editorial, list, feature, column, and rant published by the /Film staff and our team of freelancers over the past week. Jacob Hall led a spoiler-filled discussion about the crazy final 15 minutes of Life.Ethan Anderton broke down the new Justice League trailer frame-by-frame....

‘A Quiet Place’ Final Trailer: Critics Scream Their Praise For John Krasinski’s Horror Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 2, 2018 8:30 am EST Stars John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe may have to keep their mouths shut, but critics could not give louder praise to A Quiet Place. The Krasinski-directed horror film is garnering rave reviews, which the final A Quiet Place trailer gathers up in one convenient promotional video....