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Paramount Is Pissed At J.J. Abrams For Dumping Them (Again) To Make Another ‘Star Wars’ Movie By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2017 1:30 pm EST According to a new report, the studio isn’t exactly thrilled that Disney poached one of their prized possessions, especially since this is the second time this has happened to them in the past few years. Hit the jump to find out about the JJ Abrams Star Wars Paramount situation....

Rachel Weisz Not A Fan Of A Female James Bond, Thinks Women Deserve Their “Own Stories” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2018 2:00 pm EST Gender-flipping is all the rage in the movie industry these days. From Ghostbusters to the new Doctor Who, characters who have long been presented as straight, usually white, men have been reinvented as women. For years, people have talked about a gender-flipped James Bond, one of cinema’s oldest — and most definitively male — characters....

Robert Englund Will Become Freddy Krueger Once More For A New Documentary By Jacob Hall/Feb. 2, 2017 3:30 pm EST One of the things I’ve always loved about Robert Englund is that he seems to genuinely love being Freddy Krueger. Some actors grow jaded when they find themselves associated with a single character and their bitterness radiates in every interview (and sometimes in the performances themselves). But Englund? Englund seems seems happy to be there, happy to endure the prosthetics, and happy to have created a character that has resonated with so many people all over the world....

Shooting ‘Annihilation’ Was An ‘‘Insane’’ Experience, According To Jennifer Jason Leigh [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 7, 2018 2:00 pm EST Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh was on a Television Critics Association panel for her upcoming Showtime series Patrick Melrose (watch the trailer here). After the panel, we were able to speak to her about the upcoming Alex Garland film Annihilation. She could not talk about her character but described the experience of filming in “The Shimmer....

The Morning Watch: Famous Movie Quotes Get Animated, Willy Wonka Live Concert & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 7, 2017 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 fun animated video puts a new spin of famous movie quotes....

The Morning Watch: New Perspective In Horror From ‘Get Out’, THR’s Cinematographers Round Table By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 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, watch a video essay exploring how Get Out does for horror what some of the most innovative films in the genre have done....

VOTD: ‘The Animated Adventures Of Firefly’ Is What The World Needs Right Now By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2016 6:30 am EST Sadly, we’re not likely to ever get any new episodes of Firefly or a sequel to Serenity, but maybe artist Stephen Byrne can help keep the fans at bay with his creation of a teaser for The Animated Adventures of Firefly. Watch the fanmade teaser for a Firefly animated series after the jump....

What Hints Does This ‘Incredibles 2’ Mural Give Us About The Movie’s Villain? By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 4, 2018 10:00 am EST Incredibles 2 is mere months from release, but we still don’t have a clue about the identity of the movie’s Big Bad. A strange holdout for a superhero movie — but then again, this is Pixar. We’re here for the family, not for the feud. But since we’re left with only one trailer and two months before the highly anticipated movie’s release, let’s get to speculating....

Why CBS Thinks Training Day TV Series Can Work As A Show [TCA 2016] By Fred Topel/Aug. 11, 2016 4:00 am EST CBS is gearing up to premiere a series based on the Oscar-winning 2001 movie Training Day this fall. But last season the network had two television series based on movies that did not make it to the second season. Rush Hour was cancelled quickly, and while Limitless was a hit for most of its first season, it still got cancelled....

WTF: Shane Black’s ‘The Nice Guys’ Getting Female-Driven TV Reboot ‘The Nice Girls’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 29, 2017 10:00 am EST Joel Silver is the figure behind this TV reboot. He and Rodney Ferrell, from his studio Silver Pictures Television, are executive producing the series, which is helming the project as part of a first-look deal at Lionsgate TV. This is not the first time a feature film has been adapted into a primetime procedural series, with movies like Limitless, Frequency, Taken, Training Day, Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, and Minority Report, making the leap from the big to small screen....

‘Ant-Man And The Wasp’ Cast List May Have Just Confirmed Another Surprise Villain By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 21, 2018 10:30 am EST Thus far, the marketing for Ant-Man and the Wasp has been building up Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost as the Big Bad of the Marvel sequel. But could another classic Marvel Comics villain make a surprise appearance in the Ant-Man sequel? Another Ant-Man and the Wasp villain may have flown right under our nose....

‘Black Panther,’ ‘A Quiet Place’ Lead Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Mid-Season Nominees By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 3, 2018 4:00 pm EST We’ve reached the midway point of 2018, which means outlets (like ourselves) will be publishing a flurry of “best of the year so far” lists and the awards circuit will start to gear up for Oscar season. And while some awards ceremonies are still catching up with last year’s winners, the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (of which /Film’s Peter Sciretta is a member) has already released their nominees for their mid-season awards....

‘David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special’ Trailer: Any Questions? By Ben Pearson/Oct. 26, 2017 12:30 pm EST Saturday Night Live has been crafting memorable sketches for more than 40 years, but every once in a while, one will transcend the show to enter the larger pop culture zeitgeist. Such was the case with last year’s “Haunted Elevator,” which introduced the world to Tom Hanks’ enigmatic Halloween character known as David S....

‘Enter The Warriors Gate’ Trailer: Dave Bautista Rules With An Iron Fist By Ben Pearson/April 10, 2017 3:30 pm EST We’re about to see Dave Bautista get back in action as the hilariously literal Drax the Destroyer in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but the former WWE superstar actually has another movie coming out on the exact same day. It’s called Enter the Warriors Gate, a fantasy martial arts film written by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and Robert Mark Kamen (Taken)....

‘Everything Everything’ Trailer: It’s A Star-Crossed Romance, But Check Out That Soundtrack By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 5, 2017 4:00 am EST It’s a tragic story: two young teenagers fall in love, but one cannot go outside or she’ll die from her chronic illness. But maybe it’ll be worth the tears as long as it’s set to a baller pop soundtrack. The new trailer for Everything Everything, the tearjerker romance based on a bestselling YA book by Nicola Yoon, highlights the movie’s trendy pop soundtrack, with songs by Skylar Stecker and Zedd & Alessia Cara....

‘Fear’ Remake To Rekindle The Cinematic Magic Of The ’90s Thriller By Chris Evangelista/March 4, 2018 2:00 pm EST Having run out of ideas once and for all, Hollywood now plans to remake the 1996 Mark Wahlberg/Reese Witherspoon thriller Fear. Good luck trying to recapture that ’90s movie magic! Remember Fear? The ’90s thriller featuring a scene where Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon share a romantic evening on a roller coaster?...

‘Godzilla 2’ Photo Teases Connection To Original 1954 Film, But What Does It Mean? By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2017 3:00 pm EST Director Michael Dougherty is hard at work directing Godzilla 2, the next movie in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s MonsterVerse. But while this film will set up an eventual conflict between two cinematic titans in 2020’s Godzilla vs. Kong, it will first turn to villains of the past and feature battles between Godzilla and iconic characters like Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah....

‘Marrowbone’ Trailer: A Rural Haunted House Thriller From The Writer Of ‘The Orphanage’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 12, 2018 8:00 am EST Director J.A. Bayona brought some chills and thrills with The Orphanage back in 2007, but he had some help from screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez. Now the scribe is behind both the script and the camera for a new rural haunted house thriller executive produced by Bayona. Marrowbone follows a family who has escaped from an abusive father in Britain to the safe harbor of a small cottage in America known as the old Marrowbone house....

‘Rocko’s Modern Life’ TV Movie Is Coming To Nickelodeon In 2018, And It’s Very Meta By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2017 11:00 am EST After ending its three-year run over 20 years ago, Nickelodeon is bringing back Rocko’s Modern Life. The kids network has announced a continuance of their stroll down Nostalgia Lane as the titular Australian wallaby, his dog Spunky, steer best friend Heffer, neurotic turtle buddy Filburt, and his neighbors the Bigheads are all coming back for a TV movie on Nickelodeon in 2018....

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Poster Designs May Have Been Smuggled From A French Artist By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2018 12:00 pm EST Solo: A Star Wars Story has already faced some trouble behind the scenes with director Ron Howard replacing duo Phil Lord & Chris Miller in the middle of production. While the first teaser trailer for the movie helped squash some concerns, some new woes for the Star Wars spin-off have surfaced, this time for the film’s marketing department....