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Former ‘Billion Brick Race’ Director Jorge R. Gutierrez Reveals His Unused Concept Art By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 1, 2019 7:00 am EST Warner Bros.’ Billion Brick Race has all but stalled, and with the LEGO franchise set to leave Warner Bros. for Universal, The LEGO Movie spin-off may never make it to the finish line. So as a late holiday gift, former director Jorge R. Gutierrez has unveiled some Billion Brick Race concept art for his take on the film that never came to be....

George Lucas Envisioned Using ‘The Mandalorian’ Stagecraft Tech For His Own ‘Star Wars’ TV Shows And Sequel Trilogy By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2020 8:00 am EST Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian continues to provide fascinating insights into the making of the first live-action Star Wars series. One aspect of the production we’ve covered previously was the innovative Stagecraft technology used to create immersive virtual environments in real time and in-camera, rather than the standard green screen technology that requires background visual effects to be added in post-production....

Revisiting ‘Meet The Deedles,’ Disney’s Goofball ‘Bill And Ted’ Riff Starring A Young Paul Walker By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 26, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)The goofball subgenre of comedy, where the protagonist is the dumbest person alive and somehow becomes the center of a plot much bigger than them, was all the rage in the late ’80s and early ’90s....

Superhero Bits: Alternate Spider-Man Suit Designs, ‘Titans’ Rumored For ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to see some of the alternate suits that Spidey almost wore in Spider-Man: Far From Home? Will the Titans pop up on Crisis on Infinite Earths after all? Is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje coming back as Killer Croc for The Suicide Squad? How much money will Gary Glitter get for his song appearing in Joker?...

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Before Sunrise’ And ‘Before Sunset’ Follow One Of The Greatest Cinematic Romances (Before The Inevitable Fall) By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Before Sunrise and Before SunsetWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: After forging a deep connection on board a train to Vienna, American tourist Jesse (Ethan Hawke) convinces Parisian student Celine (Julie Delpy) to get off the train with him and wander around the city....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘High And Low’ Is A Terrific Kidnapping Thriller From Akira Kurosawa By Ben Pearson/May 6, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: High and LowWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: After making two back-to-back samurai classics, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, director Akira Kurosawa switched into contemporary mode to make High and Low (literal translation: Heaven and Hell), an urban thriller centering on an executive who faces a moral choice....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Tesla’ Is The Cure For The Common Biopic By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 25, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: TeslaWhere You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: A biopic of Nikola Tesla that avoids the standard biopic trappings.Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing: Tesla had a very, very limited release, and now it’s streaming on Hulu – which is the perfect opportunity for people to discover it....

The Quarantine Stream: The ‘Lost In Space’ Movie Is A Mystifying Misfire Of Blockbuster Ambition By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Lost in Space (1998)Where You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: In this big screen update of the classic 1960s sci-fi television series, the Robinson family sets off on a mission to find a habitable planet in order to save humanity as the Earth succumbs to pollution and global warming....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2020 4:30 pm EST Scott Cooper, director of Hostiles, the upcoming Antlers, and more, is set to make his TV debut with Angles and Demons. The limited series – which is not an adaptation of the Dan Brown novel, just in case you were wondering – is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by Thomas French published in the St. Petersburg Times. Deadline has the story on the Angels and Demons TV series from Scott Cooper, who is developing the project with Black Bear Television....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Almost Turned One Of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Into The US Vice President By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 28, 2019 4:30 pm EST Since the release of Avengers: Endgame, we’ve learned about a lot of alternate routes the story could have taken. Several abandoned storylines and ideas have been revealed that would have given the superheroes different arcs, taken them to different settings, and teamed them up with different characters. New details about what could have been continue to arrive (most recently with word of Nova almost being included), and now we have word that one of Earth’s mightiest heroes almost became Vice President of the United States of America....

‘Color Out Of Space’ Review: Nicolas Cage Screams In Richard Stanley’s Absolutely Batsh*t Crazy Lovecraft Adaptation [TIFF 2019] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2019 11:00 am EST One thought kept running through my head as I watched Color Out of Space: “What the fuck is this?” It’s become almost a cliche at this point to highlight how “weird” and “bonkers” the latest Nicolas Cage movie is. But even those well-versed in the art of Cage’s self-titled Nouveau Shamanic acting style won’t be prepared for what’s in store with Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H....

‘Free Fall’ Book Will Tell The Poe Dameron Origin Story By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2020 9:30 am EST Because no question in the world of Star Wars will ever go unanswered, we’re now getting a Poe Dameron origin story. The book Star Wars: Poe Dameron: Free Fall (yes, it has all of those colons) will arrive this summer, and delve into Poe’s teen years, when he ran away from home to discover who he really was....

‘Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken’ Is An Anime Love Letter To Animation And Imagination By Rafael Motamayor/April 9, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)There have been more than a few manga and anime shows about people who want to make manga or anime. The problem is that they usually fall into the cynical side of the industry, focusing on the hardships of making a living doing hard work with little pay, but not so much on the creative aspect of it, or the huge love that goes into doing the work....

‘Lost In Space’ Season 2 Trailer: The Robinsons Brave Rocky Waters And Killer Monsters By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 5, 2019 11:30 am EST “Danger, Will Robinson,” is certainly a phrase that Lost in Space season 2 seems to be taking seriously. But this time, there’s no robot to warn the space-faring Robinson family about it. More than a year after Netflix debuted its glossy, big-budget reboot of classic 1960s sci-fi series Lost in Space, the Robinson clan is back to being lost and facing perilous waters....

‘Micro Mayhem’ Stop-Motion Series From Jon Favreau And Seth Green Coming To Quibi By Ben Pearson/Feb. 23, 2020 12:00 pm EST Quibi is putting the pedal to the metal with a new stop-motion animated series based on a viral short film. Micro Mayhem, “a series of over-the-top shorts where the cars are the characters,” uses toy cars to tell violent, action-packed stories. Jon Favreau’s Golem Creations is executive producing, while Seth Green’s Stoopid Buddy Studios will co-produce alongside eOne....

‘Raw’ Director Julia Ducournau Has A New Film Called ‘Titane’, And No One Knows What It’s About By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 11, 2019 5:00 pm EST Julia Ducournau, director of the coming-of-age cannibal film Raw, has a new movie in the works. It’s called Titane, and it was just scooped up by the folks at Neon. What’s it about? Uh…we don’t know. No one knows, in fact – except Julia Ducournau, and (presumably) some people at Neon....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: The Definitive Oral History Of The Lightsaber Battle In Snoke’s Throne Room By Ben Pearson/Dec. 21, 2017 7:00 am EST (Warning: this post contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.) The latest Star Wars film is overflowing with jaw-dropping moments, but one of the most talked-about scenes is the incredible lightsaber fight inside Supreme Leader Snoke’s throne room. I knew the second I walked out of the movie that I wanted to read a detailed breakdown of how that came together, so when /Film was given the chance to speak with many of the filmmakers on the movie’s opening day, I decided to compile an oral history....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Featurette Showcases Adam Driver’s Dedication To Kylo Ren By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2020 1:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is coming to home video soon, and that means fans will get an extensive sneak peek behind the scenes of the making of the finale of the Skywalker saga. Leading up to the film’s release on digital, several featurette clips have been surfacing online, and a new one shines a light on Adam Driver’s intense dedication to playing Kylo Ren as fiercely as possible, and that includes doing some of his own stunts....

‘The Last Starfighter’ Sequel Is Still In The Works; Original Writer Provides A Status Update By Ben Pearson/Oct. 15, 2020 10:30 am EST 1984’s science fiction adventure film The Last Starfighter captured the imaginations of a generation, and screenwriters have been wanting to remake it or tell more stories in that universe for decades. Now, more than thirty-five years after the original premiered, a sequel is closer than ever. Jonathan Betuel, who co-wrote the original film, recently gave a The Last Starfighter sequel update and explained that he is still working on a follow-up film with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta, and that finally, after years of trying to secure the rights, “it looks like we’ll be making the deal to get it going....

‘The Shining’ TV Series, ‘Justice League Dark’ Coming From Bad Robot & HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2020 2:33 pm EST HBO Max just ordered thee new shows from Bad Robot, and one of them is a spin-off of The Shining. Overlook will explore more stories from the haunted hotel featured so prominently in the Stephen King novel and Stanley Kubrick movie. The two other shows are Duster, about a getaway driver for a crime syndicate, and the third is Justice League Dark, set in the world of DC Comics....