2017 BAFTA Nominations: ‘La La Land’, ‘Arrival’, And ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Lead The Pack La La Landis on a roll. Just days after scooping up a record seven awards at the Golden Globes,Damien Chazelle’s musical romance has picked up an impressive eleven BAFTA Awards nominations, leading this year’s pack of contenders. Not far behind areArrivalandNocturnal Animals, with nine each. Read the full list of 2017 BAFTA Awards Nominations below. Going into this year’s awards race,La La Land,Moonlight, andManchester by the Seahad been pegged as this year’s frontrunners....

Black Adam And DC League Of Super Pets Get Delayed The hierarchy of summer blockbusters is about to change! Dwayne Johnson, whom I presume is now head of DC public relations, took toInstagramwith some “BIG & EXCITING NEWS coming out of our movie industry.” Don’t let the capital letters and jolly spirit fool you, this probably isn’t the kind of news that will leave you in high spirits. Johnson has announced that both of his upcoming DCEU films, “Black Adam” and “DC League of Super-Pets” are shifting their release dates....

Charlie Kaufman Did Script Work On Kung Fu Panda Sequel Your first reaction to that headline is probably going to be your jaw hitting the floor. But pick it up and relax. Yes,Charlie Kaufmanhas evidently done some script work onKung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. But it’s just a polish, not a major rewrite. Still, does this mean that we’ll see a wild sequence of exquisitely realized self-doubt in the film?...

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Makes Filmmaking Return For David O. Russell’s New Movie Five years after he won an Oscar for his cinematography inThe Revenant,Emmanuel Lubezkiis set to make his long-awaited return to filmmaking. In his first gig since Terrence Malick’s 2017 filmSong to Song, Luzbeki has signed on to filmDavid O. Russell’s star-studded new movie which features the likes ofChristian Bale, Michael B. Jordan,andMargot Robbie. Emmanuel Lubezki made history at the Oscars in 2015, becoming the first person ever to win the Best Cinematography award three years in a row forGravity, Birdman, andThe Revenant....

Contest: Win A Piece Of ‘The Endless’ Concept Art Those of you paying attention, yes – I’ve been quite busily coveringJustin BensonandAaron Moorhead’sThe Endlessaround these parts. I premiered an exclusive clip thatteases an existential “Struggle,“interviewed the duo abouttheir cinematic inspirations, and now comes the most fun reveal yet in the form of agiveaway contest! It’s time for us here at /Film to give back with a little help from our filmmaking friends, specifically, the team behind your new favorite mindfreak (according to myself and Jamie Righetti whoreviewed the film out of Tribeca)....

Disney Is Pushing ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ And ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ For Awards Consideration We’re heading into the heart of awards season, that time of the year when studios will be releasing the movies that they hope will be nominated for plenty of awards in the coming months. Some will begin with a limited release before rolling out wide in the future, while others have already begun their limited release and are rolling out to more cities in the coming weeks....

Doctor Strange 2 ‘Will Make Fans Of Evil Dead II Very Happy,’ Kevin Feige Teases It’s always a mixed blessing when either a beloved director or exciting up-and-comer signs on to helm a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie or TV show. The mega-successful property has re-vitalized the idea of studio-as-auteur in the modern era of Hollywood, to the degree that it’s hard for anyone to come in and tinker with the MCU formula (even just a little) without ruffling some feathers....

Don’t Forget To Watch After Yang, The Other Colin Farrell Movie Opening This Weekend Yes, “The Batman” has arrived. Congratulations! We did it. Vengeance has been served, courtesy of Robert Pattinson, and Colin Farrell made for quite a scene stealer hidden under all that prosthetic make-up as Penguin. But there’s another movie starring Colin Farrell that you should be seeking out this weekend, especially if you’re not up for all those riddles andemo vigilante guff....

Everything That Happened On Tatooine After Return Of The Jedi: A Brief History The Disney+ series “The Book of Boba Fett” just dropped itsfirst episode, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” and that strange land is one all too familiar for “Star Wars” fans: the sandy desert planet of Tatooine. Fett (Temuera Morrison) famously fell into the Sarlacc pit in “Return of the Jedi,” but what’s happened on the planet since? While we don’t have an exact timeline, “The Book of Boba Fett” takes place a few years after the events of “Return of the Jedi,” and there have been some big changes to Tatooine’s sociopolitical landscape, even if its actual landscape is eternally a sandbox....

Frozen Movie Trailer Hatchetwriter/directorAdam Green’sFrozenis a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are “forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.” Last week we posteda few photos and poster from the film. Today we bring you the movie trailer, embedded after the jump....

George Clooney May Direct Chris Pine, Philip Seymour Hoffman, And Paul Giamatti In ‘Farragut North’ Farragut Northwas born out of Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign for the Presidential nomination. AuthorBeau Williamsonworked Dean’s campaign, and set his play in Des Moines, Iowa, kicking off just before the Iowa caucuses and following the political maneuvering and backstabbing undertaken to score a nomination for one Democratic candidate.Vulturereports the cast, and says that Clooney is planning to offer the lead role of twentysomething political mastermind Stephen Meyers to Chris Pine, who played the role in an LA production of the play....

Glee Creator Ryan Murphy Will Direct Mark Ruffalo In ‘The Normal Heart’ It’s an interesting year forMark Ruffalo. His directorial debutSympathy For Deliciousdidn’t light up the festival circuit, but he’s getting great notes for his work inThe Kids Are Alright. And he’s got to deal with Kevin Feige, who named him as the new Hulk forThe Avengers. But he’s also got some smaller stuff coming up. For instance, there’s the adaptation ofLarry Kramer’s partially autobiographical playThe Normal Heart, about the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York....

High Frame Rate And ‘The Hobbit:’ The Allure Of Middle-Earth Is Crystal Clear At 48fps In the first frames ofThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the camera briefly lingers on a pair of hands in close-up as they light a candle. As the small flame flares, the camera pulls back to show the aged Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm), and the seemingly mundane sequence concludes with a shot that might be unlike anything else you’ve ever seen in a theater....