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More Star Wars Character Cameos Are On The Way In Obi-Wan Kenobi Do character cameos make the “Star Wars” universe feel more connected, or are they mostly just fan-service with little intrinsic narrative value? Well, as a guy who’s definitely for realnamed Benwould tell you, “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.” It depends, in other words, on the context and what the cameo brings to the table. For example, when Denis Lawson shows up for a few seconds as Wedge Antilles in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” it’s really just an Easter egg....

MoviePass Continues To Get Worse, Only Makes Two Movies Available At A Time Another weekend has arrived, creating another opportunity forMoviePassto disappoint their customers. The New York Postconfirmed MoviePass has quietly rolled out a new plan to keep users from spending their money so quickly. Customers trying to check in to movies for theaters that don’t offer e-ticketing options found themselves forced to choose between only two movies. In most cases, customers could only check into either the critically panned new horror releaseSlender Manor the action sequelMission: Impossible – Fallout, now in its third weekend of release....

Nestflix Creator Lynn Fisher Shares The Inspiration For Her Website Devoted To Fake Movies Yesterday, web designerLynn Fisherlaunched a new site calledNestflix, which organizes fictional movies within movies into a fake streaming service. And it’s not just movies: there are fake TV shows from TV shows mixed in as well.Woody’s RoundupfromToy Story 2?It’s there.Queens BoulevardfromEntourage?You betcha.The Crows Have Eyes 3: The CroweningfromSchitt’s Creek?Absolutely. For pop culture obsessives, Nestflix serves as the rare Internet rabbit hole that’s totally enjoyable to disappear into....

Nicolas Winding Refn Plans RomCom With Ryan Gosling, Would Cast Christina Hendricks As Wonder Woman Nicolas Winding Refncould own 2011 and 2012. The director has been one of our faves for some time thanks to thePushertrilogy,Bronson, andValhalla Rising, and his action thrillerDrive, withRyan Gosling, generatedgreat buzzat Cannes andwonMr. Refn the Best Director prize.Driverecently premiered in LA, and the director was on the red carpet to answer questions from press. In doing so, he talked about another film that he and Ryan Gosling would like to do after theirLogan’s Runremake, which he described as a romantic comedy....

Oscar-Winner Alan Menken Working On Music For ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Alan Menkenhas won eight Oscars, mostly for his work on such Disney classics asThe Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, AladdinandPocahontas. He’s both a composer and songwriter who is synonymous with upbeat, happy music that’s fun for the whole family. Now that Disney owns Marvel, it seems they’ve imported their Oscar-winner to help with one of their upcoming comic book movies,Captain America: The First Avenger....

Page 2: Star Trek, World War Z, ID4, Under The Dome, Jaws, GOT, Gremlins, Pan’s Labyrinth Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Header Photo: The Enterprise Boldly Goes Across The KnucklesTattoo Jonah Hill:“Whatever, man....

Pam Anderson’s Barb Wire Is Awesome, You All Just Hate Fun The turn of the century was an absolutelyatrocious time to be a woman in the public eye. In the wake of the#FreeBritneymovement and the public reckoning with how the world treatedMonica Lewinsky, now is the prime time for reassessments of some of pop culture’s biggest scandals. Netflix is currently set to make a documentary onAnna Nicole Smith, and Hulu’s ongoing limited series “Pam & Tommy” have many rethinking their views on how we treated beautiful, blonde, women in the 1990s....

Producer Shawn Levy On What To Expect From ‘Stranger Things’ Season Two Stranger Thingsseason two begins shooting next month. Since cameras haven’t started rolling yet, we don’t know much about what The Duffer Brothers have planned for their follow-up to the wildly popular first season, but they’ve been sharing bread crumbsof informationnow and then. Producer and directorShawn Levyhasn’t released any new revelatory information about season two, either, but he does say the next season will feature some “next-level” stuff and that the show will age along with its young characters....

Rant: Sorry Mario, Video Games Will NEVER Overtake Movies Something has been bothering me for a while now. It’s this claim that Video Games will overtake Movies as an entertainment industry. Sorry to tell you guys, but it just isn’t going to happen. I understand it’s the more interesting story to claim that the video game industry will be bigger than Hollywood, but it just isn’t going to happen. What you see in the graph above (viaMatt Griswold) is:...

Reacher Star Alan Ritchson On Prepping For All Those Fight Scenes, His Favorite One-Liner, And More [Interview] “Reacher” is getting a small screen adaptation, and the eponymous main character that’s at the center of author Lee Child’s popular book series is being played by “Titans” alum Alan Ritchson, who’smarkedly differentthan the Reacher played by Tom Cruise in the film adaptation. /Film had the chance to talk with Ritchson about taking on the Reacher mantle....

Rob Zombie’s Halloween: Alternative Ending And Deleted Scenes Much of the horror community theorized that The Weinstein Company forcedHalloweendirector Rob Zombie to film a series of reshoots. Zombie has disputed this claim on his blog, and now the musician turned horror director tellsMTVabout the alternative ending that could have been, and the real reason for the reshoots. “And the weirdest thing about movies is it’s all planned out, but you just don’t know....

Rumor: Ben Affleck’s ‘The Batman’ Script Is A Mess And Warner Bros Doesn’t Care To Fix It Despite the fact that we don’t actually know when it’s coming,Ben Affleck’sThe Batmanhas looked like one of the more promising films on Warner Bros.' DC slate. Not only was Affleck one of the highlights ofBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but he’s also planning to direct the film himself. Affleck’s been saying all the right things about the project, too, talking up his collaboration with Geoff Johns and emphasizing that they’re taking the time to get it right....

Saved By The Bell Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Did you know that “Saved by the Bell,” the popular ’90s television show, has a 2020 reboot? Did you also know that this reboot was greenlit for a second season back in January of this year?...