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Gay Marriage Activists Call For Sundance Boycott Bloggers and gay rights activistshave calledfor a boycott of Utah tourism in an attempt to punish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' aggressive attempts to ban gay marriage in California. You might be wondering, “This is /Film, not /politics. Why waste my time with this nonsense”. Trust me, there is a movie angle to this story. Read on. Tourism brings in over $6 billion a year to the state of Utah, skiing resorts, beautiful trailers and the most famous film festival in the United States — The Sundance Film Festival....

Inception UK TV Spot There’s a new UK TV spot forChristopher Nolan’sInception: a sixty-second clip that does a good job of getting the idea of the movie across without seeming to give away too much. Didn’t want to watchthe last full trailerwhen you heard it showed off too much? This is the clip for you; check it out after the break. I’m one of those who didn’t watch the last trailer — I just want to see the bloody movie at this point, and I’m trying to remain as unspoiled as possible....

Legendary Pictures Teams With Jackie Robinson Estate For Biopic Most geeks know the number 42 as Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams’The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And if that’s the case,Jackie Robinsonis the Ultimate Question. Robinson was the first African American Major League Baseball player and is the only player to have his number, 42, universally retired throughout Major League Baseball (at least it will be when Mariano Rivera stops saving games for the Yankees) as well as his own day celebrated throughout the sport....

LOL: Quentin Tarantino Sues Alan Ball Over Exotic Birds' “Blood-Curdling, Pre-Historic Sounding Screams” Quentin Tarantinois notorious for talking up his projects and then continuously delaying them (if not outright abandoning them), but recent years have proven a refreshing change of pace. After announcing at Cannes 2008 that he would finally makeInglourious Basterdsby the end of the year, he actually delivered. Then there’sKill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which isfinally seeing the light of dayafter years of promises....

New LOST And 24 Television Promos A bunch of new television spots for the Sixth Season ofLOSThave started airing, and are now online. And while all of the spots feature no new footage, each tv spot hints at a cliffhanger which will finally be resolved in this final season. Also available after the jump are six new television spots for the new season of24. Why Do You Find it So Hard To Believe?...

New Photos From Netflix’s ‘Bright’ Tease The Fellowship Of The LAPD I’ve always been fascinated by the world ofWarhammer 40K, the tabletop miniatures game where space marines and orcs and dwarves and elves all do battle across the galaxy, hitting traditional fantasy tropes in a science fiction landscape. After all, what happens to that Tolkien-esque fantasy world as the centuries start to fly by? Surely it has to change. Surely it can’t remain stagnant....

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Cast In Han Solo Movie? Last week the Hollywood trades reported thatFleabagstarPhoebe Waller-Bridgewas in talks to play a key role in the upcomingHan SoloStar Wars standalone film. The actress now claims those reports are “only rumors,” but is she just playing coy? Update:TheLondon Metrocaught up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge at the NME Awards after she accepted the award for Best TV series, and the actress claims that she knows nothing about being cast in the Han Solo movie:...

Ralph Ahn, Who Played Tran On New Girl, Is Dead At 95 Ralph Ahn, a character actor best known as recurring fan-favorite Tran on “New Girl,” has died at 95. News of his passing came via theKorean American Federation of Los Angeles, honoring Ahn as a leader in the community. Ahn was the youngest child and only living descendant of Korean independence activist Dosan Ahn Chang-ho. In addition to his six decades of acting, Ralph Ahn helped to keep the legacy of his father alive for future generations....

Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’ Will Have Its World Premiere At SXSW 2016 Richard Linklater’sEverybody Wants Somealready has anApril 15, 2016release date locked in thanks to Paramount. But before the film rolls out nationwide, it’s making a quick stop in Linklater’s beloved Austin, Texas. The 1980s-set film has been selected to open the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, which kicks offMarch 11, 2016. Get more details on theEverybody Wants SomeSXSW debut after the jump....

Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Casts ‘Lucy’ And ‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Pilou Asbæk For a long time,Scarlett Johanssonwas the only star attached to DreamWorks' live-actionGhost in the Shellmovie. But with an early 2017 release date already on the books, directorRupert Sandersis slowly starting to fill out the cast around her. The first new addition is a familiar face for Johansson:Pilou Asbæk, the Danish actor who starred with her inLucy....

Sci-Fi Author Harlan Ellison Wants In On Star Trek 2 Harlan Ellisonis a notoriously prickly fellow. Aside from his many works, Ellison is infamous for his decade-long feud withStar Trekcreator Gene Roddenberry after he rewrote much of Ellison’s onlyTrekepisode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Now that the franchise is in the hands ofJ.J. Abrams, Ellison is offering his services for the second film in Abrams' reboot (for a price, of course)....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Fast & Furious 7’, ‘Kill Bill 3’, ‘ExpendaBelles’, ‘Zoolander 2’ If you consider sequel news to be a gift, we’ve got a whole sleigh full of presents for you. After the jump: The rumor started whenCarbuzz.comalleged last week that the Canadian pop singer was being eyed to replace Walker — withLudacris' full support, no less. However, they’ve now squashed their own rumor after a categorical denial from Universal....

Shawn Levy Brought Some Spielberg Spice To The Adam Project Netflix has promised animpressively star-studdedoriginal film slate for 2022, and this week, the streamer is delivering on its promise. Its first major movie of the season is “The Adam Project,” a sci-fi adventure flick that has all the trappings of a theatrical blockbuster, albeit one you can watch from home. The movie follows a time-traveler named Adam (Ryan Reynolds) who teams up with his pre-teen past self (newcomer Walker Scobell) to save the future by making sure time travel was never invented....