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Anna Faris Now In Talks For Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ Sacha Baron Cohenis preparing his next semi-improvised, semi-political comedy.The Dictator, which may or may not be inspired by Charlie Chaplin’sThe Great Dictator(bet on ‘may’) hasBoratdirectorLarry Charlesset to direct from a script byAlec Berg,Jeff SchafferandDavid Mandel. The script, which has Sacha Baron Cohen playing dual roles, may or may not be followed to the utmost degree. Last week we heard about an actressshortlistassembled as producers cast the film’s female lead, and one of the primary concerns for the woman in question was an ability to improvise....

Bridgerton Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More “Bridgerton,” Netflix’s steamy romance series which catapulted Phoebe Dynevor (Daphne Bridgerton) and Regé-Jean Page’s (Simon Basset) careers to fame, is returning for a second season (and third and fourth season!). The show arrived on Christmas day in 2020, offering a lush escape at the end of a challenging year, and was embraced by isolated audiences. It is no wonder that “Bridgerton” became Netflix’s biggest original ever after82 million households watched the show in its first 28 days....

Brie Larson Shot Her ‘Avengers 4’ Scenes Before ‘Captain Marvel’ If you think the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline can get confusing, don’t even attempt to make sense of the movies' shooting schedules. But Marvel Studios is a well-oiled machine, and sometimes stars find themselves having to shoot scenes for a movie that could potentially spoil their introduction. That was the case forBrie Larson, star of Marvel’s first female solo superhero movie,Captain Marvel....

Contest: The Host On DVD The Hosthit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is toe-mail uswith the reason why you should win. On August 3rd we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump. A creature emerges from the Han River’s shores for a feeding frenzy upon onlookers....

Cool Stuff: ‘Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan’ Soundtrack Comes To Vinyl Last week was Friday the 13th, and in honor of the terrifying day that comes around every so often, Waxwork Records announced the arrival of theFriday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattansoundtrack on vinyl. Jason stalks a group of high school graduates on a ship on the way to New York City, and he has quite the graduation present for them....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Apparel Line Has Become Operational There are plenty of clothing lines celebrating the biggest franchises in cinema today, fromStar Warsto the Marvel Cinematic Universe to anything and everything related to LEGO. But the works ofStanley Kubrickdon’t often get much in the vein of cool merchandise for cinephiles to show their love for the legendary filmmaker. Mondo is doing their best to combat that with a new line of clothing honoring one of Kubrick’s greatest contributions to film....

Cool Stuff: Pixar’s Up Luxo Jr. Limited Edition Collector’s Set We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A couple weeks agowe told you the details of Disney’s DVD/Blu-ray release of Pixar’sUp. But we didn’t know at the time that the film will also be released in an awesome Limited Edition Collector’s Set which will surely excite Pixar fanatics. Inspired by the Pixar’s bouncy little lamp which appears in the animation studio’s logo (and originates from the 1986 short flm), this Collectible Luxo Jr....

David Cronenberg And Howard Shore Enlist Metric To Aid ‘Cosmopolis’ Score David Cronenberghas been a forward-thinking guy at many points in his career, but the overall tone of his films tends more towards the classic than the contemporary. He has relied uponHoward Shoreto score his films for over thirty years. While some of those scores have been as unusual as the films they complemented, none have exactly beenrock. (EvenCrash, an absolutely brilliant score based around reverb and guitar, is far less rock than, say, Neil Young’sDead Man, a similar score....

Epcot’s IllumiNations: Reflections Of Earth To Be Replaced By New Fireworks Show Walt Disney World’s Epcot theme park is undergoing a multi-year transformation, and the resort is putting one of its long-running institutions on the chopping block. Disney has announced thatIllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, a nightly show that was first introduced in 1999 as part of the company’s Millennium Celebration and has been running ever since, will be closing next year and an all-new “nighttime fireworks spectacular” will take its place....

Exclusive Images: ‘Sundance Film Festival A To Z,’ An Art Book Commemorating The Fest Quantifying the importance of theSundance Film Festivalis difficult. Every year, films screened there become classics, and are made by filmmakers who become legends. Just look back to past years for proof:Saw, The Blair Witch Project, Donnie Darko, 28 Days Later, Napoleon Dynamite, Memento, Bottle Rocket, Clerks, Reservoir DogsandThe Usual Suspectsall premiered at Sundance. This year, in a valiant attempt to commemorate the Festival’s magnitude in a format that fits the palm of your hand, artistTodd Oldhamhas edited an art book calledSundance Film Festival A to Z....

First Look At Pixar’s ‘Purl’, The Second Film From Their Experimental Short Film Program The first look atPurl, the latest from from Pixar’s experimental short film program, is here. Pixar previously announced they would begin releasing experimental short films, and kicked things off withSmash and Grab, directed by Brian Larsen. NowKristen Lester’sPurlis next. See the first images fromPurlbelow. The images above are fromPurl, Pixar’s new experimental short. At Pixar’s SIGGRAPH panel last year, the animation company announced the launch of new experimental shorts, in which filmmakers are given creative freedom (but limited resources) to create something new....

Go Behind The Scenes Of That Spectacular Single-Shot Sequence In ‘The Final Girls’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Around the time thatThe Final Girlshit limited theaters and VOD, we showed offsome pages from the production diarythat helped directorTodd Strauss-Schulsonplan his stunning, meta horror comedy. And now that the film ishitting Blu-ray and DVD today, we have another cool behind the scenes feature to show you....

How Ridley Scott Found The Perfect Location To Film Raised By Wolves Even in the era of CGI and StageCraft sets, everyone’s favoritegrouchy old man director, Ridley Scott, prefers to design alien worlds by shooting in real-world locations as much as possible. He filmed in Iceland and New Zealand to create the non-Earthly settings for his “Alien” movie prequels “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” and similarly used Jordan’s Wadi Rum (aka the Valley of the Moon) to realize the landscapes of Mars in “The Martian....