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How Mork & Mindy Inspired One Of Robin Williams' Darkest Roles Robin Williams was many things to many people: he was a stand-up comedian, a family-favorite comedy actor, a serious thespian who tore into the depths of human depravity, and so much more. Williams' career really kicked off with “Mork & Mindy,” a spin-off of the highly successful series “Happy Days.” He starred as the alien Mork from the planet Ork, and was joined in his weekly misadventures by his roommate and friend, Mindy (Pam Dawber)....

Hugo’s Asa Butterfield Will Star In ‘Ender’s Game’ It’s not a bad week to be 14-year-oldAsa Butterfield. He’s the star of a brand new Martin Scorsese movie,Hugo, that hits screens in less than a week and he’s just landed one of the most coveted child roles in recent memory. He’ll play Ender Wiggin, the child prodigy, military leading star ofEnder’s Gamedirected byGavin Hood. Read more after the jump. Deadlinefirst broke this huge casting news, which is another major step after Summit seta July 31, 2025 release datefor the film a few weeks ago....

Idris Elba Officially Joins Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Guillermo Del Torohas locked in his second actor to drive a giant robot in a battle with aliens.Idris Elba, best known as Stringer Bell onThe Wireand also recently seen inThor,will now officiallyjoinCharlie HunnaminPacific Rim, the upcoming film from the director ofHellboyandPan’s Labyrinth. Elba will reportedly play a leading role as a character named Sensi in the epic battle film about humans developinggiant robots to battle alienswho invade the Earth on both sides of the Pacific....

Jason Momoa To Star In Apple TV Series ‘See’ From ‘Hunger Games’ Director The once and future Aquaman is heading to Apple for a new TV series. Jason Momoa(Game of Thrones, Justice League) has scored the lead role inSee, an original new sci-fi show that will be directed byRed SparrowandThe Hunger Games: Catching FirefilmmakerFrancis Lawrenceand written byEastern PromisesandLockescreenwriterSteven Knight. Learn more about the new Jason Momoa Apple series below.Deadlinecalls the Apple series “an epic, world-building drama set in the future,” and says that the ten-episodedrama"is set in a future when the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, to build, to hunt, to survive....

Joe Johnston Talks About Making The Wolfman: Indecision Is A Killer Today’s lesson is: indecision will cost you. As the long saga of Universal’s new version ofThe Wolfmanunfolded, it often seemed to outside observers like the studio and producers didn’t know what movie they wanted to make. Original directorMark Romanekwalked at the last minute,Joe Johnstonwas hired to replace him, then the standard shoot was followed up with more reshoots than is usually the case....

LEGO’s ‘Billion Brick Race’ Lands ‘The Book Of Life’ Director Jorge Gutierrez In the wake of the success ofThe LEGO Movie, the folks at Warner Bros. Pictures decided to go crazy for building brick movies by scheduling a sequel to the imaginative hit, as well as spin-offs in the form ofThe LEGO Batman MovieandThe LEGO Ninjago Movie. But there’s one more LEGO movie in development that you might have forgotten about....

Michael Bay’s Trailer For ‘Need For Speed: The Run’ If ever a video game franchise begged for the blessing of action directorMichael Bay,Need for Speedwould be it. The title could almost be a subtitle for the man behindBad Boys, The RockandTransformersand now he’s directed his first video game trailer for the franchise’s latest game.Need for Speed: The Runwill be released November 15 and centers on a cross country race where the winner gets $25 million and everyone else dies....

Morgan Freeman In Talks To Play Controversial Ex-Magician In ‘Now You See Me’ Now You See Me, a thriller that takes place in the world of stage magic, is a film that might be flying under your radar at this point. So let’s change that, because it sounds like it could turn out to be something worth watching. ScreenwritersBoaz YakinandEdward Ricourthave come up with a story about The Four Horsemen, a team of master illusionists who pull bank heists during their stage performances and then distributes the takings to each audience, as an FBI team attempts to take them down....

New Projects: Doug Liman Circles ‘Narco Sub’, Alexander Payne Takes ‘The Judge’s Will’ Fox’sNarco Subis almost ready to get moving again.Doug Limanis in early talks to direct the thriller, which was set up withTony Scottbefore his passing. The studio been trying to find a replacement for some time, andJoe Carnahanwasreportedlycircling at one point. The titleNarco Subrefers to watercrafts used to smuggle cocaine from South America to the U.S. At the center of the script byDavid Guggenheim(Safe House) is a ship captain who is blackmailed into piloting one of these narco subs after his son is kidnapped by a cartel....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Returns In First-Look Images From The Disney+ Series It may be that only a Sith deals in absolutes, but we finally have our first look at the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” TV series and it is absolutely worth the wait. It’s been almost 17 years since we last saw Ewan McGregor as Kenobi, and time has not been kind to the Jedi Master, but of course, who can blame him?...

Page 2: Breaking Bad, Terminator, Star Wars, Bond, Alien, Haunted Mansion, RoboCop, LotR 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 included36 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: Either Bootleggers aren’t tryingor they’re all in on the joke...

Robert Duvall Says Terry Gilliam Wants Him For Quixote Back in October,Terry Gilliamtold Empirehe thought he’d found his Don Quixoteto play in the revised version ofThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He refused to reveal the name. Suggestions were that we’d have to wait for some time to discover who he had in mind. But now the actor has come right out and said it — or at least, an actor has come out and said that Gilliam wants him for the role....

Rumor: Rosamund Pike As Emma Frost In X-Men: First Class? Let me first warn you: this is one of those blog posts which is based purely on very circumstantial/unconfirmed information, so please consider not much more than speculation. Remember, speculation is fun…. CouldPride & Prejudice/SurrogatesstarRosamund Pikepossibly be in line to play young Emma Frost inMatthew Vaughn’sX-Men: First Class? Forces of Geek sources spotted Pike aroundLucinda Syson’s offices (the casting director who has worked with First Class director Matthew Vaughn on Kick-Ass and Stardust) carrying a copy of the X-Men: Origins Emma Frost comic book....