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The Coming-Of-Age Romantic Comedy That Inspired Fight Club “Fight Club” is a grimy, dark examination of American masculinity and consumerism that has a lot more in common with the Mike Nichols romantic comedy “The Graduate” than you would think.Edward Nortonplays The Narrator, an unnamed, miserable insurance salesman with insomnia who forms a fight club and terrorist organization against capitalism with a soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Both Norton and director David Fincher noticed similarities between “Fight Club” and “The Graduate,” the story of the aimless college graduate Benjamin Braddock who starts an affair with his older neighbor, Mrs....

The Morning Watch: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Loot Train Attack VFX, ‘Harry Potter’ Horcrux Theory & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, see a new, in-depth look at the visual effects that went into making the famous “loot train attack” from the seventh season ofGame of Thrones....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Action Button’ Reviews Video Games On YouTube Unlike Anyone Else Reviewing Video Games On YouTube (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:Action ButtonWhere You Can Stream It:YouTubeThe Pitch: Tim Rogers reviews video games on the internet. But he reviews video games on the internet unlike anyone else you have ever seen....

This New The Last Duel One-Sheet Is A Blatant Rip-Off Of A Classic Mondo Poster Over the past 15 years, posters devoted to pop culture have exploded in popularity thanks to companies like Mondo, Gallery1988, Bottleneck Gallery, and Hero Complex Gallery commissioning talented artists to capture the essence of a film or TV show in a single, memorable image. At the same time, official posters commissioned by studios have gone from the era of incredible artists likeDrew Struzanto … whatever the hellthisis....

Totally Killer: Prime Video And Blumhouse Team For Comedy-Slasher With A Stellar Cast Amazon Studios and Blumhouse have teamed for a new slasher comedy, “Totally Killer.” Nahnatchka Khan (“Always Be My Maybe”) is set to direct the film, with Jen D’Angelo penning the screenplay, which is based on an original script by David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver. Filming is already underway as of today in Vancouver, Canada, so they are wasting no time in getting this one off the ground....

Universal Fast-Tracking David Koepp-Scripted ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Sequel? Snow White and the Huntsmanwas a slightly rushed production, and a (more than)slightly frustrating viewing experience, but it might be performing well enough that Universal is really going forward with a sequel. The studio started talking toDavid Koeppaboutscripting a sequelin the last couple months, and Koepp is now scripting aHunstmansequel that Universal is looking to fast-track. Who will direct?Rupert Sanderswho made his feature debut with the first movie, is a very possible choice, but he isn’t locked yet....

Violet Evergarden: The Movie 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.) It’s the beginning of the end for this tear-jerking anime series: “Violet Evergarden: The Movie” is on the way to conclude the journey of our titular hero. All good things must come to an end and “Violet Evergarden” is doing that the only way it knows how — by making the audience sob....

Watch A Short ‘Pixels’ Movie Preview: 8-Bit Video Games Invade Earth Columbia Pictures has released a ten second teaser trailer for the upcomingChris Columbusvideo game sci-fi comedyPixels. The plot of the movie is about a group of video game experts who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters attacking our planet. Its been pitched asGhostbusters,but with classic 80’s video game creatures instead of ghosts. And yes, we’ve actually heard a bunch of good buzz for this film....

Will ‘Star Trek 2’ Be Delayed Until The 2012 Holiday Season? Just hours agoRoberto Orcitalked about having a 70-page outline for theStar Treksequel which has been dated by Paramount for release on June 06, 2025, and that onceJ.J. Abramsagrees to direct the film, they’ll move forward into the script stage with all speed. That knowledge leads to a lot more questions than it answers. Germainasked some of themwhen he covered Roberto Orci’s statement, including one of the biggies: will the film be pushed back to allow for a longer production schedule?...

‘A Monster Calls’ Pushed Back A Couple Months, May Be On The Hunt For Awards Right now we’re in a bit of a dead zone between the blockbuster summer season and awards season, but that’s going to change onceSnowdenarrives in the middle of September as we start to move into October. However, one of the movies that I was looking forward to quite a bit has just been bumped back from its original October release date into December....

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Editor Myron Kerstein On The Universal Messages Of Rom-Coms And Mahjong [Interview] Myron Kersteinwants audiences to know that romantic-comedies are back. The editor ofCrazy Rich Asiansis no stranger to the genre, having cut together rom-com staples likeGarden StateandNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, but in the aftermath ofCrazy Rich Asians, it feels more important than ever for Kerstein to reiterate that. Kerstein sat down with /Film to talk about the outrageous success and cultural impact of the first major Hollywood film led by an all-Asian cast in 25 years....

‘Creed 2’ Lands Romanian Boxer Florian Munteanu As Ivan Drago’s Son Back in November last year, we heard thatCreed 2might be looking for someoneto play the son of Ivan Drago, the legendary boxer responsible for killing Apollo Creed in the ring at the beginning ofRocky IVin 1985. At the time, an MMA fighter namedSage Northcuttsaid that he sent in a tape as an audition for the role, but there had been no real confirmation that the spin-off sequel starringMichael B....

‘David Blaine: Beyond Magic’ Trailer Featuring Emma Stone, Margot Robbie And More David Blaineis a magician best known for making magic cool again in the late 1990’s with his street magic specials. His detour into crazy stunts that seemingly tested his body’s limits was not quite as interesting as his personal slight of hand wizardry, and in recent years he has television appearances have become rarer. He returned in 2013 with the ABC special David Blaine: Real or Magic, which featured Blaine performing his trademark magic for celebrities and public figures....