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International Trailer For Sean Ellis’s “The Broken” Best known for the visually impressive (but overlong)Cashback, British directorSean Ellisis now trying his hand at horror withThe Broken. The cast includesLena Heady(300,The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and the always greatRichard Jenkins(Six Feet Under,The Visitor). Don’t ask me to decipher this plot though: On a busy street in London, Gina thinks she sees herself drive past in her own car. Stunned by this strange event, Gina follows the mystery woman up to her apartment....

Josh Trank Exits ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff Rumors flew whenJosh Trankfailed to show up for his panel at Star Wars Celebration, and now they’re confirmed: Trank has exited theStar Wars Anthologyseries, leaving his spinoff film without a director. We don’t have any further info on what direction the film might take, but we do have Trank’s statement below. Even before Star Wars Celebration, there had been rumblings of Trank not sticking withStar Wars....

Kristen Bell Enlists In Musical ‘Fantasy Camp’ For STX Entertainment Kristen Bellis heading toFantasy Camp. The actress, who broke out withVeronica Marsand has since gone on to star in films likeForgetting Sarah MarshallandBad Moms, will star in STX’s Entertainment’s new musical comedy. Learn more about Bell’s newest starring role below. Fantasy Camp The Hollywood Reportersays Bell has signed on to star inFantasy Camp, which has a script by rookie screenwriterSid Karger....

Kristen Stewart Nabs Small Part In Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep Series For HBO Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas: together again. Stewart, who appeared in the Assayas films “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Personal Shopper,” will reunite with the filmmaker in the upcoming “Irma Vep"TV adaptation. We don’t know who Stewart is playing, and her role is reportedly “small,” so don’t expect anything too elaborate. Still, news of Stewart and Assayas getting together again is worth reporting....

Monty Python Members To Voice Aliens In Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Absolutely Anything’ The surviving members of the Monty Python troupe –John Cleese,Terry Gilliam,Eric Idle,Terry Jones, andMichael Palin— have very rarely appeared as Monty Python since the death of Graham Chapman in 1989. But the five actors have shown up together in various configurations in a few projects over the years. Now a new one is brewing:Absolutely Anything, a hybrid live-action/CG sci-fi farce that is planning to feature the living Pythons as “a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he’ll make of things....

Page 2: Muppets, Kora, Star Wars, Sesame Street, Jim Carrey, ET, Sorkin, GoT, Shameless, Tangled, Frozen, Doctor Who 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: Raiders of the Lost Partst-shirt The rational wondersofChristopher NolanWhyChristopher NolanIs Cinema’s Reigning RationalistLegoStatler and Waldorf will heckle all other buildsWiredruinsThe Hobbitby explaining why no arrow could kill Smaug...

Real-Life Bling Ring Member Blasts Upcoming Film: “It’s Trashy And Inaccurate” The gorgeously shot, effervescently soundtracked trailers forSofia Coppola’sThe Bling Ringhave done an excellent job of appealing to lots of different groups: arthouse aficionados, Harry Potter fans, even mainstream audiences who just love a good ripped-from-the-headlines drama. But there’s at least one person who was completely turned off by the latest version. In a series of tweets, real-life Bling Ring memberAlexis Neiersblasted the upcoming film as “trashy and inaccurate,” declaring that she has “no intention of seeing this film....

Robert Beltran Has Some Regrets About His Star Trek: Voyager Romance At the start of “Star Trek: Voyager” in 1995, Robert Beltran (“Eating Raoul”) played Chakotay, a Native American member of The Maquis, an anti-Federation resistance group formed when the Federation resettled their home worlds following a sketchy agreement with the Cardassian Empire. He and several compatriots were on the run from the show’s titular ship when the action of the series hurled them all clear across the galaxy, landing then 70 years from Earth....

Sequel Bits: ‘Magic Mike XXL’, ‘Star Trek 3’, ‘Pitch Perfect 2’, ‘V/H/S: Viral’, ‘Insidious Chapter 3’ Amber HeardandJada Pinkett-Smithwill also star inMagic Mike XXL, despite being rather ill-equipped to play male strippers. Plus, see a new photo from behind the scenes ofMagic Mike XXL. And also after the jump: Meanwhile, things are heating up behind the scenes ofMagic Mike XXL. DP / editor / camera operatorSteven Soderberghshared the pic below on Twitter....

Shane Black’s ‘Predator’ Is More Sequel Than Reboot On the spectrum of news about a reboot, remake or sequel,Tuesday’s revealofShane BlackandFred Dekkerdoing aPredatormovie was about as good as it gets. You’ve got Black, of the best writers out there, who also happens to be a solid director and who was involved in the original film. He’s teaming up with his good friend Dekker, himself a pretty great writer and director, and they’re tackling a popular franchise that has only had three dedicated movies....

Something’s Here, Something Good: It’s The West Side Story Soundtrack Streaming On Spotify! “West Side Story” fans! Tonight (well,today, but that’s not a song) you can stream the soundtrack from the new Steven Spielberg movie on Spotify! It’s got everything you want to hear including “The Jet Song,” “Maria,” “La Borinqueña,” “Somewhere,” and “America,” sung by the film’s cast. If for some reason you haven’t heard of the show (which is based on the novel, which is based on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”), here is the synopsis:...

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Trailer Takes Us Into The Heart Of An Anomaly There is a big bad anomaly coming for the crew of “Star Trek: Discovery” and the new trailer for season 4 reveals that it will be a formidable force for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew. What is this anomaly? No one knows for certain, but the Discovery crew (in new uniforms!) — along with others from Federation and non-Federation planets alike — are on the case to figure it out and save billions from potential death....

Stephen Colbert Is Staging A Big ‘Daily Show’ Reunion On ‘The Late Show’ Next Week There was a time when the most biting political satire came from the one-two punch ofThe Daily ShowwithJon Stewartand its spin-off,The Colbert ReportwithStephen Colbert. But all good things must come to an end. Stephen Colbert endedThe Colbert Reportto pursue his dream of hostingThe Late Showafter David Letterman retired from the program, and shortly thereafter, Jon Stewart decided it was time for him to move on to other things as well....