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Michael Bay Refuses To Let This Megan Fox Thing Die, Claims Steven Spielberg Ordered Her Fired As you probably recall: Back in 2009, actressMegan Foxwent public with her professional issues withMichael Bay, calling herTransformersdirector “a tyrant” and likening him to Napoleon and Adolf Hitler. Fox (unsurprisingly) caught heat for her comments, and though Baymade some attemptsto smooth things over, the two continued sniping publicly and eventually parted ways. Victoria’s Secret modelRosie Huntington-Whiteleywasbrought into replace Fox asShia LaBeouf’s even more improbably gorgeous love interest, Fox pursued other projects, and the story should have ended there....

Movie Trailer: A New Look At Studio Ghibli’s ‘The Borrower Arrietty’ Studio Ghibli, the wonderful animation studio that has produced many wonders directed byHayao Miyazaki, is close to releasing a new film version ofMary Norton’s fantasy novelThe Borrowers. We’ve seen two brief teasers for the film,The Borrower Arrietty, and now there’s a third. The quality here is far better than the previous two clips, and while the text and narration is entirely in Japanese, the animation looks lovely....

New Adaptation Of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘The King And I’ In The Works At Paramount Pictures We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Back in 1956, the big screen adaptation ofThe Kingand Ilanded nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Now Paramount Pictures is looking to whistle a happy tune all over again with a new version of the classic musical in development at the studio. The Hollywood Reporterhas news onThe King and Imusical remake in the works at Paramount Pictures....

New Blu-Ray Releases: ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’, ‘Ocean’s 8’, ‘Gotti’, ‘Universal Monsters: Complete Collection’ (Welcome toNot Dead Yet, a feature dedicated tonewBlu-ray releases and what special features you should be excited about. Because yes, some of us still like to own physical copies of our movies.)Solo: A Star Wars Storyis arriving on Blu-ray, just in time for audiences to discover it’s not nearly as bad as some people claimed it was....

New Poster For Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Teases A New Nightmare From The ‘Get Out’ Director Over the weekend, we received a hot tipconcerning the plot synopsisforJordan Peele’s upcoming follow-up to his directorial debut,Get Out. The film is calledUs, and while the premise sounds familiar, we’re expecting something truly unique from the comedian turned filmmaker. And if you need anymore convincing of that, look no further than the ominous teaser poster that just popped up online....

Nicole Kidman Reuniting With ‘Big Little Lies’ Team To Adapt ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Series For Hulu Big news for big fans ofBig Little Lies.Nicole Kidmanis reuniting with key members of the team behind HBO’s Emmy-winning serie sto adapt the latest novel fromBig Little LiesauthorLiane Moriarty. Kidman is executive producing and starring in aNine Perfect Strangersseries, which has just been picked up for a series order from Hulu. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Hulu has given a straight-to-series order forNine Perfect Strangerswhich is set to star Kidman in the role of a health resorts director who watches over nine strangers who come from the city to relax, only for drama to unfold....

Nielsen Will Start Releasing More Data About Streaming Ratings It looks like Nielsen, the age-old rating system that measures viewership, is making more moves to acquiesce to the digital age. And, at this point, it’s a smart business model. According toVariety, the company is expected to announce soon that it will collect streaming data from connected TV sets. That information will then give advertisers, media buyers, media companies, and other relevant parties more to work with as they attempt to understand how audiences behave across different screens and platforms....

Of Course Tom Holland Is The One Who Spoiled ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ For Chris Pratt Spoiler machineTom Hollandcontinues his reign of terror by spoiling films he’s not even starring in — to the star of said film himself. That’s right,Chris Prattsomehow hadJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomspoiled for him by Holland, which is a feat in and of itself since the youngSpider-Manstar doesn’t appear in any of theJurassic ParkorJurassic Worldfilms. But life, as they say it…finds a way....

Page 2: Star Wars, Alien, Toy Story, Maleficent, LEGO, The Strain, Dwayne Johnson 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: That’s no moon, it’s agear shift...

Piranha 3D Producer Responds To James Cameron’s Dismissal Of The Film We got a taste of theJames Cameronof old this weekwhen he told Vanity FairthatPiranha 3D"is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s." It hasn’t taken long forMark Canton, one of the producers onPiranha 3D, to respond....

Quibi Is Now Officially Dead, RIP Quibi Quibiis dead, RIP Quibi.Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Icarus, his streaming service that flew too close to the sun and totally misjudged what audiences are looking for right now, has officially shut down operations less than a year after it launched. Its little life flew by…in a Quibi.Varietyreports that, as of this morning, Quibi is officially dead. The Quibi app is now no longer operable, bringing a quiet end to Katzenberg’s $1....

Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ Featurette Show Precision Formula One Filming Before we once again seeChris Hemsworthas Thor, legendary directorRon Howardsnatched him up to co-star in the true racing storyRush. Hemsworthplays James Hunt, a world champion Formula One racer whose lifestyle choices made him a direct rival of another world champion racer, Niki Lauda, played byInglorious BasterdsstarDaniel Bruhl. Howard has beenshooting his period piecefor several months, incorporating real race footage, precision driving and more....

Sacha Baron Cohen In Talks To Join Alfonso Cuaron’s Disclaimer For Apple TV+ No disclaimer needed here: Oscar-nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen is set to become the latest big name to join the cast of “Disclaimer.” The Apple TV+ series is based on the novel of the same name, written by Renee Knight and detailing the mysterious events that unfold when a notable journalist comes across a book that has inexplicably appeared in her bedroom … which might not sound allthatinteresting (personally I’d be pretty freaked out, but your mileage may vary), until she realizes that she seems to play a key role as a character in the novel itself....