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So, What’s The Hold-Up On An Obi-Wan Kenobi Spin-Off Movie? AStar Warsspin-off movie focusing onObi-Wan Kenobiin the years between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy sounds like a license to print money and make everyone happy. The fans want it.Ewan McGregorwants to do it. So why not pull the trigger and make it happen? Well, the latest story circling around the internet is that Lucasfilm isn’t sitting on an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie because they don’t want to do it, but for…other reasons....

Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant And Bill Condon All Offered Twilight: Breaking Dawn It looks like Summit are trying to extend their reach even further thanEclipse’s David Slade in picking a director forBreaking Dawn, the finalTwilightfilm (or maybe films). Amongst their picks are three Academy Award nominated directors typically associated with more widely respected fare:Sofia Coppola,Gus Van SantandBill Condon. Again, this project seems to be relatively well cut to fit Gus van Sant – or as well cut as any producer-led adaptation job could be....

Steven Spielberg To Direct ‘The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Steven Spielberg’s last collaboration with screenwriterTony Kushnerwas so successful, the pair are teaming up again. Spielberg plans to directThe Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortarabased on a screenplay by Kushner. Mortara was an Italian Jew who made international headlines when he was removed from his home and raised as a Catholic in 1858....

Superhero Bits: Marc Guggenheim Has A Secret DC Project, ‘New Mutants’ Test Screenings & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to see aWonder Womancosplayer who looks exactly likeGal Gadot? Will you buy a Game of the Year edition ofSpider-ManPS4? What secret DC Comics project isMarc Guggenheimworking on? How did a recentNew Mutantstest screening go? How much would it cost to make a real lifeSpider-Mansuit? IsJeff Goldblumdown for another Marvel movie?...

Superhero Bits: The Flash, Arrow, Big Hero 6, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Batman V Superman, X-Men: Apocalypse Will Zod meet Batman inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? How isX-Men’s Apocalypse a “relatable” character? Did you catch theBig Hero 6Easter egg inAvengers: Age of Ultron? What’sSean Gunngoing to be doing inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? HasMarvel TVannounced its plans for New York Comic-Con? What willAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Lash be like? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Terminator Franchise Rights For Sale…Again No major film franchise has been owned by as many people as theTerminatorseries. The future of the franchise was called into question recently when current owners Halcyon were forced to file for bankruptcy, but as a new piece in theLA Timespoints out, rights shuffling almost seems like standard operating procedure if you’re in the Terminator business. Halcyon Holding Group’sDerek AndersonandVictor Kubicekbought the Terminator rights in 2007, paying $25m for the privilege of makingTerminator: Salvation....

The 14 Best Horror Movie Performances That Should Have Won Oscars The idea that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences routinely ignores the exceptional work being done in the horror genre is more than just anecdotal. During the entirety of its existence, onlysix horror movieshave been nominated for the ceremony’s top honor, with only one, Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” winning. Sure, contemporary superhero fans bemoan the Academy’sbig-budget, blockbuster blind spot, but the horror genre isa historic form, with the contemporary superhero genre only coming into its own fairly recently....

The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things 2’ VFX Breakdown, Jeff Goldblum Plays Every Role In ‘Jurassic Park’ & 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, the team behind the visual effects of the second season of Stranger Things breaks down some of the scenes from the series....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Bar Rescue’ Looks, Sounds And Smells Like A Bad TV Show, So Why Can’t I Stop Watching It? (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:Bar RescueWhere you’re able to Stream It:The Paramount Network website(or, if you haven’t cut your cord yet, it plays constantly on the actual Paramount Network when they’re not otherwise airing ads forYellowstone)....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Twister’ Is A Dumb, Fun Distraction (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 Movie:TwisterWhere you may Stream It:NetflixThe Pitch:Storm chasers and estranged husband and wife Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt reunite to chase down some big digital storms, baby!Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing:Twisteris dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. But it’s also…wonderful? Look, Jan de Bont’s special effects blockbuster will never be as impressive on the small screen today as it was when it hit big screens in 1996, but that’s okay....

The Silence Of The Lambs Proves Less Is More When It Comes To Horror To date,“The Silence of the Lambs"remains the only horror film to ever winbest pictureat the Academy Awards. It’s a movie in which Hannibal Lecter, one of the greatest screen villains of all time (played by Anthony Hopkins, who won a best actor Oscar for the role), bites and bludgeons guards before stringing one of them up like a death’s-head moth and smuggling himself out of the building wearing another’s skinned face....

Upcoming Matt Damon Movies To Keep On Your Radar (Welcome toOn Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.) An Oscar-winning writer, an action film star, some guy who bought a zoo — Matt Damon has been many things and worn many hats (literal and figurative) since he started acting in movies and television in the late 1980s....

VOTD: A Tribute To Some Of The Most Beautiful Black And White Movies Ever since motion pictures began adoptingTechnicolor, the once-traditional use ofblack and whitephotography eventually went out the window. After all, an overwhelming majority of the population sees the world in full color, so why wouldn’t they want to see movies in the same way? But while most of our movies are presented in color today, whether it’s tinted, saturated, toned, there are still plenty of respectable and mesmerizing movies from past and present that look positively stunning in black and white....