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Sam Mendes Returns To Directing With World War I Film ‘1917’ For Amblin Sam Mendestook a few years off from filmmaking following 2015’s James Bond entrySpectre, but now he’s ready to return with1917.Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners will produce the World War I drama. While there are approximately ten billion movies about World War II, World War I often gets the short end of the stick when it comes to cinematic representation (except forWar Horse; where are myWar Horsepeople at?...

Screenplay For Rome Sequel Movie Finished; Film To Happen Without HBO Involvement? One of the shows that is really high on my ‘to-watch’ list is HBO’sRome. I have friends who were seriously devoted to it, and practically thrust the blu-ray set into my hands whenever possible. The wildly expensive show was canceled after the second season, and while quite a lot of story was crammed into the last set of episodes, there is material yet to cover....

Superhero Bits: Hawkeye And Kate Bishop Go To Disneyland, WandaVision Gets A Grammy Nod & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: Hailee Steinfeld reveals a set photo of herself as Kate Bishop from “Hawkeye”...

Superhero Bits: The Joker, Blue Beetle, Civil War, Supergirl, Arkham Knight, Stan Lee Who is that dressed up asThe Jokerabove? What do you need to know aboutJessica Jonesbefore the Netflix series debuts? Where can you watch theSupergirlpilot for free? What wouldAlan Tudyklook like asBlue Beetle? How can you get a full refund if you boughtBatman: Arkham Knighton PC? What mightIron Man’s new armor look like inCaptain America: Civil War? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The Black List 2009: The Year’s Best Unproduced Screenplays For the last few years, each December has seen the release ofThe Black List, a compendium of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted by a group of people that range from producer assistants to agency guys to development VPs. The first list, improvised in 2004, caused a furor and now is an event each year. The 2009 list comes out today, and I’ll present the top eleven films out of 97 (there was a tie for #10) below....

The Daily Stream: The Original Candyman Is One Of The Best Horror Movies Ever Made (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie:Candyman (1992) Where You Can Stream It:Peacock The Pitch:An eerie, elegant work of horror that brings an urban legend to terrifying life. Residents of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects are eternally haunted by a hook-handed ghost who comes when summoned....

This Week In Trailers: Starlet, Paul Kelly: Stories Of Me, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Gary, The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, RaceWar Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: This Way Up, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, Scarborough, Zeroville, Lucy & DiC Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week, we get through grief by getting dominated, get our shizz together, enter into an inappropriate relationship, try to decipherJames Franco’slatest, and are amused by artificial intelligence....

TIFF 2019 Special And Gala Presentations Include ‘Joker’, ‘Knives Out’, ‘Jojo Rabbit’, And More The first 2019 Toronto International Film Festival announcements are here, and they don’t disappoint. The special and gala presentation titles includeTodd Phillips’sJoker,Rian Johnson’sKnives Out,Taika Waititi’sJojo Rabbit, and many more. The Toronto International Film Festival runs fromSeptember 5throughSeptember 15, 2019. See the full TIFF 2019 gala presentation line-up below, along with the special presentation titles. Here it comes, kids: festival season....

Tom Cruise And James Cameron Were Almost In ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ The home video release ofSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse– out today on Digital and March 19 on physical media – includes a special feature called “Alternate Universe Mode” which is an extended cut of the film featuring alternate scenes, deleted storylines, additional characters (like Ganke!), and more. One of the more interesting alternate sequences involves Miles Morales training to become Spider-Man…by watching a Spider-Man movie....

Voices From The 20th Mumbai Film Festival: #MeToo, Affordable Art And 5 Great Films For just 500 rupees — or $6.90 at the time of writing — the festival affords week-long access to over 200 films from the world over. I personally met folks who had travelled from all corners of the country (some, even internationally) to watch heavy-hitters likeRoma,Border,DiamantinoandBurning, films that may not otherwise see theatrical release in all parts of the world....

We Visited The Creepy And Kooky Birthplace Of The Addams Family Nestled at the intersection of Elm Street and Dudley Ave., in an quiet suburban street inWestfield, New Jersey, is the house that inspiredCharles Addamsto create the looming, gothic Addams Family Mansion. There’s nothing very remarkable about this house, with its white wood paneling and quaint turn-of-the-century shutters. In fact, it’s as painfully normal. But stare a little longer, and maybe you may see it through Charles Addams eyes: the wood turns a deep black, the shutters slowly become more dilapidated, and a dark cloud casts a shadow over the house....

Why Al Pacino Refused A Role In Star Wars While it’s difficult to imagine now, “Star Wars” did not always have such a mythic place in popular culture, nor did it start out as a billion-dollar Disney franchise. During the late 1970s, the Flash Gordon-inspired space opera was just filmmaker George Lucas' quirky passion project. Lucas pitched “Star Wars” to numerous Hollywood studios and was rejected every time until 20th Century Fox decided to invest in his ambitious vision....