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Helen Mirren Agrees With Vin Diesel: It’s Time For Michael Caine To Join The ‘Fast And Furious’ Series We can all agree thatMichael Cainemakes any movie he’s in at least 25% better just by his mere presence, right? He’s just that kind of performer. Whether he’s playing a good guy or a bad guy, if he’s onscreen your eyes are going to be on him. Naturally, that makes him a very sought after actor and it looks like there are plans underway to get him into theFast and Furiousfranchise....

Jamie Bell And Kate Mara Joining Fox’s ‘Fantastic Four’ The reports of casting for Fox’s newFantastic Fourfilm, to be directed byJosh Trank, have been plagued by more rumor and speculation than most movies of this type, and to date we don’t have any official confirmation of casting choices. So far,Miles Telleris said to be the choice to play Reed Richards, aka the body-stretching Mr. Fantastic, whileMichael B. Jordanhas long been linked to play Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch....

Killing Eve Season 4 First Look: The Final Season Is All About Eve (And Villanelle) “Killing Eve” may be coming to an end (YES, I HAVE CRIED ABOUT IT!), but after a nearly two year wait from the end of season 3, the fourth and final season is finally on the horizon. The creators havereleased a short teaserand it looks like season 4 is going to burn it all down, especially Villanelle’s pink Molly Goddard dress from season 1....

Legal Troubles Had That ’70s Show Scrambling To Find A Title Did you know that “The Good Wife” was, at one point, titled “Leave the Bastard”? Titles can be funny things; they’ve got to sum up the vibe of the production’s storytelling, while being grabby enough to linger on the memory and stay on the palette for word-of-mouth purposes. You also have to avoid getting sued to oblivion, a hurdle that producer Tom Werner talked about clearing in the process of bringing the Fox period sitcom “That 70’s Show” to fruition....

Luc Besson Shopping New Love Story Script To Major Studios Though he’s making a comeback to live-action film withThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec(already released in some European countries)Luc Bessonhas been known in the last decade more for writing and producing than directing. Most of his directorial work has been in animation (theArthurfilms) and his last live-action film to get wide distribution in the US was 1999’sThe Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc....

NBC Is Interested In Reviving ‘The Office’, ‘30 Rock’, ‘The West Wing’ & More This year NBC is bringing back the fan favorite sitcomWill & Gracefor a new season, and they’re so happy with the proceedings that they’ve alreadyordered a second season of more episodes. But that might just be the first of several revivals the network brings to the table. During publicity rounds at the Television Critics Association panels, NBC Entertainment chairmanBob Greenblattrevealed the network’s strong interest in bringing back the hit comediesThe Officeand30 Rockat some point, as well as the staple political dramaThe West Wingand medical dramaER....

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’, ‘Midsommar’, ‘Annabelle Comes Home’, ‘Child’s Play’ This week’s physical media round-up brings home your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. You’ll also have a pleasant time at a midsummer festival, and hang out with not one, buttwocreepy dolls. These are the new Blu-ray releases you should check out this week. Spider-Man: Far From Home After a rough few days for fans, Spider-Men left the warm embrace of the MCU and went back to Sony....

Now Stream This: A New Martin Scorsese Masterpiece, A Shane Black Christmas Comedy, And A Movie About A Bad President (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Happy Holidays, I guess. As we wind down the clock on this garbage year, let us take time to appreciate the few good things in life: movies. Where would we be without movies?...

Oliver Stone Talks Wall Street 2 In the history of misunderstood movies, one that stands tall isOliver Stone’s originalWall Street. The 1987 film was not even thinly veiled in its contempt of money players like Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Yet to this day Stone still meets people on the street who quote Gekko’s lines (“Greed…is good”) and claim that the movie, and Gekko’s character in particular, pushed them into a career on the real Wall Street....

Page 2: Terminator, Will Eisner, Back To The Future, Morgan Spurlock, Harry Potter, Karate Kid, Star Wars, Charlie Sheen, The Smurfs What is Page 2?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 included50different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller Take Executive Producer Credit On ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Phil Lord and Chris Millerhave found themselves back in the headlines again — though probably not for the reasons they would prefer. The formerSolo: A Star Wars Storydirectors have long moved on from the chaotic production that saw them fired midway through shooting, diving into the upcomingSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.However, aviral interview with an anonymous actorfrom the set ofSolohas added a few more twists into the embattledSoloproduction saga....

Producer Frank Marshall Says “Don’t Spend Your Money” On IMAX Digital Over the last month,we’ve written quite a few timesabout the new Digital IMAX theatres and how we believe that the IMAX Corporation is ripping off moviegoers by placing the IMAX brand name on subpar sized cinema screens nationwide. Actor/comedianAziz Ansaristarted the public fuss, Pulitzer Prize winning movie criticRoger Ebertpublicly came out against the practice, yet IMAXignorantly ignored the criticism, and insists thataudiences are too stupid to notice the difference(obviously, they didn’t phrase it that way, I’m just giving you my interpertation — read the linked article for exact quotes)....

Sam Jackson Signs Up For NINE MORE Appearances As Nick Fury Here’s a bedtime story about, amongst other things, economies of scale. After appearing in the post credits geek-tease onIron Man,Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury was slated for a bigger, better showing in the next installment. Seemed like a sure thing, until Jackson himself cast the assumption intodoubt. Other stories started surfacing about cost-cutting or, at the very least, an unexpected sense of budgetary pragmatism in the Marvel movie bursary (Don Cheadle in, Terrence Howard out, Mickey Rourke in, out, in, out and shake it all about)....