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Marvel Is “Committing” To A Black Widow Movie, Says Kevin Feige WithCaptain America: Civil Warin theaters this weekend, Marvel is deep in the middle of another press tour — which means it’s time for more questions about thatBlack Widowmovie they keep not making, which means it’s time for morehopefully somedays andthat would be greats andwe would love tos. But this time around,Kevin Feige’s answers sound just a little bit more promising....

Massive Harry Potter Video Game Still On The Way, But Developers Are Worried About J.K. Rowling Controversy Back in the fall of 2018, footage of a rumored open worldHarry Pottervideo gamewas leaked online. The massive RPG has yet to be officially announced by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, but the existence of the game is one of the worst kept secrets in the video game industry right now. The forthcoming title is reportedly slated to be released late next year, and it will allow players to become wizards and witches and roam the massive fantasy world inspired by the books and movies....

New ‘Catfish’ Lawsuit Could Finally Expose The Truth Made for $30,000 and grossing over $3 million,Catfishis an amazing story both on screen and off. Its “don’t ruin it for me” plot helped turn it into one of the can’t miss indie films of the year but controversy over the film’s validity was questioned almost immediately. Now,The Hollywood Reporterhas learned of a brand new lawsuit issued byThreshold Mediaagainst the distributors of the 2010 Sundancedocumentary darling,Relativity MediaandUniversal, demanding licensing fees for a song that plays a major role in the film....

Not Dead Yet: New Screenwriter For Disney’s ‘King Of The Elves;’ He-Man Reboot Still Gestating At Sony Some movies are born easily: they represent a whole bunch of factors like script, talent and money that happen to be in the same place at the same time. Others aren’t born so easily, and lurch towards screens in fits and starts. Case in point: Disney’s animated adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story,King of the Elves, and Sony’s attempt to make a new movie out of the ’80s toy line and cartoonMasters of the Universe....

Page 2: Tom Hanks, Looper, Star Wars, Terrence Malick, Simpsons, Sherlock, Gremlins, Lars Von Trier, Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, Doctor Who, Breaking Bad, Ghostbusters, Star Trek 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 included46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Let The Sunshine In,’ ‘Inuyasha,’ ‘Priceless,’ And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) Love, or heartbreak, is in the air, depending on what foreign-language film or show you’re watching from this week’s Pop Culture Imports column. Is there a reason for the selection of romance-themed titles? Who can say? But whatever the case, it’s time to bask in the middle-aged heartbreak of the best Claire Denis-Juliette Binoche collaborationLet the Sunshine In, or watch two hustlers fall in love in Audrey Tatou’sPriceless....

Producer Says ‘Area 51’ Is Still Being Tweaked; Release Date To Be Determined Even before the massive success ofParanormal Activity, we knew that producerJason Blumand directorOren Peliwere going to make a movie calledArea 51. The project wasofficially announcedin October 2009, and now, a year and a half later, there is still no movie to be seen. In April of this year, we heard that Chris Denham was doingrewriteson the film, which we knew had completed principal photography some time ago....

Report: Christoph Waltz Returning As Blofeld For James Bond 25 Back in the fall of 2017, when fans were still waiting patiently to see what would happen with theJames Bondfranchise,Spectreco-starChristoph Waltzseemed rather confidentthat he would not be returning as Blofeld. The character was revealed as being the mastermind behind the titular international criminal organization, as well as James Bond’s adoptive brother, so it was a real shame that after his survival at the end of the last mission, he wouldn’t be coming back....

Robert Pattinson Is Playing An Angry Young Batman Who Is ‘Out Of Control’ If it seems like every single new recasting for the character of Batman comes with its own amount of disproportionate outrage and backlash, well, that’s because it does. It’s easy to look back at Christian Bale or Ben Affleck now with the benefit of hindsight and talk about how obvious it was that they would imbue the superhero with all the physicality and screen presence necessary for the legendary hero, but that was certainly not the majority’s consensus opinion at the time....

Russian Doll Season 2 Teaser Finally Announces Release Date Fans of Netflix’s “Russian Doll” who have felt like they’re stuck in a time loop of their own while waiting for the second season should worry no longer: season 2 officially has a release date. The second season of the acclaimed series will follow Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) four years after they escaped their own hellish “Groundhog Day” only to discover that time isn’t done terrorizing them....

Sequel Bits: ‘Wayne’s World 3’, ‘Paranormal Activity 5’, ‘Journey 3’, ‘Machete Kills’, ‘The Host 2’ Robert Rodriguez’s Machete has gotten himself into some hairy situations and lived to tell the tale, but now a lawsuit could shut him down for good. Also after the jump: A representative for Myers broke the bad news: “This is completely false. There is no script and he is not working on one.” Bummer. Is it too much to hope the buzz generated by the fake project might inspire Myers to consider a real sequel?...

Spider-Man 4 Unlikely To Make 2011 Release Date Due To Script Problems? Last month,IESBreported a rumor claiming thatSpider-Man 4had been put on hold due to disputes over an incomplete script. According to the report, directorSam Raimiwas at odds with the studio over who the big villain of the fourth film should be (Raimi is fighting for Vulture), and that several department heads working on the production, internally referred to asSPIDER-M4N, has been notified that the film had been put on “an indefinite hold....

Star Wars Bits: Zack Snyder, Neill Blomkamp, ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’, Anthony Daniels, Warwick Davis Luke, Leia, and Han are all set to appear in the newStar Warstrilogy, but what about their trusty pal C3PO?Anthony Danielswill only say “wait and see.” Also after the jump: McWeeny, who’s racked up a lot of credibility when it comes to this stuff, dismisses the recent Jacen and Jaina Solo talk as “100%” bull. In fact, he says, it’s unlikely the Extended Universe books will make it to the big screen at all....