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Is A Fourth ‘Evil Dead’ Close To Shooting? The safe money would go on “nope, probably not.” An update on a fourthEvil Deadmovie and/or info on anEvil Deadremake seems to surface every few months. For years,Sam Raimihas talked about making a fourth film, and in January of this year his long-time producerRobert Tapertsaidplans to remake the original film were still afoot. Series starBruce Campbellconfirmed that plan in April during an Ask Me Anything session withReddit....

Lionsgate Announces ‘Now You See Me 3’ Despite the fact thatNow You See Me 2isn’t hitting theaters for another year, Lionsgate is raring to go onNow You See Me 3. The studio confirms it’s already entered the “early planning” stages for the threequel, now thatNow You See Me 2has wrapped production. Hit the jump for more about theNow You See Me 3announcement. Lionsgate CEOJon Feltheimermade the announcement during an earnings call....

Marvel Eyes F. Gary Gray For ‘Black Panther’ Amid the flurry of excitement over the possibility ofF. Gary GraydirectingFurious 8, a potentially major update on a different gazillion-dollar franchise almost slipped by unnoticed. Gray is also said to be in the running to helmBlack Panther, Marvel’s first solo superhero film starring a non-white lead. Read about theBlack PantherF Gary Gray report after the jump. Varietyslipped theBlack PantherF Gary Gray news into a story aboutFurious 8....

Marvel Has Plans For ‘Blade,’ According To Fellow Vampire Hybrid Kate Beckinsale Over the past couple years, there has been plenty of discussion about the future of Marvel’s vampire hybrid characterBlade. Brought to the big screen before the comic book craze truly began withX-Menin 2000, Blade was played byWesley Snipesfor three films, including one directed by Guillermo del Toro and one starring future comic book star Ryan Reynolds. But since then, fans have been hoping for more....

Mortal Kombat’s Creators Couldn’t Believe Anyone Would Want To Make It A Movie “Mortal Kombat” is one of the best fighting games out there. It’s silly, and ridiculous, and bloody, and it’s so much fun! As someone who’s been playing the title since it first came out, I love every goofy thing about it, from fatalities, to the weird ways the characters attack each other, to the look on people’s faces when they’re fans and you say, “Toasty....

Motorcycle Diaries Duo To Adapt Novel American Rust The novelAmerican Rustis on track to be turned into a film, and while the subject matter and tone are called “unrelentingly downbeat,” reporting on the forward movement gives me hope. Because I see a cousin to films likeDays of Heavenin this story of friends trying to escape both an accidental murder and their a decaying Pennsylvania town. With the writer/director duo behindThe Motorcycle Diariestackling the book, I hope the eventual film will have some of the same uncanny beauty that made the downbeat films of several decades back so great....

Movie Theaters Refuse To Screen Netflix And IMAX’s ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel [UPDATED] By premieringCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legendin IMAX and on Netflix on the same date, Netflix, IMAX, and The Weinstein Co. are disrupting the traditional theatrical release model. And not surprisingly, traditional theaters are none too happy about that. Two of the biggest cinema chains in the country, Cinemark and Regal, have just announced that they will not be showingCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend(or really any other day-and-date releases) in their IMAX theaters....

Page 2: Friday The 13th, Moonrise Kingdom, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Lars Von Trier, Pirates Of The Caribbean, E.T., James Bond, Quentin Tarantino, Predator, Werner Herzog 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 included48different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Page 2: Total Recall, Star Wars, Neverending Story, Sherlock, Love Actually, Godzilla, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Inception 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:Total RecallinLEGO The 5 biggest differencesbetween the ‘Mockingjay’ book and movieStuart Gordon(Re-Animator)TalksAngus Sampson and Tony Mahony’sThe MuleStar TrekClockuses Starships to tell the timeHowa Cinematographer Sees the Art of Sound...

Paul Feig Heading To Ghostbusters Fan Fest For Panel With Ivan Reitman And Jason Reitman For the first time ever,Ghostbustersfranchise directors from the past, present and future will be together for a panel at the first everGhostbusters Fan Festnext month. Wizard World has announced thatGhostbusters: Answer the CalldirectorPaul Feighas been added to the line-up of special guests at Ghostbusters Fan Fest. Furthermore, he’ll be on a panel together withGhostbustersandGhostbusters IIdirectorIvan Reitman, as well asJason Reitman, who is slated to be at thehelm of a newGhostbusterssequelcoming in 2020....

Peter Jackson Says Spielberg’s Tintin Has Finished Filming, Computer Animation Will Take Two Years, Updates On Hobbit Now this is truly bittersweet news to report. While in London forThe Lovely Bones,Peter Jacksonupdated the BBCon the status ofSteven Spielberg’sTintinand confirmed that filming is complete. The kicker? It’ll take about two years for the computer animation to be completed (remember this is a 3D motion-captured CG film). I suppose we shouldn’t have expected any better when they announced that the film would be released on June 19, 2025—but I was still hoping that through some miracle we’d see the film earlier....

Prehistoric Planet Trailer: Walk With Dinosaurs In This Apple TV+ Docuseries Did thefive-minute prologueto “Jurassic World Dominion” leave you wishing you could simply watch an entire film or show about an ancient world populated by dinosaurs without all those pesky humans running amok? If so, you’re in luck! Executive producers Jon Favreau (“The Mandalorian”) and Mike Gunton (“Planet Earth II”) have teamed up with Apple TV+ to make “Prehistoric Planet,” a nature docuseries that explores precisely that....

Rihanna Boards Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Epic ‘Valerian’ Luc Besson’sValerian and the City of a Thousand Planetshas scooped up a huge star on its way to outer space.Rihannais climbing aboard the sci-fi adventure in a “big” role, joiningDane DeHaan,Cara Delevingne, andClive Owen. See the RihannaValeriancasting announcement after the jump. Besson himself broke the RihannaValeriannews onInstagram. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planetsstars DeHaan as the eponymous Valerian, an intrepid spatio-temporal agent for the Galaxity organization....