MGM Unhappy About ‘Raging Bull II,’ Sues Producers You might have wondered howJake LaMottaand producers have the right to make a film namedRaging Bull II, when no participant in the original film, save LaMotta, is involved. MGM started wondering the same thing, then checked back over the old contracts LaMotta signed with United Artists (now owned by MGM) when the first film was being produced. And then the studio filed a lawsuit calling for production on the prequel/sequel to halt, and for none of the footage to ever be released....

Minka Kelly Will Play Jackie O To Matthew McConaughey’s JFK In Lee Daniels' ‘The Butler’ Even asLee Daniels' follow-up toPrecious,The Paperboy, makes its debut at Cannes this week, the filmmaker’s wasting no time assembling a stellar cast for his next project,The Butler. The talentedForest Whitakerleads the picture as Eugene Allen, the late White House butler who served under eight different presidents from 1952 through 1986, withOprah Winfreyand rising starDavid Oyelowosigned to play his wife and son....

New ‘Home Alone’ Reboot Details: What We Know About The New Mischievous Main Character Disney is on the verge ofreally digging intothe 20th Century Fox library of intellectual property with reboots of some of the studio’s more successful family-friendly franchises. One of the first out of the gate will beHome Alone, the hit holiday comedy from director Chris Columbus that follows a kid (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left home by himself when his whole family leaves on a trip to Paris....

New Super 8 Viral Details The viral ad / backstory campaign for theJ.J. AbramsfilmSuper 8kicked into gear in a big way earlier this week with a series of frames at the end of theteaser trailerthat point obliquely to a website,ScariestThingIEverSaw. Quite a few small clues were available at the site right off, but the most significant ones led explorers to a countdown clock. That countdown expired last night, which opened a new section of the website and gave access to a couple of new images, which you can see below....

Optioned Stories: Jon Stewart Buys A Journalist’s Tale; Don Murphy Takes Cory Doctorow’s Latest Novel Jon Stewartis more than a sharp comic and (unexpectedly) a reliable voice for news analysis. He has worked as an actor, and is now making a foray back into producing. Stewart has optioned the rights to the life story of journalistMaziar Bahari, who was arrested in 2009 during the Iranian election protests. Bahari had taken part in aDaily Showsketch several months prior where he spoke to comedian Jason Jones, who was dressed as a spy....

Page 2: ET, WALL-E, RoboCop, Foot Fist Way, Ren & Stimpy, Star Wars, Aliens, HTTYD, Godzilla 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: Luke Flowers’Wall-E/E.T.mash-upposter. The Making ofGhostbusters: How Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and “The Murricane” Built “The Perfect Comedy”...

Page 2: Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Frozen, True Blood, Toy Story, Sandra Bullock, Godzilla, Pacific Rim, GoT 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: Breaking Down The Monster: The Best & Worst Of ‘Godzilla’ Fortune and Glory:WhyTemple of Doomis the best prequel ever made....

Pam And Tommy Ending Explained: The Victims Of Voyeurism The true story of the world’s first viral video and the couple who inadvertently starred in it is a complicated one that almost seems too wild to be believed. Hulu’s limited series “Pam & Tommy” sets out to try and make sense of the mayhem, providing a more sympathetic look at Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) than the media or pop culture ever did....

Real Life Weirdness: Cross-Eyed Opossum To Predict Oscars Playing on the world’s adoration of cute animals, ABC has reportedly hired a famous cross-eyed opossum namedHeidito pick the winners of theOscarsonJimmy Kimmel Live. Seriously. The opossum is aFacebookand YouTube sensation and the producers are obviously trying to duplicate the success Germany had when Paul the Octopus successfully picked several games during the 2010 World Cup. However, that octopus had a 50/50 chance of picking the winners....

Revisiting ‘Casebusters’, Disney’s Kid-Friendly Detective Movie Directed By Horror Master Wes Craven (Welcome toOut of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)There are few greater feelings than when you happily throw away your schedule or plan for a column because you found a hidden gem so bizarre and so obscure it’s been barely written about until the moment it became available for everyone on Disney+....

Robert Rodriguez Sequel Log-Jam: More Machete, Sin City 2 And Spy Kids Reboot This story will eventually get along to news of a potential original film fromRobert Rodriguezbut first of all, we need to tidy up a lot of loose ends regarding his ever mounting pile of in-the-works sequels. He’s a franchisomaniac. All of this info comes from the fact that a number of online press were last week invited down to the set ofPredatorsand they duly squeezed Rodriguez for all they could....

Rupert Sanders And ‘Breaking Bad’ Scribe Team For Drug Drama ‘90 Church’ AsBreaking Badenters its home stretch, writer/producerGeorge Mastrashas found a new place to get his drug drama fix. The Emmy-nominated scribe will adapt theDean Unkefermemoir90 Church: The True Story of the Narcotics Squad from Hell, which Universal acquired last year forRupert Sanders(Snow White and the Huntsman) to direct. WhereasBreaking Badfocuses mainly on the guy cooking and selling the drugs, though,90 Churchwill center on the ruthless agents trying to catch that guy....

Sequel Bits: ‘Clerks III’, ‘Nut Job 2’, ‘300: Rise Of An Empire’, ‘Horrible Bosses 2’ If the first ninety or so300: Rise of an Empireposters didn’t draw you in, maybe this one will change your mind. (It won’t.) Also after the jump: The studio announced in a press release that it had the new film set for aJanuary 16, 2016opening. “It has been a pleasure working with theteams at Redrover, ToonBox and Gulfstream and we are delighted to re-team with them forThe Nut Job 2,” said Open Road CEOTom Ortenberg....