Danny Boyle Puts Teen Assassin On The Backburner For My Fair Lady? There’s been a whole lot of Danny Boyle in the news these last couple of weeks and now, I’m afraid to say, here comes another lump. Open up. Rumors bubbling up at theEW Hollywood Insider blogsuggest thatDanny Boyleis closing in on a remake ofMy Fair Lady. This rehash already has a script, penned by Emma Thompson, and will once again be a musical....

David Fincher Will Direct All First-Season Episodes Of HBO Series ‘Utopia’ More and more filmmakers are making the jump to work in television, where the stories that studios will never finance as mid-budget dramas can flourish as long-form narrative experiments. Cary Fukunaga and Steven Soderbergh have done significant work withTrue DetectiveandThe Knick, respectively, for which each director took charge of the entire season, rather than just directing an episode or two....

Disney+ Will Be Available On Amazon Fire TV Following Last-Minute Deal From the “cutting it close” file: Disney and Amazon have just now struck a deal to makeDisney+available onAmazon Fire TV. Disney and Amazon have had a less-than-friendly relationship in the past, with the online retailer blocking Disney and Marvel movies from pre-orders, and even restricting sales of some Disney titles. When Disney announced plans to release Disney+ over the summer, they listed several platforms the streaming service would be available – and Amazon was not among them....

Exclusive: Kevin Smith’s ‘Hit Somebody’ Will Film In Fall 2015, Smith Has Funding For 3 More Projects Say what you will aboutKevin Smith’sTusk, but ultimately it was the spark that gave new life to the filmmaker. Just like he did in the ’90s, Smith madeTuskkind of on a whim. He and his producer Scott Mosier came up with the idea, Smith wrote it and a few months later it was being shot....

Exclusive: New ‘Klown Forever’ Clip Teases One Of 2016’s Most Offensive Comedies I’ve previously written abouthow much I enjoyedKlown Forever, the very good and very funny follow-up to 2010’sKlown(which just so happens to be one of the funniest and most offensive movies ever made). Now, we’re pleased to premiere this new clip from directorMikkel Nørgaard’s sequel, which is set to arrive in limited theatrical release and on VOD next month from Drafthouse Films....

Foundation Star Leah Harvey Reinvents What An Isaac Asimov Hero Can Be [Interview] If you Google images for Salvor Hardin, a key character from Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” novel series, you’ll find illustrations of white men. But the newApple TV+ adaptationof the books modernizes the classic books in some key ways. Character development is pushed the forefront, more action is emphasized, many of the male characters are no longer male, and many of them are no longer white by default....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2018 So Far Good job guys, we’ve made it halfway through 2018! Now there’s only six months left of this hellish year to go. But we’ll always have movies, and thank goodness this year’s movies have been more than up to the task of alternately letting us escape reality or tapping into our deepest intimate and sociopolitical anxieties. Eachdaythisweek, a different member of Team /Film has been counting down his or her favorite films of the year so far....

Hobbit Round Up - How Will The Two Films Be Divided, Will They Bridge To Lord Of The Rings, And Who Is Going To Play Bilbo? to publicizeThe Strain, his new vampire novel writtenbywith Chuck Hogan,Guillermo del Torohas been doing an awful lot of interviews. The best, perhaps, have been withMTV, at least in terms of the off-topic news they’ve managed to squeeze out of the fella. Not only have they had him all but spell out where the split between two films is going to come in his telling ofThe Hobbit, they’ve eventeased out a confessionthat, at last, Del Toro is down to a single choice in the casting of Bilbo Baggins....

How A Hotel Guest Book Prank Inspired The Creator Of ‘My Name Is Earl’ To Create His New Comedy [Interview] It’s not too late to catch up on TBS’s new comedyThe Guest Book. This week brings the third episode, and even though it’s an anthology series, you’ll want to keep up. Set at the Froggy Cottage cabin, each week sees a new guest check in with a new story. However, the manager Wilfred (Charlie Robinson) and the strippers from nearby Chubby’s are always there, and single father Andrew Brown (Garret Dillahunt) seems to be staying longer....

Impeachment: American Crime Story: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) After tackling the O.J. Simpson trial and the murder of Gianni Versace, the latest season in the FX anthology series from producerRyan Murphywill deal with the infamous ’90s sex scandal that lead to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton....

Interview: Jonathan Levine And Josh Peck Back in May, I had the opportunity to sit down with directorJonathan Levineand starJosh Peckto talk about their new filmThe Wackness. I fell in love with this indie coming-of-age drama at Sundance. I have since seen the film three more times. You’ve probably read my gushing posts. It seems like if you talk enough about one thing, even the filmmakers know you by name. When I walked into the room at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, Levine came over and thanked me for all the coverage I have given his film....

Interview: Shawn Ryan, Creator Of ‘The Chicago Code’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since I started working on the /Filmcast, there have been two people I’ve always wanted to get onto the show that I haven’t been able to. Today, I cross one of those two names off my list. Shawn Ryanis one of the most exciting people working in the entertainment industry today. With an ear for crackling dialogue and a penchant for labyrinthine, satisfying plots, Ryan re-invigorates any genre he touches....

It’s Great That Moon Knight Gets To Be Gross Let’s face it: by this point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is so expansive, it has genres of its own represented within the superhero genre. “WandaVision” is a tragic romance, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films are coming-of-age stories, and “Thor: Ragnarok” is a road trip buddy comedy. The massive franchise also clearly has fans covered on sci-fi, fantasy, and war stories. But what about horror?...