Superhero Bits: Emerald City Comic-Con Canceled, Animatronic Talking Deadpool Head Coming From Hasbro & More How didDeadpoolmake it into a Black Lives Matter mural? Did you hearEmerald City Comic-Conis canceled? Want to watch a documentary aboutBatman: The Animated Series? Would you have wanted to seeZack SnyderbringCarrie Kelleyinto the DC Extended Universe? What didStan Leesay when he first metTom Holland? Want your own animatronic, life-size, talkingDeadpoolhead? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man: No Way Home Might Be Very Long, That Stargirl Post-Credits Scene & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: The “Spider-Man: No Way Home” runtime has been revealed....

Superhero Bits: X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Captain America 3, Age Of Ultron, Batman V Superman, Flash We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to see a clip fromJustice League: Throne of Atlantis? Did theRusso Brothersrecently joke aboutCaptain America 3being Civil War? IsBatman v Supermanchanging filming locations? What is the latest major storyline that’s coming toMarvel Comicsin 2015? Were thereMystiqueandBeastscenes cut out ofX-Men: Days of Future Past?...

SXSW Blog Day 2-4: Wizards, Teens, The Promotion And Kristen Bell It has been a few days since the last time I found a few minutes to blog about my SXSW adventures. And it’s not for a lack of stories or interesting tales. If Sundance was the internet, than SXSW would be Web 2.0. At Sundance everyone is working (well, actually, that isn’t true because the celebs and Hollywood folk party, but most of the journalists are working)....

The New Yorker Profiles The Wachowskis With New Personal And Professional Details Including ‘Cloud Atlas,’ ‘The Matrix’ And ‘Cobalt Neural 9’ One of my all-time favorite Comic-Con memories was walking the floor, glimpsing over to a small booth in the 4000s and seeingLarryandAndy Wachowski. The writers and directors ofBoundandThe Matrixwere just sitting there. No line, no nothing. That’s what happens when you make one of the most influential and revered films of a generation but refuse to do interviews about it....

The Novice Director Lauren Hadaway Threw Herself Into The Deep End For Her First Feature Film [Interview] For her first feature film, Lauren Hadaway embraced the age-old advice,write what you know. A combination of her relentless ambition, past relationships and the traumatic experience of being a collegiate rower were rolled into one, leading her to produce and direct “The Novice,” a brutal journey into the mind of Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman), a freshman college student who becomes obsessed with rowing....

This Week In Trailers: Nostalgia De La Luz (Nostalgia For The Light), How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Blood Ties, Tornado Alley Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Summer Of Blood, Korengal, Amanda F***ing Palmer On The Rocks, Misconception, Healing Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we go back to the Korengal Valley, have a kid or two, considerAmanda Palmer’scelebrity, get bitten by a hipster, and head into the Australian outback with Agent Smith....

Tiger King 2 Coming To Netflix This Year With ‘More Madness And Mayhem’ I’ll freely admit that I got swept up in the “Tiger King” craze. The Netflix docuseries was well-made in the sense that it did a good job dropping strange, explosive twists to keep us hooked from episode to episode. That said, the minute the original docuseries ended, I was content to move on. I really didn’t want to spend any more time with Joe Exotic, a twisted character who was so sure he was going to get a pardon from former President Trump that his lawyer had a limo waiting outside the prison on Trump’s last night in office (spoiler: the pardon never came and Joe Exotic is still incarcerated)....

Universal Hollywood’s Wizarding World Is Now Open, Learn The Differences From Orlando The grand opening of Universal Hollywood’s version ofThe Wizarding World of Harry Potterhappened last night at the Los Angeles theme park. It was an incredible night, filled with magic and wizardry. Hit the jump to hear more about the opening celebration and also learn about the new Wizarding World now open for everyone to enjoy in Universal Hollywood....

UPDATED: Four Of The ‘47 Ronin’ Have Been Cast; Actors Include Hiroyuki Sanada And Tadanobu Asano [UPDATE: This original story has been updated with an official press release, plot description, character names and high resolution cast photo. Check it all out after the jump.] WithKeanu Reevesset to star inCarl Erik Rinsch’s47 Ronin, by my math, still leaves about 46 Ronin to be cast. The 3D production is heating up and Variety is reporting that four more roles have been cast....

VOTD: How Changing Two Scenes Could Have Helped The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels Second guessing theStar Warsprequels has become damn near as prevalent as praising the original trilogy.George Lucashad some really, really good ideas when trying to tell the story of Anakin Skywalker’s descent to the dark side; he just screwed it up at every single turn. Topher Gracereedited the films togethertrying to solve these problems, I’vesuggested remaking them, and numerousfans have imagined waysto make the films everything we hoped for in 1999, 2002 and 2005....

Watch The Star Wars Celebration 2016 Live Stream Right Now I’m live in London covering Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016 throughout the weekend. There is a bunch of big news expected to break surrounding projects such asRogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars Episode 8, the untitledHan Solostandalone film,Star Wars Rebelsand much much more (here are our predictions). So please stay tuned to slashfilm.com throughout the weekend as we’ll try to breakout the major developments and bring you coverage of the major presentations....