First Look And Synopsis: The Gang Lines Up For Marvel’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Christmas came and went last week, but Marvel’s got a couple more gifts for us before we launch into 2014. The studio has just revealed the first still and the official synopsis forGuardians of the Galaxy, coming next summer withChris Pratt,Zoe Saldana,Dave Bautista,Bradley Cooper, andVin Dieselin the lead roles andJames Gunnat the helm. Hit the jump to check it out....

Great Snakes! ‘Tintin 2’ Is Still Happening, According To Steven Spielberg If you’re a fan ofSteven Spielberg’s animated adventureThe Adventures of Tintin, and have longed for a sequel, here’s some good news. Spielberg says the long-awaited sequel isstillhappening, and thatPeter Jacksonwill direct. Great snakes! More onTintin 2below. Audiences weren’t exactly blown away by Spielberg’s 2011Adventures of Tintin, which is a damn shame because the film isso much fun. The plan was always to turnTintin, based on the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, into a series of films....

Guy Predicts ‘Game Of Thrones’ Ending Using Math George R.R. Martin’s apparent willingness to kill off any character at any time meansGame of Thrones/ASOIAFis a more difficult storyline to predict than most. But that doesn’t stop fans from making their guesses anyway. Now, one of them has come up with a particularly unusual approach to theGame of Thronesprediction problem.Richard Vale, a statistics lecturer at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury, has used math to try and figure out which characters will live or die in Martin’sA Song of Ice and Firebooks....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Alberto Falcone In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ The speculation is over and sometimes,rumors are true. Variety is reporting thatJoseph Gordon-Levittis indeed playing Alberto Falcone, son of former mob boss Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson) inChristopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight Rises.We knew that Gordon-Levittwas cast in the film in early February andwe speculatedthat the role could be Falcone a few days after. Carmine Falcone was a major villain in Nolan’s 2005 filmBatman Beginsand his son, Alberto, is believed to be Holiday, the main villain in one of Nolan’s favorite and most referenced Batman stories:The Long Halloween....

Kyle Chandler Not All That Interested In A ‘Friday Night Lights’ Movie Sequel By now, it’s become a familiar pattern: A brilliant series gets cancelled, movie sequel rumors begin to circulate, and for the next several years the actors, filmmakers, writers, and producers involved with the show drop encouraging but vague soundbites about the project. Eventually, public interest usually just peters out. In rare cases, something actually gets made. Friday Night Lightsis currently in the “vague soundbites” phase, and for the past year and a half we’ve been hearing from show creatorPeter Bergand others that the movie was in the works....

Michael Bay Is Producing A Science Fiction Movie About A Trump-Inspired Dystopia When Donald Trump was somehow elected President of the United States of America, many people around the world took solace in knowing that this turn of events would probably inspire some pretty fascinating art before everyone got killed in the fires of a nuclear holocaust. However, I think it’s pretty safe to say that none of us expectedMichael Bayto wade into this particular pond....

My Name Is Peter Sciretta And I Once Directed A Feature Film (Watch The Movie Trailer) My name isPeter Sciretta, you probably know me as the creator and editor of the movie blog /Film, aka slashfilm.com. What you probably didn’t know is that I once directed an independent feature film. Before I started writing about movies, I wanted to make movies. Its a part of my life I have rarely talked about, and I thought now was a good time to share the story....

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Page 2: Toy Fair, Ghostbusters, Donald Glover, Star Wars, McG, IMAX, Walking Dead, Tron, Indiana Jones, Buffy, Transformers, Sandlot, Daniel Radcliffe 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 included58different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Passing Ending Explained: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem For many marginalized communities,the act of racial passingstirs up uncomfortable questions. But for Rebecca Hall, it was the answer to a lingering family mystery. Hall, who you may recognize from “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” or “Iron Man 3,” is the daughter of the very-British Sir Peter Hall and the American opera singer Maria Ewing. While her father had the privilege of a well-documented family line, it was more complicated on her mother’s side....

Ron Howard Will Direct A Biopic About Pianist Lang Lang Ron Howardwill direct a biopic aboutLang Lang, the acclaimed Chinese concert pianist. The movie will be based on Lang’s autobiographyJourney of a Thousand Miles, withMichelle MulroneyandKieran Mulroneyhandling the screenplay. Howard plans to start work on the film after he finishes the Thai Cave Rescue movieThirteen Lives. Varietysays Ron Howard will direct a Lang Lang biopic for AGC Studio, with longtime Howard collaborator Brian Grazer, as well as Imagine Entertainment President of Features Karen Lunder and AGC Studios Stuart Ford also producing....

Sacha Baron Cohen Is F**king With Ben Affleck Sacha Baron Cohen’s alter ego Bruno has recently been causing trouble in Kansas, shooting the follow-up to Borat, titledBrüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortablein the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt (now try to say that five times fast).FilmDrunkreported earlier this week that security was put on red alert when “a German film crew member” started “stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport” (see video of this at the bottom of the post)....

Shoot Your Eye Out: ‘A Christmas Story 2’ Is Coming To Blu-Ray What do you get for the kid who has everything, including a Red Ryder BB Gun? Either a car, or a copy ofA Christmas Story 2on Blu-ray. Yes, whether you like it or not, a sequel to the seminal 1983 film about a young boy named Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) who pines for the aforementioned piece of hardware during the holiday season is coming to a store near you....