Hawkeye Director Rhys Thomas Reveals The Movies That Influenced The Marvel Series [Exclusive] Over the years since his brief introduction in 2011’s “Thor” and particularly his mostly brainwashed role in “The Avengers” the following year, Hawkeye has been cast as something of an underdog amid the much more powerful heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Clint Barton evenhangs a lampshade on this in “Age of Ultron,“laying out the absurd facts that, “The city is flying and we’re fighting an army of robots....

How ‘Pulp Fiction’ Made Its Way Into ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ One of the biggest easter eggs inCaptain America: The Winter Soldierhas to do withPulp Fiction. Yes, the 1994 Quentin Tarantino masterpiece. Towards the end of the film there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to the film that either gets huge laughs from an audience, or total silence if they don’t have time to figure it out. Where exactly this happens is a bit of a spoiler so, below, we’ll describe it and let directorsAnthony and Joe Russotell you how thisPulp Fiction Captain Americareference came to be....

Indonesian Trailer For ‘The Raid’ Is Two Minutes Of Pure Adrenaline One of the biggest films to get buzz at this year’s Toronto Film Festival wasThe Raid, an Indonesian action film byGareth Evansthat features a SWAT team trapped in and trying to escape from an apartment block run by a drug lord. The attraction of the film is a non-stop barrage of action with loads of stunt work, gunplay and martial arts....

International Teaser For Disney’s Tangled Has Some Extended Footage Yesterdaywe posted a new teaser trailerfor Walt Disney Animation Studios' new filmTangled. StitchKingdom discovered an international traile (from the Netherlands) which features a few bits of extended footage. For the most part it is the same trailer, but I know a lot of Disney fanatics read /Film who might be interested in the few seconds of extra animation. Watch it now, embedded after the jump....

James McAvoy Will Finally Go Bald In ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Comic fans tend to overreact. For example, they know Charles Xavier should be bald and in a wheelchair. But whenJames McAvoywas cast in the role forX-Men First Class, he had a full head of hair and was walking around. This should not stand! Literally! By the end of that film, though, the whole standing thing was taken care of. (Sorry, Charles.) Now it seems like the follicle fallacy will soon be solved as well....

Johnny Depp Will Investigate The Murders Of Biggie And Tupac In ‘Labyrinth’ Johnny Depp’s career has been in a bit of rut over the past couple of years. The actor’s now ex-wifeAmber Heardrecently came forward with abuse allegations, which followed a string of box-office and critical disappointments. Some were hopefulBlack Masswould be a comeback of sorts for Depp, a return to the real world for an actor who has a history of playing characters like, let’s say, Mortdecai and The Mad Hatter....

Lord Of The Rings Composer Howard Shore May Return For The Amazon TV Series Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings” series may nottechnicallybe associated with Peter Jackson’s widely influential trilogy, but that’s not stopping the ambitious streaming service production from finding common ground through a handful of shared elements anyway. First it was the decision to film the first season in New Zealand, which famously provided the backdrop for the magnificent vistas and gorgeous landscapes of Middle-earth throughout the trilogy of classic movies back in the late 1990s and early 2000s....

Michael Fassbender Will Star In And Produce ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Video Game Adaptation UbiSoft didn’t much like thePrince of Persiafilm that Disney turned out — mostly because audiences didn’t much like the movie — and so the game publisher is developing its next big game adaptation as an indie. To do so, they’ve managed to land a guy who could make the project, based on theAssassin’s Creedgames, nearly essential viewing.Michael Fassbender, the actor who can jump from serious stuff likeShameandHungerto tentpoles such asX-Men: First ClassandPrometheus, is going to produce and star in the film....

Michelle Rodriguez Threatens To Leave ‘Fast And Furious’ If Female Characters Don’t Get Better Parts TheFast and Furiousmovies have been paragons for diversity in action blockbusters, boasting a multiracial cast of Hispanic, black, and Asian characters long before superhero franchises caught on. It was in part thanks to the films' street-racingroots in the Latino community, and in part due to starVin Diesel’sinsistence on working withonly diverse casts. But despite all the franchise’s progress, it’s still got a women problem....

Now Filming: ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ And ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Bryan Singerand theWachowskisare back behind cameras this week as their new films,X-Men: Days of Future PastandJupiter Ascending, have begun shooting. Singer announced the start his production with a tweet featuringPatrick Stewartas Professor X. Warner Bros. issued a press release about the Wachowskis' sci-fi film, which starsChanning TatumandMila Kunis. Both films will be released in July 2014. Here’s Bryan Singer’s tweet. He posted it Sunday which means that today, Monday, is the start of filming....

POTD: The Indominus Rex Of ‘Jurassic World’ Almost Looked Completely Different WhenJurassic Worldhit theaters in the summer of 2015, it had to at least try to match the screen presence of the majestic but deadly tyrannosaurus rex from the originalJurassic Park. That’s easier said than done, and despite having a meta sort of storyline about the fully functionalJurassic Worldcreating a genetic hybrid beast to keep the park’s attendees interested, the so-called Indominus Rex wasn’t all that impressive....

Precious Sweeps The 25th Independent Spirit Awards The Independent Spirit Awards might not be as popular as other awards ceremonies such as the Golden Globes and the Oscars, but I’m a huge fan of nonetheless. One of the key elements of eligibility for the Spirit Awards is that nominated films don’t have to have played in a theater; they just need to have been screened at either the Telluride, Toronto, Sundance, New York, New/Directors/New Films, or the Los Angeles Film Fesitval....

Ron Howard On ‘The Dark Tower:’ Budget-Influenced Script Changes Aren’t Radical Whatever you think of the grand career sweep of the creative team, Imagine Entertainment and, in particular,Ron Howard,Brian GrazerandAkiva Goldsmanare trying something pretty outrageous with theiradaptationofStephen King’s novel seriesThe Dark Tower. Set to span three films and two limited TV series, with an offshoot game or two to add additional flavor, there’s nothing quite like it on the drawing boards anywhere else....