Hunter Stephenson's Script Review: Cocaine Cowboys Pilot For HBO

Hunter Stephenson’s Script Review: Cocaine Cowboys Pilot For HBO Earlier this month, wereportedon the possibility of a newHBOshow based on 2006’s engrossing hit documentary,Cocaine Cowboys, from uber playersMichael BayandJerry Bruckheimer. Today, Slashfilm gives you anexclusive reviewof the script forCocaine Cowboys' pilot episode written byBilly CorbenandDavid CypkinofRakontur, the Miami-based production company behind the doc and its sequel (set for release this July). For legal reasons, we’ve omitted specific plot details in the review....

June 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1365 words · Philip Conrad

I Want You Back Director Jason Orley On Rom-Com Staples And Securing The Rights To Little Shop Of Horrors [Interview]

I Want You Back Director Jason Orley On Rom-Com Staples And Securing The Rights To Little Shop Of Horrors [Interview] Director Jason Orley (“Big Time Adolescence”) wants audiences to root for everyone in “I Want You Back.” It is not a romantic comedy about evil exes. It’s about relationships that simply don’t work out, in the end, for the better. Although Orley gets to go broad in the rom-com, the director doesn’t paint with many broad strokes in his film, which stars Charlie Day and Jenny Slate....

June 17, 2025 · 9 min · 1811 words · Martin Williams

It's No Fantasy, Dreamlover: Starz Is Developing A Scripted Show Based On Mariah Carey's Rise To Fame

It’s No Fantasy, Dreamlover: Starz Is Developing A Scripted Show Based On Mariah Carey’s Rise To Fame If you listened to the radio in the 1990s, you’ll probably remember how the music ofMariah Careywas totally inescapable. The pop diva experienced a staggering rise to fame and went on to become the biggest selling female recording artist in history, and after appearing on her own reality TV show on E! last year (entitledMariah’s World), she’s now one step closer to being immortalized on the small screen in a different way: Starz is currently developing a new drama series based on Carey’s true life success story....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Christopher Alvarado

J.J. Abrams Teases Droid Hand As 'Star Wars Episode VII' Raises $5 Million For UNICEF

J.J. Abrams Teases Droid Hand As ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Raises $5 Million For UNICEF Several months ago,J.J. Abramskicked offStar Wars: Force For Change, an initiative to raise money for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with the prize being a trip to the set ofStar Wars Episode VII.The first video revealeda brand new creature from the world.A second video revealedthe new X-Wing fighter. And now, Abrams revealed the results of the initiative and winner’s name with another excitingly cryptic photo....

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 695 words · Destiny Harris

John Hillcoat And Shia LaBeouf Reportedly Circling Crime Drama 'Triple Nine'

John Hillcoat And Shia LaBeouf Reportedly Circling Crime Drama ‘Triple Nine’ OK, don’t get too worried yet: this is just talk of interest in a film, not even ‘attachment’ or anything else. ButJohn HillcoatandShia LaBeoufwere talking about working together earlier this year whenThe Promised Land, based on the novelThe Wettest County in the Worldseemed like a going concern,before it went to pieces. Now the two are evidently interested in a crime drama spec script calledTriple Nine....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 287 words · Sarah Moreno

Kenneth Branagh Ponders An Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe

Kenneth Branagh Ponders An Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe Murder on the Orient Express, your mom’s favorite movie of the year, has been a quiet beast at the box office. The $55 million film is about to cross $100 million at the domestic box office and has grossed $311 million worldwide. It’s a sleeper hit, a movie for older audiences that kept its nose to the ground and became a blockbuster while the kids were off arguing aboutJustice LeagueandStar Wars....

June 17, 2025 · 3 min · 510 words · Rita Gamble

Kevin Hart Has The 'Extreme Job' Of Remaking Korean Box Office Cop Comedy Hit

Kevin Hart Has The ‘Extreme Job’ Of Remaking Korean Box Office Cop Comedy Hit Kevin Hartis cooking up the next Hollywood remake of a hit Korean film. In March,Extreme Jobbecame the highest grossing film of all time in South Korea, taking in 14 times greater than the film’s budget with a $127 million haul. Now, the South Korean box office smash is coming to the States with a remake.The Wrapbroke the news that Kevin Hart is producing and looking to star in the English-language remake ofExtreme Job, an action-comedy directed byByung-heon Leewhich follows a group of narcotics detectives who go undercover in a fried chicken joint to stake out a neighboring organized crime gang....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Diana Alvarez

Mark Hamill And Jennifer Aniston To Direct Movies

Mark Hamill And Jennifer Aniston To Direct Movies Mark HamillandJennifer Aniston: What they really want to do is direct? It would seem so. Jen has apparently let slip that she’s developing a film to direct. Why now? Here’s her thinking: After you get enough movies under your belt you sit back and go, ‘What’s next?’ It’s getting to a time where creatively I want to turn in a different direction....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Alexis Rose

Mindy Kaling Teams Up With Netflix For A Coming-Of-Age Comedy Series Based On Her Own Childhood

Mindy Kaling Teams Up With Netflix For A Coming-Of-Age Comedy Series Based On Her Own Childhood Awkward teenage years never were so funny.Mindy Kalingand Netflix are teaming up to develop a coming-of-age comedy series based on theLate Nightstar’s childhood. Co-created by Kaling andThe Mindy ProjectcollaboratorLang Fisher, the untitled 10-episode series will follow the trials and tribulations of a first generation Indian American teenage girl. Netflix has given a series order to a new coming-of-age comedy series co-created by Kaling and Fisher, with the latter serving as showrunner, according toVariety....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Sarah Jackson

New 'Finding Dory' Photos Reveal A 'The Wire' Reunion, Impossibly Adorable Sea Otters, And More

New ‘Finding Dory’ Photos Reveal A ‘The Wire’ Reunion, Impossibly Adorable Sea Otters, And More Finding Nemotook us to a whole new world under the surface, populated with “vegetarian” sharks and hippie sea turtles and other exotic sea creatures. This summer’sFinding Dorypromises to reunite us with some of those same fish while introducing us to still more colorful characters. Those include a cantankerous octopus named Hank (Ed O’Neill), a sweet whale shark named Destiny (Kaitlin Olson), and a beluga whale named Bailey (Ty Burrell)....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 408 words · Cynthia Parrish

New 'Jurassic World: Dominion' Photo Hints At The Resurgence Of An Important Franchise Location

New ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Photo Hints At The Resurgence Of An Important Franchise Location Production onJurassic World: Dominionis back underway across the pond after an extended hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cast members Sam Neill and Laura Dern are already back on set, along with thesatisfying but scandalous confirmationof Dr. Grant’s hat making a comeback. But it looks like even more fromJurassic Park’s past might be involved in the latest sequel....

June 17, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · James Pennington

Noomi Rapace Reportedly Remains Top Choice For Ridley Scott's 'Alien' Prequel

Noomi Rapace Reportedly Remains Top Choice For Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel Noomi Rapaceis the ‘it’ girl of late 2010, inheriting the mantle from Jennifer Lawrence, the ‘it’ girl of early 2010 thanks toWinter’s Bone. The three Lisbeth Salander movies have finally penetrated the American mainstream in a big way, and now you seemingly can’t mention a big, tough female role in a tentpole film without her name coming up. (Except, somehow, forGravity....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 350 words · Katie Evans

Page 2: Star Wars, Jack Reacher, Indiana Jones, The Shining, Looper, ET, Ted, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Hobbit, Totoro, Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Wes Anderson

Page 2: Star Wars, Jack Reacher, Indiana Jones, The Shining, Looper, ET, Ted, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Hobbit, Totoro, Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Wes Anderson 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 included46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

June 17, 2025 · 3 min · 557 words · Justin Hooper